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I`ve never asked for anything before, I`m usually very good about taking care of my family and keeping things in private no matter how bad they are but I`m hoping my good karma will come back to me now.
I am a stay at home mother who doesn`t just sit around eating bon-bons all day with my kid. My son is 15 months old, with Achondroplasia, which is a type of dwarfism. He got it from his father. I lost my job of 5 years December 26th 2011, because I was sick. Lost the unemployment hearing too. Since then I`ve helped out by doing survey sites and other odd jobs online, as well as housekeeping and babysitting and whatever I could in the real world.
Our son needs alot of one-on-one time. He just had head surgery April 10th and is still recovering, though he has improved drastically from it. The day we came home from the hospital, April 13th, my husband was fired for taking the 3 days off to be in the hospital with us 2 hrs upstate. He lost the unemployment hearing as well. Same boss, we both lost to him. Sucks but we have to move on.
Well then to add to the pile our landlord bailed on us. We`ve been sitting around with the rent wondering why no one has come to get it. Turns out he ran off with some woman somewhere, left half the houses to his wife to rent out, and the other half to his brother...who doesn`t want to rent. He already has a buyer too, who doesn`t want us in here.
We`re sitting on a ticking time bomb, basically hiding because we can`t afford to pay rent here and pay to get out. Our lease has been up for 3 months anyway.
Now as luck would have it we found a place, and we have half the money to get in, but the lady can`t help us out with the deposit. She`s been nice enough to hold it for us for now, but we need the money to get in.

My husband just landed a job, but he doesn`t start for another 2-3 weeks and then its mostly training. Tonight both us and the dogs had ramen noodles for dinner, and we are running out of formula for the baby..Wic isn`t available for another 3 days. We need something, anything. I`m not asking for alot, just a dollar or anything you can find in yourself to help us out. Anything would be appreciated.

Thanks.
The paypal listed is our roommates. He is currently paying all the bills himself except the rent so he can`t help put anything aside for the move.

I honestly don't know how to say this. I mean, I know my situation is unusual, even bizarre.

Let's start simply. I'm a young real estate agent. I suck at it, so I work part time at two places in the mall. It's hard to keep it all under control, but I manage. I'd rather work six days a week than have a roommate. Really, though, I would get a roommate to ease up a little more money before I'd even consider begging, but fate has conspired against me. I now have two roommates who can't pay - my dwarf parents.

Yes, yes, I know. My father and my mother are little people. I'm a normie, though. My dad lost his job at Intel as a system administrator and so has accumulated a lot of debt. You could say he's up to his eye-balls, but that would be hardly sufficient. He wanted to postpone boarding in my house for as long as possible, but this is, it seems, how it has to be.

So, I'm majorly strapped for cash constantly, because I've become responsible for two other people. They need rides, and they need food, and it's costing me a lot on utilities. I've been dipping into my meager savings for the past two months. I've been doing nothing but work, and I just need a break. I want to sit down and drink a good cup of coffee with a girl, or read a book, you know? I don't want to just slowly keep dying, I want to live.

We all want to live, and so I'm asking you share just a little, just enough for a little extra strength of spirit against a cold, crazy world. Every cent is appreciated. =D

I'm going to get straight to the point and be %100 honest so that I don't waste your time.

My name is Micheal. I am a 23-year-old male living in the midwest. I currently have a job at a failing restaurant and am struggling to look for a job in a failing job market.

My old roommate left me to join the Navy and I have been in dire financial straits ever since (I have gone through dozens of potential roommates and NONE of them were responsible enough to pay their rent or they failed to move in). My rent is VERY high (a little over $700). I can only take serving jobs, because they are the only type of job which provides an average amount of money per hour for me to barely scrape by (I have to make at LEAST $15-$20 an hour to have a place to live and there are no non-specialized jobs that will pay that much per hour to someone with no advanced education).

To the point though, this post isn't really for me; it is for my parents. My parents are BOTH on disability and barely make enough COMBINED to pay for the house that they live in. I constantly have to assist them with living expenses among other things (food and medicine usually). Yes they do get quite a bit of government assistance, but with NO other source of income, things are impossible for them without my help (for example, I had to take on the full car payment for an Acura that my father owned that costs me nearly $400 a month NOT including the insurance).

Now, with myself in financial difficulties, they too are faced with the threat of losing much-needed medicine, vehicle transportation, and possibly their home.

I am making this post in hopes that there is someone who can help keep the worst from happening in my life and for my parents. I don't want to fail them as a son, so I have made this post in a last-ditch effort to plead for assistance. Anything that you can contribute would help me with bills for both myself and my parents. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I wish that you be blessed.

Hello, this is a last resort. I have been going to school for the past 3 years. I have had loans all those years except for now, my parents are maxed out in credit and I can't get student loans and I am 50k in debt from school, I need to finish I can not afford to pay my loans back I I quit and I can't afford I keep going I am 3 months behind in my school payments, and I had to move home due to not being able to pay rent, and my gas bill is 545 dollars. It is due to be shut of Monday and I have my old roommates living there and yay fault it's behind because I could t pay it! I have 3 credit cards months last due.. I am commuting I school 3 days a week an hour and a half trip one way.. It's very costly I do t make enough to cover my bills, I need help! I need my gas bill paid So I don't screw them over and hurt my credit and I need a jump start on my school bills... Please help!

I moved in with my girlfriend 2 months ago. I left Boston to come be with her in NYC. My work had run dry until April. She had just been evicted from her apartment by a slumlord landlord who stole her belongings. We were living from paycheck to paycheck. Supporting each other as best we could. We didn't have enough money to get an apartment of our own, so we got a one month sublet, which ended up being a nightmare-living in a closet with our 2 cats, and dealing with the scum of the earth roommates who made us feel uncomfortable, unwelcome, and awful. During that first Monty, we spent our savings just living. We both work in the creative fields, myself a musician, an she an actress. Work was spotty at best. We borrowed money from friends and family, feeling terrible about ourselves every time. Mid-month, I decided to file for unemployment. (something i had never thought I'd ever do)
The money we were expecting from that would have paid her union dues, giving her a pay bump by about 400%. This would have enabled us to not only survive, but get on our feet and pay back our friends/family. About a week and a half after filing, my boss calls me and tells me I can't file, or he'll go out of business due to the fact he's never paid insurance on his employees. He convinced me he'd cover my unemployment pay (totaling $4,343) if I agreed to recind my claim, thus saving him tens of thousands of dollars in back-taxes. I agreed. As soon as I'd done that- he tells me his lawyer advised him not to do that, and that he never agreed to that in the first place.
I have now been playing phone tag with my unemployment agent for weeks trying to restart the claim, and have the state go after him for the money he owes them.
Meanwhile, at the end of January, we had to move again. We couldn't find a place in time, and ended up staying in a motel in Stamford for a night while we made appointments to see a few places. We awoke to the front desk and housekeeping ladies banging on our door, telling us we have to leave or they'll call the cops. We are still fighting Hotwire.com for charging us for that.
Luckily, we found a place that night. The expenses of having to move though, totaled over $500. (rental car, motel, storage)
The apartment we are in now is shared with 4 other people. It's a two bedroom. There are 3 people sleeping in the living room. There are cockroaches. We once again have to move out, by March 7th. We have applied for foodstamps. (they have yet to be approved)
This time around, we have no money to move with. Our resources have been tapped. We are out of options. Work is still spotty, and we have borrowed from everyone we know.
We have a week to come up with rent, cell phone bills, and moving expenses. Nevermind money for food to ear everyday. (as I type this, we are preparing to go out and sell some things for food money)
I have never been this scared in my life. I doubt that writing this is going to make a difference, but I have to try everything.

If anyone reading this wants a specific number that would get us out of this- its $5,000. Here's the breakdown:
$1,000 rent. (not counting a deposit)
$1760 my girlfriends union dues (which means she makes enough to get us on our feet)
$175 storage fee
$250 cell phone bills (it's a month late, an we're on the same plan)
$130 car rental to get our stuff out of the apartment
$40 rental car gas (they charge $9 a gallon if you don't fill the tank when you return the vehicle)
$1,000 for food for the two of us and cats' supplies. (food,litter)
And the rest would be to pay back some of the people who've already been there for us helping us along the way.

Please. Please help. We are a young couple in love. Scared. Trapped. Out of options.

Thank you for reading, and I hope you will find it in your heart to consider helping us.

I'm asking for help in the general debt relief area. I live with 3 other roommates and one is pregnant and I'm the only one with a vehicle so I've been struggling trying to make sure I don't End up homeless because my roommates got fired and couldn't pay rent because they didn't have rides. Our weekly pay range from 70 dollars up to 250. I NEED to get out of this situation! I live in an apartment complex where my vehicle was vandalized and hit and run overnight. I can't get back into school because I can't catch up on my bills enough to save for school. I'm only 2 classes away from getting an associates in general business management, it's sad. I'm 25 and almost can't make a 200 dollar car note and 200 dollar rent?! I have 2 credit cards that add up to be 3,300 dollars and I've even had to be late to keep a roof over my head. I'm also hard of hearing (completely deaf in my left ear and partially deaf in my right) and my job is very loud and isn't helping that situation. I had financial aid for college but due to my move, I failed 2 classes and since I couldn't physically be at the school to drop my classes I am now on financial aid probation. My mother is going through a tough divorce where the guy is taking everything away from her... Even her home of 15 yrs (MY HOME) has to be sold because she only makes 25,000 a year and can't afford a 900 dollar mortgage (used to be 600 until her ex came along making alot of money). My grandmother is now helping her and she's going on 84... She shouldn't be having to deal with taking care of my mom and younger sisters and I'd like to be there but I CAN'T! Please, anything will help. As soon as I get caught up and able to save the 600 dollars I need for my classes I want to start putting money into my grandmothers account to help her and my family. Thank you ahead of time. Oh and also I'm quite tired of eating beans and cornbread and having to wash my clothes in the bath tub.

I am currently a sophomore in college. My fiance and I live together in a two bedroom apartment. We have gone through three roommates in the past month. The first: hid our bills from us, stole from us, and to top it all off, lied to us about paying rent and disappeared leaving us to pay it on our own. After we scraped and scrounged for every penny, we got the rent money. The next room mate was my fiances good friend from Boston. He wanted to start fresh so we offered him a home on the account of paying for half the rent. We got him a job, and all he did was complain about working, called out, and couldn't make he whole rent. Essentially, it got so bad that we kicked him out. A man my fiance and I have both worked with got kicked out of his home around the same time, so we allowed him to move in. He cleaned, paid us, and was a fabulous room mate. A we days ago, he told us his daughter was diagnosed with diabetes so he was going to move back in with his mother to be closer to her. He took his things with him that night, but swore he would be coming back for my fiances birthday (which is today) and to pay rent (which is due Monday). He called my fiance the day after and said he was in some sort of trouble. We didn't get any details, but we are afraid he won't be able to pay us. Last week after getting m car repaired from a wreck, we now owe $2000 on that, multiple bills and rent adding up to be due next week. On top if this, I just found out I was pregnant yesterday. Neither of us have a good relationship with our families, and have no where else to go if we were to lose our home. I'm not asking for you to empty your wallets, but any help is much appreciated. Please help us keep our home.

The idea has been brewing for decades. I am not alone. My generation does not have the retirement expected and enjoyed by our parents, despite having been educated and hardworking since our teens. Tried to save, careful with earnings, and at 50, little to show for it. The rat race has run it's course. The urban mayhem is tiresome, and we deserve to retire, relax, and enjoy life before we are too old to do so.
As it stands, I like many others are looking at working our whole lives, and I mean our WHOLE lives. It is wrong.
At my current age, both my parents took early retirement , and have been enjoying theor lives comfortably already for decades. This dream is completely out of reach for myself, and most amongst my generation.
Working our whole lives, full time is wrong on many levels. One being that we are only making others rich, as we toil, grow ill, and spend our days in traffic and cubicles, struggling, for what? As long as we are chasing the paycheck, there is no freedom, and no hope for living before we croak.
A commune does not have to be dozens of dirty hippies. I see small communities. Even half a dozen people, or couples in one large home. This home can consist of a shared building with kitchen and living space, and other out buildings containing bedrooms,bathrooms private entrances and porch space. So you have a place with community and privacy as you choose.
Once I had a roomate situation that was much like this. A large house, S shaped. bedrooms were at opposite ends, and I went weeks sometimes without even running into roommates. In the center was the main kitchen and a living room space where we occasionally got together in. Roommates each had their own entrance, bedroom, bathroom, and living room space. There was a common courtyard area, as well as a private outdoor area for every bedroom. We comfortably had 8 people,, sharing rent and utilities. This made the cost of living extremely low , and we each survived happily only working part time.
There was a community garden, those who participated in its upkeep could just help themselves to its bounty, but there was plenty to share and even those without the time to work in it would benefit.
Everyone was responsible for their own food needs, transportation, and their portion of rent and utilities. It was no problem, and we lived this way for a full decade, and could have indefinitely if the house was not sold. I did try unsuccessfully to buy it.

So, I am asking for assistance making such a thing possible again, but this time by owning, not renting, so as not to lose it!

The place does not have to be glamourous, just roomy, on the outskirts of town, and hoping this time for a pool. And I wish to share it with others in the same manner so to afford others like myself to retire, or at least semi-retire, comfortably. The beauty in this is also that you are not alone, not isolated, and yet not crammed in where you have no privacy. There is someone there if the car breaks down, or if your heart gives out!

I think this is a great model for my generation who has worked hard and deserves the retirement that has been stolen from them. We do not want to burden our children.

I see this model serving first in this respect for those of us contemplating the impossibility of retirement, but also I believe it can serve as a model for a new way to live for all. Share. Pool resources. Grow food. We can enjoy all the modern conveniences, and get off the grid too, gradually.

When like minded people come together and cooperate with the same goals in mind, it can happen.

Need the home, need the land. The rest is easy.

Please consider the simplicity, and common sense in my plea, and help me make this possible for myself, and others. It will serve as an example to our children and future generations. Please.

And thank you for reading this far, I know this was long!

Every cent I receive from this post and others I will put toward this plan which I hope to get off the ground ASAP.

- Jane

Hello,
I am 24 years old, and in need of some help with rent. Begging is my last line of defense against losing my home. I am in good health, and would work all of the hours I could get if my job had not of just cut everyone down to four days a week. Apparently the vice president of the huge corporation I work for didn't feel forty hours is necessary in order to survive. I have also looked for roommates, with no luck and also a second job, but the economy is making that difficult too. Please if you could help me, its not a lot that I ask for, my rent is $650 a month plus utilities, so it is only a small amount really, but 32.hours a week just simply isn't enough. Thank you!

My fiance & I just got out of a situation with horrible roommates. They left owing $1200 in bills. We got it paid & thought we would be able to afford a new place but given the circumstance, we're extremely short. We both work full time & are picking up overtime when we can. We both do our share 2 help others in need even though we somtimes get the raw end of the deal. The rent 4 this month is $969. Any amount is appreciated. I know without a doubt God works in mysterious & almighty ways. We're both willing 2 pay back any $ when we get on our feet. God bless & thanks 4 reading.

i have bills, paying for an apartment im renting myself, trying to find roommates. getting a job. i have over 55,000 in student loans, currently going to dental hygiene school and am a semester away from my bachelors.

i have about 20,000 in debt from exes and stolen cards.

Also wanting to get married. no money and bad credit.

Help me pay bills, loans, debt , or pay for my wedding and fix my credit.

http://www.edulender.com/community/Chelsea.Brook/ to read more or donate there. thanks!

i have bills, paying for an apartment im renting myself, trying to find roommates. getting a job. i have over 55,000 in student loans, currently going to dental hygiene school and am a semester away from my bachelors.

i have about 20,000 in debt from exes and stolen cards.

Also wanting to get married. no money and bad credit.

Help me pay bills, loans, debt , or pay for my wedding and fix my credit.

http://www.edulender.com/community/Chelsea.Brook/ to read more or donate there. thanks!

i have bills, paying for an apartment im renting myself, trying to find roommates. getting a job. i have over 55,000 in student loans, currently going to dental hygiene school and am a semester away from my bachelors.

i have about 20,000 in debt from exes and stolen cards.

Also wanting to get married. no money and bad credit.

Help me pay bills, loans, debt , or pay for my wedding and fix my credit.

http://www.edulender.com/community/Chelsea.Brook/ to read more or donate there. thanks!

i have bills, paying for an apartment im renting myself, trying to find roommates. getting a job. i have over 55,000 in student loans, currently going to dental hygiene school and am a semester away from my bachelors.

i have about 20,000 in debt from exes and stolen cards.

Also wanting to get married. no money and bad credit.

Help me pay bills, loans, debt , or pay for my wedding and fix my credit.

http://www.edulender.com/community/Chelsea.Brook/ to read more or donate there. thanks!

i have bills, paying for an apartment im renting myself, trying to find roommates. getting a job. i have over 55,000 in student loans, currently going to dental hygiene school and am a semester away from my bachelors.

i have about 20,000 in debt from exes and stolen cards.

Also wanting to get married. no money and bad credit.

Help me pay bills, loans, debt , or pay for my wedding and fix my credit.

http://www.edulender.com/community/Chelsea.Brook/ to read more or donate there. thanks!

i have bills, paying for an apartment im renting myself, trying to find roommates. getting a job. i have over 55,000 in student loans, currently going to dental hygiene school and am a semester away from my bachelors.

i have about 20,000 in debt from exes and stolen cards.

Also wanting to get married. no money and bad credit.

Help me pay bills, loans, debt , or pay for my wedding and fix my credit.

http://www.edulender.com/community/Chelsea.Brook/ to read more or donate there. thanks!

i have bills, paying for an apartment im renting myself, trying to find roommates. getting a job. i have over 55,000 in student loans, currently going to dental hygiene school and am a semester away from my bachelors.

i have about 20,000 in debt from exes and stolen cards.

Also wanting to get married. no money and bad credit.

Help me pay bills, loans, debt , or pay for my wedding and fix my credit.

http://www.edulender.com/community/Chelsea.Brook/ to read more or donate there. thanks!

Hello,
I am a hardworking individual who's having a hard time at the moment. Within these past couple of months I have spent hundreds of dollars for car repairs that have left me getting cash advances from my job. Today I had to put my car back in the shop for a starter probably. I am between roommates and it's costing me an arm and a leg just to survive. I drive 1 hour to work and the cost of gas is really putting me down under. My job transferred me to commute long distance over 104 miles per/day. I just can't seem to get ahead no matter how hard I try. If someone could possibly help me get out of this situation I would really appreciate it. I have prayed and prayed to no avail. Thanks for your time and consideration.

please help us out! we have no money for rent this month because 2 roommates moved out and now the bills fall on us, paid whole elec. bill when it got cut off (it hasn't been paid in a while apparently) and water bill also (same case there) :( we have only one income that we work on together, but that's not enough for this little surprise, please help me raise some money (( rent itself is 500 plus utilities )) to feed us and keep us sheltered for the next month when we only have 12 dollars in my bank account to live on for the next couple weeks. we've tried mowing lawns and everything, but we live in a run down neighborhood, so all the manual labor jobs are taken by less fortunate people :(
we will do any kind of household or outside labor if available
THANKS A MILLION!!!
~kayla
we live in Durham, Nc and you can write me at Loserish_tm@yahoo.com
i have no phone.
please help.

I am 32 years old. I moved to the city I live in about 6 years ago, and have constantly been struggling. I actually am one of the most generous people I know, which is part of the reason I am in the mess I am in. After an abusive relationship ended, I was left in a house by myself. I ended up getting some roommates, who in the long run, ran me dry. When the people who lived with me wouldn't pay their portion of the rent or bills, I had to pay it. One of my roomates didn't have a job for 8 months, and I was the only person working in my house, and trying to pay his portion of the bills, as well as my own. I supported many of my friends when they were in need of help, only to find that many of them, sponged off of me for as long as they could, and left me in lots of debt. To make matters worse, I ended up having a huge water leak in my house, which ran my water bill up to close to $3000 dollars ( yes, three THOUSAND dollars) I have no family that I can ask for help, and all I really want, is to be able to pay my bills, and live...not worry about food, not worry about getting evicted because my rent behind. It has gotten to the point where I am so broke, all I really can eat is ramen. I am incredibly stressed out all the time...what little money I have has gone to pay all these bills that are behind, not because I wasnt supporting myself, but because time and time again I tried to help other people, and they let me down. I am frustrated, tired and need help so badly...and I dont know where to turn. The fact of the matter is, I need help or I will literally become homeless. I dont have any family to turn to, so I dont even know where I could go. I am gonna be honest, I feel so lame, trying to beg people to help me online who dont even know me...but I really just dont know what else to do. I am a good person, who has had so much bad luck - especially over the past year and a half....I just dont know what else to do about it. If anyone sees this, and wants to help me out, with anything, I would be forever greatful.