okay i’m sorry in advance BUT i could REALLY REALLY REALLY use some help !!!!
if you can, please aid a young lesbian in a bedbug crisis :-(
i’m so so so sorry to be that person but i need just a little help. i’ve been dealing with a bedbug infestation that keeps coming back since may, because my landlord is a piece of shit slumlord and refuses to get the heat treatment, which is the only 100% effective way to get rid of bed bugs. my family and i are now forced to shell out a couple thousand dollars to get it ourselves. we’re gonna withhold that from the rent, but paying a lump sum all at once is way more financial strain than paying it as rent over the course of months.
due to the bedbug infestation, i had to throw out my mattress and boxspring a few months ago, and now because of a second round i’ve had to throw out the crappy pullout loveseat i was sleeping on too, along with my armchair and ottoman.
im currently sleeping on a leaky air mattress, that deflates two hours into the night, leaving me on the floor.
i would make a bed out of comforters, but i had to throw them out, and can’t keep any of my blankets here anymore because i don’t want to have to throw them out too, and the bugs are still here. the only pillow i have rn is my ducky pillow pet.
classes start in a week, and after december i’ll have a degree and be able to get a full time job and i will pay anyone who’s kind enough to lend me money back as soon as i have a full-time job. i just really need a mattress at the bare minimum, so that i’m not sleeping on the floor this whole quarter, and the cheapest mattresses are at least $300. my parents aren’t able to help me with this, because of the huge bill they’re about to pay for the extermination itself ($2000-$4000 depending on how cheap of an exterminator we can find). i have $1274 of credit card debt that i HAVE to pay by november 25th. i’ve already made all the cuts i can to my food budget, have cancelled my amazon, lyft, and hulu accounts, and am selling tons of my clothes on facebook. even with that saving, i’m just barely breaking even because of the credit card debt, and have no room in the budget for a new bed. i also have to buy textbooks in a week or two but aslsldjlalajslaaljs im gonna see which books i find in the library first.
my venmo is @daina-christine.
idk my paypal username off the top of my head but if u dm me i can give u the email. if u have a couple bucks to spare i could REALLY use it. i so so so get it if u can’t spare anything, i know this isn’t life or death and my safety isn’t at risk so i definitely understand if you don’t want to give me anything.
all i ask is that you please REBLOG if you see this maybe???
if more people see this more people may be able to help and that would mean the WORLD. again, i will pay every penny back in january once i’m employed full time!!!!!
thank you so, so much for taking the time to read this.
for proof, here’s some pics of my body bitten up over the months:
(that last one is the bites from tuesday feat the eczema breakout they caused lmao)
as well as a pic of my bed currently:
Thank you for reading!!!!!!!!
also if ur in the chicago area and wanna buy some clothes i can send u pics of what i’m selling!!!!! i’m also going through and will be selling a couple household things as well!!!!!!!!!
UPDATE i have received ten dollars of donations!!!!! y’all are my hero’s!!!!! thank you more thank i can say!!!!!!!!! my friend may have a mattress i can use so i’m eternally blessed in many ways.
however i’m uhhhhhh,,,,,,,,,, getting evicted now lmfao
my building manager has threatened to evict if i don’t leave by september. and while i know i could stay here and not pay rent for a couple months until the city laws say she can actually physically remove me, i a) don’t wanna keep living in a place infested w bedbugs, and b) do not trust her not to come into my place and fuck up my shit/change my locks/hurt my cat
SO good news i probably have a mattress now, bad news i am frantically scrambling to find somewhere to live that’s close to school and affordable but not owned by another slumlord!!!! it’s a rough game
my biggest concern after a day of non stop scouting for apartments (i’ve inquired about at least thirty lmfao) is that many places in chicago charge extra rent if you have a cat OR charge a fee to bring ur cat which is between $150 and $300!!!! which is super bad for me!!!!!!! cuz i’m broke!!!!!!!
so if anyone out there might be able to spare a couple bucks to help me cover a cat fee, so that i don’t have to worry about losing my little sunshine, beau and i would be eternally grateful.
here’s us rn in bedbug hq, where we will be no longer allowed to live come sunday!!!
and as incentive to reblog this, here’s beau’s story!!!!!!!
this is beau. he’s three and a half years old!!! he loves to chase feather toys and a stuffed penguin around the apartment. he’s the best thing that ever happened to the universe i’m 99% sure
here’s beau a couple days ago on the couch i no longer own!!! he was found by the anti cruelty society and brought into their shelter when he was about a year old. he can only see out of one eye, and has dark scar tissue entirely covering the other!!! on the same side of his face, he lost his fang because it was broken and infected when they found him :-(
beau was then adopted by a girl!!! he was around two at the time. that’s all we really know about her. she had him for a little less than a year. then, she moved apartments, and sold him on craigslist to girl #2. girl #2 had him for about four months, before she too posted him for sale on craigslist, back in april. that’s where i saw him!!!
i had always wanted a cat, and since i finally had a studio i had been keeping my eye on adoption websites and on craigslist. the girl he lived with before me got him in january, and started posting to sell him in april. i messaged her in may (after starin at his ad more than once and thinkin there was somethin special about him) and told her i would love to adopt him, but totally understand if she wanted to keep him until july, as long as she could. she said that she wanted him gone as soon as possible. it was pretty sad but i said SURE i will come get this baby asap. so, the first week of june, i did!!!!! she told me that he didn’t like being picked up, that he spent most of his time hiding, and that he didn’t need too much attention. i got him home and quickly discovered all of those things were not at all true!!!!!!
within a couple hours of being at my place, beau didn’t want to hide anymore!!! he wanted to cuddle with me, and watch friends!!!! i found out that this sweet boy was pretty attention starved, and just wanted to spend all day every day cuddling as close as he could!!!! that was super fine by me :-)
beau is my best buddy!!!!!! he cuddles w me when i’m sad, reminds me to get out of my bed if i’ve spent too many hours under the covers, and is always always happy to see me - when i get home from work or class, he cries until i pick him up and give him a hug and forehead kiss. he’s the best part of every day, and he has made this whole stressful living situation so much better, just by bein there with me day in and day out and lovin me through the ups and downs.
so now i have to move. and it sucks. and ppl wanna charge me a lot of money for beau to stay with me. i guess that’s the point that some people would sell him on craigslist????? personally? i could never. he’s three years old, and has already lived in at LEAST five places in his life. he’s had too much change and trauma for his little body, and i’m not about to leave him to the wind. i’m gonna keep him with me, safe and happy, until one of us passes on!!!!
that being said, i would really appreciate if anyone could help me to make sure that beau and i can find somewhere to live that works for BOTH of us, and not just me. i said it above, but my venmo is @daina-christine if u want to donate! if ur in chicago, i’m selling hella clothes and since i’ll be moving this week i’m SURE i’ll be selling lots of other things too!!!! i’m so sorry for this long ass post, im on mobile and can’t do a read more, but thank u for scrolling thru it and maybe reblogging if u feel it!!!!!!!
(one last pic cuz it’s my favorite and i’m gonna get it framed and put it on my mantle once i’m rich enough to have a mantle)
