1. Don't fight the micromanager. 2. Keep you door closed 3. Donot offer better suggestions 4. Donot get divorced 5. Donot over spend 6. live off what is the lower salary of the spouse 7. Save money 8. prepare for five different jobs 9. Grow a garden in your yard, that's the Germans did after WWII 10. buy bulk beans, rice and grains from a farmeros coop.$8.50 will buy 60 pounds of wheat. 11. Turn down the heat and A/C, wear sweaters like they do in England. Pick 160;160;160; up coal along the railroad track, our parents did. 12. ride a bike, like many do in Europe. 13. Go to church, it helps me. 14. Donot lose your humanity and passionI know these may sound silly and out of date, but our parents did this. And lastly always remember, man did not survive for the past 100,000 years saying , “woe me I cant do it. ” but say, YES I CAN.