tl ; dr:
I’m literally down to my last five dollars in my bank account and am in desperate need of help this month.
I’ve hit up food banks/pantries to get food where and when I can and I’m not able to get food stamps until I get work study from school (which I can’t get until old loan mess is cleared up and that’s been a messy process), which means I have no source of income – inbetween jobs, no financial aid at school, no government assistance yet. I live with my emotionally abusive sister who isn’t working either and not helping me out very much – whether she helps or not, she guilts me for even asking. I have about fifteen job applications out there, but have yet to hear back from anywhere yet.
I’ve got bills that need covered, possibly a new laptop, a dog to take care of, and general life expenses (even though the dog comes before most of that stuff).
As a mentally ill black woman trying to support herself through school/life, things are rough right now, and swallowing pride is hard.
https://www.youcaring.com/gabrielle-blanchard-595632
I’ll add the links to my blog as well for anyone willing to help.
THANK YOU.
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I’m bedbound with a very serious neurological condition that has been rapidly getting worse. I’ve also been unable to access specialist medical care for 8 months, due to transport costs.
I need to move to the suburb near my neurologist’s practice by 21st July, which is when my next appointment is. My condition is getting very severe and I’m concerned I could be in serious danger if I don’t have prompt access to medical care.
To prevent physical aggravations from travel, I need to move closer to my neurologist’s practice. I’ve been told that my housing application hasn’t been assessed yet, so I will need to either find some sort of temporary accommodation or apply and pay bond for an apartment in the area.
If I can apply for an apartment, assuming $400/week rent and $2400 upfront rent + bond, I still need another $654 for the upfront payment. I also need about $450 for the following regardless of where I end up staying: payment for assistance with locating a suitable budget motel or apartment, payment for accessibility-related inspections on my behalf, and miscellaneous purchases (food, toiletries, sheets).
Here is a more general update on my situation (incl. about the previously mentioned 15th July termination date) and here is evidence of my medical condition.
These are the donations options if you’re able to donate. Thanks everyone for your support.
– PayPal
donations page (PayPal account not required)
– PayPal.me (PayPal account required; no fee for PayPal balance transfers)
– PayPal transfer to sophaldred at gmail dot com if PayPal.me is unavailable.
Okay, someone asked me to make a comprehensive post about whats going down. I’m struggling and have been struggling with financial problems for a while, I explain more in this post:
http://anakin-skylord.tumblr.com/post/147408760061/please-help-me-and-my-family
and I talk about my food issues/not having food/skipping meals in this post
http://anakin-skylord.tumblr.com/post/147408750041/booooo
Things go back and forth between slightly more stable and then back to skipping meals and struggling to get by, We have an inspection next week for our apartment because there is going to be a buyout, The buyout means that new ownership is going to happen and who knows what they are going to do, What if they think our house is too messy and don’t want us as tenants? What if they raise the price?
We’ve been late on rent a couple of times, the landlord has tried to be as understanding as possible but there is no room for that anymore and if we continue not to be able to pay there’s a HUGE possibility that we’ll get kicked out, We have no friends, no family, and nobody who would help us or take us in, We also do not have a car we’d be able to sleep in or anything like that.
I am constantly offering edit commissions, icons/avatars, wallpapers, banners, book covers and whatever else.
Because of the nature of the emergency situation I accept donations as well.
paypal – teapotsx3@aim.com or paypal.me/tnnyoh
https://gumroad.com/ropeturtles
http://ropeturtles.deviantart.com/prints/
I am so SO sorry for this post (and others like it) I just am struggling, feel completely alone and do not know what to do, My birthday is in 3 days and I have so much overwhelming me that I can’t even be excited about it.
Please signal boost this!
Please READ & signal boost this and help #SaveNujood from being forced back into her abusive family!
here’s a news article on this as well: http://apex.news/world/middle-east/20160712/savenujood-lgbt-atheist-fled-abuse-persecution-forcibly-removed-from-turkey/
I wrecked my car and now I’m screwed
My name is Rigel, a transgender college student from Pennsylvania and I have ADHD. I have been off my meds since October because I couldn’t afford them.
On the 9th of July I wrecked my car. There were no major injuries, but my car is no longer drivable. Although there is a chance that my brakes failed, I am 100% sure that I would not have gotten into the crash if I had been on my meds.
Now that I have no car, I can not get to work, which means I have no money for anything. Doctors, meds, a new car, rent, food, bills etc. In addition, my very transphobic parents are talking about forcing to come back in live in their house for the summer, instead of my apartment, were I will be isolated for any support of my gender identity. I know that if I return home for this period of time, I most likely won’t make it out in piece.
While I have been looking for a second job that I am able to walk to for months, I am having very little luck. Whether its due to my gender, or dyslexic handwriting, or those shitty personality quizzes, I am not sure.
Until I get another job, I don’t know what I am going to do. That’s way I’m asking, please, If you could spare anything, even a dollar, I would be forever grateful. I don’t really have any skills to offer up in exchange, so I probably don’t deserve anything, but I am desperate right now.
My PayPal (under my birth name, Alex
andra) email is commander.wolffe(@)gmail.com if you could spare a few dollars.Thanks
Hi Artists on Tumblr!
My name is Ren and I’m a current communications design student at Carnegie Mellon University. You may recognize some of my work from my graphics and gifs on my blog, or my various web design work. What you may not know is I also do portfolio websites for commission! Prices vary depending on the simplicity of what you want, but feel free to PM me and we can talk about the details. I have a lot of experience making websites, including my own (it is currently down because it’s under construction, but I’ll link it here in an update).
I’m also a college student looking to make a little extra money, so if you’ve ever wanted a website, please talk to me! You’re not committed to anything by hitting me up and figuring out what your pricing would be.
And also feel free to reblog this to signal boost <3
$1590 needed by tomorrow for rent, home care, etc… please help me with this.
The background is that I’m unable to leave my bed because of a neurological condition and I’m dependent on expensive home care services. Unfortunately, the due dates for rent and a large home care invoice instalment almost coincided, so I need to raise $1590 for these (and some other payments) by tomorrow. The cut-off time for bank transfers is 5pm Monday 10th July AEST, or 3am Monday 10th July EST, so I need the amount by then. Medical reports and the home care invoice have been uploaded on this side blog
ETA: I just realised that I will almost certainly need to leave my accommodation by this Friday (15th July)…
there’s probably no patient transport on the official termination date on Sunday. I need carers to help with applying for apartments, so it’s particularly important that I have enough money to pay them this week. I’ll also need more hours of home care than I originally predicted. Relocating is a huge task in my situation, because I have to find cheap accessible accommodation and arrange paramedic transport. If I fail to successfully apply for a suitable apartment by Friday, I could become homeless.
It’s difficult to really capture the urgency of this situation, and I hope it’s apparent I really need a lot of help. These are the options for making donations, if you’re able to do so. Thank you.
– PayPal
donations page (PayPal account not required)
– PayPal.me (PayPal account required; no fee for PayPal balance transfers)
– PayPal transfer to romana2252 at gmail dot com if PayPal.me is unavailable.
If there are extra donations received, they will also go towards essentials only.Update: there are $1127 left to raise.
I’ve been kicked out
So my family found out that I’m not straight, and my homophobic grandmother is staying with us at the moment; long story short she pitched a fit, and my parents took her side and have ‘asked’ me to leave. Apparently I can come back when she’s gone, but I’ll have to leave every time she comes to stay; so I’m not sure I even want to go back.
I have no idea what I’m going to do. I don’t have a job, I don’t have any friends I can stay with (I’ve asked) and I am so scared. I would like to ask for your help, I’m too proud to just straight up ask for money, but I have a Red Bubble and I would really appreciate it if anyone could buy something off of there to help keep me on my feet, at least until I can find a job.
Thanks xx
I’m severely disabled and my accommodation could terminate on 17th July. Please help me avoid homelessness.
Here is an update to my other donations post about the bond + rent situation. As I’ve mentioned, I have a serious neurological condition that prevents me from leaving my bed without a stretcher. See – @fundraiser-evidence for medical reports.
My home care agency no longer has the staff capacity to guarantee advocacy for extensions to my stay at my current accommodation. This means that it’s likely I will be forced to leave by 17th July. I need to do everything to avoid becoming homeless, because having no accommodation and no bed would be deadly with my disability.
Apart from this, I also need to move to a different part of the city for medical reasons, by 21st July. I’m unable to regularly travel to neurologist’s appointments from my current location due to extremely high costs of paramedic transport.
My government housing application is unlikely to be granted by 17th July or 21st July, so I would like to apply for an apartment through a real estate agency. The bond + upfront rent will cost $2535 in total, and I will need to raise another $1997 as soon as possible.
I know this is a great deal of money. I would not be asking for help if I felt I had any other viable solutions to avoiding homelessness after 17th July; I also think getting better access to medical care will dramatically improve my situation – both financially and health-wise.
I would really appreciate any donations to help with the payment. These can be made to my PayPal.me page, linked here. I’m using an 2nd account temporarily to help separate & organise my funds. If PayPal.me doesn’t work, then a transfer can be made to sophaldred at gmail dot com. If you don’t have a PayPal account, then a donation can be made to this
page instead. Thanks everyone for your generosity and your sympathy with my situation.If I’m granted government assistance, any donations received will instead be used for upfront rent + furniture, and/or similar essential expenses.
I need help..
I don’t do this. I was SHSL hesitant about doing this, but I don’t really have a choice..
So I’m homeless now.
I was living with my mother. The apartment we lived in was in a 2 family home and our old landlord sold it. The new landlord desperately wanted us out and she hatched a scheme to put us out.
She stopped collecting rent for 2 months and then sued my mother saying that she wasn’t getting rent. Trying to say we were bad tenants. (My mom had the money and was contacting the landlord to pay the rent. But she avoided my mom for the 2 months when she decided to pull this.)
When it went to court, my mom (who is legally disabled) was able to prove that she was able to pay and attempted to pay the landlord. The ultimate court ruling still ended up in the landlord’s favor (presumably because they give 0 fucks). My mother told the judge she has nowhere to go and the judge just responded with: “stay with a relative or something.”
Even before this new landlord took over, we’d been trying to move. My state is expensive, so we were trying to look for a house instead of another apartment. House deals fell through. Then we started looking for apartments. This new landlord KNEW WE WERE TRYING TO MOVE OUT ANYWAY. In the ruling, mom was ordered to move out in 7 days, pay the landlord the 2 months, and court fees.
All our money to move was gone just like that.
We don’t have family who can take us in.
We can’t get any aid because my mom isn’t poor enough. Same with everyone else in the house. We’re not “poor enough” for shelters or assistance.
There’s so much more to this story, but I don’t want to keep rambling and have people reading a fucking novel. I have depression with suicidal tendencies and just reflecting on the year since I got out the mental hospital in January is just making me feel worse.
I just…we need money and anything anyone can donate, if they’re willing to, can help.
Right now, we all had to separate. I’m staying with a friend who was willing to take in just me until August. No one really wants to take 4 adults into their home..
So as of right now, come August, the only place we have to live is our car..
My paypal email is dij2@njit.edu
I’d hope to be able to still pay my bills (I’m not working because school takes up too much time. I’m in the middle of a summer course.) and maybe if possible, get enough for a deposit on a new apartment.
I’ve needed money for a long time and tried to do writing commissions, but I really can’t bring myself to do writing requests..
If you don’t want to donate, at least reblog?