[dangerbabegang]

What to do if you suddenly find yourself homeless

FOOD

Find your nearest food bank or mission, for food

grocery stores with free samples, bakeries + stores with day-old bread

different fast food outlets have cheaper food and will generally let you hang out for a while.

some dollar stores carry food like cans of beans or fruit

SHELTER

Sleeping at beaches during the day is a good way to avoid suspicion and harassment

sleep with your bag strapped to you, so someone can’t steal it

Some churches offer short term residence

Find your nearest homeless shelter

Look for places that are open to the public

A large dumpster near a wall can often be moved so that flipping up the lids creates an angled shelter to stay dry

HYGIENE

A membership to the YMCA is usually only 10$, which has a shower, and sometimes laundry machines and lockers.

Public libraries have bathrooms you can use

Dollar stores carry low-end soaps and deodorant etc.

Wet wipes are all purpose and a life saver

Local beaches, go for a quick swim

Some truck stops have showers you can pay for

Staying clean is the best way to prevent disease, and potentially get a job to get back on your feet

Pack 7 pairs of socks/undies, 2 outfits, and one hooded rain jacket

OTHER

first aid kit

 sunscreen

 a travel alarm clock or watch

 mylar emergency blanket

 a backpack is a must

 downgrade your cellphone to a pay as you go with top-up cards

 sleeping bag

 travel kit of toothbrush, hair brush/comb, mirror

 swiss army knife

 can opener

[spork-of-humanity]

Reblog to literally save a life

[hipsandheartbreak]

if there is a Dollar Tree near you, they have entire food aisles

Planet Fitness also has $10 memberships. you can shower and they have free food days! pizza night 1st monday every month, bagel tuesday the 2nd tuesday every month.

[himynameisrollin-deactivated201]

Save a life reblog

[kukachoosays]

i am so glad that i renblogged this however so long ago. i saw this post and shared it with others in mind, but now i am the one who really needs this. id like to think of this as good karma i guess

[comrade-jiang]

also a good list if anyone ever needs to run away from home for whatever reason.

[galaxysorbet]

I’d also like to add that some YMCA’s will let you like,,, live in there (my dad lived in a ymca for a bit while he was in grad school till some guy who turned out to be a murder later on invited him to live on his couch BUT THATS A DIFFERENT STORY)

[fandomthesickness]

Pls reblog

[dare-to-dm]

Libraries are an amazing resource.  They provide shelter from the elements during the day, and have free internet access so you can job hunt, do research, check your messages and communicate and also seek entertainment.  

PLUS many librarians are super informed about local resources and can point you towards other organizations that can help you with food, employment skills and finding affordable housing.

[danger]

[leftboob-enthusiast]

(to the tune of The Final Countdown) it’s a mental breakdown

[thesilencedmasses]

*off-key kazoo*

[effewrgtwvtgefd-deactivated2022]

when you’re working in class and suddenly a theater kid starts singing some dear evan broadway shit and then five more join in

[thatjedirey]

MARK HAMILL DOESN’T HAVE TIME FOR YOUR SEXIST BULLSHIT

[altairdefiren-deactivated202406]

She was put in the most vulnerable position, nearly naked, chained, surrounded by dangerous bounty hunters. What does she do? Plays along, lets Jabba think he’s beaten her, and as soon as she gets her opening? She chokes him to death with the very chain he used to bind her. 

Leia is an idol. Leia is a hero.

[lumpatronics]

SERVICE DOG PSA

So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)

I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up

If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help

Don’t get scared, don’t get annoyed, follow the dog! If it had been an emergency situation, I could have vomited and choked, I could have hit my head, I could have had so many things happen to me. We’re going to update his training so if the first person doesn’t cooperate, he moves on, but seriously guys. If what’s-his-face could understand that lassie wanted him to go to the well, you can figure out that a dog in a vest proclaiming it a service dog wants you to follow him

[gertiecraign]

PLEASE READ THIS.

[lireavue]

I do not have the energy to go into detail but here, a Twitter thread of correction.

[lumpatronics]

Several things wrong with this analysis, though I can’t fault the skepticism

I’m 20. Please. Why does everyone who gets upset at this post call me a teenager?

Yes, he was originally supposed to be a family dog. I had concerns because he was supposed to be a family dog, however that was well over a year ago. Professional obedience training happened a little after. He preformed exceptionally, and the trainer were working with now is helping with the more specific training. It probably wasn’t the best process to get a service dog, but I got lucky. I wouldn’t reccomend anyone else to obtain a SD this way, but like I said, it turned out well.

I’m… Not sure where you got the 2 blocks measurement? It was a quiet grocery store, and he went like, 3 aisles down.

We didn’t train him to stand by me and bark because of my sensory issues. Loud noises are painful for me, especially when I’m already in distress. It was decided that him going to get someone was a better idea than him sending me into sensory overload after I get out of my seizure.

I don’t go alone anywhere. Theres not really a chance for me to be far away from people where Raider would run free and wild and come back to find me gone. If I was in the habit of going out on strolls alone around the neighborhood, this would be a problem, but i don’t. I was only at the store because it’s 5 minutes away, and I really wanted coffee creamer, lmao

He doesn’t paw or jump or bark or anything else everyone has been imagining. He goes up, and noses the person. Then he walks off to my direction, checks if the person is following, and either repeats the nosing or leads them to me. The lady was swatting at him because he was interupting her shopping. She wasn’t scared for her life, she wasn’t canine-phobic, she was annoyed and swatting his nose away

Service dogs aren’t a set in stone thing. They can be trained for personal… Benefit? (not the right word, but close). My needs as an autistic and epileptic individual are different than yours as a wheelchair user. I can get the apprehension, but I don’t see how this post will affect people going up to your dog that’s with you. It’s already gonna happen, I know that much, but they’re not going to start going up to an SD next to a wheelchair user and be like “Show me the way!!!”

… Okay, they might, but that’s more because people are dumb af when they see fur. It’s not going to be because of this.

[lumpatronics]

Ah, a few more things because I’m on mobile and can’t go back and forth between the tweets without risking losing all I type, lmao

He’s on a leash. He’s always on a leash. I never said he was without a leash. The amazing thing about falling is that I /let go of the leash/. In a seizure, my hands completely splay out, meaning I wouldn’t hold onto the leash. A lot of your complaints are you assuming things, and it’s irksome. If someone could point his attention to this reply, I’d appreciate, since I don’t have a Twitter myself.

[hungwy]

Wish there were sweaters but like,for feet

[tamamita]

socks

[hungwy]

make your own post

[tamamita]

socks

[spongebob-closeups]

[ninjagofan26]

YOU CAN ONLY REBLOG THIS ONCE A YEAR

[xspvct]

I don’t care what anyone says, being intelligent is so fucking attractive. Like yes, tell me random facts I didn’t know. I’ll think it’s the cutest thing ever.

[right]

*jokingly hits on you but means it 100%*

[uncannycookie]

Actually genuinenly enjoying my customer service job sometimes

Customer (calling from Ireland): “Yes hello, I would like to -”

Sheep in the background: *gentle baa*

Customer: “Uh, sorry, what I want to do is -”

Sheep: *slightly more insistent baa*

Customer: “No, not now! -cough- Excuse me. I have a reservation and -”

Sheep: *VERY LOUD ACCUSATORY BAA*

Customer: “Arnulf! Please be quiet, I am on the phone! … Sorry, I sincerely apologize on behalf of Arnulf.”

me: “I love and forgive him.”

Customer: “Don’t, he doesn’t deserve it. Anyway, I’m calling about -”

Arnulf: *small, very self-satisfied baa*

[his-quietus-make]

I once took my kids to a local farm and we found a lil goat with its horns stuck in a fence, just sitting there kinda mournfully on the grass. We tried to help it get free but it was stuck tight. We petted it for a while and fed it some grass (as it had lawnmowered a circle around itself as far as it could reach), and then went back to the ticket office to tell them it needed help, but before I’d said more than: “There’s a goat-” the guy cut me off with a weary wave and said, “Yeah, we know. Stuck in the fence. That’s Brenda. She can get herself out whenever she wants. She just likes the attention.” 

Trolled by a fucking goat. 

[weezley]

i’m fucking dying “yeah that’s brenda”

[moonpaw]

waters so fuckin good! like glug bitch lol

[moonpaw]

this post always shoots up in notes around 2am i am onto you water loving fucks

[aurevoir-mes-amis-deactivated20]

This won’t make your blog look ugly. How could you not reblog this? REBLOGGING THIS COULD SAVE A LIFE!!!

[recycled-soul-deactivated201401]

This goes for assholes, too, guys. I know a couple who went tubing once, and they had to re-air their tubes, but the guy thought it would be funny to stick the tip of the air compressor up to her bikini trunks, the air ruptured something inside her and she died within thirty minutes.

[riskpig]

WHAT?

[endangeredslug-deactivated20170]

The thing about this? It’s in every pregnancy book I’ve read.

[riskpig]

WHAT?????

[thegrimmlovely]

Why is it in pregnancy books but not sex ed books?

[princezane-deactivated20151205]

are you fucking kidding me

Heh, I play the cello, I’ll bet this is an interesting article.

tru

Jesus fucking christ dont get me started on moving the damn thing

Pretty much…

They cause die

Yeah thats

Me. Thats me.

Motherfucker you wanna play

(x)

[princezane-deactivated20151205]

Oh hey, a Buzzfeed article relevent to my interests!

I

why this

(x)

[roxastopher]

this post was a trip

[ugly]

“If someone punches you in the stomach,“ he says, “it’ll hurt whether you were expecting it or not. So if the person you love stops loving you back, you’re going to feel the blow even if you saw it coming.”

— S.Z. // Excerpt from a book I’ll never write #195 (via blossomfully)

[portaltwo-deactivated20190224]

me an Irish person: the british ruined our country and killed millions of us. heres a funny joke about an irish fictional character not liking a british character

this person with the hot take: