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<p>Hello Everyone,</p><p>I&#x27;m sorry, but it&#x27;s already time for another <a href="/tags/begpost/" rel="tag">#begpost</a>. We&#x27;ve been safely housed this week thanks to the incredible generosity of our friends here on the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a>. What little wages I was able to earn from my shifts earlier this week went to the monthly storage unit bill to avoid a hefty late fee.</p><p>Consequently, we&#x27;ve exhausted our grocery supplies and my &quot;E&quot; (low fuel) light is on in my car.</p><p>While we&#x27;re somewhat content where we&#x27;re currently staying, it is a 40-mile round-trip commute and we were a little dismayed to learn that this motel&#x27;s policy is no more than 30 days in any given room before we have to change so that it can be &quot;deep cleaned&quot;.</p><p>I don&#x27;t feel the policy is unreasonable given the demographics for a low-budget motel, but the thought of having to switch rooms every few weeks is exhausting to even consider. Dragging our microwave and mini-fridge (which I don&#x27;t know with complete certainty whether we&#x27;re technically *allowed* to have said items) and our stuff over and over is not the most appealing.</p><p>If we don&#x27;t stay here, our only other options (besides living in our car) are an extended-stay type hotel that in multiple google maps reviews was referred to as a &quot;trap house&quot;, or an apartment complex which I&#x27;m afraid could potentially be referred to as the same.</p><p>We were disappointed last month when we tried and spectacularly failed to secure an apartment at a complex we&#x27;d fell in love with, and have been sort of floundering on that front since.</p><p>But I think we&#x27;ve both had our fill of motel/hotel life, and it&#x27;s time to settle down again. We don&#x27;t want to rent a room in anyone&#x27;s home, at least not for a very long time, after our past couple of experiences with that.</p><p>So, I&#x27;m leaning towards the semi-sketchy apartment complex, if they even have any rooms available now. I can&#x27;t say I&#x27;m very optimistic about living there being a pleasant experience, but we&#x27;re worn out. We&#x27;re tired of nearly all our belongings being locked away in a storage unit halfway across the valley.</p><p>Like everywhere else, there&#x27;s an application fee for both of us. We may have to be creative at addressing the rental history problem. Both our credit scores are atrocious but my gut instinct is that this complex won&#x27;t be as concerned about that.</p><p>It might save us a tiny bit of money monthly, but the downside is we can&#x27;t just pay the rent daily or weekly. We&#x27;ll likely have to fundraise an entire month&#x27;s rent before we can get moved in, plus any deposits (the specifics of which I can&#x27;t recall at this moment).</p><p>And, with hours at work being the way they have been and seem likely to continue for the immediate future, I don&#x27;t know how easy it&#x27;s going to be to keep ahead of that monthly rent bill.</p><p>I don&#x27;t know whether we&#x27;ll actually be able to pull this off. I don&#x27;t know if we&#x27;re &quot;jumping out the frying pan and into the fire&quot;. But I do know we&#x27;re pretty burned out and I&#x27;m not sure what else to do.</p><p>In summary: we need funds for food, gas, application fees to what will likely be a dirty, musty &quot;ghetto&quot; apartment, so that at least we can resume having a semi-permanent address.</p><p>As always, thank you all in advance for your help and support.</p><p>If you&#x27;re willing AND able, please boost and if possible donate. If you can&#x27;t donate, *do NOT feel guilty* for being in the same boat as us. Your feelings about it are valid but rest assured you needn&#x27;t feel bad.</p><p>Venmo: <a href="https://venmo.com/thegizmotwins" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>venmo.com/thegizmotwins</a><br>Cashapp: <a href="https://cash.app/$thegizmotwins" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>cash.app/$thegizmotwins</a><br>PP: <a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/gizmo1982" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.paypal.com/paypalme/gizmo1982"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.paypal.com/paypalme/gizmo1</span><span class="invisible">982</span></a><br>GFM: <a href="https://gofund.me/12171be3" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gofund.me/12171be3</a></p><p><a href="/tags/mutualaid/" rel="tag">#MutualAid</a> <a href="/tags/mentalillness/" rel="tag">#MentalIllness</a> <a href="/tags/poverty/" rel="tag">#Poverty</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://ovo.st/club/mutualaid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mutualaid</span></a></span></p>

<p>Good Morning Everyone,</p><p>The good news is, it&#x27;s been more than three weeks since our last begpost!! We&#x27;re both still employed and it looks like my upcoming average weekly hours are on the mend after the usual first-quarter retail slump.</p><p>The bad news is, we&#x27;re still struggling a little to get on our feet. The increase of aforementioned scheduled work hours won&#x27;t happen for several more weeks, so funds will be tight for a bit longer.</p><p>On top of that, we&#x27;ve had multiple one-off expenses; my partner finally convinced me to allow my six-year-old Pixel 4 to rest in peace, which will piss me off til the end of time because I know I could get at least a couple more years out of it if the damned battery weren&#x27;t welded on. Fucking planned obsolescence.</p><p>It got to the point where it was getting very, very warm during charging and was almost unusable unless strapped to a wireless battery charger (the USB port ceased charging a couple years ago). We figured since I&#x27;m walking and/or riding the bus home from work late at night it might be a good idea to have a lifeline.</p><p>The phone replacement was probably the most significant expense this month, but we&#x27;ve also needed to address things or difficulties that we had indefinitely postponed due to our precarious poverity living situation the past two years until the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> gave us the chance to stage a true, honest-to-goodness comeback for the first time in our lives. We finally have all-purpose cleaner and Softscrub again after years of just.. not cleaning anything. Our pantry is slowly becoming stocked. An upgraded Crock-Pot (on a killer sale) gives us much more flexibility than the 2-qt slow-cooker we&#x27;ve always used. </p><p>We still need to get the oil changed, replace the wiper blades to have functional windshield wipers, and get the dog to the vet for the first time in almost five years. But.. one step at a time. We&#x27;re still recovering and can&#x27;t do everything at once, much as we wish we could.</p><p>Anyway since I&#x27;m off today and tomorrow, I have no daily pay advances to guess about which means I can start fundraising a couple days earlier this time, which is always helpful.</p><p>I realize this amount is even *greater* than what we needed at the beginning of January for rent, which seems like we&#x27;re going backwards; but as I mentioned above, we had a substantial expense replacing my phone in addition to lower than usual weekly work hours and the cost of replenishing our pantry and fridge and so on. Without those almost exclusively one-time (or at least quite rare) expenses, this amount would be less than half.</p><p>So.. I must respectfully ask for your <a href="/tags/mutualaid/" rel="tag">#MutualAid</a> help yet again. I know things are.. awful everywhere. Everyone needs help right now; I can&#x27;t begin to imagine what others are going through right now. I know there are so many, many people who need help. But if you can pitch in, we would be deeply grateful.</p><p>If you&#x27;re willing AND able, please boost and if possible donate. If you can&#x27;t donate, *do NOT feel guilty* for being in the same boat as us. Your feelings about it are valid but rest assured you needn&#x27;t feel bad.</p><p>Venmo: <a href="https://venmo.com/thegizmotwins" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>venmo.com/thegizmotwins</a><br>Cashapp: <a href="https://cash.app/$thegizmotwins" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>cash.app/$thegizmotwins</a><br>PP: <a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/gizmo1982" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.paypal.com/paypalme/gizmo1982"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.paypal.com/paypalme/gizmo1</span><span class="invisible">982</span></a><br>GFM: <a href="https://gofund.me/12171be3" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gofund.me/12171be3</a></p><p><a href="/tags/solidarity/" rel="tag">#Solidarity</a> <a href="/tags/mentalillness/" rel="tag">#MentalIllness</a> <a href="/tags/bpd/" rel="tag">#BPD</a> <a href="/tags/ptsd/" rel="tag">#PTSD</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://ovo.st/club/mutualaid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mutualaid</span></a></span></p>