Jackie, whats to loose? We have a bigger mortgage but we do not borrow money, so, other t han the mortgage we don't own anything, if we did not get any trade we have our dogs and each other, I suppose the sad thing would be if we could not afford to look after the dogs, they are our family....We would be happy living in a tin hut as long as it was somewhere private and rural!!! Don't worry just ENJOY!!!! P.S we see that our dogs bring us so much pleasure, I bet yours do toooooo!