The end of the road.

I took the only $200 I could round up to the landlord this morning and he refused to take the money. So it will be pretty soon that we are homeless with the kids. We took our old landlords to court - the ones that kept all of our last deposit - and we won "woohoo". So we will have some money coming but not soon enough. We have been constantly late and behind with everything and even though we had our day in court - we won't have the money soon enough.

Our current landlord just wants his money "NOW!!!" and doesnt want to wait for us to be able to collect from the other landlords.

With no resources left I dont know what we are going to do now. If we dont have a steady residence I dont know how I am going to be able to even keep up with my Disability claim.

If anybody has it in them to help - please - I have been humbled and I am begging again. The suck part about it is - it doesnt get any easier the more you do it. IT only gets harder. It is a huge weight to carry. If it were just me and my wife it wouldnt be so bad, but we have children we have to think about here.

thats it for today. Maybe I'll have it in me to write something else later.

Joe - the broke carpenter

Holding on

Kids had a good xmas anyway. We finally stood up for ourselves and took the previous landlords to court and WON - woohoo. The only problem is actaully collecting. They asked the judge if they could have 30 days - yeah, like their broke.

Unforntunately my current landlord doesnt want to wait 30 more days for his rent, so we still have to figure something out. I have one more day to get something together before I go see the landlord. Prayers have got me this far.

I haven't had alot of time to work on my eBook or getting any websites up to make money. I don't know, who am I kidding anyway. It will still take days if not weeks for web sites to get indexed by search engines. Plus I have to figure out how to get everything edited anyway. Hell, even just figuring out how do the links and stuff on this page took forever.

My wife has a valid point, the more time I spend ignoring her and the kids - is more time they all hate this infernal computer. Maybe I should just give up and wait for the Disability. But the stress of not knowing whether I can find some way to hold off the landlord let alone find some other way to pay the other bills too - all the stress is just driving me crazy.

There really needs to be some magic button a person can push that will put everything on hold for a little while so they can at least think about what the hell is going on so they can try to make a game plan.

Every time we sit down and try to figure out a plan or even go through paperwork to get an idea of just where we stand - some other unexpected event happens to stop us in our tracks before we can even get a pencil on the paper.

Oh well, such is life. I will just pray some more and go beg at the churches again. Every day that goes by is one more day that I am closer to getting my disability. Well, if you've managed to get this far and you have anything left after Xmas, try to help me keep the roof over my kids heads. They need someplace to keep their extra xmas stuff.

Thanks
Joe - the broke carpenter

Merry XMAS

Well, the kids had a good xmas thanks to the help of local charities. But we only have until the 29th to come up with some cash for the landlord. Here we are praying for another month, hopefully my disability will go through this time. Oh, wait - it is the holiday season. If you think government moves slow during the regular year you can only imagine the procrastination and paper shuffling that can go on during this time of year.

I have some really cool ideas for an eBook, and for some web sites. If I only had some cash and some time to put my ideas to use. I am trying to get something going using free web-hosting but I still need enough time for the search engines to pick up the pages.

If anybody has any cash left after the holidays LOL - help me keep the roof over my kids heads for another month.

Thanks
Joe -the disabled carpenter
p.s. (look for a donation button somewhere below - I don't feel like making a new one)

One More Time

9:00 seems to be the standard time for delivery of eviction notices. It never fails. You can't get one of these when the kids aren't home and then when they ask why the police came you just tell them don't worry about it. Here it is 4 days before x-mas and I don't need my kids worried about being homeless.

I tried to do some part time article writing and made a few bucks, but part time for me was 20 hours a day and I still wasn't going to make enough to pay the bills anyway. Then I thought I would try to throw up a bunch of "you can make money on the internet" websites but that isn't working out so good either.

I spend almost all my time on this computer trying to figure out how to save our ass and everything else gets neglected. My kids are ignored, my wife is ignored. Nothing seems to be going right.

We have managed to scrounge up a little bit of money here and there, but you can only get so much from so many before there isn't any left and I don't know how much longer we can hold our ground. This is just crappy timing.

Still Here - Barely

For those of you not familiar with my blog here let me get you up to speed. I am a carpenter with a bad back filing for disability. So until I actually get approved for disability the only thing I can do is panhandle on the internet - until we become homeless (I have a wife and kids). I have been trying to get an online eBook sales website running, but it is hard to concentrate on getting anything really done because I am continually spending much of my time looking for resources to save our ass.

I actually have a couple sites up and running - I just havent had enough time to advertise them yet. If you happen to be in the position to help keep a family from becoming homeless - you can look for one of my "Make a Donation" buttons, or even better - I would like to think that you can get something for your efforts, so look at the few opportunities that I have up and running in my links section.

Thanks
Joe - the broke - almost homeless carpenter

Another Crazy Idea

Well, I stumbled onto a bunch of "make money from home" websites. I have seen these things on the internet for years and never thought they really worked. But after doing a lot of searching I have actually found several multiple matching web-sites.

So I can say that I think they really do work, so I decided to try one and see how it goes. Day 1 - Dec 17, 2005 I launched my first internet sales site. It is a freebie at Rxhectors Geocities Website.

If anyone stumble onto my site here and doesn't think that an outright donation to a disabled carpenter is worth thier time, you can at least visit my geocities link above and get something in return for helping me out.

Thanks,
Joe the broke carpenter.

P.S. - if you can help a family in need - we are fighting eviction once again. I have managed to last three months on the generosity and kindness of others. I am still fighting for Disability benefits but until that happens I have to hope my crazy online business works or enough people help me out.

Here we go again.

Well, we made it through Thanksgiving thanks to a small miracle. But alas, here we are two weeks before Christmas with another 3-day notice. All I need is for social security to come through for me and we will be OK. But I don't see that happening in the next 3 days so we pray for another small miracle.

I'm not going to sugar coat anything. I'm a depressed carpenter with a bad back and I can't work anymore. I have no other job skills to fall back on and even if I did, the morphine I'm on for pain doesn't allow me to concentrate on much of anything anyway.

If some good samaritan stumbles upon my follies, please

to keep my kids warm and dry. Don't worry about presents, we have plenty of help in that department but it will do us no good unless we have a roof to keep them under.


Well, thanks for visiting.

Banks Suck !!!

Through all this BS for the last year, I have barely managed to hold on to my bank account. Just recently, I made one too many purchases however. I almost never have cash because I put every penny I get into the bank. It is far easier for my crippled worhtless disabled ass to make a phone call and pay a bill with my visa check card than it is for me to try to physically get to wherever and write a check.

Just the other day my bank informs me that I made one overdraft too many, and even though they charge me $20 for every overdraft they are cancelling my visa check priveledges. I tried to explain to these idiots that I am disabled and trying to get from point a to point b to pay my bills is not very easy.

But to no avail, the corporate world has no cares for the disabled. It seems that even though my bank gets to make extra money when i fuck up isn't good enough for them. I went round and round with those idiots and they just don't get it. They basically told me they personally don't care that I can't get around very easy.

Thats OK, because when I finally do get my SSI income, the first thing I am going to do is fix my old fucked up other bank accounts and then switch to another bank.

As a result I couldn't make my payment for the washer and dryer - Rent a center doesnt take checks, only money order or visa - they were real assholes too. Because I am always late on my payments they like to complain about how broke they are. Shit, if your business can't afford to wait for a payment then maybe you shouldn't fuckin be in business.

This back problem really sucks. I bust my ass for all those years to be broke all the time anyway and now I get to be treated like shit because I can't work. Sometimes it just really fucking pisses me off.

Enough of me whining about myself. If you have an extra buck or two - help me get the kids something for under the tree.

Thanks - the broke carpenter

Graceful

Well, we have stalled our eviction for the holidays at least. I have no idea how I am going to come up with enough money for christmas for the kids but at least I know they will be warm and dry.

I really want to get my oldest his own TV so he can play video games in his room without taking over the living room TV and leaving his little brothers with nothing to do. I went and helped a church with their website and network and made a few bucks today, if only I could stumble into more extra work like that I might survive.

Trying to climb out of a hole like this once you fall in is almost impossible. I finally broke out of my depression and got involved in this affiliate program and I was actually optimistic for a little while. It hasn't panned out like I thought it would, but I haven't really been working on it enough to get anything out of it.

I spent most of the last two weeks fighting off this eviction. Maybe now I can concentrate on my other miscellaneous internet projects again.