Last week, I contributed an essay on how this new recession (which U.S. News and World Reports is apparently calling "Recession 2.0") is affecting me over at the U.S. News and World Reports' Alpha Consumer blog.
Recession 2.0 hit me hard and fast, long before news of foreclosures and bailouts started headlining the nightly news.
My husband runs his own consulting firm and I'm a writer for a nonprofit. We've never been rich, but we were comfortable, able to enjoy some of the finer things that money brings young professionals who don't have kids or a mortgage. Nice wine, fancy dinners out on the town, the occasional massage . . . things you don't really need, but are very easy to get used to.
Then, one evening last June, I walked into our apartment to find my husband pacing the living room. I knew something was up and I knew it wasn't good.
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