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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 and 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, and $ is urgently needed rn, to get even a solid estimate for repair, living expenses, and ultimately get the repairs done.
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.
A Bleeding God—need was met. :-)
CentristandProud—Needs to pay a deductible prior to an upcoming surgery for their partner. Another medical patient requires help (update at the end of the diary includes a couple needlepoint projects. :-) Long story short, this surgery is needed towards having any quality of life. From the diarist: “Covering this deductible, to us, means we can save our monies for the multiple, not covered, co-pays and visits and extra tests that their “all-inclusive” prices fail to mention. This is her life. I refuse to put a price tag on it. Help if ye can. We understand if you cannot. Life is not easy these days.” gofund.me/…
$8,000 6,860 6,575 6,540 6290 4290 4280 4270 4250. There are updates in the GFM.
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.
From a Daily Kos Guild tweet about Christopher Reeves: “Christopher's house burned down early in February. An insurance dispute has made it difficult to access his funds for necessary items, so we're trying to keep him and his family sheltered, fed, and clothed. PLEASE help however you can.” There is a GoFundMe that currently stands at $15,360 15,385 15585 15,635 15,710 15,910 16,110 16,310 16,510 16,615 16,815 16915 towards a newly revised goal of $25,000.
This has been his only income , but now from Aashirs nani: “He’s opened a computer shop in Leavenworth, at 2110 S 4th Street. They do repairs (I asked!). If you live in the area, you can help him while helping yourself.” It takes a while for a new business to start generating income.
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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Kos Katalogue 2023 final version for this year. Great items and gifts of all kinds can be found here for any occasion.