Hi all, I’m requesting help to setup my heating payment plan and to pay my water bill. I’m a single mom of 2 and unfortunately my company closed several months back and have 0 prospects on the hundreds and hundreds of applications I have sent out. I exhausted my unemployment in late September (which didn’t cover all my monthly bills so had been using savings to cover the missing parts for months) I exhausted my savings by November. I have been relying on food banks for groceries, and finding odd jobs and selling over everything I could to try and get by and I am still short.

I need $250 to cover my water bill (to avoid shut off) and to setup my payment plant for my gas.

So my job I was paid really well for had dropped me down to part-time hours with very little pay. I'm a working homeless living in a hotel room with my spouse and cat, and I'm the sole provider. My husband is unable to work due to being disabled. I was making $1k biweekly which helped a bunch but now I'm only getting 15 hours for 270. Our hotel room a week is $451. And I'm freaking sobbing so bad, I don't want to be on the street, this is the only job that paid higher than $15 and I like it there. Anything will help.

Update I got fired two days before Christmas

Hi everyone, happy holidays! I recently moved states after escaping an abusive relationship to be closer to family, and have been struggling to find a job. I just got one and I'm over the moon happy to have some stable income again. My problem is that my prepaid phone bill is out of service and I cant send any communication to my new managers or receive any calls. I would be forever grateful if someone would be able to help me with my $60 phone bill (and if anyone has a recommendation for a cheaper but good quality prepaid service where I can still have my same number, I would love to hear!) Thank you for reading :)

EDIT: REQUEST FULFILLED thank you for the advice !

Hey, my name is Hawke and on the 15th of this month, I celebrated my 9 months off the smelly plant (I have the AA coins to prove it)! I also have over 3.5 years off the cocktails!

I need 107.5 to clear an old debt on a school account, from my community college days, because I officially obtained permission (long story) from the people who manage my life, living situation, and therapy/medication services to go back to school.

I am going to finish my AA first (9 classes left) and then go for my Bachelor's at a well-known Uni in my city, and finally become a special education teacher for real, my dudes! I need this debt cleared so I can obtain my transcripts and obtain financial aid from FASFA. Happy New Year, and here's to a new start!

I can send proof of it upon request.

Needing help with car rental

Im in texas and needing to go to florida to visit my son who's finishing the school year there, im a little short and if anyone could help with 96-216 $ id be forever grateful

I can provide documentation or whatever proof you need so you know im not lying, please and thank you.

Hi everyone, I’m having a bit of trouble trying to get groceries until I get paid next week. My kids are on winter break and our food is going by more quickly than I’m used to especially during the week since they’re in school. I’m not asking for much just enough to get me through until next Wednesday. Not sure how requesting works here. Any guidance would be much appreciated!

It's been another tough month. I've never tried asking on reddit for help before, but here I am. I've spent a fortune this last year trying to keep my baby alive (rip my dog 09.10.2021-12.21.2024) and now I'm looking at whats going to be a rough few months going forward bill wise. Thankfully I am on manageable payment plans for my dogs treatment/surgery cost but they are still significant combined with my other expenses

My gas has run out after blowing my most recent paycheck (today) on other bills. A generous co worker of mine has agreed to drive me to work for atleast a week but they are asking to be compensated after 1 week since it is not a ckose drive (18mi back and forth not including him) for either of us and I dont want to do that since I only need gas for my fully functioning car.

I posted in this sub asking if anyone could spare me a Merry Christmas, as I had no Christmas magic in the place I exist in but can't call home. Many of you reached out and gave me a Merry Christmas. Since I found it overwhelming to respond to each response, I thought I'd say thank you here.

I hope you all have a Happy New Year!

i was trying to connect my phone to the speaker in my shower, but when i rested it on a shelf in there, it fell and slid down to the end of the tub where a big puddle of water laid. i pulled it out as quick as i could and dried it off. it works just fine, i think, but it was at 4% when this happened so it is now dead. it wont charge and when it still had power it said there was water in the charging port so it couldn’t charge. it has been drying for a few hours and i will let it sit with the charging port facing down but i can’t check if it gives the water notification again because it has no more battery. i don’t have access to wireless charging right at this moment unless an apple watch charger will work. i have the iphone 15 if that makes any difference. please please help if anyone knows of anything i can do. thank you so much.

I wanted to take a minute and thank everyone on here who has helped me and those who have been so kind and thoughtful. I also really appreciate those of you who congratulated me on my year of sobriety. That means a lot! If you’re struggling with addiction, please feel free to reach out to me.

Again, thank y’all. I hope you’ve had a happy holiday!

Basically I’m just not gonna be able to adequately grocery shop in any capacity for the next couple weeks to catch up on vital expenses. Wishlist is bulk food items that we eat on the regular or I take to work for my lunch breaks. Any help is extremely appreciated.

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1UCE3GYDNJHZC?ref_=wl_share

So yeah, my internet bill was due yesterday. In a day or two (don't remember how many days it is from the payment date it'll be shut off exactly) it'll be shut off. I just recently got laid off at my job, and don't get the severence package for a couple more weeks and need internet to apply for jobs. It's 82 USD (sorry correction, need 90 USD as my bank is slightly negative) Can anyone help with it? I got a gift card for christmas I wanted to use to pay it, but it won't work for bill payments.

Hi all. I hate to have to ask for help here. I have requested help from all local assistance groups and government resources in my area, but am continuing to get denied.

Amount Requested: $740, which would only cover January rent so I don't get evicted. No, I am not expecting strangers to send me hundreds of dollars. I am just trying to be transparent.

My story: I am 23yo, recently divorced, and struggling a lot with my finances. I live in a 2bd apartment with my roommate and we split rent each month ($370 per person). I have 2 cats that are my whole entire universe and my roommate has a 4 month old puppy. My roommate is having some health concerns, making them unable to work at the moment. This came out of nowhere; unfortunately it happened at the same time that I lost my student loans from school. These loans have helped me to 'comfortably' pay my rent for the past 4 years. For the first time in my life, I am about to get evicted. As I'm sure you can imagine, my anxiety is through the roof. Because of the circumstances, all of the finances are falling onto me. I am paying for twice my portion of rent, utilities, and food costs. I am paying for all 3 pets and caring for them full-time. I am urgently seeking a job that I am able to do as a disabled person. I am killing myself donating plasma twice a week and spending all day every day applying, looking, and interviewing for jobs.

Every penny you send is appreciated! Each donation will bring me closer to getting back on my feet. Thank you for even just taking the time out of your day to read this. I truly appreciate each and every one of you!

As per sub rules, message me for my payment tags! And let me know what your preference is. I have a couple apps and am willing to create more accounts. Thanks!

Hi, I've been looking for wholesale products to hand out to homeless. I'm curious if anyone knows where I can buy protein bars or things similar in bulk?

Or anything else you may see that is a good deal. Thanks in advance!

Hi, I urgently need to take my cat to the vet for an ear infection. His appointment is on the 27th December. I have £60 but the bill is expected to be over £100. Can anyone help me please?

Hello, I'm Kira, I am 32 years old and I am diagnosed as autistic with ptsd and depression. I am applying for disability and I've done everything in my power to not have to post something like this but here we go....

Does anyone have any way of helping me.

I have 7 years experience dog training and a few years veterinary. I've also worked in Healthcare as a Phlebotomist for several years. I've just fallen on severely hard times after my dad was almost killed last year by a hit and run driver, were all severely experiencing financial hardship and we've even tried go fund me and my sister put up a fundraiser in her community but people seem to think they're fake or promise to donate and dont. I can provide info about this if anyone is interested but he spent a month in icu at harborview in seattle, a month in rehabilitation, and another 5 months recovering at home. During this time my mother left my dad, took everything, forced him to sell the house of which he got just enough to get an rv and help me get one as well. We were homeless basically for a few months before moving to a vfw park but they got shut down and we just bairly missed being homeless again when a friend was kind enough to rent out space to us on her farm (800 rent) and we've struggled and half starved but we're not homeless atleast.

Now we're about to lose our phones due to a issue with my father's bank and I'm scrambling to help.

Anyone who knows me and my father knows we will give the shirt off our back to help those who need it and it has come back to bite us several times but we keep helping. I believe in being kind to everyone and I learned this from my father.

Right now I'm doing everything I can, I can bake cookies, make some simple scarves, hats, and small drawstring bags. I can walk dogs and do basic baths and grooming in home, I can do cat nails, I can work with basic training for dogs (I was certified through akc and can get my trainer ID if needed).

Right now I'm job searching but each job I've applied for I'm either over or under qualified. I've applied for almost 250 jobs and had 5 call backs... I'm supporting myself and my pets and my father and his pets. The food banks are running low on food and the pet food banks have shut down that I went to. My gas tank takes $50 to fill and can get me several days of doordash. My dad's rent is 800 and if I coukd get that partially covered for him I would cry.

Thank you so much for reading this, I never thought I would be someone to post this but here I am...

I do wish everyone a wonderful holiday season!

https://gofund.me/7da86999

Hello,

My wife and I ended up homeless with our children suddenly in July 2024 when we were wrongfully evicted from the apartment we had been living in for nearly 8 years. We've been bouncing around from hotels, to Airbnb's, and shared living houses for 4.5 months now.

Then, last month, the storage unit that contained our entire life - everything we had left aside from a couple of bags we packed to keep with us - was sold in auction.

We have lost everything.

We are currently living in a shared living house, where we rent a bedroom. We share common areas with other people who also live in the house. Recently, things have become tense, because the people living in the two bedrooms next to ours are angry that our two very young children - 1 and 2 years old, sometimes wake up crying at night if they have a nightmare, when they are sick, etc (as toddlers often do). We do our best to soothe them, but sometimes young kids just cry. People bang on our bedroom door and yell about the noise. It's not a good environment for our kids at this point.

Now, we are so close to being out of our current situation.

After applying to apartments for months, and being denied over and over again due to our recent eviction, a friend of ours reached out with a solution. She and her husband own a home that they will rent to us, for 1250/month - $550 less than we currently pay for one small room. The house will be move-in ready on January 1st.

We've already set up the utilities for the house in our name, because our friend is letting us go over there to clean the house up and paint, but we cannot actually move in until we can come up with the deposit and first months rent.

We haven't been able to save up enough. Due to our current costs of living, especially the high weekly rent for our room, we just don't have enough. We are both employed full time, and we are saving every penny that we can, but at our current rate it will take at least another 6-8 weeks of saving before we reach our goal.

I am officially asking for help. We cannot live like this for another 2 months or more. Our kids especially do not deserve this.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Even if we partly reach our goal, it will bring us closer and allow us to move into the house sooner.

This is a complex situation, so I'm more than happy to answer any questions or provide as much documentation/proof of our situation that I can.

Thank you to everyone who has read this, and Merry Christmas + Happy Holidays 💚

My husband is still in NH, he's sitting with our grandson while his daughter is spending the day with her other 2 younger boys. He's still in a coma, but was finally stable enough to do his first surgery on Mon on his broken pelvis.. He's still not responding, but when they took out his breathing tube he was breathing on his own for almost a minute. And was biting down on the tube from the ventilator. One of his pupils has started coming back to normal and is now responding to lights. His left side hasn't moved at All, it's his right side that's responding..

He put the phone up to his ear for me yesterday and I talked to him like normal, it's just so hard not hearing his voice. I'm just glad that he's still with us and even if I'm alone for the next month I'm glad that he has his mom & step dad and grandpa there for him. I don't think anyone realized that he had so many friends who have been visiting him almost every day.

Looking at the destruction and damage to the SUV he was driving doesn't look like anyone would or could have ever made it out alive. He hit the tree at 4 feet in the air.. When he ever showed me the picture of it I was in shock..

Just wanted to say we're not out of the woods yet by any means, just praying for a Christmas miracle that he'll pull through this. Hubby is not leaving until he knows he's doing okay.. So I sit here hugging my pup praying everyday for a miracle that he will make it through.. Not feeling very Merry. But I'm holding it together as good as I can. I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas Hold your family tight, you just never know!

Hey everyone, just thought I’d reach out and see if anyone would be willing to help me get a bit of food. I haven’t eaten in a couple days, waiting to get paid from my new job.

This is my first Christmas without my little buddy, he passed recently and it’s been hard adjusting to life without him. If anyone can relate to losing a close pet friend my dms are open, I don’t really have anyone to talk to about it.

I hope everyone is doing well this holiday season. :)

Hi there, please help me.

I don't have any money, I'm too disabled to work and the SNAP/SSI system is incredibly slow to the point where I have been relying on food banks for the past 3 months.

I need to buy some wet food for my cat, if anyone could spare $20 so I can pay for it for her I would be forever thankful. I don't want her to go hungry because of me.

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I am a single mom with a disability. My 2 kids also live with challenges. I work part time and have multiple meetings per week regarding my kids and myself. Which makes working more even harder. I've been behind in rent for months and have applied for every assistance available in my area and been denied (mostly due too lack of funds in my area). In order to stay housed, I agreed to a court order splitting my back rent over 6 months on top of my regular monthly rent, nearly doubling it. What a solution right? I know. But I'm in dire need of help by the 29th or my building will proceed with eviction. I just need to make it until tax return season, then I will be able to pay it all off and start fresh.

Thanks to all of you who make this community such a joy to be a part of all year round!

The mod team may be slow to reply to messages or action requests today as we are in multiple time zones with our own families and celebrations to attend. We appreciate your patience!

Please feel free to use this post to share your own wishes to our community. 🎄

I had money taken out of my account I didn't have much to begin with and my breast milk has dried up slowly due to stress of sick baby in need of formula for her I don't know how long it will take to get my milk supply back and I'm running out of the free formula I got at the hospital I GOT HELP I DON'T KNOW HOW TO CHANGE FLAIR

My husband was laid off last month we were able to pull through but not able to pull through this month. I’ve called 211 and contacted all the communities around me and a lot are not giving rental or utility assistance appointments till Jan.2nd. There was one place I had luck with but they wanted us to get evicted first … we can’t do that we have kids that’s not an option . We had more in savings but car issues took that . Unsure what to do next . We already live beneath our means as we are a family of 5 all living in a small place and recently got approved for food stamps which helps a lot. Everything we own is second hand and even for Christmas we just got our kids one gift each . We don’t crazy spending . Just unsure where to go for now as this is our first time in this position . Hopefully last as we are both in school trying to better our future and our kids . I even called a few places today but due to the holidays they are closed. Any ideas would help. Yes we’ve been applying for jobs just a non stop no . Lots of layoffs everywhere unfortunately. If anyone can just please help us with this months utility bill which is 126.89, please we would appreciate it and just with advice on where we can general rental assistance please as it’s been a struggle as our rent is 1300 and our first unemployment check was 378 that’s not including the other bills we have like diapers wipes , insurance , and etc . I contacted my energy company and they just tell me to call 211 or that they don’t currently have any programs.

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2RKHX1KXLVVAQ?ref_=wl_share

I made a wish list after being recommended for baby needs . Thank you in advance .