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Hi all,

I am here to ask for help paying a past due electric bill for my elderly mother and myself. I have been unemployed for over 4 years.

At this point I have sold everything of any value. I lost my food stamps 3 months ago due to no transportation to the job classes that would have me traveling 23 miles round trip.  In Feb we had a chimney fire which negated our only way to heat the house that we could afford. This entailed employing a couple of electric heaters which drove our bill up quickly.

We are now two months behind.

We have exhausted Church help channels and government agencies in our area. We are due to be shut off  Wed. May 1 2013 even though I would have money available to pay the bill Fr. May 3rd. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

LINK TO PAYPAL ACCOUNT  being used to raise funds for electricity bill, which will be paid directly to the electric co-op.

In Orange County, CA my friend is seeking a temporary home (1-2 months) for her 2 cats while she pursues job offers in northern California. She will be staying with friends while she starts her new job and cannot take the cats. Once she is employed, she will pay for cat food and supplies.  Cats are indoor, litter-trained and well-behaved. Please reply to me via Wishadoo.

My husband Barton has Cerebral Palsy, and we are both writers. We just published Ink in the Wheels: Stories to Make Love Roll, our memoir that looks at disability and relationships (or relationships in general!) To our dismay, the week after our book release, we found out my non-accessible Honda is now beyond repair. We have entered into a contest to win an accessible van through the National Mobility Awareness Campaign. You can read our story and vote here:

http://www.mobilityawaren essmonth.com/entrant/bart ...

I've come here to Wishadoo in hopes of enlisting the kindness of strangers and friends, get resource suggestions, job recommendations...anythin g.

I was transferred to Denver last year, and my brother, who has AIDS, accompanied me.  I have since been diagnosed with MS. My Mom's health is rapidly deteriorating and we need to get back home to Portland, OR as soon as possible. Monies used will be for moving our household, breaking our lease, and getting an appropriate place in Portland.  

I am also looking for work there; transferring is not an option, unfortunately.  I am a major account manager with a background in the Transportation (moving) Industry and have working with the likes of Boeing, Amazon, T-Mobile, State Farm and many others.  Any donation would be greatly appreciated.  

I am in my 50's and finding new employment is not easy in these times, even with extensive experience.  Add my new diagnosis to the mix, and it's even more complicated, and stress certainly exacerbates everything.  This is urgent for my family.

Namaste

My Father passed away March 13, 2013 at 7:33 am est. I am begging for help I now owe 900 in rent and I have to stay here to talk care of my homebound disabled mother if I get evicted I can't stay here my husband is thinking of leaving me and the kids and moving back to South Carolina but I doubt he will send me money he didn't the last time he left. I am desperate please help me. It is exhausting trying to get my mother's affairs in order and taking care of her I don't even have gas money at this point. My mother can't touch my father's retirement through OPERS for 1 to 3 months. The whole thing is a huge mess. I am so sorry to be asking for help again. 

With Love and Peace

 pay account 

rbrnmw2@gmail.com

https://www.paypal.com/us /cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_acco ...

Robin

I have a new wish, and this one's easy because anyone with an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and Android can help for free!  I play a game called Guardian Cross.  It's free and run by a very reputable company.  If enough people sign up using my invitation code, UA70790, I will win a prize card (used for playing).  Best of all,  you also get a card for doing it, if you decide they like the game and want to keep playing. You don't have to keep playing, though.

I need about 12 more people, I think, to win all of the prizes. Hey, it's nerdy, but I'm trapped in my house (see blog post, link below).  Gives me something to do.

Here are more instructions, with an update, to make it easier: 

1. Here is the official website for the game: http://na.square-enix.com /guardiancross
2. As you will see on the right, there is a list of platforms the game is for.  This link may be even more direct: http://itunes.apple.com/a pp/guardian-cross/id53408 ...
3. All you should have to do is search for Guardian Cross in their app store and download it.
4. UPDATE:  You have to play around 5 minutes, and the credit shows up.  You have to complete the tutorial and reach level 3/Sanbelard Castle Town. Then they get their prize and I get credit. Doesn't take long. 
   

Admin Edit:  Please see Akoto's other not-so-easy Wishlist post and his blog.

Hi, Meet Lynn...she is a 65 yr old who must attend dialysis 3 times a week to live. The clinic is a 50 mile round trip by bus, and she has to take a caregiver along to help with her wheelchair. For some reason (maybe the federal budget?) her disability was cut by $400 dollars this month... she is down to about $20 for the rest of the month and still has to come up with bus fare to get to medical treatments. Social Sevices can't/ won't help because they say she makes too much on Disability to get foodstamps, and there are no voucher systems fo the bus. If she misses more than a week of treatments, she'll most likely end up hospitalized and more in debt. A month without treatment is a death sentence.

This wonderful lady does beautiful crochet, goes to craft fairs during the summer and has a great sense of humor...but she is at the end of her rope. Her fighting spirit is beginning to break, and we need to show her that humanity still exists in this world!!

She has no bank account at this point. Donations may be mailed to her directly, please PM for details...

I am 57 and was wrongfully terminated the day before our Christmas break. I am one month away from homelessness. I'm planning to get back in school this summer, but I need help to make it til then. I have been and will continue to look for ANY work, and if I get a job in time to negate this financial need, I'll return the money.

I am not at this time gainfully employed; however, I do have full time employment in that I am the sole caregiver for my mother who has dementia along with a host of other health issues.   In addition, I am also my disabled brother's only means of transportation to and from his many doctor appointments, so I log in a lot of hours working, but not getting paid for them.   We try very hard, but rarely make do on my mother's SS income, yet when I applied for assistance we were told that she made too much money.  It's frustrating, but it's their rules and we have no choice but to play by them.

We need money for utilitles.  We need money for food.  We need money for first and last months rent on a new place to live as we are being foreclosed on here and won't be able to stay.  We need money to make rent on the new place until I get a regular income. 

I need gainful employment that I can do from home, and a little help with her so that I can actually do the job.

I truly do not know how much money that amounts to, so I'm going to throw an amount out there as close as I can get to it.

Thank you all so much for your attention, good thoughts, works and love.  It seems insufficient, just saying "Thank You," and yet those two words together hold so much power.  Gratitude, whether for being served or having the ability to be of service, puts us in a place of communion with each other, and so I say, again, THANK YOU.

***Edited 2/27/13 *** 

We've just been hit with another huge (for us) expense.  My brother's nursing home is suing us for $1905.50 for the amount that his insurance and Medicaid would not pay from last year.  Our hearing is set for 3/25/13, and if I can come up with this amount and pay them ahead of time then we won't have to drag my brother out of bed and into a courtroom to go through all this, nor will we have to face court costs on top of what we owe.  So, I've bumped up the amount we need accordingly.  

$670 has been contributed toward my Wishlist post.  Thank you.

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