“[I]t Is Actually More Expensive To Be Poor Than Not Poor. If You Can’t Afford The First Month’s

“[I]t is actually more expensive to be poor than not poor. If you can’t afford the first month’s rent and security deposit you need in order to rent an apartment, you may get stuck in an overpriced residential motel. If you don’t have a kitchen or even a refrigerator and microwave, you will find yourself falling back on convenience store food, which — in addition to its nutritional deficits — is also alarmingly overpriced. If you need a loan, as most poor people eventually do, you will end up paying an interest rate many times more than what a more affluent borrower would be charged. To be poor — especially with children to support and care for — is a perpetual high-wire act.”

— It Is Expensive to Be Poor | The Atlantic

I need a wheelchair and I'm poor. Please help me get a chair so I'm not trapped at home.

I really need some help with getting a wheelchair. I was trapped in my house for almost 3 weeks because of mobility issues, my crutches aren't always enough. Because of serious side-effects, I can't keep using the steroid treatments that have kept me mobile.

I need a decent chair that won't cause further joint problems or stress fractures with my brittle bones. If I reach my goal of $1100 I can get a decent chair. If I go over the cost of the chair I'll donate the rest to Intersex Human Rights Australia (https://ihra.org.au/). If I somehow go way way over, I might be able to afford a momentum assisted chair.

Anything helps, and I appreciate it immensely.

I really really need this. Feeling trapped is awful, and with a chair it's at least possible for people to help me get out, even when my shoulders are fucked.

Hopefully the chair I want is still on sale when I can afford it.

Please share or donate. I need this so badly.

https://chuffed.org/project/emily-needs-a-wheelchair

(OMG TUMBLR!!!! PLEASE JUST LET ME POST THE LINK!!! "TUMBLR WENT BUNGLY WUNGLY" 😡)

Chuffed

Emily needs a wheelchair

I need a wheelchair again after 5 years. My ability to be mobile fluctuates significantly, I was recently stuck inside for two and a half we

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6 years ago

ATTENTION WRITERS

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ilokiloveyou

4 years ago

LIKE! REBLOG! SHARE ON OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA'S! BE LOUD!

SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.

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ilokiloveyou

4 years ago

So I missed her birthday by like a day but please enjoy a picture of Mary Shelley. I dont know lots about her but everything I do know is very cool. I also love doing my own takes of already existing art so this was a fun drawing exercise.

I did also attempt one of her mother - Mary Wollstonecraft - who I do know a lot more about but sadly that went horribly wrong so we will have to come back to that another time.

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