It is a very long story, but I wanna try and keep it short and simple. My dog, Boots (pictured) and I have been having an immensely hard time, especially since my ("our," in a way) mother passed in 2023. I used to work as her caregiver. She had nothing of note to leave us for inheritance except the home I'm in (our previous home burned to the ground in 2018, and we worked hard to be able to afford this place with insurance money). As a result, I had to live off a credit card until I was employed full time again.

I have been employed full time as a janitor since August of 2023, but I just do not get paid enough at all to make ends meet. After bills and debts (the aforementioned credit card), I barely have anything for food and gas. This was a massive issue before, but then Hurricaine Helene came through late last september.

Where i live dodged the worst it had to offer, but it still did a massive amount of local damage, and it left my home damaged, including messing up my shower due to backing up, and I've not had the ability to shower at home or reroof my home, since then. I've been having to make-do showering at work, when I can, but it isn't always easy because of my schedule. That really sucks.

And then, late last year, I learned they want like a total of 3 or 4 months of my pay for property taxes (they were affordable under Homestead or whatever it's called for my mother), which leaves me at risk of losing the home my mother left to me, that we worked hard to be able to have after losing our prior home. I cannot get them to let me do it in payments and idk what I'm going to do to stay housed, rn. It all has me so incredibly worried.

This isn't even to get into all the other things I need, tbh, like furniture (been using a broken gaming chair since the couch broke)...

Each of these things are components of the needs I currently have. I cannot pay all my bills and debts and pay my taxes, and somehow get my home repaired... I'm scared, and have tried to do it alone for months but I just cannot make it work alone. :(

As you may have noticed, I'm having a big issue with things serially going wrong for me as I'm already trying to dig my way out of pre-existing (proverbial) ruts--It all just keeps piling up on me and I cannot keep my head above water, much less get my feet back on solid ground. I am trying to find a new job, preferably one where my bachelor's degree will be of use, something that pays a living wage, but it is all so difficult, leaving me in this position of need. My current job isn't the worst, but I only make about $900/2 weeks, and with utility bills so high, car insurance, paying back what I can of debts... I wind up with like 150 dollars for food and gas for two weeks, and with gas and grocery prices so sky-high...

And so, I am very literally begging for assistance to help keep myself and my long-haired chihuahua, Boots housed and fed, etc. We truly need the assistance.

My most optimistic goal would be $5k, which would take care of the most pressing issues, but truly every dollar counts to I am using gofundme’s automatic goals feature to set some more achievable goals.