Hello Friends!
I am starting a new fundrazr, because my needs are less, now, but I do still need some help! Thank you SOOOOO much to EVERYONE who helped me in August!!!! I am in MUCH better shape!
So here is my current situation:
I get my check September 3rd, and first thing I will do is pay bills. I will be able to cover all of them, BUT, need to pay more on Ollo Card than I am able to pay. That is what is causing me to struggle. Just to give you an idea of where my check goes:
Payday - $1341.00
Ollo - $500.00
Spectrum Internet and Phone - $140.00
Capital One - $227.78
Water $7.03
Electric $134.05
So those are my bills. I still need to try to get an appointment at Bell-Whitley and apply for help with my electric bill. Their phones have been down, so I've not been able to call and get an appointment. I try to avoid using Capital One, but when I have to use it, I pay it off, right away. As for Ollo, what I have had to do the last 2 months is pay enough to cover all of my auto pays and the interest they will take out for my next bill, so it don't go over my limit. Autopays include smaller bills, ie garbage, cell phones, exterminator, Amazon Prime and 1 of the dogs' autoships.
After all bills are paid, I have dog autoships, which I only have 1 this month, their Credelio, and it is $64.00. I do have enough points at Allivet to get $22 off of this.
Both dogs have a groom appointment, and this is a must, especially for Ace, since he has to be trimmed. It would also be hard for me, as a disabled woman living alone to do Alma myself. She is young and full of energy.
Groomer $153.18
After all of this, what little I have left goes for groceries. I know I will need help with groceries this month. How much help I will need will depend on whether I get help with the electric bill from Bell-Whitley.
Now that I have shared with you all that I do pay, and can afford to pay, I hope you can see that my needs are legitimate! I know there are many with far greater needs than I have, and I do all that I can by sharing, tagging, running a fundraising group for them, and I do not wish to take ANYTHING away from them! But with that said, my needs do matter! It is a very real struggle every month, and what I need most to make it a little easier, above and beyond help with groceries this month, is help paying that Ollo Card down some, so I have some wiggle room. It does have the lowest interest rate of my credit cards, and I have the highest credit limit on it, but I am getting it up to my limit every month, now. If I could double what I pay them one month, it would make a HUGE difference for me!
So here are my needs for September:
Grocery Money - appx $150 per week. (at least 1 week, maybe 2)
Ollo - $500 is what I would like to raise and pay them, but any amount will help! This is over and above my regular payment, which I will pay.
I can do the rest, myself.
I will have a September Amazon List, but as of right now, the dogs are good. Not much on it. I used my gift cerificates at Allivet to stock them up on supplements, I picked up Ace's Galliprant from his Vet, today, and put it on Capital One, that is why I owe them so much, and generous friends stocked them up on their bones, in August, so they should be good for September.
Any help we can get will be GREATLY appreciated, because until I can make some progress on my Ollo Card, we are going to struggle every month. THAT is number one priority right now!
Thank you SOOOOOO much for reading this far, and thank you for even considering donating to us! We could not have made it this far without help, and we pray for the day we no longer have to struggle! Please help us make that happen, if you can! God Bless you!!!!!
Sandra, Ace and Alma
