I just want to be able to start a life with my fiance. We’ve been together for 8 years and it’s been kind of stagnant financially, we haven’t been able to leave on our own to live with each other. I lost my job recently and there are no jobs accepting at the time. I am truly desperate. I’m not looking to own a home because I feel that may be asking way too much from people I don’t know… though I think even this is asking too much and it is taking a lot… I mean A LOT for me to ask for help. I’m not to ask anyone for help… but I feel if I don’t do something now, there may not be a future later.

My fiance is a newly US Marine and I want to do almost anything I can to help us move a long. We both want kids and a stable life. To be able to get married through court this year and to live together from then on. Asking for help seems like my last option.

I don’t think I can really post a picture of anything related to this. My fiance is all the way in Texas and I am on the east coast. Because he is a Marine, it has become long distance. I want to be able to be with him again. To be able to build a family with him. He wanted to get me a ring, but as things are going right now, that isn’t going to happen right now. I don’t need the ring though. Getting court married is enough for us to be able to properly live together, no matter the struggles we face later on.

We just need a start for a few months I can find a job in Texas in the mean time to help continue paying rent. A security deposit is for sure needed for a decent apartment. 2 bedroom 1 bathroom is more than satisfactory! If possible, we will be putting everything in both our names.

I forget my manners, my name is Alexandria and his is Miguel and we are in our early 20s. I’m eager to start this life with him as he is with me. I hope you all who take the time to read all this will be willing to support us in our future.

paypal.me/EdithBloom22

Edith Bloomwood is an artist pen name I like to go by if your curious about the username in the PayPal link. (I again don’t have any pictures I can use to relate to my request so I’ll put a picture of my own face.) Thank you for your time and generosity..!

It’s been a terrible pay period and after paying off shut off notices last month, I just got 2 more this month! I’ve picked up extra shifts but it just was not enough. I have to pay these bills and pay to have my car fixed. Added to that, I’m trying to get a good computer to begin a career in writing and publish a book I have already written out by hand. Please help. Anything and everything is so appreciated. I NEED to get above water and move forward with my future. Please, someone please believe in me and donate. With the cost of bills and potentially a computer, I’d like to raise $800-$1000 but any little bit will get me ahead.

paypal is PayPal.Me/sydleeann

Hello,

I am a 20 year old soon-to-be mother. My fiancé and I moved out in October and found out that same month we were having a baby in May. I have struggled my entire pregnancy and had to cut back on work due to risk reasons. I constantly get sick from other people at my job, my immune system has been reduced to almost nothing. I already struggled with back pain but now that I am inching closer to my due date it’s worsened. Because of these issues, my fiancé and I are struggling greatly until the baby arrives.

We aren’t exactly asking for help with the baby or our bills. We just have some debt from school and my parents weren’t the best about not using my name for their bills. (Including but not limited to a $1000 overdue electric bill I had no choice but to pay because I needed to put electric in my name for this apartment.) It’s hard to pay this stuff off because every month has spurred up some different expense we need to pay for. I am not able to work much more than 20 hours a week at my job for my health reasons and each tiny paycheck goes straight to the necessities. Unfortunately our debt isn’t able to be included in those necessities. I’m being ran dry of everything— including my energy.

I am in no way asking for handouts for my baby, this is something I’ve worked out since discovering we would have him. We have a ton of support from our family when it comes to getting things for the baby. Even though we are excited, we just need some help getting by for the next 4 months. Our family isn’t very well off either and they obviously can’t afford and shouldn’t be expected to afford our debt. This is sort of a game of roulette for me as I’m putting this out there and I don’t expect much, but thats okay. Any little bit helps because tiny expenses like gas add up.

As far as how much would help us to get back in a good place, I can break down what I’ve spent and am losing.

$500 i needed to pay back to school immediately to continue on studying.

$500 more that my parents haven’t given back to me for them unknowingly putting electric in my name when I was younger.

That’s about it. I can include screenshots of my direct deposits but thats about all in terms of how little I’ve been able to spend between rent and food and bills. I would take a picture of the sources of debt but since I did go ahead and pay those off with a credit card that I now am ruining my score with, they don’t show anywhere anymore.

The two negatives are me paying our insurance (both car and renters) and sending half of rent to my fiancé (his phone number crossed out.)  The two blue numbers are my direct deposits from work. 

My paypal is

paypal.me/MiaCCamp99

Life is definitely a beautiful struggle. I was 4 years old when, for the first time, I witnessed my biological father physically abuse my mother. I was 8 years old when I witnessed my uncle moleste my cousin (his son) and my younger sister. I was raped twice, the first time when I was 15 and then again when I was 21. I was in my first of 3 extremely abusive relationships from 1987 to 1998. My 3rd abusive relationship landed me in the hospital and almost caused me my life in 2011.

I’m a strong independent single woman who can be stubborn and prideful at times. I used my savings and started my own cleaning company in April 2014…a roller coaster I don’t regret getting on.

September 2017 I signed a 1 year lease on a 1 bedroom 1 bathroom apartment in Phoenix, AZ. In the 6 months that I lived there I had absolutely no hot water the entire time with the exception of the last 2 weeks that I lived there. My AC threw out black soot every time it came on. I struggled, sometimes for 5 minutes, every time I used my key to unlock my front door. My rent was based off of a complete remodel of my apartment, which was never completed. My numerous verbal and written complaints went unresolved. I went to court in February 2018 to terminate my lease and won. The downside of winning my case was that the judge and I agreed on 7 days to pack and move…not enough time to find a place. Because I didn’t have sufficient time to find a place I ended up getting a studio at a weekly. I haven’t been able to save any money to move into an apartment because, for the last year, I’ve paid close to $1,500 a month.

In October 2017 I was side swiped on the freeway and my car was totaled. The insurance company of the guy who was at fault notified me that my settlement amount would have been approximately $3,500 instead of $1,700 if my title wasn’t a salvage title. That vital piece of information was never disclosed to me and because it was never disclosed I called the company that I purchased the car from to let them know how extremely unhappy I was.

In December 2017 I purchased a SUV from AutoNation USA and from week 1 I had nothing but problems from being locked out and having to get into it from the passengers side for 2 weeks to the transmission locking up on me while driving on the freeway. All the issues were safety recalls that the dealership nor the 2 previous owners ever took care of. Not one safety recall regarding my 2011 Kia Sorento EX AWD V6 was completed. I spent $1,894.42 in rental car fees in addition to my $426.61 monthly car payment and $267 insurance payment. After several unresolved conversations with AutoNation USA asking them to take care of all the safety recalls at the same I called the finance company asking for 4 additional days on my payment extension because I had just spent part of my car payment paying a deductible I shouldn’t have had to pay. The finance company said that the only way they would give me the additional 4 days was if I made my August payment, which wasn’t due for 2 more weeks, at the same time. I was beyond irritated and told them to come pick up their POS. My response was definitely done out of anger and without thinking.

On August 2, 2018 I went to leave for work to find my vehicle was not where I parked it. After the initial shock I told myself that’s what I get for sticking my foot in my mouth.

Since August I’ve spent $2408.41 on Lyft/Uber so that I could work and not lose any clients. I ended up losing a few clients because my employee at the time was consistently late or a no call/no show. She was let go in October 2018.

November 2018 I hired a girl who had transportation. She left out one very important detail…the car was in her sons name and only his. So in early December he decided he wasn’t going to live by his moms rules and moved out, taking his car with him. After struggling for 2.5 months, rescheduling clients, not being able to get to and from clients homes, losing a few more clients due to dependability and unable to save money for a down payment because of business expenses, basic living expenses.

I recently terminated my employee because of over $10,000 in alleged stolen property from 2 of my clients. I’m working with the police and my clients in prosecuting my now former employee.

I am beyond stressed and have absolutely no one to turn to for help. So begins this journey of putting my personal and professional struggles out there for millions of strangers to read and asking for a hand up.

I’m asking for a total of $3,275 in donations, which breaks down to $1,700 to move into an affordable 1 bedroom apartment, $1,000 for a down payment on a midsize SUV, that has room for all of my cleaning supplies and equipment, so that I can have reliable transportation to get to and from all of my clients homes and $575 to pay 2 months of back payments on my storage unit as well as the February 21st payment coming up.

I truly appreciate any and all help extended to me and could not begging to thank you enough for your helping hand up! Thank you for taking the time to read my story.

God Bless You and Yours, Julia

My fiancee and I have been living together for almost two years. We were planning to have a small wedding ceremony this summer and we had been saving every penny we could. About six months ago I got laid off from my job. For the first few weeks I wasn’t concerned because I’d figured that my job experience would make it easier to get a job. I also had some emergency money saved up. I filled out job applications and while I was waiting I decided to volunteer in order to help those who are struggling. It was an enjoyable experience because I was positively impacting the lives  of others. After about a month I started panicking because I still didn’t have a job. I’d wanted to continue volunteering while I waited but it wasn’t paying the bills and as gas prices went up I couldn’t afford to go out anymore. My fiancee is working full-time to pay the bills but even that’s not enough. Recently we sadly agreed that we would have to take money out of our wedding savings after we had to take one of our cars to the mechanic after it broke down. We also have a dog but we are looking at putting him up for adoption since we can’t afford to feed him, which is sad because we’ve had him for a long time and he always makes us smile. Our wedding ceremony will have to be delayed and both of us are disappointed because we’ve been waiting for so long and working hard. As a man I feel useless because I am supposed to be providing for her. I had already picked out the rings and was making monthly payments. I can make one more monthly payment but after that I don’t know what I will do. We are both very stressed about our situation because we fear that we will come to a point where everything falls apart. I’ve been looking for ways to make money online but all of them are not helpful. I stumbled upon this website weeks ago but I couldn’t get myself to ask for money but due to the financial burden getting heavier I decided to give this a try. I know the value of paying it forward to others in need and after I get out of this crisis I will pay it forward to others who are in need because I was once in their spot. We ask that you keep us in your prayers and donating whatever amount possible. 

https://www.paypal.me/Toni551

There is no way of beating around the fact I need help. My name is Ariel, I’m 19 and I am a college student at WSU. I usually have a good head on my shoulders until recently where I am stuck in a moving process and medical bills. After I decided to install a birth-control form into my arm my bills have been racking up and Ive been struggling to cover my rent alongside a security deposit for when I move in only two months. In most cases when I am in need of help I often pray, hope, and wish that in the end it works out for the best- and most of the time it does. Unfortunately it hasn’t this time around and I cannot find any other way of making money to cover my expenses. I work three jobs; a preschool teachers assistant, fast food, and a gas station employee. I am constantly on the clock, and its hard to finish school work stay focused and overall find myself capable of coming home..a month back I had to raise almost 600$ to save my cats life and that also took a toll on me mentally and financially. Im a humble person, I hate begging, I hate asking for things because I simply take pride in being able to care for myself…if you are able to help me, please do. I owe $1200 in rent, and almost $2000 in medical bills.. god bless whomever decides too.

I feel I deserve someone to help me with money because I give my time to earn what I get but still struggle, I am going to school for counseling psychology and absolutely love listening  to people and pushing through for success. I would appreciate if someone could help lead me to success and out of debt. I know there are other tough situations out there which is why I don’t have high expectations, just a lot of hope.

Hello my name is Destany, I’m 19 years old, and I never thought I’d have to reach out in a way like this. I’m lost and stuck, but happy I made the decision to move home and help my father recover.

Im reaching out for help because I am currently unemployed due to emergency move and it has me in a hole with my bank.  I’d like to get in under control before it affects my credit score.

My fiancé and I first moved to help care for his brother whom had cancer and gave up on treatment. My fiancé’s brother passed a couple weeks after we moved there. After he passed we started looking for jobs, which didn’t take long to find for my fiancé. By the time I found employment, he got us caught up on bills but still tight and close to dead lines.

I got to work for 4 days before I got a concerning call regarding my father. He had an infection in the right side of his brain which caused it to swell and bleed, along with shifting his brain to the left. He had two different surgeries or of which being emergency surgery. After spending a couple weeks in the hospital on antibiotics through a picc line, he was being released to recover from home. Due to him living alone he would’ve needed a hospice nurse to check on him a couple time, or needed a family member to supervise him.

Since there was no way my father or any of our family could afford a hospice; I knew I just needed to move home and help my dad. I talked to my fiancé and the only way we could afford moving home was to overdraft my account.

So, now I’m unemployed again and my account is just decreasing more due to not being able to start paying it back. Again, I never thought I’d be this lost and stuck being 19.

Please help me clear my negative balance before it affects my credit score. TIA

https://paypal.me/doobug00

Who Am I:

My name is Stefanie (Steffi) Cardino and I’m seeking help in obtaining a divorce from my estranged husband Ramel (Ramz) Cardino. We’ve been married a little over ten years and separated a little over seven years.

My Need:

What I need help with is the cost of course. Now that I’ve finally found a lawyer who can take my case and represent me, I don’t have any money or income coming in. I’m currently a single (well separated) mother of an 18-year-old son who is about to graduate High School and whom is hoping to get into college this coming Fall.  We have had to accept the gracious offer of a friend to stay in their mobile home where they have 2 extra bedrooms, thankfully all I have to do is keep the house clean, do the laundry, and cook all the meals.

I’ve been struggling to find a job since 2012 after I returned back to the United States. I quickly found out that the 2 degrees that I earned while living overseas are both completely useless and a waste of the money I’ve gone into debit over (upwards of $60-80k in debit for student loans).  I have even been working with my local Career Center in an attempt to get their help in being able to place me and they are running into the same issues I have been hitting … I’ve got the education down but I don’t have enough experience for them. This is because for most of my son’s 18-years, I’ve been a housewife/homemaker and didn’t have to work.

Then to top off this issue, I’m also waiting on a date to have spinal fusion surgery, this is not something that goes hand in hand with a new job.  No employer wants to hire someone who maybe within a week or a month need medical time off for anywhere from 4-6 weeks to 4-6 months depending on how quickly my body heals since I am a diabetic.

My son’s biological father is one of those deadbeats that refuses to hold a steady job so he doesn’t have Child Support garnished from his wages.  He’d much rather skirt on the coattails of his wife and let her work 2 jobs to support herself, him, and their 2 kids. Thus, leaving my son out in the cold when it comes to income for his needs.  So anytime I get any money in, it goes for things my son needs and anything left over to the friend who graciously lets us stay in his house.

All I am asking for is the amount of the retainer fee ($600) and the filing fee ($136) This comes to a total of $736, but I like to round things up and have a little extra as a safety net. So, I’m asking for $800.  The final total of the divorce that I was told could be between $1000 and $1200. That’s much cheaper than I paid for my first divorce.

I’d love to be able to come up with the full $1000, $1200 (thankfully the lawyer is cutting me a break and charging me $80 an hour instead of his usual $100 an hour), or even round it up to $1500 in case the lawyer runs into snags and needs to do a little extra work, but I’m trying not to be greedy and hope that after the $800 is paid I’ll be able to find a way to make up the difference somehow.

My Story:

Everyone knows and expects young people to be well young and dumb … and I was no exception to this rule. Back in August of 2008 I made plans to visit the Philippines and spend three weeks with a Filipino who I’d known about two years and had been online dating for almost a year at that point. We’d met playing the same MMORPG and out of a friendship and a failing first marriage things progressed to more than just friends. Feelings turned to love, or what I thought was love.

After my first husband telling me, six months into a 2-year marriage, that he only married me for the sex … I was almost desperate for love. So, when Ramz told me he loved me, he’d waited until my first marriage had ended in divorce (my first husband and I had a prenuptial agreement and that was all I wanted to leave there with, I didn’t even want any of his pension money), I’d believed him. I’d loved him too. After a 3-week vacation I returned to the USA foolishly married. At the time I didn’t realize how foolish and stupid I had been.

A couple of months after our 1-year wedding anniversary my son and I was facing homelessness and that is when I made the decision to move to the Philippines and try to make my marriage work. Before our arrival Ramz and I had talked long hours and made several plans for our future as a family. So, in December of 2009 my son and I arrived in the Philippines and began a new life in a strange new country and with an even stranger culture … talk about a big cultural shock.

It didn’t take long to realize that he was in love with what little amount of money I had coming in. I was doing online schooling to obtain both my Associate and Bachelor degrees.  With this schooling I had money that would come in every 2-3 months and this became the majority of the income we lived on. Ramz took my debit card and kept it in his possession and as soon as I had money deposited in my account, he was off to the city to pull the money off my card.

I rarely got out of the house unless his family from the province visited or we went to visit them. I wasn’t allowed to do anything a wife should do other than share his bed. I wasn’t allowed to cook, clean (other than the dishes which happened rarely), or the laundry. It didn’t take long before I began to feel like a dirty little secret that was kept hidden away.

Finally, after nearly 3-years and several health issues (In December of 2010 I’d had a silent heart attack) I decided enough was enough and that it was time to return to the US. So, using my health and my son’s education (he’d not been in school in 3-years) as an excuse to have to return to the States. That was in June of 2012 and I have to say that returning to the US after almost three years was the best ever decision that I could have ever made for my son and I.

Self-File:

In August of 2013 I had a family friend who is a paralegal draw up divorce papers for me. I marked where Ramz needed to sign and post mailed them to him, he signed them and post mailed them back to me. I then took them to the courthouse and did a self-file for a divorce, paying $132 at the time.  I was told to return the next day to see if the judge needed anything more from me, and when I did that the judge tossed my case out and ordered me to get a lawyer.

It has taken 6 or so years to finally find a lawyer who offered a free consultation and who was willing to listen to the details of my marriage and my want for a divorce.  After this consultation he agreed that he could take my divorce case and get it accomplished for me.  Which this has led me to setting up this Begging Money page (I did try a Go Fund Me Page but it didn’t work out so well as I don’t have enough friends on my Facebook page) in an attempt to help me achieve my goal of $800 for the retainer fee and the filing fee so I can get this process started and accomplished, after all these years of being separated and more than ready for a divorce.

PayPal.me Link:

https://paypal.me/CardinoDivorceFund

When I was 21 I started a clothing company. I knew school was not going to be the route for me at a young age . I worked construction during the day and ran my clothing brand at night. After a year passed, my clothes were featured on the back of celebrities and I was on my way to becoming self-employed.

3 years later, I decided to take it a step further, it would be great to see my best friend who was there from the start to have a business too. He helped come up with the name and was basically my life consultant and a trusted person I brought along to networking events and other events such as concerts and pop-ups as well. He had been through a lot in his life and never wanted credit for anything from me. We spent a lot of time together. I helped him deal with DUI case . He was short of money and didn’t live in the best financial situations and I lended small amounts to him. He would always pay back on time even if it meant him not eating for the day. We both had the motivation to make it work and we both knew we had each other’s backs. There was many nights we would cry in each other’s arms hugging because we knew it was a big jump for us but we knew we could make it together .we were like yin-yang when it came to business. I was a creative mastermind and he was a logistical powerhouse that audited everything.

We both decided that we would go into business together. He was a smart guy and was Saavy at things that I wasn’t. We both decided to start a cannabis media company. Then shortly after we knew we should move to a legalized state, so we decided Vegas. Something always pulled us to move there, so we did it. Him , his girlfriend , and myself we moved to Vegas. Even if it wasn’t the most financially secured moved, we knew with a leap of faith that we had each other.

6 months later, he took his life, then his girlfriend took her life 3 days later. They dealt with alcohol issues and I was right in the middle of it some nights. I was not aware of how deep the issue really was and myself as well as the families believe they may have been fighting more demons then we imagined. I’m still not sure what to think to this day. All I know is that if it wasn’t for my girlfriend I met out here taking me in, I  would  be homeless right now until I had enough to move back home across the country.

Something has been pulling at me to stay here. I’ve been running into random signs that he’s watching me. I currently have two fortunes from fortune cookies that have both our lucky and spiritual number on them. That say things that encourage me to keep pushing. I can’t look back now. We had many discussions about how Vegas was such a spiritual move for us and I’m starting to see why. While my life was uprooted from me, I decided to release some new designs for my clothing brand and they’ve been tremendously successful, but now I know it’s my mission to do this in dedication of him. I work 4 different  hustles. I work a day job, I flip stuff at garage sales of ebay , I’m working on an online writing career, and more.

My goal is to receive an investment of $3,000 to get my brand up and running again. I’ve structured a marketing plan and roll out in dedication to him that would raise money for suicide awareness and underprivileged youth. My mind and my heart are in it for the right reasons now and I have celebrities interested in the cause. Unfortunately, asking them for funds could be a conflict of interest. I don’t want to spoil this opportunity. I’m even willing to pay the money back and more when I get the ball rolling.

Any contribution will help tremendously. I will leave my paypal link below.

I’ve been on this journey by myself now to this point since his passing. I came to the decision to release some new designs that I would work on for the next collection in dedication to his life. And well, they received a lot of praise. So much so, there’s major public figures that are interested in taking part in a suicide awareness campaign in honor of his life and the brand as well. LV8 is about uplifting yourself and living by success principles, regardless of your situation. Something my friend and I did and lived by.

We didn’t realize until after he moved here that “LV8” was an acronym for “ Las Vegas 2018” the year we moved.

I’m at a point where I can’t come up with the money myself and I’ve been trying every option. I was in a great amount of debt and don’t want to dig myself farther. I work a day job and I have 3 side hustles, including flipping stuff at goodwill and garage sales, as well as freelance writing. His birthday is on March 15th. The 15 was a huge part of his life, and now mine . It follows everywhere. This next collection will be by 15th and 16th pieces I’ve created.

I used to do it for fame and fortune, but now, it’s about dedicating myself and craft to my friend’s life.

Okay, first of all I just want to say that this is a fantastic website for people who are in need and just cant make it work just like myself. My name is Shane and I’m 30 years old from a small town in Southern West Virginia. In 2015 with no credit and not enough money to fix the vehicle I had I was forced to go to a dealership and get a newer vehicle. The only way I was able to get into a newer vehicle was to finance at a horrendous 24% interest rate. Due to my job at the time I was only able to afford so much monthly and had to settle for this. To fix my previous vehicle would have costed in the ballpark of $1,000-$1,500 due to numerous fixes needed. Fast forward to May of 2016 I was hurt in an incident outside of work and had to have surgery on my hand and was laid off from work, while being laid off I was unable to make my car payments and had no family or friends capable of helping out. In July of 2016 the vehicle was repossessed and I was able to scrape and borrow enough money to be able to pay and get the vehicle back. After getting the vehicle back I had found a new job and was able to make the payments required monthly, but never could pay the extra amount for late fees and interest. As of January 2019 I am 8 months behind in total with late fees. I currently work full time and am making enough to pay bills and pay a few more dollars on my vehicle than is required. Recently it has started making awful noises and having motor and transmission problems. My credit isn’t good enough to go and get a newer vehicle and I cannot afford to go buy a car from someone or anywhere. With the mishaps I had I owe more on the vehicle than what the vehicle is worth. My total payoff amount is $4,095.62. If someone or several people were able to help me out I would greatly appreciate it and would be forever grateful. $2,000 or $5,000 isn’t  a lot of money to some people but it would change my life for the better in so many ways.  Getting this vehicle caught up or if someone was generous enough to donate the whole amount to pay if off would lift so much weight from mine and my family’s shoulders and help us progress our lives and not have to scrap due to having to pay such big amounts on a vehicle that is always getting worked on. Again, to whomever may read this and to whomever may decide to donate I am thankful people like you exist in this world!

My paypal is PayPal.me/Bairske

This is the story of how I had it all and lost it.

When I was 18 I moved in with my grandparents. It was just a few days shy of my 19th birthday and I had been kicked out on the streets by my father. My grandparents helped me get my license and a car and I began to work a church daycare. Life was going fantastic as I was meeting new people and learning what I was like to be free and for the most part independent. I never meant to find him…. He came along when I was least expecting it. John. My soul mate. The one I knew was THE ONE from day one. He made my heart happy and treated me better than anyone else I had ever met. I began putting most of my focus on him. I lost my job soon after meeting him so I began following him out of town to his jobs and forgot to focus on myself and my main purpose of moving in with my grandparents. I had been out of a job for about 4 months the day I decided to drive an hour away to see him. My grandparents didn’t care for John but they did not know the way he made me feel. I got home from seeing him that night and I was told to return my keys and my phone and to pack my belongings. I was left with no where to go. No way to go. I went to live with John with his aunt but we had nothing. My depression began to affect me in a way I had never felt before. I began taking my anger out on him and I knew I had to leave before I hurt him anymore so I did. I am left with nothing . No phone. No car. No job. No home.  Nothing. I feel like I have offically hit rock bottom. I came on this website to tell my story in hopes that someone will read it an understand my situation and my pain. I just hope to raise a little cash to find a decent ride so I can get another job and get back on my feet. Any sort of donation will help!

I am a 32 year old A1C in the USAF with a wife and a two year old daughter. I joined late in life but it’s never too late to start pursuing your dreams/goals and serving my country.  I went to boot camp on January 9, 2018 but shortly after, the government shutdown which forced my wife to rely on a couple of low limit credit cards to pay bills. The bills included rent (would have been covered by my BAH had I been receiving it on time), medical bills that couldn’t be covered by TRICARE, daycare, phones (we have Cricket which is cheapest we could get), car payment and insurance. This didn’t include having to pay for basic living expenses. By the time the shutdown was over and I started getting my pay, we were already behind. Since my first check included backpay, we were able to get rent and a few other things squared away before moving to our first assignment location. Fast forward a year and we have managed to slowly get rid of most of the debt. My tax refund will cover a portion of what’s left but we will still have about $2500 left between three credit cards. My wife has been actively seeking employment since we arrived to Nellis AFB, Nevada in June 2018. After a few months of everything falling through, she started focusing on her art to help. Recently we found out a spot was available for our daughter at the on base daycare. This will be significantly cheaper and will help my wife with job availability. It’s a big step into getting a second income to knock out the rest of our debt. However, with the remaining debt after income taxes, it will be even tighter until she does get employment. I’m requesting help with this debt so we can spend the next year saving and building our credit scores back up rather than another year of paycheck to paycheck. I understand any hesitation to donate towards this request as we could technically do this by ourselves over the next year or two, and as it isn’t as dire as some peoples requests. Be that as it may, my wife and I could be back to a situation of financial freedom with your help. We are both compassionate people that otherwise try to be charitable with our time and money. This would help us achieve that once more. Thank you for your time and consideration.

paypal.me/jdhays14

hi my name is john. i am 23, my wife is 20, and our son is 17 months and i now work full time as a construction photographer. i have recently transitioned to this job from a dreary extremely lower paying job. i have been without a paycheck going on three weeks. And i won’t see one until Friday. But Sadly it will not be enough to cover our bills and keep us fed until the next pay period. we have to pay $800 for rent on the 1st. our internet bill is two months overdue and it is $200. on top of that i owe my mother $300 from helping us with grocery’s and the power bills. now typically if it was just me in this situation i would not ask for help because i know there are a lot of people out there that need it more than I. but i am supporting a small family of three on my income solely. and it seems to only be getting harder. with the bills are pilling up i am starting to fear for our lively-hood. And this new job i have taken is going to require me to get a car. I have a friend that got me the job that is giving me rides to work for now but he is moving back home  at the end of January.I don’t expect to be able to finance a car. i have no credit history.I just got a credit card a month or two ago, i have only been using it for groceries but i have only been able to make the minimum payments of $25 and that has caused my card to be only $30 from being maxed. i’m going to have to buy the car outright witch is going to be hard seeing as i am already severely struggling financially.  any breathing room right now would lift a ton off of my shoulders. while i make sure my son has baby food diapers and all of the necessitates. i have made sure that my son has three square meals a day and his vitamins every morning. but my wife and i find ourselves wondering if we will get one meal a day. the pressure is debilitating. but we are not losing hope merely looking for an alternate solutions. any generosity we receive will be paid forth 100% as soon as we can gain some solid ground. https://www.paypal.me/mvsayeghhttps://www.paypal.me/mvsayegh

Hello All,

I never thought I would be asking for any type of help or assistance, but here I am. I am a very prideful person and this is truly, a very tearful, humbling moment for me. That being said, I am very thankful for my previous circumstances. I have always been very fortunate in the fact that I have always been employed. I was with the same company for 22 years. They paid well and afforded me the opportunity, as primarily a single parent, to raise both of my biological children and a child that I adopted out of the foster care system.  I have always lived my life in a way that I could be proud and tried to always be very independent. I am proud to say that I instilled that mentality into my children. Since losing my job and relocating back to my hometown, I am having a difficult time acquiring a job that can sustain my current financial obligations. I did manage to land a job in a neighboring city about 25 miles away, but after 3 weeks, my car broke down and I was no longer able to make the commute. It is still broken down, as I can not afford to repair it. I have applied at multiple places locally, so I could maybe take cabs to and from work, but have not had any success. Hopefully, I will hear from one of the companies that I have apps and resumes out for soon. I have a very good, professional work history, but my town is small and there are not alot of professional opportunities. I have now been out of work for 4 months, with the exception of the 3 weeks I spoke about previously. I am now 2 months behind on my home, car, electric, gas, credit cards, and personal loans. The first of February, they will be 3 months behind. As you can imagine I am facing foreclosure, repossession, utility disconnections, and legal actions. My once pristine credit is now a thing if the past. I have never been in this position before and had always hoped I would never be. I have always worked and made my own way. The thought of losing everything that I have worked for my entire life is very disheartening and almost more than I can take. I do have my health and the love of my family and friends. They would all help me if they were in a position to. I am rich in that regard and very thankful. Anything that anyone can spare would be greatly appreciated. I can assure you that when I have a job again, I will continue to pay it forward, as I have throughout my life.

November 30, 2018 was an exciting day. My husband and I were set to leave for Miami to go on our first cruise that evening, our bags were packed and we were ready to soak up some sun with a cocktail. It was smooth sailing on our 15 mile journey into work, traffic was light. My husband dropped me off at 8am and drove across town to his office. Friday  mornings are typically quiet at my office, as most people on the top floor where my cubicle is located, work from home. It’s not unusual to see only a handful of cars in the parking lot. This Friday was the same. I was the only person in my area, which meant I could get all of my prep for my week off done without interruption. And then, mid-email, just before 8:30am, the ground began to shake.

In Alaska, earthquakes are a norm. We have countless small earthquakes every day, and had a giant one that destroyed Anchorage back in 1964. I’m from California, so I grew up training for the ‘big one’. Despite them being such a common occurrence in my life, a fairly large shaker a few years prior really shook me to the core and since, I’ve had a harder time calming down after one. Typically my office building feels like it’s rocking and swaying during an earthquake, but this time I knew immediately something was different. My training told me to get under my desk, this is a big one. I cowered under my desk, hands covering my neck and head the way I was taught growing up as the building shook, not rolled, violently. I thought the ceiling was going to come crashing down on top of me. The lights went out, the building roared. I remember yelling ‘STOP! STOP!’ as if I could will it into submission.

When the shaking finally ceased, I felt very in control–I grabbed my phone, purse, and coat, and ran across the building to a coworker who I knew had been at work that morning. Instead of taking cover, she had been so petrified that she froze, and had sat at her desk as light fixtures and ceiling tiles fell around her. We grabbed our things and I followed her down the stairwell, both of us crying, me cursing at the cracked walls of the stairwell. Once out the front doors, I immediately called my father who lives a few hours south of Anchorage, relieved when he answered immediately. My husband and I have been together for 7.5 years, you’d think I’d have called him first, but in my state of terror, I needed my dad. My husband and I spoke briefly after that, he was unable to return to his building, so he was headed to get me so that we could get home to check our house and dogs. I couldn’t get a hold of my mother, she’s a school teacher and they must have evacuated. My brother was fine. My husband’s family was texting back and forth. The ground shook again, everyone’s phones screamed with a tsunami warning.

We were all sent home, not knowing the extent of the damage to the office. They advised us to stay off of bridges, not yet know to what extent they were damaged after the 7.0 earthquake. My husband didn’t listen, he wanted to get to me as quickly as possible and get home. Our 15 mile drive home took nearly three hours as everyone fled Anchorage. We made countless phone calls and sent numerous texts to friends and family checking on them. Two friends were able to get to our home before we could, our dogs were alive, but we were told ‘not gonna lie, your house was hit hard’.

There was glass everywhere, a rare dish or frame remained in its cupboard or on the wall. The refrigerator had lost all of its contents into the open freezer drawer. Glass jars from the pantry spilled their contents all over the kitchen and dining room floors. Bathroom mirrors had torn themselves out of studs. Shelving had dumped contents and then slammed themselves to the floor. The Christmas tree remained standing, comically.

And cracks. Cracks everywhere.

And why can’t we open the back door?

And why is the floor sloping on this side of the house?

My husband wanted me to take the dogs and leave, but this was our home, our first home, and I couldn’t just leave it. I cleaned for six straight hours, while my husband busied himself checking utilities. Waves of emotion poured over both of us, sadness, anger, determination, and terror with aftershocks.

State assistance became available quickly, and we’ve applied along with thousands of others, but have not yet been contacted. The State of Alaska has submitted documentation for a federal disaster declaration, but we haven’t heard anything yet. We found, that like most other Alaskan’s–we did not have earthquake insurance due to enormous deductibles. The municipality has inspected our home and placarded it with a yellow warning, that we have restricted use of our home due to the foundation sinking. Engineers have evaluated and given rough estimates for correction of the foundation, $50,000 to $75,000. We purchased our home only a few years ago, and do not have much equity in it yet. State and federal assistance will help cover some, but not all of that, and we still have the damage inside of our home to deal with as well.

The cracked walls serve as daily reminders that at any moment, your whole world could fall out beneath you. Every aftershock has us thinking it’s the last. It is surreal, and frustrating, and expensive. We had felt like we were finally going to be able to get ahead, and now we are looking at trying to find loans to help cover repairs, or worse, weighing at what cost it’s just easier to hand the keys back over to the bank.

We are so thankful that everyone survived this, but many, like us, might not be able to financially survive this. So we find ourselves here, begging for any assistance that might help make our home whole again.

Thank you.

https://paypal.me/annapalmer907

Hello to everybody who has taken the time to read this.  My family is trying to raise money for my brother-in-law.  He is 32 years old and needs a heart and lung transplant.  He is a husband and a father of four.  He was born with a congenital heart defect and his condition has severely worsened in recent months. He has been in and out of critical care at St. Luke’s Hospital in Milwaukee. Doctors say the he needs both a heart and a lung transplant to survive. His heart defect was caught when he was 14, and he underwent open heart surgery. He had a defibrillator put in when he was bout 16, but had to have it removed a few years later because it was defective.

On top of his heart issues, he also is in end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. Because of his lung issues and pressure on his pulmonary artery, they’re worried about the success of a heart transplant, At this point, they’re continuing to give him medicine. His lung damage is irreversible.He would need to be put on the transplant list and hope that one of each becomes available before he reaches the end of his life.  We know the likelihood of this is not great, The only thing we can do from this point forward is hope for the best and have him keep fighting.

The last few months his family has struggled to make ends meet. So as his family we are try to raise as much money as we can to help them get through.  We know the stress that he is going through because of their money situation. They also do not have a reliable vehicle to get him back and forth to all of his doctor appointments.  So any help would be so much appreciated.  Thank you to all in advance.

paypal.me/haileyschisel

I am not even sure where to begin, writing this seems as if I have completely given up.  In this day and age it seems as if we should all be doing well, but in essence we are failing ourselves by owning credit cards. My wife and I aren’t maxed out on our cards but due to illnesses and home issues we started to add to our credit cards, we always pay the minimum but with interest it will take forever to pay these cards down.  I have begun to rob Peter to pay Paul via our savings which is set aside for paying property taxes and I can see no end in sight with how we will start paying for larger debt if we are constantly dipping into our savings. I feel very vulnerable at this time in my life, short on savings, having to wonder if we’ll be able to make the mortgage payment and pay bills, or car repairs, no one should have to wonder if they will be able to make it by a thread.

I am grateful that I do have my life and marriage, a roof over my head, job and food to eat, how can one not be grateful for these things? I usually say that money is not as important as these things I mentioned, in all reality it’s vital, it’s what keeps us afloat and not having to just scrape by, that is why i am asking for the amount of $9000. I am sincerely grateful for any or all people that could help my wife and I out.

paypal.me/ctl826

I am a 22-year-old who is trying to survive on his own, working a part-time crew position a McDonalds and am quickly falling behind in bills. My car battery needs to be replaced and no longer holds a charge and has gotten to the point that I need to get a jump to get going almost every day. I’ve fallen behind in bills to the point that I’m $290’s behind in just my internet bill alone with my car insurance quickly following behind. With these things in mind, I also now have over $1,700 in hospital bills, a lack of health insurance, a newly diagnosed case of Hypertension, along with severe Sleep Apnea, and Polycystic Kidney Disease. I have been denied disability assistance for my health issues and my busted right knee and am struggling to keep afloat financially. I’ve done my best to refrain from requesting assistance from anyone out of my own pride of wanting to prove people wrong and trying to do everything on my own, but at this point, I’ve reached a wall of bills that will inevitably make life extremely difficult for me to handle on my own without falling into a deep hole of debt. I apologize if I seem selfish to ask you all as the generous public to assist me in fixing my own mistakes and helping me stabilize my financial situation, but without it, there is a depressingly high possibility that the next thing that becomes an issue for me to uphold will be a place to live if everything keeps falling behind. I’m currently hunting for a better paying job that will be more supportive of my life than my current part-time minimum wage job, and I want to be able to stand on my own two feet and continue to keep myself stable and if possible grow to be something successful and even beneficial to the world. I need a decent kick start, and for that to happen and to help me out of this sinkhole, to help me pay off my medical expenses so that I may continue to see a primary care physician without discrimination because I can’t pay to be seen, to help me stay mobile on the road so that I can explore out to find and obtain jobs that I can use to support myself. I would need about $3,000 in order to accomplish this goal and it would be a blessing if me if this was a gift that I could be presented with. For those who are willing to give, I thank you and greatly appreciate it. For those who wish to give, I thank you for having such a caring heart.
https://www.paypal.me/AtlemVenta

I am a 31 year old adult living with mild autism and currently residing on the western edge of the Chicago metropolitan area, who without help will be homeless in a few months, I don’t have many friends or family who can help me.  I feel ashamed asking for help of this magnitude, but I don’t have any other options. I work full time and I am struggling to get my debt paid off.

I was laid off my job in November 2014, around the same time my mom’s health started to rapidly deteriorate from sarcoidosis and a failing immune system. I made the decision to move back in to my parents place and take care of her. I did everything possible to make her feel comfortable as her disease progressed, including doctor and hospital visits, and medical care i could provide.  My father at the time worked more than full time to pay the rest of the house bills and my mom’s medical bills.

To avoid defaulting on my student loans, I regularly took out cash advances and bypassing paying the high interest rates by repeating taking balance transfer offers from one credit card to another.

My mom sadly passed away in July 2016 at 56 years old waiting for a liver transplant.

I started to look for work again shortly after her passing. I made the decision to look for something in the restaurant industry.  After completing a 12 week course to help get certifications and skills to work in a restaurant kitchen, I started to look for work.

Starting in late 2016 through 2017, I started to get sick regularly. Before I found work I was on medicaid, but after I got a job (which did not provide insurance) I was only able to afford mediocre insurance with a high deductible. I ended up going to immediate care every 8 weeks or so with painful throat infections and being forced to pay with my credit card to cover copays and out of pocket expenses.

I did land a decent job in March 2017 as a cook in a chain restaurant and I do enjoy what I do.

I did get decent health insurance in January 2018 and got my health issues resolved after getting surgery.  I had to pay my high deductible and maximum out of pocket and copays with credit cards, but I am healthy again.

After all of this, I accumulated $36,000 in debt. I can only manage to pay a little above the minimum payment. This is on top of my $7,000 of student loan debt I have left to pay off

My father was nice enough to have me live him, but he has recently foreclosed on his home and is moving in with his girlfriend in the near future. I will be homeless in a few months and I can’t even save enough money for an apartment rent or security deposit..

I know I can and will succeed once I get this debt off my shoulders, but I need your help. Please donate and share with your friends.

Please help!

paypal.me/jeremythecook

Hi there!

My name is Chris. I am 33 years old and I moved to the Atlanta GA area in 2015. I went to college for a Geology Degree and sent hundreds of job applications out, finally finding a company in Atlanta that would hire me to test groundwater at landfills. When I first started with them, I had never owned a credit card and was only getting paid $15 an hour, so I got two credit cards to use when I was short on money. I found a decent apartment and I was paying back my credit cards fine. However my rent kept increasing and then my car broke down. I ended up with a new car but the payments I was doing on the credit cards was now being used for the car payment.

I’m trying my best to pay the credit cards back but I’ve been just making enough to get about $50 in groceries a week before my bills eat the rest of my paychecks. My credit card companies have been calling my phone nonstop, and I can’t pick up while I’m at my job. They are threatening to charge off the account unless I pay and I am unsure where else to turn.

Any help I can receive toward paying them off would be amazing and I would be grateful for the assistance. I owe $8000 in total, $3000 to Bank of America and $5000 to Regions. I’m being proactive in finding a side job to do in my spare time but it is hard with my current job’s scheduling. I am pretty much at their mercy as far as my schedule.

Anyway, thanks for reading. My paypal link is as follows –

https://paypal.me/cdpocase

– Chris P

Hello, Everyone… 

I just want to start this out by saying that a mother’s love is peace. ❤️ My mom is the closest person to my heart. She’s my rock and my strength… she has stood by my side in times where I had lost all hope & felt like I couldn’t continue. She’s always been strong for my sister and I, no matter what she went through & still continues to go through everyday. 

My mother has the biggest heart anyone could possibly have. She would help anybody with anything, without expecting anything in return. She’s just that type of person. You can count on her, no matter what. 

It breaks my heart to have to reach out to get her help, because I don’t know what else to do. My mom deserves so much more than what she is going through right now and so does my little sister… 

My mom and stepdad had been together for close to 20 years. Of course everything was great at first, but I’ve watched my strong, independent, outgoing, and caring mother turn into someone I can barely recognize anymore. 

For years she was in a narcissistic, controlling, mentally & physically abusive marriage. She was constantly told how worthless she was. He would belittle her over things like for not wearing makeup everyday or fixing her hair enough. She wasn’t even allowed to have a job, or have any friends outside of our house.. unless they were his. 

Not only did my mom suffer all those years, but my sister and I did too. He has a really bad temper and sometimes he would take punishments a bit too far.. 

I know this is kinda all over the place, but the reason I am reaching out is because she is at her breaking point. She has lost all hope and is barely hanging on. 

After she finally decided to divorce him a few months ago, he began stalking her. He even had a few of his friends follow her around and sit outside her apartment at all hours of the night. Then he began forcing himself back into the picture, threatening her, manipulating her, choking and hitting her… She fears for not only her life, but ours too. She is so mentally unstable she doesn’t go into stores anymore, doesn’t communicate hardly with anyone. Things have been really bad lately… 

I just want to be able to help my mom get back on her feet and move out of this town like she wants to do. She’s always been the strong one in our family, but now she needs someone to be the strong one for her. 

So, thank you all in advance for reading about what’s heavy on my heart right now. All donations are appreciated. Please keep my mom and sister in your thoughts and prayers. ❤️