Tighetened belts are strangling us slowly

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When the recession hit, I was making around $1500 to $2300 a month working at independant contractor jobs, affiliateships, and as a web hostess for an online adult si8te. In addition my bf or 2 1/2 years was making between $210 and 330 a day (in cash paid daily for over 14 years 6 days a week) He has lived in our house for just over 7 years and I have lived here for 2 1/2 years. Our rent has gone from $600 a month, to $700 a month and right b4 the recession hit the homeowner raised the rent to $800 a month because I am living here. My bf has not been working outside of our home since June and I recently gave up my job because the boss was making me nutty. Now I pull in around $800 to $1200 a month, normally procured in dribs and drabs of $50 here $100 or $120 there, it's not much, but much of my income is reliable and recurring in one week, two week, or monthly paymets. The Bf on the other hand is using his 40 years of leatherworking experience to pull in between $500 and $800 a month. If it were not for his mother who keeps sending us money from an inheritance that she got last year, we would be sunk. In fact we are up that fabled creek without the ever so important paddle. Unfortunately they say that the economy and jobs will not begin to rebound until the end of 2011 or the beginning of 2012. With resources drizzling and being choked off, we are not sure from month to month where our groceries will come from. We are surviving, if just barely and the money from his mom has just about run out. What are we supposed to do now? There is little or no work, and nothing that is comparable to either of our pre-recession incomes, of which we saved little.