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Can you take in a lodger? Short-term, or Mon-Fri only.
Or occasionally be a Host Family to foreign students?
Can wifey do some babysitting/childminding - evenings while you stay at home and look after yours?
Food bill is way OTT.
Protection - I'd cancel it. It would cover you if you can't work, but with the rest of the debt you'd be wiped out anyway, so not worth paying all that to protect one payment.
There are still a couple of 0% credit cards about - investigate/apply and transfer a balance if the numbers work out. although these days you do have to pay a transfer fee.0
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