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.

Last Updated: March 12, 2019

Involuntary Long Term Disaster

I need help. I can’t keep living like this. I don’t want this to be the end.

My story is long, a near 2 decade disaster from childhood.

Currently I am living in the house I grew up in. I am on food stamps. My house has holes and fire damage, my vehicle is falling apart, and it the last thing holding my life together.

My mother made a range of bad decisions when I was growing up, leading to a terrible childhood. Drugs, mental and physical violence, etc. My step dad treated me somewhere between gold and dirt, depending on the day. I was able to shrug most of it off thankfully. I spent my teenage years trying to hold a job for a small amount of life and freedom and simultaneously juggle my grades. I managed to acquire a truck for 500$ during this time, which I still have today. Sadly, it no longer has a floorboard, or a reverse, water comes in through the roof, and is quite loud. My stepdad was sent to prison during this time, which put my mom into a state of depression, despite the levels of abuse. He later got out, and wanted to get custody of his 3 year old from another state. Through a strange set of circumstances, they moved out (although not very far) and left me the house. Meanwhile, my friend and I started college. He moved to the town, but having my own house at this point I stayed. I kept my grades up, going for engineering, but failed miserably towards the end of the semester with no sympathy from the professors. I was a commuter, and kept being snowed in. I couldn’t stay with my friend, there was no room. The truck wouldn’t make it that far and there were no vehicles to borrow. When I retook the the failed classes that Spring, both February and March hit with more snow. Failed again. One of my professors actually told me to give up, another told me the pictures of snow and ice I sent to him “were fake.” I switched plans and went to a community college that was local, to get general classes out of the way that Fall. I took a few local classes and online classes. I didn’t receive my books until October. “They’re on back order” was all they would tell me. I had already begun to fail classes, and was losing steam being nearly two years into college. I took the exact classes again that Spring since I already had the books now. This time, because of my GPA, I no longer had financial aid and had to pull out loans to pay for classes. Believe it or not I failed again because the online classes came with a serial number that was expired, and could only be used the previous semester. It took over 2 months to receive a new set for completely new unopened books. No explanation, apology, or ownership was ever given from either college after these events. I decided I was through with college for now, I had had enough, and set out into job territory to pay back my debts and get my life back on track.

During all of this, the drugs and issues with neighbors and family never ceased. My mother and step dad still fought. My grandma began to have liver problems, but thankfully my mom lived close enough to take care of her. My mom lost her job. The step dad never had one. My cousin actually began stealing insulin needles from my grandma, and would rob her of medications at times. I didn’t know this at that time, we thought she was misplacing them because she was developing dementia. My grandpa eventually caught him unlocking the deadbolt on the backdoor so he could slip in when my grandpa was gone.

I did manage to get a job and began paying off my debts. I decided I would have to rebuild my savings account to go back to engineering school. I had made plans to take my house off the grid, whether by hiring someone for a grid-tie system or building my own solar panels. I even purchased and expensive amount of materials and equipment over the course of 3 years, deciding that off grid would be a better choice. But when things were finally starting to look up, disaster began to rain again.

My grandma passed away. Everyone in the family had lost a piece of the glue that was holding it together. Then, a few months after, I lost my job.

Savings was beginning to dry up searching for another. Thankfully during this time period I did have some small scale off grid equipment set up, and had put in a wood cook stove my grandma had left to me. It’s firebox is small and has to be loaded about every 2 hours, but you’ll survive if you have wood. The moment Spring came around, my second car that I had bought blew a head gasket and now has a warped head.

I went with my mom and only my mom that summer to visit family living in another town (military family) not too long after that, being as I had nothing else to do, hadn’t found a job yet, was near broke, no car, and it was nice place to stay and visit for a few days. We stayed over the weekend. We came home and arrived at night. My little brother wanted me to stay overnight and play video games with him, him being about 9 at the time. I decided to walk back to my home that morning since it wasn’t too far, and upon arrival terror struck.

A nasty smell crossed my nose on the way up, something terrible had happened. I opened the front door, and couldn’t believe what I was seeing. It had burned.

Upon inspection through the overbearing heat inside, I thought to myself that my equipment had caught fire. To my surprise, it wasn’t there. It was missing. Gone. Stolen. It was arson.

To spoil an overbearing heart wrenching story, my family and the neighbors were the ones who had done it. Not only that, they actually went back for more AFTER they had been interviewed and signed a statement of being guilty, two more times!!! The family who did this was my cousin who robbed my grandma, and my step dad. My cousin took the wrap for everyone, signed a statement, and refused to say anything else, but the step dad and the neighbors were nowhere to be found despite no proof of them being guilty. Word around town said otherwise, everyone knew the story of what happened. But no one knew why. I still don’t. They didn’t take anything worth anything, and everything worth something burned. It didn’t make any sense. To this day I still wonder why.

I had to move in with my mom, penniless. The truck no longer works. The car I had purchased blew and head gasket and now has a warped head. Coolant pours out quicker than you can get to water. My stepdad, as I had said was gone, he had left mom for another woman and was nowhere around. He actually went to prison for burning his new girlfriends garage, and was so high that he told the firemen that he did it for insurance money, and that if they didn’t say anything he would cut them a check. The police were beside the firemen. He didn’t go to prison for my arson case, but life works it’s ways. My cousin was now in prison as well. The neighbor who helped apparently pack up and left town, and has not been seen to this day which is fine by me. My mom had officially checked out mentally, and was now on disability. I’m stuck taking care of her. I found another job, began to save money, and managed to purchase a new used car to get back and forth. While working at my new job, my friend that had went to college with passed away from a drug overdose.

At this time my half sister turned 18 and needed a way out of a bad situation as well. I began to drive her back and forth to work and college, she is doing well there with a 4.0 GPA. Despite pulling four 12 hour night shifts a week, I was driving her during the day to both work and school. I began to break down from no sleep, with sometimes as much as four extra trips to town during my 12 hours off during the daytime. Mind numbing and back breaking, but anything to get her out of the situations I’ve dealt with for years. We both pulled out loans, she got a cheap car and I began to repair my house. At least the structure was still there, but it had to be gutted. I managed to buy a few cheap appliances between paychecks. Just when things were looking up again, her mom’s car broke down. So she let her mom borrow her car for a few weeks. Shortly after, I lost my job. I’ve now went back to driving her around full time, because her mom drove the car with no oil. The car was ruined.

I am stuck on food stamps, my last car is failing, and I am driving the wheels off to get her back and forth to work and school. Worse, she took her cat to the vet recently and now owes another $400 that she had to put on a credit card. There isn’t enough to pay more than the occasional oil change, because she pays the bills to keep my lights on at home. The struts are out, the sway bar is broke, it has oil leaks, and the tires are going bald. My house is still in poor shape, there are still areas covered in soot, it has roof leaks left over from before I owned it that my step dad knew about and never repaired, but also failed to inform me about until the leak had already caused massive damage behind the wall and floor. The rest of the house is still unfinished. There are holes in the floor and in the walls that didn’t burn from fights when they lived here. My mother is disabled. My sister is being worked to death, and between her extra work to pick up hours for bills and school there is no room for me to work. It is nearly an hour into town for both. If I find a job, one of us will be without a car. If my car gives out both of us are out of luck. She will not be able to go to work or school, I will be in the dark. I need help. I can’t keep doing this. I have never been able to get ahead since becoming an adult, I’ve had multiple times of barely scraping by and once again I am at rock bottom. I’ve fell in a hole and fell through the floor of that hole. Please help me. I am intelligent. I am a decent and good person. We both are good at managing money. There are few jobs, and fewer with a flexible schedule. I’m trying to make ends meet. I’ve only ever been given bad hands of cards my entire life. If you can find it in your heart, please help…I can’t even leave this place.

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Last Updated: March 12, 2019

Lose to live

To Whom it my concern,

I don’t what to let my name know or my family known as I am begging for help, since last year my family have been struggling financially how it happens I will say that at first everything is okay, struggling but surviving. We live in New York use too as the place become more expensive rent cosign 1500 dollar my husband have anxiety disorder and cant keep work for so many reason. He was doing what he can to work for low income job or easy job whenever his anxiety triggers i just don’t know how he was struggling to be not a burden to me, I have 3 kids and we are surviving, as time went on we have to start taking some help and no one to run to for food daily necessity my income and my husband income is not enough for a family of five to survive. By then we started using credit card for some relief. Its frustrating how to survive with credit card IYF I am still thankful as we can use it in exchange or not having food at all. I not having any cash on my wallet and we going to the deli with my son he would ask mommy can we buy candy. I would just say lets wait for daddy or tell him that we cant buy as we don’t have enough money for the month and months to come. We migrating to different sate hoping to cop with the financial instability we are having in New York with full credit card dept, personal loans, Car loans for a much lower cost of living. But now we are on the edge struggling more i just don’t know how can we survive don’t get me wrong we are okay when we left New York the income is okay on the new state but the one that was attacking us now is the dept we have on credit card, personal loans it hits us hard and now we are waiting for some relief on income tax but then, I just received a letter stating that our account is on review! and they need another 45 days as they have to do it manually. Who can i run too i cant ask my family as i still owe them money this life for us is getting way out of hand.

Who can help me in the end I ended up posting in this page, I called the IRS earlier if they can expedite my inquiry for as we need the money or I am afraid that we will go negative and being homeless. I have been seeking in the internet for help and other program and such I am too scared to ask as this is very unsecured way i need to protect my family. And ho i ask for help. Sorry if you will now know a lot about us, We are just another struggling family over millions of struggling family out their. but if help come I will gladly fully accept and fully thank you for your help. Thank you.

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Last Updated: March 12, 2019

Sober Man Needs Help

I am not going to lie, I am a alcoholic. I have been sober for 9 months now and plan to stay that way. I never drank a drop until about 4 years ago. I all started when I found out my wife was cheating me then left for on of her Coworkers. So one day I decided to buy some beer to drown my sorrows. It seemed too help so one thing led to another and began to drink everyday. Beer led to wine and wine eventually led to liquer. I finally hit rock bottom after my mom past away and start drinking even more. Sneaking a drink at work everyday also, which led to me loosing my job. Drinking cause me to loose my house, my car and my job. I am not proud of what I became and I know I have only me to blame. But I am trying to better my self and change my life. My problem is I do not have a vehicle to get back and forth to work. It’s hard to find a ride back and forth to work and end up losing the job because I can not find ride. Anyway I was hoping some one out there might help me come up with the money to get a dependable use car and help me turn my life back around. I am not used to asking anyone for anything, swallowing my pride to even ask. I am not asking for much maybe around 3,000 to just get a dependable car to get back and forth to work. Anything would help if someone finds in their heart to help me. Please help be able to get to work and get my life back

Thank you for your consideration in advance

donations can me made at: https://paypal.me/jeffh488

Last Updated: March 10, 2019

The Infinite Creatively Broke

Truth be told everyone has a story of some sort and I am sure that there is someone who is going through something worst than me. However I know for a fact I spent more than enough of me always trying to keep my head above water because I see someone else doggy pedaling if that makes any since. My parents weren’t the richest but I will never identify us as being poor. I’ve always been told appreciate what you have in life and work for what you want more of. The reason why I say that we weren’t poor is because my family was creative. We made ways in life by being creative. Leading up to me creating the name Creatively Broke. In so many ways does that name become many different aspects of life for me. There were times my mom and dad couldn’t afford to get me and my siblings the best name brands but my mom would hit up the Good wills, salvation army’s, thrift shops, yard sales and flea markets and buy us things and usually come home and customize it til the point that no one cared that it wasn’t Nike or Jordan. It was just dope! To this day I still shop at those same places for myself. The Good Will is one of my favorites. The name also hits home because we were broken in so many other ways than financially and the way that we painted over it you wouldn’t have noticed anything was wrong and I still do that to this day. We had government assistance growing up and I didn’t even know it because my mom really hooked up food like we ate with the rich people. Little did we know that she would coupon and stretch the food stamps to do it. Or save packets of condiments from our few times of eating fast foods and use them instead of using the stamps to buy them. She taught us all these things and I think me being the youngest I definitely took more of it because not only did I have her teaching me but I also had my dad and all my older siblings showing me things they were able to pick up as they grew up so I not only had the best of both worlds I had the best of the universe. Throughout life I was always very creative. I love art. Any art. I wrote poems and songs, i painted, I danced, I acted, couldn’t carry a tune but still love to sing, I would cut up bedazzle bead up and everything my clothes .I always was doing something to make something better but I never felt like I could do enough to make myself better. I spent majority of my teenage years scared and confused because I didn’t know what my purpose in life was supposed to be. I seen how smart my friends were, how talented they were and the colleges they were getting accepted to and I was just there. I spent most of my 20s the same way, I would take a few classes here and there and work here and there and just kind of wait out my life with no clue on what to do. Even after I had my son I still didn’t know what to do with my life. I just worked came home and just did what I thought I was supposed to. My life changed drastically when I found out my mom has COPD and extremely malnourished because of psychological issues, I literally decided to give up everything to help take care of her including my apartment at the time, school and my job. My siblings said they would help when they could in between their lives as well as financially if I needed. As time when on things became so hard, my mothers age and state of mind started making her mean and she would say things very hurtful to me and my son and of course I have trained myself to know shes sick and also began working on my sons understanding but it was still hard managing the two. I felt so helpless and at times my siblings didn’t hold up their part of this so sometimes I had to pawn things I had and stuff like that to survive because the check that my mom was getting literally is only enough for the basic necessitates. I managed to pull through every time. Even started side hustling painting shirts and I taught myself how to make flyers on the computer and sell them to people. Of course me not having a lot of time between my son and my mom at the time lead me to lose out on friendships and relationships so none of my relationships last long because I had other obligations that a lot of people just couldn’t seem to understand. Then I met my daughters father and he became a big help in my life helping support my business and even with my son sometimes but things went sour he was cheating and lying to me a lot so I had to leave that and brought me right back down. I decided to continue to take time to work on myself . When I started doing that business started picking up a little bit so I was able to have a bit more freedom and go more places and enjoy a bit of life. Yet again things are shutting down for us and truth be told I am so beyond tired. I do let people know when I am hurting from time to time but then there are times I hold it in because I don’t want anyone to feel what I feel. But I feel like now if I don’t cry out for help I will never get it. RIght now we have a small home in a bad neighborhood literally two people across the street from my front yard were shot and killed last week. There have been times prior too that where bullets were heard just ouside my window and I would rush to put my son and daughter on the floor and then attempt to lay my moms fragile body down on the floor as well. After a while I’ll get them back in bed or on the couch and I keep a brave face til I am alone and break down. I feel like most of the time this is my fault because I should of been smarter about my life and made something of myself sooner and we would have a nice place and car to get around and stay out of places like this. There is mold throughout the house that we have called about and we contact the housing authority and they come on their own time. I don’t allow my kids to play outside of the house because people walk around smoking and with guns out all the time and some of the other kids are just a bit too much for me so I will typically try to find them parks around town or take them to like fast food restaurants to play. There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel guilty as a mom and as a daughter. This month on the 14th I will be turning 30, and we are only on the 4th day and I feel like giving up everything. Everything. My two beautiful babies and my mom. I feel like at times someone else could do them so much better than I can. Truth be told I am not even sure why I am writing this . I am not sure if I just need to get it out of my mind or am I asking for help. I don’t know. I am not sure.

Last Updated: March 8, 2019

Son of a Suicide

I suppose I have to dance for you people before I get any kind of humanity. Okay. So here it goes. I was born to a poor family. We had nothing. We never went on vacation. I never had a birthday party. I never had anything of substance. I was born the only child of two punk rockers who didn’t much care to have a child. I was beaten up and molested by babysitters and their kids. I watched on as my father got drunk every night, and verbally abused my mother and I. I’m not going to lie, I feel like nobody gives a shit. Period. My mother and father were very selfish, very self-centered people who only cared about getting drunk, high, or laid. As a child, I watched on as they criticised each other. As they focused all their energy into their fucked up relationship. I was just some kid they had to deal with. I was never once made to feel special. I was always the one to break up their fights. Well, the fight finally ended when my drunk father left us one day to fend for ourselves. Not like he was bringing in any money. He was a drunk and lazy and entitled. He lived off of my mother, paid no rent, or bills, and this was my father figure. Someone who couldn’t fucking stand up and go to work. I just don’t have the patience or time to justify asking for this financial help. Please. If you have a heart. I was born to a crazy family of idiots and assholes. I am an only child. Shame on this personal level could not be felt by siblings that simply did not exist. I was alone. I AM still alone. After my upbringing and solitude and the out right abuse and molestation by people who were supposed to be my babysitters. After years of torture and years of neglect, and seeing the waste side of this fucking planet Earth, when scum procreates and has offspring of their own. I just wanted to have a nice and normal life without all the horrors that I have endured. My father left us. He sent me suicide notes in the mail. He showed up multiple times after he left. Once he had a razor blade. He held it to his throat and swore he would kill himself right in front of me. He showed up at my job. When I was 17 years old, and he told me he was going to kill himself in front of all my coworkers. Mind you, this was after he had already shown his drunk and depressed face around my high school graduation. This was after he had almost died in front of my eyes on multiple occasions. I just want to fucking kill myself after the lonely and depressing life I have led because of this man, and because my mother pretty much disregarded me ever since, as the bastard child who came from this messed up relationship with my father. He did kill himself. He jumped off a bridge in my hometown. It made the front page of my local newspaper. BODY FOUND read the headline. Suddenly, every secret shame I felt was public information. My father was dead. They had a picture of him in a black body bag on the front page. I still, to this day, have to drive over that bridge, and remember what it means to me. My whole life is at the bottom of that bridge. My mother, she moved on. She doesn’t care about me. I find myself wrapped in a cocoon of degradation and just what kind of butterfly do you expect me to become? I seriously just need some money because I now have two children of my own, and I’m all screwed up mentally from these horrors. If you are giving out money, and need a story to motivate that process, let me tell you. I never even had an opportunity. Not one single fucking chance at a nice and normal life with happiness, or friends. My children, to be honest, I’m divorced because my wife cheated on me. I am raising two boys, by myself, and I am not even 100% sure that they are my boys. I fucking hate my life, and if that isn’t a prerequisite to asking for help, I don’t know what is. I am broken. I am hurt. I am under immense scrutiny of those other people in life who still have two living parents, and don’t know the first thing about suffering or loss. Just imagine every single greatest moment in your life, and now imagine that you are me, and that those great and happy moments and memories do not exist because of how terrible reality is. When you are not rich. When you are not special. When you’re alive because two assholes didn’t use protection. Imagine your father commits suicide, as mine has, and then your mother says shit like she’s done with you. That she hopes your father is burning in hell for how YOU turned out, because of HER poisonous relationship with him. I mean, just give me some money. What the hell? I do not see how me telling you all this should be the only reason you would even consider helping me. Life hurts. It’s unfair. Friends become enemies. Family becomes enemies. And all the death and destruction in between. While YOU got to have normal people raising you, and YOU got to benefit from that by not being so mentally screwed up that you were able to succeed. I will never be happy. EVER. But I am alive. I am a father. I do live on planet Earth and have responsibilities, no matter how justified my sob story is, a landlord isn’t going to give a shit. I still have to be normal when it comes time to pay my price for living even a baseline life with minimal food. We never do anything as a family. We never go on vacations. We never even go out to eat. I live a very secluded and horrible life and I just want a fucking chance God damn it! Help me! Help us! I didn’t get a free car, a free house, a free ride. I know that a lot of you did. I know that so many of you had a great childhood. You were blessed with great friends and better opportunities. Stuff that I could only dream of, you had handed to you on a silver plate. I want my fucking turn! I want to have a nice and normal life too! I am asking, begging, pleading for help. Everyone is fucking dead! Nobody is left. I need help! This is so unfair! People who are terrible, awful human beings get to live these wonderful lives, and full lives, and they just can’t even comprehend someone like me who has always known he was NOTHING special to ANYONE. To be honest with you all, without immediate help, I see myself dead in a year. I see my children carrying on this legacy of immense shame and guilt and becoming losers because my parents were losers who turned me into a fucking loser. I still have hope. I still have a little spark. A twinkle of everything will end up okay in the end. I don’t know why the hell that is.

I just want the same chance awarded to all the rest of you entitled people addicted to your parents money. Sorry if this sounds cyncial. In my experience, people who know nothing of personal horror or grief have a grand old fucking time laughing at the misfortune of someone like me. And I just can’t shake the feeling that begging people like that for a hand out is just going to lead the way to further mockery. Furthering my disgust. I want, truly, for one well off person with money to hear my screams of torture, and help me. I can’t wrap up 32 years of my life into one neat little ball. I can only tell you that it was a nightmare, it’s still a nightmare, and I would do absolutely anything to have had the privileged life that some of you have. I wanted to be a famous actor. A famous musician. I have talent. I just don’t have one friend in the whole world. I’m DYING here. I’m going to shoot myself in the fucking head if I don’t have one fucking chance!

As of right now, I am negative in my bank account. My kids think everything is going to be okay. I don’t know how to tell them. Boys. Life isn’t made for us. We are the losers of society. We are poor and meaningless. And they will find out. They will know, we aren’t part of any community. We aren’t normal, regular people. We are the ones who get talked about. We are the ones who get left out. Not because we are secondary citizens. But because our own family, what is left of them, simply doesn’t care that we’ve had nothing but horror. Nobody wants to talk to us. They want to talk about us.

Paypal.me/audiomenace

Last Updated: March 8, 2019

£8,000 worth of debt… please help me

Hi everyone, first of all thank you for spending some time reading through my situation.

I’m currently 15 weeks pregnant (which i am over the moon about) yet i can’t help but let my financial worries get the better of me.

Over the years i have taken out loans, credit cards and a phone contract which i managed to keep on top of until the day i lost my job. My credit limit increased slowly overtime and was automatically paid via Bank, so unfortunately i didn’t even realise how hard it would be to recover from until i started to miss payments. My life just went downhill to the point where i couldn’t even afford to get myself food to eat. my debt is constantly increasing because i can’t pay anything let alone the ‘monthly minimum payment’.

I am constantly being charged unpaid Direct Debits via my bank which means the very little amount of money i receive monthly (£180), around £85 is taken to take me back into my overdraft, so i can only use the remaining £95 to cover essentials, after this i am left with maybe £15-£20 if i’m lucky, which means i can not afford regular repayments, i try to save as much as i can but being in this situation is one of the hardest points of my life.

I know that this is my fault, I’ve always read about the dangers of credit cards & borrowing money but i was in a stable job for 5 years where i never thought i would end up in this situation.

I just really need some help, I’ve never wanted to ask strangers or depend on anyone other than myself but i am at the point where i have nothing else i can possibly do.

I just want to be able to get my debt to being somewhat manageable, so even £10 to help me get closer to covering a minimum payment would be so helpful to me!

Thank you SO much to anyone who can help, i am extremely grateful, hopefully one day i can pay it forward.

I’m new to this website so i am unsure if people are able to comment, but even any advice to help with my situation would be fantastic, it would be great to hear from people who have been though financial worries and how you resolved it as right now i am clueless on what i can do to help manage this in the best way possible.

My paypal link is paypal.me/hannahlouiseb26

Last Updated: March 8, 2019

Alone, Away From Home

My name is Marianah and I am asking for financial assistance. I am embarrassed to do this but with the unexpected events that have occurred, I don’t know what to do.

I was in a relationship for almost 8 years and I left my established life and family, in south Texas, to follow someone whom I though was my future. I moved to north Texas, the Dallas area, to move in with my boyfriend, whom was already living here. From the start, we agreed to go 50/50 on all the bills and everything was great the first year. However, the last few months he was unable to meet his part of the bills so I was forced to take funds from the little “backup” money I had, about $3000.

About two weeks ago, I found out my boyfriend has been unfaithful to me and we ended things. He left me to worry about the shared bills we had (rent, car payments, utilities, etc), along with leaving me alone, as I don’t have any family or friends here. I paid rent today, which was paid with the last money I had in my “backup” funds. I have a full time job but get paid biweekly and my paycheck does not cover all the bills that I will now have to pay on my own, which is about $2600 monthly.

I feel defeated and embarrassed because I have never been the type of person to ask anyone for anything, especially money, but I am stuck right now and I need the help. I don’t want to ask my my family for help because I know my parents are barely making ends meet and they have done so much for me already. I have two sisters who are going to school full time so they have no means of helping me out.

I really hope my cry for help is heard and you find it in your heart to help me out. I just need assistance to cover me this month and the next. I feel like that’s enough time for me to search for a permanent resolution for my troubles, like searching for a roommate or a second job.

I am am attaching photos that will hopefully help with my request. The 1st photo is a monthly list that I do to organize my bills. The 2nd photo is the proof of paying my rent. The other additional photos are just confirmation of my bills due.

I really hope to hear from you soon.

https://www.paypal.me/loveyoubigtime

Last Updated: March 8, 2019

In the Hole Because of Back Injury

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I hurt my back November 2018. this was just the icing on the cake with what I was currently dealing with.

My parents told our family that they were divorcing a week before. this put me deeper in the hole of the depression I was already dealing with. my back was hurt during work, but I could technically still work because my occupational doctor deemed that my injuries weren’t so bad; I could still do most of the motions in their standard check. it was a Thursday, I believe, where my depression was too much to handle. i contemplated committing myself to the hospital because of my suicidal thoughts.

I was not compensated because I took a month and a half off in order to work on my mental state. I have an amazing boyfriend that has tried supporting me as much as he could, but we both don’t make a lot of money. I was able to get back to my job after going to the chiropractor and occupational medicine, getting doctor’s notes from both of them and closing my L&I case. It hasn’t been the same, though. I don’t have a savings account anymore, I have $600 in credit card debt, and I owe $645 collectively from this year and last year’s taxes. I really don’t want to have my boyfriend to pull from his savings to take care of my debts because that is the only safety blanket he has.

I have been trying to sell all of the stuff I do not need and also donating plasma so I can afford gas to get to work.I just want to get out of the hole so I can build m savings back up and maybe start an IRA with my credit union since I work with a small business. I was put on different anti depressants after visiting the hospital. Since I only had suicidal ideation instead of having a plan, they told me to see a counselor. I was on escitalophram, but now I’m on trintellix. instead of $10 a month for my medicine, it’s $50.

I just need a miracle. If you want to know more about me, don’t hesitate to email me. https://www.paypal.me/crcb24

Last Updated: March 8, 2019

Hit a really hard point in my life.

Hi, My name is Dan, I’m 21 and I am from the UK, I grew up with a fairly poor and dysfunctional family. When I was younger I was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome and struggled with getting the support I needed which led me to attend three separate primary schools and a specialist boarding school. I’ve had many jobs since turning 18, Short term jobs which only last a couple months at a time, I struggle with communication and certain tasks which has made it hard to keep a job. At the moment I am unemployed and still living with my parents, Being in and out of work has put me into a little bit of a debt and has caused me to be depressed and suicidal, I’ve not had much luck with relationships either, I was with someone last year but she left me and I don’t know why, I lost my last job at the same time, I’ve gone a couple days at a time hardly eating or not eating at all with only 10 pound a week to spend, I’ve lost so much weight since leaving boarding school, Nothing seems to be getting better everything is going so fast for me to catch up, I was meant to pass my driving test and get driving but I cannot afford it and now I’m at the point of giving up to drive even though it would open so many doors for me, I have a car already which I managed to get saving from my job seekers money, I’ve applied to hundreds of jobs but no one wants to hire me, I’m really struggling to carry on, I really hate asking people for stuff and it took a while for me to find this site and actually post on here but I’ve run out of options and I really really need help, Family is not there for me and I have no friends to turn to, Just want someone to care about me and tell me everything will be okay, Sorry my texting is all over the place i don’t know exactly what to say and I can’t explain good, I just wish I born as a different person, A different family, Had a different life but I’m stuck and need help, So I hope someone out there will help me, I’m not asking for loads of money, I’m grateful for a couple quid because I know how hard it is to get money and how tight money is I never knew this site existed I also don’t know what image to post but I’ll be honest about my debts, In total my debts have reached around 5000 pounds and I have no income, I’m trying to spend the least I can on clothes and food, My parents don’t help me or cook for me and I’m not allowed to eat their food, If you have managed to read all of this then I’m so grateful for you taking the time out of your day especially if you’re some one upper class as I wouldn’t think anyone like that would listen to me or even care about me I don’t know if I have written everything and I would leave an email or something so I can be contacted but I don’t know about it but thank you for reading, I wish everyone the best thank you.

https://paypal.me/DanZisk

Last Updated: March 19, 2019

About to be homeless and in debt with a 1 year old

Hi guys
I came across this website via my google search for how to get together money when needed.

My back story is that a couple of years ago I was in a relationship with my baby’s dad, (now ex) loans and credit cards were taken out in my name and since discussing with the companies of said loans they’ve told me I have to pay it myself. On top of this I’ve been asked to leave my current accommodation in the next two weeks. I have no deposit. I actually have -12p in my bank account until my child benefit comes which is next week. I’ve never begged for anything in my life and up until now I’ve been hard working and always paid my way. I’ve always had a job until I was forced to resign to take care of my child full time as I couldn’t afford childcare and my ex partner refused which is why this is quite embarrassing but I’m asking if anyone has it in their heart to help me out in my time of need. I know I would if the tables were turned but unfortunately this time it’s myself and my 1 year old daughter that are suffering. My debt amounts to £3500 and due to this I am unable to get any sort of finance, credit or loan to cover my living costs.

Im so ashamed of myself for being in this position in the first place.

My Paypal is PayPal.com/chloeandaoife

thank you for anyone who can help x

Last Updated: March 7, 2019

Sometimes I Feel Like I’ve Been Hit By Lightening

Ever hear of that person who can be hit by lightening on a clear day? Unfortunately, I am that person. No, I was not actually hit by lightening, but bad things seem to come my way no matter how hard I try to make my own destiny, or pray for something different, or work hard. Nothing I do seems to change that. If you know of a cure, please tell me!

At the end of January 2019 I was rear ended while driving home from work. I was stopped in traffic and was hit extremely hard by a 16 year old who just got her drivers license. I’ve been out of work since, and currently have no time frame for when I can go back. Unfortunately, I got a concussion, so I’m having symptoms from that – such as confusion, exhaustion, severe back pain, etc, not to mention the two hernetiated discs in my neck from the accident. I am also having extreme dizziness, so I have trouble keeping my balance when standing up, which has caused me to fall many times, and is a concern for worsening the concussion. I started vestibular physical therapy this week, and have to do that for three weeks before I am able to do any other type of physical therapy for the other injuries. This means I’m not going back to work until minimum of April 1st.

Most people have sick time saved up at work, specifically for times like this. I, however, do not. At the end of 2017 I got whooping cough. It didn’t end up being whooping cough, it was a sub-type of asthma that doesn’t respond well to most asthma medications. But I tested positive for whooping cough, so that’s what we went with. I used a bunch of sick time between December 2017 – April 2018 trying to deal with that issue.

Right when that issue was starting to get cleared up – around Easter 2018 – my foot started swelling up painfully. Eventually in November-ish 2018 I was finally diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. The swelling in my foot turned out to be from that. Let me tell you, when they say rheumatoid arthritis is painful, they’re not lying. This car accident has severely inflamed the arthritis in my spine, and since I also have mild scoliosis in my spine, the two together have greatly aggravated my back pain.

Due to all of these issues, I’m out of FMLA, as well as paid time. I’ve been attempting to get some type of disability with my job, but they only have long term disability – and that’s only after going 90 days unpaid. Sadly, even though I can’t afford it, I’m well on my way to those 90 days. Geico – the other driver’s car insurance – won’t help me with bills in the meantime. I do have a lawyer, she’s saying it’s going to be about 6-8 months for some type of settlement through Geico.

Currently, however, bills are piling up that I have no hope of paying. Before the accident I was already behind on my mortgage due to medical issues. Since the accident it’s only gotten worse, and now they’re threatening to foreclose on my house. I have just over two months to come up with $8500, plus my other bills also, in order to save my house. I’ve asked my family for help, but they have their own bills and aren’t able to help. I would love to be able to handle this on my own and take out some type of loan to deal with it, but after an extremely nasty three year domestic violence relationship which basically ruined my life and my credit, I don’t qualify for any loans.

This website says to be honest, so why not tell the rest? I also had thyroid cancer, and suffer from issues due to that, such as gaining weight easily. Since I’ve been on bed rest since the accident, I have gained about 30 pounds in the past month. The extra 30 pounds has also caused me to have trouble breathing because of my asthma, and I’ve been having to use my breathing treatments more frequently. I’m not supposed to get up and move around a lot, since I’m a fall risk, so the oxygen in my lungs just sits there and causes me to have more frequent asthma attacks.

To be honest, I’m a mess right now. My life, my finances. Basically everything. So anything you can give helps. Every dollar, quarter, or dime, would help a lot. If you can’t provide money, that’s ok, I know times are tough. I’ll take prayers also to whichever God you worship. They’ll make their way to my God eventually. Thank you so much for reading my story. I appreciate you all.

www.paypal.me/AlyGleason

Last Updated: March 7, 2019

Desperate Times

As the title states, I’m currently experiencing desperate times. I’m responsible for taking care of my mother and usually we manage to scrape by each month as I’m also attempting to pay off her debt and my student loans. Taking care of my mom is my greatest priority because she worked hard as a single mother to provide for my siblings and I, sometimes working up to 3 jobs at once just to ensure we had food on the table. She was diagnosed with breast cancer a while back and continued to work through chemotherapy and radiation despite the fact she was extremely ill and in a lot of pain. Her main job fired her after years of dedicated service following her asking for a raise in pay. Now it’s my turn to make her comfortable. Unfortunately, her health is very poor and she no longer has insurance. Medicare has yet to “kick in” and the costs of her medication and dr visits have left me in extreme financial distress. I am very behind on our phone bill which will be turned off tomorrow or the next day if I don’t pay $379. I have utility bills and next months rent to worry about as well. Currently, we are low on food and I only have about $35 in checking which is supposed to provide for over a thousand dollars in bills. I applied for grants with the government and my options were very limited as it appears to them that I make decent money when in fact my funds have been exhausted towards medical expenses and keeping my mother comfortable. I do not have an extended family to fall back on and due to student loan debt and credit cards being run up I have not been able to secure a loan. This is a last resort. I thank anyone in advance who may decide to help for their kindness and generosity. One day I will pay this forward. The photo attached is of my favorite picture of my mother when she was young.

https://www.paypal.me/kellyjward

Last Updated: March 7, 2019

Divorce

I filed for divorce of last year 2018, I suffered enough verbal abuse from my husband and I didn’t want to be controlled anymore. After, filing my husband drained all the money out of our joint bank account and for the 8 months he refused to give me any sort of money even though we went to court. We have a son who is diagnosed with Autism and my husband does not support him at all.

With little money that I have along with financial debt to pay I need some sort of help. I tried calling my credit card company to see if they can help lower my interest rate and to my displeased they didn’t care. I’m not the type of person to go online to neither ask people for help nor ask people for money.

We have been to court numerous times this year in 2019, but my husband still refuses to pay any sort of alimony to me. He picks and chooses what he wants to pay me for which is nothing. He owes me 2 months of spousal support, which I would have been able to pay my bills with along with 2 months of cell phone bills that he feels that he doesn’t need to pay. My parents are very old and not able to assist me anymore due that they are having their own financial hardship.

My job before any of this happened I worked with Special Needs Children diagnosed with Autism in a school. I started to look for jobs to help financial pay off the debt, however it’s more difficult then I thought it would be after not working for 3 years. I just need help in paying off some my debt, which is due the next two weeks. I’m not the type of person to ask strangers for help, but now I’m in this crisis I don’t know who else to help. I have asked my friends first and they couldn’t assist me.

If anyone could help me get through the hardship that I’m enduring at this time would be very greatly appreciated. If you can donate to me at this link: https://paypal.me/kittyaloha

Thank you

Last Updated: March 6, 2019

Medical Equipment and Supply’s Emergency

Hello to everybody , I’m Charlie for Short . How do I start this ? Well I was diagnosed with a Arknoid Cyst the size of a Softball inside my Head well I get bad migraines I fall seizures my eye sight my legs give out I’m asking for help so I can get Medical Equipment I need badly so I’m here asking for help I appreciate everybody for reading my post and thank you. God Bless

PayPal.me/Charlie6850

Last Updated: March 5, 2019

Need help! 200$ to help get back to work

hello to whoever sees this,

I work for the railroad out of Texas and have been laid off since right before Christmas. It took a while to find a part time job until I got back to the railroad. By that time I was getting behind on bills and the money I made was just not anywhere close to what I needed. I struggled through for myself and my family, simply making sure my kids had food and rent was paid. Unfortunately I don’t qualify for unemployment, so that was out of the question to. I just paid a bill with my whole check and two days later the railroad calls me back… but they want me to go and work over 1300 miles from my house. Now I’m in a dilemma because I have no money to afford to travel that far and pay for food for myself while I’m on the road working until I get a half check from them at the end of March. I’ve been able to hold it down for my kids but now I can’t hold it down to hold it down for them anymore, and I’m heartbroken. If I can’t afford to travel back to work, I have to stay with my part time job and get farther behind until something closer to home opens up. I’ve never asked for any help from anyone. I’m 26 years old and have been on my own since the day I turned 17. I’m actually embarrassed for even asking for help but I can’t let my kids down and loans are out of the question. If anyone sees that and can offer anything it would greatly appreciated. And I will pay the amount forward once I’m back to my job and caught up on bills. I’ve always been a very giving person but now those people can’t seem to return the favor. Which I can accept. Thank you all for taking the time to read this and everyone have a blessed day, week, month and year.

https://paypal.me/absf782?

Paypal.me/absf782

Last Updated: March 5, 2019

Begging for money

I am writing you to ask for some assistance. My family has been experiencing a hardship for awhile.

We moved to Texas from Illinois in November, 2015. We lived in a very depressed area in the southern part of Illinois. We moved to help out our oldest son with his children. He was a single parent of two children.

We we’re living in Kaufman, Texas, about 27 miles east of Dallas, in 2017, when our oldest daughter got caught using drugs, including meth. Children Protective Services (CPS) got involved, and we were made temporary guardians of our 7-year-old grandson. The day she was court ordered to leave our house, our rent money was stolen. We had to move, and ended up in The Salvation Army Homeless Shelter in Tyler, Texas. We stayed there for a few months, and then went to the Hiway 80 Rescue Mission in Longview, Texas. Then in February, 2018, we moved into a trailer park back in Tyler.

Our oldest daughter went through rehab, and was allowed to get her son back. When this happened, we were still in the shelter in Longview. She joined us at the homeless shelter, and stayed there after we left.

Our youngest daughter, her husband, along with their three children moved down to Kaufman, and was staying with us. Our daughter was diagnosed with five displaced discs. Our daughter and the kids went to the shelters with us. Her husband has been in and out. The doctor’s were working her up for back surgery when they found out she was pregnant. The surgery had to be postponed until the baby was born. The baby was born on July 6th, 2018. She has gone back to her doctors to go ahead with her surgery. She has run into problems because of her being on Medicaid. We had a hard time finding doctors that take Medicaid, but we finally found a pain management physician. He ordered another MRI, and was then told that she needed to have a neurosurgeon to do surgery because nerves are involved. We have been searching for a neurosurgeon, but again are running into problems. Doctors that accept Medicaid limit the patients that they take each month. We have checked with neurosurgeons from Longview to Dallas, and none are accepting new Medicaid patients at this time. She was also told not to lift anything over 5 lbs, which means she can’t even lift her baby.

Our oldest daughter had an identity crisis and decided she wanted to swing the other way. The homeless shelter is a religious organization, and when they found out that she was in a relationship with another girl there, both girls were asked to leave. We weren’t going to have our grandson out in the streets, so we told them that they could come here for two months. One month to get jobs and another month to save enough to get their own place. The other girl moved, and our daughter and her son stayed with us. So, right now we have ten people living in a single-wide, three-bedroom trailer.

We also have a 15-year-old grandson that we adopted when he was three

It now is February, and our lease expires by the end of the month. If we want to renew our lease, our rent will increase by $35. I know that’s really not a lot, but we need something bigger. That $35 is if we sign another lease for a year, but we can do month-to-month. If we do that, we have to pay the extra $35 plus we’ll have to pay a 10% fee.

Here’s our problem. My wife and I both are on social security disability; My wife for about twenty years, and me about ten years. Our oldest daughter and her 8-year-old son is staying with us temporarily. She gets some food stamps which helps with some food. The two of them will be moving as soon as she gets her taxes (about 20 days). Our youngest daughter can’t work. She gets food stamps that buy most of the food. That leaves rent, utilities, phones, household essentials, school supplies, and personal items for each person. By the time we pay that, it doesn’t leave much.

The second thing we are asking assistance for, is a reliable SUV. I have been looking and have found some about $3,000-5,000. We are requesting an SUV because they are easier for us to get in and out. We could also use the 3rd row seating. We have not had a car since the end of 2016. The van that we drove from Illinois couldn’t pass the state inspection, and it just wasn’t worth fixing up.

My wife and I have a hard time getting around. My wife has had two back surgeries, and diagnosed with “failed back syndrome”. She has an implanted medication pump that keeps her out of pain for the most part. She still has problems walking far distances. I have fibromyalgia, degenerative disc disease in my lower spine, osteoarthritis in both hands, and diabetes. I have been developing diabetic neuropathy in both feet, but over the past few months, it has gotten progressively worse. My feet hurt constantly, but when I lay down to go to bed, the bottom of my feet tingles and and feel like they’re on fire. I just can’t walk like I used to. There is a transit system, but it takes forever to get places. We can’t afford a taxi. Usually on our payday, we get a Lyft car to take us shopping. The only time we eat out is usually on our payday, and we usually order pizza.

We have four children in school. We run into problems when one of them has a dentist or doctor’s appointment. They are in a school district that is about 4-5 miles from our home. If they have an early appointment, we don’t have a way to get them to school after the appointment. If they have a late appointment, we have no way to pick them up from school. This causes them to miss the whole day, and two of them have missed quite a bit.

So what we are asking for is some assistance with a deposit and first month’s rent. Now the trailer park that we live in has a four-bedroom double-wide trailer that we are interested in buying. Not sure of the price yet because it was foreclosed, and we are waiting to get numbers from the mortgage company. If we could get money to pay for the trailer in full, then we only have to pay for the lot, about $400 per month.

We are also asking for assistance in getting reliable transportation. Like I said above, I have found some priced between $3,000-5,000.

Thank you very much for your time.

My PayPal account is paypal.me/pdgriggs205

Last Updated: March 3, 2019

Please help me preventing ruining my parents’ (and my own) lives

Where should I start… I had never thought that a day would come when I have to ask random people for money. But it seems that today is the day, so here it comes.

I still don’t know how I should start my story. But I assume I must state my case in a way that I can convince you that I’m not just interested in easy money, or have a fraudulent intent. That I believe I can, even though it can be hindered by my insufficient English skills, since it’s not my first language.

So, I’d like to ask for your patience as well as, hopefully, a desperatedly needed financial aid that I need.

I am a 41 years old man who has been working as a software engineer for the past 20 years. As such, you may imagine I have sufficient income and savings to avoid resorting to such a desperate measure. But while it is true that I’m still earning decently (in my country’s standard), I have no savings whatsoever but only debts and my income is utterly insufficient to provide a due installment.

The reason why I have fallen to this status is because of my parents. My family was not so bad off when I was young, but we were hit hard when a nation wide financial crisis happened in 1997 and my parents have never recovered from that.

So since the early 2000s, I have supported my parents with all my income. As a result, I’m still a single and living in a cheap rented room which is slightly larger than 3 square meters (or 32 square feet). With amount of money that I’ve given them, they should pay up all debts and make a decent living.

But they have quite a skewed notion of the priorities in life, and they are a bit obssessive of things like health and security too, so I suspect they have been using up all my money on things that I find have little to improving the quality of life or are even utterly useless.

But that’s not why I’m asking for a help now. It wouldn’t be fair to ask for money so my parents can squander it. Using all my income to support my parents despite of their unwise spending habit was my own decision, so I know there is no one but myself who is responsible for it.

You may have find it difficult to understand why I have allowed my parents to destroy my financial basis, especially if you are an westerner. In many Asian cultures, parents devote their own lives to give better opportunities for their children and in turn, their children are obliged to support them when they can no longer work. My parents have done more than what other people do in that regard, so I feel I owe them for what talents I have now.

However, I have tried to reason with them whenever I can. I talked, argued, beseeched, sometimes even threathened to make them more reasonable with their spendings (which is normally at least 3-4 times more than what I spend myself). But the conclusion I reached after all these failed attempts is that there is absolutely no way to change their mind without completely ruining my relationship with them, and subsequently destroying their lives.

I simply cannot do that. So I decided I should just keep providing them most of my income until I can hopefully, make a breakthrough in my career. It seemed to work, even though I had to live quite miserably for that, until recently. And now I will tell you why I’m asking you for a help after all these years.

As I said earlier, I had frequently asked them to cut down the expenses and apparently it seemed to work because they had been asking for less money for quite a while. But it turned out that they just felt too sorry to ask for more so they began to receive credit card loans. With my being the sole source of income for my family, it’s a recipe for a disaster of course, so now the debt has snowballed to an amount that I can’t possibly anymore.

So, now I am desperately trying to control the damage until I can reach a stable balance once more. I’m trying to cut down my own expenses further – my parents promised me to do the same, but that cannot be relied on – but any such measures would take some time to help me get back to a stable financial basis again.

It’ll need about $30,000 to pay up the credit card loans and I expect I may have a chance to do so in a 6-12 months timeframe. But from the next month on, I will have to pay the installment which will put me in an about $25,000 deficit.

I don’t fancy all my financial troubles would melt away as soon as I post this on internet, nor do I suppose online panhandling to be a long term solution for them. I just hope to get some aid while I try to weather this storm without having to irreparably damage my relationship with the parents, and without destroying their sense of self esteem which would make what remains of their lives a living hell. So, I earnestly ask you for what small help you can give for that purpose.

You may wonder why I don’t simply abadon my parents, or declare that I won’t help them anymore. Or some may ask me if I still find such a life – a 41 year old bachelor living in a 3 square meters box, with little hope for future – worth living.

I can’t say I have been a great child for my parents, except for providing them all the money I have. But still I can’t stand a thought of utterly destroying their lives because of me. From my experience of knowing them for the past 40 years, either going bankrupt and homeless or damaging their relationship with me would undoubtedly ruin their lives for good.

And even if I have an intention to cut down my financial support for them, I don’t believe this is the right time to do so because it won’t save them from going homeless anyway, while it may prevent me from going bankrupt.

As to the other ‘option’, well, I’m not usually suicidal despite all the gloomy tnings happening in my life. However, I have to confess that at this point, I can’t deny that sometimes a death seems to be a respite, when I feel totally exhausted from all such tnings that I have to bear. But an irony is that I can’t even take my own life because of my parents even though they are the cause of most of my troubles in my life, for it would mean devastating them both financially and emotionally at the same time. I don’t have a religion, but whatever state I would be after I die, I don’t think I can leave this life knowing what would happen when I’m gone.

I don’t have any extravagant dream, like becoming rich or powerful. I just want to have a chance to have a family of my own, and lead my own life before I it’s too late. I still believe I could be a good husband and a father to someone, and a positive contribution to the society if I can be given a chance. Many think I’m a multi-talented person, because I can program, design, play an instrument, or write convincing social or political commentaries.

I don’t intend to boast, but I just want to say that I believe I still have video games to create, or books and songs to write before I die, which would make me believe my life wasn’t totally wasted.

I didn’t know how to start writing this but somehow I did. Now I have little idea as to how I should end it – would this be enough to convince people that I’m not a lazy, or fraudulent person who wants some easy money? Have I painted myself to be an incompetent fool whose life is totally controlled by his parents? I don’t know…

But I can clearly see that I’ve already written a wall of text which should have undoubtedly tired anyone who is still reading this. So I will just stop it here.

So, thank you for reading all these. And if you decide to help me financially, I appreciate your kindness very much and please send it via:

My Paypal Link

Last Updated: March 3, 2019

I need help for health and financial reasons.

Unfortunately I am in a situation that makes me resort to means that I never thought would be necessary, but sometimes we have to surrender to the evidence.

I have been for about 2 months with a health problem, osteo-necrosis in the hip of the right side, which makes it impossible for me to work at the moment, derived from the pains and limitation in the movements.

I have done a series of tests, to confirm the extent of the problem, the last one I did, was an MRI, the result of which I do not yet have, and the consultation with the doctor will be on February 28th.

What makes me come here to ask for help is the fact that unfortunately what social security ends up paying for incapacity to work, is 65% of the gross salary, and for this purpose food subsidies are not counted, and the premiums of performance, which usually correspond to 30% of my monthly income.

Which means I get less than 50% of my usual monthly income.

I came to this situation because about two and a half years ago I had a health problem that led to surgery, which eventually absorbed all the savings my wife and I had, and even had to use all of my 2 credit cards, and to date we have been unable to rebalance our finances.

To make the situation a little more complicated, my wife discovered last year that she has fibromyalgia, and the follow-up in the public system is so bad that we end up having to resort almost exclusively to private health services.

And the medication is not exactly cheap.

What I come here to ask for at the moment, is no more than help to pay the credit cards, since it allows that the value that we do not have to use to pay the same, be used in the day to day, and the payment of bills of health.

We need to pay the credit cards (and the intention is not to use them again!) Of approximately € 2500,00.

Thinking about the possibility (or probability) of having to stay at least another month without working, to balance the accounts of this month, and the month of March, € 550.00.

So the total amount I ask for is € 3050,00.

This value will allow mental rest, and focus on physical recovery.

I spent the days doing the math, trying to figure out where else I could cut, to face up to the responsibilities, and I came to the conclusion that I would have to cut further in food, which would not be healthy, and would make my condition worse. health, as well as the ability to recover.

That is why everything I write to you, I appeal to your understanding and help.

The only thing I want is to get back to work as fast as health allows me to.

It is enough that the medication that I am doing (a derivative of morphine), allow me to endure 8 hours sitting, without being torturing, that I return to work.

Then, what will follow, I prefer not to think, because everything indicates that only the situation can be resolved through surgery.

But, one thing at a time …

I thank you with all the force of my existence,

Miguel

paypal.me/miguelbafonso

Last Updated: March 1, 2019

Help the missionary

Good day. My name is Skeeter who lives in Jamaica and is presently in Jamaica. The Holy Spirit told me to leave my job and become a missionary. My job is to go and tell the people of Jamaica about the judgement that is coming to the land of Jamaica. I left my job and is living my faith. Please I am asking you to donate to me to help me with my day to day expenses. After telling the people of Jamaica about the judgement I am to go to Canada. In order to go to Canada I need a bank statement and visa. My bank account is empty. Please pray about how much the Lord will have you donate to me.

Email davisskeeter4039@gmail.com. phone 1876-310-8122

Last Updated: February 28, 2019

My Family Needs Help

Hi! My name is Dannielle and I am currently a full-time student at Harold Washington College in Chicago. I am pursuing an associate in arts and then a bachelors in music when I transfer (hopefully). My biggest goal is to make it in the music industry so that I can support myself, my family, and also give back to those that have helped me and those just like me.

About three years ago before I came to Chicago, I was homeless with my Mom and my four siblings. Sometimes we stayed in hotels if we could, other times it was in our minivan parked in front of her storage unit. It was rough because my siblings (except for the youngest) have Autism ranging from moderate to severe, and they need constant attention and supervision because of their special needs. Most days consisted of repeated bathroom trips because they can’t efficiently say that they need to pee. Because of our sometimes constant stays in the van, my siblings began to regress and lose most of the skills they had learned living in a normal environment. Very stressful for us, but for my mom especially.

My mom has Idiopathic Hypertrophic Subaortic Stenosis (Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy) and heart failure (She was born with heart disease). About five months ago she was told that she needed to be on the heart transplant list because her heart is beginning to give up on her.

Going back to shortly before I moved to Chicago, I was around 20 years old. My mom and I have never really had a good relationship. I don’t know how to describe it other than being stressed out. I was abused from the time I was in kindergarten till I moved out and while I can’t exactly say that I am healed (I need a lot of work), I can say that I understand why my mom was always so angry and sad. She didn’t have a support system and the people that would sometimes help always judged her and blamed her for things that were never her fault. I didn’t make it any easier, although I tried.

About six months before I came to Chicago, because of us (my mom and I) clashing heads, my siblings were put into foster care for two years before they were returned to her and as ironic as it may sound, my mom was able to get an apartment (signed for by my stepfather) and a job while my siblings were in the custody of the state. And soon enough, after my siblings were released and the case closed, my stepfather refused to sign another lease for the apartment thus rendering my mother and siblings homeless. Again.

And I don’t know what is happening as of current because my mother would rather not speak to me.

So, currently, I stay in a transitional youth shelter that can be shut down any day because of lack of funding. I’m sure there’s another reason but I’m too worried about where I might be able to stay if that does happen. I am struggling to find a job that I can maintain while I go to school and the thought that constantly weighs heaviest on my mind is: how am I going to get my family out of that situation? Which doesn’t make sense because I’m not doing much better if at all?

I have dreams and hopes for the better but I feel as if I am stuck and am unable to find the right solution.

I am afraid that I won’t be able to give my mom the life that she deserves. I know that she doesn’t have much longer and that scares me because she has done so much for us only to have her health get worse because she struggles. I want her to know that I do care. Even if I don’t always know how to express that.

Please, if you have read this, I thank you again for taking time out of your day to read my story.

I’m not so worried about myself, but if you can help me put my family in an apartment or house, I will be forever grateful. I just want to give them a home so that my mom doesn’t have to stress as much.

Here is my paypal link: paypal.me/Love032010

Last Updated: February 28, 2019

Time to Heal

First, I would like to thank you for the consideration to at least read my request and hear my story. Even if you decide not to help me, I do appreciate the time you spent on me. It’s the time that we cannot get back. However, money does come for those who take the initiative to go and find it. This is where my problem begins……

You see, a few years ago, I met a man who seemed to be the perfect man. He was caring, loving, considerate, compassionate, I could go on forever about all of the wonderful qualities that he displayed the first few months of our relationship. I almost instantly fell head over heels in love with him. I thought, finally I found the man I would spend forever with. If I only knew then what was in store, I would have never even glanced in his direction.

We did everything together as I fell deeper in love everyday. But, before I knew it, things were not so happy anymore. Of course this happen after I’m was so in love that I would do anything to keep him. It started out with little things like the laundry not being done or dishes needed to be washed. He started having strange work hours and money would disappear without a trace. I could feel his dishonesty and manipulations almost to the point of making me ill. These things were merely small inconveniences in comparison to the love I felt for this man.

Maybe I should have mentioned that I am an empath. Let me explain this since so many confuse empathy with sympathy. Sympathy is you feeling sorry for someone in their time of hardships. Empathy is actually feeling what someone feels as if it were your own emotion.

I could feel everything and these emotions grew stronger and more often than usual. He kept me in a state of disarray. He would do things to make me doubt myself. Little things at first, gradually introducing new ways of control so as to not let me know the deception at hand. Now this was very confusing seeing how I could feel these deceptions. He had a way of making me not stress about that and believe what he told me to be true. Of course whenever I believed otherwise he would use his Braun to bring me to submission. It became a nightmare before I had a chance to enjoy they honeymoon stage.

Whenever we would argue he would not allow me to leave his side. If I tried to run he would block the door, tackle me or catch me and drag me back. One time I got to the yard and he dug me back by my hair. He wouldn’t allow anyone to interfere. I should also mention he claimed to be a MMA fighter and he looked everybit the part. He could bring someone to submission with a just a glare. I however have never seen the first solid thing about him fighting ever. I barely knew much about it while we were together, I was always too scared to look.

On my birthday one year, we had plans to go fishing in a skiff boat. This is the only thing I wanted to do for my birthday. Our roommate was wanting to go eat a buffet. Well me being an empath, I really despise crowds. I told him thank you but I already had plans. Well those plans fell through the minute he left with my roommate at seven in the morning and I didn’t see them again until eight that evening. I was left with no phone, no food no cigarettes, and we were in the middle of the country. Talk about a terrible way to spend your birthday. When they came home and I was complaining about him leaving me it made him angry and he left again until the next day. His stay home at that point was only about an hour. Just long enough for us to argue and him leave again.

This is how the relationship was it was complete hell every minute of everyday. If he had a bad day I was definitely going to feel it. He torched me mentally constantly. I wasn’t able to go anywhere without him and if I wanted to go with him he would say things to make me stay. He would tell me that whoever was driving would not drive safe or tell me I had to get ready after he was ready and a minute later tell me I was talking too long so he would leave. I barely ever left the house and if I went somewhere without him he would never let me hear the end of it, even for trips to the store. I rarely had money he would only give me just enough for the absolute basics sometimes other times I would gave to go without. Those times without were the normal.

Everything I said to him about the things he did that I disliked he would turn around and say the same thing to me as if I had done these things. I would literally get done saying it as he was opening his mouth to say it to me. As if I didn’t say it first. He twisted words and situations around and made himself sound like the victim and made me out to be a monster. So not only did I get abused I was looked upon as if I was the abuser. I was hated among my peers because of his manipulations and lies. I couldn’t call my family because he would threaten me with my children or loved ones.

He was evil in these ways of mind control. I was merely a shell of my former independent, strong-willed, strong minded individualized self. I was now empty, confused, self doubting and scared. I tried to leave time after time.
It would take everything I had inside myself to get the courage to leave. Whenever I succeeded, I would jump at every sound or movement for weeks until he would find something to play on my emotions in order to get me back in his sight. As soon as I would see him I would be puty in his hands and he knew it.

One day he had started an argument that he would blame me for. It was one of the worst arguments we ever had. He began with his braun and started to choke me. I couldn’t breathe or talk, he was really trying to kill me. I got away somehow but he had choked me so badly he blackened my eye in the process. I went out of the room to where our roommate was in the kitchen. As I was facing our roommate he came up behind me and hit me and brusied the side of my face. I turned to him after he hit me and smiled but our roommate was there so h didn’t do anything else. I managed to escape that night and was hiding in the ditches everytime I seen lights. This was the last I ever really wanted to be around him that way again. He made me feel like he would kill me if I would stay and I wasn’t ready to die even though I would bet for death most of the time.

We dated off and on for almost a year after that but never really got back to the way we were. He was losing control over me and I was finding myself again. The more I found myself the farther out of my mind he went. I now live by myself in a one bedroom trailer in a well populated area. I have lived here for a few months with my mother’s help. I have been trying to adjust to being a normal member of society but I am not doing so well. I never knew the problems a person who has been abused has. Most of the time I don’t leave my house. I hide inside knowing I can’t get anything accomplished without leaving. I stress when the bills are coming due but can’t seem to make myself leave. I have been sitting in my house for over a week without power and still can’t even get the courage to go to a friend’s so I can at least shower. I have been taking cold showers instead. Now my rent is past due and my mother cannot help anymore. I am getting better everyday but not enough to make it yet. This is the why I’m an writing today. I know I’m not going to make it out on the streets it I can’t make it in my own home I just need a little more time to adjust and I have no options left. My power bill is $248.51 plus a reconnection fee and I’m not sure, but they are going to require an additional deposit to have it restored. My rent is $500.00 and it is almost time to pay it again. So for under $1500.00 you can help a healing woman survive for a little longer. Any and all donations will be greatly appreciated. Thank you again for taking your time to hear my story.

Last Updated: February 26, 2019

seeking assistance for car payment due February 28th

Hello all,

This is a site for financial hardship, similar to “Go Fund Me” and “Random Acts of Kindness.”

The categories are pretty specific. My needs probably fall somewhere between “Car Repairs” and “Emergency Money,” but it’s more “emergency” than “car” at the moment, which I’ll explain.

Essentially, due to not being able to work for the past month due to lack of phone, I am seeking help making a payment to Ally Financial due on February 28th in order to avoid my car being repossessed. The specific amount due to them is $298.45 by close of business on the 28th (Thursday).

If you can help in any way, I’d be grateful – I’ll include my personalized Paypal link below.

Many thanks for taking the time.

Best,
Stephen

paypal.me/stephenephillips

Last Updated: February 26, 2019

Military Member Needing Help Post House Fire

My name is Skyla Child, and I am a military member in the ID Air National Guard, and have been serving for almost seven years. I joined to get schooling paid for back in 2012 when I was 18 years old. My first career in the military was Client Systems, and I routed fiber optic cabling, phone lines, etc. My unit shut down in 2014, and I switched career fields to Photojournalism through my bases Public Affairs shop.

I am an only child and my dad works out of town, so it’s just my mother and I in Boise, Idaho where I live. My dad had cancer in high school and is still paying off a lot of medical bills and loans, so they are unable to help me. In March of this year, the house I was living in with a roommate burnt down while I was out of town on a snowboarding trip. Below is the link to the news article published, where I am listed as the “roommate”.

https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/nampa-family-displaced-following-house-fire/article_53a8f11e-0a11-5f27-8e15-e2f8b408496a.html

I saw only one photo before seeing my home in person, and it didn’t seem so bad. However, when I saw the house in person, it was destroyed. My room was not burnt down, but had immense smoke damage to all my clothing, my bed, and everything I owned. The entire kitchen and living room burnt down, and destroyed almost everything I owned – and I had just canceled my renter’s insurance at my last rental. I lost couches, appliances, a brand new vacuum, all my groceries, rugs, all kitchen items, etc. As one person, I only received $175 from the Red Cross – and unfortunately, there aren’t many programs in Idaho that help military members that are not Active Duty status. Actually, there aren’t many programs at all that I’ve found that help with anyone who isn’t a disabled Veteran, an injured military member, or Active Duty status. There are programs out there, but unfortunately if you have an emergency and you aren’t Active Duty, you kind of get the short end of the stick.

My roommate and her family put together a GoFundMe for our house fire, and included me on the page. However, as for me, I only received $1,200 (which only paid my deposit on a new home to live in), out of almost $7,000 they received – and did not ask for any furniture. On top of this, any burn fund money from local fire departments went to them as well.

All in all, I had to fork over my own money and slowly replace everything I owned. I am in severe debt now, as I took out some payday loans like a stupid young adult (to be frank). This was not a smart decision, nor did I think I would ever get in the position I am in now where the calls are never ending and I am frantically trying to find a way to reverse my bad decisions post house fire.

I owe money on my car payment that is behind, and still have to pay my rent of $1,200 by myself every month, along with all my other bills. I would say I have been living paycheck to paycheck, but even my paychecks aren’t enough to cover all my bills and expenses. I am drowning in these high interest payday loans and seriously regret that decision. I have no idea how I am going to get out of this mess, and even though I made bad financial decisions with these high interest loans, it was only to get by due to the fire and replace necessities for living.

If there is ANYTHING that you can do to help, I would be forever grateful. I am reaching out, and have never asked for handouts before. I’ve had a steady job since 14 years old, am going to college, living alone after the house fire, and trying to be financially independent without asking my parents for help – as they truly cannot afford it.

I do have a full time job outside of the Air National Guard, but unfortunately I work for a bank – and I’m so afraid that if I don’t get this taken care of that I will lose my job due to my credit decreasing and my financial hardship. Credit is so important for military and also my full time job, and I would hate to lose my job and get into an even bigger hardship.

I appreciate your time reading this message, and below is my email if needed. I’m happy to provide photos of the house fire, bank statements, copies of bills and loans I owe on, or whatever is necessary to show that my story is accurate and true.

Thank you so much for reading, and for considering to help.

paypal.me/skylachild

Sincerely,

Staff Sergeant Skyla Child

Idaho Air National Guard Photojournalist

Last Updated: February 26, 2019

Just need a little boost up to start a healthy and happy life with my GF

Hello!

I’m actually from Russia, so I had to use VPN to access this website, so if it’s against the rules and gonna be discarded or removed because of that, it’s fine, I guess.

I don’t really know yet how to approach with my situation, since it’s probably different from what a regular american or European is used to with how they rent/lease/purchase an apartment, but still, I guess I’ll just describe it the way it is.

So, first of all, I have a girlfriend I really love and want to share my entire life with, but the problem is… there is a distance of 2500km between us, so it’s really problematic for us to even meet for a short period of time. We’ve still done it and seen each other several times already, but getting a life together is still a box we can’t check off our list, not on our own (and it’s been almost two years already now). (It’s the internet how we’d even met, in case anyone wondered.)

It’s the other part of the story, though, that sheds light on the reason why I have to resort to begging(for)money in the first place. So, the girl has a flat we could possibly make our home, but it has to be fully paid in order for it to become her own property. She currently lives in there with her mom, who actually has an apartment of her own but just wouldn’t move out and is totally against us being together. Now, if we manage to accumulate enough money to cover the remaining lease, it’s gonna be just the ticket for the two of us to a happy life together, and we’ve already done, like, 80% of it, but not without the girl’s father’s help, who had done a huge lot but is now on the verge of death because of cancer (he literally ignored his illness just to pay whatever money he could get for that darn lease) (the mother is of no use at all, just because she’s a b**ch, and I mean it), and without him now we can barely even cover the interest rate, which is 12% of the remaining sum per month.

The remaining sum at this point is ≈2,985$ if converted into dollars, with the interest rising by about $350 every month, which is still a lot, even although both her and me [Read more…]

Last Updated: February 26, 2019

Broke college student looking for some help to get through the semester

I am in my Junior year in college pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science as well as in Mathematics. My expected graduation date is Spring 2020. I would like to mention that I already have a job on campus but it does not pay as much as I was hoping. I am also seeking an internship this summer that will hopefully rid me of my financial problems. I am a very ambitious student (and person in general) and I am really excited to graduate and be able to live life to the fullest on my own two feet.

I would also like to mention that I have never been as desperate for money as I am now. I pay for my tuition and I live in my own apartment and pay rent. As we all know, the United States college system really sucks the money out of students. I have tried asking my family for help but they declined not out of malice, but out of the fact that they do not have any money to give me. I have also tried borrowing money from friends but none of them are willing or financially stable enough to be able to help.

Till now, I was living fine paycheck to paycheck but recently, my expenses caught up to me and I am really tight on finances. I have not been able to keep up with my credit card payments and that really hurt. As all college students have to do at some point in their college career, I am living off of ramen noodles which is much better off than a lot of the world so I am eternally grateful.

The people I work for are very far behind on their paychecks so my last paycheck was a lot less than I was expecting and that hit me hard as there were a lot of expenses in the last couple weeks.

Some more about me; I live alone in a tiny one bedroom studio apartment (image included) that is perfect for a college student that studies a lot late nights.

I am seeking help in paying off my credit card and being able to get myself enough cheap groceries and more ramen noodles to sustain me till the end of the semester. Any help would be much appreciated and I will be sure to pass on random act of kindness to others that are in need. Thank you in advance to anyone that donates and may you find happiness, joy, and peace in your life.

My Paypal link: paypal.me/MasroorB

Last Updated: February 26, 2019

Poor, hungry, and in serious need

Hi. My name is Adriel Pacheco. I am an 18-year-old girl from New Bedford, Massachusetts. I currently live bouncing back and forth between my currently divorcing parents. My family is poor to begin with but by my parents going through this divorce, they are making themselves worse off than they think they are. Food in both houses is very scarce and I can barely get the three meals a day in that I actually need. On top of that, I’m currently wearing hand-me-down clothes from both of my parents in combination with the very small amount of clothes I have for myself. I go to school every day wearing either my dad’s baggy, oversized sweatpants or my mom’s too tight shirts and skinny jeans. I’ve tried my best to get a job somewhere but nowhere will hire me no matter what I do. I’m trying to pull at straws here now by coming a website like this and hoping that someone out there will actually give me some money or something in order for me to try and turn my life around. Sometimes I feel like just giving up and not really doing anything at all. I feel that going to school is just a waste of my time because all that happens when I go there is that I get bullied for the clothes that I’m wearing and how I look. I still go to school every day though in the hopes that someday my education will pay off and get me the job that I always needed to not rely on parents or others like I am now. The point is, I can barely do anything on my own or go anywhere because of the restrictions that my parents have put on me with this divorce. I hope that this actually reaches people out there and that they believe in me as much as I try to believe in myself. In desperate measure situations, I have sold my body out to men in order to try and scrounge together some sort of income in order to try and make my lifestyle better, but it does no good in the end. I’m tired of being a washed-up person in a sea of many people who are on dry land. Someone just please help me with my situation, and I swear on myself and to you that someday I will repay the favor to you and pay you back any and all that you give me through this.

My PayPal link is https://www.paypal.me/AdrielPacheco . Please and thank you for any contributions you can make towards my life.

Last Updated: February 26, 2019

Teacher in need

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST...
I really don’t know what to say.. I have worked for over 30 years.. the last 15 as a school teacher.. I took this last school year off to have a needed knee surgery and a needed back surgery.. After deciding to take off starting in August 2018, I also found out that I have cysts on my thyroid which are being monitored by biopsies..I also have a knot in my breast..also being monitored.. I have no insurance since I can’t work, however, I am native American which allows me some access to medical.. I was in a bad wreck in 2010 that damaged my back and neck.. I have undergone 2 neck and 5 back surgeries over the years since the wreck..and STILL worked.. around the surgeries and therapies… at this point, however, my condition has worsened to the point that I cannot work without a major back surgery to replace the damaged discs.. this has already happened in my neck.. I have had teacher insurance up to this point, now that I do not, my referrals to a neurologist are being denied by the tribe..SO.. I don’t have insurance to get the surgery, and I can’t work without it.. I am TOTALLY in a standstill… no fix.. no income…
the last back surgery, the discs were so inflamed, the surgeon knicked my spinal cord.. I just want to work.. to TEACH… to INSPIRE.. I am only 47 years old and living with the pain is NOTHING compared to not being able to return to work and being a productive member of society .. I am struggling to pay bills.. I can’t afford to go to a doctor without having insurance ..I just want a SHOT..A CHANCE at getting help.. a chance to once again give back .. Depression is setting in and I know this isn’t me, I’m the one that ALWAYS sees the bright side… I hope SOMEONE out there is able to help.. I even have 1000’s in student loans to pay.. I just want to be able to get through a day again and still be able to stand up and walk on my own..without feeling like my body is being ripped apart.. I KNOW there are no guarantees.. but I’m just asking for a CHANCE.. help to pay my bills.. I just don’t believe I have given my whole heart to end up like this.. not from what I’ve overcome.. I’m a survivor.. I’m just strong enough to ask for help… I do have faith in God.. and believe there is a reason for this season in my life, I just have to trust…

Last Updated: February 24, 2019

Lost At Sea

ATTENTION:

This is an update of the original request with the pay pal link corrected at the bottom.

Lost At Sea

My fiancé is a marine engineer who works on a ship six months at a time. He has allowed his 7 million dollar bank account go dormant so long that it has been confiscated by the government. In order to get it back, he needs to send $35k now. The money was hard-earned through a lifetime of devotion to his work. Because of security issues, and since he is at sea for years at a time, and has no real friendships on the mainland, he has not been able to do anything about this situation so he has turned to me for help.

I have managed to send $20,000 on his behalf with my own monies and the help of a friend. This is including my 401k retirement funds and everything from my entire savings. I even took out a loan to assist in this situation. Since I am a laborer who makes under $11.00 an hour with take home pay of just enough to pay my rent and buy my food, and since I do not own a car nor a home, I was unable to get the loan I actually needed.

My life has been ruined over this situation. My fiancé’s ship has docked on the shores of Spain but he cannot leave it until he has access to his funds because prior to accepting the job he has just completed, he had agreed to a contract with another company which has already paid him 1.7 million dollars. If he leaves the ship, he will have to go directly to that company and start work for them, which is what he had planned to do before we met. Now he just wants to return the money to them and retire so we can marry and raise his son together. However, this cannot be accomplished until he has access to his account. 35k is more than I can handle. It was hard enough coming up with the funds I’ve spent already.

If the funds in his account are not transferred over to him, he will have to go work for that company without pay, for as I said, he’s already been paid but if his account is not made available to him, he will be working for nothing with no money to return home to when the job is finished.

I have asked many friends for help, but outside of one, I have no others who are able to do so. I have no other place to turn. I know asking you is a long shot, but I have been praying, no, we have been praying over this situation for months, sending bits and pieces of the fee when I have been able to scrounge it up here and there. This trial is agonizing and I wake up sick to my stomach every morning. I see no end in sight and all this while my fiancé is still working on the ship, preparing it for its next expedition.

Please, if you cannot help, do you have any suggestions? I’ve run out of ideas as well as friends and feel as though I am up against a wall. I long for my fiance to come home . . . he longs to come home . . . the heartache this is causing us both is inexplicable.

Please help me. I just want to live a normal life again without worrying about where 35k is going to come from and how my fiancé is going to get off the ship not to mention what this is doing to him and to his son, let alone me. All my thoughts, every day, all day long, center around this situation and how I’m going to get out of it. As I said, my life has been ruined.

Please help us get that money back that my fiancé rightfully earned. 35k may mean nothing to you, but it’s so extremely out of reach to me.

Thank you for reading this. May God bless you and your decision. paypal.me/QuietRider

Last Updated: February 24, 2019

Autistic Kid Needs Help

Hello my name is Nick. I am a nineteen year old male and I have been diagnosed with autism, depression and anxiety. Needless to say, due to all of these it has been very difficult for me to find a job that I am capable of as well as any job in general. I have struggled for years trying to figure out what to do with my life and no matter what I hit a dead end. I know that I should be capable of certain things but my mental state ultimately makes those things impossible for me. I’ve needed to make money for a long time but I am currently in dire straits. My mother has decided that I need to make money soon or else I will be kicked out of my home. Needless to say this has put a lot of unnecessary pressure as well as an immense amount of stress upon me. I wracked my brain for any possible idea that would lead to my success but to no avail. I was about to give up, but after thinking about what I could do I realized it would be in my best interest to find a way to make money from home. After discovering this I quickly began exploring my options and after finding out that most online jobs require experience or pay extremely poorly, I came to a standstill yet again. So I pondered about what I was good at as well as what would make me money in general, and I landed upon the idea of learning digital art and earning money from said art. I have only done a few months of drawing and digital art is in a completely different ballpark. Nevertheless I believe I am capable of creating good art, but I have a lot to learn and not a lot of time to learn it. Because of this I need to make money in any way that is available to me at the moment. I need money to buy art supplies and a work space for me to create art, but I will also need money for living expenses as well as to make sure that I am not kicked out of my current residence. I will include a picture of a drawing that I created after only a few weeks of beginning to learn art to show the potential I have for art in general. I would like to reach a goal of at least $2000 (up to $5000 or more if being really optimistic) in order to sustain myself for the time being. I understand that there’s no reason to donate considering there’s nothing I can offer in return, so I will be grateful of any donations at all.

Paypal: paypal.me/nickacevedo

Thank you for your time,

Nick

Last Updated: February 24, 2019

I am a Teenager Who is about to become Homeless

I was in fear making this, not sure about what would happen, but its come to a point where I’m really in need of financial help. I have been living in the same apartment with my dad since I was born, what I am about to talk about has been going on for my entire life and I have finally reached my breaking point. To start, I just recently turned 18, but this situation has been going on for my whole life. Basically, my father has been neglecting and abusing me since I was a child, and even before I was born he was abusing others. But before I tell you what caused my breaking point and for me to come forward about it now, I will start from the beginning.

To start with when I was born, my father would abuse my mother, even putting her in the hospital and go in and out of jail for it, he was always bailed out from my grandmother. After a certain point, my mom became fed up and decided to take me away from the constant stress he placed on us. In the end, I had to move back in with him, but he wasn’t any better, in fact, he was probably worse. He is the definition of a deadbeat, he is always gaming and never cleans anything or even having a job is apparently too much effort for him, meaning he is unemployed as of now. The state the house is in is practically unlivable if it were not for the fact that he forces me to clean everything for him. Just stating that he started this when I was only 12, not simple chores, but cleaning after every mess he made and my own, treating me as a maid, yelling at me and threatening me if i didn’t do what he said. Besides the state of cleanliness of our home, he also does not supply the food, I am usually left without food for so long until a friend or other relative sends me money so I can buy something. Now we do get food stamps for food, however, he does not use them to buy groceries, no he spends it all on candy and junk food for himself, and using any actual money he has on his video games and internet girlfriends. Going off of him not taking care of me, he also is the cause of me graduating 2 years late, he never enrolled me into school and didn’t care about my studies and constantly impeeded any work I had for his own selfish desires. Not only this, but he also has abused my cats, kicking and yelling at them as if they’re trash. With all this happening for 6 years the stress has built, and recently it has gone way too far. Instead of just insulting me and inflicting his rage, he sent it to my best friend. Now my best friend isn’t just anyone, he and his family literally take care of me in place of my father, feeding me and taking me places. They are more of a family to me than he has ever been, but they can only do so much. He went from being verbally abusive to physical, shoving and yelling, at the brink of a fistfight, over basically nothing. After witnessing this I realized it is beyond unsafe for me to stay here, both mentally and physically. And if you remember as I stated before, he has abused my mother, so seeing this gave me flashes of PTSD from that past. The very last reason is that he doesn’t pay the rent and our family usually has to help pay it, but recently they decided they’re done with him and stopped. Which means that soon I will become homeless, all because of my father. Which is why I made this, I want to hopefully save enough to have my own apartment and live on my own away from him.

I have calculated living expenses, anything will help at this point. I am very scared for myself. Than kyou for reading.

Last Updated: February 24, 2019

Searching for a blessing

Hey everybody,

First I want to thank anyone who is able to help someone and is reading this with consideration. Life lately has kicked me and kicked some more, and I’m doing all I can to keep my faith in tact, which is why today I am asking for a financial assistance as I don’t have anywhere else to turn to. In March of 2018 I was laid off from my company and due to the industry being down I haven’t had any luck finding anything until recently where I just got a new job that’s is low base abs heavy commission. The entire time I was laid off I exhausted my investment account and my severance pay. Now that I have finally found a good job, I am very behind the eight ball as my apartments have advised of an eviction and my kids have even noticed that we have not been able to live nowhere near our usual lifestyle and most days, happy to eat one meal. I want and love to work because I know in this great country I can turn myself around with hard work and if it wasn’t for that fact and my kids love I know I would not have made it this far. I don’t have any family members with large amount of money to help me and anyone who has helped me is now looking at me as if I am a burden to them which does nothing but add to the depression. So I would like to say this! If anyone finds it on their heart to help me, I assure you when I get back on my feet I will pay it forward to the next person in need and I will donate to a charity that helps people who have thoughts of committing suicide or have actually tried it because Lord knows it’s been on my mind a few times. I am not on drugs and I don’t believe in doing anything illegal to get through this. So here I am. Hoping and praying for a blessing.

Last Updated: February 23, 2019

My little brother and I want to visit Dad in Prison

Hello, my name is Natalia and my aim is to raise some money so we can visit our father in Prison.

Let me explain further:

9 months ago our Dad entered Prison in the Canary Islands.

His mistakes should not have to be payed by someone like my younger brother Alex, who misses him so much it is killing me.

My Dad is in a Prison in Spain, and he will continue to be for the next years.

We haven’t seen him since because the costs of flights, finding an apartment there, transport and such are too much for me to afford.

I am currently living with Alex and working in a full time job here in the UK, my salary is just enough for us both to survive.

I’m not the kind of person who would ask for help, but I’ve reached a point where I don’t know what else to do, my brother needs to see his father (and so do I to be honest), and no one in our surroundings can help us financially.

Please, If you can, in any way help us raise some money for this cause, I will be eternally grateful.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Natalia T. F.

Last Updated: February 22, 2019

Praying for A Future

My name is Veronica and I am 27. I have suffered hardships and pain my whole life due to mental illness and devastating circumstances. In my early twenties, I turned to alcohol and drugs, and now recently taking responsibility for past felony DWI’s from the time of my psychosis. I thank God everyday that I did not hurt anybody. I am kind hearted, giving, loving, intelligent and talented, but all the world sees online and on paper is a criminal. I want to go back to school to earn a degree in order to be in a position to guide those in similar situations and worse; however, I cannot make enough money at my low income jobs to do more than scrape by from paycheck to paycheck with no health insurance or sick days, no savings whatsoever. I am drowning and all I want to do is break this glass ceiling so I can help others find light. Im sincere. Please help me. Love, Veronica

Last Updated: February 22, 2019

Financial Assistance

I am writing you to ask for some assistance. My family has been experiencing a hardship for awhile.

It now is February, and our lease expires by the end of the month. If we want to renew our lease, our rent will increase by $35. I know that’s really not a lot, but we need something bigger.

Here’s our problem. My wife and I both are on social security disability; My wife for about twenty years, and me about ten years. Our oldest daughter is working at IHOP, but only makes $2.13/hour, plus tips. She doesn’t make a lot of tips because she works from 10 pm to 6 am. There is not a lot of business during those hours. She does get some food stamps which helps with some food. Our youngest daughter can’t work. She gets food stamps that buy most of the food. That leaves rent, utilities, phones, household essentials, school supplies, and personal items for each person. By the time we pay that, it doesn’t leave much.

My wife and I have a hard time getting around. My wife has had two back surgeries, and diagnosed with “failed back syndrome”. She has an implanted medication pump that keeps her out of pain for the most part. She still has problems walking far distances. I have fibromyalgia, degenerative disc disease in my lower spine, osteoarthritis in both hands, and diabetes. I have been developing diabetic neuropathy in both feet, but over the past few months, it has gotten progressively worse. My feet hurt constantly, but when I lay down to go to bed, the bottom of my feet tingle and and feel like they’re on fire. I just can’t walk like I used to. There is a transit system, but it takes forever to get places. We can’t afford a taxi. Usually on our payday, we get a Lyft car to take us shopping. The only time we eat out is usually on our payday, and we usually order pizza.

So what we are asking for is some assistance with a deposit and first month’s rent, and assistance getting reliable transportation.

Thank you very much for your time.

My PayPal account is paypal.me/pdgriggs205

Last Updated: February 22, 2019

Serious financial and stability/family issues

I need serious financial help. I need to be able to live on my own and away from my parents because they are serious financial detriments and always seem to try dragging me down. When I say that, it’s not to be taken lightly. My father won’t give me my social security card, he wont give me my birth certificate. My mother doesn’t work and isn’t reliable in any format she lives completely off of nothing and just sits in her room all day ever since I moved in here. I’ve not seen a day where she’s spent more than 40 minutes outside of the house to socialize or anything of that stature. The kind of aura that gives me, so to speak is awful. In no time soon do I see her working as she is completely and utterly useless in the work force due to mental issues that I also happen to have. A detailed list would be too rough to give, but the best I can give in a short span is PTSD chronic anxiety, major depressive disorder, and bipolar. I’ve been homeless 5 times in 18 years and never once was given the opportunity to grow as a person as we moved around constantly from school district to school district. I want to separate from those who have caused my issues from being irresponsible parents and guardians. I can’t ask for help from my grandparents or anyone close as most of them ironically at this moment are going through their own hardships. I have recently turned 18 as of August last year and want to take the steps to leave this awful past behind me. I dropped out of high school because of severe mental health issues and regard for my own safety in early 2018 after a suicide attempt in December. I do not have the money to cover treatment for any of my issues or any form of paying for insurance. I’m currently trying my hardest for work but I don’t have the financial assets to be able to get a car or license and make it on my own and be my own person. I have a relationship currently but it’s very long distance and I’m scared for their health as they have a bit of a mental health history as well. My father is currently without a home but he can provide for that on his own. As I said I live with my mom and I doubt they can cover me as a person when I can’t even get a job because of my father being complicated. I want to separate completely from my family as a personal decision because they only cause me problems. My father ignores me and my mom isn’t much better and cant provide for me. If I stay here I’ll be put on the lease and they’ll lose the benefits that they have. I only really have one option in this scenario. I need this to help for past medical bills at mental health hospitals and wellness centers, an apartment to myself, licensing and IDs, food, transportation, and stability. I want to leave all of what’s in the past away get the rest of my education done and get away from all the people that have only thus far cause me problems. Thank you to anyone who takes this as more than just some ‘rebel’ trying to get away from his parents and as an actual cry for help. I do not have a picture of any of my medical records as my father has them and he won’t respond to any messages I send or any calls that I can do. I have a phone plan but it runs up dry on Tuesday the 19th of February. The money I have is for survivability and transportation via bus if need be.

A picture of a card to one of the places I had treatment at is included.

https://paypal.me/Chrmoss

Or paypal.me/Chrmoss I don’t know which one works. I just copied them from my account.

Last Updated: February 22, 2019

Just need enough to eat

I didn’t have the best life as I was entering my senior year, but I was happy. I had friends. I had passions. I was starting to learn music, I was getting back into drawing, and I had just gotten a new Xbox One X. I felt alive. I felt capable, productive, ready to become an adult. I was lucky, and I took it all for granted. Because my luck ran out.

In early December of 2017, I was stricken with severe headaches and dizziness, and extreme uncontrollable sleepiness. I would sleep for as much as 20 hours a day, and getting to school became impossible. And after a time, sleep became a prison I could not escape, completely taking over my entire life, while the crippling migraines turned my waking hours into a hell I never looked forward to.

Perhaps the worst part of my affliction wasn’t the life I began to see drift away, but a secondary and not immediately noticeable affect. When I slept, I wasn’t actually sleeping. I was unconscious to be sure, but I wasn’t dreaming, or at least barely so. Even after 20 hours, my brain would receive several times less rejuvenating REM sleep that it needs to be healthy. Because it wasn’t receiving that, I would wake up feeling like I hadn’t slept in days. Months of this was taking a heavy toll. I was dying very slowly. Headaches, nausea and vomiting, dizziness, hallucinations, memory loss, vision and hearing loss, all the affects of extreme sleep deprivation were in full swing despite my life being slept away.

Now, I sought medical help. I met with psychiatrists, neurologists, sleep specialists; I had test done I certainly couldn’t afford: MRIs, home and hospital sleep studies, brain scans, blood tests; I tried several medications many of which did nothing; it was a losing battle because I wasn’t getting any answers and certainly not the help I needed.

Some things got better. I found a medication to keep me awake, and another to keep me from vomiting everything I tried to eat. And after a year I started getting good at adjusting to my reality, to literally losing my mind one excruciating, delusion filled day at a time. I could pretend the pain and the misery, my inability to distinguish dream from reality, the debilitation of my every day life was in a form of cruel irony a bad dream. Nothing more than a place I’d be delivered from and brought back to the life I’d known. I dealt with it, because I knew the only other option was to die, a thought that I’d be lying if I said didn’t cross my mind. Something keeps me going, barely, just enough. I keep going. I endure. But even though some things got better, other things got worse.

After trying many kinds of medications, nothing has ever even for a moment provided any relief from my headaches. Always that knawing, biting ache reminding me that I’m not allowed to be happy. Or, that dizziness and exhaustion that prevents me from being able to stand for periods longer than 20 or 30 minutes, and sometimes causes me to pass out. Or the hallucinations that leave me questioning my reality and afraid of my own actions. The medical professionals tried and failed to help me, and so I’ve been left with myself and the people in my life to sort the mess. Only, while my mind collapses and my body withers many of the people I trusted and cared about, many who I thought cared about me so easily turned their backs on me. I became a burden to my friends and family.

So now I’m desperate. No diagnosis, other than “Idiopathic Hypersomnolance” which means almost nothing, no possibility of working, no family that wants to take care if me, no way to afford meds and medical bills. I’m hopeless, and if there is any help that can be provided, it would mean the world to me. Even if I can get just a little bit of money that’s one more meal I get to eat.

Even the smallest donation would be appreciated to the highest degree.

My PayPal.me: jmbrooks99

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Last Updated: February 22, 2019

Help for Kelly

Hello,

I have never asked for help and I really do not know how. So here goes. I need help. Please consider helping me find help or an outlet. In 2004 I fell and broke my leg and ankle in multiple places with compound fractures. 9 surgeries in those 14 years just on my leg. 2007 I thought I married the love of my life that i had been with since 2003. 2009 i found out i had endometrial cancer that had somewhat invaded my uterine wall. I had multiple d & c surgeries and also went through hormone therapy. I gained tremendous weight. Fell into deep depression because I wanted children so badly. My husband at the time stepped out on our marriage. I forgave and forgot multiple times.. I know I’m an idiot. In 2013 we finally separated. I tried to hold my marriage together and work it out. He fled the country with is fiance (yes we were still married) to Australia in 2017 and where the Australian courts allowed him to divorce me without my knowledge. He took everything I had and left me with nothing but debt. I tried for 3 years. Now I’m in that mess with him over there. In 2015 I finally was able to have an ankle replacement because my ankle was bone on bone with osteoarthritis and i couldn’t walk anymore. In 2018 i picked up my life and moved to Atlanta. It has snowballed with many things since. I hurt my back in October. I have 3 herniated discs. I seen a terrible dr. Found a new dr that has me on the right track.. in Feb I fell and broke 2 vertebrae. Then I tore a meniscus in my knee. I’m falling apart. I have been in classes to have the gastric sleeve. I had gastric sleeve surgery july 2. My mother has had a heart attack and stroke and i had to make the choice to come home to help with her care. I know this is a lot but I need to explain my need for help. I have lost my job, my insurance, my home and my car. I have recently had a setback with a faulty gallbladder.. I have been in hospital since Monday Feb 4, 2019. When they went in to remove it they found a tear in my abdomen that needed repair. I hope to get to go home tmrw. This is a tiny glimpse into my life. I need things not necessarily material things but it would be nice to have a new pair of shoes. Any help would be appreciated any..shoes, clothes, food cards, cash app or paypal. Anything. $1 .. nothing is to small. My cash app is $kacjoc and my paypal is kellyac200 or https://www.paypal.me/kellyac200

I am a real person and in need of real help.

Kelly Stafford

Last Updated: February 22, 2019

Financially Hit; But Still Have Faith

After experiencing the flood in San Jose, CA. in 2017, I lost everything in my rental including furniture and clothes. In 2018, as my debt began to increase, I found a room rental in a housing share situation, and I decided to be a ride share driver in my mid-size 2006 SUV. It had 80k miles on it, but I needed the money to pay my mounting tax debt of more than 20k. I worked a part-time job, but without medical benefits. I worked out a payment plan, and have been making payments on this and other debt including student loans; rent to keep a roof over my head; and food to eat, as renters are not allowed use of the kitchen in the home. Additionally, I even had a little money to donate to my church for missionary work. I thought that things were beginning to turn around for the better.

In October 2018, the transmission in my SUV that I was using for ride share work became disabled, so that stopped my ride share work completely. As the season became colder, the house where I rent a room is increasingly colder. The landlord / roommate refuses to turn on the heater in the home due to rising energy rates. Mold is now beginning to accumulate in the home due to the rainy damp weather, and the sub floor is weakening. The portable heater I once owned was lost in the flood. Next, I became very sick and used all of the PTO that I had. I ended up losing my part-time job. Now, I’m 1 month behind on my rent; my savings is gone; no car; and debt is continuing to increase. Relatives have offered for me to move where they are, but they are 3000 miles away on another coast, and I have no financial means of moving this far away even if I wanted to do so (Maybe that’s why they offered… ;).

Any amount that you are able to donate would be much appreciated. I would be willing to pay it forward in some way; and whether I know who you are, or not, would hold you dearly in my heart. You may send your donation to this PayPal link:

https://www.paypal.me/YoWhirlAGirl

#BLESSED

Last Updated: February 22, 2019

Hope of a life rebuilt by Grace

Life has been an interesting journey so far. After growing up in a very dysfunctional and abusive family, I was placed in foster care. I spent 13 years bouncing around through 43 different homes, never really being able to settle and find a place I could consider home and always struggling to understand why no one wanted to keep me. I spent years in counseling trying to cope with and repair my natural personality flaws that resulted from my unstable childhood and at 18 was finally set free into the world to give it my best shot. A short time after being on my own I met David. We were both very immature still but very in love and got married in 2009. We had many struggles but we were making it fairly well and I was happy. We ended up having 3 beautiful babies together, our daughter in 2011, our first son in 2013 and less than a year after our first boy, we had our second little boy in 2014. Boy that changed life. I was a stay at home mom and we lived on my husbands Wal-Mart income and life had become pretty stressful. Our kids have always been our everything but our marriage was slowly being destroyed by the stress of trying to support them. A couple short years later, in 2017 I had a breakdown. My husband had become an angry stressed out slave to an under paying job and life of struggle and I had become insecure and unsure of everything in our lives and how we were going to survive. Our relationship had turned toxic and I couldn’t handle the fighting so we seperated. That’s when life turned upside down. I had my babies at first. I was unable to find work with no work history and struggled to find a home for me and the kids. While moving out of our family home my ex husband and his family picked up the kids for the weekend, but when I was supposed to get them back, I didn’t. I completely fell apart. I had ever been away from my kids a day in their life and all the sudden they were gone. I fell into a massive depression meanwhile my ex got a better paying job and place for him and the kids and there was nothing I could do at that point but accept defeat. The depression has took over my entire life and no matter how hard I fight I haven’t seemed to find a solution. When things seemed like they couldn’t at worse, my dad passed away July 17, 2018. He was all I had once my life fell apart and I thought id never recover. Through all this loss I was able to restore my relationship with God though and he’s shown me so much grace and guidance despite my pain. I am now on a path of rebuilding my life and determined to find a place to live so that can bring my babies home and so that I can finally have a place of peace and control over my life. My ex husband lost our kids to his family after falling into addiction so I am trying to get enough money to get my own place and be able to support my kids. I recently informed I may be getting a job I’ve been hoping for as a case aid to troubled foster kids and finally see the light at the end of the tunnel but I need to make this transition as fast as possible or my ‘s family gonna try and gain custody of kids. Without a home or decent form of transportation I will have no chance in court but my family is giving me the chance to get my own place and get my kids back without the court’s involvement if I do it soon. I believe begging for money and think working hard is the only way to succeed but god has shown that sometimes good people go through hard times and need a hand and that its ok to so for help and as someone that always has gone out my way to help anyone that has needed it despite having nothing, that maybe this will be when the world gives back me when need most. I’ve lost everyone that ever mattered to me but through it have the strength to rise above the pain and get back the most important thing I lost, and hopefully with a little grace and compassion, my beautiful babies will home with me and we will have a fresh start at a beautiful new life. I won’t ever give up on giving me and my children the life we deserve and I can can achieve! Thank you for listening and helping if you find it in your heart to do so.

Last Updated: February 21, 2019

I live in US the poorest country on earth the ugliest under Trump i want to escape to Europe or Australia please help

i got trupped in america under deepest powerty i dont have money to buy an airline tiket to escape this hell on earth.I have european union citizenship as well as US citizenship i just want out from here please dear readers trump is hell trump is evil and i lost my business and i lost all under his stupid admisinstration is all lies economy is not good is a disaster all is a disaster and i went so bad down that i dont have money to buy an airline ticket to escape this trump inposible society.I want out so badly please of course im beggging for help i would like to return to europe and forget this monstern please and begging you please help me escape this monster please the ENTIRE World HELP ME ESCAPE this monsTER please please…

paypal.me/ElectronicsRepairs

Last Updated: February 21, 2019

To entire USA since Trump came to power i went down on my knees now almost a suicider

I came to the land of opportunities 20 years ago.I had ups and down as i suffered in 2007 economic meltdown and i suffered in 2012 when i was flooded under Hurricane Sandy.Overall not a happy life but i ask my mother ( she died of cancer 4 years ago) mom do you really want to die?Because she was in a lot of pain and i see no desire in her to continue the fight .She said “nobody really wants to die but some are getting very very very tired to live.”

Now i reach that level ” i got tired to live” Trump is a monster and i start loosing acumen and desire to succeed when I realize this international liar and buffoon is a so called business man.If this is business then i got depressed.

I work 20 hours a day i have multiple talents and skill but all the people aroud me seem broke i cant sell nothing i cant get clients for my services im deep depressed.

please help me financially im banking with Chase im 1000 negative overdraft i feel my blood stopped going thru my veins i very very depressed i dont see a way out and im really seeking to commit suicide.I have 2 children but i still want to die i want it over unless a kind person a blessed person rather then spending thousands in dogs and cats feels that saving a hman life is much better option

please and please as little as you can help me… please save me from suicide i believe i want to survive but not in the situation I am.Right know all i want is TO DIE.

THANKV YOU GOOD SOULS IF YOU READY THIS MESSAGE ANYTHING IT MIGHT SPARE MY LIFE PLEASE HELP ME GET ON MY FEET …PLEASE I BEG YOU PLEASE

Last Updated: February 20, 2019

Disability Denial

I want to thank anyone who reads this because I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t exhaust every option available to me. I hate asking for help, but my life is a downward spiral and I could use a pick-me-up.

I’ll begin with the reason why I am unemployed.
Early in 2017, I was just like any twenty something male, working every day as hard as I could at any place that would hire me.
While working at a rather intense factory, I was injured and now finding a job is seeming impossible. I cannot lift more than twenty five pounds with my good arm. I wasn’t accepted for disability no matter how hard I tried to get it. Please understand that I have applied day in and day out for jobs and nothing will hire me.

I recently moved in with my girlfriend and her family and I feel like such a burden to them. All I can offer is my help around the house and I’m starting to become depressed. My homelife before moving here was god awful. My father abused me and my mother wasn’t much better.

Now, combine my physical pains with my mental disorders and you’ll understand why I believe I’m unfit for work.
I have autism and multiple personality disorder and I cannot maintain a work pace at all. I believe I would be successful in a computer field, such as live streaming or as a content creator, though I do not have the knowledge or capabilities, nor the equipment required for something that requires a powerful computer.

I’m in massive debt, unable to pay for medical bills or living expenses and I’m sure I’ll be kicked out soon unless I can start paying rent.

This is my last resort, because I really have exhausted every avenue of income and currently I am $7000 in debt to medical expenses and unable to pay any of it off. I keep getting calls from bill collectors and my credit is abysmal.

Please help in any way that you can, I would be grateful. I’m an author at heart and would love to get a job as a professional writer, but I cannot afford college expenses and I don’t even have a driver’s license. My parents were absent for a major part of my life and I haven’t been taught how to survive on my own very well. I’m asking for $10,000 for my goals. I believe that would pay off my debts to medical and help me move towards a better future.

Anything helps, even just a dollar, so please if you can donate at all, I would be so grateful. Thank you in advance.

My paypal.me is paypal.me/ShadowWolfAegis

Last Updated: February 20, 2019

I need money for my family

I’m a 37 year old man with a wife and three beautiful daughters (ages 11, 6, and 2). My family and I live in Mobile, AL and are in need of help.

In my life I’ve done everything right. I’ve never been in trouble with the law, I did very well in high school, and got a bachelors degree in chemical engineering in college. But after that, my life turned sour. I’ve had bad luck in every respect and then some. I’ve only been able to find odd jobs and couldn’t keep them because I usually worked myself out of the job. Then I had to take care of my father who had cancer until his death in 2017. Now, I’m disabled due to a genetic defect in my spine but I can’t get on disability. I can’t get disability because I don’t have Medicaid (insurance) so that I can have a doctor vouch for me. I can’t get Medicaid because I don’t have a job. I’m living inside a “Catch 22” and can’t find a way out. I make money by selling my plasma and pawning everything I own a piece at a time so that I can take care of my family. We are currently living in my mother’s old house which is falling apart and can’t seem to find a way out. I’ve put in for government assistance in every way I can find and keep getting denied. My wife can’t work due to a mental disorder, so she can’t help. My whole family is poor and most of them are making just enough to make ends meet, so I can’t ask them for help, but I have gotten to the point that I need to ask someone. I now own almost nothing, not even a car. We even had to give our cats away because we couldn’t feed them.

I know I have no right to ask for you to give to a complete stranger, but you could really change the lives of myself and my family without noticing. A donation of anything would be a blessing and could be the difference between having a life and just surviving. I’m a man that has given up “pride” in order to try and help my family. This is the reason I have posted to this site. Please help in anyway you can. No donation is to small.

paypal.me/butchbose

Last Updated: February 20, 2019

Trying to help my father.

Where to begin….

It all in my mind started when unfortunately we lost out dog Toby. He was diagnosed with GME, which he lived with longer than expected thanks to a new treatment. So he had chemo every 6-8 months I believe it was. Then one day he wasn’t acting normal, then once let out started to dig his own grave. Which is some thing i didn’t at the time know dogs do. And still to this day it’s one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. It turns out his stomach had twisted, which was corrected. But due to the muscle loss it happened again in the middle of the night. So it was at this point we had decided to put him to sleep. Watching your own father cry uncontrollably is one of the worst situations to be in as you feel hopeless. (Image is Toby that very day having his last walk with just him and my father sporting his pink bandage)

Then came to light news that my mother had got us £30,000 in debt. Which was followed by her getting a type of breast cancer. She is fine now and has been clear many years. This was the worst time for all of us, every one was so quiet. And I regrettably distanced myself from the entire situation. It was years to pay it off.

After this we moved to try and have a better life. How wrong that has turned out to be. As we went to renting my father spent some time off from working 60-75+ hours a week. Until the money ran out. But who could be blame him for wanting some time off.

Again cancer stuck again with our dog Chester, unfortunately it was to late for him. We had about 30 days until we had to put him to sleep. At least there is some comfort in thinking he is up there with Toby.

Now, our other dog Bertie just had surgery to remove a mass on his chin which turned out to be an aggressive cancer. So he is not long for this world now.

So with money being already tight it’s now not even their. And he’s just had an £800+ electric bill. Any amount would enormously help. Thank You.

https://www.paypal.me/Minime891

Last Updated: February 20, 2019

Hello friends, any help appreciated

Hello!

My name is Anastasia Bushby, I’m from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and I’m 18.

I lived with my Dad, Mum, 4-year-old sister and my dog Orlando. But recently, I have been kicked out. you see, my parents are the smartest or nicest people in the world, they are what most people would call “Junkies”.

They kicked me out about a week ago for “not paying rent” because my parents are the only god damn parents in the world who makes their child pay rent…

I haven’t been able to work for a bit over 9 months due to a work-related injury where I broke my knee in half, it was broken in 4 different places and I still can’t walk properly and the idiots i was working for ((McDonald’s)) denied the whole thing, meaning I don’t even get covered for my injury. when I’m 21, I’m going to need a knee reconstruction but they can’t do it at the moment due to me still growing which is a massive pain because i would like to get back to work.

for the past week, I’ve been living with my best friends, but her mum is saying I can’t stay much longer. I’ve gone into Centrelink ((A government-funded organisation who basically gives out money like disability payments)) and they have said they can organise something

the catch is, it will be over 2 months before I can get anywhere, so here I am now, begging random strangers on the internet for money. I feel dodgy doing it but it’s the only thing that I can currently think of.

There are so many things that I need, such as a house, food, furniture, money for medication, and a new phone, and that’s only the icing on the cake, I need

so yeah, that’s me, if you could donate to a good cause that would be nice, but I also do realise how dodgy it looks for me to be asking for money on the internet but you gotta do what you gotta do

if you want to contact me you can on my socials below
Instagram @anabushby
Snapchat @annnieanss
kik @anabushby

anything, literally anything; I am extremely grateful for, and feel more then welcome to message or add me on anything above ^^ I’m more then happy to answer any questions you may have or if you just want to chat.

Paypal – www.paypal.me/anabushby

Thank you and kind regards
Anastasia

Last Updated: February 20, 2019

Got hurt but court doesn’t care.

To you random internet stranger:

Dan and myself are looking for help. Dan had a really severe fall down the stairs a few months back and as a result, has not been fit to work for quite a long while now. However, due to the way Court orders and deadlines work, Dan *has* to make a 2000 dollar payment by March 6, or he’ll be sent to jail, regardless of how injured he is.

We’ve put together everything we have, effectively both of our tax refunds, and have come up with 800$ so far. Dan is in need of 1200 more dollars by March 6th so that he does not get sent to jail. Currently he is working with his doctors to help fix the issues he has with his injuries, but he’s unlikely to recover substantially enough to work until February of next year.

Even so the courts declared that he is required to pay this amount even though he has been working with his doctors every step of the way.

I have some money put the the side already but the 1200 is what is left. My PayPal is icefire616@aim.com. Any little bit helps in this situation. If you can’t help monetary wise a share goes a long way.

We’ve tried looking for other solutions, and have consulted with several lawyers. None of them can guarantee any kind of success that doesn’t involve us spending the money on the payment, and most of them are more expensive than the amount Dan actually owns when they’re even interested in taking the case at all.

At this point, the situation doesn’t really give us a choice. We can either pay a lawyer hundreds of dollars an hour to build up a potentially successful defense, or we can pay what the court has ordered him to pay.

We both appreciate any help and I wish that we did not have to even do this.

Best regards,

Gina

paypal.me/ginhoov

Last Updated: February 20, 2019

Homeless & needing a little help.

Hello,

My name is Victoria Lewis. In July of 1999, I was birthed by a woman who was an alcoholic, and addicted to crack cocaine. I was adopted (within my family) to a man a woman a shortly after entering the world. Aside from a less-than-strong immune system, I was able to live a pretty normally-functioning life. My father (who adopted me) suddenly passed away due to a pulmonary embolism when I was 11 years old, and he was the main breadwinner in my family. My mother and I have been trying to piece our lives back together ever since. I didn’t find out I was adopted until I was 15 years old which was due to a number of problems within my family. My mother’s physical health has been dwindling ever since I was in elementary school, but (as of August 2018) it has gotten to the point where she is unable to work. In June of 2018, she received a spinal surgery, and has not yet healed and may have to receive yet another. I’m currently a college student, and I have been endlessly searching and applying to jobs, but to no avail. We currently only receive $200 in cash assistance per month from the government, and $170 in food stamps. With my mom no longer being able to work and pay the rent since having her surgery, and myself not yet having found a job, we are being evicted from our 2 bedroom apartment (the rent was $1200 per month), which we have been living in for seven years. I am currently working on trying to secure my $1400 financial aid from my college, but it is hard as I can not provide a proof of address at the moment being that my rental agreement is now void. In May of 2019, my mother has a court hearing in which they will determine whether or not she is eligible to receive disability (ssi), in order to afford a place to live. For now, we will be staying with my sister for a while. We have been able to use some of the monthly cash assistance to afford moving boxes, and have packed all of our things, however we are currently short on cash to afford a storage unit and moving truck. I am simply asking for $250 in order to cover these fees. I also have not been able to purchase my textbooks for this semester (totaling $80, for used rentals). I am not asking for my textbook fees to be covered, I am just attempting to explain to you the extent of my need at the moment. Combined, my mother and I currently have $1.66 to our names, and are not expecting any other sort of income this month. Therefore we will not have any more money for food, toiletries, etc., until the third of next month. As I mentioned before, I am only requesting $250, to cover the fees of moving our belongings into a storage unit so that we will not have to start from scratch after this.

Last Updated: February 20, 2019

Help me, please.

I never, ever thought I would find myself here, asking strangers for money, like so many people I see at intersections where I live. Yet somehow, at this moment, I am too depressed and desperate to feel ashamed. In all honesty, I need help paying off one loan. That’s all. A loan I took out at a time just before my second son was born. A loan I took out when I though I had a job to go back to afterward. I expected to go back to my job as a chiropractic assistant after 8 weeks maternity leave, but in that time the doctor I worked for sold his practice, and I was no longer needed. In the year prior my family had to buy a new (to us) car to accommodate a growing family and make other large purchases to arrange for a new family member. This was all under the assumption that I would be going back to work.

The state we are currently in is one that doesn’t allow me to return to work, as I would pretty much be working only to pay for child care. On top of suffering postpartum depression, I am now suffering the added anxiety of bills that I cannot help pay, which might I add, is severe and has become a detriment to my family. We have worked so hard for what we have and it’s so disheartening to be in the position we are now in.

I have prayed and prayed and prayed and entered any type of free sweepstakes I could possibly in hopes that I might gain a little bit of breathing room. (I will add I never play lottery as it is a waste of money and I can’t afford to waste any money)

I am aware that $9500 is a lot to ask for, but if anyone has the kindness in their heart to help my family pay off this one loan it would absolutely mean the world to us. Of course this isn’t all we owe, but this would take a chunk out that would allow us the ability to pay off the rest. This one is the last on the list and is the one we are most behind on. They are sending it to collections even though I pay what I can, when I can. Even if it’s only $50. I know that’s not going to get me very far but in my mind at least I feel like I’m trying. I feel like I’m drowning if I’m completely honest.

Please help us, please. I want so badly to put my family in a better position to make something of ourselves. For anyone able to help who reads this, thank you for your consideration, and I promise to pay it forward for the rest of my life. It would literally mean the world to me. Thank you.

(I know it says pictures the bills, but screenshots are the best I can do. They don’t send me paper Bill’s and I would be happy to send more information so I can show more regarding my account.)

Paypal.me/am Starr

Please help.

Last Updated: February 20, 2019

Hard times for a disabled woman

Hi my name is Rose Robb and I live in Salem, OR. My moms name is Becky and shes the light of my life. Shes the most caring, loving, humble woman I know but she is the person who has also been dealt the worst cards. When she was 7 years old she was hit by a car while crossing the street to go pick up her younger brother from school. She had gotten gang green in it and was hospitalized for more than a year after(I wish i had a picture of her leg from then).
She had 3 kids that ended up being adopted and 10 years later she ended up pregnant with me. She had gotten a job at Pony Express, doing deliveries for them until they eventually closed.
She then was faced with a decision: to amputate her leg and donate to science or to keep it and deal with possible health consequences. She enlisted my help knowing that it would impact me, then 6 years old, later on in life. All I knew was that it was supposed to make my mom better and I was okay with whatever came from that.
She had it amputated in December of 2002 and it changed the direction of her life.
She could no longer walk, she could still feel the pain of her foot even though it wasn’t there anymore, she started feeling worse and worse. Imagine not being able to walk yourself to the store, or even to the bathroom. Being sedimentary most of her life led to obesity, which already runs in my family, which ultimately led to her being unable her being unable to use a prosthetic due to swelling of the amputated leg and a protruding bone (I believe is caused by an error in surgery but I’m not a surgeon or a doctor). This has ultimately led her to being unable to work.
Flash forward to 2008. My mom went to prison for 18 months for abuse of prescription medication on top of child neglect and child endangerment. My dad passed away March 2009, 2 days before his 48th birthday, from lung cancer while my mom was in prison. We both had to go through that alone.
I was so mad at her for so long. It took her other best friend dying, a woman I called my aunt, to realize that life is way too short to be angry at someone you love. My mom was and still is the ONE person I can always count on. She is not the drug addict she was 10 years ago.
But now she is homeless, living solely on a living of SSI, which is only $770 a month. The average cost of rent in Oregon for a 1 bedroom is $1,100 a month. I have been homeless with her for almost 3 years now and I’m currently trying to get on my feet for the first time since becoming an adult.

I love my mom so much. It’s way too cold out for a 54 year old woman to be sleeping in a van. I’m constantly worried about her and if she’s going to be okay. My mom is all I have.

I am setting a goal of $1,500, the amount she would need to rent a hotel room for a month, at least to get her inside while it’s snowing and freezing outside.

Thank you for taking the time to listen, and thank you for considering helping my mom.

(My paypal link name is an old joke between friends, im sorry haha)

PayPal.me/dirtymindsthinkright

Last Updated: February 20, 2019

Young Homeless Female

I’ve been struggling with homelessness almost right after high school due to the nature of my family. While homeless I’ve managed to go to college (though I didn’t get to finish), work various jobs. I injured the nerves in both my hands working for an auto part store and got nothing in return but stress and pain. Being an artist my hands are very important and I still deal with the pain of simple things like holding a cell phone. I am very hard worker but I can no longer work as hard because my body no longer will allow it as well as my circumstances. It is very difficult to keep a job because I don’t have a proper address to attach it to and just finding somewhere to sleep and shower exhausting. I’ve been a victim of abuse and violence for as long as I can remember. I’m still dealing with the till this day because I’m homeless there are things that have to deal with that most people don’t have to worry about and it’s very exhausting. I do have living family yet I don’t have any that I could necessarily turn to because they’re kind of the reasons why I’m in the situation because of the abuse in things like that so I am all alone. I don’t have kids I never been pregnant or anything like that and I’m not on drugs or anything and I haven’t been so it’s kind of hard for me to find programs of things that will help me because I don’t fit a certain category of people, people look at me differently. I’m really all out of options at this point and I have a storage I’m taking care of and one just got broken into and I can’t really do anything about it because of money and my other one is on the verge of getting sold because I couldn’t afford to pay the last month or two and I’ve paying one for about 3 years now. And I’m about to lose things like pictures and things in the little things that I cannot buy in the stores. They were given to me by my great grandpa that passed away right before I graduated high school. I need the money to keep the little things I do have together and for food I’m just so I can shower and things like that so I can get a start possibly getting a place so don’t worry about where to sleep every night. I’m asking for $2,000 so I can start living my life before I turn 30.

paypal.me/LadyEliska