I Need Some Help To Help Someone...
Because I can't sell my blood, and it's not the day my invoices get paid.
Okay, so let me start by saying all of y’all know how I am. I’m a true fan of the woman who gets out there and says fuck the fear and just decides that no matter how close to falling off of the edge she may be, she’s toeing that line every day and she’s not giving up.
It’s why I hang on the assistance and domestic violence threads, and I always try to find a way to come through for women who come to me when they’re at the end of that rope. They’re at the bottom of their reserves (yeah, I fucking threw that in there). They just have nowhere else to go.
This is in the inbox on AaBF Reddit tonight:
“Hi are you still offering assistance? Single mom I'm in a weekly hotel with my two kids and I'm $96 short to pay my rent. I don't get my next check until next Friday and they're not willing to wait I could repay it next Friday if needed and can send any proof requested.. It would go towards that Thanks :/ We were living with my mom before this and my mom passed really unexpectedly due to cancer, it was quick and she was renting so I had to come here to the motel. My children are 6 and 7 I had my first son at 16. I was half way through nursing school living with my mom when she passed , but I can't afford the school after she was gone so I took a job here in lakeland and been here at this weekly motel since. I pay $350 a week which is the cheapest one around and not the best area, at all. Its just super hard to save any money to move into a apartment when almost my whole check goes to the weekly rent. But i am on a housing waiting list now”
Y’all, this girl is not 15 miles from my place. She sent me a pic of the kids. Turns out I know someone in the same spot she is at, and she is legit. I don’t care if I have to sell my fucking hair I am going to get this money. But I really fucking love my hair. Please don’t make me sell my hair.
I know I am always asking y’all for coffee money. But, I mean, shit, I bitch so much it’s exhausting. I really need that coffee. Today, though, I’m going to forego my usual begging y’all for coffee money. I’m just going to ask that if you have an extra two dollars or five dollars or six nickels and a quarter you found in the dryer, can you please send it my way. I’m going to either have this shit by 8 a.m. or I’m finding some wig shop to buy my hair on my way over there at 8 a.m.
I’ve been where she is, and I know a lot of my ladies here have too. It’s that one thing. The one thing that is going to knock you off the ledge, or you’re going to find the foothold and keep going another week, another paycheck, another little bit without falling on your face. I know that spot too fucking well, actually.
That’s it. If you have .55 or $5.55, I’m asking for it so that I can keep this chic and her kids where they are, at least another week. Sometimes that’s all it takes. I’m posting my Paypal link. If you can help, thank you. If you can’t, thank you for being with me, and sometimes sending me coffee. It really fucking helps, and I’m making a cup right now.
I love y’all. Shut up, this shit got me in my fucking feels.
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LDY8LKW36FZH6
Didn't get to this til now but sent using my other email. Hope her & her babies find a permanent solution soon!😊
Cha-ching 💲