Wishing you the best BBS! During the potato famine starving Irishmen were forced to eat seed potatoes needed for the following years planting. In the short term it staved of starvation but greatly complicated the problem for the following year. That would seem to me akin to selling tools that you need to rise above your adversity. If you can spare some instruments, so be it, but keep what you really need! Public school for the children seems to be a reasonable option. In most advanced countries medical care is considered a right of citizenship. I know that Obama tried to make improvements in the USA but his vision was shot down by big corporations bleeding big bucks from health care. Will any of the limited improvements that he made help your situation?