This is out of character for me, but I heard about this website and figured I’d give it a try.

I’m in my late 20’s and my father passed away about 7 months ago from complications with Multiple Sclerosis. I’m an only child and I cared for him for the majority of my life, as he was diagnosed when I was about 8.

When he passed, I received a small amount of money. I had always dreamed of traveling, but knew that while he was alive, I had to stay close. I was his power of attorney and the only family that cared enough to do anything for him. My dad loved to travel himself, and I felt compelled to get away from the place I’d never left and explore the world and experience life, after a first hand look at how truly short and unfair it can be.

I used the money I received to purchase a 1999 motorhome, with plans to travel the country. My boyfriend and I are both self employed artists, so we thought it would be an awesome experience for us. I bought it from an older couple in a different state, who I found on Facebook marketplace. They assured me that there were no issues, and I trusted them. Biggest mistake of my life, thus far.

I was so excited that I quickly told my landlord I would be moving out of my apartment. I packed my entire life and my cats into my new RV and soon after, drove across the country in hopes of a new, happier life, only to find out that my new home is an unsafe, water logged, piece of absolute junk that after the repairs (unprofessional and probably unsafe patch-jobs) I’ve had to make, has cost me tens of thousands of dollars and almost every single dime I have.

All of the walls are riddled with water damage. There are leaks on every seam and the wood lining the walls is soaked, destroyed, and full of mold. The  walls are crumbling and the window hardware is falling out. There is an existing clog in the sewage tank that can only be fixed by a professional (trust me, we have tried). There is an electrical issue with the generator, which causes smoke to come out if the fuse box every time it’s turned on (so obviously we are not able to use the generator at all). The refrigerator doesn’t work, so we have been living off peanut butter sandwiches and cereal bars. There is an unknown issue with the brakes, that I haven’t been able to have diagnosed because I’m now too broke.

I feel completely scammed by the people I purchased this RV from, and have contacted them several times, but they could care less. I’ve found evidence of them trying to hide issues, so I believe they were fully aware that they were selling me garbage, but I signed a contract, so there’s nothing I can do about it.

I have so much regret surrounding this. I wish I’d taken the money and used it as a down payment on a new, reliable RV with a warranty. Life has been full of so much sadness and all I wanted was some peace, but instead I was met with more frustration. I’m scared for the future. Back home, I had a living situation that worked for me and my income as an artist. And now I’m not sure how I’m going to get by. If I sell this RV, I will probably get a third of what I paid for it initially, let alone all of the money I put in after the fact.

I have also been dealing with panic disorder after a trauma for about 3 years. Not long ago,I was so agoraphobic that I couldn’t leave my apartment for months at a time. I’ve worked so hard to get to the point where I am now, and was so proud of myself for making this massive life changing trip. The last thing I would ever want to do is fail, and have to immediately come back home.

My hope is that I can somehow afford to finance a new RV that I can explore, live, work and create art in. Anything would be very helpful and so very much appreciated. Thank you so much.

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Hi.. I’d like to start off by saying my name is Gabrielle McElwee. I have a beautiful 2 year old daughter. We live with my aunt since July 2019. My stepdad recently just passed away in January. We were living with my mother and stepdad in Tennessee at the time, but we were all evicted because of his death and had to leave within a week. We stayed hotel to hotel for about 3-4 months till my cousin let us stay with him and his friends.. we couldn’t find a place my mom had lost her job a few weeks after her husband died but she had a backup job. Her sister wanted us to move back home to New Orleans so we did in July. I recently just quit my secretary job because my boss wasn’t being understanding and we were not getting along. He would get mad at the littlest things. I’ve been applying to jobs. I’ve been trying to save up money, but when you have to put food in the house and buy diapers, help pay bills… you don’t really have any money anymore. I do have $1,500 saved hopefully I don’t have to touch it. I feel bad always asking my mother for rides or grandfather. I’ve been looking at cars and nothing drivable is in that price range. I feel so so close to getting a car it’s at the tip of my fingers but soon I know I will have to spend money on more diapers soon and other things. Specially with Christmas coming up. I’m too scared to start a go fund me because I feel like friends or family would tell me not to do this but I just feel like I have no other choice.. everyone goes through something I understand that.. I guess when your a young adult you just wonder when will it all end and it gets better.. my karma is if I get too happy about anything something bad will happen and I believe that 110%.. i feel like a horrible person for even trying to ask someone for help. I know I have a good heart I think of others before myself, and I help other people before myself.. but I always get screwed over. So recently I’ve put my foot down. But also the money wouldn’t just go to me for a car. It will also be going to my wonderful mother. When my stepdad died it was unexpected and she had no life insurance her car is starting to mess up and she just got it.. my aunt would also like us to move out before Christmas and I would like that too. So yeah the money would be going towards a car for myself and money towards a house for my mom and sisters and my daughter and me. I’m asking for no judgment. :( I’m not sure what else I need to say. My story should be in a book.. it’s crazy. Probably be a best seller. FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME TO GET MY PHONE NUMBER TO TALK OR ETC..

my paypal is paypal.me/gabrielleeaa

I also have cash app it’s $gabrielleealexis21

Thankyou for having the time to read this.

Hello, my name is Jenny Lucy Noriega. I am 22 years old, born in Orange County and raised in San Jose, Ca. When I was a child it was always just me and my mother, Lucy. I don’t remember much about life with her but I do remember the endless baking, laying on her stomach watching full house, eating rocky road and hot Cheetos  in our room at the women’s shelter we stayed at for about 3/4 years. I remember the fun party she thrown me and her drunk, crying in our room singing “sorry seems to be the hardest word” by Elton John. When I was in 3rd grade we moved to Watsonville with my moms boyfriend “Lucky”. My grandmother (my moms mom) came up a lot to check on us and help my mom out. My mom was born with problems, endless surgeries from an infant to an adult, when she was in her late 30’s she ended up getting her leg amputated so my whole life she was in a wheelchair or a prosthetic leg on crutches. Now as a mother I can only imagine how hard that must have been for her, or me.. I didn’t have a mom to run around a play with, she was actually quite miserable in life and I never knew… Anyways, about 5 months into living in Watsonville my mom was all of a sudden gone, and I was being taken to my grandmothers house. I didn’t know then but when my mom disappeared she was in Stanford hospital, she was told she had cancer. I was 8 years old, just a month away from turning 9 when she came to my grandmas house, we never went back to Watsonville. My mom was so sick and pale and MEAN, to everyone around her! I had no idea why, I didn’t know why she was hooked up to a machine & her hair was falling out, or why she kept pressuring me about who I wanted to live with if i couldn’t live with her. My family had thrown me a 9th birthday party on October 8th but was really a “goodbye” party for my mom, everyone came. About two weeks later on October 23rd my mom passed away and I was right there, it didn’t phase me because I had no idea what was going on. After that my life changed, I stayed with my grandma, my dad started to call here and there to check up on me but I never met him in person, when I was 13 he passed away from diabetes. My grandmother raised me till I was 17 and man was that lady an angel on earth❤️ She passed away May 25th 2015. Leaving me alone. I had no one to care for me, my family has always had issues, always fighting, my grandmother was the GLUE literally! When she died everyone scattered away to care for themselves and there I was…. Alone, no parents, no siblings, my cousins left to Tracy ca, and my aunts and uncles didn’t care for me. I had one person, my boyfriend (now husband) Jesus Oregel Montanez (I haven’t changed my last name yet). I found out I was pregnant June 2015 to my first son Jayden, my husband and I were renting an apartment with friends and decided to move to Modesto Ca. One of my aunts came around to help me with life so I am truly blessed for that especially because we now have THREE kids! Which is why I am writing this letter, I had another baby November 2017 & another May 2019. I had a small Volkswagen Passat that barely fits us, so my husband bought me my dream van (I know it sounds weird but I’ve always wanted a mini van) well since I went on maternity leave and wasn’t making enough we had to stop payments. I’m a host at Red Robin and he is a line cook at Red Robin so you can only imagine how small our paychecks are. Between 3 kids, diapers, wipes, bills and MORE bills we just couldn’t afford to catch up to our payments. A few weeks ago they towed my beautiful van and I was so sad…. Until, I got a letter stating I can get it back for $2,000 so we looked up ways to get fast money and here I am shooting my best shot. It’s always worth a try(: Thank you so much for taking the time to read this letter.

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I am writing in desperation at one o’clock in the morning, so my wife doesn’t know I did this. It’s not like I’m sleeping anyway. My wife has severe PTSD from prolonged physical and sexual abuse when she was very young, and cannot be left alone. As a result I had to quit working and find something to do from home. I am working, and make what I can, but it is not much. We get by, but there hasn’t been any extra money in years. Christmas is always rough, as are birthdays. We have four kids.

The trailer we live in sits on an acre of land that we own, I inherited it from my dad. However, it is about 30 years old and the pipes are all starting to leak. Most of the water walls in the house have slow leaks inside the walls that I have not been able to afford to fix. As a result we have multiple soft spots in the floor. The worst one is around the base of the only toilet in the home that works. The floor is literally falling out around the toilet, and I have it propped up against the wall on one side using 2 by 6’s to hold it upright. I don’t know how much longer that will last though.

The floor of our house is falling out from underneath us, and I don’t have the money to buy the materials to fix it. I do, however, have the knowledge. I was a carpenter in my younger days and really just need money for materials. The thing is, that it has gone on for so long now that it will cost a couple thousand dollars to redo floors, some of which are under load bearing walls. All total there are four major areas in our trailer where the floor is falling out, and one minor one under a window.

To make matters worse, our van has a major oil leak that is most likely a cracked block. The van is paid for, another inheritance from my dad. But it is old too, and with no extra money we just put two quarts of oil in it every time we have to go to town. Working from home means we only leave the house once a week – on payday. We pay bills online, make a trip in to town for cleaning supplies, groceries, and oil. And then we come home and stay at the house for another week.

What I need is help. Anything that anyone can do will be greatly appreciated. I need to get the floors fixed before they open up to bare ground, and I need to either fix my van or replace it. It’s gonna cost a lot, so I probably need help from a bunch of folks.

My Paypal.me link is https://paypal.me/wflem7670

Thanks for reading.

Hello, my name is Jamie. I am finding myself here because my family is in desperate need of help. Our home consists of my husband, our youngest son and myself. My husband, Tony, is a very hard working man. He works nearly 16 miles from where we live, neither our home nor his job are on the bus line, the nearest bus stop is 4 miles from our house and 3 from his job. We live in Michigan (U.S.A.) and winter is quickly arriving. Walking to work is not an option (even though he is going to try if we can’t get this truck fixed). He blew his knew out when he was in the military and has some pretty severe pain and mobility limitations in it (but he doesn’t let that prevent him from working). He doesn’t even have a winter coat, just a hoodie and a Michigan State Spartans leather coat he got as a gift from a friend for his birthday last year. We own a 2001 Nissan Xterra 4WD that we bought from our son-in-law when our van died for good last year. We just replaced the front brakes, rotors, calipers, valve cover gaskets and plenum gaskets about 2 months ago (that was very expensive). Now the truck seems to be having MORE problems. In addition to the heat and air not working and needing tires for the winter, the transmission needs to be replaced. It locked up and apparently a simple fix is not going to work. We were quoted $3,800 to fix the transmission. We depleted our savings (which we were saving for the heat/air, tires, Christmas and grandson’s birthday) recently helping my 65 year old mother with medical bills, new locks and security measures after she was assaulted by her (50 year old) roommate. We knew we weren’t going to be able to fix the heat/air or get tires for the truck or even winterize our home, but we figured we would still make it through the winter months until we could save up some money and do these things little by little next year (or better yet get a decent vehicle). But now with the transmission locked up we have no way of fixing the truck so that it at least runs enough to get him back and forth to work. I can’t work due to a back injury, I had surgery and am now going through physical therapy 3 times a week (which I also won’t be able to do).  We can’t afford to get a new vehicle, taking on a car payment would be pointless because we wouldn’t be able to to make the payments right now so our only option is to fix the truck we have and pray it lasts until we are able to get something else. Neither of us has any family that we can ask for help. Our 22 year old daughter who is a single mom of a 1 year old beautiful son offered to take on a 3rd job to try to help us (she lives in a different part of the country). She already works 2 full time jobs as a waitress, works Saturday afternoons in her boyfriend’s father’s store, and cleans a few houses throughout the week, she barely has time for her son and daycare is expensive, so her taking on a 3rd job really wouldn’t be feasible (but she offered, God bless her). We are cutting back on everything we can, including what our doctor’s call “necessary medications”. We are eating a lot of peanut butter sandwiches, ramen noodles, tuna fish and Aldi brand mac n cheese (yes, there are days we don’t eat at all because we are trying to put together as much as we can to fix the truck, but I don’t think we are going to come anywhere near what we need in time). We would get rid of my husband’s cell phone but it is required for his job. We have cancelled family Thanksgiving and Christmas to eliminate those expenses. We aren’t even turning our heat on at night when it is getting cold so that our utility bill is as low as possible. We are cutting every corner we can think to cut but we have only been able to come up with about $325.  If anyone can please help us towards our total goal of $3,800 ($3,475 after what we have saved) we would be so grateful. I truly don’t like having to ask for the help of others, I am used to being the one that helps others when they need it, but I have no other options. Thank you for reading my request for help.

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Hi Everyone,

my name is Sophia. I’ve recently been in a rear end collision with the county of the state I currently reside in. A county facilities truck rear ended me at a stop light and damaged my trunk, bumper, tail light, and fuel filler inlet. I need to have my car repaired but before I can repair my car, I need to pay the $1000 deductible. All I am asking for is $1000 to pay my deductible.

The county that hit me takes about 3 months to process the claim I filed against them and reimburse me. I, unfortunately, cannot wait until December to have my car fixed that is why I am going through my own insurance for the time being.

Please help me pay for the deductible so that I can continue going to work and going to school. I live states away from any close family. I cannot continue driving my car around as it is because I’ve already been pulled over once, I don’t want the tickets to also add on to the price tag that I already can’t afford.

I need help. If I don’t get this car fixed, I am going to lose my job, drop out of school, and be evicted. Please help me stay in school, keep a job, and a roof over my head. I am asking for any help towards the $1000.

I’ve already dropped out of school once before in February because my father passed away from Cancer. I want to stay in school and make him proud. Please help me.

Anything helps,

Sophia.
PayPal.me/sophiapk

Ive provides pictures of my deductible and the damages of my car, I don’t have any pictures of the fuel filler inlet but gas basically leaks out of my car anytime I try to pump.

PLEASE HELP my name is kenny I’m trying to get my car fixed and have gas money to make it back and forth to work till I get payed once I find a job to support my two year old son and my wife. The reason why I’m asking for help is because I dont have anyone else in this world to help me. My daddy the one that raised me from birth died three years ago August 22 2016 from stage 4 cancer. My grandmother died when I was 13 of a heart attack in her sleep I know this because I was the one that found her. My grandfather died two years after my grandmother died of lung cancer. Those were the only three people in this world that would help me when I needed it like I do today. The amount that it’s going to take is 2,000 dollars to help me get my car fixed and to get back to work so I can take care of my family. What is wrong with my car is the starter. When my car was kinda running I went to a salvage yard with my last 45 dollars to get a used starter for my car. When I took my old starter of my car it finished breaking to where there is no way that I can fix it to go exchange it for the wright one. The starter I got for my car was the wrong starter and I didn’t know this till I got the old one off my car and by that time it was too late to try and fix the old one because its broke to where I cant so anything to fix it. If I could please please get some help it will not go forgotten because I will pay it forward when some one needs my help because it would be the right thing to do. My dad raised me telling me that you have to be tough in this world. He would say I mean tougher that nails he would say. He also raised me saying to always do right that way you will always be on the good side of things and also he would say if you know its wright in your heart then its wright and if it’s wrong in your heart it’s wrong. I have always done wright by others because of what I have always been told do un to others as u want done to you and that is one of the things I live my life by.

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This is where I currently live. My 1999 Honda Accord with 233,000 miles on it. It still runs pretty well, but there are knocks, creaks and groans when I accelerate and turn corners. It gets a little uncomfortable to sleep in too, but I try not to complain. Would you like to know how I ended up living here?

Well… Have you ever made a choice that was such a big mistake that it cost you everything that you loved? I assure you, it’s not fun.

I had a good life. Maybe not the greatest, but I worked hard to land a decent job to provide for my wife and kids. They had it pretty good. My wife stayed at home to raise our two children while I battled depression, and a long daily commute only to come home feeling unloved and unappreciated. Well, about three years ago I started down a path of debauchery and infidelity. I thought it would make me happy. I thought it would easy the ache for companionship that I felt I was lacking.

A year and a half later, i had hit rock bottom and saw myself for the monster i had become. My wants and desires had been replaced with self loathing and hate. I was certain I would never find happiness. I considered divorcing my wife and leaving the family I resented, but I stuck with what I was good at. Being the provider.

Nearly a year later (about 2 months ago), my life was changing. Things were getting better. I wasn’t depressed and I was looking forward to a future as an empty nester with my wife. And then karma kicked me in the nuts a month later. My wife was told about my sexual misbehaviors including activities I didn’t commit that fall on the wrong side of the law.

So here I am. My wife of nearly 25 years has filed for divorce, I’m not allowed in the home that we built together, and I’ve alienated nearly every family member and friend I had.  I don’t know if there will be legal action. I don’t know if I will lose my job. I don’t know how much the divorce and/or legal fees might be, but I know we can’t really afford it. So I live in my car because every dollar I would have to spend on a room or apartment is a dollar borrowed from my family’s future and stability.

So, why am I here pleading for your help? To be honest, I’m worried this old car that I’m living in won’t last.  I’m hoping to raise a few thousand dollars to buy a used minivan that will last until we can sell our house and I can take what equity I might get to find a new place to try and build a new life.

Thank you for reading my story.

https://paypal.me/carSleeper

So my life has changed a lot in this past year I’ve got my own place, I’m getting married next month, got a new job, and I’m continuing to develop a business of my own. Which is something I have put aside to help my family with financial issues. But I am very excited for all the great things and positive changes coming in my life.But lately it feels like literally everything that could go wrong has. My windshield on my car was had to be replaced due to it having a massive crack in it somehow. Our puppy getting sick (vet bills are no joke). I woke up one morning and my car was towed because my parking pass “wasn’t visible.” The day after we paid to get it back it would no longer start. And on top of all that my fiancé got sick and was out of work for a few days. Having unreliable cars and a string of bad luck has led our once stable home to become super unstable. My fiancé and I have always been super hard workers and always put others before ourselves. We are the responsible ones in the family that everyone comes to when they need help so to have our bills stacking up and of wedding day so close it feels like the sky is falling and I’m chicken little. I wish a $1000 would just fall out of the sky and make everything alright again. At this point I’d be happy with $1 haha at least that would give me some hope! Okay okay I’m ranting…It’s official 30 days until we are to be married and I feel like everything we’ve built financially is falling apart. I just want so badly for us to be back on track again and to get married with out a care. I don’t even know if this is going to work or even make my situation any better but it’s nice to get these things off my chest. I smile and keep things together because I have to be strong but I’m stressing more then anyone will ever know.  so much so that I googled “People giving away money” which is what led me here. So if anyone has it in their heart to take a bit of weight off my shoulders I would greatly appreciate it. This is probably a complete shot in the dark but it’s a shot I’m willing to take. Help a chicken out! Haha thank you for reading have a blessed one.

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