Alms for beggars

UPDATE: Thanks to three extremely generous people, we now have enough funds to keep our internet and phone service going, pay a couple slightly-less-urgent bills, and even eat such things as non-peanut butter sandwiches and non-microwave burritos.  In fact, i’ve removed the donation link. Cherryl, Pam, and Karla – you are our heroes. Thank you.

Holly and i are now sadly having to accept donations (see bottom of this post) to keep our internet and phone service going. I’ve landed a job, after several months of anxiety-saturated panic and applying… but i don’t start until June 11th; she’s still looking and interviewing places. Of course, we can always use the library, but we need a phone so potential employers can get hold of us, etc.

One of the reasons we’ve been so broke is that her medication (insulin, etc.) literally costs us hundreds of dollars each month (insulin alone is well over $280). Our rent is $650, which is paid from her rapidly-diminishing unemployment insurance of $700 twice monthly. The rest goes to medicine, and whatever is left over goes into (in order of importance) car insurance, our gas tank, our bellies, and lastly, whatever bills we can still afford after all of that. Which is usually none. That’s why we’re absolutely shit-broke 100% of the time, and hungry for half of it.

Thankfully, with my new job next month, things will get much better. But that’s next month, and i won’t get paid on Day One.

Our past due amount for internet and phone services is $180.89. So we’re just trying to scrape the money to keep internet and phone going, and survive for what will hopefully be one last month of being desperately, hopelessly poor.

Thanks most sincerely, whether you can help us out or not.