A serious situation that requires assistance!

Well I think everyone who knows me understands I like to give back what I can, when I can, however I can.

I am asking for community assistance and support to anyone who can, whether its prayers, donations, happy thoughts, anything you can.

Here’s the situation: Someone who I immensely care for and love with all my heart is undergoing a very bad situation. I was told last night by her best friend, the girl in this post here: UF Test Pack - Report Journal - #24 by SteveO something that I was completely unaware of. The more I contemplate the more I understand why V would keep it from me. J and I were planning the next time we could kidnap V and take her out with us, since she is always working and never has time anymore to do anything. I kind of feel like a heel since I believed V was working so much because she just didn’t care about our relationship. (V is my girl and J is her best friend) After the last time I went out with J in the aforementioned linked post, I really learned a lot about V.

So back to last night. Thinking like any red blooded American guy I figured if I could go out with both V and J at the same time maybe I could get a 3-some going. So what, I’m a horn-dog! J drops the bomb on me and tells me this.

V gave up her house to move in with H from her work. Now V is a dedicated employee and I know from always being there that she works her butt off. That’s one thing I can say is she is a very responsible mom. She has a 14 month year old who she adores and always talks about. She figured by moving in with H, who also has a boy, they could save money and watch each others kids while the other is at work. Great arrangement right?

Well here comes the bomb! V has been living there 3 months now and has been paying the rent and bill money to H, but apparently H has planned to move all along. Well H has been keeping the money, not paying the rent, not paying the bills and well you can guess. V found this all out the other day when the city shut off the power with the temp here in Memphis in the twenties! Like I said V has a baby so she did what any mother would do, she cleaned out the savings and paid the $800 past due bill. Now its Christmas and V is broke and doesn’t know what to do.

I know some laws and I know that the power company wont shut off the power with an infant, but they didn’t know about the baby and V already paid the bill.

OK so J found all this out when V spent the night over there the one day they didn’t have power. Turns out the landlord wasn’t even aware she was living there either. Not sure what’s going to happen there, but I so desperately want to help. Yeah but I just dropped $5K on a down payment for my new Jeep, another $300 on the new increase on insurance so basically I’m broke but I’ve decided rather than giving presents to family I’m taking my Christmas club money and making sure she is OK.

I’m asking the community, if you can, for some Christmas cheer. I’m not even supposed to know about any of this. If anyone can help with any amount, even a dollar that would be wonderful. J and I know V would never just take it, so we are going to put it in a card from Friends of Santa and stick it in her purse.

Yes this is a plea and anything, any amount will help. You’ll have to take my word on it. It’s a tough time of year to be broke and not know what you’re going to do. So if anyone can feel it in their heart, could help make someone very special to me smile for Christmas I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

If you are interested in helping you can PM me and we can figure out the best way to help her out :slight_smile:. If you can’t help, just keep her and others less fortunate in your heart.

Money is tight for me this time of year as I’m sure it is for everyone but I’ll figure my budget off next weeks check and if I have any leftover scratch I’ll see if I can try to help out bro.

I have some money in my paypal for selling my mx353.
I can send that over to your paypal.
In return, can you encourage AD to release more mx353 in the future. Oh, mx301 would be great too, lol

Anyways, happy holidays to you and her- also, everyone else in PT!

I TOTALLY understand and appreciate not having money this time of year. I already told my family they can forget about any gifts and why. I can’t say everybody in my family is as giving as I am, but hey we live the life we live. I’m going to make a Facebook page for it too and if I could get a few dollars from each one of my friends there it would be super awesome. She is such a sweet, good person and I almost want to question why she likes me.

I know that’s harsh, but seriously she is absolutely gorgeous with beautiful stunning eyes that just melt my soul. I really feel terrible for all the times I gave her grief, even recently when she would always rather work than see me. She never mentioned a thing to me about just how dire the situation is, and here I am giving her trouble. I just feel like crap knowing I got mad at her wanting to work rather than paying for a babysitter so she can go out with me.

Please guys if you can’t do anything monetarily wise, just keep her and everyone less fortunate than yourself in your prayers. It really brings to light that sometimes when we spend a few extra dollars on a beer and think nothing of it, all the while someone we know is struggling just to eat. Its exactly that reason I set up my charity to help the homeless. Sometimes those who need the most help are the ones who are closest to us, but we just don’t even know it. Prayers and good happy thoughts are very important too and greatly appreciated.

My paypal address is junkyfungus (at symbol) gmail (dot) com

I’m also going to build a facebook page too. I have about 350 friends, but she’s one of them obviously. I have to be real careful as I cannot let her know that I know. I swore to J and she will freaking kill me if I blow this. I mean seriously KILL me! So I have to figure out a cover story, without revealing to much detail and not enough so anyone can discover who it is. Her roommate is also on my list of friends too :roll_eyes:. I figure if everyone can give $1 to $10 that should get her back on her feet again. I want to see her blue eyes sparkle again. I think I might be in lu, lu, lu, really like her alot. I might be in lu, lu, shit I might love her. There I said it!

I’m going to dig up some bottles and see what I have that I can auction off.

That really is heartwarming Steve.

Well steve I have 40ish dollars left over in my paypal I can give away im not planning on digging into my bank account since thats my living money for two weeks. But paypal alas I forgot I had it in there. Just tell me where to send it too/how to send it.

Off topic: Can I empty my IS to go bottle wash it out with plain water and reuse it for a to go bottle of Akuto scent?

Edit: found your paypal address.

I use alcohol to clean it out

Then rinse back out, but I’m very detailed when it comes to cleaning so I do it a couple of times.

You should auction some IFM! That would generate some interest :smiley:. However, I am probably not going to participate in it and am just planning to transfer that paypal account

Guys,

This is for a person in need. Let’s not make Steve auction anything off, if you’re going to do it, do it from the goodness of your heart. This isn’t directed to anyone but lets just go with the spirit of giving and remembering those who are less fortunate than us without motives of something in return for it.

Thank you,

Merry Christmas to everyone

Yes I agree sorry to add my little Off topic thing in & I already sent some moola to steve. Have a wonderful Christmas V.

Dude, you don’t have to be sorry about anything, although it was not the thread to bring that up. Your intentions seem good so now worries.

Yea, AD and people here, including Steve, have been very good to me, so I’m just doing what I can to help. we shouldn’t expect anything more.

After all, this is the season to be jolly :wink:

Steve,

Some Christmas cheer and holiday spirit sent.

For everybody whose helped so far I’m up to $100 as of last night. This does not include the $500 I have from Christmas Club savings. I’m about done with the Facebook page so I’ll start adding people to that today. It’s nice to know there are GREAT people here. Its not just because of monetary donations, its just knowing that people really do care about people here. What a wonderful caring community :smiley:

OK so now we are up to $180…

I’ve been meaning to fire up the paypal and send something your way for the past few days but of course I procrastinated like everything else lol. I’m about to head out the door but I’ll try to do it when I get off work.

Thanks :slight_smile:

Now up to $190 too.

Oh and pledges from more too

Every dollar is appreciated guys and gals. It’s been a heart-warming response and I am absolutely certain that between what we are doing here and on Facebook, we will change someones life.

I haven’t been able to talk much to J, since she is a bit under the weather, and I’m fearful for my life (she already threatened to murder me once today). She is also conducting her own fund-raising campaign. I do know that we have pledges of about another $300, some coming via USPS and some by paypal. However you do it, please just send what you can and even if you pledged $10 and can only send $1. A dollar is one more than we had so everything is appreciated and very generous.

I’ve collected $230 in actual cash donations so far and that doesn’t include what I plan to give.

If anyone ever doubted the authenticity of this community let those doubts forever be put to rest. This, to me, absolutely proves the genuine caring nature of our community. What an amazing group of people. Thank you to everyone, for your prayers, your happy thoughts, you love and generosity.

Long story short I still plan on donating but the money going into my paypal account is ‘pending’.