Begging Money

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Diabetic Children, debt and sleepless nights

I am 44 years old and have worked ever since leaving education at 18. I come from a family that didn’t have much money and as I’ve grown older, I realised that this shortage of money was due to a lack of financial intelligence. My parents spent every penny they had. I was young and impressionable so I thought that was how to manage money. How wrong was I!

By the time I was thirty I was over twenty thousand pounds in credit card debt and was struggling to make ends meet. By now I was married with kids, which was and is great, but the weight of not successfully managing the household finances was making me anxious and depressed.

And then my world started to unravel. One of my children got seriously ill as was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. This was hard to deal with as he only two years old, but thankfully he pulled through and now, although he has this condition for life, we have learned to accept it for what it is and are just grateful that he is able to receive the medication he needs.

A few years passed. I managed to pay off some debts by living quite a frugal life, but we still owed a figure number in credit card debts. It felt like the interest was increasing as the credit card companies could see there was no easy way out of this for us. Would we ever get out of this and have any money to spare?
And then it happened again, another one of my kids was diagnosed with diabetes. This was the final straw for me. I spiralled into depression and starting spending to make myself and others feel better. It didn’t work.

As we pulled together and back to some sort of normality, I find myself here and now, a few years later, typing a begging email for your money. It is what it is. I’m not going to disguise the fact that I feel ashamed to be doing this, but the fact is I’m still about £5k in credit card debt which I need to pay off before I can even think about paying a mortgage, and I need your help.
I’m tired of worrying about it all. I think my family deserves better. Any donation would be great, especially during the current situation with COVID 19. I am worried and want to shield my family the best I can. If that means swallowing my pride and asking for help then so be it.

Sorry for the morbid tone, I’ve never done anything like this before.
I truly am grateful for any amount you want to donate
Thank you

paypal.me/JWthanksyou

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I am completely embarrassed, but we need help!!

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

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Lost everything, time for a walk

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