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Housing and Living Expenses Fundraisers and Other Links
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TulsaGal—has a plumbing emergency and living expense need. She’s been hit hard by weather events. First, a mid–January cold snap froze the indoor plumbing, despite taking the usual precautions. This caused, and is still causing, massive leaking, resulting in huge, ongoing, water bills. Then, the earthquakes came on 02/02, 02/03, and 02/04, broke a line under the house, so all that excess water drains under the house, through the yard, and out to the street. And, something broke re the hot water heater—no hot water since the earthquakes. But wait, there’s more, some of which is mentioned in the linked GFM.
Also, a two week stint of taking care of two very problematic dogs has morphed into 6 months, so she’s now having to buy 4x the dog food, and goes without food for herself.
TulsaGal ran through her savings caring for her mother, years ago, and is now living on SS. Many of us know how difficult that is.
The GFM ask is $14,500 12,200, and $ is urgently needed rn, to get even a solid estimate for repair, living expenses, and ultimately get the repairs done.
Update: Tulsa Gal was able to get estimates for the interior plumbing and work was to start on Tuesday. Here’s hoping that she has a working hot water heater by now. Three companies are lined up to give detailed estimates for the major sewer repairs, when the weather cooperates. She’s working on ’thank you’ notes, but wants to thank all the donors here, that made the initial, interior estimates and work possible.
https://gofund.me/… • PayPal is ldmansker at cox dot net
ZenTrainer posted Helping a DK artist and small business owner. asterkitty is having a sale on her jewelry and paintings to help make up for missing work due to snow. Photos and links in the diary and also in the Kos Katalogue.
CentristandProud—Suggested coming off the list til they did a new diary and set up a new PayPal account.
anotherdemocrat—has a diary up: Anyone know where I can find a 2nd job? She’s in Austin and is suddenly $24000 in debt, mainly due to an HOA assessment! From the diary: “So, $24,000 is more money than I can ask even a big community like Daily Kos to donate. I have a venmo: at Becky-Helton, Cashapp: $B3ckyHelt0n, and GoFundMe, if anyone wants to help with next month’s payments but for a big total like that, I need a 2nd job. My day job is M-F from 8-5, so it would have to be evenings & weekends.” and “Skills: writing, 20+ years of customer service work, super reliable…” Kosmail, if you can help.
AZnaturegrrrl—has an ongoing need for dry and canned kitteh food for her numerous rescue kittehs. From AZ: “A $25/30 Chewy voucher (sent to naturegirl61 at icloud dot com) will buy one bag and I will need around 4 bags to get me through the month…” *Chewy gift cards to naturegirl61 at icloud dot com •amazon wish list is www.amazon.com/…
Rule of Claw is supporting his disabled family members while also disabled himself. He's having some health issues currently and the income from his newsletter isn't adequate to cover everything the family needs. He'd like to expand subscriptions to his Patreon page, The Claw News. He needs a break from DK for personal reasons but you can find him there.
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Thanks, as always, to the donors
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Kos Katalogue 2023 final version for this year. Great items and gifts of all kinds can be found here for any occasion.