Begging Money

Financial Hardship Help

We often hear “I need money now” for rent, food or bills – not an easy situation to be in. See our advice below.

Emergency Rental, Food, and Bills Assistance Programs

How to get help with rent?

At times, many families find themselves homeless, or unable to continue to occupy the premises of their choice. This may be due to fire, accident, storms or many other causes, but often it is merely a problem in paying the rent. Illness that forces a breadwinner to stay home, or loss of a job; any and all of these conditions can put a family in need of temporary assistance to tide itself over until the members of the family find themselves again in a position to pay their own rent without the need of subsidising or other rental assistance.

Agencies have been set up in many parts of the country to help in this regard. Non-profit organizations, these charities, such as The Salvation Army, as well as some governmental agencies are often able to offer emergency rental assistance for families who are being evicted by a landlord, or who simply have no way to pay their rent at the moment. Realizing that landlords, despite the old cartoon imagery of a rich greedy person feeding off the work of renters, the vast majority of landlords are not really making a profit at all on the current tenant. This is only a stopgap so that the landlord may pay the monthly house payments in the hope of some future profit if housing increases in value some years later. If the tenant can’t pay the rent, the landlord may soon find himself in the same position with regard to the lender. Lenders do not want to hear sad stories.

Although these different programs for rental assistance may be available, much depends upon the funding at the moment. Some programs quickly run out of money and are simply unable at the moment to provide further help to persons in need of assistance.

The vast majority of families in need of temporary rental assistance are those to be found in the low-income range; seniors, disable persons and children are among those most often affected. Others too, faced at one point or another with a temporary emergency may qualify for assistance in these cases.

In most cases, those in need of longer-term assistance, persons who have not been gainfully employed for a considerable length of time with not prospects for the immediate future may not qualify for rental assistance under these temporary emergency programs.

Those more likely to receive aid are persons who are able to convince interviewers of their willingness to do what is necessary to get back on their feet along with the ability to do so. Since emergency funding is considered a short-term “fix” for a crisis situation, the grants may be only issued for a few days, perhaps to defray the cost of a motel room, pending the applicant’s ability to find other lodgings.

Therefore it is important, in most similar cases, for the applicant to show the interviewer the imminent possibility to become self-sufficient.

Most non-profit agencies as well as other agencies attempt to work closely with rental assistance applicants to help them with any additional support as needed depending upon each applicant’s situation. Often applicants are further given counseling and referrals to other agencies that may be more helpful to an applicant.

In such cases, any additional services rendered are free to the applicant in crisis. This may include lack of employment and such other problems that may arise such as medical emergencies. Most agencies participate in these endeavors as well as teaching applicants the processes involved in applying for governmental programs, immediate rehousing and how to apply for Section 8 vouchers as well as information about low income housing, and assistance in paying the security deposits that are almost universally demanded by today’s rental market.

Since the goal of all similar agencies to to render aid to persons in immediate need of emergency housing and other crisis situations, the funds issued to applicants for rent or other necessities is only meant to allow the applicant extra time to deal with the emergency. However, at the same time, applicants will normally be provided with support in the long term to guard against similar future emergencies.

If you have an eviction notice or expect to be unable to pay the rent in the immediate future, or even realize that you need to find less expensive living quarters, now is the time to apply for assistance. Often with early application, money may be available to catch up unpaid rent as well as other options that may be explained to you.

Assistance may also be available to help with the security deposit, the initial rents and even moving costs. In some cities non-profit agencies may offer other emergency assistance to those in crisis. These funds are normally paid out on a one-time basis. Depending upon the location, resources that may be in place for housing crisis families can be wide-ranging.

Potential applicants are advised to find the telephone numbers as well as any other information available to them and educate themselves about the different programs that may be able to help with emergency assistance.

Not only non-profit private agencies, but many governmental agencies, are able to provide interim assistance, depending on the locality. Massachusetts has a program called RAFT, while in Texas a rental assistance program called TDHCA is available. Florida has a similar program called EFAHP and in Connecticut their program is called RAP. Many other government programs around the country also offer assistance to pay rent or a portion of overdue rent in their ongoing efforts to reduce the growing threat of homelessness in their particular communities.

Another program, called the Federal Stimulus Program is a little-known program through which our federal government provides billions of dollars across the nation to provide rental assistance for qualified applicants. These funds have become invaluable to families that find it increasingly difficult to keep up with the rising costs of rent and other housing needs.

HUD the Housing and Urban Development, agency works throughout the country as well. A number of families approaching two million are able to use this program, a program that can not only help those in need to pay their rent and/or security deposits, but HUD can issue vouchers to provide temporary housing as well as providing assistance to senior citizens and the disabled to keep up with overdue rental payments.

These programs not only offer grants to help pay rent, but the government Rent Voucher Program aids applicants to seek housing in the privately owned housing market.

These agencies can, generally, offer legal advice to those facing eviction. Every year millions of people receive free legal advice and assistance to educate them with the eviction process and their rights as well as responsibilities. The government provides funded Legal Services Corp. which provides attorneys who may mediate a solution between landlord and tenants in addition to advising tenants of their rights as well as help them apply for Section 8 or other assistance and another positive aid they offer is help and counseling on housing discrimination.

Counseling may also be provided to help applicants apply for government and/or private grants. Money is available for many of these crisis situations.

It is the goal of these agencies to prevent evictions wherever possible. The federal government as well as the many non-profit private agencies strive wherever possible to help applicants remain in their current quarters without the fear of being summarily evicted. Often these agencies are able not only to prevent evictions, but subsequent lawsuits that may be brought against a tenant. Alternatively, the agency may be able to find more suitable and affordable housing for an applicant facing eviction.

Many churches too offer funds that can help those in short-term financial difficulties. United Way and The Salvation Army are only two of the better-known charitable institutions that may be able to offer help when needed. Generally they give priority to those living in apartments and facing short-term financial crises.

A good number of other national and local charities are ready to help with the expenses of rent and other essential needs as well as providing case management and many other social services. No all charities have ready money all the time, but even those may be able to help by helping an applicant with information about other resources and assistance in applying for free grants to pay overdue rent.

Other agencies that often provide help might be, for example, Catholic Charities, Social Service Offices, United Way, the American Red Cross, the Legal Aid Society and as mentioned earlier, The Salvation Army. Aside from these examples there exist many other emergency aid agencies for those who are able to become informed.

While most of these programs provide only short-term emergency aid, they are designed for the most part to tide a family over until a longer-term solution becomes available. Often these same agencies will be able to direct qualified applicants to resources that may assist them in finding an apartment or house for more permanent security.

It is important however, during these times of crisis, to keep in touch with creditors and the applicant’s current landlord so they understand what you are doing and what you expect to accomplishment. It is important that the applicant be extremely honest with everyone about the situation and it may sometimes be possible to have monthly payments temporarily lowered, or even be allowed to skip a monthly rental payment. Other plans may be devised and put into place to avoid being evicted.

It is well-understood that not only landlords but other creditors too are much more willing to cooperate with persons who are up-front with them, honest in their discussions and show a willingness to cooperate and do whatever they can to improve with situations.

How to get help with bills?

Ask The Energy Company

if energy bills are the source of the hardship, then the energy providers’ own in-house programs are often the quickest way to help rearrange and meet repayments.

LIHEAP: Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program

This national program’s focus is on subsidies for repairs, weatherproofing and utility bills that families cannot afford to pay.

LIHEAP covers any energy related home repairs for low-icome families, including seasonal expenses like air cooling systems and winter heating bills. The local LIHEAP office is the first point of contact for those in need of energy or utility assistance. Eligibility varies from state to state.

WAP: Weatherization Assistance Program

The WAP is a federal grant organized by the Department of Energy that helps needy families improve their homes’ energy efficiency, and has assisted over 7 million households across many states, territories and Native American tribes since its inception in 1976.

According to the DOE guidelines, a household with anyone over 60 is eligible for the WAP, as are legally recognized disabled people. Most states make families with children eligible, and the website for the WAPTAC (Weatherization Assistance Program Technical Assistance Center) can advise others if the grants are available in their area, and whether they qualify.

LifeLine Assistance: Free Cell Phones

Americans in need of a cell phone plan but without the means to maintain one can get assistance from LifeLine Assistance‘s free phone program. This is indeed a lifeline as daily life and business in particular is practically impossible without a mobile phone.

LLA is an FCC mandated scheme offering a free cell phone with at least 250 monthly minutes included. It’s available in the 49 states, Washington DC and Puerto Rico, and typically requires a household income below 135% of Federal Poverty guidelines. For some states it is below 150%. Eligibility varies across participating states, with slightly different rules around qualifying income.

Other sources of help are available at state government level, or many national and local non-profit and charity organizations, and the energy companies themselves.

How to get Food For Free?

It doesn’t always require money to eat, and there are many ways to gain free food without adding to your debts or joining the 10% of Americans who have resorted to shoplifting. Ask people you know, or traders and restaurant and store owners.

Above all it’s important to explain why you are asking for food: because you can’t afford to eat. And not to be critical about what food you eat. Without a certain amount of money, there is no longer the choice of what to eat. So meat may become harder to get or if meat’s all that’s on offer and you are a vegetarian, it’s best to accept it with thanks.

Grow Your Own, Share With The Community

The most sustainable – and satisfying – way to provide free food for yourself is to grow it, and you can start with just seeds if you live in the country or with just a small space in the city. Guerrilla gardening is an interesting urban option, more organised community gardens and allotments can share space and expertise for growing, and seed swapping communities among gardeners are a good source of materials and encouragement.

Ask A Farmer

Out in the sticks there won’t be the option of stores and restaurants as a source of food, but ask any farmer and there’ll be some left on the fields that they didn’t or can’t sell. Many will let you pick these leftovers.

Food Banks

A rapidly growing movement in the United Kingdom and US is the organized and charitable distribution of food to those who can’t afford it. Most of the food is donated, and food banks are one of the easiest ways to obtain some nutritious food. Many banks have conditions for who they can give food to, but there is no need to be ashamed about visiting one.

Links to Food Banks in various countries

United States /United Kingdom /Austalia /Canada /Ireland /New Zealand /South Africa

Offers and coupons

Online and direct from the stores, many coupons are available to promote new products. And companies across the United States send out free samples of new products. They’re unlikely to provide a healthy, balanced diet on their own but could supplement free food from other sources.

Waste Food

In an affluent country there is an abundance of unsold or waste food, and a little social interaction and resourcefulness can unlock access to a surprising amount of it.

Ask at the market

Often around closing time, stall holders will sell off any remaining stock for next to nothing, and it’s always worth telling them you have no money and asking if they’ll give you something for free. You can often pick up some fruit or salad, and if they can’t offer anything, thank them anyway and ask at another stall.

Free Supermarket Food

Ask at the big stores and you’ll be too far down the chain of command: “My boss doesn’t allow us to do that” will be the usual answer. So smaller supermarkets and neighborhood stores are a better option, where you can talk to that boss. You may find warmth and generosity among Muslims and immigrants to the West who run stores.

Restaurant Leftovers

It requires some patience, a little nerve and a bit of practice, but it’s possible to get free, professionally prepared food, even a table to sit and eat it at. Restaurant districts in cities are obviously the best place to try this, and expect a success rate around 5%, so it requires persistence, but will sharpen your bargaining skills, and who knows where else that could lead?

Turn up at a restaurant after the busiest time but not too late, and explain that you have no money and ask if they have some left overs in the kitchen. It can help to have a container such as a plastic box ready in case they do have something, and if they’re friendly and can’t offer anything the first time, maybe they can put something aside the next day.

Searching and Foraging

It grows on trees, on the ground and some seasons there’ll be abundant fruit and tasty plants such as dandelions or chickweed. Even cities can produce some tasty wild food, and anyone near downtown Seattle has access to America’s first Food Forest in a major city.

Dumpster Diving

Growing media coverage of the colossal food wastage at supermarkets and restaurants has made it much less weird, and more popular, to search through the dumpsters in search of some quality food to turn into a meal.

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Unpaid Intern Struggles

Hello! My name is Lucy and I am a rising sophomore in college. I am off until early September and I have taken a summer internship at a hospital in Cleveland with an administrative department. I have been working here since June. It has been a really rewarding experience knowing the projects that I am working on help patients and the nurses/doctors that work so hard to take care of them. I have helped set up a same-day walk-in injury clinic, made keeping track of inventory more accessible, and created a workflow to help decrease insurance denials for medically urgent surgeries.  Sadly, my internship is not paid (which is usually illegal but worked in my situation because it was documented as “shadowing” instead of an internship, a title they only can use for the members of their residency programs/temporary fellows), and I am in $100 debt of overdraft and the fees. My family pushed me to take this unpaid internship instead of a job because they knew the experience on my resume would help me later on in life. I am living alone, so I need money to buy food, work clothes, etc. and my money from waitressing last summer didn’t stretch far enough. I am majoring in economics with a minor in biology, which is an extremely hard and heavy course load, not giving me enough time to work during the school year. I am unable to get financial help from my family, which is why I am asking all of you.

I love my internship and would love to pursue a Masters of Health Administration degree one day, but for now I need to at least survive the summer. I haven’t had lunch in 2 weeks because I have no way to pay for it. I have had to get really creative with dinner but I am running out of options at this point. Any single dollar will put me little closer towards the positives (which happens to be my goal from this website) and would be extremely appreciated. I hate to ask for anything but I just have to make an exception for this situation. If you’re still reading at this point, thank you for even considering. One day, when I hopefully have enough, I plan to pay the kindness forward and help students like myself that are in need. If you donate, I promise I will send all the good karma your way every day. Thank you for helping me on my journey!

 

paypal.me/lucycy28

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Young woman in need,!

Greetings, gracious donors.
I wanted to thank you for giving me your time, and for letting me share my story.
I understand you have worked very hard to earn your money, and that you want to spend it wisely. It hurts me to have to ask this of anyone, let alone a stranger, but I am in dire need of some financial assistance, or I will be facing my imminent eviction come next week… I would be grateful and willing to work out some sort of repayment if you have any computer/cleric work that I can do remotely!
So here is a little bit about me, and why I believe I deserve to be helped:
My name is Meg. I am a 29 year old woman and on April 17, 2017, my world as I knew it stopped. The 30 year old man that I loved and had spent nearly 5 years with was pronounced dead by the team of doctors and nurses that led the grueling 45 min attempt to restart his heart. The day he died, everything in my world went black. I tried to carry on, some days better than others, but I just didn’t see the point of caring anymore. Who would? How was that fair?
I found vices in various things, but my 12 years experience of working in childcare and special education no longer brought me joy. I was still showing up to work, but I wasn’t really there. I found my passion in expressing myself through various art forms such as watercolor painting which I taught myself that winter, and photography that I had been learning for the last 2 decades. I was finding little moments each day to keep on going. But depression has gotten the better of me, and despite the therapy and medication, I am not happy. I have been trying to find a position away from being with children all day, but being my only form of experience my entire career, starting over is proving difficult. I am struggling every month to pay rent, buy groceries and cat food, make the gas and electric bill on time, and my car is out of commission with expired tags on top of it. I want to believe that things will get better, that things are happening because this is my path, my purpose in life is to feel this and experience this darkness, but it’s getting darker as my candle runs out of wick. So, if my savior is out there, or saviors, someone who can help me with anything, I will happily do so in exchange for my labor. As of now, my most in demand bills I need help with:
Rent: $895
SMUD: $189
PG&E: $76
Food: $200
Car: $1,500
My prescription for anti-anxiety medication is also no longer available to me which makes things harder, but short of a script or local doctor I don’t think you’re able to help with that!
Thank you for hearing me out, I am so grateful there are facets like this site available to assist the less fortunate like myself.
Please let me know what I can do to thank you, have a blessed week, and thank you for saving my life.

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Staying positive and happy!!

My name is Valerie, and I am a mom going to college getting my bachelor’s degree. I started in April 2018 and have maintained a 4.0 GPA the entire time! (very proud of that) Anyhow, I was working as a remote call agent where I was recently fired because I didn’t meet the required 10 appointments per week. I am job hunting like crazy but in the meantime my rent is due which is $603.00 and I have a PG & E bill that is $150.00. My phone is off as of a couple of days ago, that is $30.00 (I have the cheap plan!)

Soooo, what is my plan? Well, I have applied for welfare but it is not going to kick in before I get evicted. I will get a late fee on the 5th of August which is $50.00 and a 3-day pay or quit on the 6th. That is only being late for August. It’s not like I owe months, that is just the way this apartment complex runs things. (Winn Properties) I know I will get a job, I have faith in my ability to do that, I just don’t want this domino effect to happen that has already started. So, while looking for rent assistance online, I stumbled across this site and thought I would give it a shot. Honestly, I would love anything you could give because even the littlest amount is so greatly appreciated and very helpful! I know there are good people out there that help people…heck, I am one myself. I just need the favor this time. Thanks so incredibly much in advance. I will get through this! I am a happy, positive person. Thanks again!!

http://paypal.me/ValerieKimber

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Help me get out.

Hi my name is Colleen,

I’m stuck in a situation that I desperately want to get out of. I live at home with my parents whom have controlled me my entire life. My dad can be an angry drunk and my mom is a helicopter. Never any boundaries or respect for my space. Telling me I have no idea how the world works; that I’m going to fail and to just stay with them. On top of that I wanted to have my own family to love and cherish and not treat the same. So I met a man 6 years ago, and 2 years ago I married him.

He has a daughter that we have custody over and I have done everything to make sure she has better. He of course has depression; as do I, but he lets it get to him. I’ve decided to not have my own because our life isn’t stable enough to even try. He is always in and out of jobs. We all go to therapy which I pay for. As well as the medications, and insurance that covers most of it. I pay the dental insurance and bills, I pay for my car payments and gas. I pay for the other medical expenses. And on top of it my step daughter is starting braces.

I’m so tired of living paycheck to pay check never getting a break any more. I get payed but commission. I’ve racked up 2 credit cards that have way too high of an interest. Which I pay every month along with the cable internet bill for the whole house as my rent. Which to be honest is all I have left at the end of the month. I can’t really even afford food any more. I’ve resorted to coupons and money apps that give you nothing.

I’m trying to pay the one card down first which still has $5,700.76 and I want to cut that one up, since it has no rewards or cash back abilities. The other that has $7,554.91 on it gets cash back which I’ve already used to pay partly down. But again they have high interests so its like I get no where. I have a $1020.00 MRI bill and a $655.84 Dental bill.

I have tried to consolidate my debt. I also tried looking for loans that only wrecked my good credit. No one is willing to give me the help. So I’m at the end of my emotional rope. Just hoping some one would help me out. I hate begging but I wont ask my parents any more, when they hold it over my head and yet dont want me to leave. I’m honestly not sure I want to stay with my husband any more because I’m tired of the self-sabotaging as well. I’m mad that i missed a life of just taking care of myself.

Please help me just get out of this debt and into a position that I can start saving again to get me out of here. Just looking for $15,000 Thank you for your time.

paypal.me/CHSGiggles

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Help for Bills and my little family

Thank you for taking the time out to read this :)

I actually came across this site when I was searching for ways to make money in a day. It’s really hard to find apps or different websites to make money from that are legal, will pay you the same day, and where you can earn as much as you need. This month has been rough on me. I have not been able to pay all the bills that are due, I usually am able to get by and push through but it’s been getting a little harder with the cost of everything. I am currently searching for other jobs to make a better income for myself and family. I have my resume on indeed.com and I also apply to jobs on ratracerebellion.com which is a work at home website. I do have little ones and I am needing to be able to work from home to not have the cost of child care as well. I’m asking for help for my bills that I have not been able to take care of, groceries, and also to maybe be able to give my youngest a little something for her birthday. My youngest has a birthday coming up this weekend and It would be nice to be able to celebrate on her special day. As the birthday is not as important as having the bills paid and having groceries, it just hurts a little knowing that we may not be able to celebrate even a little because I fell back this month.

I also want to say that I do have long term goals, I’m trying to learn how to work as an affiliate and drop ship and things like that. I don’t have money to put in like others do so I have to do the things that are free when learning. I have a goal to buy a home in the future and eventually be able to buy a new car and not have a used one. I’m looking to get back into school for Accounting but I have to be able to pay my previous student loan which I can’t at this time but when I’m able to I will and I will be back in school. I also want to own my own company one day, these are goals I have and these are goals that I will remain to have because I know that it will never be to late.

paypal.me/JB91315

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20 years of struggle in Tennessee

My name is Michael and this is my story so far . 20 years ago I moved to Johnson City TN with the Home Depot. I spent a total of 16 yrs with them. I met my wife Nancy while I was at work. We were married in 2002.  After a year she began showing signs of mental illness. After her grandmother passed she began to spiral. She is college educated and was very successful til then. She became unable to work due to her worsening condition. She has been diagnosed with severe social anxiety disorders. Recently she has become agoraphobic. I realized I couldn’t work so much and take care of her also. Subsequently I left home Depot in 2004 and found work at a local manufacturing company with a set schedule. I took a pay cut but managed to keep everything thing going until 3 yes ago.               I was at work and started blacking out. I went to the hospital and had to have a blood transfusion due to 6 bleeding ulcers. Also I was diagnosed with severe Crohn’s disease among other gastro problems. Incidentally my mother passed away from colon cancer 5 yrs earlier.  It was horrible to see. She also had Crohn’s but wasn’t diagnosed until it was too late. As a result I have to have colonoscopy and endoscopy procedures every year. I also couldn’t work. Doctors wouldn’t release me too go back to my job. So I applied for disability and received it 2 years ago.  I receive 1550.00 a month, much less than I was used to bringing home. I have a mortgage of 657.00 a month.  I’ll have it paid off in 4 years if I can hold out that long.    When you are disabled you are allowed to make a certain amount of money each year. I was doing small odd jobs around my town to keep us afloat but my disease has taken a turn for the worse and I am barely able to keep house and take care of my wife. I have paid my mortgage this month but without being able to do extra work I have found myself in dire straits. My electric bill is 190.00.  My water bill is 85.00. I’m also overdrawn 246.00 with my bank account.  I don’t have any family to speak of that could help me nor does my wife. I have 40 dollars for groceries to get us by til the 30th when we receive a check. We also have 8 rescued cats that my wife has accumulated over the years. We love them dearly. I have never asked for charity before but desperation overruled my pride. If someone could help me with 800.00 it would set things right and give me space to figure something out. I would be very grateful for any help.

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Please help me get back on my feet.

Hello There,

My name is Lewis, and I’m a 23 year old man from the UK. The past few years have not been too kind to me to say the least, it feels weird typing this out for anyone to see, but this itself might help a bit.

I guess things started around almost 8 years ago, a week before my 16th birthday. My father was home and was being very aggressive and shouting/threatening me in front of my 8 year old sister, I snapped after years of this and called him out on his threats, he screamed and shouted and simply got in his car, demanded my mum finish work early, picked her up (her car was being repaired) and drove her home, he then told her to get out of the car then he drove off.

Days later we recieved a letter from the courts stating that our house and the contents would be seized. Turns out my father had been in deep deep debt, and had kept it from the entire family, I believe the sum was around 50 thousand pounds, my mother took to the courts and pleaded her case and we were given a couple of weeks to try and sort things out.

Selling out family home and being forced to leave cleared most of the debt, leaving around 10 thousand (I believe) that we are still arguing to this day that my father needs to pay.

We recieved no help from that spineless man and to this day he has not even admitted or apologised, I digress.

A couple years later he visited my sister as she still wanted a relationship with her father, and both me and my mother fully agreed that she should have that if she so chooses. After the third time she went up to stay (around a 4/5 hour drive from where I reside) she did not come back, my father had refused to bring her home and claimed she wanted to stay there. This emotionally crippled my mother yet again, I cannot begin to tell you how vile and conniving this man is.

The rest of the time gap was mostly me and my mother trying to enjoy our new lives.

Now we are caught up to the current year, due to horrible work conditions and the years finally catching me, I broke down and had a full psychological meltdown in January, being forced to go on medical leave, I was off for 4/5 months suffering from crippling depression/anxiety, we tried our best to live off my sick pay and my mother with her job in the NHS, but the debt has just been creeping up on us.

I’m 1 thousand pounds in debt with my bank (credit card) as we needed to use it more and more to pay for food shopping and various medical Bill’s for prescriptions for myself and my mum. We have also started sending money we don’t have to my grandparents as they are also starting to get into money issues, but are too bloody stubborn to ask anyone for help (bar my mother and myself)

 

I’ve never done anything like this before. And I never thought I’d have to, I’ve always tried to be independent but right now I’m just in a hole and struggling to see a way out. My mental health is going down again and I literally cannot afford to be sick.

I guess I just need some help, and I don’t know where else to turn.

If you’ve read this far, well thank you. Just typing this all out has helped me a little bit aha. If anyone can help me, I would be eternally grateful.

Thank you.

https://paypal.me/LCooke369

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Please take a minute to help me.

Hi my name is Emilio Vargas and I have been going through a financial crisis these past 4 months. I need help I managed to keep a roof for my kids through family but everything is piling up. My wife and i are now separated and both are struggling. If it wasn’t for food stamps we wouldn’t be able to feed the kids. 😢 it’s so sad to see myself in this situation specially since we have to hide it from them. We just say it’s a temporary thing but we are just getting deeper and deeper in debt. I am now winning minimum and most of the time I sleep out in my car because of the limited space in the house. My car got broken into recently. It’s my only means of transportation is now giving up on me and will have to figure a way to take and pick up the kids from school on time since I have 15 minutes after work to pick them up I am stressing a lot. I don’t eat because of the stress and have lost around 25 pounds now. I hope this is all over soon. If I can just get my hands on a couple thousand dollars I can eliminate some debts and start getting back on track. All my payments were always on time and just started falling back on them now I get a lot of calls with threats and it just feels never ending. Please give my family and I some help. We use to be a happy family always together, and never thought something like this can happen but it did. I blew all my savings the first month when we were kicked out on motels, food and gas. The struggle is real and a bit too strong to handle. I have been having suicidal thoughts but I just think of my kids and get motivated to hang in there. I am doing it just for them. If it was just me in the streets that would have been Ok I wouldn’t mind but when they ask me when are we going back home, I break down because I have no idea what to tell them. Please touch your heart to help us out. We are really in need. Thank you so much for your attention.

https://www.paypal.me/em120513

Sincerely, Emilio V.

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Need more space URGENTLY

Hi I’m Stu and I’m about to tell you the basics of my story. Thanks for listening.

I was born disabled with severe Haemophilia (hemophilia if in US). For those that don’t know, this means I bleed internally into my joints among other problems but that is the main one. When I was 8 years old I was given contaminated injections from the hospital that was supposed to treat one of my bleeding episodes. Instead of treating me it actually gave me HIV and Hepatitis B & C. No government (who were at fault) or hospital has ever taken responsibility for this and you can find all about this tragedy through a simple google search of tainted blood. This obviously impacted my school life (I was hardly ever there due to illness. So I didn’t get much of an education. And in later life work was impossible as nobody would employ me. I tried to start my own online business but honestly I had no idea what I was doing (probably the lack of education there I guess) all it done was made my paypal look messy as they can’t change my dead business name back to my own name for some reason (again probably me). I didn’t really have time to run it anyway though what with my many hospital appointments as I have also developed liver cirrhosis  due to the hepatitis. Somehow despite all doctors predictions I am still alive today and have a wife and young son. We live in a very small 2 bedroom house on the south coast of England. This was fine once upon a time but!! And here comes the real never rains but pours moment. As if we hadn’t been through enough, my wife as a side effect from child birth was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and it was less than 2 months before she was permanently in a wheelchair.

Now as I am sure you can understand a small 2 bedroom house with all our sons items and now 2 people’s disabled items such as wheelchairs, walkers, crutches and hand rails in a lot of places leaves us with very little room. In fact it has become a hazard with both of taking various falls due to items being on the floor because we just don’t have anywhere else to put them.

We are all constantly under each other’s feet, struggling to manoeuvre around our own house which has cause a constant tension and frustration in our house. Yet the local council say that there are no council houses available for us and the only way we could get a bigger house would be to buy one ourselves.

Of course I can’t get a mortgage as nobody knows how long I’m going to be around for.

We really just want a place we can be safe and happy in for whatever time we have left with each other.

ideally with the amount of stuff we have and need, then we should be asking enough for a 4 bedroom house but at this point we will take anything bigger than what we have so we have been looking at the 3 bedroom house (photo included) which is on sale at £230.000 but we also need a wet room installed as neither of us can use a bath and have to have special adaptations made so that would be another £5000 and of course the hand rails and things for around the house.

I am not used to sites like this and I expect what I’m asking for is probably a ridiculous amount, but I don’t mind admitting while I’m normally a proud man, I’m now beyond desperate. Forgetting my own happiness, nobody wants to see their life partner miserable and worried about her safety every single day. She is already on anti depressants and is still recovering from a mental breakdown as a result of just everything accumulating. We just want to be happy and enjoy the time with our son.

Honestly ANY financial help at all would be amazing.

my PayPal me is….

 

http://paypal.me/ForeverLoved

 

Thank you for your time

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NO SUPPORT NETWORK LEFT ALONE

I have found myself in one of the most horrible situations of my life right now, after being in many ways a productive and impetuous individual during my 20s. I am 31 years old and took the decision to leave my hometown Beirut and move to Santiago de Chile few months ago. I haven’t found it easy to settle here and I’ve also had some health complications along the way. I ran out of money last week after being scammed by several “financial institutions” here that I had decided to give a chance, it was a terrible experience. I went homeless for the first time in my life for two nights and it was a terrifying experience for me. I am working as a freelancer now and I am trying to build some network but again it is a new place and it hasn’t been easy to adapt. I am also working on a project I’ve had in mind for quite a while now, opening an online interior design services shop. I am in need of some support and my family is very distant to be honest. I have texted my siblings and some relatives and practically been ignored by them. Just in total honesty, I need a hand while i stabilize and get back on my feet.

Thank you all for your understanding and support. Genuinely.

paypal.me/hayekserge

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About to lose everything my family owns

Hello, my name is Elizabeth and I’m an American citizen living in Tijuana. My father was deported in 2015, which left my mother struggling to pay a mortgage. She tried a loan modification but since Wells Fargo was the bank her mortgage was under, you can imagine how not so well that went. My mother and father lost their home in 2017, which left us all homeless, myself, mother, brother including his 5 kids and wife, and my two little brothers. At the time I was working as a pharmacy technician at CVS, unfortunately that didn’t last as long as I would have liked.

My supervisor moved me to another store which was farther away and at the time, transportation wasn’t available to me all the time causing me to be late and sometimes miss work. I was eventually terminated from my job. My aunt let my mom and little brothers move into her home, then a week later myself. All of our belongings were being kept in a storage unit. Until three months ago, I was able to pay the unit. We all moved to my dad’s home out here in Tijuana back in January.

It’s not too bad but being able to have a job on the other side and live here is sometimes overwhelming. I’ve had a hard time finding work and I’m about to have my storage auctioned. I haven’t told my mother because I know she doesn’t have the money and I don’t want to stress her out since she has leukemia and a bunch of other conditions. To bring my account back to current, I need $1,100. That is all I am asking for, nothing more. In fact, I don’t need the money myself, if possible, it can be taken to my storage facility and be paid there. I just really need it paid before august 27, 2019. Please if anyone can help, I would really appreciate it. I’ve tried getting personal loans all over the internet and all I get is denied. I hope someone can help me, thank you for taking the time to read this. I hope you have a blessed day.

My Paypal is: paypal.me/sweetsneakerpoop

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I need help to move states

Hello everyone. I hope you all are doing well.

I met my boyfriend of now four years online, while I was living in Texas with my parents, and he was living in Georgia at the time. We talked and “dated” for a year and half before deciding that we finally wanted to meet. He drove all the way to Texas to visit me for about a week but he ended up staying, thanks to my parents that let him stay there. He got a job with a family member and was there for about six or seven months and then something came up with his parents in Georgia to which according to him, he had to move back and said that if I wanted to be with him I had to go with him because he didn’t want to be into a long distance relationship anymore. I loved him so of course I agreed to leave with him and we moved into his parents house. I struggled to find a job for a while and me not having my own transportation and him working out of state a lot was hard for me. After a while his mom helped me get a job where she worked and I rode with her to work for a while. Some time went by and he decided that he wanted to get me a car. He got it for me, under his name, for my birthday, after this things were easier for me, working wise. Some more time went by and out of nowhere he started acting different and talking about how I was a mistake and that he wanted me to leave. I discovered he was cheating and talking to other girls and that was why he was neglecting me. When he knew I found out he changed his ways, apologizing and saying that he didn’t want me to leave, this and that. I forgave him and we were good from then. Time goes by and he comes up with an excuse that I’m not doing anything with myself and that I’m always “angry and sad” (I have depression) he met me this way but I always tried to be happy. So because of that he didn’t want to be with me anymore and he was determined to take me back home to Texas, gave me a week to pack as little stuff as I could fit in the car so I could take with me and that week was hell for me emotionally. The day came and he took me but a few hours into the drive, he pulled over in Alabama and changed his mind, said he didn’t want to be without me and asked if I wanted to go back home with him, me foolishly said yes and we went back… not even two weeks after now he is doing it AGAIN saying that he just wants to be single for a while because I get “mad” at him for being out til five in the morning with his “friends” I’m sure he has other excuses but this time I agreed to him wanting me to leave. I already suffered enough and I’m over it. Tired of the way he has been. The problem is that I gave him all my last paycheck for car note and rent and I have no money left, he is not willing to drive me home to Texas this time and I have about a week and a half to leave. I need money to be able to ship boxes with some of my stuff to Texas, to get myself a plane ticket and Uber for when I go to the airport and when I get over there to be able to get home because I wont be able to have my car since it’s under his name. I don’t know what to do since I have nothing valuable to my name that I could sell to help myself out. If any of you could please help me out with anything it would be much appreciated. Anything helps.

Thank you so much in advance everyone.

https://www.paypal.me/MorbidEd

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I attempted suicide and now I’m drowning in bills.

2 years ago, I wanted to die. I was struggling with the death of my best friend since childhood, as he was killed by a drunk driver at the age of 18. Not only that, but I was coming to terms with the fact that I was gay and my parents weren’t accepting. I have depression and anxiety disorders, I was being crushed with the weight of college, I was constantly self harming, and I had survived an abusive relationship where I was emotionally and sexually abused. I wanted everything to be over, but I stuck around. Instead of killing myself that day, I went and sought help at the local hospital. They put me on suicide watch in the psych ward and I got counseling, but they mostly just drugged me and sent me on my way 3 days later. However I determined that day that I was going to keep going. I had to. I wanted to see my future, and I am very glad I did. I have a beautiful 7 month old daughter and a wonderful partner. However, we don’t make much money. I took a few months off work because it was cheaper to stay home with the baby until we found an affordable babysitter. We finally did, and now I am finally about to start a job I am excited about. It still doesn’t pay a lot of money, but it will be enough. Unfortunately, that medical bill is catching up with me. It has been sent to collections and referred to a lawyer who I am afraid is going to sue me for it. This will result in a judgement against me and ruin my credit, garnish my wages, and put us in financial ruin. All I want to do is get this debt paid off before they try and take it to court, so we can start fresh. I never thought seeking help to stay alive would cost me the way it did. I am requesting only the amount of the bill, 2000 dollars in order to pay it off and get peace of mind for me and my family. I want to give my daughter the best future possible, and I know this will hurt our finances including when we try to get a house, etc. I will absolutely pay it forward once we are back on our feet. I am only asking for help because it is a time sensitive issue. Please, please help me secure my families financial stability and give us this chance and we will put that good back out into the world.

My paypal is PayPal.Me/alyssabunch4

 

Anything helps, I am so grateful for anyone able to provide my family with this opportunity. 2000 dollars is a lot to ask for, but it’s the price I had to pay to stay alive I suppose. I just need help for this emergency.

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Struggling Family Thankful For Any Help!!

Our family is currently struggling financially.  Mom and dad and 3 kids.  We have had a bit of bad luck over the last year and are praying for any help that could come our way.  My 12 year old daughter recently tried to take her life and is currently in the hospital and will be getting out of treatment tomorrow.  She was subjected to major bullying in school, the swim bus, and social media.  I currently am unemployed and my fiance is working 2 jobs.  At this point I need to find a job but also need to be at home for our daughter until things stabilize.

I graduated from college in 2017 and have a degree in Heavy Equipment & Diesel repair.  I have had a hard time finding a job in this field due to lack of shop experience.  I am about to give up and find a different career to go into.  I have signed up with a union that will hopefully place me as a apprentice mechanic when they have a position come open.  My college loans are all coming due and can not make payment on them.

After graduating from college, I took a job opportunity in my home town of 400 people as Public Works Director.  This lasted only 8 months.  The prior public works director worked for the city for 20 years.  He resigned as soon as the mayor got re-elected.  I took his position.  The mayor had to resign in 2012 due to hostile work environment and the city had to pay out because of this.  For whatever reason, small town politics..he was re-elected in 2018.  I worked for this man for 8 months until he fired me for reporting a unsafe working condition to Labor and Industries that he had asked me to lie about.  I was fired the same day I made the report.  During the time that I was at the City, 3/5 employees quit because they could not tolerate the mayor.  He is an egotistical dictator that micro managed everything from listening in on the clerks phone calls to telling us how coffee should be made.

I found a lawyer that was willing to represent me on the case of being wrongfully terminated.  It has been a lengthy process and I just found out this week as well that the City insurance is unwilling to settle.  In order for me to pursue this case I need to pay my lawyer a retainer that I can not afford.  This has been incredibly embarrassing for both myself and my family since the town we live in is so small and word gets around quick.  My lawyer and I know that I have a strong case but because of the size of the town, people know that I am unemployed right now and can not afford to take it to court.  For example my dads best friend is on the council.

I’m sure there are people that need financial help more then me but I am at my wits ends.  I was praying that I would get a settlement amount to help our family with bills.  I did not anticipate that my 12 year old that is bright and happy all the time try to take her life.  I never would have thought that I would have such a hard time finding a job since I put in the time for college.

We are struggling to pay the bills and are behind a few.  I have college debt through the roof.  I need to get a job now but am afraid to leave my daughter in the care of anyone at this time.  Any help would be appreciated and I  promise to put it to good use to get our family through this rough time.

If any additional information is need please ask.  I do not want to upload pictures on here but would be happy to provide proof of bills, lawyer costs, and hospital records.

God Bless!!   paypal.me/Sauer1983

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PLEASE, BREAST CANCER PATIENT NEEDS FINANCIAL HELP

16473DEA-8FDA-4857-B937-DF2171D01312.jpeg Hello, and thank you so much for taking the time to read my post. I am having a major financial crisis due to being out of work during breast cancer treatments. I was diagnosed with breast cancer on January 14 of this year and I had to go out on short term disability at the end of February. As grateful as I am for short term disability, I am only receiving 60% of my salary and I am having a very hard time making ends meet. In fact, my short term disability ends this week  and I will start long-term disability which is only 50% of my salary. I am behind on my mortgage, car payment, bills and utility expenses.  With long-term disability I will only be paid once a month on the 15th. I have no idea how to survive this lack of money. I have a negative checking account balance and very little cash on hand. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much and you can send donations to PayPal.me/hifrmthesky

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My life is falling apart

Hello. I’m a 21 years old Senegalese woman. The last two years, I was living in France to study there, I came back in my country on April 1st.

 The last two years, I haven’t been able to study, which means that’s I lost two college years. The reason why is I had to help my mom. My “father” isn’t dead, but he stopped feeling concerned about us when they got a divorce when I was 4, so she takes care of us on her own
  I was working from 5 am to the evening. My schedule didn’t give me the opportunity to find time to go to college. And I had to work that amount of time in order to be able to pay my rent, bills, send money to my mother etc.
 Since I’m in my country, I used my savings to start a vegan, eco-friendly cosmetic brand. I make everything myself (lipglosses, lipsticks, soaps, body scrubs, masks).
  They are 100% natural and chemical free. The chemical substances are replaced with natural alternatives. For example, I use beetroot, actived bamboo charcoal or mica (a mineral coloration that comes from the volcanic rocks) for coloring. I do everything from A to Z : creating the formulas, measuring the proportions etc
 My problem is that even with all my savings, I wasn’t able to produce enough products and I can’t afford to keep studying or to keep helping my mom. Plus, my mother married another man who doesnt like me and I’m no longer welcomed here, which means I have to leave. Her and I used to be really close but as he doesn’t like me, she made a choice. She blames me for everything even being depressed as if it’s something that I can control.
 I know that with a little help, I will be able to reach my goals and not fail in life because I’ve never given up in front of the obstacles I met. But right now, I really did everything I could for this situation to change but it’s like I’m stuck on a treadmill. With a little help, I will be able to keep working in my business, keep studying and work to make enough money to have my own place. I don’t have other family members who would be able to help. She was the only one I had and now, I’ll have to be homeless. I’m so lost, I’m only 21 and i’ve already failed in life. After all these years, i’ve tried to talk to my “father” but he still doesn’t care.
 Thank you for reading and sorry for the mistakes, I speak French, English isn’t my first language.
I’m a 21 years old Senegalese woman. The last two years, I was living in France to study there, I came back in my country on April 1st.
 The last two years, I haven’t been able to study, which means that’s I lost two college years. The reason why is I had to help my mom. My father isn’t dead, but he stopped feeling concerned about us when they got a divorce when I was 4, so she takes care of us on her own
  I was working from 5 am to the evening. My schedule didn’t give me the opportunity to find time to go to college. And I had to work that amount of time in order to be able to pay my rent, bills, send money to my mother etc.
 Since I’m in my country, I used my savings to start a vegan, eco-friendly cosmetic brand. I make everything myself (lipglosses, lipsticks, soaps, body scrubs, masks).
  They are 100% natural and chemical free. The chemical substances are replaced with natural alternatives. For example, I use beetroot, actived bamboo charcoal or mica (a mineral coloration that comes from the volcanic rocks) for coloring. I do everything from A to Z : creating the formulas, measuring the proportions etc
 My problem is that even with all my savings, I can’t produce enough products and I can’t afford to keep studying or to keep helping my mom.
 I know that with a little help, I will be able to reach my goals and not fail in life because I’ve never given up in front of the obstacles I met. But right now, I really did everything I could for this situation to change but it’s like I’m stuck on a treadmill.
 Thank you for reading and sorry for the mistakes, I speak French, English isn’t my first language.
paypal.me/ngonediop

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Hard Working Mom is Desperate

No one expects to ask for help, especially me.  A common thought, yes.  But I need help and I have no one to turn to.  I got myself in a bind and I need help to get ahead.  My life was not always like this.  I have always worked, I work hard.  I actually love to work and I love my job.  I made a couple of bad decisions that have led me to seek help from anyone that is willing to listen.  My son became addicted to drugs.  I often thought – How? Why? What did I do wrong?  Well, his addiction led him to jail.  He was in for 2 years, the longest days, months, years of my life.  I never felt so helpless.  I would send money all the time for commissary, phone calls home, etc.  I know that he didn’t deserve the ‘extra’, but I needed to hear his voice and I wanted to make sure he was ok.  I often sent money when I had nothing.  I am his Mom.  I have been divorced for 10 years, so I do this all on my own.  He came home 3 months ago.  Thank GOD!  I was able to put my arms around him once again.  You see, I did not see his face not lay my hands on him for almost 3 years.  So, with him being home and rejoining society – he needed me, again.  I paid fines, fees, restitution payments.  Again, putting his needs before my own.  He has continues his sobriety and I am proud of him for staying clean.  I know it is not easy for him. But he is fighting the good fight. I allowed myself to get behind on my car payment.  My first new car in 13 years.  I thought I could catch up.  Well, that didn’t happen and today they took my car.  I was in such shock, all I could do was apologize to the gentleman.  I am smarter than this, and I knew I could figure it all out.  I got overwhelmed and there was no way that I could pay the 1,550.00 to stop it.  Now, I will have other fees on top of that to get my car back. I am devastated, lost even.  I have no one to turn to. No one!  My parents are elderly and my Dad just beat Stage 2 gastric cancer.  My other kids have no idea, as I am too embarrassed to ask them.  They have families and are just able to stay above water. I am asking, begging for help.  I just need to get ahead again.  I need to stop feeling down when I am the root of the problem.  I need to put myself first and the rest will fall into place.  I am tired of smiling and pretending to act like I am ‘great’, everything is ‘fine”.  It’s not. But it can be again.  Please, please, please – if there is someone out there that can help me to be stable, once again – I vow to never allow myself to get in this position again.  I always put others before myself, that is what I do.  If you are reading this, thank you!  At least I can be honest on here.  If you find it in your heart to help me, Thank you!

paypal.me/crickett1114

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Life has been more than tough…

Since I was a little boy, I always wanted to be a servant to the people; I wanted to make their days bright and sunny. So, when I graduated and enrolled in college, I was thrilled. Sadly, tragedy struck when my mother was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis: a case that progressed into a stage doctors couldn’t explain. Her body worsened and worsened until she passed away.

My life changed for the worse: I moved with my father to Houston to get “a fresh start;” that didn’t go as planned. It was hard to land a decent job and the community is more than shady around these parts. After being scammed out of thousands of dollars and taken advantage of on numerous accounts, even by those that claimed to “love” me, I’m now in dire straits. My car was repossessed, I have no way to get to work, and I’m at wit’s end. Before you ask about my father: my relationship with the person that claims to be “my father” was never healthy; the only reason he decided to give me a “fresh start” was due to guilt. My parents divorced when I was younger, and it was admitted to me that he “stepped in” because he “felt bad”. Thinking back on what he said, I tried contacting him – believing he would keep his word to “help me” whenever he could, but his responses are cruel and his behavior is almost vacant – as if he’s not even there.

My life has seen the best and worst of times – the latter more often than not. I am, however, proud of my accomplishments: I graduated high school, got a decent job, had a car (with a car note I could barely afford), got an apartment, and have gone much further in life than I thought I would [on my own]. Unfortunately, the way life is going now, these things and more feel like burdens more than anything else. I’m neck-deep in student loan debt, have even more debts due to payday loans and expenses, my fridge is empty, I live alone, and I’ve been the victim of fraud more times than I can remember. For several years, due to debts, I was unable to receive my federal tax refund. I was surprised to receive it 2 years ago; I was able to purchase a car… around the time my father told me he was moving, and wasn’t going to let me move with him. He wanted me to “go out there and get it”: his odd way of saying “take care of yourself,” which I didn’t mind. Actually, I wanted to do it, and I still do. It’s nice being independent, but… it’s difficult when life starts throwing you curveballs. I have many bruises, so trust me, I know.

Wonderful people I’ve grown to LOVE serving, I humbly request emergency funds, and I promise to pay it forward.

 

My PayPal is: paypal.me/GeraldStewart101. Any amount will help. Thank you all in advance, and have a wonderful day.

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Just a mom trying to save her family!

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First I want to say that I’m truly grateful that you are taking the time to read this. I am a mother of two beautiful boys with Autism. You can say that it has been emotionally and financially hard to raise two boys with special needs. But I wouldn’t change it for the world. Do to their challenges and having to take care of them I am not able to work full time, like I did before they were born. My husband left us 8 years ago and it was a struggle. Luckily I met an amazing man who has sacrificed everything to help me raise these precious boys. He has taken on the role of step-dad with an open heart and gives everything to help us. He unfortunately lost his job. We are working very hard at finding him a new one and he is working odd jobs to help keep food in the house. But we can’t pay our bills and provide the boys with everything they need at the moment. Rent is due and I have no idea what we are going to do. That is why I am humbly having to reach out and ask for help. I pray that someone can find it in their heart to just help us get through until my partner finds a job. I want you to know that we live very modestly. We have a 20 year old car on its last leg and a 14 year old car. Are furniture is all used and you will not find any steaks in this house. I can tell you that their is lots of love and laughter here though. Please help us. I’ve never had to do this before and I wish I was the one giving not asking but this is my last hope. Thank you again so much for your time.
Kimberly

https://www.paypal.me/kdyer7878

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Chiari malformation

Hello, everybody. My name is Ana and I am 38 years old. I have a rare and degenerative disease, called chiari malformation and I also have syringomyelia, which is an associated pathology. Forgive me if my English is bad, I live in Spain and found this place by chance, while I was looking for a way to earn money at home, since I am unable to work. I had a normal life, until one day, suddenly, the symptoms began to manifest suddenly. My right side of the body fell asleep from head to toe, I can move it, but it is corked and without sensibility, I can’t use my right hand, cut a single fillet, my vision is double and I can’t walk without help, I can’t bathe alone, I can’t do food or a lot of things for which I was always independent. I got the social security to give me an electric wheelchair, because not being able to leave home alone was plunging me into grief and that gave me back some life. I live with my partner, she’s a woman too, just like me. But she works 12 hours a day, she can hardly ever be with me and when she is at home, she has to take care of the tasks that I can’t do, cleaning, food, my bathroom? It hurts me not to be able to help her and that she has so much work. Her salary, after all, is 950 euros and my pension is 730, we do not even reach 1800 euros between 2. I don’t want to go into too much detail, but the situation is difficult because I need a house that is adapted for me and a bigger car. Don’t think that I ask someone to give me a house or a car, although that would be great, but I don’t dream so high and I don’t aspire to have my whole life solved. I just need (and that’s a lot) to pay off the debts that accumulated when I had to leave my job. I have tried to get ahead and that my partner did not also worry about the economy of our house, I have helped my family who was going through a bad economic time, my sister in particular with her baby and, I have been accumulating loans that now prevent us from accessing the purchase of a home because we have too many expenses. In total we owe 33mil euros and we would have to buy a car for me, to be able to adapt it, get my wheelchair, but at least if we could get those 33000 euros, we could breathe and access the purchase of a home suitable for my health and healthier conditions because, we live for rent in a small apartment full of moisture and quite old, but renting a flat is very expensive and this is the only thing we could find years ago and, our low wages and our loans, do not allow us to leave here and have our house … I had to ask myself things before my time, things like what will become of me, who will take care of me, what will I do if one day I am left alone without great means of subsistence, without a house to live in? I’m only 38 years old and I’m already afraid of tomorrow. I would like so many things… To earn enough money so that my partner could stay at home without working and not have to be so tired, that she could spend time with me of quality and could take me to live outside of these walls, because I have a lot of desire to live and that she lives? That my little sister would not have difficulties to make ends meet and be able to help her whenever she needed it and thus alleviate her depression and helplessness and, of course, have my house at last..

Madrid is very expensive to live with such low salaries and my mistake was to ask for loans to go subsisting and now, with those outstanding amounts (no defaults, we pay every month) when we go to a real estate and explain the situation, do not call us back, so I have already given up and come to you because it is the only thing I can do now. I don’t know if it will help, but I hope it will, and life will give me a little of what I have given, because I think I deserve it. As I told you, 33000 euros would allow us to have access to a home, because we would no longer have those debts that interfere, the rest, is to fight with life as we all do. I hope someone can help me make my life a little easier. I would like to leave you my email in case anyone has any questions or needs to see my medical reports or loan instalments or whatever is necessary. I understand that there is everything in this life, but I really need it and I can prove it if required by the person or people who decide to help me, besides, I would love to be able to say thank you for the help.

And my paypal account is https://paypal.me/AnaBelen81

Thousand thanks to all in advance. A hug

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Need to see the light of day again. Been hacked, frauded and need help.

Hi  my name is Richard Eckstein and I just cannot get a break. Back in 2015 I filed for disability. I am still fighting for it. I have no money coming in, and no insurance. My husband is on disability, but only brings in $1,100. a month. Needless to say that has to cover rent, utilities, car payment, food, and internet. The phone is the only way I can communicate with my attorney. Not having a computer or printer limits certain things as well.
Getting my prescriptions depends on how much the bills are per month. At the moment, I am struggling to get my Epilepsy medications. I can only take name brand Dilantin to control my seizures. And that alone costs $200. a month for that medication. The one hundred milligram alone is $150. for a bottle of 100. And I take 4 pills a day. Not to mention a chewable 50 mg dose. The generic Dilantin causes me to have seizures. In May this past year I had 4 seizures in one day. I spent a week in the hospital and still do not remember any of it. I no longer can afford my depression medication, nor my blood pressure or cholesterol medications.
Back in December of 2018 our AT&T account was hacked and there was an additional $2,000. charged on our account. We caught it right away, informed them, but they decided to carry it out 6 weeks, then tell us it was our fault. They closed the account and said never come back to them again. Like we planned on it. The same month our bank account was frauded and we lost out on $800. Again they saw nothing wrong on their part, yet they saw nothing suspicious with a check for over $900,000. being deposited and the name on the check was not spelled correctly and was deposited inside the bank. The teller would have needed our ID to access that account, not to mention the red flags that should have went up.
But again, the bank said it was no fault of their own.
I do not want this plea to go on forever, but just let me add Scott and I changed banks and accounts twice after that and the same thing happened each time. Finally things got straightened out in mid 2019. We ended up being shorted around $2,500 in a 5 month period. Money we never received back, therefore bills were not paid.
We are asking, begging, pleading for financial help from you fine people and are hoping to raise $750.00. At this point, that amount would be a blessing. It may not sound like a lot, but would get us caught up, and give us just a little extra in our wallet. We have done what we could do so far, and are now pretty much at rock bottom. We cannot afford gas in the car much less groceries. At 61, I do my best to walk to the post office in 100 degree heat. Scott cannot even walk one block due to his disabilities.
So please good people out there, please find it in your hearts to help us.
Please keep me in your prayers if you would, I have a disability hearing at the end of September.
Thank you and God Bless you all.
Please make donations to my PayPal account:

https://www.paypal.me/eckstein1

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Death, Cars, and Groceries

I guess it happens to the best of us.. you think you have everything together and an emergency pops up that gets you behind. Our (my fiance and I) July was horrible. We had a few family emergencies that resulted in paying out more than we expected, and getting to work less than normal. Unfortunately bills don’t care if you have funds available, they still need paid.

We had a death in the family. My fiance’s mom passed away, and she lived over 500 miles away. (image of obituary included for proof) We also had a few other (less severe) family emergencies that all came together to make for a bad situation. My baby niece broke her leg and I had to go spent almost 2 weeks at my brothers house helping them out. That resulted in less work and more money going out for gas and etc. as their house is over an hour away from ours.

Trying to deal with everything we got behind.

I think it is important to help yourself and not just ask for help. We are doing everything we can, but after we pay what we can we won’t have enough for our car payment or groceries or household items (toilet paper, shampoo and etc.) I have cancelled anything not needed to sustain life. We are not paying for any subscriptions or any WANTS. I am only trying to cover basic needs. I am confident that we can sustain things once we get over this hump. We don’t have a lot of excess debt as we try to live within our means. We don’t even have a credit card.

Thank you for any help that you can offer and honestly for even considering sending help our way. Any amount will truly be a blessing! Once we are past this hurdle I have faith that we will be OK, but for now we are in need of help from kind strangers.

Please also know that we WILL pay this forward. We try and help when/where we can, and are big believers in paying it forward. A few months ago we were helping those in need, and this month we are in need.

 

paypal.me/fairyprincesss

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Enjoy living

Hello everyone. I am a 20 year old African American male living in California. My life was completely fine until earlier this year my health took a turn for the worse. I was diagnosed with HIV and the partner who I received it from never told me anything about it until he broke up with me and anonymously texted me telling me to get tested. April 5, 2019 I was diagnosed HIV+ .Once I did the doctors told me I was positive and I’d be living with this disease for the rest of my life or until a cure is found. I was in complete shock and it didn’t feel real to me until I started seeing the effects of not being able to take the medication until my assigned doctors date. My body was literally Deteriorating in front of my eyes and I have never felt so ashamed. I haven’t told my family yet and they’re always asking me why I go to the doctor so often and why my skin and weight were not the same as they once were. I’m too ashamed to tell them and worse I’m not sure if I will be accepted. I’ve already told a few people I get close enough to in my love life and they have all disappeared telling me this disease is something they just would rather not have in their life. I get it, I once was afraid to be near anyone who had HIV and now I have it myself. Karmas ultimate lesson. Now everyday I have to wake up and find the motivation to put a smile on my face and pretend like nothing is wrong when I feel like my life has been completely halted. Not to mention this news was all given to me my sophomore year of college during spring semester at Palomar College so now my education is also halted. I’ve got more doctor visits to attend until I’m considered healthy but with my doctor being Almost an hour drive away from where I live I’m in constant need of money to get there and to support myself. I’m only 20 years old and I don’t have much. I have a job that I work for while I was in school and now I’m not getting as many hours as I used to making it even harder to support myself and this disease. I know family should have been my first choice to talk to but sometimes it’s easier to ask a stranger than it is to ask family. I’m not asking for hundreds of dollars that’s unrealistic… but anything helps. Had I known my life would be in the position it is now I would have never been gullible for love to the point I let someone trick me into thinking they wanted me when in reality they used me for pleasure. Still no matter how tough my life keeps getting I have to continue and hope for the best. So I’m reaching out to anyone who cares… anyone who feels like they’ve been used before, anyone who has HIV or any infectious disease that made them feel ashamed. I’m asking for your help because as strong as I’d like to think I am I can’t do this alone. I’ve exhausted all my options for money and this seemed to be a last resort. Please if anyone is listening or reading this…I’m asking for help which I hate doing. When you have something like I do it makes you feel completely alone and like no matter how hard you try people will never accept you anymore. I’ve stopped going out, I’ve stopped communicating with my college friends and my overall personality has just been absent. I don’t feel like I’m living anymore but I’m enduring. Enduring this disease, enduring this life. It’s been a year almost now since I haven’t been to the beach because of the way I feel and I live literally 30 mins away from the beach. I can’t really explain how it feels to not feel like you but I can tell you it’s not something I enjoy. I miss smiling and being the happy goofy guy I usually am. As a way to try and get back in the world I’ve tried to start streaming video games to Twitch to build some sense of community because the gaming community has always been welcoming to me and so far it’s helped. Unfortunately with everything I’ve had to deal with emotionally and physically I haven’t been able to stream as much as I’d like. With the days feeling longer and nobody to really talk to about my situation motivation to stream has dropped ultimately low. Not to even mention when you don’t have enough money you don’t have the right tools to stream correctly. Boy if I only knew how hard life could be I’d be thankful for even the simplest breath I take. But I’m here now and no matter how hard I try there’s no reversing what has been done to me. If anyone feels the same way or if anyone reads my story and wants to hear more I don’t mind telling my tale more. The only therapy I really get is just by trying to explain why I think this happened to me. Believe it or not just as I’m writing this now one of my family members comes in the room and asks me what’s going on with school because I’m not attending this fall. She says if I’m not going to school then I should find another job. Sure I’ll find another job that I dislike on top of the job that I dislike while also disliking the fact that Im not even healthy enough to try and jungle my mental health and physical health with all these other activities. *Sigh* Sometimes I really hate my life… sometimes I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. But right now… right now I’m not living my life… I just feel present. Is there any help?

Paypal @damiyonrware@gmail.com

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I can use a little help from my friends!!

Hello,

My name is Nick and I’m a father of 4 beautiful children! I have a steady job and pretty solid home life, but the last few months have not been kind.

My wife lost her job and was out of work for two months. When she finally found a new job, she sprained her ankle and was off work for another few weeks. She is working again, but we have found ourselves in a financial hole where we are working and not getting ahead.

When she was off work i fell into the payday loan trap and can not get out of it.

With September coming up, we have 3 birthdays and then the holidays, so we would really like to get caught up before then.

We need roughly $2000 to get all caught up. Any help id’s greatly appreciated!!

 

My paypal.me is:

https://paypal.me/krazymagick

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Surgery Money

Hello. I am embarrassed to be on this website, but it’s become really hard to find a job. I am on this website to be able to fund the surgery that I need to have done on my ingrown toenails that have become increasingly more painful and infected. It’s been a year of trying to get a job. Groceries are even getting difficult to pay for now. I have been living off of my savings, and it’s become so low that I can’t afford groceries for the next two weeks. I’m only asking for enough money to get the surgery done on my toes, because I feel wrong asking strangers to pay for my food. The surgery is more reasonable, but still not my finest moment.

The main reason that I cannot find a job is because of my toes. They make it increasingly difficult to keep a job because employers don’t want to hire someone who can’t put pressure on their big toes. The jobs that I am qualified for are all standing for the entirety of the shift kind of jobs. It would be impossible for me to stand on my feet for an entire shift in this state. I have tried and I couldn’t even make it halfway through a normal shift without having to sit down.

I had the surgery once, but it healed worse than it was. Now, the other side of that toe is also infected as well as both sides of my other big toe. They hurt to put any pressure on. I have been dealing with this for over a year. I have tried every at home suggestion. None of them seem to work for my toes. It is a daily struggle to walk around because I have to avoid putting any pressure on my big toes.

I have been told by many people that I should just go to the hospital and I’d get a bill in the mail. I don’t want to do that because that would put me into debt and ruin my credit because I wouldn’t be able to pay the bill. I have put the surgery off for as long as I possibly can without possibly ruining my health. The last thing I want is to have the infection spread up my legs or get to the point where I would have to have the toes amputated.

Thank you for reading my message and I appreciate any help I can receive. My goal is $1,000 to pay for the surgery.

 

My paypal is:

PayPal.Me/CassieGriffiths

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We are stucked in the desert, need help ASAP

Hi Everyone,

me and my partner (Andy) and our dog (Mona) came to the USA to travel, discover and have some experiences to enjoy and share with others. Today we realized that our bank account has been suspended, because our bank (in Hungary…) thought there were some suspicious activity overseas, so we stucked here, 2 more days (when our current hotel reservation will be ended) and we will have no place to live, no food to eat. I can’t find the words to tell you how terrified we are at the moment and sadly (…) we don’t have anybody in our life who could help us (all of our family members are gone or don’t care at all, it’s horrible, but true). We only have my paypal account which we could use (to transfer the money from it to my partners empty account), if there would be money on it. I’d really appreciate anyone’s help and I will reimburse them as soon as I get home. Thank you for any help in advance.

 

paypal.me/monaandnora

Kind regards,

Nora Jandura

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Dream Job Debt

I just turned 21 this year and I’ve had to struggle to get to this point in my life. I’ve given my mother money throughout my college years and yes you’ve read that right. I worked full-time off campus and was a full-time student with no car and I’m still so proud I made it through 2 years of that.

I had to step away from university because the of the debt and abusive phone calls from my mother made my world crumble away.

I became homeless and optimistic as I knew I couldn’t bring myself to my physically abusive family again. I’m a small 4’11 girl and lived in the south- an officer kicked me out of a 24hr library while I was doodling in my sketchbook, he claimed I looked threatening. I knew I wasn’t scary looking – I have messy curly hair, wide brown eyes, and a small enough frame that I get mistaken for a child constantly. I wasn’t scary in any way, but he sure was. I knew it was racist, I knew I did nothing wrong. Despite being homeless I made sure I kept myself presentable and was still working – often taking long naps at the end of each shift in the break room. Even though I tried so hard to keep working (+walking to work) and not ever be in anyone’s way, here I was being frightened. I left as he instructed. I left at 11 o’clock at night in the pouring rain with my sketchbook under my shirt so it couldn’t get wet. I cried. I was no longer optimistic – that shredding everything I had left.

I called my last living relative that lived a six hour plane ride away. She allowed me to stay with her despite hardly knowing me. I’m such a hard worker that my job let me transfer over here with a raise. Before I officially had to leave university, I saved all of my things in a storage locker as I knew I wouldn’t be able to carry everything on my back when I would inevitably become homeless from leaving the dorms. All these things in the storage locker was everything I could possibly grab before leaving for college. My childhood momentos, relatives’ loving letters to me before they died, my dozens of human figure research sketches – everything that proved to me that I lived a life once upon a time. I paid for it through my college years, through my homelessness, through a year later today.

I worked hard through my job; never said no to an extra shift. It wasn’t until I got choked by a customer and got harassed by every manager there did I leave.

I tried to work as an artist (my dream job was to be an art therapy instructor for the disabled but didn’t have the degree yet). I worked hard for months (digital art) but as you can imagine, I didn’t make enough to help my relative and myself out. As I realized this I decided to look for an actual job, before I ever could my heart conditioned flared up and I’m now unable to do manual labor. My relative (who’s very elderly) believes I’m financially stable as I take care of the both of us. She fully believes in my art and it honestly breaks my heart that I’m not doing half as well as she thinks. I’m at the end of my rope with money issues and honestly I would work hard as I could, if I could work again without such a high risk.

My body is now just as frail as she is and she believes I’m just digitally drawing on my computer as usual. In actuality I’m searching for online jobs, anything that I could do. I’m 21 and I’ve never drank, smoked, got a tattoo, or a kid. I always worked hard but now that means nothing as my savings are now gone. I’m about to loose my storage locker that’s a plane ride away and all the trust my relative has in me to take care of us.

I only need $500 to get us started out of this hole, that would help and give me a chance. I’m still a hard worker and will always try to find better jobs for support. I’m sorry that this is so long to read, thank you for reading this far.

If you could help here’s my link paypal.me/spongecake98

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My husband’s doctor messed his left eye up.

I have tears streaming down my face as I write this letter. I never thought I would be asking for money but here I am literally on my knees asking anyone to help me, my husband and my two year old son. I’m trying this site not expecting to get anything but a thought would be nice.

It all started on April 19, 2018. It was my husbands birthday. We were celebrating by getting his eye surgery done to remove a large mass that was on his tear gland. It was supposed to be simple and easy. What started out as a good and safe day turned to a terrible nightmare of a year.

When the surgery was done the doctor said “there will be swelling but that is normal. The eye should open up by the end of the week. See you in a month”. But when we went back his eye was not opened. We asked why? What was wrong? The doctor said he had no idea. Instead of fixing it he sent us to another doctor to fix his mistake.

Two months have already passed and the doctors he sent us to didn’t know what to do but they helped the best they could. Upon arrival at the doctors office we found out his muscles for his eyelid was torn up and he also had double vision. My husband was missing months of work because he had restrictions and he had two more surgery’s prior to the first. We were starting to get behind on our bills.

Today is August 11th , 2019. Two years and three months after the first surgery and my husband has been left disfigured and he is depressed. He doesn’t eat or sleep. He’s told me he hates himself and doesn’t want to be here anymore.

He is loosing his bike because we are behind on payments. My car is the next to go. My lights are getting cut off on Tuesday and my son is running out of diapers. I have no one to help us out if I didn’t I wouldn’t be here asking for help. Anything is appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Paypal.me/curls1196

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Help me provide a good life for my kids.

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Hi,

 

I am here to plead for help from others, however undeserving I may feel, to pay off the debt which is ruining my life and affecting the lives of those around me, specifically my two beautiful children.

 

I have made many mistakes in my life, as I believe you are meant to, but this is a mistake I’m struggling to cope with;

 

A few years ago, after splitting with the kid’s mum, I fell into a depressed state and ended up weakly falling for the wrong person. As time went on I’d stupidly signed her debt over to my name, naively thinking we were in it together. Things quickly went sour. She became violent and abusive, and spent a lot of time with other men. Every time I tried to leave she would beat me. I was weak and scared. To cut this long story short, I managed to escape the relationship albeit shaken and mentally weak.

 

I was left with her debt. A few years have passed now and I have a good job and my mind is healing, but the debt is still crippling. I live payday to payday and literally have nothing in the back halfway in between because of the repayments. I’ve ended up taking out more debt to pay for arrears in bills to keep a roof over my head. All of this is tolerable. What isn’t, to me, is the fact that I havent been able to give my kids things they want, take them places they want to go, experience things they want to experience and that I want them to experience.

 

This is the most painful thing for me. Feeling like my kids deserve better than me as a father. As a kid until presently, I’ve focused my life around making my own dad proud, and it has been a deep source of both pain and focus. Through my own weakness I have brought this all upon myself and have tried so hard to keep on top and make a dent in the debt, but it seems impossible.

 

I’m asking for help because I don’t know what else to do, I’m so sick of feeling this, helpless and useless. I really feel despicable. Lowest of the low. And worst of all, undeserving of my beautiful, intelligent, innocent kids.

 

I’m sorry if you’ve read all this. I hope someone can help me, and if not, thankyou for your time.

Regards,

Theo

https://www.paypal.me/TheoMackie

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I’m in a mess

Hi there, I’m not really sure if this will work but it is my last resort and I’m running out of ideas what to do so here goes.

I’m Hannah and I’m 26, originally from the UK, but currently living in Australia. Long story short I am in crippling debt, Im struggling to find a job, I’m barely making rent, I can’t afford a flight home and am in desperate need of help.

But here is how i ended up in this position.

I made the decision to up my entire life and move down under after a painful break up left me broken and feeling like I had nothing. So I quit my job as a preschool teacher and decided to travel, I spent the first 3 months of my trip volunteering all across south east Asia, helping to build schools and teaching English and in turn they began to help rebuild my broken heart. I gained a sense of purpose again and with that I decided I was ready to take the next step in rerouting my life, and made the choice to move to Australia.

This is where my problems started. With it being such a spur of the moment trip, I hadn’t really planned ahead with getting work, accommodation etc I’d just taken word of mouth from others that it’d be easy to find once I was there. How wrong I was. My first thought was to try and get a job in teaching however unfortunately my degree (Education studies) does not transfer over to Australia and so my qualification doesn’t count, a 3 year degree that I can apparently only use in the UK. I then decided to get a job as an Au Pair however an environment that at first was amazing, quickly turned sour. I would work every hour of the day for this family, making sure their kids were well looked after and enjoying themselves, I would cancel plans to help them, I would get up for them in the night when the baby would cry, however it was never enough. They would create extra tasks constantly so that I never had a break, I was forced to stay and watch tv with the mother at night and be her ‘friend’ instead of exploring Sydney when I planned to, I was beck and call for this family yet they would still withhold my pay because I ‘wanted to go for a drink with a friend and not stay in with them’. I knew I needed to get out, but by this point I had been travelling for 4 months using most of my savings, and having very rarely been paid by the family, had little in AUD to fall back on either.

So I got a second job. And for a few weeks things seemed to get back on track and having the extra work helped with the escape from the family, but then that also all came crashing down on me when I received the message that the restaurant was closing effective immediately due to financial issues. And I received no pay for the 3 weeks/48 Hours that I had worked for them. Just another crushing blow.

I then received another job offer for a sales role, and I was overjoyed as it meant I could finally escape the family, have my freedom back and enjoy my experience. So I found a flat and began working. At first everything seemed great, and then just as I was reaching the end of my 2 week training period, the company said that they would ‘have to let me go’ along with the 5 other trainees, due to low need for employees, and that training is not paid. I was then left in an even worse situation with no job, no income and rent to pay. So I made the rash decision to increase my overdraft limit on my UK travel account in order to keep paying rent. Within the space of 2 days I applied for 137 jobs, none of which got back to me or the ones who did couldn’t accept my visa type. In the midst of this I lost my other bank card without realising (as i rarely used that one) so by the time I realised I had been rinsed of my remaining £900 through card copying and scammers, and unfortunately as this happened in abroad and without me noticing immediately, there is apparently nothing they can do about it.

At this point I was in one overdraft by £750, my other had been rinsed and I was in that by £1500, I had no Australian income and $275 worth of rent to pay each week. I was getting in to panic mode, my job applications were up the roof yet I was still struggling to find a way out. So I applied for a payday loan (£200) to help me with one weeks rent to bide me some time.

I am currently still struggling to find a job, in the last week I have been to 12 interviews but am yet to get a job either due to my visa restrictions or my degree not being accredited. I’m also now in danger of falling behind on my loan fees, overdraft fees and my rent.

I have reached breaking point and feel like I am in this hole that I just can’t get out of, and instead keep getting more and more trapped. I’m stuck in a foreign country, with no job, no friends and no money and all I want to do right now is go home, go back to my secure job and family. If there is anyone out there who would be able to help, even just the slightest, I would be forever grateful. I just want the opportunity to build my life back up again and get myself out of this financial disaster.

In short, I’m a prime example of backpacking gone wrong. I own up to my mistakes and take full responsibility, but right now, all I want to do is go home and I need your help in doing that.

Thanks In advance,

Hannah

https://paypal.me/hej19

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Struggling after a car accident.

On the 3rd of January 2019, I was on my way home from work when I took a major seizure at the wheel (due to over working, lack of sleep and stress) while driving on a city by-pass. Fortunately a truck driver spotted me and crashed into me so my car would stop. The car had £5k damage as a result. I was taken to hospital and off work from the 3rd of January til mid February. I had severe concussion, memory loss, pain in my back, ankles and feet.

My insurance wanted to blame the truck driver and claim my expenses from him. I couldn’t in good conscious as he may very well have saved my life that day.

Unfortunately for me it meant I was left to cover all costs. As a result I’ve defaulted on almost everything, had to sell a lot and even had to give up my dog i couldn’t file for bankruptcy as I would lose my job. It’s got so bad I like on next to no money, although I’m back at work and attempted suicide 3 times, due to my bills pilling up. It’s been 8 months since and I still can’t seem to get back on my feet. Due to 2 cysts, another car accident and my suicide attempts…… you couldn’t make this stuff up. I’ve been very unlucky this year.

I work hard, I feel that if you treat strangers with kindness maybe one day you will be re-paid in some form. I would give my last penny even now to help someone else. I’m a good person, very transparent and honest. I ALWAYS put others first. I hope this year gets better.

 

Thanks so much for taking your time to read my story and I hope you have luck, love and happiness no matter what.

Kindest regards

Rachael

https://paypal.me/melville90

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Financial Hardship

Well, here I am. This is my last resort. I am a 31 year old woman who lives alone and I am my only provider. I recently moved back in May, and when doing so that drained the little savings that I had. Between 1st month, Last month, security deposit and pet fee it left me almost empty.

I left my current job at the time to go to a different company where I thought I would excel at my career. When doing so I lost my health insurance and also took a major pay cut. Even with those things happening, I still believed that I would be happier and go much further and advance with my new job.

I began working with the company and after 3 weeks, the company was shut down. I work with mentally challenged adults and have for the past 7 years. They were not the company I believed them to be, and I knew this after being there the 1st week. They didn’t follow state rules and regulations and I wasnt sure how they were open as long as they were.  When they closed down, due to me only being there for such a short amount of time, I didn’t qualify for unemployment.

I immediately applied for jobs and received an offer that I accepted within days. I am currently working with a great company that I see myself with very long term.

 

With losing my job, and then having no income for about 6 weeks it has caused a financial crisis for me. I have no one to turn to for help. I am close to losing my car due to being behind on my payments. I have already lost my car insurance. Without those 2 things, I wouldn’t be able to keep the job that I have as it is requirement to have a personal vehicle and be insured. My cable and cell phone have already been shut off, and that is the least of my worries. I am a month behind on my rent and a new month has started. I have 10 day shut off notices from both the water company and the electric company.

I am struggling everyday. I wake up not knowing if I’ll be able.to afford to get something to eat. I wake up wondering if I can get gas in my vehicle to get to work or wonder if my vehicle is even still outside and not repossessed.

 

I am trying to take care of myself and my cats. I am working and doing everything that I can and I am hardly surviving. I am so far behind I don’t know how I will ever get out.

 

This was my last resort. And as embarrassing as it is, I am asking for your help.

https://www.paypal.me/bonita716

Brittany

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Living my life back

Hi, I’m Naz from Malaysia. I have been living my life full of debt. Not mine, but my family. Yes, my family was thrown into massive debt after my family business was not successful. They even have to take the loan with the moneylenders in order to support the business. I never knew this happened until I’m in college. Luckily, I got my own scholarship to further my studies.
I always set my mind that I have to be graduated to help my family. I have to be an educated one among the family members. Furthermore, I am the oldest among our siblings. With the set of mind, after graduation, I got my first job with a multinational company and bonded for 8 years.
After I got this secured job, my first initiative is to take a big loan to cover all the debts that my family have. I can see the relief from my mother’s eyes when I covered all the debts. She never has to go out without concerning to meet the creditors anymore. She now can smile everyday thinking she is now free from the burden.
I am glad my family back to normal due to the action that I took for them. However, the loan that I took covered most of my salary that I barely can enjoy them. It is about 75% of them. I felt like I miss some of the opportunity in having my own things like house, car and anything else. Every time I need extra cash, I have to ask a loan from my friends due to the inability of my family to help me. I felt a big hit to my confidence every time I ask them for help.
I don’t think I have any asset left, only retirement fund which is a huge amount but only can be withdrawn once I’m 50 years old. I have an old computer for my entertainment, an old mattress, and clothes. I felt like a loser when I’m comparing myself with my friends of the same age. I need a boost to my confidence.
This lead to the resort of using this platform to ask help from the public. I know it is maybe not worth it but at least I’m trying to fix my life. Any amount of money is really appreciated in order for me to enjoy a bit in my life. If you have an offer for a job that I can do instead in my country, kindly also email me. Thank you.

My paypal.me: paypal.me/radius01

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Robbed by brother, unemployed and close to losing apartment

Hi there,

I don’t even know where to begin. My title of this pretty much explains it all. My older brother who helped raise me when I was a baby, robbed me and bailed to be with his girlfriend. Ive been unemployed for 2 months now and I am down to the last few dollars in my savings. I have been looking for work for awhile now. I have been fortunate to have found a few cash gigs, but nothing permanent to help me get out of the hole I’m in. My brother had agreed to live with me and pay half of the rent and go halfs on the utilities as well. At the time I had a good paying job so all was good. Unfortunately, in June I was let go by my job due to “downsizing”. Well, my brother conned me into believing that he could not pay rent for June or July because he had to help his baby mother, who is currently his Ex, with bills and expenses of his daughter, my niece. So I let him slide knowing he would compensate me in August and with anything else I needed while I got a new job to get back on my feet. Long story short, I had a hidden stash in my room, $2000 dollars in savings for emergencies. When I went looking for it 2 days ago, it seems it disappeared. All that was left was $100. I know very well nobody knew where that money was at other than myself, NOT even my brother. It seems he had gone through my room while I was gone looking for money and I caught him on camera taking it! I confronted him and he denies it even though I have proof! He is currently out of town with his girlfriend and has already said he is not going to help with rent or anything going forward. So rent is due in 1 week from yesterday and I also have utilities and bills that are backed up since losing my job that I have to pay in full. My landlord is a very ill-tempered person who is looking to evict me for any reason so he can get more for my apartment. So the $2,000 was very very important and I am beyond ashamed and embarrassed to even be on here asking. I worked very hard to get where I am at even though I had to deal with backstabbing family members. IF you are still reading this, which I hope many of you are, I can only hope you can find it in your heart to help me in this time of need that I am in. I have always been one to help others with anything, when it comes to food, a place to stay for a day or 2, rides to work or anywhere when I had a car and even money. So I definitely promise to pay all the blessings I receive from anybody here forward to others. Good Karma! So yes, I need $2,000 before next week Friday. Thank you so much if you do donate and I promise to get back on my feet quickly! Any amount is greatly appreciated. Please send your contributions at PayPal.Me/DaveN15

 

God Bless You,

Dave

 

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Please help me

Hi to whomever may read this,

I just want to start this off by saying thanks for hopefully taking the time to read this.

I’m not usually the type of person to ask for help so this is quite strange for me but I’m so desperate at the moment I really need to.

I’m 23 years old and I have quite a large sum of debt which I initially took out to help my family and I’ve managed to make the repayments over the last few months but last month my grandfather who I was very close to passed away. And due to that I needed time off of work (two weeks) and this had a huge impact on my pay. I usually have £1200 pay but I only worked half a month so I received half of that and £600 is how much I repay my debts per month.

I’ve  paid my debts this month as I really didn’t want to fall behind again, I just don’t know how I’m going to survive as August is such a long month and my next pay is five weeks away.

The reason I couldn’t work those two weeks is I was grieving and the job I do is very stressful, I woke in a mental health hospital for teenagers so I knew I wasn’t 100% and I didn’t want to risk going in as if anything were to happen I’d never forgive myself.

I haven’t got anyone I can ask for help, that’s why I’ve turned here. So please if anyone could help me I’d be ever so grateful. I know this may not seem as urgent as some of the other posts but I’m so down at the moment over this and I really don’t know how I’m going to survive the month, how I came across this website was I was looking for ways I could make money so I’m just hoping that this website works otherwise I’m not sure what I’ll have to resort to :(

thanks for taking the time to read this

my paypal is this and if anyone is kind enough to help me out I thank you from the bottom of my heart!

paypal.me/shannmorg

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Help me get back on track…

Hello all,

My name is Ronan and as you can see, I’m struggling. I don’t like to ask for things, but I’ve found myself in “last resort” mode. I’m 26, graduated from nursing school in 2016. To my surprise, a year or so after I’d graduated, my mother brought to my attention that I was 121k in debt in student loans she’d taken out in my name. I immediately did some digging. Come to find out, after my multiple scholarships, school should have only costed about 30k. So where is the rest? My mom’s answer: “I don’t know.” I give a call to Sallie Mae. (Yes, it’s a private loan so I have no chance of loan forgiveness.) The associate I spoke with at Sallie Mae says, there’s “no way” my mom would have been able to take out more money than what my school costed. Next… I do some legal searching. Turns out, I’m 100% on the hook for this money because I can’t prove in a court room that I didn’t benefit from the loan in any way. Obviously, I went to school and graduated on 1/4 of the money. I’ve consolidated the loans for lower interest rates. I pay the same amount per month on my loan as I do for rent. I have no wiggle room after bills. Barely able to put 5 bucks in for savings a month. I’m stretched so thin, I’m pulling my hair out. Apparently that’s a thing. Trichotillomania.

So here I am, doing everything in my power to be as successful a man as I can. I pictured myself in graduate school by now, but I can’t go back to school with this kind of debt looming over me. Yes, I know my BIG MISTAKE was trusting my mother with my finances at the WISE age of 18 as a freshman in college. I know I’ll never make another mistake like it. I just hope that you all might find it in your hearts to help me out so I can move forward with my life and start working toward my goals again. This debt has put a big halt in my career and education advancement. Thank you so much in advance for supporting me. I will not let you down.

paypal.me/ronanbarnes1

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Disabled, retired, & widowed Mother in desperate need of financial h

I worked in Law- Enforcement all my life until a spine injury. After that injury came, heart failure, diabetes, breast cancer and more. I can only wish that I could work again to sustain my family but I can’t. I was married for 30 yrs. until I loss my husband. It seems when I lost him, I loss his family too. Now being a widower with two children, life has just become unaffordable. I would have never foreseen this ever happening. Two salaries has become one and yet the bills continue to pale up . The ones that we both created as a couple.  I am trying my best but I am slowly loosing the battle . This struggle is very real. I can’t even afford to buy my much needed medicine (insulin & more). The co pay is just too much. I truly don’t know how long I can continue to hold on.  I am being threatened by collection agencies and possible foreclosure. I have been  trying to sell some of the things that my deceased husband and I purchase but to no avail. It is very hard to sell timeshares and no longer needed merchandise. I am still responsible for paying a maintenance fees that I can’t no longer afford. My credit and life is being destroyed. I am going through something that I have never experienced before in my life. People look at you as if you have everything but they can’t even image my struggle and pain. My monthly check don’t even cover all the bills . My bank account remains in the negative and I don’t get to see a dollar from my check. I don’t even have money left over for the basic necessities of life.  The depression and loneliness starts to set in from time to time. I am truly fighting this battle to survive especially for the sake of my children. You see, I am not only their mother but their father too. After the loss of my husband, no one stepped up to help guide my children. For right now,  I will continue to fight for my life. I am asking for any type of financial assistance so that I may pull myself out of debt and depression. I am trying to get my life back and on the right path. Just know this was very difficult to write because I have never asked for help before from anyone. I have always been the one who has helped others. I humble myself to you on behalf of a broken-hearted individual with love for family and life. I hope that you find it in your heart to help in anyway possible. I believe that god has brought me this far not to leave me. No matter what your decision is , God Bless

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Just a young lad needing help back to get back on his feet! Please help

Hey to whoever is reading this right now,

I am Lachlan, a 21 year old from Scotland, I currently live on my own away from my family.

I’m currently in a bit of a tough situation. I have literally zero in my account at the moment and not due to receive money for quite a while (because of a sanction), everything is just hitting me all at once, my gas has been capped due to debt, my electricity is less than £1, I have barely any food and currently relying on going to foodbanks every week to stay fed (which is really embarrassing, they’ve started only letting me come by once every two weeks now). I’m currently unemployed due to my mental health condition at the moment but working with a program that is hopefully going to help me get employed again.

As for my mental health, I have been waiting for  over a year to start getting proper psychiatric help and recently got a letter detailing that I’m going to have wait a further 5-6 months to start psychotherapy, up until this point all they have done is given me anti-depressants and seen me every 6 weeks just to ask how I’m doing and to make changes to the dosage of the meds. I hate being mentally ill because I’m in the situation I’m in as a result of that.

Everything hit the fan when I ruined the best relationship I ever had because I was deluded by my own mind. I moved to where I am now to be closer with my girlfriend at the time and to get away from the abuse and neglect I suffered at the hands of my parents. Things went well for a while, got a job, got a new flat, life was just great but then I had to go and wreck everything and ended that relationship, the dreams of settling down eventually faded away, and everything in my life came to a halt and I’ve been stuck ever since, I hate to say it, but I am 100% desperate and I feel like I’m at the end of my tether with things, I want to stay hopeful and optimistic but that’s slowly degrading by the day.

If I was to receive help, the money I receive will go straight to making improvements with my living conditions, getting my gas back on so I can actually have baths and do proper cleans in the house, I’d probably do shopping in Lidl or Aldi because you can get a lot for a small amount of money there and of course I’d get my electricity so I’d be able to cook and see what the hell I’m doing in my house! If there is any extra after that, it would go into a little piggy bank for emergencies.

I feel like with a little bit of a push I can get myself back on my feet!

If you read this and decided to help, Thank you so much, If I could ever meet you in person I’d give you the biggest hug you’ve ever had!

I hope that explained things enough.

Sincerely

Lachlan

p.s The pics I have attached show my current electric meter status, my capped gas meter and a current selfie of myself so you can put a face to the name.

Help me out here: https://paypal.me/lachlanreid

 

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Put your Grain of Earth and be Part of the Change

We are increasingly living apart from Mother Nature.

It is time to Live in Balance with her, in the same Harmony.

We are a Family that is dedicated to Nature and the rescue of Ancestral Knowledge, which is getting lost faster and faster.

We have been preparing the Site for almost 7 years to start a Learning Center focused especially on Children.

A different education educating from Love and the knowledge of Nature.    With a different philosophy of seeing and living life

We are dedicated to consulting and advising on Sustainable Development projects. We do field studies for Water and Energy design , bioArchitecture and Food Sustainability.

We Produce and Sell products in Local Markets, we give Courses and we are doing what we can to be able to Finance the Project.

For three years the Family began to grow and we started with the Construction of our Home.

They have been years of hard Work and Expenses, we are currently in a not very favorable situation. Our Second Child arrived late last year. So we spend time raising them and the income dropped a lot to the point of reaching Zeroes.

The House is in its final phase but at the same time it is the most expensive.

Missing: finish all roof layers, wiring and electrical part, water system, solar cell system and storage batteries, Kitchen, Bathrooms, floors, windows, glass, doors, etc.

At the beginning of the year we started an Instagram and a Go Get Funding with the hope of receiving some kind of support. So far we have not achieved anything and today we reach a situation of despair, the bank account is zero and we do not want to neglect the attention of Children.

https://www.instagram.com/earthgrain/

Please, if someone wants to Cooperate, contact us, we have many things and information about sustainability, nature, bio-construction, conscious food, etc. that we could share with you.

Without more for now we thank all the People who have taken the time and the trouble to read and get here.

We Thank Everyone who wants to participate and we hope that with your help we can gradually get out of this hole and with the House finished and the children a little older can continue with the Center for Learning Arts, knowledge and ancestral crafts.

May the light always illuminate them and the warmth of our Mother always cover and protect them.

PayPal Acount:   paypal.me/ungranodetierra

Christian and Arantza

THANK YOU HEAVEN FOR THE EARTH

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Sorry for the Long story…

Hello, I am 34 years old, I am from the states but moved to Michigan to reunite with my birth family in 2005 when I was 20, first time I saw my mom since I was put up for adoption as an infant.  Just a couple short years later I move to Canada with my wife who I met shortly after moving to Michigan.  

Now married to my lovely wife for 11 years and we have two boys, 2 and 5 years old.  My wife has a career in human resources and I have been somewhat of a failure in that respect.  Barely passed high school, did labor intensive jobs for years then fell into sales, with Pepsi mostly, did that for nine years, and it absolutely drained me.  Finally my wife talked me into going back to school.  Finished year one, year 2/3 starts in September.  Despite the learning weaknesses, I finished with a ‘B‘ GPA and received a minimum wage Coop position with my town, its a really good experience for my future career.  It was the hardest damn thing I/we have ever done, with adult ADHD & anxiety, the mental toll school took on me throughout the year was a strain on everyone and the financial toll it’s taking on us can have drastic effects if I don’t start making money soon, which is near impossible being in school having a family. 

We cant get any major loans because we don’t own a house, and will have to leave the house we are renting now in January, because we cannot afford it any longer, problem is, unless we move to a crappy area or really far away we really cant afford to rent anywhere.  Bills are piling up, medical bills(we need glasses, dental work and minor medications), two deteriorating vehicles that need repair(my truck has been given the “any day now” sentencing and neither vehicle has AC), grocery bills through the roof(two boys, enough said) and our family pet is in urgent need of care… I dont know how much longer we can do this.  I cannot quit, I will be a mental wreck because this is finally me chasing a dream and if I have to quit now, its wasted money and going back to something I hated and was not good at.  Just last week I picked up a part time job on top of my summer coop, as much as I can do, it’s still not enough.  I am at my lowest right now and I don’t know what else to do, if there’s anything anyone can do to help, it would mean the world. 

I do apologize for the long story, thank you for any and all consideration and thank you for your time.

paypal.me/matthewgougeon

 

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i need money in order to pay for college

hello, i’m an 18-year-old student in college in need of money. i may not be able to afford textbooks and supplies for my classes next semester, which is soon. my family is very poor and we are struggling to keep up with the tuition fees as well. this new chapter in my life is taking a toll on my mother’s daily life. she lost her job recently, so she is struggling to help me pay my fees. we also barely have food at the house and we struggle to find something to eat at times. another thing that is keeping my family and i poor is that my mother is behind on rent, so when she does have money, she has to spend most of it so we can stay in the house. furthermore, my mom and her boyfriend both have jobs that don’t pay well. two of their wages together make enough just to scrape by. i have also had a job before and i got fired due to the place shutting down. i have been job hunting in the past few months, but have had no luck whatsoever. something else that is hurting my ability to pay for college is my car insurance. it is very expensive and it’s getting hard to keep my car. it would be amazing if i got funded for this. i would be truly grateful if you all helped because you would be helping me become a fine arts major, which has been a lifelong dream of mine. i have loved art ever since i was seven years old. i one day plan on becoming an illustrator and animator. one other thing that funding my college will do is helping me save more of my mom’s money to put food on the table. since she’s been trying to help me with my fees and recently got fired, she is not able to get as many groceries. your donation would percent us from going into poverty. my goal is to get $1,000 to pay for it all, although i would definitely would appreciate more. once again, thank you for taking the time to read this, everyone. you’re not just donating money, you’re helping me shape myself into the best version of me and be able to thrive. in the future, i will look back and remember what these donations did for me. thank you so much.

paypal.me/lexusuzuya

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Family struggling to make it after sole caregiver and mother suffers massive stroke

my family is currently going through the hardest time ever, since my mom had a massive stroke two months ago… I am a 22 year old female, I am the second oldest child in the family and right now the sole responsible caregiver to her younger kids while she is in rehab. she also has a 14 year old son who is currently living with me as well as an 18 year old son with A form of autism called asbergers! The 18 year old is very confused and won’t come to my house and so has been staying at his moms alone for these past two months. Unfortunately my mom left very little savings and is still in rehab! She has no medical insurance and is being billed every day while in there as well… costs are adding up fast, so while my brother has been staying over there the utilities are being shit off one by one. Eventually the house may be repossessed, or I’m not sure what will happen to her house… she has many pets there too that are barely being fed by a family friend, because there is no extra money saved for the animals either. My husband and I do not have the extra money to keep all of her bills as well as mortgage paid, and with my 14 year old brother staying here as well, we can barely afford food anymore… I already have a two and a three year old myself here and am very ashamed that this situation has made us all struggle. I usually do weigh about 130 and now am in the 80 lbs weight range just from trying to budget extra food and other costs for him being here. We would like to pay my moms home bills as well if possible, and unfortunately we do not qualify for any government assistance. All I am asking is for some help if anyone is willing to donate, so I can keep feeding the two, three, and fourteen year old children in my household and even potentially be able to help a bit in my moms as well while she is in recovery. She has asked that I can provide possible handicap assistance when she gets home and I would love to be able to provide this for her.

My PayPal is PayPal.me/knd96

Thank you

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Help with bills

I’m 18 years old, I’m a female and I just bought a 2006 Honda Accord for $5,000 and it left me totally broke.

Not only that, I lost my job the day after buying my car, it was a seasonal position but I wasn’t expecting it to end so soon. I was very unprepared for this and it really hurt me. It was so hard finding another job but eventually I did..

I’ve been desperately searching for a job and I just landed one working at a grocery store for $12 an hour but I won’t be paid for another 2 weeks and I’ve only gotten 15 hours for both of the coming weeks..

I have about $400 worth of bills due this month all before I’m supposed to be payed. I can’t be late on these bills because it wound not only mess up my credit but my mother’s as well as she co-signed a loan for me to get this car.

All I need is $400. I currently only have $182 dollars in my bank account (picture)

The bills due are for the car loan payment ($118), my phone ($123), and the car insurance payment ($220). I’ve been trying to make as much money as I can by selling clothes, finding cash/coins but obviously it’s not enough and I’m desperate to make it through this month so I can save my paychecks and hopefully be able to make it on my own next month and so on..

I’d appreciate any help, again all I really need is $400 and I’m good

here’s my PayPal link

PayPal.Me/RebekahTitus  thank u so much

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We just want to stay a family …

I know that “I’ve never done this before” and “I wouldn’t ask if I truly didn’t need it” are cliche … trust me , I know. But I wouldn’t be on this site if I didn’t truly need the assistance. I have no where else to turn. Im currently pregnant and high risk, unable to work. I’ve been working since I was 16 and I’m now 24 years old. I’m used to be self sufficient and able to do everything I need to but I’m currently at a loss… For the past few years myself and my boyfriend have been paying a family court lawyer large retainers in hopes of finally getting sole custody of my stepdaughter. Her mother is … quite the character and the environment she is in is not healthy for my stepdaughter. She’s manipulative, abusive and a pathological liar all wrapped up in one horrible person. We have to go back and forth to court almost every two weeks it seems like due to the fact she is always filing motions for nonsense and making the custody agreement pretty unbearable. She keeps my stepdaughter from us when she does get visitations for days even weeks at a time after her visits are over. She made the school year hell for us constantly picking my stepdaughter up early from school on days that were not her assigned days leaving me at home stressed if my stepdaughter was going to arrive that day… we just want to stay a family. I have an autistic 5 year old son who absolutely adores his stepsister and she’s the only child he’s ever recognized as a sibling and been close to. We currently have joint custody but the mother is constantly challenging this and it costs more and more… we have bills we are behind on, we’re expecting a baby, and we can’t afford to lose our lawyer due to lack of funds…. we need this representation so the mother cannot get back custody of the child. She has a friend in California who has custody of her son who sends her payments monthly for her child and that’s how she is able to constantly afford representation for all these bogus court dates she files motions for … we however? Do not have a friend like that. My boyfriend works his ass off to provide for myself, my son and my stepdaughter. But he cannot do it all… and since I can’t work, I cannot help him afford another retainer and we have about $400 left with our lawyer who charges $300 an hour… we have two court dates within the next month and one in September SO FAR. We need to be able to pay the lawyer $1500 to keep him on the payroll. He is the best family court lawyer we could find and afford in Indiana. He has helped tremendously but has to remain with us to keep the ball rolling. I’m literally asking… begging for any amount anyone could spare to help us. I don’t care if it’s $19…$5…$1… anything helps. This stress has made my pregnancy extremely hard and we just don’t know what to do anymore. We’ve sold all we could to maintain bills… school starts soon so we need to get school supplies and uniforms… and both children’s birthdays are Coming up in August and September… I’m also due the end of September. It’s a hectic situation and we just are trying to make it through but it’s important we keep our children with us and our family together. We cannot let this woman win because my stepdaughter truly deserves a better life then what her mother would give her … we know she’s safe here. Loved here. And taken care of here. Her mother has shown time and time again that she is not a fit parent but the system always gives mothers the benefit of the doubt and numerous chances. Please if you could find it in your heart to give…. do so. Our children deserve a stable family … and we just want to give that to them. I have barely any family here and the same for my boyfriend so we really have no one else to ask for assistance. We just want to do what’s best for the kiddos so please help us do that. Keep our family together. It’s the most important thing to me…. thank you for reading. And thank you for even considering  to help us. God bless.

My PayPal is …

 

paypal.me/ErrinCee

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Down on my luck.

I don’t know where to begin…

 

Should I get straight to it and say what I’m requesting or how much?

Should I tell you a little about myself and how much your donation would mean to me?

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I guess I’ll start by saying my name is Aaron. I’m 28 years of age and in live in FL. I graduated high school when I was 17. I wasn’t able to attend college because I didn’t qualify for any college tuition opportunities or scholarship programs. Instead, I went straight to work in the call center industry. Where I learned to how to master customer service.

Why that particular field, you ask?

Because they were one of the few available options that, a young 18 years of age, boy like me, with no previous work experience, could manage.

After of 8 months of working open to close, gaining a total of 110 lbs., and figuring out what adult life is all about. I managed to get fired and fall into a mild depression. By the way, getting fired was 100% my fault.

Over the course of the next 11 years that followed the depression came and went, as did my youth. I’ve learned to cope with it, mostly, but obstacles still arise. It’s like an emotional rollercoaster ride complete with your own personal ups, down, tilts, and twirls. Also, during this exact same time I’ve been living paycheck to paycheck making less than 20K a year. It’s been rough, to say the least.

I’ve been in a rut!

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FOR OVER A DECADE.

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I just need someone to make a difference and help me escape my hometown. In my personal opinion I feel like it’s the only thing standing in the way of my greatness. I have so many dreams and aspirations for my future but so often these dreams fail due to lack of support and fear that I’ll never be able to get away from the small minded people that reside in this small town.

One last thing. It’s not that I don’t like this town. Small towns are great. They’re normally warm and friendly; and it’s true what they say “everybody knows everybody in a small town”. It’s just that being apart of the L.G.B.T. + community isn’t really accepted or welcomed. The bullying, the hazing, the hate crimes, etc. They’re all present here. I need to be able to get away and go somewhere where peoples’ minds aren’t so small.

 

I’m asking for any assistance no matter how big or how small. My goal is reach $10,000 USD.

 

If you took the time to read my donation request (“begging”) letter, I thank you for taking the time out of your day to hear my story and learn a little about what it’s like to grow up in small town, living with depression, and being a homosexual.

 

Sincerely,

Aaron

https://paypal.me/adoss91

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When did ‘Time’ become a currency?

These are the first words you’re interpreting to grasp an idea of how I am. I’m aware of the environment my actions have led me too. Or vice versa; what I have chosen to enact. But that’s my dilemma. My only child, son of 3 years has been out of my reach for over a year now. And as time has played its course, regardless of efforts put forth to figuring out a way, my personal experiences have left me with added weight. And the magnitude of my lack in being able to influence him, in any positive way isn’t happening. Longer story shortened; Broken relationship that ended a family. Emotions were heightened, Mother left with son, alcohol slipped into a pattern of norms,  lacerated tendons and an artery, which led to recovery time and no work. Lost my home, priorities lost the support needed to create a new home. Decided to give in to the curious ideas and experiences of drugs. Self experimentation and discovery became known and I became more conscious of the end result if I continued. I realized my stubbornness could have led me to become obsolete. And in my moments of near-death, my image of my son and foreshadowing his life with yet another generation of no father is what saves me. I’m in a much better state-of-mind in the present moment but, now my consequences are piling up. I know now that I need to move from Arkansas and set roots in Wisconsin where my son has lived with his mother and step father. I have a DUI on record that needs to be paid for as well as installing an interlock system. I have no vehicle, no job atm, recovering from drugs on a solo-self intentional discovery. If I get myself away from this place and back into my boys life, I know itd be all the motivation needed to creating what comes next. I don’t know how to ask for the specific amount needed, without wanting to explain in detail where everything will go to exactly. But, my debt has accumulated to $20 thousand. Fines, recent surgeries and medical bills, defaulted loan from dui car accident, no transportation to further job opportunities. I decided to look for help and came across this Avenue. Are you willing to help me out of this chapter and into my next? I may not be able to repay you in a timely manner but, I want it to be known I personally will not let your help get taken advantage of. I don’t want to be around this easy access anymore. My situation has grew to the point drugs are no longer needing to be bought. They’re just available if you know where to look, I’m not proud knowing this. I need distance from this. I want to be the guy I needed growing up for my boy Heath. I don’t want history repeating.

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Really need help

Hello.  My wife and I have fallen into a financial pit recently.  All our lives we have struggled but we kept our heads held high.  We both work and she is working two jobs and yet the bill keep piling up.  After a long term medical condition that my wife has, it drained us. Keeps getting harder no matter what we do.

We cut out so much from our lives, entertainment, furniture, cut unnecessary bills, even cut out food to a point.  While I admire my wife so much for trying so hard and working as much as she does, she really should not be according to her doctors.  With my job and the overtime we never have time to ourselves. Living paycheck to paycheck trying to pay off debt we had resorted to taking out a loan.  While that has helped, it also takes away four hundred and fifty dollars a month.

We want to keep the roof over our head. We need to pay for our cars to get us back and forth to work. Our stress levels are building more and more. No matter what we do after we pay for everything, we are left with so little. Emergency situations keep arising and we have to keep looking for more ways to pay and we are finding ourselves getting into debt again even deeper.

We have been so helpful of others our entire lives, we have always given to those who needed help. Never have we asked for anything in return. Always feeling pride in ourselves we never wanted pity.  At this point it is not about pity. It is about being afraid. Afraid of the future, the next day the next paycheck. If we could pay off at least our loan of fifteen thousand we should do fine from there.

Never have we thought of doing something like this. Asking for money like this was always out of the question but we have no options left. Our last resort would be to move in with our daughter and husband in a small house and completely invade on their space and privacy. Truthfully that is the burden that we do not want to become. My wife and I feel that things never came our way and we just keep facing one financial wreck after the other.  And so what? Who does not? While our strong attitudes have kept us from asking for help, we find ourselves looking for alternate means to keep ourselves from failing.

Please help. That is the only other thing we can really think of. We have rent, utility bills, car payments loan payments and emergency car repairs as well as some additional debt we incurred trying to pay off the above mentioned things.  We can not thank you enough. Our situation for some reason just never works out in our favor. We are hard working people who fell into a tough time for a long while. We need to catch up and we need to catch up quick. So tired of the one step forward and two steps back life we are leading. My wife medically needs the break from the stress.

We are ever so thankful if you just read through this we strongly want to thank you in advance for any help you can give.

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I have nothing left to lose. Please Read.

Hello.  Is there anybody out there?

I can’t believe I am writing this, hopelessly asking for help, but there does not seem to be any other way.  There is nothing left for me to sell, or that I can sell in the hope no one notices it missing.

Anyway, enough of the sob story.  Shall I just get to the point of it and be honest with you?  I just want this all to be over.

I have always been a grafter, I’m an intelligent woman and can hold her own.  I am likeable and honest, I can be independent and can fix my own car, shed roof or pond pump to name a few tasks and I do most DIY jobs around the house.  But at the end of the day I am still a woman.  I am a hopeless romantic and I just want to be loved and adored.  I can be the perfect wife, lover, cook and best friend.

I have gone from falling in love with taker after taker over the last 20 years, but I have survived them all.

I have lived on the breadline just to keep a roof over the head of one because the man I got involved with had children and needed to support them, so I became the main breadwinner.  I thought it was important to support them too even if they were not my children.  I only wanted love and affection in return from him.

When I met my husband, I couldn’t believe my luck.  I had finally found someone who not only adored me, loved me, held the door open for me, took me for dinner, theatre, concerts and bought me flowers, I found someone who could support themselves.  His children were all grown up and self sufficient and he owned his own house.  I could be looked after for a change, but how wrong could I have been.

Getting to the point I am being both mentally and financially abused by my husband.

I work a full-time job, a part time job and I also keep the house, do all the cooking and all the repairs and DIY too because to him it is MY house.  It is in MY name.  It is MY responsibility.

He sold his house and banked all the proceeds.  We were going to pay off a chunk of my mortgage and then add him on to it, but he has just banked it and makes me struggle hand to mouth every month while he is cash rich and debt free.

We used to have friends and fun.  Not anymore.  He procrastinates and then cancels at the last minute, so we don’t get invited now.

People keep telling me how lovely he is and how lucky I am, but it is all a front.

I do a lot of charity work too because I enjoy it and I am a caring person, but it is painful because I can raise money for charity but have no money of my own.  All my money is sucked into the paying off the mortgage and bills as everything in my name.  I have run up credit card debt too and the credit card agencies won’t help because of my husband’s financial situation.

They don’t care.

I also have epilepsy which I take medication for but recently I had another large seizure due the extra stress and pressure.  I am having counselling and CBT, but this doesn’t help the financial situation.

My situation is getting worse because now I am housebound and have had to give up driving for a year so am having to be more dependent on him, but he uses this as a weapon and lets me down.

I need cash to lower my debts so I can clear my head and make a plan to move on and be free of him.

There are constant tears in my eyes and my smile has faded.

I’m exhausted and I am running on empty.  I am battered and bruised and mentally scarred, I do not eat, and I do not sleep but I am hanging in there and trying not to lose myself completely.

I am sure I can reciprocate in some way as I am highly skilled.

Could someone help me please?

Thank you.

Paypal.me/MrsMoore73

 

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Solicitors, court and mountains of stress

Hi everyone, I’m 22 and a single mum to a 9 month old baby, my baby currently dosent live with me and here’s why, when she was 4 months old me and her father were still together, i popped out to go shopping for essentials and she stayed at home with her dad who she adored, whilst I was out, my NOW EX fiance, lost his temper and attacked .y baby, he gripped her arms and he bit her, I had to take her to hospital, and we were there a week, social services and the police got involved and he denied doing anything wrong, due to him denying everything I was also blamed, my baby got taken away from me and there was nothing I could do. I travel on 3 buses and 1.5hour journey there and back every day to see my daughter, he dosent bother, I kicked him out of our family home, as I cant believe he could do such a thing! Due to everything which has gone on I’m struggling with a mountain of debt, I’ve fallen behind on rent, council tax and bill, due to having to travel so much to spend time with my daughter, he took a £3000 loan put on my name which is also looming over me, aswell as travel expenses and solicitor fees and I honestly dont know how much longer I can do this, I’ve been burying my head in the sand waiting for a knock on the door, but luckily I’m never home as I’m always visiting my daughter, I’m due to get her back in 3 week, he has finally admitted what he had done, 4 months later. He lied to my face the police and the court for 4 months. As hes admitted everything I am completely in the clear so I am fighting to get her back, shes lived away from me over half her life and it breaks my heart every day, I know shes coming home soon but i just want to try and put a the stress behind me and focus on my and my daughter, my mental health has plummeted and i see no end to my debts, I’m scared I’m going to lose put home and were going to end up on the streets, i cant send my daughter to nursery and work as I cant bring myself to do it, what if it happens again. I couldn’t even trust her alone with her dad never mind a complete stranger! My anxiety goes through the roof just at the thought of her having to go through this again, she cant talk at the minute so if anything happened she wouldn’t even be able to tell me, I just need help. I never thought I’d ever be the person to beg, but here I am, I need to do what’s best for me and my baby, and now I’m not afraid to admit it I really need help I’m desperate. Whatever you can donate no matter how big or how small will make a massive difference to me, I just need a miracle or an angel to help me out of this mess. If you’ve got this far, thank you for taking the time to read this and even if you cant donate hopefully can understand the pain in my heart on a daily basis, and I just ask you say a little prayer for us, and hopefully there will be a light at the end of the tunnel for me.

I wish you much live and happiness

 

Thank you

 

https://www.paypal.me/justCa

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Money for Council Tax

I recently have been struggling financially due to the person who I share a studio with being unemployed and unable to help me financially with the rent. That leaded to not being able to pay for the council tax. The amount that is due for me to pay has now gone up to over £1.3k which is impossible for me due to my financial circumstances. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thank you very much.