My name is Greg Palmer, and I am a 31-year-old living with my parents in Elon, NC. I have less than $100 in my checking account, and since I am filed as a dependent on my parents’ tax return, I didn’t get a stimulus check at all the first time around.

I pay $100 a month in “rent” to my parents, plus $35 a month for a cell phone and my own groceries. My parents have graciously decided to suspend rent and phone bills for now. They also pay for my medications. I need this money. I need this money badly. Any donations will help with financial independence and some will be used to pay back rent.

I am on the autism spectrum, which makes it difficult for me to get and keep a job. I spent 11 months looking for work, 9 of those in Elon/Burlington. I used to work at Sears (see the picture), and when it was announced our store was closing, I got a raise from $7.25 an hour (minimum wage) to $11 an hour. I thought I’d be able to get a job easily, so I spent my money foolishly.

I did get another job in selling cell phones at Walmart. I lasted through training, but got kicked out my first day of optional overtime because I was too aggressive. Then, the whole coronavirus thing happened and I haven’t been able to find work since. I’m currently working with the Autism Society to get a job coach and find steady employment that plays to my strengths.

I am more than a statistic, or a disabled person. I am a human being with financial obligations. I am just as capable of stimulating the economy as anyone else is. This is a terrible situation for a lot of people, especially for those who have slipped through the cracks.

I’m thankful for my parents, especially my mother, for showing me how to stretch a food budget. I’ve been shopping at Aldi, which is a great way to save money.

If you’re wondering where your money will go, rest assured it won’t go towards alcohol, smokes, drugs, or hookers. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. You might know our church members as Mormons. I don’t smoke and I don’t drink. I do enjoy junk food, eating out, WWE Champions, and lately Forge of Empires. I’ve had to put a curb on some unnecessary spending because I’m unemployed.

I’m not looking to become a “welfare king”. I’m working to find a job. I’d apply for jobs myself on Indeed, but I’ve been discouraged from doing so until I can get guidance from a job coach. I’ve been to job clubs, church employment courses, and so on. I want to work and have a normal life. I just need money to make ends meet.

paypal.me/GPalmer777

Hello, my name is Allen. I have two children ages 11, 2 . There the best you could possibly ask for an I am not just saying that either,they really are. But times have taken a toll out of me and my family we are currently caring for my elderly grandparents, who has dementia an the other is 85 an in very poor health copd is taking him to the grave unfortunately. I don’t mean to sound like a negative person but it is just what it is an he knows it we all do . So we just bare it this is our cross to bare together, but I  even Jesus had people who wanted to help him carry it . I’m just hoping that there is someone out there who could help us Carry ours Even if it’s for a short time, there was a time when my mother was given a ton of stuff an money from a dying man who wanted her to spread joy an love to as many people as she could , with me being so close to her as her son we donated time , food, resources ,money, homes , sometimes without even being able to see the joy on people’s faces when the realize that it’s going to be ok , but now I’m on the other side of all that an now I’m the one looking for help , everyone who knows us says what comes around goes around , so I pray I pray I pray that that is true , Lord I pray to you that that is true , but I’m going to go way out of my comfort zone and ask so here I go ,hello my name is Allen kraay. I need help I can’t pay my bills all the way. I can’t stop an get a drink from the store if I really needed one ,I can barley put 5 dollars in gas in our car to take the kids to school , my kids are well taken care of.  just  myself an there mother are asking for a little help with some money so we can get caught up with things , were not completely poor we both work an stay busy 100% of the time. I have a lawn care business I run , an my wife is the office manager at one of the last flee market’s in our state, so thank you for your time it took to read this, an thank you also if you can afford to help our family , here is the PayPal link they asked me to include

https://paypal.me/Alslawnz

I will try to keep the negative parts of this post short.  3 months ago I was a happy and positive person.  Since then, my ex left me and is taking the 3 boys, I lost an excellent job as a Healthcare Analyst, burned through all of my savings, and am about to find myself homeless.  I have applied to dozens of jobs, but have been turned down for reasons ranging from having no college education to having made too much money at my lost job.  I have sold or am in the process of selling everything I own (even my coffee maker..  that was a tough one).

Over the years I have lost touch with the things that brought me joy.  I allowed work to consume me, to the detriment of my health and family.  I let distractions take over as things started to fall apart, and sat back as my physical and mental health deteriorated.  These things were my fault – I made the choices that led to this position.

I am not looking for pity – like many others, I did this to myself.  What I am looking for is a helping hand to lift myself back up.  I am determined to turn this trial into something that will have a positive impact on my life.

I have made a choice to begin walking the Appalachian Trail instead of living in my car or in a shelter.  I want to let go of the distractions, and to use the time on the trail to figure out what kind of person I want to be.  I would like to begin writing again, reconnect with God, and maybe by the end have a better understanding of my place in life.

I am here because I am still in need of supplies for my journey, and will run out of money long before the trail is over.  If I need to leave the trail and go to a shelter, I will.  I am not going to risk my life more than any other person on the trail, but I have an opportunity to try to do something that so few people have a chance to do – and that in and of itself is a blessing.

Thank you all for reading, and God bless.  If you would like to help, my PayPal is paypal.me/fatmanwalking

Hello my name is AJ and I’m asking for money to help make amends for past spending issues I’ve had over the last decade.  I kept making poor financial decisions with no chance of digging myself out of them with outside help.  Let me first explain I do work hard and I do make decent money, for someone without a college degree.  I have specific goals I must meet to dig myself out of the mess I’ve got myself in.  I have a 401k loan, a credit card, car note and half of 20% down payment for a house to raise.  If I can get a majority of or all of these debts/hurdles raised it will give me the opportunity to save money and not worry about if I will have enough money to cover all my bills in between paychecks.  I also have passions that I’ve always wanted to pursue and or donate to but haven’t had the money to do it.  Please help me make amends for my stupid decisions over the last decade and allow me a second chance to make better decisions going forward.

paypal.me/AJSikes

Hello, I decided to resort to this website after getting my self into debt and struggling to pay it off, I was never intending to get into debt as I would always pay off my bills on time in full, however over the years that changed. As I became depressed for a while and started spending to keep my mind off my depression. it didn’t start this bad but I got diagnosed with Ulcerative colitis when i was 17 and went through lots of treatments that never seemed to work. I was still fine at this point as but when i was 19 i opted for surgery for my large intestine to get remove and get a  j pouch created. This did help a lot as I was no longer having 20+ bowel movements a day and I felt better and I still do but as time went on lets say about 2 years the doctors started to see some inflammation in my small intestine and had to start taking medicine which was helping but i still had inflammation which sucked but that’s life I guess my depression got even worse when I Got diagnosed with a liver disease called Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis or psc for short and i started reading about that and looked up life expectancy which is when is when I got depressed but never showed it this is when it really started to fall apart had to keep fixing my car by using credit cards then started buying things when I know I shouldn’t have because my life just seemed like it was going down hill more and more and it would get my mind off things but now I am now in debt and working to pay it off and i regret it deeply. However one good thing came out of this was I learned to stopped burying my depression inside and talk about it which made me feel so much better and now I just want to get debt free I owe over 20k however I would just like 7-8k just to pay off loans and I will be able to use money from my job to slowly pay off my credit card debt instead of paying minimum payments and getting charged lots of interest.

Finding myself here seems to me to be something unfathomable, yet surreal.
If you stop to read this post, know that I appreciate it very much.

Hello, I’m Aaron. I’m writing this today 01/14/2019 in hopes with prayers that I may be blessed with the good fortune that I may be bestowed help with achieving financial freedom. I’m not sure or even know how much to ask for. Just know that any and everything helps to go a long way towards securing this goal of financial support, not just myself but my also family.

I grew up in poor, in a family of seven in the ghetto of Cincinnati, OH. Raised by a man, my father who worked day end and night on one source of income to support his 5 sons, and wife with a dire medical issue and still happy and married after 30 years. For that extremely humbled as well grateful.

Currently of this day I’m now Twenty-Five years of age, engaged with a son due to meet this world in June of this year. I curiously wonder how I’ve managed to make it to this point of life. I’ve survived my teenage upbringing of a poverty stricken trek through the gang and drug-filled trenches of price hill. Embedded in the back of my mind, I knew that with every waking breath and step through that neighborhood could’ve become drastically life altering.

We didn’t have much, but what we had was each other and a roof over our heads. Our mother didn’t work, she was a stay at home mother due to her failing liver from a medical condition. What seemed to be an eternity of prayers in this month six years ago for a blessed soul to be a matched donor with only a three percent success chance of that liver functioning properly after the surgery, my mother is now healthy and happily living her life.

Through most of my teenage years there were times we didn’t have water, electric or heat. Most, if not all the time, it was one or the other. Those teenage days consisted of finding a source of money, food and a day’s shower. As my father worked constantly to play catch up constantly on past due bills, myself and the two oldest brothers went to get jobs to help relieve the pressure from my father which ultimately caused myself to drop out of high school to get a full-time job to help support my two younger siblings as they became of the age to get a job themselves.

I’m the third son of five, just getting by with what I have as I prepare to make room and to begin to raise a son of my own this year. I currently had to go through a chapter 7 bankruptcy due to a car wreck that happened on the way to get my license when I was nineteen years old, I was left with medical bills for myself and the passengers as well I was sued. A gut-wrenching feeling knowing I can’t provide a house for my son and Fiancé because of that or help my family members due to the things that had happened the past. I’m hoping that all I can do now is move into the future with the positive thought that I’m capable of helping everyone along this path in life.

I think to myself questioning all the reasons that I wouldn’t express this so openly to anyone but very close companions, especially to the public, leaves me with a comforting feeling of relief, knowing I didn’t have an simple come up, that nothing in this world comes easy and that everything that is worth fighting for isn’t easily obtain.

I know you can only read the words I’ve written and can only imagine the way things were for my family and myself as we all grew into adults. I would like to thank you for taking the time to read this, it’s much appreciated.

The link for supporting

paypal.me/supportingmylife

Here goes nothing. I’m an almost 36 year old divorcée that worked hundreds of hours of overtime for the last several years to save up enough money to buy my space on this earth. The second I found the property it I knew it was meant to be mine. The house that came with it however, had a lot of “Hold my beer i’m Gonna fix this” repairs and remodeling. Being the strong willed, independent person that I am, I refused to listen when my father told me to take is slow, demo one room at a time. I, instead gutted the inside not wanting to be in a constant state of destruction. This did two things.. opened up the once tiny rooms and created a huge open space, but also revealed the massive amounts of hazardous electrical wires that were hidden and not so hidden throughout the house. Wanting to do it properly I hired friends of friends that would help me at a lower rate than they would normally charge. However, this project has spiraled completely out of control. I’ve stayed up countless nights, sometimes sobbing, wondering what have I done? I took on more than I can handle. It’s no where near completed and I had to tell the electrician to stop work because I can’t afford to pay him, and the countless credit cards bills that are coming in. I never had credit cards prior to purchasing this house and I doubt I will again once they are paid off because the stress it almost too much to bare. I never thought I would be on a site requesting money from strangers, but my pride has been taken down several notches due to my desire not to fail. Please help me prove to myself that I am not a failure and that through faith and kindness and a lot of hard work anything can be accomplished. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Take care. 💕

My name is Joseph Vasquez, im currently working as a customer service rep at a mortgage company, i make 15 an hour.

Due to unforeseen events ive come to understand that i need help badly, i made stupid decisions which left me in a huge financial disadvantage, and im inching towards bankruptcy if i can get even a portion paid off that would be a blessing.

So heres the story, back in may 2018 i went to a bar with some group of co workers, one of my co workers pressured me into drinking more then my comfort zone, now i only agreed because he offered me a place to stay for the night, so i happily drank away without thinking only to black out and wake up in the emergency room because he had left me there, that was 1500$ to go to a hospital not even 0.6 miles away (thats right not even a mile)

Now that was the beginning to the pitfall that i stupidly dug myself in

then i made the decision to pull out a personal loan (ROCKETLOANS) to consolidate debt that i had already accrued with credit cards since it made financial sense

after that it was smooth sailing and i was in great financial shape for a bit because i had consolidated everything but then not even a month later my car got totaled by another friend of mine (Unlucky right?) and i had to go back into debt because i didnt have any money saved so i had to go back into debt to get a new car before my week of work started.

Stupidly i panicked and applied for another personal loan UPSTART to quickly get money and pay for the new car and repairs but i didnt realize that now i have 2 loan payments to pay.

Please i just wanna start saving money and not live paycheck to paycheck, everything is going to this debt, i cant even afford to feed myself some times, its driving my crazy , so please help me out, anything helps.

thank you

paypal.me/HelpJoeOut

Hello,

My name is Christina. In the process of helping my Mom with her bills I let one of my own go into default. The collection agency have placed this default bill on my credit report. Please can you help me with this bill. I Thank you so much in advance and God Bless you.

https://www.paypal.me/allstardoll

Three weeks ago, I embarked upon a spiritual journey, unlike anything I’ve ever done. The inspiration – recognizing a generations-long pattern of poor behavior exhibited by the men in my family, including myself, and having a few conversations with a spiritual guide to gain clarity in my own life. It was suggested I travel from DC (where I live) to New Orleans first to begin the process and from there, Trinidad and Tobago, the birthplace of my dad and much of his family.

I’m currently in New Orleans and have been here for three weeks. I arrived on a one-way ticket with a few hundred dollars in my pocket. Even not having a flight booked for Trinidad, my plan was to be in New Orleans for three days and Trinidad for seven. It’s actually a good thing that plan didn’t work out because I’ve learned a number of lessons in the time I’ve been in Crescent City – understanding what a spiritual life will look like for me, watching and learning from entrepreneurial friends how to have a sustainable business and healthy marriages, and not feeling bad for asking for help while being open to receiving positive responses. All of this has kept me in a state of self-reflection to unlearn all the thoughts and behaviors which never served me well. Being resourceful has kept me afloat (I’ve stayed with friends and in hostels). Faith and persistence have kept me seeking ways to come up with the money needed to fly from New Orleans to Trinidad, then back to DC.

My ask is for $1500. This will cover the cost of last-minute travel from New Orleans to Trinidad and then back to DC, a week’s stay in an Airbnb in Port of Spain, and food & transportation while in Trinidad. While there, I’ll be visiting any elder relatives living on the island, the country’s vital statistics office, and national library to conduct my ancestral research.

It’s my hope to be on a plane to Trinidad this week so I can return to DC next week. Friends and family at home have been supportive, but are also concerned despite the constant reassurances of my safety. To everyone who reads this, I hope my story has inspired you to not only contribute but also embark upon your own ancestral and spiritual journey. Thank you!