Sentences with phrase «to keep a roof over one's heads»

For homeowners who want to avoid the social stigma of a foreclosure, a short sale may a way to keep a roof over their heads while they plan their financial exit strategy.

Just keeping the roof over your head will pay huge dividends in protecting your credit rating and keeping your FICO ® Score on your credit report at the highest level possible.

I was drowning to the point where I was borrowing money from my kids just to pay my bills to keep the roof over my head so I was in a desperate situation financially.

Even though my home is rented today, REM has kept a roof over our heads for all this time.

If you're struggling to pay your mortgage, you might look for financial relief to help keep the roof over your head.

The aspiring musician has barely been able to keep a roof over their heads since quitting his steady job at a bank.

Most shelters in today's world barely keep the roof over their heads.

For homeowners who want to avoid the social stigma of a foreclosure, a short sale may a way to keep a roof over their heads while they plan their financial exit strategy.

Likewise, when you or a loved one has recovered and are ready to go home, you shouldn't have to worry about keeping a roof over your head because a huge hospital bill has wiped out your nest egg.

Then you were let go and faced the choice of keeping a roof over your head and your lender foreclosed.

Trouble is, it's hard for her to figure a way out of the situation, given that she's been struggling just to keep a roof over their heads on a truck stop waitress» salary ever since her hot - headed hubby lost his job at a gas station after breaking a tardy co-worker's (Yorke Fryer) arm in a fit of rage.

Keeping your family safe and secure is the entire reason for a life insurance policy, and Family Life Insurance has exactly the policies you need to not only provide for your family, but also keep the roof over their heads.

If they could just catch a break before the end of the day, perhaps these two lovable losers can manage to keep a roof over their heads long enough to land the audition they've been waiting for.

Because the writer knew that even if this very powerful man never gave her a job in any of his films, even if he blacklisted her from other films, she could make her own work on her own terms and thus keep a roof over her head.»

For years, the bearded bohemian had barely been able to keep a roof over his head as a struggling street musician in San Francisco.

Also, being faithful to the repayment terms — paying on time, every time — will not only keep a roof over your head, but also will do wonders for your credit scores.

My marketplace has been a quiet one, but real, with provision stories of a God who is there, now keeping a roof over my head with a saint in my studio.

When you want to just buy one lunch out, or order those shoes online that are only $ 35, you have to prioritize your higher financial needs — like keeping a roof over your head or feeling good about your money situation.

Do your gold bars keep a roof over your head and can you leverage those investments by putting down as little as five per cent or 10 per cent and financing the balance on a long - term basis as the investment keeps increasing?

Desmond offers nuanced and moving portraits of individual Americans struggling to keep a roof over their heads while also serving up startling statistics, like this one highlighted by Gates: «Most experts agree that the ideal is to spend no more than 30 percent of your income on housing; according to Desmond's research, most poor families have to spend over 50 percent on housing, and for many it's over 70 percent.»

However, few are aware of how challenging a childhood he had to overcome en route to the pros, being raised by a single - mom who had a hard time just keeping a roof over their heads.

«I feel really blessed that we have had all the success we've had, and that pretty much every door will be open for my daughter, but seeing the challenges we face and then knowing it's much harder when you don't have the money you need, when you're worried about keeping a roof over your head or worried about whether you'll even have health insurance, and all these other issues.

Ensuring the basic necessities of keeping a roof over our heads, the lights on, and food on the table were of her greatest concerns.

She's and her two siblings are being raised in the «hood by their doting grandmother (Leslie Uggams) while their overworked single - mom (Dionne Audain) works double shifts to keep a roof over their heads on her security guard salary.

A few authors do, but the rest of us toil in economic obscurity, with day jobs to keep a roof over our heads so we can spend evenings and weekends writing.

I began writing as a poet, then went into broadcast journalism and began writing literary biographies to make a living and keep a roof over my head for my children.

The jobs that mothers find using Simply Hired help keep roofs over the heads and food in the refrigerators of families all around the world, and many of these jobs done by others make mothers» lives easier as well.

I never saw them balance a checkbook, but they kept a roof over our heads and got all six of us into college.

And I want to do more than just keep a roof over their heads; in addition to providing shelter and sustenance, I want to provide them with educational opportunities, adventure, and an extraordinary life.

Trina Trapp is among those Albertans who discovered it doesn't take much to go from keeping up with the Joneses to struggling to keep a roof over your head.

We will step up with provincial support for co-op housing, and provide families with the funding they need to keep a roof over their heads.»

For example, a low earner may pay 50 % of their income just to keep a roof over their head.

My Unitarian Universalist church models Jesus» love to me a hell of a lot better than anyone like you, in any church like yours, and kept me from swallowing every prescription pill I owned and dying, while you absolutist Christians were trying to keep me from getting enough care to keep a roof over my head, feed myself, obtain medical care, and be able to stay alive.

while you absolutist Christians were trying to keep me from getting enough care to keep a roof over my head, feed myself, obtain medical care, and be able to stay alive.

The Salvation Army's director for community services, Tony Daniels said: «Staff and volunteers at our churches and social centres across the UK have seen growing numbers of individuals and families on low incomes who are struggling to put food on the table or keep a roof over their heads.

Buy products and services from people you know are struggling to keep a roof over their heads.

We do not like to talk about families that can't find work, or that earn too little to keep a roof over their heads.

the men who run this church have never been married or had children or had to pay bills to keep a roof over their heads or food on their table.

People who are rich (whether globally rich — meaning those who make enough to pay basic bills, keep a roof over their heads, a car in the driveway, food on the table and clothes on backs — or American rich — meaning they have all that and all the extras too) and who don't falter from wealth, who don't teeter into the land of the financially desperate, will of course read God's promises different from those who are broke.

Her story is one I find inspirational, surviving on a minimal budget for her and her son, whilst searching for a job and trying to keep a roof over their head.

Ultimately, I have my own small business (a lot of stress would have been spared if I'd been an entrepreneur from the beginning instead of trying to follow a traditional career track), that has literally saved the ranch and kept the roof over my head, not to mention some hours of terrific pleasure in nature.

It allowed us to both commit to the company full - time without worrying about keeping a roof over our heads, and it gave us two more sets of hands to help with the baby.