You got kicked out of where you live? First off, take stock. How much of your stuff do you have? This can become really important. Phone and email around to find someone else to stay with temporarily while you get on your feet. Make sure you get someone to go over and help you get your stuff out of the place you got kicked out of. Gods, the number of times I've lost expensive, hard to replace tools and important books to moves makes me sick, there was a lot of good stuff I left behind on some moves. Do what you can to retrieve your belongings.
Make sure to grab your most important books and any tools that would be expensive to replace. Triage for how much space you have to take them with you, if possible get a locker or something. Greyhound stations have lockers for a buck or two a day and that can help you retain more of your possessions. Make sure you have your ID and important papers with you. If you have to abandon materials, keep the tools. A sewing machine is a way to earn money. Art supplies are expensive and a way to earn money. Your computer is the front line way to earn money, especially if you have a laptop that you can use to get online at hot spots. If you have a cel phone keep that with you.
Phone and email around to find someone else to stay with. You may have to relocate across the country. Sometimes people came to drive me there. If I wasn't disabled I would probably have gone by Greyhound sometimes -- again that's where luggage helps.
Don't feel weird about it.
This happens to a lot of people, more than most people would care to admit.
Check around the city where you live to see if there are Residence Hotels, rooming houses where you can get a room or apartment for a day, week or month at a time. If you have money, check into one of those and make enough trips to get ALL your stuff while looking for a new place to live. If you have a cat or other animals this isn't a good option, they usually don't allow pets. But if you don't, that is a huge vast step up from homelessness and can be pretty comfortable for a while as you get your life back together.
Power and heat are usually part of the weekly rent at those residence hotels. So it makes life simple to budget enough to stay there while saving up for a real apartment on your own or finding new housemates.
Do not use a normal "pay by the night" hotel for this purpose as even the cheapest are ludicrously expensive. It's one thing to pay $100 or $150 a week for a room, another to pay $35 a night and add that up for seven days.
Depending on the area you live, if the weather is good, you can get a tent from Walmart and just find a camp ground somewhere. Some camp grounds are even free if they are near national parks. I've run into that in more than one state, and that is the cheapest crash space while looking for a better place to live, if you have a vehicle. Sometimes people crash in their vehicles, that can be comfortable or not depending on the vehicle. But if you have a vehicle you have an enormous advantage, you can relocate by driving and you can get most of your stuff out with it if not all of it.
I wish you luck. Stay in touch. Do you have my email? I will message it to you here in case you don't.
Make sure to grab your most important books and any tools that would be expensive to replace. Triage for how much space you have to take them with you, if possible get a locker or something. Greyhound stations have lockers for a buck or two a day and that can help you retain more of your possessions. Make sure you have your ID and important papers with you. If you have to abandon materials, keep the tools. A sewing machine is a way to earn money. Art supplies are expensive and a way to earn money. Your computer is the front line way to earn money, especially if you have a laptop that you can use to get online at hot spots. If you have a cel phone keep that with you.
Phone and email around to find someone else to stay with. You may have to relocate across the country. Sometimes people came to drive me there. If I wasn't disabled I would probably have gone by Greyhound sometimes -- again that's where luggage helps.
Don't feel weird about it.
This happens to a lot of people, more than most people would care to admit.
Check around the city where you live to see if there are Residence Hotels, rooming houses where you can get a room or apartment for a day, week or month at a time. If you have money, check into one of those and make enough trips to get ALL your stuff while looking for a new place to live. If you have a cat or other animals this isn't a good option, they usually don't allow pets. But if you don't, that is a huge vast step up from homelessness and can be pretty comfortable for a while as you get your life back together.
Power and heat are usually part of the weekly rent at those residence hotels. So it makes life simple to budget enough to stay there while saving up for a real apartment on your own or finding new housemates.
Do not use a normal "pay by the night" hotel for this purpose as even the cheapest are ludicrously expensive. It's one thing to pay $100 or $150 a week for a room, another to pay $35 a night and add that up for seven days.
Depending on the area you live, if the weather is good, you can get a tent from Walmart and just find a camp ground somewhere. Some camp grounds are even free if they are near national parks. I've run into that in more than one state, and that is the cheapest crash space while looking for a better place to live, if you have a vehicle. Sometimes people crash in their vehicles, that can be comfortable or not depending on the vehicle. But if you have a vehicle you have an enormous advantage, you can relocate by driving and you can get most of your stuff out with it if not all of it.
I wish you luck. Stay in touch. Do you have my email? I will message it to you here in case you don't.
Robert
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