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Hi everyone. My name is Denise I am 65 years old and a disabled veteran. I am from Springfield, Missouri. I have problems with my knees, legs, back and even though I can not get around easily, I am on a cane. I also suffer from severe depression, migraines and flash backs from war, I am very forgetful among other things. I had to move in with my son and daughter in law because I can not live alone or take care of myself. I have also had a triple bypass and have two brain tumors. What brings me here today is last night my chair broke. When i sit in it i start to sink down in the middle and I can't let my legs up. My son and his wife can not afford to get me a new chair. I have been watching Craigslist for one but I am having no luck at all. Having a comfortable recliner to rest in would mean the world to me. My wish is to find someone that can help me with getting one. Thanks everyone for reading my post and God bless each and everyone of you. I have a wal mart wish list set up but I don't know how to link it. Thanks all.

If you’ve recently heard or watched the news about the flash flood that happened in Cagayan De Oro, Mindanao, Philippines, that claimed hundreds of lives, I’m asking a BIG favor to Please Help in whatever way you can. You can offer a prayer, money, donations or just spread the word, I need all the help from you guys.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/18/world/asia/philippines-storm/index.html

Hello my name is charles shephard and Im a Iraq vet with severe PTSD and bipolar disorder. I have had a very hard life since coming back from Iraq. When I came back from Iraq they didn't send me to a mental health specialist. I'm fighting the VA right now for disability. They are telling me that I need to get a lawyer and get ALL my paper work together showing that I have PTSD and Bipolar because of the Army. I need help with paying a lawyer to help me with my case. My doctors already said I can NOT work at all. I have a severe mental condition that keeps me from working. The Army messed me up in the head. And I didn't even know what PTSD was until 2 years ago. The WHOLE military gets tested for any type of mental conditions that they get while serving over seas. Back in 2003 they did not. This is there fault and they wont help me with a lawyer. I need at least 500 dollars for a good lawyer. Anyone that can would be great. I hate staying home every day in fear because I can not handle seeing anyone else but my wife. I have flash backs all the time and I really don't want to live in fear of the outside work. Any help would be appropriated.

Our story began 2 years ago when my unmarried partner of 13 years has a nervous breakdown forcing my son and I (a stay-at-home mom) to move from Indiana down to Florida to live with my parents. We had little money, no job, no home and a 10 year old car in need of a transmission. It was a truly devastating time in our lives.

Flash forward two years later. I am now gainfully employed and we have a small 2 bedroom apartment. Sadly, however, it took 9 months to find a job. In the meantime, we used my credit cards to pay our bills and living expenses resulting in high debt and not much extra to cover these now.

I am now faced with the fact that I will need to file bankruptcy unless I can pay down these debts. I've always paid my bills. I want to honor my debt and repay it. Please help us to pay down our debt. Any little bit will help... and will be MUCH appreciated.

I wouldn't ask for help if I didn't feel it absolutely necessary, however I feel that I must humble myself in order to do the right thing for my son and I.

I know times are tough for many of us. I feel blessed to have had the help I needed two years ago. It is my wish to get out of debt so that I, too, can turn around and help others in need.

Many thanks, in advance, for your time and consideration.

I need to sell some things. I am on disability and need extra money to pay some things that need paid very soon. Here I have The Incredibles SBC Phone by Disney. You can go to Ebay and look at this phone and some of the phones and u can see what prices they have and how nice it is. It is very nice. This phone is new, in box. It has a delete key, flash key, illuminated call alert, lcd 3 line caller id display, scroll keys, voice mail indicator and voice mail retrieval. You don't need batteries to keep id caller working. There is a adapter for that. This phone is a fun phone, a collectors phone, can be used in a childs room, or even in any room. A fun conversation peice too. I have about 8 of these phones still in boxes, never been used. I am asking $10.00 for each plus s/h. Please call me for further information. You can pay for this item through my paypal account: cassidydoll@hotmail.com Again, I am in desperate need of help, so if anyone can help me here it would be greatly apprecieated. Donations will also be apprecieated too as I am on kidney dialysis and other medical problems and I can't work. Wish I could. Well. thanks for your time. You can even email me at: cassidydoll@hotmail.com too.

Updates: September 11, 2011 - I have been able to get a part-time job which is good news, but the rest is just about the same. Thank you for your help Malum Designs
and Pete B.
Since my previous posts have yielded only four donations over the last five months I thought I would try this approach. My financial problems are quite real. If you find my fable entertaining please send a small donation.
- Fortuna vitrea est, tum cum splendet frangitur -

The Grasshopper and the Ant
A Classic retold by Joseph the Beggar King
Part One

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, there were two friends, the Grasshopper and the Ant. Why these two became friends is a bit of a mystery. The Grasshopper was a dreamer and a drifter. The Ant was a believer and an achiever.

In school the Grasshopper would look out the window without thought and only learned the subjects he found interesting. Sometimes he would fall asleep in Math class, other times when a angry teacher would jump him with a pop question he would give the correct answer in way that would confound them.

The Ant was a teachers dream, he soaked up every subject the system taught him, gave the correct answers in the correct way and got straight A s. He would delight his Math teacher by doing compound interest in his head. The Ant believed that what they taught him would help him succeed and was very completive. After graduating High School the Ant got an Academic Scholarship and the Grasshopper got a Pell Grant.

Within four years the Ant got two BS degrees in Business Management and Engineering. The Grasshopper dropped out after the first year. He went to live with the Rainbow Tribe for a few years. On the way to the bus station he found an old fiddle in a trash pile along the road and when he got station he was able to panhandle his bus fare. That was the Grasshoppers first beg.

The Ant took the College like a fish to water. During open Rush some Greeks invite him to be a brother in their Fraternity. He earned his dues by being the Frat Houses Accountant and made beer money by writing term papers. One day while visiting the Tri Deltas he watches the girls play volleyball and is amazed that even though they are playing a vigorous game not one of them breaks a sweat. It is there he meets the girl of his dreams, Polly Fishbane.

While the Grasshopper was living with the Rainbow Tribe he never meets the girl of his dreams, but it does not really matter too much because they believe in Free Love. So free, in fact, that after what you might call the Honeymoon he found himself getting a little bored with it. From the Rainbow Tribe he learns to live off the fat of country and from his new friend, Buffalo with Runs, he learns to live off the land. Buffalo with Runs was an very old Indian that was adopted by the tribe. He taught the Grasshopper what wild plants were safe to eat or use for medicines. He showed him how to set traps and hunt small game. Then, during one winter Gathering four people froze to dead because they were too stoned to come in out of the cold. The Grasshopper became very sad and hopped away.

The Ant is recruited by a Aerospace firm even before he graduated college and goes to work on the Apollo Program. He and his new wife Polly loved the Florida sunshine and settle down to start the American Dream. They decide to have two and half children. Even though the third kid looked a bit odd the Ant loved him as only a father can. With easy money down and mortgage tax deductions compliments of Uncle Sam, they get a house with a two car garage. Next they get two cars and the Rat Race is on. The Ant loves it! Working on the Apollo Program is more than a job, it is being part of history. Polly loves it! Raising their kids and Keeping up of with the Jones. She starts selling Avon products on the side. The Ant buys the best bass boat in the neighborhood, but only uses it once a year because he too busy working. He sets up his retirement funds and a small stock portfolio. Life is Good!

After leaving the Rainbow Tribe the Grasshopper panhandles his way across the country. He sets up in parks and subways where he pretends to play his fiddle while selling jewelry made of deer anthers and beads. The noise he makes with his fiddle sounds like a cat being killed and people give him money just to make him stop. Before the Cops run him off, the Grasshopper usually made enough in one day of begging to cover his needs for the week. When he is hungry he goes to a Soup Kitchen and when he needs clothing there are the Sharing Centers. Every now and then he lets some good hearted woman try to save him. Life is Good and he hops away.

The Apollo Program ends and the new Shuttle program does not start for a couple of years. The Aerospace company were the Ant works at does not win any of the new bids. They offer him a job in California at 20% less of his salary. Polly and the kids are in a rage. Nobody wants to move and leave their friends. The Ant sells his house at a loss because the real estate market in flooded by the laid offs. The one car and the boat are reprocessed. He sells off his stock portfolio for the down payment on the new house in California and even though money is tight the Ant decides to take the family on a short vacation to Key West to uplift their spirits. He finds the Grasshopper selling deer antler jewelry at the Front Street Market. While Polly and the kids go shopping, he and Grasshopper catch up and have a couple of beers. The Ant tells his friend about the laid offs and the move. The Grasshopper asks him - Are you Happy - ? The Ant says - Yes -. His friend says, - Good - . They watch the sunset and see a green flash on the horizon.
To be continue.

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In 2007 I purchased a small commercial building in Ishpeming, Michigan. My goal was to fix it up and set up a business inside. Unfortunately around the same time I found myself out of a job. Flash forward to 2011. I am working now, but I do not have the funds to do the rehab myself. I do have some cash set aside for the project just not enough. I have also not been able to secure a loan for it either. I am hoping to raise enough to get a good start on the project and maybe even use that equity to secure the loan to do the whole project.

The building needs a new roof, new windows, new doors, a boiler, and the plumbing and electrical needs to be checked out and repaired as necessary.

thanks for any help.

Hi Kind folks, I am a 42 year old man who gave up my previos family life 6yrs ago to start a Brand new life with same sex partner. After leaving all my worldy goods with my ex wife and kids and starting a new life with my new partner it all has gone horribly wrong.
Now I am left with nothing, i have 2 weeks to find somewhere new to live and a lifetime of begging forgiveness to my family for the mess that i left.
Thankfully my kids know that I am gay and are fine with that. I just need a new start and have absolutely ZERO pounds available in my bank account to help me start again.
Any donations toward helping me would be much appreciated, Im not asking for a flash new car or money for a holiday or anything like that. i just need help to re settle into a new flat or somewhere i can be safe, warm and can have my kids over to spend some time with me.
Yea Ive made mistakes, BIG MISTAKES but Im gonna be a better man from this day on, i just need a little help.
God bless anyone who can help me.
To be honest i did not know that i had any options available, this place seems like a last resort.
Not expecting much really, but heh ye just never know.
Keep the faith x

Hi Kind folks, I am a 42 year old man who gave up my previos family life 6yrs ago to start a Brand new life with same sex partner. After leaving all my worldy goods with my ex wife and kids and starting a new life with my new partner it all has gone horribly wrong.
Now I am left with nothing, i have 2 weeks to find somewhere new to live and a lifetime of begging forgiveness to my family for the mess that i left.
Thankfully my kids know that I am gay and are fine with that. I just need a new start and have absolutely ZERO pounds available in my bank account to help me start again.
Any donations toward helping me would be much appreciated, Im not asking for a flash new car or money for a holiday or anything like that. i just need help to re settle into a new flat or somewhere i can be safe, warm and can have my kids over to spend some time with me.
Yea Ive made mistakes, BIG MISTAKES but Im gonna be a better man from this day on, i just need a little help.
God bless anyone who can help me.