I can't believe it's that time of year already...
Happy holidays, everyone! I hope you all have had a great year so far! I have not had the best time this year. My family and I have been homeless since January, and we were all living in the car in a Safe Parking program until I got kicked out in October for something I thought had been dealt with. Since then, my mother and daughter have been in the car and I've been hopping rooms with the cats at a local motel. But it hasn't been all bad this year! My daughter came out as trans and she's been getting a pretty good reception to the news from friends and family, so there's that. We're also in touch with a social worker who is supposed to help with housing, so there's that as well, and there's a new program starting January 1st that might get us housed quickly (fingers crossed).
This year we don't have a lot of space for stuff, but we're hoping we can have a good holiday regardless. This is the list for me and my mom and my daughter, so there's a bunch of assorted stuff.
1. Anything from this Amazon wishlist. This has got clothing, food, various food and Visa gift cards, and other stuff that will help us out a lot while we're homeless.
2. Walmart gift cards. We buy a lot of our food and supplies from there.
3. NerdyKeppie.com gift cards. I know the shop owner on Tumblr and I've been impressed with everything I've bought from there, and I have a huge list of stuff I still want.
4. Xbox gift cards. My daugher is a huge gamer and this would help her out immensely with buying games and extras for the games she's already got.
5. Donations to our housing GoFundMe. Right now I have to pay for my motel room out of pocket while I get loans paid off and I don't get any help with the costs from homeless agencies. It averages about $50 - $100 a night, depending on if I can get five nights in a row when I make a reservation to lock in the lower rate. This also helps cover gas to travel where we need to go, bills we still have and other assorted costs associated with being homeless (if GFM isn't an option and you want to help, I have other options for getting donations...just DM me).
6. This hoodie in a 2XL in black. Call of Duty is one of her favorite video game series and Soap and Ghost are two of her favorite characters. She fell in love with this as soon as she saw it, but I can't afford $40+ for a hoodie right now.
7. Magic: the Gathering Doctor Who Commander Pre-con (the one with the 10th and 11th Doctors) for my daughter. I'm hoping to get her the starter kit myself, but I am having trouble finding this one and she really wants it.
8. This pair of Ugg boots in a 10 women in Chestnut. My mom is still sleeping in the car and she loses her slippers at night, so these would keep her feet warm and look stable enough for her to walk in.
9. This coat for my mom in a 2XL in Black. She gets really cold and has hoodies, but she wants something fashionable.
10. Cat toys and stuff they can scratch for our cats. I don't have a whole lot of room for big ones, and I'm getting six catnip Halloween-themed ones from a person who bought them off my wishlist, but small non-catnip toys and something for them to scratch in the hotel room would be much appreciated.
Since we get our mail at a resource center I'm going to go ahead and include the address, as we don't actually live there. We can all pick up mail individually so my mother is Debra and my daughter is Trace (it's her deadname but she hasn't legally changed her name and ID yet) and I'm Ragna.
Ragna Cook / Debra Barger-Cook / Trace Cook
4700 North River Road
Suite A
Oceanside, CA 92057
This year we don't have a lot of space for stuff, but we're hoping we can have a good holiday regardless. This is the list for me and my mom and my daughter, so there's a bunch of assorted stuff.
1. Anything from this Amazon wishlist. This has got clothing, food, various food and Visa gift cards, and other stuff that will help us out a lot while we're homeless.
2. Walmart gift cards. We buy a lot of our food and supplies from there.
3. NerdyKeppie.com gift cards. I know the shop owner on Tumblr and I've been impressed with everything I've bought from there, and I have a huge list of stuff I still want.
4. Xbox gift cards. My daugher is a huge gamer and this would help her out immensely with buying games and extras for the games she's already got.
5. Donations to our housing GoFundMe. Right now I have to pay for my motel room out of pocket while I get loans paid off and I don't get any help with the costs from homeless agencies. It averages about $50 - $100 a night, depending on if I can get five nights in a row when I make a reservation to lock in the lower rate. This also helps cover gas to travel where we need to go, bills we still have and other assorted costs associated with being homeless (if GFM isn't an option and you want to help, I have other options for getting donations...just DM me).
6. This hoodie in a 2XL in black. Call of Duty is one of her favorite video game series and Soap and Ghost are two of her favorite characters. She fell in love with this as soon as she saw it, but I can't afford $40+ for a hoodie right now.
7. Magic: the Gathering Doctor Who Commander Pre-con (the one with the 10th and 11th Doctors) for my daughter. I'm hoping to get her the starter kit myself, but I am having trouble finding this one and she really wants it.
8. This pair of Ugg boots in a 10 women in Chestnut. My mom is still sleeping in the car and she loses her slippers at night, so these would keep her feet warm and look stable enough for her to walk in.
9. This coat for my mom in a 2XL in Black. She gets really cold and has hoodies, but she wants something fashionable.
10. Cat toys and stuff they can scratch for our cats. I don't have a whole lot of room for big ones, and I'm getting six catnip Halloween-themed ones from a person who bought them off my wishlist, but small non-catnip toys and something for them to scratch in the hotel room would be much appreciated.
Since we get our mail at a resource center I'm going to go ahead and include the address, as we don't actually live there. We can all pick up mail individually so my mother is Debra and my daughter is Trace (it's her deadname but she hasn't legally changed her name and ID yet) and I'm Ragna.
Ragna Cook / Debra Barger-Cook / Trace Cook
4700 North River Road
Suite A
Oceanside, CA 92057