Need $50 for groceries, cat food, and to keep my internet on — Alachua, FL
I’m asking for $50. Twenty dollars will cover one week of internet. The rest is for groceries for me and food for my cats. I live on disability and I don’t have groceries right now. The internet is how I work and stay connected. I’m not sitting still — I make things and put them out, including Skyveil and my other work, but they aren’t selling enough to cover this. My mother is dying of cancer. Fifty dollars would buy a little food and keep the connection on for a week. Thank you for reading this.
Updates from Joshua
- yesterday
Hi. I'm Joshua. I'm 39, almost 40, and I live in Alachua, Florida with my two cats, Chester and Priscilla. Chester's a huge orange doofus I've had since 2015. Priscilla showed up in 2020 and never really grew, so she still looks like a chubby kitten. She's my princess.
Honestly, I'm tired. For two years I've worked every single day on something I call Exemplar Rubicon, and I give it away for free. It's about the drive to look at the truth of a situation and never look away, to be genuine and work as hard as you can. It's about getting through the day when your life is almost tragic. I keep thinking that if the right people saw it, some of them would feel it too. Nobody's ever really given me a shot, though, and I'm still waiting for one.
I'm on disability, $845 a month. By the time rent, power, and internet are paid, there's not much left, and the food's usually gone by the middle of the month. Cat food takes cash, so I spend my food stamps on tuna for the cats and skip meals myself. I'm 5'9" and around 125 pounds.
I did try working. I got hired at Chick-fil-A. I wasn't eating enough to keep up, and I tripped and hurt myself. I'm bipolar, and I have a hard time telling when people are joking. All the beeping and yelling in that kitchen made it impossible for me to focus, and people made fun of my shaky hands and said I smelled. They weren't wrong about the smell. I haven't been able to wash my clothes in two years because I don't have a washer or quarters for the laundromat. I quit before it got worse.
I don't have a car or a computer. I ride an e-bike and do everything on a cracked phone. My place has gotten away from me, and there's nobody around to help.
So here's what I'm asking for: $50. That's $20 for a week of internet, about $30 for tuna for Chester and Priscilla, and maybe a cheeseburger for me. Even a few bucks for laundry quarters would honestly make my week.
Thanks for reading this far. It means a lot that someone did.
- 2 days ago
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