This is our story; My wife and I are in our 60s and our children have all moved away from home. We are both retired and are on a fixed income. Most of our children have moved to distant states to where we do not get the opportunity to see them very often. Travel expenses and hotel prices prevent us being connected with our children and family in the way that we desire. Not only do the kids live far away, but my wife’s family lives in Vermont, and we rarely get to see her siblings or her father of 86. We miss our children terribly and my wife really needs to spend time with her daddy. We both lost our mom’s a while back. We feel as if there is an empty hole in us, that can only be filled by Family. We see the opportunities for time together slipping away because of our financial restrictions. None of us are getting any younger. And we know that our health over time we most likely decline, preventing us from travel. I am diabetic and my wife has RA, of which either or both could cause us major issues over time. So, our time is NOW. We have decided that we wish to purchase a small travel trailer. We want to have many journeys visiting family and seeing this beautiful country.  So much to do and see. Unfortunately, we have been trying to save for this small Travel Trailer and can’t seem to fit it into our tight budget. We’re not looking to buy anything fancy. We are hoping to buy a small pull along 14’ Camper. But even a used one would cost around $10,000. And, we just don’t have that kind of money. By the time we saved that much it could be years. We have wonderful dreams of travel, but it may only stay a dream. We will both hate to look back at our lives someday with sadness and regrets of dreams unfulfilled and lost opportunities. We desperately need your help. Please, if you are able, help us fulfil our dreams. Help us raise the money to purchase a small camper. Your generosity would be a true blessing to my wife and me, and our families. We would, more than you know, be forever grateful. Thank you all, so very much, for helping to make our dreams come true.

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Hello,

I am requesting financial help with a Medical Bill Balance of $8,430.09, State IRS Payment Balance of $1,600.00, Car Repairs of $1,000.00. I am a single female working odd jobs like cleaning, planting flowers, and cleaning up yards etc. to support myself. I am renting a room in a private home in which I was paying $800.00/month in rent. I can now only pay $200.00/month to the owner – and lucky for me the owner has not kicked me out…but I feel ashamed that I’m not able to pay off my bills in full.

I have been paying for several years on my medical bill (over $10K out-of-pocket even with insurance) which was due to having an ablation of my heart done after experiencing several episodes of a heart rate above 200 despite taking a prescribed medication.

I am also making a small monthly payment to the State IRS related to a back tax penalty that wasn’t taken out (even though I requested it be done and was assured that both Federal and State Taxes were taken out of an emergency 401K Fund cash-out due to the company I was working for decided to downsize at the beginning of November 2014…although I reported the cash-out on my taxes the state didn’t notify me until 5 years later! I had to sign-up for a payment plan (oh yes interest is being charged too) and have been threatened that money received from anything of value (like my car – and that’s the only thing of value I own) that I might sell would be taken by the state to pay the balance of the debt.

I have maxed out the one and only credit card I had to use to pay for gas, food, and prescribed medication (I have less than $200.00 in the bank) – and now my 2012 car needs repairs. I need 2 mirrors replaced as someone broke them in a parking lot while I was in a shopping for food, my back brakes need replaced, and a radiator flush along with spark plugs (and I am sure something else will be found ☹).

I’m exhausted of owing money year after year despite working hard and long hours (6 days a week and 10 hours on average each day) to pay these bills. The balances never seem to go down to before another bill comes due or something else happens.

Therefore, I am asking for financial help from anyone so that I can relieve the emotional and physical strain on my mind and body. I would like to have a day (or two) where I could go to the park and relax or just sleep in and have a leisure day to watch Forest Gump or Fried Green Tomatoes (or any movie for that matter). I lay awake at night trying to figure out what else I could do to make money or worrying about having to answer the phone because someone expects a payment.

Many thanks to anyone willing to help me paypal.me/SandraBrendley

Hi there,
I’ve never done something like this before, but I am using it as my last resort because I don’t know what to do. In Dec 2017 my grandmothers sister passed away after living with each other their entire lives. I took on the responsibility to move in with my grandmother and take care of her so that she would not have to live alone and be lonely since she has never had to live by herself her entire life. In February a terrible storm came through our city and knocked down a pretty big piece of a 100-year-old tree that we had in our front yard. It fell right on our roof. It caused thousands of dollars of damage and we also had to get the tree removed because it was deemed a dead tree and it was no saving it. I was forced to take out multiple loans to not only get the roof fixed but also to get the tree removed. My grandmother only receives her SSI check which is not very much, so I have been the sole financial provider in our home. Before covid I was working 5 jobs just to make it each week. But now with it still being a pandemic I am only able to work one job so that I make sure I do not bring anything back to my grandmother and get her sick. Out of the kindness of your hearts I am begging for help. I do not know what else to do. It saddens me often that I am 27 years old, and I am drowning in so much debt all because I didn’t want my grandmother to live alone. I love her so much and would do anything for her. Please help me. Anything helps. My current outstanding is 30,000 at the moment and I am so scared I will never be able to pay it off.

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Good afternoon. Usually, I don’t make these kinds of requests, but the last several months have left me mentally, physically, and emotionally drained, to the point where I have no choice.

I just recently got off unemployment benefits from PUA and as a result, I have no money coming in anywhere. Before that, I was just barely getting by with the money I was given, and it was enough to last a couple days before I was broke by the end of the week. The expenses from groceries, transportation, and monthly bills left me unable to save anything for a long time, and while I started looking for a new job a couple weeks ago, I have no means to support myself during the process. As a result, I’m broke, but I still need to get by each day.

The bills haven’t stopped coming in and are at least $1000 each month from utilities and insurance. I have outstanding loan payments that are due in a few weeks after extending them. There are other bills that are going to resume the collection process soon after COVID paused, but I don’t have the money to stay on top of it. And to add to that, I have to feed myself and use transportation almost every day, and those costs have increased since the pandemic started.

I’m asking for $3,500. It will cover my current bills and also give me enough money to take care of myself while I continue looking for a job. I feel sick almost every day because I can’t get out of my financial hole no matter what I do. I have no options left at this point. I just need the opportunity to restart my life, to not let money take over anymore, and to start preparing for my future. Or I’m worried that one day, I won’t even be able to get out of bed anymore, or worse. Please understand that I have no way out of this and I’m fighting to survive every day of my life. I just want to be able to breathe and be happy and healthy again. If you made it this far, thank you for your understanding.

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My life got turned upside down in 2007 when the love of my life died from nonhodgkins lymphoma on December 18 2007. He and I had built a beautiful life together. We were married for 14 years. We worked together. we had bought 5 acres. We started our own business and things were going very well for us. We were not rich by any means but we could get what was needed and we did. We had started saving some amounts that were small but it felt good. Everything was just so right. We were busy with our jobs and we enjoyed everything because we were a fantastic team. We were happy and we had so many plans. The year that we bought the 5 acres and started our business was in 2001. We saw progress in our small retirement accounts. We paid taxes and we made enough money to take 3 day weekends on occasion. My husband and I loved the coast so we would go to the Oregon Coast and hike the beaches and trails and treat ourselves to Dinner at Pudgies in Seaside Oregon. My husband loved life and he made things easy. We made each others life complete. Our birthdays were 2 weeks apart in November. His the 1 st mine the 15 th and we were so in sync.

In 2006 May, He told me about a lump that was growing and now causing some pain. We went to the Doctor and they gave him the diagnoses and it was stage 3 nonhodgekins lymphoma. The Doctor recommended chemotherapy. The first treatment was in the hospital for 3 days. I was there with him as much as I could be which was alot because our business afforded us to set our own schedule, thankfully. My husband was 37 at the time. We went home and I was so affraid for him this chemo had taken a very strong man in the prime of his life and made him look like he was about to take his last breathe. The results would not be known right away and he got to feeling better after a few week and I was hopefull that it would be alright . I was mistaken. The tests  told a different story. Now the doctor wanted to do a wide field of radiation. This would be a disaster for my husband and I. It caused so many horrible side effects and at this point the doctor had already said it was pallative treatment meaning they were just hoping to give him more time. Well I see it as just the opposite. The quality of his life went from great to so messed up and what it would do to him wasn’t over by far. The doctor just kept throwing new things to try at him and every one had its own horrible set  of side effects that would take a devastating toll on his quality of life. The doctor I forgot to mention had given him 4 years. I was not prepared for how long it would really be. I asked my husband if he was sure he wanted to keep doing the treatments that the doctor kept offering. He said I guess. I said well do you think he may find one that would help and his answer surprised me. No I have had no hope since I was diagnosed. I was heartbroken more. Why did you let him continue to do these things then I asked and He said because he felt thats what I would have wanted. I wish he would have asked me like we had disscussed every other important decision in our lives and then maybe he wouldn’t have had to go through the hell that he would go through and that would get worse and worse till the day he died. My husband the man that I love and I will always love, wished he was dead long before the morning of December 18 th 2007. Just 16 months after the first treatment. Thanks to the radiation and the different unsuccessful chemotherapies, the cancer was no in so many places including his brain that his end days were confusing and he was scared and so was I. The morning he died I was shocked that I did not die too. So much of me died that day and I knew not what to do.

This was just meant to be a background for my life now and I guess I needed to document that because he was important and I have never written about any of this. I’ve verbally told it but it is something totally different to put it on paper so to speak.

Well as you can guess I was not prepared to have more than half of me gone and trying to do everything on my own was fine in the begining (well not really). As time went by I lost pretty much everything we had worked for. Sad so Sad. I tried to get help. The people were not there to help, the ones that I was able to find in this small town actually helped my demise, besides the money I paid them they also stole from me. At first I didn’t notice. It was so hurtful to be taken advantage of in my pain. It would take me a long time to trust again. That was in 2008 and 2009 I lost our place in the year 2010, not being able to do everything on my own I would spin out of control. I tried and I tried but even selling all of our things and we had a lot I was not able to keep from losing it. Then I just had nothing. It was too much loss.

My life never got better and now I am homeless still and I am getting old I just need a mid size 5th wheel or trailer to put in a park and to get this job with one of the local companies and interact with some decent people. I can’t do that without a home and What I am asking for is my life the amount of about 30,000.00 to 50,000.00 to purchase a modest car and a modest home and some clothes to get me started that are acceptable for work and I find from nothing it is so hard to get anywhere. With no one and no one for so long I have no network of people. I don’t want to be defeated anymore. I am ready to be more than I have been for a while, I just need help starting. So if you can please help give me this opprotunity to be happy I know that I can be. I Just need a human helping hand instead of being used I need empathy and some care from someone. Will you please  be that someone. My life really does depend on this. I need to feel someone out there is good and caring and that I do matter because I do. Thank you for reading some about my life and helping with a much needed hand in once again being a very productive member of society.

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In November of 2021, my mom and I were in a horrible car accident. She ended up in a coma for two months and now has rather severe brain damage affecting her and our whole family. I went from being best friends with my mom to barely being able to hold a conversation with her. I do not have time for a job because I take care of her daily. I understand other people have more pressing issues so thank you if anyone does donate to the cause. I’m trying to keep up with taking care of her, keeping the house bills up and paying hospital bills. Thank you so much!

Hello my name is Aaron and I am 24 years old, I will actually be 25 in a few months, I am asking that you help me with my debt just a little bit I am currently about $25K in debt and late on my car payment plus I’m going to school and working full time. I have been trying to get out of debt myself for awhile now but have been failing to get out of debt. I am requesting the assistance of strangers because as I struggle to get out of debt myself its proving to be harder and harder to do so I’m not asking for the full $25K no I just want to ask that if you have any pocket change you want to throw my way it would help out ALOT thank you my dream is to be able to own a motorcycle of my own at some point and time or even get my first tattoo but till my debts are paid up i really can’t do that without hurting myself financially. if you didn’t donate thank you for reading my story and maybe pass it on if you could if you did donate or are going to donate i thank you as your donation will help me greatly to start getting out of debt and get back on a good and Financially healthy path.

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