Got an overdraft a little over $5 right now plus will need to cover my phone bill (which is a bit discounted at the moment) and get an instant coffee container.

Any amount helps

Cash App: $QuingCrimson

I also have PayPal, Venmo, and Zelle. PM me if you would like to help through those.

Thanks, everyone

Hi all! I'm back to work. Still recovering from the broken knee so my very physical job is challenging. But my stubborn ass got from getting hit by a truck to back to stocking beer in about 90 days. My manager worked with me the first day because he almost didn't believe I was actually recovered enough. But I couldn't afford to not work anymore. It would have been nice to take another few weeks to strengthen my leg, which would have made this much less painful. But, capitalism baby!

Anyway, I just looked in the pantry and I have.... Spaghetti. No rice, no sauce. No chickpeas. No onions or potatoes. It's scary in there. Obviously it will fill the belly but nutritionally it leaves a lot to be desired.

I get paid for the first time again on Friday. It's only one week of pay, and my job is supposed to start deducting extra for my health insurance they kept paying for. So I have no idea how much I'll get, but I will at least be able to afford food. Rent is already late and I've no hope of paying it. I'm going to try to meet with the office Monday or Tuesday and see if we can work something out.

Food stamps also cancelled my benefits because they said I didn't provide proof of lack of income. I definitely did. But of course no one calls to be like hey, we're missing something. So there goes 306 I was counting on. I'll be calling them as well but I have zero faith there.

Love you all!

PayPal is sgriffith0891 at gmail.com

Venmo is griff0891

💔 The Rain Has Flooded Us… Who Will Hear Our Pain?

Our hardship was already unbearable, and now the rain has flooded our living space, leaving us with nothing to protect us. We cry out for help, but no one answers.

How long must we face this suffering alone?

Please stand with Doaa and her family in Gaza. 🔗 https://gofund.me/1d3ea05b6

#Gaza #HelpGaza #Humanity #Donate

Hello all! I'm about to ask for a lot, especially considering this is really my boss' boss obligation, but I'm panicking because if I don't get this handled the restaurant I work at could be shut down for an indefinite amount of time. I can't afford that.

I need to renew my ServSafe, pretty much a universal food handler's permit a certain company has a monopoly over in the US. Listed price is $140, but I know they charge tax. I texted my manager about this the second I saw the health inspection papera. He said the company could reimburse me for this, but I don't even have a way to pay for it in the first place. To sum it up, I need to get a manager's food handler's card by Tuesday morning, so I functionally need the money today so I can do the assessments tomorrow. Otherwise, the restaurant I work at will be shut down. This place is one of the highest paying jobs I've had in years, I get treated with respect as a trans person by employees and customers alike. Separate from the job market being shit and me currently trying to save up to leave the US, I really can't afford to lose this job.

If y'all have seen me post about my job, y'all will know I am one of the only fully competent employees at my job. I'm not being full of myself, my coworkers don't do the basics like labeling shit or flipping the lines. Most of them don't have food handler's permits. The only other one that does works 2 other far more intense kitchen jobs, on probation for weed in the next state over, and going to college, so he's just super exhausted by the time I work with him at the end of the week. I will also go ahead and state though, when I remind them to do stuff like that they will do it. They've all just built shitty habits because shit doesn't get enforced. I wouldn't be trying to save their jobs if they had shown me they just don't give a fuck about food safety. I do fortunately have a permit, I even have an expired manager's ServSafe. What that means is if I get this permit, all my coworkers are fine to not have permits as long as I'm there. Same thing with my boss being present at a location we're working

Well, guess which restaurant got a health inspection this morning WITHOUT A FUCKING MANAGER PRESENT? Yeah that's right, we only have a single person with an official manager's permit, that being my manager. We need at least 2 to be open legally without my manager (not an owner btw, and somehow one of the actual best friends I have IRL, he barely makes more than me hourly). Health department expects 2 valid ServSafes to be shown on Tuesday, otherwise I'm effectively laid off.

I will also add for the newer users of this site, my "famous" moment on this site was going on a rant about cooking elitism/olive oil smoke points and quoted Read Book Worship in a way that was completely appropriate. One of the reasons I dropped out of STEM college was to pursue cooking further. We also regularly feed homeless people all over the city due to the By The Slice business model creating a lot of extremely cheap waste product (pizza). Not necessarily saying the business is that great, but we have a lot of freedom as employees to do cool shit.

Another point, I am a trans woman in the Midwest/borderline south, even if I'm ultra competent I don't have great job security. If I get this certification, I will have inherent job security for a job I actually enjoy for the first time. Idk, this is important to my coworkers even though they don't understand what I'm doing rn, but this is important to me. This is the only job I've worked where if someone is taunting me or just generally being a dick, I don't have to serve them. I can turn away customers for being assholes as long as it's not daily (it isn't)

Venmo is @thenewvenven Cash app is $thenewcashtag PayPal is sh3lf1sh@gmail.com

Sorry for having several requests up. I don’t have the energy to write a long explanation but my dehumidifer with laundry function has broken. I have no other way to dry my clothes, without this I can’t do laundry. It’s the middle of winter, can’t dry on the line, don’t have room for a tumble drier and due to disability can’t realistically get to the laundrette. The situation is urgent.

If anyone can help please PM me.

I am exhausted from the endless appeals. A "like" makes no difference; it cannot heal a child’s pain. Karim doesn’t need pity—he needs people who truly empathize with him and stand by his side. The pain a mother and father endure is far too great to be reduced to a daily, desperate plea. https://chuffed.org/project/150674-support-umm-mohammeds-family-to-rebuild-their-future-and-to-survive-amidst-the-genocide

https://chuffed.org/project/187807

I'm looking for help going to the store to get some food and things for the next few days.

I've been laid up with covid for a bit, could really use some food i can get down

if you can help, my venmo/paypal is @ktkatte

🤝 How You Can Help

Every contribution, no matter how small, brings Sulaiman one step closer to education, stability, and dignity. Our lives under the tents have become a harsh struggle for survival; the winter floods and raging torrents of rainwater have completely flooded our tents in Gaza, oh world, we are drowning! Our fragile tents no longer protect our children from the winter cold or the floodwaters, and we appeal to your human consciences before it is too late.. Rescue us, O people of merciful hearts!

📌 GoFundMe Campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/surviving-an-onslaught 🪙 Bitcoin (BTC): 15hhENX79tZy7MSxSJekewhdSN8jh92kRr 🪙 TRON (TRC20): TBjNGTPXxC93wHvj8zyPpyfRciEy2Qykf3

Ever since becoming disabled and being abandoned by all my so-called friends, my life has just consisted of going to medical appointments and then browsing the internet. Just doomscrolling reddit and similar places for hours as there is just nothing else to do when you have no money and can barely walk. And it's stressing me out and making my mental health even worse as I am constantly being bombarded with endless hate for the disabled, terrible news and all kinds of other stressful stuff. I would like to get off the internet, apart from talking to people here and doing necessary things.

Since I have such severe mobility issues I can hardly get out, so other hobbies are out. So I'd like to switch from reading the internet to reading books. There are books in this house but the problem is I am partially sighted since my stroke, and this is an old house with dim lighting which makes it hard to read. This isn't a problem online as I can increase the font size as much as I need to, and the screen is bright, but this doesn't apply to books. Reading glasses alone aren't enough. If I could buy one of those daylight lamps with a magnifier I'd be able to read books and get offline. There are some books in this house and my local library also has a "books on wheels" service where they deliver books to local housebound people.

There isn't much I can do to change my situation in life. I need to have cancer treatment for the rest of my life to stop it coming back, with all the horrible side effects that entails. I've had several years of physiotherapy since my stroke and am still in pain and can't walk properly. I worked during my cancer treatment for as long as I could until the side effects just became too severe and I had to quit, so I'm unable to go back into employment. I had several different kinds of therapy on the NHS and all were awful, none improved my mental health at all. I've done basically everything I can to try and improve my situation and nothing has helped. I've ended up trapped in a loop of doomscrolling and getting more and more stressed out by it. Switching to books would at least reduce these negative emotions and improve my mental health.

If anyone is able to contribute to the cost of a £70 lamp via paypal, please PM me for the address.

If anyone would like to help anonymously, I will also need food assistance for the foreseeable future. If anyone can help, please send a supermarket gift card to my email address: DisabledAceSocialist@hotmail.com

This one takes credit, debit and google pay:

https://www.sainsburysgiftcard.co.uk/

This one takes crypto:

https://www.bitrefill.com/gb/en/gift-cards/sainsburys-in-store-digital-uk/

I'm really grateful for any help.

Hello! Finally starting to get past the agoraphobia after the events of last week, so I actually am going to try to take the bus to work today! Which obviously makes getting around a lot cheaper. After paying rent, getting groceries this morning, and picking up meds I already hadn't had for weeks, I know I'm gonna be dead broke in a couple of days of just taking the bus. I'm not panicking, I have a few days to figure shit out, but yeah just making a post to see if anybody can help out

Venmo is @thenewvenven Cash app is $thenewcashtag Paypal is sh3lf1sh@gmail.com

I'm looking for help going to the store to get some food and things for the next few days.

if you can help, my venmo/paypal is @ktkatte

How can silence prevail in the face of so much pain?

We are not asking for the impossible. We are appealing to compassionate hearts to see us and understand that every day in Gaza, a family struggles to meet its most basic needs. It hurts to endure so much hardship while reaching out for help and finding no one to stand beside us.

Is there not room in your hearts for a little compassion to ease some of this burden? 💔

🔗 https://gofund.me/1d3ea05b6

**___**Please help us. We are not begging; we are simply trying to live our lives, just like you. We have lost everything—including my child, Karim—and we are now facing extremely difficult circumstances. https://chuffed.org/project/150674-support-umm-mohammeds-family-to-rebuild-their-future-and-to-survive-amidst-the-genocide

Well, I'm still broke

For those who didn’t know, I am a 30-year old gamer and college graduate. I was diagnosed with autism since early age.

I am very dependent on my pension and my aunt on my budget.

There would be a lot of problems related to food and survival after graduation, such as fees while looking for a job. Job hunting may not be easy even after graduation.

Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/ahriboy/

Please if you can spare anything, Thank you!

Between the Threat of Bombing and the Pain of Poverty… How Much Longer Can We Endure?

Here in eastern Gaza, we live under the constant threat of danger, with fear following us every moment. What makes our suffering even worse is the almost complete lack of support, leaving us unable to provide even the most basic necessities for our family, including food, medicine, and essential needs.

How can a mother face danger when she cannot even feed her children? How can we endure when fear, poverty, and helplessness come together?

Gaza's suffering has not ended, and we can no longer bear this alone. Please, do not forget us. 💔

🔗 https://gofund.me/1d3ea05b6

Hey i am sorry to ask but can anybody spare anything to help me with gas?

I am trying to work today but don't have enough gas to work enough to earn money for gas.

Venmo: YoBippo

Cashapp: $YoBippo

Hey comrades :) <3!!!!….I hope you’re all doing well. I finally have some happy news to share and it feels really good to come here today with something positive.

Yesterday evening, around 8 p.m…our caseworker called me. He asked me to inform the other three sisters I’m staying with here in Juba that we should get prepared, keep our phones on and be ready because they may be looking for us anytime from now.

He didn’t give us many details, so we’re still waiting for further instructions. But after all this waiting and praying, you can imagine how it felt to receive that call. I’m trying not to get ahead of myself but I really hope we’re getting closer to finally making it to Canada.

And there’s another piece of beautiful news. We’ve finally reached the full $2,225 needed to help the eight queer sisters in Gorom leave the camp and relocate to Juba, thanks to one incredibly kind stranger.

I shared the news with David and told him that once the support comes through, they’ll be able to make the journey and stay with us. He became so emotional that he cried for a moment during our phone call. The sisters are incredibly happy and grateful. They told me they don’t even have enough words to thank everyone who stepped forward.

To the person who donated the full amount and to every comrade who read, shared, boosted, commented and helped keep their story visible, THANK YOU. Your kindness has helped make this possible.

I’m also grateful that I could help bring these sisters and this community together. It means so much to see people showing up for one another.

We still have a few steps ahead, but today I just wanted us to share in these little victories. I’ll keep you updated as we hear more.

Much love to you all.

Gaza Has Not Healed… Yet the World Is Starting to Forget!

We are still struggling every day for the most basic necessities of life, amid ongoing bombardment, fear, and unbearable prices. Behind every silence is a story of pain, and behind every mother is a heart exhausted by waiting.

Please don't let Gaza stand alone. Your support could be a lifeline for my family.

🔗 https://gofund.me/1d3ea05b6

#Gaza #Palestine #HelpGaza #Humanity