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Seeking help for Bills....

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Hello my name is Tammy and I am a Veteran. I served my country during Desert Storm while raising three wonderful children.  My oldest son has followed in my footsteps and is now a Veteran himself, having served three tours in Iraq and one in Afganistan. I currently live with my two youngest children and we are having difficulty making ends meet from week to week. I work at a fast food store and I work an average of 38 hours a week after breaks.  

My daughter injured her self at work and was unable to work for almost a year due to that  injury and incured medical bills that she is now paying for herself since she had no insurance  at the time of the accident.  She works and goes to school full time and because she has helped me so much in the past it hard as mother to beg her for help for something that her father,  set in motion many years ago.
I am so proud of my daugther she works full-time and with student loans she is striving to get a good college education to get a better job. Something every parent wants for their child.  My husband of thirty years was a drunk and made a life decison that he is paying for with a prison term.  He also phisically and verbally abused me for most of my marriage.  
That statement is hard to write and it hard to admit to other people. 

 I have filed for bankruptcy and got my bills to the absolutely bare necessities...gas for the car, light bill (which is on a set amount), rent, car insurance, food and maybe when I have the money food for my dog and other stuff.  I struggle week to week just paying the bare necissities.
My daughter and I both work in jobs that pay minimum wage, and yes I could find another job, but you have to have the money to do that. My daugther does not have her drivers license and that is due to past issues with car problems.
 I am currently working towards a promotion at my job with this company and I can achieve great things within this company if I can just keep going but my pay from week to week is just not enough to pay all the bills. I can't get a second job because I really don't have the time with the hours my daugther and I work to do so. 
So I pray that someone will read this and recognize this struggle and help me and my family out. 

For the last year I have been trying to get a promotion at work something that will help us and get our life straight without having to ask for help from anyone, and it in the works, finally. But you might ask yourself why do I a Veteran need help? It simple really I need to get to a position that my promotion comes thru.... and living payday to payday on $287 is not enought to pay the bills.

I hate to be in this position of asking for money and I hate to borrow money...I pray and cry every night that things will get better and things will start looking up....and I could really need some help...Yours.
I have worked continually since I was nineteen years old. I served for ten years while dealing with a drunk and man who verbally abused be calling me whore slut and other names. I took it and I lived with it. Proudly I can say I survived it. 

I am so proud of my children and what they have accomplished and they are best things in my life. I have three grandchildren that I adore  and the last six months I have cried more tears than you can imagine.  

Today I got my notice that last $110 i owe to my light bill is due day before payday. These are the notices I get on a weekly basis.  If my lights get cut off my bill will not be a set amount anymore and It will cost me additional money to get it turned back on. So what to do... I pay the lights and forgo the rent a week...I'm sure some of you have been in this position so Now I ask for help.  Every month a $267 light bill when you have others to pay ends up a struggle each and every payday. But this is what I do each and every week...I try to pay them all on my small paycheck. I don't spend money on a latte or a mocha at Starbucks and I don't go buy anything I don't absolutely need that my life. What I do on a daily basis is pray...that I will survive this and I will make this without being evicted or getting my lights cut off and I will have enough to put gas in the car to get me to and from work.

Please help me and my family. I have always tried to help out my friends when they need a few extra bucks never asking for it to be returned. That who I am.
 God bless you for taking the time to read this and may God bless you if you can help.
I have faith that people that read this will recognize that I would not ever do this unless I really needed it.

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Tammy D. Dunstan
Organizer
Corinth, GA

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