Help with my pending bills, I was robbed.
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I wanna start off with saying I feel incredibly embarrassed doing this, I feel petty because I don't have cancer or any of those really serious things.
First a little about me:
I'm Nick, a 29 years old guy who lives in Antwerp - Belgium.
I have always been incredibly passionate about performing sports and human rights activism, I've also been vegetarian/vegan for 14 years because I'm compassionate towards animals and the environment.
The dog in the picture is my incredibly sweet Siberian Husky boy who has made my life even more a joy the past 15 months, his name is Boef (Dutch for Bandit).
I have been financially struggling for quite some time (about 8 months), but so far I had managed to keep myself (barely) afloat.
Exactly this new year my social income had been cut off because my flatmate makes too much money and they calculate his income as part of my "household" income and therefore I make too much money on paper, even though I'm currently unemployed and just lived off of my social income and they apply those changes at the end of the year.
The moment I got the letter from the government a couple of weeks ago, I started panicking and I started hunting for a job like my life depends on it (which it does, in a way), but so far no luck.
My bank account has been in negative for a couple of weeks now.
I got about 5 more bills to pay for Dec/Jan that are about 35-55 euro each and I still owe my flatmate 230 euro of rent loan and 300 euro of loans for bills that he helped me pay in December.
The moment my credit card got reset (exactly today, 17th of January 2019) I took off enough cash to be able to pay those leftover bills to prevent them from generating late payment charges, because in that case I would just accumulate more debt and get stuck in a vicious cycle that will be incredibly difficult to recover from and I wanted to prevent that without getting my next credit bill through the ground. So I was carrying that money in my wallet, while I normally never carry more than 50 euro cash.
And of course I happened to have the terrible luck of getting robbed today, out of all days, after never having been victim to a robbery before.
He took the 150 euro that I was gonna use to pay my pending bills.
I called the police and sat down with them for 2 hours arranging all necessary stuff and then walked home, having my head haunted with the traumatic effect of the robbery and the fear of getting into massive financial problems.
So here I am, after heavily ruminating since I've been home, I decided to make a Gofundme, because I literally see no other short-term way out of this and I'm terrified of this accumulating in to more debt very quickly.
I am gonna make appointments next week to seek emergency financial support and I'm still hoping I will find a job one of these days, but unfortunately all those things will take at least another 4+ weeks and by then I will have another month of bills piled up + my part of rent to pay to my flatmate.
The 750 euro won't be enough to cover everything, but it will be enough to make me recover until I find another solution, which I am really hoping I will have soon.
I will be so grateful to anyone that donates even as little as 1 euro to help me, any amount helps, this would really help put my mind to rest.
Massive thanks and lots of love,
Nick and Boef
First a little about me:
I'm Nick, a 29 years old guy who lives in Antwerp - Belgium.
I have always been incredibly passionate about performing sports and human rights activism, I've also been vegetarian/vegan for 14 years because I'm compassionate towards animals and the environment.
The dog in the picture is my incredibly sweet Siberian Husky boy who has made my life even more a joy the past 15 months, his name is Boef (Dutch for Bandit).
I have been financially struggling for quite some time (about 8 months), but so far I had managed to keep myself (barely) afloat.
Exactly this new year my social income had been cut off because my flatmate makes too much money and they calculate his income as part of my "household" income and therefore I make too much money on paper, even though I'm currently unemployed and just lived off of my social income and they apply those changes at the end of the year.
The moment I got the letter from the government a couple of weeks ago, I started panicking and I started hunting for a job like my life depends on it (which it does, in a way), but so far no luck.
My bank account has been in negative for a couple of weeks now.
I got about 5 more bills to pay for Dec/Jan that are about 35-55 euro each and I still owe my flatmate 230 euro of rent loan and 300 euro of loans for bills that he helped me pay in December.
The moment my credit card got reset (exactly today, 17th of January 2019) I took off enough cash to be able to pay those leftover bills to prevent them from generating late payment charges, because in that case I would just accumulate more debt and get stuck in a vicious cycle that will be incredibly difficult to recover from and I wanted to prevent that without getting my next credit bill through the ground. So I was carrying that money in my wallet, while I normally never carry more than 50 euro cash.
And of course I happened to have the terrible luck of getting robbed today, out of all days, after never having been victim to a robbery before.
He took the 150 euro that I was gonna use to pay my pending bills.
I called the police and sat down with them for 2 hours arranging all necessary stuff and then walked home, having my head haunted with the traumatic effect of the robbery and the fear of getting into massive financial problems.
So here I am, after heavily ruminating since I've been home, I decided to make a Gofundme, because I literally see no other short-term way out of this and I'm terrified of this accumulating in to more debt very quickly.
I am gonna make appointments next week to seek emergency financial support and I'm still hoping I will find a job one of these days, but unfortunately all those things will take at least another 4+ weeks and by then I will have another month of bills piled up + my part of rent to pay to my flatmate.
The 750 euro won't be enough to cover everything, but it will be enough to make me recover until I find another solution, which I am really hoping I will have soon.
I will be so grateful to anyone that donates even as little as 1 euro to help me, any amount helps, this would really help put my mind to rest.
Massive thanks and lots of love,
Nick and Boef
Organiser
Nick Vermeyen
Organiser
Antwerp
