You can always have one parent stay at home like we did and no my salary per annum is not massive, it is £35k, so we get by with one income and have 2 children, aged 16 & 9, wife has not worked since the 1st child was born, so like someone said, where theres a will, theres a way, however I do feel sorry for you in losing your job and now struggling to make ends meet, must make your blood boil when you then hear of people who are not working, yet are coining in the lolly when their giros arrive