#poverty posting

[urlocalhovel]

i see a lot of posts about poverty on this site and they always pertain to injustices, stats, laws and like... i always catch myself wondering, are the people posting these just good people wanting change, or have they been through it themselves?

then i wonder where all the personal stories are apart from the mix of statistics... are people who have truly suffered poverty just not on here...???

i want to swap horror stories/heartwarming ones, see other people's experiences that are similar to my own-

i wanna connect on the feeling of hunger, talk about how that first taste of food zaps your tongue after days of not being able to eat...

wanna hear the warm memories amongst the struggle- for example, my mother wrapping me & my baby siblings in thick blankets on our living room floor so all she could see was our eyes peeking out above our tall, cone-shaped nests and treating it as a game, though she was just making sure we survived another night without heat while going through yet another brutal winter atop our barren mountain...

though i wanna connect on all the battle stories of what it was like to grow up/be in poverty, i really wanna see people talk about what strength, happiness and morals can come out of such despair:

you get used to having nothing and are able to get by, when normal people would have a literal mental breakdown over such things

you take joy in the littlest of things, appreciate so many things people take for granted

you gain a concrete kindness, a deep type of empathy for others you see even having a flicker of the struggle you did/are

you end up informing people of the stats and information that the posts i mentioned above include, advocate for the people less fortunate

i moved away into a wealthy Canadian city where you don't easily see poverty/interact with people going through it unless you venture into very specific pockets of the city and i kinda miss interacting with others that are of my kind- i'll never forget someone sheepishly telling me about how a bottle depot works and realizing that im assumed to be part of the people who have never experienced what its like to rely on such a thing to make the rent and get a day's meal...

[st-dionysus]

This is what the $23 that I get in EBT per a month buys, streched as far as I can stretch it.

That's 2lbs of lentils, 1lb of kidney beans, 5lbs of rice, 2lbs of cabbage, 1.43lbs of pork, one onion, and a 8oz can of tomato paste.

[sephirajo]

Once More into the Begging Bowl

Yeah, monthly, we know we know, Jo poor.  So here I am again, but I want to say thank you first -- so many people helped out at the end of the month I was able to pay quite a big on a few of my bills, including 200 down on the 500 for therapy sessions. I want to assure you all that every dollar I get goes to food or bills, I’m not buying gaming shit with any of this. I’m just trying to eat. (In fact most of my games come from friends too thank you guys you know who you are)

But yes, I am on SSDI, I get 1200/mo for two people and it only gets us mid month and now we need food again and once more bills and pills are starting to come up as due as well.

I have the p_y of p_l at: paypal.me/Sephirajo 

And the app of ca$hmoney at $Sephirajo

once again, if you can’t help please pass the bowl <3 Every little bit helps and every reblog helps.

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[echosblanketfort]

being poor is wild because you'll spend most of your money on bills and food then have thoughts like, "Maybe to save money, I could learn how to be hungrier 🤔"

[somerandomg33k]

Phoenix could really use some help right now if you have any spare cash or money to give.

https://ko-fi.com/lunafirebird $lunafirebird87 (also my Venmo)

[papersasquatch]

Heyyyy besties so we've been without working heat for the past two weeks, have had our gas company in 3 times as well as attempted to get our landlord to fix it twice already. Furnace finally broke down for good yesterday, and the landlord said they could fix it either monday or tuesday, meaning we are entirely without heat this weekend. Our house has consistently between 30-60F (temps in above image are in C).

Our only space heaters have been reserved for our reptiles and there has already been a fish death from how cold our fish tank is getting. I haven't gotten my first paycheck from work yet, I have about $14 to my name and don't own a winter coat (only a thin windbreaker), socks without holes or gloves.

It is so, so crazy cold in here already. I've been getting more and more worried about how my lizard is going to fare since the space heater isn't super effective.

PLEASE REBLOG!!!

I'd really like to be able to get some more space heaters or at least a winter coat to survive this weekend!!

P**p*l @thetruewizardkitty

(Dec 3rd 2022)

[sephirajo]

Help a Disabled Queer Woman and her Trans son for Christmas

Exactly what it says.  I am 500 behind on rent, my kiddo needs a new phone or tablet for school, I need pills I presently don’t have and I haven’t even had half a second to maybe consider christmas gifts. 

Not to be a fun killing bitch, but if you were able to toss at the check marks, perhaps you can toss at a queer family for the holidays to assure we keep a roof over our heads as if I can’t catch up by NYE, I get served with eviction papers, so there’s that hanging over my head too.

My p@y of pal is paypal.me/Sephirajo

And the app of c@sh is $Sephirajo

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Please donate or pass the bowl, and hope everyone stays warm if you’re up where I am the next few days are really going to suck.

[sephirajo]

June Bowl, earlier than usual, whee

I had to pay the back rent with my stipend so now I am already out. My son is on summer break and we are out of food he’ll eat (picky spectrum eaters, the both of us >_< ).  And while I can cut back to one meal a day, my son *cannot* I also need to pick up my insomnia helping pills which I haven’t had in about a week so you can guess how my nights have been z___z staring longingly at a pillow that will not take me and when it does being hit up with CPTSD nightmares, and now that you all got that TMI lets go on to the PMI (the pay me information) yeah I’m trying to be cute, probs failing but haven’t eaten in 2 days and not getting much sleep.

the app of cashmoney: $Sephirajo

the p_y of p_l: paypal.me/Sephirajo 

Please, if you can help out and if you can’t pass the bowl.  Help a disabled queer mom and her queer kid eat during Pride.

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