Hey, folks. I hate doing this, but my family and I need help with money for food & gas. This is unfortunately going to be a regular request until I can get a new job. (See my pinned posts for my resume.)
We average about $35/day for food (2 adults, 2 kids) and $10/day for gas, if we are being cheap. Dog food is $22/week. So we need around $335-$340 to make it through the week, making sure everyone is fed and gets to school. Any help, however small, is deeply appreciated.
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Week of Jan 11:
Progress: $244/$340 (food/gas)
One of my daughters turns 13 this week, if anyone would be willing to help out a little extra. We don't *need* it, but there is definitely some guilt at not being able to do anything nice.
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Furious that European forces have arrived in Greenland, Donald Trump now adds another 10 percent tariff on imports from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland, and threatens to raise it to 25 percent by June.
That is a 25 percent increase to all Americans dependant on European medicine.
He is steering directly towards a total trade war. Follow the US stock market closely, because this can go completely haywire.
Source: Truth Social.
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if the EU had the courage to hit him by applying tarriff on the Software and Tech industry, lets say the double of the US one on EU with automatic update if he change his.
It would destroy his economy overnight.
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No streaming, no youtube.
Great time to get (back?) into board games, do some baking, knitting, electronics, woodworking, visit/help neighbours.
@panmanphil it is a warning for business leaders and politicians . Showing that people are fed up and ready to take action. The next strike will be longer.
The Target boycott caused their sales to drop about 2% and the executives took a beating.
Personally I will close my business for a week. And I do not accept government orders anymore.
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Aaron
Unknown parent • • •Actually, we had $25 in Venmo so we are good tonight, but the boosts would still help a lot!
(I always forget to check Venmo because most people use PayPal.)
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in reply to Aaron • • •We also habe another issue: Our car insurance has lapsed, and so has our vehicle registration. We need the vehicle in order to get the kids to school, since we are outside the bus routes, and in Texas, they impound your vehicle if you're caught driving without insurance. The registration being out makes it *way* more likely to be pulled over, so my wife is a nervous wreck (pardon the pun) every time she has to drive.
We need ~$300 total in order to get the insurance reinstated and cover the registration.
Right now we are subsisting on just enough money to eat and feed the dogs. Utility bills will be coming due soon, too, but they are less urgent right now.
Can anybody help us keep from falling deeper in the hole while I search for a job?
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in reply to Aaron • • •Please give this another boost, folks, if you don't mind. It would really help us out. This is high stakes for us.
Remember, you can unboost and then reboost again!
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I have a job interview tomorrow at 10:30am. It would help a lot if I could afford something decent for breakfast tomorrow. $12 won't be enough to even afford dinner for the kids tonight.
If you wouldn't mind, please unboost/reboost the original post so this gets seen. I really appreciate it!
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We are down to just $2 -- if we round up. I could really use a reboost of this, if you're willing to help us out. The upcoming job interview isn't until a week or two from now, but the family still has to eat in the meantime. Many thanks!
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in reply to Aaron • •Essentially it is just your preference, whichever device you feel more comfortable with.
Once you have your wallet securely set up, you can just publish its address for people to start sending a specific crypto you chose as your base.
Next step is to create a multicurrency donation link via trocador, where you put your wallet address as the receiving address, but people can send many different currencies, being exchanged on the fly.
For spending the money, the crypto card seems to be the easiest way.
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in reply to Aaron • • •@8petros I've come to the conclusion that I have no idea whatsoever what I'm doing. lol The user interface for trocador is really confusing and unintuitive. I finally figured out how to create an account and log in, at least.
Is it a bad idea to just share a public wallet link from MetaMask, and skip trocador altogether?
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in reply to 8Petros [$ rm -rv /capitalism/*] • • •@8petros Thanks. Sorry for spamming you.
I think I finally figured out trocador. Testing it out now:
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I took some out of our food money for my medications. We are down to $15.67 for dinner tonight, and we have bills coming up, one of them urgent. Even if I ace the upcoming interviews, there's no way I can manage this in the meantime, so I could really use your help. Please unboost/reboost the original post. Thank you!
Medication: $94/94 (monthly expense, already paid out of food money)
Water bill: $174/174 (due 1/10)
Phone bill: $0/$625.78 (cut off date is 1/11, will have no internet w/o it and therefore unable to job hunt)
Electric: $195/$195 (urgent, cutoff 1/5)
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We have the food covered for the week, but we need a lot to catch up on the phone bill and keep from losing phone & internet. We only have a short time before that happens. I have job interviews scheduled this coming week, and I'm really afraid of it getting cut off in the middle of that and missing my chance to earn instead of begging. Please help us out if you can.
Aaron
in reply to Aaron • • •1/5/26
I really need your help, folks. We have that massive overdue amount on our phone bill, and a water bill due soon, too. I won't be able to job hunt or even come on here to ask for help if I don't get the phone paid by the 11th. I'm getting panicky about it at this point. I want to be able to support myself, but for that to happen, I need to be able to attend the remote interviews and get phone calls.
Please please unboost and reboost the original post above to get it in front of as many eyes as possible!
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Our phone and internet will be cut off in 2 days (1/11). We still need $626 to pay that. (It's multiple months.) Without it, I won't be able to job hunt or ask for help feeding my children. This is terrifying.
Please boost this post, and the one it's in reply to. You can unboost the original post, and then it will let you boost again.
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