I need help

[valarltd]

"When we have done our very very best, Papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others."
--Charles Dickens, "The Magic Fishbone"


Those who have been reading here know that we've had a rough spring and May in particular has been brutal.

A car accident took our paid-for Focus off the road, leaving us with a car payment and a PT Cruiser.

The major storm resulted in about a thousand dollars worth of damage around our place.

Another accident has left me temporarily without wheels and without the money to bail my cruiser out of the repair shop. The traffic ticket for that was even more of a strain.

Bun lost her wallet, with her graduation money. We've gotten the driver's license back, but the money is gone, putting her college orientation in jeopardy.

I've had to beg money for band camp from my father. Hypericon looks very dicey, even though I've been sitting on a $40 royalty check (need about $60 more for that).


We've sold all the stock we can, our savings account is drained. We aren't YET in danger of foreclosure. It was a near thing, though. And we're starting to get shut-off notices that we can't pay.

To keep the Sparrow household up and going, we need about fifteen hundred dollars ($1500). That's the money we were going to use for bill catch-up and such that was eaten by the storm.



Now, I'm not asking you to just give me money. My paypal is valarltd @ hotmail.com
I'm offering stuff in exchange.

$5 gets you a .pdf copy of Howl at the Mistletoe OR In Angel's Kitchen (a cookbook) or a 10 card Tarot reading
$10 gets you both books or a book and a reading
$15 gets both books and the reading.
$20 gets you the books, reading and a small crochet piece (scarf, handwarmer or hat) of your choice

Crochet, homemade runes, grapevine pentacles, applehead kitchen witches, all available.

Anyone feeling more generous than that will be negotiated. Skills I got, money I don't, and a yard sale is out of the question since we just donated everything we could to flood relief and the church yard sale.

Thanks. Signal Boosts appreciated.
And ginmar's rules apply:

1. You should not subject yourself to hardship to help someone else.

2. You are absolutely forbidden to feel bad if you simply cannot help.

3. Good thoughts, prayers, lighting of candles---those are all good, too.

Comments

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

sent. Good luck, Angel!

[firefly67.livejournal.com]

Sent via Paypal just now. Don't worry about doing anything in return--I got more stuff than I need, in this small house. All my friends seem to be in dire straits right now, and for some of them the trouble is so deep there's nothing I can do that would help. This I can do, thanks not needed; for once in my life I have a little extra and can do as I please with it, so consider what I sent you via Paypal just a gift at a timely moment.

(If you feel you *must* do something in return, wait until autumn & then we can talk about you maybe making me a hat that could conceivably contain the ambulatory mushroom that is my hair... a kind of Rasta tam, perhaps :) But don't worry about it anytime soon, if at all.)

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Thank you. And .pdf goodies will be in the mail shortly. Crochet goodies take a little longer

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. I'll keep a heads up for it.

And goodies will go out soon.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'll e-mail the cookbook along if you can use it.

[firefly67.livejournal.com]

It can't hurt - I'm certainly not much of a cook, unless you consider 'improvisation' a valid form of recipe-following :)

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I can pass on NikoChan because that's a solo endeavor. I'll consult Naomi on HoF. You have Howl at the Mistletoe, right?

And I'm formatting the cookbook this morning. I haven't messed with it in years, and have added a bunch of recipes since.