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I retired about one year ago due to heart problems. Have had three surgurys since then and the cost keeps going uup. At the present time I am on SSI but some months the cost of medicine is more than I take in and have to beg Drs. for free samples. Recently I was just release from the hospital for a heart problem, but the drug they prescribe cost $400 for a one month supply. I have the drug , but the house we have has no heat, we ran out of propane,and we owe the propane company $400 and they said when we pay the bill they will deliver. My wife is 70+ and cold.

Myself, I don't need to be in the cold either but what choice do we have. With out propane, there is no hot water, no stove, no heat. being old doesn't help the situation either.

I am in Minneoplis and my husband lost his job and cannot find work...we are living from truck to hotel with a 5 yr old and WE NEED HELP...the weather is VERY COLD the hotel will put us out TODAY if we do give them 100$...my caseworker is out for the new year and we have no place to go ...no family ...need help!!!!!! You can pay the hotel and I will never see or touch the money...PLEASE PLEASE HELP call 1.952.224.6402

I'm not homeless, disabled, completely bankrupt or about to be, but I am unemployed and in need of help in the coming winter months here in Minnesota. I have no health insurance, and I'm always sick this time of year. I am living on very meager means at the moment and really need help to improve my situation.

Another reason I am here is that I would like to buy a modest amount of new interview clothes, as I HOPE the economy will pick up and I will get a job interview soon. I can't tell you enough how much your help would mean to me.

I am sure there are people more deserving of your kindness than me, but I'm being honest. Please, help me.

My family is going to be homeless; our life has been shattered.  We are terrified by what is happening to us.  Everything we've ever worked for is lost except for our three beautiful, bright children - who used to be happy and are now so very sad, withdrawn and terrified.  All we ever truly wanted is to have a "family", and now the reality that we may lose each other is so profound that it's hard to even breathe.  My husband has suffered from a series of strokes over the years, and has a heart condition as well.  Our youngest is 100% handicapped, having been born with an extremely rare congenital defect.  Without her life-sustaining medication 3x per day, she will lapse rapidly into adrenal failure. We are ashamed, humiliated and so afraid of what comes next, there are no words to properly express the dimensions of fear that we are experiencing.  I can't understand how everything just fell apart.  Our home and health was lost to catastrophic mold with the responsible party (HVAC Contractor) walking away while we tried to keep going, and we did keep going for a number of years but we have reached bottom now.  No money, no emotional safety net or support - "friends" disappear quickly - it's as though our economic plight has the cast of contagion, as though we are untouchable.  We are an incredibly hard-working team, my husband and I, without a blemish on our moral compass - really.  We've worked all our lives and have been committed to setting a seat for Elijah at our table. Everyone in this house knows what our favorite four-letter word is: be "kind".  A touch of kindness, an unexpected gesture can lift one's spirits so effortlessly. I would so like to right this little ship of ours so that we can carry on - the five of us together.  We want and need work so badly and continue to make every possible effort to find our way.  There is just no work to be found.  We've become invisible.  Applying for job after job only to hear that we are overqualified or underskilled or without the words being said outright...too old.  It's 50 degrees in the house right now, there isn't enough food or even toilet paper to go around.  We have a small old car that doesn't fit five of us to begin with, let alone try to live in it in a very cold climate. Today is my daughter's 13th birthday, on her way to becoming a woman.  She needs underwear - my hot tears are burning my cheeks as I write this because I am unable to provide the most basic of life's needs to my sweet and very smart middle child.  Is there anything we can do for someone, an organization or community out there that may accept our efforts to participate in a productive, giving - forward thinking project, task, job?  While finances are certainly of tantamount importance - the need to feel useful to others weighs evenly on the scale.  We can't afford to lose each other, I won't be able to persevere.  I want to provide for and take tender care of them, they are far too young to watch their parents wasting, fading slowly away.  Please, can anyone offer a leg-up, guidance, a "spark of life" - or send us all a smidge of hope?  I'll do almost anything to keep our boat afloat.  I'm educated, strong and healthy, brutally honest and yes, "kind", in spite of the all emcompassing fear.  Can anyone help me find the peddals to my bike?  Please, please help - send a thought, a prayer - a fresh wind of good fortune our way.  - Thank you very much for taking the time to read this, I hope to rise out of this trauma to do good things for others.  I feel like Alice in Wonderland, remember when she falls down the hole....Here's to hoping that we will find our way out of this chasm.  Best Regards and warmest wishes to all, especially those who found this site as I did this evening... by googling the two words... "Almost Homeless". 

Daisymae

I'm a mom in Wisconsin without heat, food, or presents for Christmas. I was unemployed due to a disability and would work for money here and there. Since I was on assistance it was easy enough to save for presents and food. Well, recently I was fortunate enough to get a job that I could do with my disability yet I was so far behind on many bills that I've been spending almost every cent I make on the unpaid bills that would be disconnected. I've lost many of my benefits and my housing cost went up because of the income, which it should. Unfortunately though, I wasn't able to catch up and now I'm just barely making it. They don't really give you time to "wean" off of it when you're behind in everything else.

 The oil company will not put oil in the heater until I give them cash up front. It's -2 here and the house has leaks everywhere. We're down to staying in the family room where I've had to block it off from the living room with a blanket and some vinyl and it's still cold. I just can't seem to warm the house up without oil heat. I can't stay upstairs because getting up and down them at night is almost impossible.

Once I get caught up with everything I will be okay but now I have the big decision of whether to pay the electric bill to keep the house going or the Internet bill to keep my job. I just want to get ahead for once. I won't even go where Christmas is going to be this year. I told the kids Santa will come on the 25th and then I'll give my presents in January because the youngest one still believes in Santa. I don't have the heart to break it to him just yet. And even still, it will just be some candy in a stocking.

I don't like to just get things for free. I like to work for them. I can do web pages, write, and so much more. I'm grateful for anything I can help with to make some cash or ?? Thanks.

To whom it may concern:

  I am a very poor mother who live in Chicago. I need help with clothes, coats, shoes, and toys for my children. I am living with my sister right now but I want a place on my own. I need to a job. I have been putting in application everywhere but no one will hire me.  Well my two daughters wear a size 6x in clothes, size 11 in little girls shoes, size 6x in coats and She has been asking me for a barbie car, barbie dollhouse, leapfrog to help her in school. My son  wear a size 2T in clothes and coat but in shoe a 2 toddler and he like things that light up and make noise.  I lost my mother this year and then I lost the house that she left to me. I just don't know what to do. I just did not have the money to pay off the loan that my mother made before she die.  I really would like you all help please. The father of my kids  got kill  a drive by a year ago. So I need help . I hope some one somewhere make my kids dreams come true. Please help me it is cold outside and my kids need a coat please help me.

Hi All,

My story began when I fall in love with my recent husband...We fall in love and after a mounth he got visa to USA, he promised me that he will be back after two years to marry me ... no one believed him except me coz I know how much he loves me.

Dad and my family said to me that no guy go to the dream land_USA_and come back to Jordan but I was sure that he will come back and he did he left everything that he dreamed about just for me...so when he come back we got married and lived in a department which build and furnished in 1977 because he had no enough money to buy us a better one than this...I had to say yes and I said to my self its okay we love each other and this shouldn't be an opstical but when I had my first baby I felt that its not fair to raise him in a cold ugly uncomfortable home like this and I couldn't do anything about it.

We both work but this can't help us enough to move out or to do any modification to our home.love is in the air but lately I feel down all the time, I really need some money to help me raising my child in a cozy warm enviroment .Recently I had new baby girl and maybe this make me wrote my story to find anyone who can help us moving outto new home or repairing our home it need painting ,new windows, doors, some new furnisher repaitng the floors...and the list is not over...I know that there are some people need money for more important reasons than this but I can't describe how much I need this help.

I am sure that someone will read my story and got intrested...I am married now for 6 years but never invite any relative or friend to my house...thank u anyway if you read my story.

Thank U all  

I am so ashamed to ask for help like this. I always believed that I would be the one helping others as I have before. Things have turned for me now at my age, I will be 57 shortly. I will give a brife story of my life. When I was 21 my mom commite suicide, my dad died shortly afterward. They left behind 6 boys and 5 girls. My sisters raised the girls, I took the boys to Los Angeles to keep the family together. I spent most of my 20s making sure everyones needs were met. I had dropped out of high school. so when the time came after they were raised, I received my ged and went to a trade college. I have always lived from paycheck to paycheck. I managed to but some money away, but never enough for real emergencys like now. I have not been able to find steady work now for almost a year. I have been working part time in a supermarket making only$8.00 an hour. about 20 hours a week. They havn't more hrs. I will be without my phone tomorrow, without utilities, no food now. I have a computer which I use to send out resumes, but now without a phone, It is only going to get worse. I had the help of St. Vincents de Paul, because I attend mass on Sunday where I am of assistence to my church. They were good enough to help my last month with half the rent in hopes that things might get better. They havn.t. Things are worse. I eat top roman for food because my 22 year old cat deserves to have food as he did nothing to bring life on. He is the only joy in my life. My brothers and sisters are busy with there own life, their own kids and their own problems. I am afraid of being homeless within the next few weeks. I am only asking for someone to help me get a job right now and to help me keep my apt and some cat food. I can keep eating top romon. I am not ashamed of that. I am a recovering alcaholic and been sober almost 3yrs, I don't want to slip becasue I know it only gets worse. I have applied for assistance with the state and they said that I am not entiled because I can work, That is true, I can work, I just need a job right now and a helping hand so that I can help someone else if possable..Richie

we were hit by hurricane katrina and havent recovered yet. i live in a terribly damaged mobile home which is allways cold, eventhough we have electric heaters. we are just an unhappy family whose having a very hard time. my girls need clothes, shoes and toys. the 16 yr. old  wears size 9 in shoes and the 7 yr. old wears 2 1/2 in shoes. Niether of my girls get outside help from other family members. All the burdern of raising them and clothing them is on me. one  wear 8 in pants and small shirts. one wear 8 in teen pants and medium in shirts. one  like electronical toys and one like educational toys. May god bless you all.

sincerely, christtriplett@bellsouth.net

Ok, so I know how hard life can be. And I know alot of people have it hard, I have it hard so I thought that I would try asking.

I am a single mother. I have one son. I try my best and we usually keep in good spirit's but it's getting harder. When my father died he left me everything that I owned. Ok Car, furniture and a tv. Little things that made life easier being a single mother. Two weeks ago someone broke into my house and took everything right down to my baby's cot. I get by on my weekly cheques but now we have nothing and cant do anything about it and I have to stay home 'cause I cant afford daycare. Temperature is down to 3 degrees Celcius and we have no blankets. No car or anything. I went to the salvo's and begged and got some blankets and spare canned food for the baby but they didnt have anything for me. Im $4000 behind in all bills and Im 5 days hungry and my baby is freezing. Please help me, Im 2 days from being evicted and my father was my only family. I had to ask my old boss if I could use the internet to look for help and... Here I am. Thanks for your time of day.

Ok, so I know how hard life can be. And I know alot of people have it hard, I have it hard so I thought that I would try asking.

I am a single mother. I have one son. I try my best and we usually keep in good spirit's but it's getting harder. When my father died he left me everything that I owned. Ok Car, furniture and a tv. Little things that made life easier being a single mother. Two weeks ago someone broke into my house and took everything right down to my baby's cot. I get by on my weekly cheques but now we have nothing and cant do anything about it and I have to stay home 'cause I cant afford daycare. Temperature is down to 3 degrees Celcius and we have no blankets. No car or anything. I went to the salvo's and begged and got some blankets and spare canned food for the baby but they didnt have anything for me. Im $4000 behind in all bills and Im 5 days hungry and my baby is freezing. Please help me, Im 2 days from being evicted and my father was my only family. I had to ask my old boss if I could use the internet to look for help and... Here I am. Thanks for your time of day.

This is a page of links for help.

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Business and personal listings worth scouring for what you want!

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More barter sites:

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http://www.barterconsultants.com/

http://www.tradeaway.com/

http://www.nationmakers.com/barter.htm

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This next one does cost a few bucks but if you're really interested in finding a way to live without a lot of money you will want this! (note,I am not advertising this except for help to you,I am not connected to the company who does this in any way)

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We are about to run out of propane. I am looking here as one of our last options. I don't think we have enough propane to last through out the week. Due to my former employer giving me the run around I can't get assistance locally and am not sure what else to do. I am on disability but don't get my next check until April. Please someone help us.

I am a single mother. I recieve social security, which don't even begin to be enough for my bills. I have ran into a major problem. I don't have gas in my propane tank to cook and heat with, or the money to buy some. If anyone out there can help me i would appreciate it very much. I contacted a local agency that help pay bills but they informed me that they have no room to see me until Febuary the 29th. Then, they still may not be able to help. I have little ones in my household. Would someone please contact me if you can help us.

  christtriplett@bellsouth.net

Hi, anyone gotten a miracle lately?

Even the smallest ones might encourage someone else!