Thank you everyone. This literally brought tears to my eyes, and it is bringing tears to my eyes as I type. Today I had a real doozy of a job rejection. It was by far the worst rejection I had since I began searching for a job. A type of rejection that would have probably made me pack it in, in regards to searching for a job. I think I would have lost complete faith in humanity, and myself if it wasn't amazing actions of you people.
OK, and the truth is I was much worse off than I even let on. Over the past few months I sold a huge portion of my garbage Pail Kids collection. I sold my Album, and 45 collection. I sold off my sports card collection. I gave away my Donkey Kong 3 machine. I sold a vast majority of my classic video game collection I sold or gave away most of the books I had. I threw out a bookcase, a coffee table, my sofa. I had went to the swap meet several times in the past 5 months as well, and sold, or literally gave away many things as well.
And so the first of the month had come, and I still needed time to figure out exactly what I should keep for my car, and what I should throw out. I actually had a deal worked out with my landlord to pay two weeks at a time instead of a month at a time. I had about $250 left with a $126 check coming in for two weeks work of my part time tutoring job. Which made $376. I needed to pay $247.50 for two more weeks which would have left me $129 left, but I had to pay $96 for my yearly car registration that was due on the 8th of this month, and $40 for car insurance for the month as well which was also due on the 8th. Well you do the math, and I would be in the hole. I was also a month behind in my electric bill, gas, credit card, and Internet. Paying for those bills was actually an afterthought.
So I was resigned to my fate. Try to somehow come up with $100 to $300 more dollars, and call it a day. I couldn't go with my parents because both of them are dead. I couldn't live with any of my family or friends because they all were either overcrowded to begin with or were living with other people who were not likely to let me in. I thought my sister down the hill may have been an option, but in the beginning of November she also had problems of her own, and was forced to live her boyfriend with his two kids. She told me straight out right before Thanksgiving that living with her would not be a possibility.
The only semi hope I had was with this person's grandpa that I tutored, and he offered a place to stay on the spur of the moment without clearing it with his son, and grandkid that I was tutoring. Also when I called back to tell him I may extend this a couple of weeks it didn't seem so definite anymore. He also has the beginning stages of Alzheimers, and so I wasn't sure how reliable it was. Besides tutoring I barely even know them.
As you can see the $100 to $300 wasn't to stop from being homeless it was to get two more weeks, and some gas money and go on my marry way. I was at a point where I was feeling completely rejected, and bitter at myself, and the world. The motivating factor for me asking for help was just to say I did it if people asked me if I explored that avenue. I wasn't expecting anything really at all.
But what you have done now is great. I now have enough money to pay for rent for all of December, and at least the first half of January while paying all of my bills. Even the late ones!
Again if it wasn't for what you as a community have done I would have felt that almost no one besides my nephew, and 4 or 5 friends really cared about me. My faith has been restored. You know when I saw the first response was by Ken House I was almost positive he was going to rail on me for being a complete creep for asking for help. I was wrong, I was very wrong as he has been in the lead for the whole thing.
Also one more thing. Things I see things in a different perspective. I was wasting away on my own money, and the drive wasn't so strong. Now though because this is not only other people's money, but money from people that actually care about me, and actually want me get out of this hole I feel as if I owe it to all of you to do the best I can to find a full time job, and just go all out with this.
Thank you again. To all of you. Thank you. This means so much to me.
