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Unexpected financial emergency

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I hate this. Really hate this. 

I'm a firm believer in busting your butt to take care of you and your own. I love to work and I love to feel that accomplishment of knowing you did a good job putting food on the table and lights above your head. 

Unfortunately, the last two months have presented a financial emergency that is not only making it difficult to do just that, but is threatening to leave my family and it homeless. I didn't want to put this online, in fact, I try to keep that stuff private. 

My lovely girlfriend Alex came out of a very volatile domestic violence-filled situation and after being put through absolute hell, she and I got a place together to help both she and I start over, having both been involved in toxic situations prior to making the decision to be together. She was left homeless and we found a place to move into for that fresh start. Things were great. A month later, I lost my full time job in a very sudden and unexpected way and around the same time, my other profession of writing professionally for various magazines and websites slowly dried up, leaving that buffer money to help, non-existent. Alex works full time and has busted her butt to try to take care of things during the transition of my finding a new job, but it's to the point where we're desperate. Again, not proud of doing this whatsoever, I like to earn my way through life and it guts me to be in this position. 

I have a life-changing job lined up, one that will change things for our family in a very positive way. Unfortunately, that doesn't begin for a month and we are currently a week away from losing everything we have, a fact that has kept me up at night for days at this point. Rent, utilities, etc. It sucks so bad to have to write this, it's a feeling that I wouldn't wish on anyone. But, I can't let her down. I can't let my kids down. I'm asking for help, just to get to the point where that new job would start. Anything helps and like I said, if I wasn't quite literally one week away from losing our house, getting our utilities turned off and we hadn't exhausted every opportunity possible, I wouldn't be posting this GoFundMe page. I'm sorry to write this, but again, I need help. Due to the unexpected loss of employment and everything that comes with that, we are two months behind on our car payment, our utilities are more than past due and rent is due next week, the week before Christmas, which is looking like something that embarassingly, will be lacking this year when it comes to our kids getting presents. As a parent, this kills me and even having to write this makes me feel like a complete failure, but knowing that a new job is on the horizon next month, one that will turn EVERYthing around is good, but we're terrified of this coming week. I wouldn't forgive myself if Alex ended up on a stripper pole (sorry guys, had to thrown in some humor to break the morose feeling that comes with asking people for help). 

Thank you so much for reading this and thank you for taking the time to consider helping us out.

Organizer and beneficiary

Jerry Smith
Organizer
Tulare, CA
Alexandra Mayo
Beneficiary

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