HITTING HOME: With the recession now in...

HITTING HOME: With the recession now in its 22nd month, many Orange County families have been forced to downscale their lifestyles (E1). . . . “I don’t know anybody that hasn’t been affected by it,” says Andrea McGinley, a Laguna Hills mother of three. Newlywed Dan Osborne of Rancho Santa Margarita cut up nine credit cards last year, explaining: “It’s unrealistic for everybody to keep going like that.”