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I am nearly 60 years old and am loosing everything. I lost my job and downsized to an apartment with the rest in storage. I still have not found a job and have been served eviction papers on the apartment and registered mail for the auction of my storage. I haven't been to the grocery store in months and now am down to a few canned goods and oatmeal. I need your help and am hoping someone will see this and contact me. this is a last ditch effort to salvage what is left of my life. Please think of me and help me. I don;t know what else to do. This is the act of someone who is is panic stricken. Please help me.

I am nearly 60 years old and am loosing everything. I lost my job and downsized to an apartment with the rest in storage. I still have not found a job and have been served eviction papers on the apartment and registered mail for the auction of my storage. I haven't been to the grocery store in months and now am down to a few canned goods and oatmeal. I need your help and am hoping someone will see this and contact me. this is a last ditch effort to salvage what is left of my life. Please think of me and help me. I don;t know what else to do. This is the act of someone who is is panic stricken. Please help me.

I am nearly 60 years old and am loosing everything. I lost my job and downsized to an apartment with the rest in storage. I still have not found a job and have been served eviction papers on the apartment and registered mail for the auction of my storage. I haven't been to the grocery store in months and now am down to a few canned goods and oatmeal. I need your help and am hoping someone will see this and contact me. this is a last ditch effort to salvage what is left of my life. Please think of me and help me. I don;t know what else to do. This is the act of someone who is is panic stricken. Please help me.

I am nearly 60 years old and am loosing everything. I lost my job and downsized to an apartment with the rest in storage. I still have not found a job and have been served eviction papers on the apartment and registered mail for the auction of my storage. I haven't been to the grocery store in months and now am down to a few canned goods and oatmeal. I need your help and am hoping someone will see this and contact me. this is a last ditch effort to salvage what is left of my life. Please think of me and help me. I don;t know what else to do. This is the act of someone who is is panic stricken. Please help me.

I am nearly 60 years old and am loosing everything. I lost my job and downsized to an apartment with the rest in storage. I still have not found a job and have been served eviction papers on the apartment and registered mail for the auction of my storage. I haven't been to the grocery store in months and now am down to a few canned goods and oatmeal. I need your help and am hoping someone will see this and contact me. this is a last ditch effort to salvage what is left of my life. Please think of me and help me. I don;t know what else to do. This is the act of someone who is is panic stricken. Please help me.

I am nearly 60 years old and am loosing everything. I lost my job and downsized to an apartment with the rest in storage. I still have not found a job and have been served eviction papers on the apartment and registered mail for the auction of my storage. I haven't been to the grocery store in months and now am down to a few canned goods and oatmeal. I need your help and am hoping someone will see this and contact me. this is a last ditch effort to salvage what is left of my life. Please think of me and help me. I don;t know what else to do. This is the act of someone who is is panic stricken. Please.

I need money for food. I know most people would say I should go to a food bank or get food stamps. I already do get food stamps. I qualify for $14 a month. And I have tried to go to food banks, but because I have medical issues, especially food sensitivities like gluten intolerance and insulin resistance, I cannot eat processed food, like canned or even rice or bread. I am caseine intolerant too, so I can't have cows milk/or powdered milk. I can drink almond milk. Sometimes I starve waiting for my next SSDI check. I'm a simple eater, like mostly just one ingredient foods, but the problem is being able to afford them.

Hello everyone. I am doing this for my older brother who is basically homeless and has been for seven months now. He was taking care of our mother while she battled cancer and had to be home full time because we could not afford the private care.

Our mom passed away April of this year. She left him the house so he would have something that belonged to him but she also left behind some expensive bills. He has been unable to find work of any kind. The lights and water were eventually turned off in the beginning of June and he has had neither since then.

He has no way to bathe, clean, store food or anything. The electric bill with interest is several hundred dollars and I know the water bill is up to $504 AND they have a lean on the home until it is paid which means it increases by $25 every month. I was going to put the utilities in my name but apparently a "renter" has to pay high deposits if the owner owes money at that address and those deposits are just as expensive. All of this doesn't include the $680 in back taxes on the property. If I can just get his bills paid off I can maintain the monthly costs for him.

Yes he does have a home but essentially it is nothing more than a tent. He lives off of $160 in foodstamps a month and rides the free bus everywhere. In April he weighed 248lbs. He now weighs 152lbs due to having to eat cold canned foods. I don't know what else to do. I have tried everything I can think of. My husband is the only one working so we are unable to do much for him ourselves not to mention I live a few states away. We have no other family ... it's just the 2 of us. He deserves a little help in return for the sacrifices he has made. He had to put his life on hold to watch our mother die.

Seriously... every penny helps. We will not turn our nose up at any donations whether it be a $1 or a penny. I do not know what kind of proof that I can offer other than copies of the bills and shut off notices .. and an obituary.

ANYONE who can help I will be forever indebted to you and I swear on my life itself that anything that is left over will be given back to others on this site that truly need it.

If you have any questions you can contact me at alba_2oo6@yahoo.com

UPDATE: Lights have been taken care of ... thank you. Water and taxes are still hanging over his head. Today the city informed him he had 7 days to have both lights and water or the house will be condemned.

Without sufficient friends or family to rely on, a single person with special-needs pets needs your help in any amount. No steady work in spite of many interviews and diligent searching, multiple health issues, and lack of adequate support network have left this person in a desperate situation. Ten dollars will buy a bag of groceries. One hundred dollars will pay an electricity bill. Eight hundred dollars will help keep this person and the pets in their home. Eighty dollars will help keep communications open so this person can continue to look for work. Eighty-three dollars will buy prescription dry and canned pet food. Twenty dollars will pay for human prescriptions. Two hundred dollars will buy a warm winter coat that fits and which is suitable for job interviews. Five dollars will buy a thrift store garment in the person's current size (presentable clothes that fit are an issue). One hundred twenty dollars will buy a suit for a job interview. Sixty dollars will buy shoes that do not hurt and which are suitable for work. Thirty dollars will help pay for the laundromat for a couple of weeks. Fifteen dollars will buy an herbal supplement to help treat a life-threatening condition.

The financial situation for this person has become very dire due to lack of work. The person is applying for many types of jobs at any rate of pay. This is a skilled and educated individual who is eager to do any work of which the person is capabale. Any amount can help relieve the health-robbing pressure and burden on this person. Two hundred fifty dollars would allow the person to get a needed cleaning for the first time in over two years and to check on tooth pain and a possible jaw problem. Ten dollars will cover the required donation required to visit a low-income medical clinic. Twenty-five dollars will cover most urgent prescriptions for a month.

Two dollars will buy a little bit of fruit. Four hundred dollars will provide a vision exam and new glasses or a couple of pair of replacement lenses as this person is having difficulty seeing with the old glasses.

Please forgive the third person description. It is very hard to write this and just about impossible to use the word "I" in telling this story.

Even a tiny amount will help go for something necessary. No amount is too large or too small to be appreciated or put to practical use to help a very grateful person climb out of a very bad situation and create a more stable and secure life. Thank you again for reading.

To the kind people of the world,
I am writing this to you as a last effort to aid in my families dire situation. 4 years ago I was diagnosed with Spondylolisthesis, A chronic and crippling disease of the spine. As a father of a 3 year old, this disease renders me unable to do a lot with my son. Social Security Disability has denied me, and to add to it, we have no health insurance.
I find it hard to work due to the constant pain of my disease. I cannot afford treatment, nor am I able to keep up with my current bills. (which is not "out side my means of living", but are basic needs. Electricity, HEAT (in these very frigid times in upstate NY). We had 2 phones given to us last year from medicaid, all which are exhausted of minutes from calling looking for work.
My fiance Has finished school leaving her with student loans to be paid back in an ever so declining job market. This does not help our situation. We are very capable of working with in our means, but to no avail.
This will be my sons first Christmas where he actually knows something is going on. We have unfortunately had to cancel all lay a ways, and events we had planned for this holiday season. Our thanksgiving consisted of canned soup and baked beans. (not to sound materialistic) but it was heart wrenching to me, thinking to myself, " I cannot provide for my family"
Then, with all these situations plaguing us, our car becomes in operable. With more repairs than the car is worth. We are now left, in danger of not only having our heat and electricity shut off, but we face eviction unless we can come up with back rent owed of 4 months. We do not blame this on our landlord, as she lives in the same times as us. Her hand will be forced to evict us.
I have never brought myself to do such a thing like this, asking for money. But I guess I am hoping that there are still caring individuals in this world that can extend a hand to a fellow human being. So with the greatest humility I ask of you to donate what you can. This is not a long term goal to just see how much I can "panhandle". I am a 29 year old man, sitting typing in tears, at a public library. This is my last hope. We have sold everything we owned in order to keep our heads above water.
Please, I can not stand to look at the wonderful smile on my 3 year old son, and know inside that I am running out of options.
The most important of all is our back rent though at 350 a month times 4 gives me an outstanding balance of 1400

I am a mother of two young children struggling to make ends meet. I was laid off from my job 7 months ago and have yet to find employment. Every day has become a struggle not knowing where our next meal will come from or how I will manage to get the things we need. I was once donating to church food pantrys and now I'm the one standing in line waiting for a grocery bag filled with canned goods. My heart breaks knowing christmas is just around the corner and I will not be able to buy my children gifts, or even a christmas tree. I have faith in God that there is someone out there that will see this and be able to give, to pay it forward, and make two children smile. If that's you, I thank you from the bottom of my heart! Thank you for taking the time to read this. - For the joy of the Lord is my strength. Nehemiah 8:10

I lost my job a year ago from the recession, and I've been on unemployment since. My unemployment has recently ended a few months ago. Since then, I've no money to pay my rent to shelter my 4 year old daughter or myself, our food has finally finished, we are pretty much living on crackers and potty meat and pipe water. Its been extremely hard for us. My daughter doesn't understand our financial situation and why we are eating the same canned food everyday, and she doesn't even understand or know that we are going to live on the streets in a few weeks. I've been looking for work, but I can't even afford to pay for daycare/childcare for my daughter. I am very desperate now, for the sake of my daughter, I've decided to post this beg, so someone can help us. I know there is alot of people that needs help, and we are definitely one of them. Can someone help us to please keep a shelter over our heads and food in our stomachs. Thank You!!...Any donation will help us!!

I am hoping to find someone with a big enough heart to help us out here. We have two children, 9 and 6, myself and my husband, and my step-mother. My husband hurt his arm in 2007 at work, and we are still in court with his former employer, because he lost use of his right arm. So he is unable to work, and we receive welfare money. I am a really bad type 1 diabetic and have been since I was 5, and am unable to maintain proper employment, so I am on on SSD. We also have my father's (he passed away at Christmas in 2010) fiance, who is may as well be a step-mother to me who lives with us, who has 3 types of cancer, all stage 4, and she is bedridden, and very very sick. (and she is only 57) We lost our baby son to SIDS in 2009, and things have just kept up being really difficult for us, everytime we almost catch up on bills, somebody dies or gets sick, or the car breaks, and then we end up borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. We have a really old house (pre-civil war) which is hard to keep heated in the winter, and hard to keep cool in the summer, and cant afford to fix the furnace, the water tanks, or the windows. Our car is a '99 van thats falling apart worse every day, and alls we do is drive to doctors and the grocery store. I am at the end of the rope here with being able to sell off any collectibles or music, or electronics that we have, I've been recycling bottles from family members, and saving up all the change we find, but it just isn't enough. My kids, I can't even afford them new summer clothes, and they're both growing like weeds. I have been lucky that I always prepare for the worst, and so I have a bunch of canned food, and we have a few chickens that give us eggs, but we are on our way to sinking beyond the point of saving. Please, we are good God-fearing people, we aren't out to buy ourselves some tv or motorcycle, we have no credit card debt, cuz we think its bad to do that, we just have nothing left to give. I would like to be able to fix our furnace, and insulate our hotwater tank, and maybe be able to fix our car better than we've been doing with metal tape and putty. I would like to be able to get a bag of fresh vegetables and fruit for the kids to stay healthy, and I would like to be able to pay our bills this month.

Lost home due to sale of mother's estate. Have no job, no unemployment compensation, just food stamps, which is not even enough for all food. Have to live in my car and eat things like cold canned foods that should be heated. Have no money for gas and am running out. Continually get hassled for parking and sleeping. Have no money for clothes or to get existing ones washed. My pants constantly slip down due to weight loss and other clothes are worn. Would get job if I could have a place to stay to look right, etc. Homeless shelters in area are terrible and one may not even be able to get into one. I could lose thousands of dollars worth of items plus irreplaceable invaluable personal ones if I can't continue to rent the storage unit that they are in. I will soon owe $50 to keep my car registered and legally driveable. It is difficult or impossible to sell a car without a home or the ability to post pictures of the the car. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

i am a 26 yr old female who has been physically and emotionally abused / neglected my entire life. i have no friends or anyone to help me at all and only 1 survivng family member, my mother who i was recently living with. her abuse was extreme and horrible and it was way too much to handle so now i am homeless. i dont really have any other options, i have nothing of value and was not able to attend school due to a rocky home life so i dropped out in 5th grade. i am trying really hard to better my life and i got my GED w/ nearly perfect scores and i am trying to attend college as best i can. i am very smart and gifted and am getting a perfect grade in my nutrition and science classes. it is really hard to do anything as i have no money at all, i havent been able to find a job all year, i am literally starving and have not eaten for about 2 days because i have to beg for money to eat off of dollar menus. i am not able to get food stamps because i am in college, i have no financial aid because i am just starting college and my gpa was too low due to withdrawls. i had to withdraw because of abuse and the toll it was taking on me and my grades. i have no income or money at all. social services are completely failing me and i am starving, dirty, homeless, and seriously depressed. i practically live out of public restrooms and sometimes i do eat leftover food i find discarded. i dont want to sound overly dramatic but this is really what i have to do to get by. my school gives me canned food every week that i basically live off of and i have to conserve it by eating it about once a day / every other day, ( its not very much, maybe a day or so worth of food ). when it rains i sometimes sleep in the student health center if i am unable to find an adequate freezing corner to crawl into. i am so alone, i have been my whole life, i have nothing and no one and i never really have had any kind of life. i am so tired, i try so hard to better my life and its just really hard and depressing. i will do anything for money just so i can eat. if i wasnt fat or ugly i would go become a hooker or some kind of criminal at this point. i will seriously do anything. if u have anything in mind let me know, i will do it. i have barely any resources and my last shred of hope is hanging pretty thin. i am probably going to end up dying anyways because i am just wasting away and nothing ever really gets any better. i dont care if i live or die. i have nothing and no one and i am horribly alone and sad. i need serious help and i doubt anyone or anything is going to give a rats ass about a worthless unwanted accident in the first place. public services fail me, i do not have any children or drug addictions. maybe if i starve enough i will become thin enough to be a stripper. i really need to see a doctor. honestly no one will ever care what happens to me. i need some serious help. i am trying to have a normal life and be a normal person. i need money to eat and maybe 1 nice outfit to wear on an interview, i have nothing. im not too concerned where i sleep anymore. anything you can help me with would be eternally appreciated and i will give it all back when i am able to. i want to save enough money to get out of this state and get some kind of place / life somewhere because i cant afford to live here even if i did have a job. i am stuck here and really need a way out. please help me, someone, anyone. i am entirely grateful from the bottom of my heart, what little is left of it. =(

My unemployment ran out since March of 2010. I have been in school and have almost 90 college credits and will have a Bachelor's Degree by next year. I will also have $45,000 in debt on top of unpaid credit cards. I owe the corner store man over $100 dollars because my foodstamps do not cover the entire month for myself and my son who is also unemployed and in college, not do they pay for pet food. I have two cats that have been with us for 12 years and I cannot even think about putting them in a shelter, but I am struggling to feed them. I am diligently looking for work, revising and sending my resume, daily. I am so worried and I have health issues such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol from eating sodium filled canned food from food pantries. I stand in lines that last 4-6 hours for a half a bag of groceries, when there is food. I divide the food for my son, my pets and myself. I am so depressed and afraid of what tomorrow will bring. Welfare only gives $140 a month, I currently have no toilet tissue, toothpaste, laundry detergent, shampoo or soap. I can't live like this, all I want to do is work. I have also been taking care of some stray cats and cannot find them a home. I want to work so bad!!! I feel depressed but I keep going the best I can. Please someone help me and my family! I can't fit my old clothes and I don't even have decent clothes or shoes to go on an interview with. My computer is old and on its way out. Any food and pet food household items, clothes will be greatly appreciated. We are really suffering and there is no hope in sight. When I start working again, I will do what I can to return the favor....please, please help us! No one seems to care.

Good day.

My name is Julian, and with recently getting laid off from work and trying to pay for college, I am left with eating only boiled noodles and the occasional canned food. I'm not going to ask for much, but just enough so I can at least afford to post some items on Ebay to sell. I'd transfer money to my paypal account from my bank account, but I have $1.16, and if I drop it any farther, they will most likely close my bank account. I've already had to drop 2 classes and sell some books back just to pay this months rent, and I'm only one month into school.

As I stated before, I'm not looking for anything too out of reach. Even just 50 cents could help me to sell some items here at home, and get on my way to buying some frozen dinners at the very least.

Donations just may stop me from falling any farther than I already have.


Best of wishes to you for taking the time to read this.

I am disabled I have bi-polar disorder, Post traumatic stress disorder diabetes, restless leg syndrome and very bad depression. I live on a fixed income and get 70.00 in food stamps a month. I have been eating ramen noodles and potatoes and the high carbs have made my diabetes worse. I have been to the local food banks only to be turned away. They don't have enough food to go around and save it for people with children.

I would rather not eat than to take away food from a hungry child, but I go for two or three days at times with out anything to eat.

I am all alone. I have tried to find a job working for food as I can not get a job with all my health problems my medicare would be gone. My neck has been broken and so has my lower back so I can't really stand for long periods of time.

I used to help people and donate to the local food banks when I worked I even donated my time to our animal shelter since I love animals so much.

I never thought in a million years that I would be asking for donations for food. I would love to be able to drink some milk and have some cereal for breakfast these are some of the things I can't afford.

Even when I use coupons and go to sales at the kroger store 70.00 gets me maybe enough food for a week and a half.

When I eat roman noodles my feet swell up so big I have high blood pressure and the canned cheap soups have so much sodium.

Thanks for your time. If there are children on here help them first I would rather starve than to take away anything from a child or a defenseless animal.

Sincerely
Carla