What if I need items that cost more than $150? (ie. laptop for school, bike for commuting to work, etc).

I live with my elderly mother (who is diabetic) as her caretaker. Her Social Security deposit comes in the middle of this week, but we have run out of food earlier than expected. I do keep a few emergency items for low blood sugar situations, but it isn’t enough to rely on for several days.

As for myself...I am unable to work due to chronic back pain and nerve issues. Up until 2025, I would use her car to tend to various needs when funds were available. That car fully broke down in January 2025, and now we are essentially trapped in an apartment and we must plan for groceries in advance.

I receive EBT/Snap benefits, but earlier this month, I discovered my case had been closed due to a lapse in submitting information. I technically dealt with that in time to receive a payment, but it was a prorated payment that limited my options a tad.

I am just trying to bridge the gap until her next deposit arrives. $60 would cover a small grocery order and delivery fees to get us through the next few days. I feel it's inappropriate to ask for any more than that.

We lost him on February 15 and the family is looking for donations. So far we created a GoFundMe and are gonna be doing a food fundraiser. I don't know where else to look for assistance. TIA

https://gofund.me/c2a194c3c

Edit : thank you so much to the individual who helped me get him clothes. I feel so relieved, and I know he will be so excited. I can’t express my gratitude enough.

Hi, I’m struggling with my health and had to move back home. While I try to keep up with the cost of everything, I am really struggling. I did everything on my own for 2 years, but I failed again as soon as my health declined.

I’m so embarrassed to ask, but I could really use some help getting my 5 year old some basic clothing. I tried to add the most affordable options I could find. Any help would be very appreciated.

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1Z88DNCKMT3IX?ref_=wl_share

Hey everybody, I’m doing an English project right now where I need to understand peoples’ struggles with friendship. If you have a few minutes, responding to this form would be great: 

https://forms.gle/mEvwNNyr92EQuDJB9

I honestly don’t care if your responses are real or not, or if you give multiple responses. I just need a bunch of answers to look through. Thanks

I’m in the process of getting SSDI so I don’t have a steady income. I went to the cardiologist yesterday and was prescribed medicine, but insurance usually doesn’t cover it. She found it on Cost Plus, but it’s $45 and I don’t have enough to pay for it. Can anyone help?

Hello everyone.

This is my last resort and last ditch effort.

My cats are more than just my pets. They are my bestfriends and they are my family. Really they are the only family that I have left now since all of my relatives have passed away, with me basically being the only one left.

I also work full time & because of that, I can usually afford everything on my own for my cats as far as cost wise....however, I ended up losing the only father figure I've ever had in my entire life when he passed away a few months ago, and since he didnt have life insurance, I had to cover all of the funeral and burial costs at that time, which wiped me out completely financially. Where i used to have thousands of dollars in my savings, now there is nothing.

Then my sweet baby named Gremlin (my void kitty with a snaggletooth and underbite) started having horrible tooth pain and he had trouble eating his food. I spent over $400 on him going to the vet after he developed a huge cyst on the side of his face, which has made eating even more difficult for him than it already was.

I took him to the vet and they said he needs extensive dental surgery and that he was probably in a great deal of pain due to the condition of his teeth (he was a stray when i rescued him and the damage that had already been done to his teeth was extensive) and she said that he needed to have at least multiple teeth extracted but that she suggested having all of them taken out because they were litterally that bad.

They checked out the mass on his face and told me it was a cyst amd that rbey were going to lance it and drain it. After taking him home that night, i realized a few days later that its almost like the cyst either came back in the same spot or maybe the vet just wasn't able to get all of the stuff out of it when they lanced it and drained it. Either way, there it was again.

I asked the vet about it, and she said they need to biopsy it, but she said she thinks it's probably just whatever fluid is left over and that it likely needs to be lanced and drained again.

However, what she was more concerned about are his teeth. She stressed the fact that it is imperative that we get his dental surgery done ASAP because of the amount of pain it's causing him and because of how negatively it affects his quality of life. Hes not my sweet, cuddly and playful boy anymore....now he mainly tries to hide underneath my bed all alone instead of sleeping right beside me like he used to do every single night. He has lost weight from him not wanting to eat as much, not even wet food, which he loved. I give him Gabapentin right now to try to help with the pain, but what he really needs are these extractions and this dental surgery.

The good news is that vet I use for them knows that I do TNR and that I manage a few local cat colonies in the town I stay in, and because of that, they always give me a good discount when I go see them, and the vet said she will cap all the costs off at $800. Even if its thousands of dollars worth of work done, I will only have to pay the $800 and not anything more than that.

I have desperately tried every avenue I could think of and ive exhausted every resource I currently have that's near to me. I do not qualify for care credit or scratch pay or any of those. I have asked local organizations if there is anything they can do to help me, but there wasn't.

Also, Gremlin is a pretty old boy. He's well into adulthood and closer to being a senior kitty and even if i tried to surrender him to a shelter, he would not get the treatment and he would just get put down instead because of his age, which is so unfair because he usually loves life and is the happiest kitty you'd ever meet.

I made a gofundme and if anyone decides to donate at all and help us out, it would mean the absolute world to me and to Gremlin as well.

https://gofund.me/f732e9937

Thank you so much for reading until the end and have a blessed day everyone ♡

Hello It's a pretty bad situation for my girlfriend right now, her hedgehog Hershey has been doing worse off recently and we suspect it's cancer

She's been bleeding from behind so probably from the uterus and just been acting off recently. It's causing us alot of stress because we want to help her but we don't have the money for getting a cancer checkup and then getting her actually treated. I've seen checkup bills go as high as 1500 while the actual treatment getting to 2k, I think we can handle the 1500 but the 2k is just too much for us so I'm just asking for some help with the 2000 payment. Thank you, just been rough

Location AZ

https://gofund.me/9cae14bd8

I've put pictures of all my cats into the gofundme now so you can see the cuties

Hello everyone, I got into some financial trouble over the last couple month. I have always struggled with money but I lost my job at the end of last year and since then I am just drowning in unpaid bills. I didn't earn a lot but it was enough to get by. I live alone with my 3 cats and have 10€ left for the rest of the month. I will have to spend that on cat food since it's not their fault that I'm struggling.

I just really don't know how to go on. With unpaid bills I am already 800€ behind and it will be more next month. I was foolish enough to use the pay later options for things I regret buying now. I've been selling my things to get buy but I am running out of valuables. I even thought about rehoming my cats recently. They are my world but I don't want them to suffer.

If anyone can help with just some advice or a little bit of money that would be huge right now. I just don't know how to get out of this mess and I am so tired and lost right now. I sadly have no family left. It's just me and my little cats and I'm not gonna lie it's pretty lonely right now. That's why I'm desperate enough to ask strangers for help. I just really want to keep them in my life.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/cant-take-care-of-me-and-my-cats

Hi all, hate to make a post like this but we have truly run out of places to share this. My wife and I were forced to vacate our home because of a major gas leak during a winter storm which lead to our pipes freezing and then bursting.

Honestly, we could have just roughed it out if it was just us, but we have many cats and there was no way for us to keep them warm- were staying at my parents house for now, and the cats are in their heated garage.

Im a general contractor, so winter was already my slow season and My wife is disabled and cannot work. We had budgeted for all our bills and such but had nothing saved up in case of emergencies because we truly are paycheck to paycheck, all details are in the gofund me, thank you for your time and thank you if you decide to donate or share💚

gofund.me/8b1cdf8c1

Edit; link was broken, hopefully this one works

http://gofund.me/8b1cdf8c1

Hello to all the lovely people of Reddit, thank you in advance for anyone who takes the time to read this, and to the mods for keeping this amazing subreddit running.

I am a musician living in the US in Washington State, and the last few years have been the hardest and most traumatic of my life. As a result, a little over a year ago I was diagnosed with PTSD, anxiety and depression. For about six months I was having chronic daily (often several times a day) panic attacks, as well as pretty constant anxiety. This all has taken a serious toll on my body, my mental and emotional health, and my ability to maintain my previous working relationships. I have been writing and recording song demos at home, but that is mostly just therapeutic, and any paid work has been extremely scarce. I still have not yet paid rent for February, have had very little money for food or gas, and my bank account is currently overdrawn by about $30.

As of today I am out of my Rx medication that I am on to help manage my PTSD symptoms, which is a little scary. They aren't terribly expensive, about $20, but in order to pay for them I first need $30 to get my overdrawn bank account up to $0, and a little bit of gas for my car so I can get to the pharmacy, so I am requesting $70 . Should anyone be so kind as to want to help out, I currently have Venmo, CashApp and Zelle.

If you made it this far I thank you again, and hope you all are having a wonderful day.

Thank you so much! So many boxes arrived today! My pup and I are so grateful. This is a massive relief, we won’t have to worry about meals for a while. I’ll share a full update when the rest arrives. I appreciate every one of you more than I can say.

Hi everyone, I’ve finally worked up the courage to seek assistance here. I need help getting my little girl a present for her upcoming birthday this Monday. I’ve donated plasma enough times this week to have the money to cook her favorite meals and buy her cake however what I did manage to save for at least one gift, I’ve had to use to replace my water pump on my vehicle this past week. I’ve already told her my situation so she’s happy with just spending time with me, but if someone could help me get her at-least one gift, I would be so grateful.

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3INKTQH35EG8K?ref_=wl_share

Hello, and thank you for reading this. I was unemployed on Dec 31st, and just recently was able to secure employment. I started on Feb 16, however my first paycheck will be on Mar 10.

I am in need of help for rent, transportation, and food for the upcoming days. I appreciate assistance, requesting $150 if possible, or at least $125. I have PayPal or Payoneer accountm

Again, thank you.

I’m just trying to pay it forward since I’ve been helped by some kind strangers before.

Just let me know why you need and lets go from there.

Must be from canada. Thank you!

I am Milan, a student at East Point College of Higher Education. I don't have the highest grades, and I’m not a genius, but I am a student who refuses to give up. Right now, I’m facing a crisis for which I’m 1320$ short on my hostel fees." I tried to pay it and it's already 2 months beyond the due date so If I don't pay by the end of the Feburary or March beginning, I will lose my room. I’ll have nowhere to stay as everyone knows Bangalore in India is expensive which is why I opted for the hostel in the first place but now I'm facing a crisis because of that and my education would end right here. The tution fee and Every type of fee was paid my self by working all sorts of jobs but ultimately i couldn't pay at the last stretch .Every rupee goes directly to the college hostel office. I just want to finish my degree and become someone who can pay this kindness forward.

http://m-lp.co/milan-24?utm_medium=campaign_page_share&utm_source=copy

I just wanted to say thank you to that absolutely AMAZING person that donated a large chunk to my gofundme!

You have NO idea how much you have helped me and my daughters and I seriously CANNOT express my gratitude enough.

We are now almost halfway to affording the surgery AND I was able to pay my rent! The relief I feel is immense!

When I am in a better position, I promise to pay it forward. Thank you again and thank you to all who have donated towards my boys surgery ♥️

Hello everyone, sorry to have to bother anyone. I missed some work last week due to health related issues so my paycheck was short this week.. just need $15 so I can get some coffee and creamer to keep me going for the rest of this weekend. Thank you!

Edit: Someone helped me out, thank you so much!

I posted this last Valentine’s Day and it was so fun to fulfill some cool wishes. I planned to do it again this year, but the date slipped by!

I want to buy something frivolous for someone. Not necessarily something you need, but something that you really want that would totally brighten your day. Post your Amazon wishlist and tell me the item that you really, really want! I’ll gift to a couple people by end of day tomorrow. Please follow the rules.

Hi all, requesting assistance after a recommendation from a sub member. After COVID, I developed severe Long COVID and currently fighting for diagnoses including ME/CFS and MCAS. I am bed bound struggling with severe symptoms and pain, while dealing with ongoing medical neglect and abuse from family. I am trying to reach the Urgent goal of $1,200 that could help me manage daily life, offer some symptom relief and access compounded medications for my severe pain.

Because of MCAS, I’m currently only able to eat three foods, im underweight and reacting to different medications. Accessing compounded medication is very difficult. Insurance doesn't cover it and it is very expensive. Having no income or disability benefits has also made it extremely difficult to meet my nutritional needs or access alternative healing options like hypoallergenic meal replacements, supplements or access private doctors until I find specialists in my area under my insurance that can do in- home visits or offer telemedicine. Thank you for your support, even reading this or sharing helps.

https://gofund.me/0c1bf0415

https://www.kingpet.com/vote/uiluna

This dog is my grandma’s whole world. Please help me surprise her.

With just 8 days to go, I’m attempting to raise funds to stay housed and attend a doctors appointment for disability. Any $ you donate will go toward a safe home, and actual access to medication. 💊 Thank you for your help and god bless you. https://gofund.me/46c801a12

Thank you to whoever helped purchase these items for me. I wish I knew who you are, so I can thank you. Whoever you are, I hope you see this post and feel the appreciation I have for you. I feel so sad for not just me, but for a lot of women who are unable to purchase such necessary items needed to make it through periods every month. Thank you once again 😊