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<p>Good Morning Everyone,</p><p>The good news is, it&#x27;s been more than three weeks since our last begpost!! We&#x27;re both still employed and it looks like my upcoming average weekly hours are on the mend after the usual first-quarter retail slump.</p><p>The bad news is, we&#x27;re still struggling a little to get on our feet. The increase of aforementioned scheduled work hours won&#x27;t happen for several more weeks, so funds will be tight for a bit longer.</p><p>On top of that, we&#x27;ve had multiple one-off expenses; my partner finally convinced me to allow my six-year-old Pixel 4 to rest in peace, which will piss me off til the end of time because I know I could get at least a couple more years out of it if the damned battery weren&#x27;t welded on. Fucking planned obsolescence.</p><p>It got to the point where it was getting very, very warm during charging and was almost unusable unless strapped to a wireless battery charger (the USB port ceased charging a couple years ago). We figured since I&#x27;m walking and/or riding the bus home from work late at night it might be a good idea to have a lifeline.</p><p>The phone replacement was probably the most significant expense this month, but we&#x27;ve also needed to address things or difficulties that we had indefinitely postponed due to our precarious poverity living situation the past two years until the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> gave us the chance to stage a true, honest-to-goodness comeback for the first time in our lives. We finally have all-purpose cleaner and Softscrub again after years of just.. not cleaning anything. Our pantry is slowly becoming stocked. An upgraded Crock-Pot (on a killer sale) gives us much more flexibility than the 2-qt slow-cooker we&#x27;ve always used. </p><p>We still need to get the oil changed, replace the wiper blades to have functional windshield wipers, and get the dog to the vet for the first time in almost five years. But.. one step at a time. We&#x27;re still recovering and can&#x27;t do everything at once, much as we wish we could.</p><p>Anyway since I&#x27;m off today and tomorrow, I have no daily pay advances to guess about which means I can start fundraising a couple days earlier this time, which is always helpful.</p><p>I realize this amount is even *greater* than what we needed at the beginning of January for rent, which seems like we&#x27;re going backwards; but as I mentioned above, we had a substantial expense replacing my phone in addition to lower than usual weekly work hours and the cost of replenishing our pantry and fridge and so on. Without those almost exclusively one-time (or at least quite rare) expenses, this amount would be less than half.</p><p>So.. I must respectfully ask for your <a href="/tags/mutualaid/" rel="tag">#MutualAid</a> help yet again. I know things are.. awful everywhere. Everyone needs help right now; I can&#x27;t begin to imagine what others are going through right now. I know there are so many, many people who need help. But if you can pitch in, we would be deeply grateful.</p><p>If you&#x27;re willing AND able, please boost and if possible donate. If you can&#x27;t donate, *do NOT feel guilty* for being in the same boat as us. Your feelings about it are valid but rest assured you needn&#x27;t feel bad.</p><p>Venmo: <a href="https://venmo.com/thegizmotwins" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>venmo.com/thegizmotwins</a><br>Cashapp: <a href="https://cash.app/$thegizmotwins" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>cash.app/$thegizmotwins</a><br>PP: <a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/gizmo1982" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.paypal.com/paypalme/gizmo1982"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.paypal.com/paypalme/gizmo1</span><span class="invisible">982</span></a><br>GFM: <a href="https://gofund.me/12171be3" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gofund.me/12171be3</a></p><p><a href="/tags/solidarity/" rel="tag">#Solidarity</a> <a href="/tags/mentalillness/" rel="tag">#MentalIllness</a> <a href="/tags/bpd/" rel="tag">#BPD</a> <a href="/tags/ptsd/" rel="tag">#PTSD</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://ovo.st/club/mutualaid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mutualaid</span></a></span></p>