Things are still pretty good

[jersting]

I wanted to add my 2 cents here because I struggle with my wife with this topic every day it seems and my 11 year old daughter is following in her foot steps.
God gave us the ten comandments to make our life easier, not harder. He knows we can not live up to them so Jesus Christ had to suffer so that we may have eternal life. If you think about the 10 comandments, if we could live by them as we should, our lives would be so much easier and a lot less troubles would come about.

My brothers for example both have jobs where they receive an anual bonus (a very big one) and whenever my H hears about it he gets all pissy and in a bad mood. Needless to say, it is a sore subject.

This is where the 10th Comandment comes in...Thou shalt not covet.
The Westminster Larger Catechism interprets this commandment, close to its original meaning: "The sins forbidden in the tenth commandment are, discontentment with our own estate; envying and grieving at the good of our neighbor, together with all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his."

My H has a very good job and makes a decent amount of money but...we have been living way beyond our means for the past 5 years.

99% of americans live above there means. And the really unfortunate thing is that if we make more money we will still live above our means. I think the 10th comandment is one of the easiest ones to do if we just put our mind to it and yet it seems so hard to balance the scale on goals which are good and wants for unnessary things. Maybe the way I worded all of this makes little since, but I think if we could follow this comandment it would keep us from going above our means.