Sorry to hear about that, prayers headed your way for the holidays. My wife and I went through this over the summer. She was in the financial services industy and was let go in the beginning of May and was not able to find something until the end of August. She ended up in a different field of work. One thing that helped us was sitting down and making a list of where every dollar we made went from the house,cars, cell phone, lunches, etc.. We were able to take her unemployment check and cuts from the list to make the mortgage payment and not go into savings to get the money. It was a tough summer with no extra money especially with how high gas was.