The city of Oakland took my vehicle during COVID 19 now I don’t have a vehicle & I need one for when work starts. They towed my car charged my card and wouldn’t give my car back because I didn’t have enough.  They took my 500 dollars and the fees kept growing so they kept my car.

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Hello everyone. My name is Jared c and I am 20. I am writing you today, because my tire has decided to explode on the highway and I do not have the money to fix it right now. I honestly could probably beg a few family members and come up with the money for one tire but it’s not just that. My car is always having problems but I can afford getting a car right now. I also can’t afford my phone bill that’s due in 3 days and i can barely Feed myself right now. I do have a few things to survive on though. I’m not starving. I was almost making it buy with the little money I make but it’s been hard lately and it’s just made my mental state so bad. My anxiety is through the roof lately and I’ve been trying to experiment between meds with my doctor but they aren’t working and I’m trying so hard to remain calm and be okay, but I’m losing grasp on being okay so I’m asking for help. I have a car that I could fix up but by now after how long it’s been sitting I’m sure it’ll cost more then fixing the one that I have. I know tired aren’t very expensive but my car likes to shit on me every couple of weeks with a new problem. I ask God to help me constantly. I keep praying for a miracle. I watch two children for one family every day and I take their children with me to go let the neighbors dogs out every day for extra money which is how I’ve been getting by in the passed but with my asthma medicine and bills I can’t afford to do all of this on my own. I keep trying to keep my spirits up but just when I make things better in my life something breaks down or gets ruined and I don’t have the money to replace these essential things that I have to have. My mom is Also struggling a lot too. I’d love to be able to help her in any kind of way but right now I can’t even afford to take her to dinner. If you don’t have money to spare keep it I can manage, but if you can help please do. I’m really struggling and stuck right now. Thank you all for reading my message and I hope you have a wonderful blessed day.

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Hello, so my name is Quentin I am currently 23 years old, live in the Pacific northwest, I have always grown up in a poor family/ living situation. My mother was in and out of my life growing up as a kid for most of it being involved in drugs and the whole lifestyle that comes with that, she went to prison for quite awhile which left my dad alone to take care of 3 kids and raise them by himself which I could imagine being in his shoes was not easy raising 3 boys alone. I was born with a cleft lip and always got picked on in school and bullied so it made growing up that much more difficult never really having friends and always being laughed at and stared and and called names because of my cleft lip was very hard and definitely had a traumatic impact on me growing up. Once I got older and became more mature and realized it was something I couldn’t change and had to get used to it it became alot easier to deal with. Once I turned 18 I got a job as soon as I could because not having alot as a kid definitely made me appreciate everything that I was able to buy myself from working hard and earning it the real way. But all of my jobs I’ve had have all been temporary it seems like everyone I’ve worked for never wanted to take the time to see all the potential I can bring to the table and let me go after a short period. To this day I still have the most trouble just getting the most basic jobs you can think of, and coming from a family that has always been struggling financially or just scraping by, makes it hard to live day to day life as I cannot just go ask mommy or daddy to pay for whatever or give me money for whatever i want/ need so just getting thru normal every day life has been a definite struggle since I’ve been an adult, the first car i had i bought myself from saving up from working. Only to loose it months later in a car collision that was the other persons involved fault, and not being mobile with a vehicle makes it 10 times harder to find work, I currently have a car. 1997 honda civic but it is not running at the moment due to a rod that was thrown from one of the engine cylinders, so I just have a car with no engine and no source of income and no outside financial help to fix any of my problems and cannot get a job because I have no source of transportation, all of my family members are either to far away to help me with rides daily or just simply cannot or will not do it because our schedules would conflict with one another, so here I am asking for anybody’s to just take a chance and help me start getting my life on track so I can hopefully be a working man with a decent working vehicle to get back and forth to work everyday, I keep faith in my heart that something good will come my way soon enough as I feel I am a genuinely humble human being and just want to live my life like the next person does and be content with where I am in life and not have to constantly stress or worry about buying food, or clothes or even deodorant for Pete’s sake. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope at least one person can understand my situation.

My paypal link is ; https://www.paypal.me/HelpAStrugglinBrotha

Hi everyone!

My name is Amara, and I am a recent college graduate. I just graduated in May from an HBCU with my Bachelors degree in computer science. Just recently, I was in an accident which totaled my car. It was a car that I had just purchased myself during summer 2019. Due to the car being financed through my bank, I was forced to give up the car as collateral while I received a settlement from the insurance company. Since I did not have gap insurance, I was forced to continue making payments on a car that I longer had. I have finally paid off the remaining balance of the loan, but am still in need of a new vehicle as I have not had one at all since the accident.

I am on this site asking for gracious donations to help me be able to purchase another car. I am not looking to buy anything fancy or new, just something reliable with good mileage. I am currently unemployed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but I have a job offer to be starting full time work in September. I really need help with funds to be able to be a car mainly so that I may be able to have a reliable vehicle to get to work when I start in September. Not having a vehicle during these past few months has been extremely difficult to say the least. Being in that car accident was a very stressful situation for me and took a bit of a toll on my finances. Additionally, not having a vehicle and the fact that my first car that I ever purchased was gone was honestly very depressing for me for a while, but I have since learned to accept it and find ways to work around my obstacle. Although I am coping, it would mean a lot to me if you supported me.

Again, due to COVID-19 it has been extremely hard for me to make the funds that I need to purchase a vehicle. I have saved up a couple thousand dollars so far, but I ask for $3,000 in donations to add to that. Again, these funds will help me to be able to purchase a reliable vehicle to get to and from work when I start working full-time in September. Please keep in mind that no donation is too small. I appreciate all the help I can get financially. Thank you so much for considering me and my situation! Much love.

Paypal: PayPal.Me/Amaraa8

Cash app: $Amaraaa008

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Hi, I didn’t see anything stating that this is supposed to be a formatted text or anything, so I’m hoping more casual is fine.

My name is Kilauni; I’m 19 years old from Texas. I’m looking for money for several things, but right now the most important to me is my car. Last week, the tire broke while I was taking a turn and I havent been able to drive it since (besides taking it to a parking lot nearby to sit). I was able to stay with a friend, but only for a short amount of time because of her living situation. So now I’m back to my car, stuck in the same parking lot unless someone can give me a ride somewhere. I guess I am looking for a little pity because I’m looking for money, but I’m not looking for pity over being homeless. I’ve been living in my car for a few months because my parents kicked me out for not taking any college classes this past semester along with some other petty rules- so I’ve gotten the hang of things and don’t mind it too much.

The problem now is that I can’t make it to work unless I can rely on someone else to take and pick me up, as I don’t have money for Ubers; I also really need any money I get from here on out to fix my own car. This has made my life incredibly stressful, especially since my car is the roof over my head at night and I’m stuck in one spot, unable to drive it. I have a lot of other things to take care of, such as payments for the car still (I’ve only had it since February) and insurance, hospital bills, bail, gas/food/other necessities, etc. which is why it’s so hard for me to save up money for situations like this.

A friend was able to take me to AutoZone on Sunday and they said based on the pictures I showed them that it looked like a ball joint or bent tire rod most likely, but that I’d have to take it to a shop to get it fixed. When I called the shop just a few minutes down the road from my car, they said the most specific range they could give for either problem is about $100-500, depending on which problem it is, what parts they actually need to use/fix, etc. I’ve tried a couple different things to make some more money to be honest, like OnlyFans and asking for donations (along with anything I could come up with for the past few days), but have continuously come up empty handed.

I’m not sure how much is a good amount to ask for, so I suppose $500 just for good measure. But honestly any amount would help greatly, I have almost nothing right now. I get paid in a couple days, but since I’ve been missing a lot of shifts lately I’m not expecting more than $100 for this paycheck. Anything extra that I don’t need to use for repairing my car would at least help me get back on my feet and hopefully stay afloat for a while, as I do have a lot of other financial things to take care of. But whatever I would be able to get I would be extremely grateful for, even just $50. I appreciate anyone who’ll end up taking the time to read through my situation, and hopefully help me out.

https://www.paypal.me/kilauni

Hello to anyone out there reading this,

I am embarrassed to be doing this asking for money. My father passed away from cancer when I was eight years old, and we have had his GMC Sierra ever since. It has definitely been a symbol of him and has always made me feel very close to him. I have always wanted a truck just like my dad’s, I know it is just an object but knowing that my family has to get rid of my father’s truck makes me feel like the whole in my heart is being torn bigger and bigger. I have been trying my best to save up money as best as I can but it’s not enough I am still in college and I work 30 hours a week. I would’ve had enough money for a new truck but I was moving into a new apartment with some roommates so we can be near our school and the day we were going to sign the lease it caught on fire and burned down. Because we hadn’t signed the lease yet, we didn’t have insurance yet and I lost all of my stuff. The landlords said they would help us with their insurance and they haven’t helped at all and refuse to give me back my $1600 deposit on top of it and I had to go find a new apartment to live which I found, so now I have all my bills for that too. I know there are a lot of other people out there in worse situations which is why I feel bad for even doing this, I really have been struggling to do this because of the financial hits I’ve taken since my apartment fire. I thought eleven years without my father it would get easier with my emotions and holidays, however it feels like it has only gotten harder, this past father’s days was one of the hardest days of my life. And lately I have just been struggling and have been taking a lot of hits and my fiancé that I live with hasn’t been able to work because of corona and it feels like we are in a financial ditch lately and this truck is the one thing I really want and I have been working really hard to save money for, and my current car that I drive to work is on its last legs and I don’t know what I’m going to do if it breaks down, I won’t be able to get to work and school and home. I appreciate anyone and everyone out there that is reading this and appreciate literally any help and I only hope that in the future I can pay it forward to other’s out there struggling like I am.

Sincerely,

Amanda D

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Hi, my name is Bryanna.

I honestly don’t even know where to begin, and the last thing I want to do is write a letter asking you to pity me. I’d prefer to ask you to have faith in me…

Life has dealt me some shitty cards. Am I entirely innocent? Absolutely not. But every time I try to get up, I’m smacked right back down.

I was adopted at the age of 5. I was a problem child, as most older child adoptions are. I had reactive attachment disorder; a constant fear of being abandoned that didn’t dissipate as I grew up. I didn’t smile, I bit my adoptive mother, I threw monumental tantrums. A cyclone of emotional abuse between me and my adoptive mother built up, and peaked at for me at the age of 11. I began to self harm, I wanted to die, I felt alone and misunderstood, I was badly bullied in school and had limited contact with friends. I tried to kill myself and was hospitalized about 4 times. My mother’s “solution” to me self harming was to strip search me. On on occurrence, I told her that if I had to live with her any long, I would kill myself. She told me to get in the car, and dumped me at the emergency room. Three out of the four times I was hospitalized, my parents didn’t visit me, and I received very few calls. They threatened to put me in a “juvenile delinquent home,” whatever that is, and just generally berated me for my suicidal tendencies. I ended up moving out at 17, and I’ve received almost zero financial support from my parents since. They had me sign a contract agreeing to this.

I have chronic anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and borderline personality disorder. Despite this, I was able to move into my own apartment a few months ago, and I was financing a Honda Civic. Things were going alright until a friend got shot and killed over a petty disagreement. He was 20. Suddenly all the symptoms I had been denying resurfaced. Combine this with the stress of a career serving job at a prestigious, world famous restaurant, at which I felt inadequate, singled out, and barely made enough money to pay my bills, and I crumbled. I’ve struggled with alcohol abuse for years (even though I am only 21), and I’m notorious for blacking out. It’s a way of killing myself without actually dying. About a month ago I had been drinking at home alone and I let in the maintenance man to fix my AC. I woke up in my bed after losing 8 hours with bruises on my knees and elbows, and my panties were on the floor. I didn’t go to the police at first, because I thought it was my fault. I still feel like it was, but I brought the condom to the police because this man not only works in my neighborhood, but lives across from me, and mentioned “coming by to make sure I wasn’t passed out on the floor again.” Three weeks ago, I drank too much at the club and slipped away from my friends. I didn’t know I was driving until I hit something. If I had hit just a bit harder, or at a different angle, I would have blown up. My car is totaled, I’m about to be put on probation, which means I will have to give up my vices that help me when I’m particularly suicidal, and I just want to dig myself out of this mess. I’ve been trying to sell my body to get my savings back up and afford another car. I feel stuck in bed, in this monotonous cycle of watching TV, gorging myself on carbs, and sleeping. My adoptive parents won’t speak to me, and we had just started to mend our relationship. I am in therapy and on medication, and once I’m able to get to AA meetings I will be attending. This most definitely has served as a wake up call for me, and I’m desperate to begin rebuilding myself and my life.

https://www.paypal.me/amayafoxglove

Please and thank you 💗

Hello,

My name is Shannon. I live in Colorado with my husband J and our two children 12 year old”B”, and 10 year old”C”.

We have a 2000 Cadillac Deville that we bought used a few years ago. About a year ago it started overheating. After replacing the leaking coolant reservoir, and driving as little as possible with gallons of water in the trunk we absolutely can’t go any further. We need a new radiator. I have had some people look at it, but cannot afford a mechanic to diagnose and repair. It’s now been sitting for awhile and now it just plain wont start.  I’m fairly sure it needs a new battery..but we cant afford that either at this point.  I am a Certified Nursing Assistant working for a float pool, which is to say; I am on call and travel to various hospitals and nursing homes to substitute for those who cannot work their scheduled shifts. I take the bus whenever possible but I am not able accept many of the shifts offered to me. By nature they are often short notice and some can be up to an hour away. I have dropped from an average of 40 hours per week to just 24. My husband works construction and we rely on my income primarily during the winter.

We need help. Weve gotten so far behind and it’s getting worse. We are now living in a motel with our kids and pay almost 1500 dollars per month for 1 room. We have zero credit and owe nothing to anyone, but no credit is somehow worse than bad credit and we couldnt get a loan for a pack of gum even if we had a cosigner, much less be approved for an apartment or car loan.

So.

I am asking for help with a car. Or for help with the cost to repair the one we have. A new radiator is somewhere around 100 dollars on amazon. A mechanic is somewhere around 350.00 plus parts I’m estimating. A battery is about 90.00 at walmart. A used car would also be so helpful. We dont care what it looks like of course. But we are hoping that it will be reliable and sturdy. An SUV type would be ideal because of our kids, but we want to limit our impact on the environment as much as possible.

I am hoping that by some cosmic miracle that someone might actually see this. My husband doesn’t even know I’m writing this. Hed say I’m crazy. But, imagine if it could happen? What if it could? What if you, oh cosmic reader, should see this? Are there really people out there who would help some random stranger they’ve never even met before like this? I will be…so very grateful to whoever might respond. WE would be. All four of us. And to whoever might respond I’d like to say advance, that we thank you. For your kindness. For your consideration and thoughtfulness. And we appreciate all who read this. Whether they reply or not.

-Shannon

https://www.paypal.me/shannycats1