I am 36 years old and have found myself in quite a mess.  My husband and I own and operate a small business in the town that we live in.  We have done well, but due to some errors that I have made while being away from the office caring for my Grandmother with Alzheimer's  we are in need of help to get our finances reorganized. 

We are believers in God and know that he will get us through this time in our life.  I feel he lead me to this site for help and where I one day can help someone in the same situation I am in now.  If you are unable to help financially a prayer would be much appreciated.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and may God Bless you and your family.

I'm a single mom in Ocala Florida, going through a messy divorce.

The soon-to-be ex-husband has tempory posession of the marital home (until the divorce is final). As of yet, we have not gotten a final hearing, because the courts dockets are so backed up.

The children (not His kids) and I have been moving from home to home for the past year and a half. Staying with family and friends

I have a piece of property that I owned before the marriage. There was a mobile home on it, but, the condition of the mobile home was beyond repair.

Some really great friends got together and had the mobile demolished and cleared the lot for us.

They thought they had another one to replace it, but the person in charge of that, backed out, and has not been heared from.

This same group of really super people managed to get over $9000.00 in donations and purchased a used mobile home for the kids and me.

Now, we have come up against another challange. The funds have run out, and we still need to have the mobile home moved to the property.

All the companies that deal with moving mobile homes charge about the same rate, approx.$6500.00

We could really use a little more help. Anything that any one can do, would be much appreciated.

We would really love to be in our own home, and not burden anyone else.

Thank you for reading our story.

Marty, Chucky and Johnny   :)

You can meet my family at the website post below:

http://marty-martysworld.blogspot.com/index.html

I'm also on DigitalCharity.com

http://www.digitalcharity.com/m.php?id=2896

When I put the title up on this text I was refereing to my grandmother,she's 76 yrs. old and on Sept.7th she'll be 77.I call her mom because she rasied me sence I was a baby.And now I'm returning the favor or trying to do my best to see she has the things she needs,she lives on a fixed income.I myself clean houses for a liveing but it's only seasonal work.Well to make a long story short.I haven't had alot of work this year,because I take care of my grandmother alot,so we just barely get by anymore.I wanted to ask if maybe someone out their could help me make her dream come true on her B-day, she wants a sewing machine,we could never afford something like that.I'm not picky anything old just something that sews.Thank you for your time. Sandy

Hello,

I would like to tell you a little about myself. I am a grandmother of 4 all under the age of 9. My husband and I have been raising them since their births with no help from the state, mother or father. We both worked and it was never a financial problem.

Things were fine until 2002. That was the year my knees blew out. I have since been off work. I had one knee corrected with surgery twice and re-injured them both a year later. I will explain the second knee later on. With only my husband working and me being denied SSI (they said my arms and brain worked so I didn't qualify) things were a little tight but we managed. The grandkids didn't go without. Then in 2003 my husband lost his job after 30 yrs of service with a clean record. The new owners of the company from Australia, transfered it to Mexico. I husband tried in vain to find another job (he was 51 at the time) but to no avail. We finally exhausted our financial resources and had to apply for state aid. My husband took a NO LIFE/DEATH on his retirement money just to get it up to $312 which was deducted from the Cash Aid check. That left us with only $900 a month for a family of 6. Our rent is $700, elec about $150, gas about $101, phone $50. This did not include gas for the car for trips to the Welfare office, dr appointments, insurance, repairs for the car, clothes for the children and diapers for 2 babies. We received $400 in Food Stamps which helped a great deal. I received medical coverage (barely) from the state. My husband was denied because he was not considered the primary caregiver of the children. I told them that we both raise the children but to no avail. I argued that my husband was seeing a heart specialist when we had private insurance. Still to no avail. I said that we (my family) are in poverty and we cannot survive for long on this amount. She just agreed with me and handed me my papers.

I started an online store in hopes of replacing what my husband and I used to make. I was planning on promoting it on the road to select groups, but my husband started to sleep more and that was leaving the grandchildren in danger so I had to try through word of mouth and emails. Not a choice I approve of. It has been an ongoing struggle to get it off the ground. Then the transmission went out on my car, thus limiting me to only driving in my own city. 23 mph is the best I dare go with the car. I do not have the $2700 they want to fix it.

Then the hardest blow came. 

On May 27, 2006..........my husband died in his sleep of a heart attack at the age of 53. I nor the grandchildren receive anything from his SS. I was told I had to wait until I was 50. Our Cash Aid check did go up to $900 and for some reason the food stamps went up $150. I asked my cash worker if I could have the food stamp increase added to my Cash Aid because I DO know how to stretch a dollar when it comes to food and it was needed there more. I was told that wasn't possible. I told her about the problems I have had getting a response back from the 2 new caseworkers I was assigned the first of the yr (2006) about my husband getting medical coverage. She told me to have him come down and she will get it for him. I then told her he died 2 wks ago.

Since then, we have had our electricity (the Salvation Army wrote us a "one-time-only" check), the phone shut off which prevented me from accessing my online store for 4 months, our gas almost shut off (I am on a payment plan now of $56 a month), my daughter (the mother of the children)  which has a problem with undesirables break into my house and stole my business checks. Checks were written out to the amunt of over $2000 in one month. A $300 check went through before my rent check did which caused an overage since I did not make it to the bank to deposit the Cash Aid check prior. Unknowingly, my rent check bounced because of this. Now my landlady's new husband wants to double my rent to $1400 and "suggested we look for a new place."  I now have high blood pressure with a heart condition and my knee specialist at the county hospital said that my knee will have to be replaced in 5 years....hence no surgery to correct it so I CAN work. Still SSI denies me because not one doctor will sign the proper forms. But they tell me during the visits that I have to be careful I could fall just by walking breaking the knee completly and I could have a heart attack if my blood pressure and stress level doesn't come down. My GP was under medicating me for months on my blood pressure and the heart specialist doubled the dose.

The only places available to us are cockroach infested with gang activity constantly, and in a slum lord condition. A 1 bedroom for $750 + $750 deposit + $750 last.  

I desperately need cash so I can find a better place for my 4 grandchildren and I to live and to repair my car for the move. My family and my husband's, refuse to help because of the illigitimate grandchildren. My grandchildren and I have been through so much emotionally, the oldest is not doing poorly in school and getting into fights. I have sold what I can and anything else I have for sale like on LiveDeal or Craigslist have not sold.

I have tried everything I know to get money together for us but the amounts I have gotten have gone to getting the phone back on and bills partially paid.

If you could send just 1 dollar, that would be one more dollar than we had before toward our salvation in this expensive town. If you would like to help us, you can place the money in our PayPal account: shopper441@msn.com .

I do what I can when I can for other people in similar cases. A homeless person I will get a sandwich (you cannot buy hot food with Food Stamps) from the deli, milk and some orange juice along with some other fruits when I go grocery shopping.

We hope you will find it in your hearts to help us. I cannot repay you for your contribution, but let it be known....your generosity will be highly appreciated and rewarded in many ways.

We thank you all.

I found out last night my older and only sister has 3 months left to live.  Hospice is coming to her house starting Monday.  She is only 49.  A mother of 5 and grandmother of 3. 

She has colon-rectal cancer.

She has been a creative dance teacher for over 25 years teaching blind and deaf children.  She had just earned her bachlor degree and was teaching 3rd grade.  She is truly a loving and giving person. 

she has lead a selfless life and I want to give her one last vacation with her family to a warmer climate as she is in need of a warm place.

Any donations to her or to cancer research for colon-rectal cancer would truly be appreciated.

my daughter is due today 8/28/2007, and we're in a bind with money to buy baby clothes,bedding,and a car seat. Mostly clothes that we're worried about. The sad thing is that it's her first child and she wanted everything to be perfect when she brings the baby home. I'm also worried. We don't have any money to help with cause my husband was hurt on a job cutting trees,when it rains it pours around here.neither one of us have any family to speak of. Our church helps us with food. I've never asked for anything before so I'm not to good at this.Please if anyone out there can help us take her worries and mine away. She's 19 single and the father is no where to be found or his parents.So if anyone can help us please email me at truehazen@gmail.com or if there's anything I could do to earn or pay it back I will always be available anytime.Or cynthiaturnier@yahoo.com. And again Thank you from the bottom of my heart.     Cynthia Turner

Hi,

My name is Kristi and I need to make a fresh financial start.  Last year my Grandmother lived with my husband and me for the last eight months of her life.  She had Alzheimer's and we were her care givers.  During this time, I lost touch with things and let some really important things slip my mind.  We own a small business in the town that we live in and when she moved in with us I started working from home.  I made some errors financially that has now left us in a real bind that I can not seem to get us out of.  My husband and I work hard and I am trying desperately to reorganize so we can begin our life again without the huge strain of financial distress that I have caused my family by letting myself get out of touch with reality while my Grandmother was with us.  Any help would be appreciated and once I get back on my feet, I vow to continue visiting this site helping others in my position.  I am in need of $8700.00 to catch up and get my head above the water so I can get back on track.  If financial help is not available then pray will be much appreciated.

Thank you for the time you took to read this.  God says that I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.  I feel that he lead me to this site.  God Bless you all.

Kristi

I am a Grandmother of five very special grand children . Very hard to keep us all together. My resources are very limited . I want to try  and hold us together as long as we can.  Parents are in treatment centers and I am the only living adult in this family.

If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank-you

I am a 49-year-old woman who is raising my 8 year-old granddaughter by myself.  My ex-husband walked out two years and two months ago, leaving me a full-time student with no job and no income to run off with his girlfriend.  Though I was awarded $1200 monthly for three years when we divorced, I have only in the last six weeks begun to receive the $280 per week he is to pay me, and the arrearages are over  $19,000.  I inherited some money two months after he left, as did my mother.  She promised me she would see me through the next two years of school, which would have given me an Associates Degree and the capability to test for my certification as a sign language interpreter. 

However, her health took a turn for the worse and she never went home after her last hospitalization.  Nursing home care is so expensive, her money ran out about 5 months ago, and I had to quit school with only two semesters to go to finish my training.  Last October, my 26 year old daughter and her "boyfriend" stole everything I owned of value, including over $43,000 of jewelry that belonged to me, my mother, and heirloom pieces that had been in the family for generations.  My unreimbursed loss after insurance paid off was $39,500 and only about 5 pieces of jewelry have been recovered in local pawn shops and back in my possession.  These items represented my "cushion" of security as they were liquidatable assets that could have supported me if I had sold them.  They are now gone.

I have a mortgage, a car payment, utilities, and credit card payments to make and no income of any kind.  I have not worked outside the home since 1999, and haven't been able to since I have had to raise my granddaughter since the day she was born.  My daughter has been in and out of jail and after what she did last year, is no longer a part of my life.  The baby has no one but me, since her daddy signed over his rights, and her papaw took off.  I am the only adult that hasn't turned their back on her and I now have no way to support her.  She needs security desperately, but she won't have a home, her school and friends, or the ability to play soccer if something doens't happen soon.  I can't afford daycare to go look for a job, and being over 40 and not having been in th workplace for over 8 years, reality is that I won't find a decent paying job quickly if at all, even though I am highly skilled in administrative and accounting fields and am more intelligent than most, but lack that college degree that somehow means "smart" to so many people in the workforce.  My years of experience make me overqualified for many positions, so the cons list grows while the pros list still waits to get started.

I don't want charity but I do need money to live on and need it now.  If I could just get enough to make it through the next 3-4 months without worrying about losing the house or the car, I could beat the streets and find a way to support myself.  However, at this point, my back is against the wall and there is no flexibility and it just all came crashing down NOW. 

Please could somebody help me?  For many out there, it would be no more than some of their tax-deductible charitable donations, but it would mean the difference in an 8-year-old's future and very possible the rest of her life, mentally and physically, and it would mean we wouldn't have to live on the streets somewhere.  I can't do that.  With some time, I can turn everything around.  However, to do that, I need money.  Please help me.  Please help us. 

Hi My name is Antonia  I'm disabled and My grandmother Edith Hunter is in a money crisis. I know that this may not reflect to the agenda but please hear me out she took care of me all her life. My father and mother was not there she's the best thing that ever happen to me and I want to give back thats why I'm secretly writing to you about her. She's in need of desperate help she has a house over 100 years old 3bedrooms 2more in the attic. She can't afford to keep anymore her child my aunt, uncle , and mom are grown now. she's trying to rise her 4 grandchildren not including me because I'm 21 now she on a fixed income and she's a widow. Her house is going to foreclose in september the month of my wedding. When I should be happy about getting married I'm not because I love my grandmother so much it hurts I don't want to see her out on the streets with her grandkids. She sacrifice a lot for me and my brothers and cousins. Her mortgage being rised every month they know her situation but no one wants to help her. She's my mother when I had no mother she's my father when I had not father. Please Please find it in your heart to help my grandmother she's a beautiful person and I'll go all out my way to help her. Please help her it would be a blessing.

I am in desperate need of financial assisstance. My grandmother was just diagnosed with a brain tumor and we have no insurance or money to pay for the up coming surgery, docotr's appointments, treatment's, medications. Most of my family lives paycheck to paycheck including myself, so with all of my saving already spent, we find ourselves with no means to pay for the increasing medical bills. I was planning my wedding for May 26, 2007, unfortunatley, my grandmother became very ill and our wedding had to be cancelled. All of the money that my fiance and I had saved up for our wedding has been spent on doctor's visits and medications for her. I don't care spending my money on her she is one of the most important persons in my life. But I am running out of money fast and have no one to turn to. If you would like to help please email me at Candy_s_m@hotmail.com. Any little bit helps, God Bless you.

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Alex is still having pain but we did find out he has to have gallbladder surgery. Please pray over this because he is really scared and I cannot console him. I started a new job which is going okay but it does not pay what I am used to. They also call you off a lot in between projects so it can be frustrating. I am still behind in my rent so please pray about that. I also have a minifundraiser again this weekend which I hope goes well as I need to raise at lease 250 dollars. My health is doing okay but I have an infected spider bite which is causing the blues. Good news my daughter made me a grandmother again as she had my 10th grandchild on Mother's Day. He was 3 pounds 9 ozs. and 16 inches long. He is doing fine but he will be in the hospital for another month.

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