My freecharitycars.org application before being edited down to 300 words!
I was a stay at home mother to my 2 toddlers until 2 months ago when I broke down and took a minimum wage job at a greeting card store.
Just over six months ago my husband was laid off permanently from the IT company he had worked for just over a year. It was very sudden, nobody saw it coming including my husband's boss! When he came home early as soon as he walked in the door I knew what had happened...
You see, this was not the first time he had been suddenly fired due to downsizing. In fact it has become all too familiar! We have been married 3 and a half years and once a year he has lost a job to downsizing with no warning. That's 3 jobs in 3 years!
When he lost the first job he had another job lined up right away. The second job was harder to deal with losing and we went 3 months with no unemployment or anything except for family help and food assistance(which does not cover diapers or formula BTW)while my daughter was still a newborn. Our car got repossessed and we got evicted from our apartment... we were fortunate enough to have family who could lend us the money to move to a cheaper apartment near a promising job opportunity(which happens to be the job he just lost). Then he got the IT job because his brother worked there and got him an interview. Before we had struggled even when he was working so when he got his IT job(a salary job) we finally had a stable paycheck. The loss of this stability that I had finally grown accustomed to just weeks before he was let go... well let's just say I wasn't calm when he came home early telling me he lost his job.
We have now been on unemployment and food assistance for over 6 months. We had been driving an 89 volvo until it slowly started having more and more problems with it. We found a car for $500 that ran well and needed minor fixes and got 38 MPG so we jumped on the opportunity. It did have problems that came up but overall nothing that made it not worth the money we paid. I finally had a car I felt safe putting my kids in!
So what's the problem? Well 3 days ago my husband made a quick trip to the store and while exiting the parking lot to come back home, a teenager driving with a cast hit him. He totaled both his car and ours... and my husband got the ticket! Nobody was seriously injured but my husband is still pretty sore and a little scraped up too.
We haven't got a safe car to drive and my friend has actually had to drive me to work everyday since the accident. If he wasn't unemployed I wouldn't be able to get to work at all. I still have not managed to get my license even though I am 23. I tried to take the test once but failed because of the parallel parking part. Before and after that time we have not had the time to allow me to practice parking, the car to allow me to take the test(volvo won't cut it), or the money to pay for the test.
I'm at a loss for things to do right now. One thing after another has made things increasingly depressing and it really hard to stay in high spirits when you can't even take your kids to visit their grandparents 45 minutes away let alone go to the grocery store without asking someone else to take us. PLEASE HELP US!
Here is a link to the 300 word one where you can vote for me to help toward me getting a free car.
Just over six months ago my husband was laid off permanently from the IT company he had worked for just over a year. It was very sudden, nobody saw it coming including my husband's boss! When he came home early as soon as he walked in the door I knew what had happened...
You see, this was not the first time he had been suddenly fired due to downsizing. In fact it has become all too familiar! We have been married 3 and a half years and once a year he has lost a job to downsizing with no warning. That's 3 jobs in 3 years!
When he lost the first job he had another job lined up right away. The second job was harder to deal with losing and we went 3 months with no unemployment or anything except for family help and food assistance(which does not cover diapers or formula BTW)while my daughter was still a newborn. Our car got repossessed and we got evicted from our apartment... we were fortunate enough to have family who could lend us the money to move to a cheaper apartment near a promising job opportunity(which happens to be the job he just lost). Then he got the IT job because his brother worked there and got him an interview. Before we had struggled even when he was working so when he got his IT job(a salary job) we finally had a stable paycheck. The loss of this stability that I had finally grown accustomed to just weeks before he was let go... well let's just say I wasn't calm when he came home early telling me he lost his job.
We have now been on unemployment and food assistance for over 6 months. We had been driving an 89 volvo until it slowly started having more and more problems with it. We found a car for $500 that ran well and needed minor fixes and got 38 MPG so we jumped on the opportunity. It did have problems that came up but overall nothing that made it not worth the money we paid. I finally had a car I felt safe putting my kids in!
So what's the problem? Well 3 days ago my husband made a quick trip to the store and while exiting the parking lot to come back home, a teenager driving with a cast hit him. He totaled both his car and ours... and my husband got the ticket! Nobody was seriously injured but my husband is still pretty sore and a little scraped up too.
We haven't got a safe car to drive and my friend has actually had to drive me to work everyday since the accident. If he wasn't unemployed I wouldn't be able to get to work at all. I still have not managed to get my license even though I am 23. I tried to take the test once but failed because of the parallel parking part. Before and after that time we have not had the time to allow me to practice parking, the car to allow me to take the test(volvo won't cut it), or the money to pay for the test.
I'm at a loss for things to do right now. One thing after another has made things increasingly depressing and it really hard to stay in high spirits when you can't even take your kids to visit their grandparents 45 minutes away let alone go to the grocery store without asking someone else to take us. PLEASE HELP US!
Here is a link to the 300 word one where you can vote for me to help toward me getting a free car.