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Urgent update: my lease is up on Monday and despite constant searching, I have been unable to find an affordable place to live, so I am having to stay at a hotel close to work until I find a home. I also have no one to help me move, so I have no choice but to hire movers to help me get my things to a storage shed.
I am very low on funds. Due to my insurance throwing a fit over my dosage of Lexapro, I had to pay out of pocket for 7 days of pills and it cost me 65 dollars. Between paying the last of my rent and my last round of bills and insurance, my funds are in dire straits. I need at least 200 to move this weekend and check in to my hotel.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Hi there everyone!
$200 is the minimum goal - but let’s be a little more specific. The current total saying $70 is wrong, that’s from last month and October combined.
To hit $200, that page really needs to be saying $270.
$1000, though? That’s a stretch goal. That’s a fancy goal. That’s the ‘move into the next apartment and be able to eat’ goal.
Did you know that if you occasionally have migraines, and you have to live with people who smoke weed all the time, and you yourself don’t smoke weed, that your migraines will get worse? Because it’s a thing that makes the blood vessels in your brain expand - most migraine meds make them contract, that’s why you get them with caffeine in them. Passive smoking, not active.
Nik went from having a migraine once every month or so, to typically twice during the working week. Every week. For the whole year. Coincidentally, his roommates decided they’d start smoking weed really really frequently.
These aren’t just ‘bit of a headache’ things, they’re the kind of migraine that mimic the effects of a stroke. Every once in a while docs get him into an MRI to make sure it’s not a series of strokes, just in case. Literally half his body becomes incapacitated.
Plus the weekend migraines, and the postdrome (that’s when the migraine has finally gone, but you’re left feeling tired and drained and everything. Think like the moments after you’ve thrown up when you’re sick. You’re shaky and drained and you hurt even though the thing that was causing you pain is out).
For this whole year, he’s missed an (this is a low-estimation) average of 1.5 nights of work per week, due to migraines. That’s 73.5 nights, or ten and a half weeks of paid work. I think he’s gone one single pay period without needing to take a night off work due to migraines, this entire year.
To add insult to injury, here’s what’s happened this year:
Car 1 died. Ignition wouldn’t go, and the cylinders were on their way out for a while anyway. It costs $250/week for Uber and Lyft rides for Nik to get to work ($25 each way), in a place with no public transport. Finding a replacement car took a bit over three weeks. That’s >$750 in transport in the meantime to get a car which cost another… I think it was $550. My figures may be slightly incorrect, it’s been a long year.
This event wiped out all the savings he’d made throughout the previous year.
Nik had to file for FMLA. That means that he can’t be fired for taking nights off work because he has a migraine (maximum two nights per week). That also means that unlike a sick night, he doesn’t get paid for the night off. Just in time too; his work performance review was glowing, but the number of his absences due to illness was noted as high (though this was mitigated by his already having filed the paperwork for FMLA).
A surprise student loan through the VA, about which he didn’t know, which he shouldn’t have been required to pay as it should have been covered under the GI bill, but the person starting it out out had filed him as ‘spouse’, rather than 'served’ and refused to change it, suddenly fell due. Nik had to pay that at $92/pay. This also ate his entire tax return.
When the above surprise loan was finally dealt with, another student loan, which he’d been paying off, decided that $10/month wasn’t enough, and automatically deducted from his bank account the entirety of that fortnight’s pay (the night he got paid), and all his savings from the year to that point. The company said they did this because it was less than $500 and therefore they could. This was done without prior authorisation.
Nik called his car insurance company to arrange a late payment (late as in a couple of days after when it’s due, but within the company’s payment grace period) because his money had essentially been stolen per above. The insurance company agreed to accept money after his next pay, a few days from that point.
Nik was pulled over by a cop and charged with not having insurance on his car, during those few days.
The judge who heard this case, despite being presented with proof provided by the insurance company of the phonecall having taken place, and with proof of current insurance fully paid, gave Nik a several hundred dollar fine for 'failing to maintain financial responsibility’.
Someone started deliberately laying nails in Nik’s apartment parking space.
He lost a tyre to this and has started checking his parking space before leaving, and before parking there when he gets back, and has found a number of nails and screws, all sticking upwards, all placed where tyres go.
Another tyre blew on the freeway, which wrecked car number 2. That was another >$500 for interim transport, plus the cost of car number 3 (another several hundred dollars), which-
-has turned out to have a vastly faulty transmission and shouldn’t have been able to be sold. This car is not going to last. He’s going to spend all next year saving up to replace it.
And now this moving thing. This moving thing was expected. It’s the only thing on this list which was expected. This entire year, Nik’s been saving for two things:
Moving, and
Attending his best friend’s wedding.
That’s it.
And he has not got enough money for moving, let alone attending the wedding. It’s breaking his heart that he can’t go to his BFF’s wedding, but thankfully she understands. That’s in a few days, and he can’t go.
The lease on his current apartment is up two days before his next pay. Two days.
I don’t want him lifting his desk and getting injured (again - he’s already injured himself this week lifting a box full of medical textbooks), let alone his bed.
His friends and coworkers have other commitments and are unable to assist.
What you can do to help:
Reblog. Maybe give a dollar or two if it’s within your budget to help at all. Anything.
Would you please be Obi-Wan Kenobi, and help him?
holy fucking shit. Throw a dollar at this dude, everyone, and we’ll have him covered. <3
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