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The Truth about My Situation and YouCaring fundraiser.
9 years ago
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I hate to do this. But after a bad tax return issue where I had to pay the government Im down in the depths farther than I ever have been.
Its been rough lately but this just put me over the edge.
I opened a fundraiser here. Its nothing big but I hope it can get me through this.
https://www.youcaring.com/alexander.....-becher-590867
Im also offering commissions.
I write. I paint. Im not offering music right now but prices for that are also below in the following link.
https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=211301
Anyway... heres the truth.
couple years ago. My father had a terrible drinking problem that only increased when his mother died of cancer. He went and got help for it. But it never went away. He just got better at hiding it.
He’d sneak bottles after bottles of vodka into the house and drink them constantly at night and if that wasnt enough he started obsessivrly playing the lottery. It got so bad that he was putting down money on it every time he went to a store to pick up anything. A pack of smokes. Groceries. Gas. His secret booze runs.
Hed put money down on credit to pay for his lottery and drinking addictions.
He kept it all secret from us for years until it all came to a head when the debt collectors came for us and he couldnt hide it anymore. Hed put us in an inescapable debt that couldnt be climbed out of.
They put the house up as collateral. Got a mortgage and then paid off some of the debt. Consolidating it etc.
It didn’t help. He kept gambling and drinking.
He didnt pay bills and I covered them to help save my family from the suffering he was putting us through. I went from saving up to buy my own apartment to being 1000 dollars down in one day.
I was promised Id be reimbursed and Ive never seen a cent.
It kept happening. The bills kept coming and I kept paying them. Now im expected to outright. Bills that were theirs that I cant handle on my own.
My boyfriend tried to help. He got me out of some of the debt I was in. Id hit 2.5 k by that point. He helped but with my hours being cut at work and wages being severely reduced continuing to constantly help them while they dug themselves deeper put me back in the hole and almost put my boyfriend in the hole as well.
We moved out to his house. Something he inherited and its ours. Sort of. But thats all we have to our name at all. With the constant threat of my family’s debt looming over me. All the unrepaid favours and requests for money up to 800 at a time Which were sometimes reimbursed and oftentimes not.
Im just not able to do it anymore.
I hoped that my tax return this year would help but I ended up owing money and had to pay in because my Employer didnt take enough taxes off my paycheck and now Im deeper in the hole than Id even at first imagined.
Right now. Both my credit cards are maxed out. Im regularly in the red with my bank account these days.
Im working a slow job at Bradford Sobeys and while I do make music or art/writing on the side my sales are virtually nonexistant to the point where they dont help.
My paychecks arent enough to barely survive anymore.
I cant take care of myself and my boyfriend like this anymore.
All I need is a little something to help alleviate the debt Im in so I can actually get groceries and survive. I have a house but its 5 miles away from work. Its almost impossible to get there by myself without paying for a taxi or having my family drive me.
I need something. Some way out of this hole. Because every time I claw out of it a little. It just shovels more back on top of me.
Its been rough lately but this just put me over the edge.
I opened a fundraiser here. Its nothing big but I hope it can get me through this.
https://www.youcaring.com/alexander.....-becher-590867
Im also offering commissions.
I write. I paint. Im not offering music right now but prices for that are also below in the following link.
https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=211301
Anyway... heres the truth.
couple years ago. My father had a terrible drinking problem that only increased when his mother died of cancer. He went and got help for it. But it never went away. He just got better at hiding it.
He’d sneak bottles after bottles of vodka into the house and drink them constantly at night and if that wasnt enough he started obsessivrly playing the lottery. It got so bad that he was putting down money on it every time he went to a store to pick up anything. A pack of smokes. Groceries. Gas. His secret booze runs.
Hed put money down on credit to pay for his lottery and drinking addictions.
He kept it all secret from us for years until it all came to a head when the debt collectors came for us and he couldnt hide it anymore. Hed put us in an inescapable debt that couldnt be climbed out of.
They put the house up as collateral. Got a mortgage and then paid off some of the debt. Consolidating it etc.
It didn’t help. He kept gambling and drinking.
He didnt pay bills and I covered them to help save my family from the suffering he was putting us through. I went from saving up to buy my own apartment to being 1000 dollars down in one day.
I was promised Id be reimbursed and Ive never seen a cent.
It kept happening. The bills kept coming and I kept paying them. Now im expected to outright. Bills that were theirs that I cant handle on my own.
My boyfriend tried to help. He got me out of some of the debt I was in. Id hit 2.5 k by that point. He helped but with my hours being cut at work and wages being severely reduced continuing to constantly help them while they dug themselves deeper put me back in the hole and almost put my boyfriend in the hole as well.
We moved out to his house. Something he inherited and its ours. Sort of. But thats all we have to our name at all. With the constant threat of my family’s debt looming over me. All the unrepaid favours and requests for money up to 800 at a time Which were sometimes reimbursed and oftentimes not.
Im just not able to do it anymore.
I hoped that my tax return this year would help but I ended up owing money and had to pay in because my Employer didnt take enough taxes off my paycheck and now Im deeper in the hole than Id even at first imagined.
Right now. Both my credit cards are maxed out. Im regularly in the red with my bank account these days.
Im working a slow job at Bradford Sobeys and while I do make music or art/writing on the side my sales are virtually nonexistant to the point where they dont help.
My paychecks arent enough to barely survive anymore.
I cant take care of myself and my boyfriend like this anymore.
All I need is a little something to help alleviate the debt Im in so I can actually get groceries and survive. I have a house but its 5 miles away from work. Its almost impossible to get there by myself without paying for a taxi or having my family drive me.
I need something. Some way out of this hole. Because every time I claw out of it a little. It just shovels more back on top of me.
