When we hear of survival stories, we commonly hear of people who were trapped in the wilderness in exotic locations and managed to find a way out. Very rarely do we hear about the homeless people in our background who struggle to survive each and every day. But I think that their situation is much closer to what we call SHTF:
If you lost your home, your car, all of your money, your relatives and most of your possessions, what would you do?
While you may believe that such extreme circumstances may never happen to you, the truth is that any large scale or long term disaster that could strike the next day could very well force you out onto the streets with nothing but the clothes on your back.
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TIP #1 – Newspapers Aren’t Just for Fake News…
First and foremost, newspaper is extra kindling to get a fire going. Simply light up a corner with a match or lighter and the rest of the paper will catch into flame.
But you can also use newspaper as bedding or as insulation. You can use it as a sheet to keep you covered while you sleep or crumple a sheet up to serve as a pillow. For insulation, you can stuff your clothing full with newspaper in cold weather to keep yourself insulated, or otherwise insulate the inside of your shelter with it.
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TIP #2 – Why Do Homeless People Dress In Layers?
This may sound like a redundant tip, because homeless people don’t exactly have a lot of options in regards to the clothing that they can wear.
The best way to dress for homeless living on the streets is to wear layers and then add or remove layers as you see fit. While you want to wear plenty of warm clothes to keep you warm in cold weather, while moving you may actually want to take off a layer or two because otherwise you could sweat (which would cause you to freeze). Additionally, making sure you have extra layers is recommended since clothing has many uses. For example, it can be used as rope, bandages, napkins, shelter, collecting water… So, choose your clothing wisely! Everything must have a purpose.
If possible, you also want to hopefully have clothes that have plenty of pockets and compartments for storing things.
TIP #3 – A Trick to Keep You Warm While You Sleep
You may actually find it difficult to keep yourself warm when out on the city streets. Nonetheless, you have options. Building a small fire is definitely one way to keep your warm, but another way is to use cheap Mylar space blankets that can reflect your own body heat back to you. Yet another method is to fill up water bottles or containers with boiled water and then place them under your blanket with you just like some of the homeless people do.
TIP #4 – The Coffee Can Heater
Out on the streets, you can actually build your own portable stove for both warmth and cooking purposes by taking a coffee can and then filling it up with petroleum jelly and lighting it up.
TIP #5 – The Unexpected Item You Need to Stay Clean
Sanitation standards are definitely going to be down out on the streets in comparison to what you’re used to, which is why it’s only more important to pay extra close attention to your personal hygiene.
Most city shelters have hot showers and parks should have swimming pool shelters that you can use to warm yourself up. Meanwhile, baking soda can be re-purposed as deodorant, soap, toothpaste, and shampoo and can be bought on the cheap in most stores.
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TIP #6 – The Free Breakfast Trick
Something that almost all homeless people have in common is they know exactly where they need to go to find food. This means if you meet up with other homeless people, they should be able to tell you where you can go to get a good meal.
If you don’t find anybody however, you still have a few tricks up your sleeve. Most hotels offer free breakfasts that you can go to, but it’s important that you make yourself look clean and presentable before you enter a hotel (this is where good personal hygiene comes in). In addition, several fast food restaurants will have throw away food at the end of the day that you can ask for as well.
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TIP #7 – How to Pack a House in a Bag
This is a little-known survival skill but also one that almost all homeless people practice: they never unpack. All of their possessions are instead always kept in their bags or pockets and ready to go in a second. This is because homeless people understand that they will never stay in one place for long, and other people could kick them out of where they are staying at anytime (ex. cops, other homeless people, restaurant managers, city authorities, etc.).
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TIP #8 – Keep an Eye Opened at All Times
This tip goes nicely along with the previous tip. Not only do you want to keep all of your possessions packed at all times, but you also want to keep all of your items on your person as well. This is because when living on the streets, you will always be vulnerable to theft. While it’s understandable if you need to keep other items in your backpack, make sure that the pack is always in your hands or over your shoulder. When you’re sleeping, just use it as a pillow.
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TIP #9 – Keep to Familiar Ground
You will never truly know if an area is safe unless if you, well, know the area, right? This is why it’s important that you get to know the streets, restaurants, people, and other businesses around you as much as possible before you start to think about settling down.
TIP #10 – Find Happiness in the Smallest Things
Many people don’t initially realize this, but the hardest part of survival is never the physical aspect of it, it’s the emotional aspect. When you’ve lost everything you had, and are now living on the streets, it’s easy to become filled with feelings of depression, desperation, anger, or sadness. Instead, you need to replace those feelings as much as you can with hope, and the way to go about that is to adopt a positive outlook on how things will be in the future (ex. that you’ll see your friends and family again, that everything will go back to normal, etc.).
TIP #11 – Have a Back Up Strategy
Finally, homeless people understand that they may not get to stay in one particular area forever, no matter how safe it seems or has been so far. You must be ready to flee at the first sign of danger, even if you been staying in your perfect campsite or bug out location. After all, no disaster plan is complete without a back-up strategy!
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M+ Stationed in Germany. At the Catholic Chapel we always had hot coffee and doughnuts available. wondered why we had to many “homeless” coming by. Simple: they marked the curb in front of the Chapel. Same for people’s homes.
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How to survive. Ok so what’s I’m about to say contains tips for the homeless and for those trying to help so u can ask for this stuff and give it you know and u might ask for somehtjng form someone who read this chat. Let’s all try to save these peoples lives and get them in their feet. Btw this chat might repeat itself if so skip lower down. Sorry for the length it’s full of tips I’ve gathered from other people and sites and comments on other sites and this so if some of the typing doesn’t help you skip down for more tips past that part. Also give Non money gifts and ask for them. Also homeless can dress nice and walk on street and to ask for help like using someone’s phone to look up help,call accuantance or get Uber or lyft and then u pay or they pay Go to library to use library comput
Tell them about help from religious or charity groups or locally travelling shelters. Also, tell them to call for rides to these so no accidents form walking near cars, like call aqquantences kr family (tell them to call them for help no matter where or who they are, even if you have a bad relationship with your aqquanyances or friends so they help) maybe 911 or loft or things though 911 calls not for emergencies might be illegal. Also tell them about jobs from companies that give to anyone or jobs that anyone can fill. Tell them about kind hearted companies and tell them about companies that have helped before anywheee , even if they’d re not charities to see if hey will help anywhere. Look this up if these exist near you and can be used before u drive so no accidents. Tell them this give them non money gifts like essentials and food. If u are homeless ask for this stuff. Try using government programs or local religious aid and charities to get necessary supplies and money, and also go to local traveling shelters that travel locally to different housing places so you will always be supplied for. Also ask for shelter in companies and stuff and share mistreatments if they do or refuse so other companies especially will help you to get press or praise over the otter co that refused you. Also say that it will give good press if you help me if your wrokers do even if it’s not still st or having to do with the store when you ask. Take advantage of other people like this maybe say get your crush to notice or Learn of this and they’ll like you stuff like this. Or that you can get friends by sharing what you did or their god will reward or what will happen Also ask for shelter in companies and stuff and share mistreatments if they do or refuse so other companies especially will help you to get press or praise over the otter co that refused you. Also say that it will give good press if you help me if your wrokers do even if it’s not still st or having to do with the store when you ask. Take advantage of other peopl like this maybe say get your crush to notice or Learn of this and they’ll like you stuff like this. Or that you can get friends by sharing what you did or their god will reward or what will happen they will get citizenship awards like the good citizenship award or the American citizenship award if they share deeds ir find ways to have others find out or say you’ll show or whatever and look up if they report you for not sharing so you can say that’s was another guy if u try the same trick and people don’t help and also don’t let the money take pics tell them I don’t want my image seen but that’s can help them describe you on the net for peopl to not help so maybe don’t be that descriptive. Am praying for you.u. To the homeless: believ the Catholic kne true god or any God is helping you, because they all look out for you so henceforth will agree to this probably the Bible isreferencing them too. He always answers prayers of salvation as in Romans chapter ten verse thirteen in the Bible, It says For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” The Bible is God’s word, everything even words not written by the gospel authors telling the story of Jesus is part of God’s word to us, so believe it. So be good and holy, stay away from repeating sin, pray for God to forgive you, and pray for your salvation, and believ God will answer you, as he will and believe he has as he did and try to improve your life, as all options are God trying to help you by giving you good opportunities and ways to be good so take him and your life will improve. Also get jobs at places that require no skill or places that will be nice so just try asking around but first at places u know will hire not to tarnish reputation and make people know you asked everyone and not want but maybe this can get you sympathy and someone will hire tell them this to get ahead of other businesses and they have good press. Tell them their god will like this or other people will like crushes but don’t offend them or make it oook like you are trying to bribe that may not end well. The best thing to tel them is next: this might also have bad effects like the bribe they hing, but it might work: Tell them their is good citizenship awards given by the daughters of the American revolution, the national association of secondary school principals, and the EPA and the center of digital government if your companies deeds get out there. There is also company awards like in Canada the Canadian business and partnership awards if the imagine Canada charity, and others like this tell them this too. Invest into constant getters ask people well walking for help. Make yourself look nice and get like fast food jobs. Get people to give you Uber rides or lyft rides have people order these it if their kindness ask or maybe say I’ll pay you might not be best to lie as people will get word around abot scam so get money maybe take local job and use Uber’s or lifts to get far away jobs by having someone schedule multiple rides if possible to get you to farther away job. People have done uber to get across country even if the video seems fake because of the scale it is possible and it is true so u can bring money after first scheduling and then give it to driver and tell him next location. Use library computers and stuff to look up jobs and get addresses and write them in paper and maybe ask workers for something to write on. Here’s other tips they are for the homeless do for helpers so ask for the stuff it says to give and so on and use what is told to be told to the homeless if you are homeless: give Non money gifts or ask for them. Also homeless can dress nice and walk on street and to ask for help like using someone’s phone to look up help,call accuantance or get Uber or lyft and then u pay or they pay Go to library to use library comput
Tell them about help from religious or charity groups or locally travelling shelters. Also, tell them to call for rides to these so no accidents form walking near cars, like call acquaintances or people u know kr family (tell them to call them for help no matter where or who they are, even if you have a bad relationship with your aqquanyances or friends so they help) maybe 911 or loft or things though 911 calls not for emergencies might be illegal. Also tell them about jobs from companies that give to anyone or jobs that anyone can fill. Tell them about kind hearted companies and tell them about companies that have helped before anywheee , even if they’d re not charities to see if hey will help anywhere. Look this up if these exist near you and can be used before u drive so no accidents. Tell them this give them non money gifts like essentials and food. If u are homeless ask for this stuff. Try using government programs or local religious aid and charities to get necessary supplies and money, and also go to local traveling shelters that travel locally to different housing places so you will always be supplied for. Also ask for shelter in companies and stuff and share mistreatments if they do or refuse so other companies especially will help you to get press or praise over the otter co that refused you. Also say that it will give good press f you help me if your wrokers do even if it’s not still st or having to do with the store when you ask. Take advantage of other people like this maybe say get your crush to notice or Learn of this and they’ll like you stuff like this. Or that you can get friends by sharing what you did or their god will reward or what will happen Also ask for shelter in companies and stuff and share mistreatments if they do or refuse so other companies especially will help you to get press or praise over the otter co that refused you. Also say that it will give good press if you help me if your wrokers do even if it’s not still st or having to do with the store when you ask. Take advantage of other peopl like this maybe say get your crush to notice or Hearn of this and they’ll like you stuff like this. Or that you can get friends by sharing what you did or their god will reward or what will happen they will get citizenship awards like the good citizenship award or the American citizenship award if they share deeds ir find ways to have others find out or say you’ll show or whatever and look up if they report you for not sharing so you can say that’s was another guy if u try the same trick and people don’t help and also don’t let the money take pics tell them I don’t want my image seen but that’s can help them describe you on the net for peopl to not help so maybe don’t be that descriptive. Am praying for you.
Can u use a fake or do they verify. If so use a friends or family’s. If u don’t think they’ll be one hundred percent supportive or to be safe if not like parents or siblings then call first maybe use public phone it costs money or ask to call on someone’s phone while walkkng kn street maybe ask to use address. Internet probably has propel who’d do this ask to shelter with people at charities.
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How to survive. Ok so what’s I’m about to say contains tips for the homeless and for those trying to help so u can ask for this stuff and give it you know and u might ask for somehtjng form someone who read this chat. Let’s all try to save these peoples lives and get them in their feet. Btw this chat might repeat itself if so skip lower down. Sorry for the length it’s full of tips I’ve gathered from other people and sites and comments on other sites and this so if some of the typing doesn’t help you skip down for more tips past that part. This comment contains is is this world like about jobs and stuff , but The area with the big spaces contains faith tips which I believe will save your life. Anyway here’s the tips it starts with this world stuff and yah. Also give Non money gifts and ask for them. Also homeless can dress nice and walk on street and to ask for help like using someone’s phone to look up help,call accuantance or get Uber or lyft and then u pay or they pay Go to library to use library comput
Tell them about help from religious or charity groups or locally travelling shelters. Also, tell them to call for rides to these so no accidents form walking near cars, like call aqquantences kr family (tell them to call them for help no matter where or who they are, even if you have a bad relationship with your aqquanyances or friends so they help) maybe 911 or loft or things though 911 calls not for emergencies might be illegal. Also tell them about jobs from companies that give to anyone or jobs that anyone can fill. Tell them about kind hearted companies and tell them about companies that have helped before anywheee , even if they’d re not charities to see if hey will help anywhere. Look this up if these exist near you and can be used before u drive so no accidents. Tell them this give them non money gifts like essentials and food. If u are homeless ask for this stuff. Try using government programs or local religious aid and charities to get necessary supplies and money, and also go to local traveling shelters that travel locally to different housing places so you will always be supplied for. Also ask for shelter in companies and stuff and share mistreatments if they do or refuse so other companies especially will help you to get press or praise over the otter co that refused you. Also say that it will give good press if you help me if your wrokers do even if it’s not still st or having to do with the store when you ask. Take advantage of other people like this maybe say get your crush to notice or Learn of this and they’ll like you stuff like this. Or that you can get friends by sharing what you did or their god will reward or what will happen Also ask for shelter in companies and stuff and share mistreatments if they do or refuse so other companies especially will help you to get press or praise over the otter co that refused you. Also say that it will give good press if you help me if your wrokers do even if it’s not still st or having to do with the store when you ask. Take advantage of other peopl like this maybe say get your crush to notice or Learn of this and they’ll like you stuff like this. Or that you can get friends by sharing what you did or their god will reward or what will happen they will get citizenship awards like the good citizenship award or the American citizenship award if they share deeds ir find ways to have others find out or say you’ll show or whatever and look up if they report you for not sharing so you can say that’s was another guy if u try the same trick and people don’t help and also don’t let the money take pics tell them I don’t want my image seen but that’s can help them describe you on the net for peopl to not help so maybe don’t be that descriptive. Am praying for you.u. To the homeless: read what I’m about to say in full at
https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/what-do-answers-to-prayer-depend-on-part-1
And
https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/what-do-answers-to-prayer-depend-on-part-2
believe the Catholic God or any God is helping you, because they all look out for you so henceforth will agree to this probably the Bible isreferencing them too. I am referencing the catholic one as I am catholic, and you can trust me I care for you even though Catholics have a bad name by some people. God always answers prayers of salvation as in Romans chapter ten verse thirteen in the Bible, It says For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” The Bible is God’s word, everything even words not written by the gospel authors telling the story of Jesus is part of God’s word to us, so believe it. God answers salvation prayers always and he answers other prayers if they are In line with his will are him helping you be good like Jesus another biblical figure, saving people like you, having our needs to do god workmet if we try to seek God’s kingdom by being good, and doing everything for our benefit. if you promise to repent meaning to be good in the future. These will aligned orayers are In fact if you have a bad habit then pray for him to save you from it and he will give you courage to do so if you try hard that’s his courage if you have are addicted so try hard I’m not offending your courage but god is always with us helping us..So be good and holy, stay away from repeating sin, pray for God to forgive you, and pray for your salvation, and believ God will answer you, as he will and believe he has as he did and try to improve your life, as all options are God trying to help you by giving you good opportunities and ways to be good so take him and your life will improve. Also get jobs at places that require no skill or places that will be nice so just try asking around but first at places u know will hire not to tarnish reputation and make people know you asked everyone and not want but maybe this can get you sympathy and someone will hire tell them this to get ahead of other businesses and they have good press. Tell them their god will like this or other people will like crushes but don’t offend them or make it oook like you are trying to bribe that may not end well. The best thing to tel them is next: this might also have bad effects like the bribe thing, but it might work: Tell them their is good citizenship awards given by the daughters of the American revolution, the national association of secondary school principals, and the EPA and the center of digital government if your companies deeds get out there. There is also company awards like in Canada the Canadian business and partnership awards if the imagine Canada charity, and others like this tell them this too. Invest into constant getters ask people well walking for help. Make yourself look nice and get like fast food jobs. Get people to give you Uber rides or lyft rides have people order these it if their kindness ask or maybe say I’ll pay you might not be best to lie as people will get word around abot scam so get money maybe take local job and use Uber’s or lifts to get far away jobs by having someone schedule multiple rides if possible to get you to farther away job. People have done uber to get across country even if the video seems fake because of the scale it is possible and it is true so u can bring money after first scheduling and then give it to driver and tell him next location. Use library computers and stuff to look up jobs and get addresses and write them in paper and maybe ask workers for something to write on. Here’s other tips they are for the homeless do for helpers so ask for the stuff it says to give and so on and use what is told to be told to the homeless if you are homeless: give Non money gifts or ask for them. Also homeless can dress nice and walk on street and to ask for help like using someone’s phone to look up help,call accuantance or get Uber or lyft and then u pay or they pay Go to library to use library comput
Tell them about help from religious or charity groups or locally travelling shelters. Also, tell them to call for rides to these so no accidents form walking near cars, like call acquaintances or people u know kr family (tell them to call them for help no matter where or who they are, even if you have a bad relationship with your aqquanyances or friends so they help) maybe 911 or loft or things though 911 calls not for emergencies might be illegal. Also tell them about jobs from companies that give to anyone or jobs that anyone can fill. Tell them about kind hearted companies and tell them about companies that have helped before anywheee , even if they’d re not charities to see if hey will help anywhere. Look this up if these exist near you and can be used before u drive so no accidents. Tell them this give them non money gifts like essentials and food. If u are homeless ask for this stuff. Try using government programs or local religious aid and charities to get necessary supplies and money, and also go to local traveling shelters that travel locally to different housing places so you will always be supplied for. Also ask for shelter in companies and stuff and share mistreatments if they do or refuse so other companies especially will help you to get press or praise over the otter co that refused you. Also say that it will give good press f you help me if your wrokers do even if it’s not still st or having to do with the store when you ask. Take advantage of other people like this maybe say get your crush to notice or Learn of this and they’ll like you stuff like this. Or that you can get friends by sharing what you did or their god will reward or what will happen Also ask for shelter in companies and stuff and share mistreatments if they do or refuse so other companies especially will help you to get press or praise over the otter co that refused you. Also say that it will give good press if you help me if your wrokers do even if it’s not still st or having to do with the store when you ask. Take advantage of other peopl like this maybe say get your crush to notice or Hearn of this and they’ll like you stuff like this. Or that you can get friends by sharing what you did or their god will reward or what will happen they will get citizenship awards like the good citizenship award or the American citizenship award if they share deeds ir find ways to have others find out or say you’ll show or whatever and look up if they report you for not sharing so you can say that’s was another guy if u try the same trick and people don’t help and also don’t let the money take pics tell them I don’t want my image seen but that’s can help them describe you on the net for peopl to not help so maybe don’t be that descriptive. Am praying for you.
Can u use a fake or do they verify. If so use a friends or family’s. If u don’t think they’ll be one hundred percent supportive or to be safe if not like parents or siblings then call first maybe use public phone it costs money or ask to call on someone’s phone while walkkng kn street maybe ask to use address. Internet probably has propel who’d do this ask to shelter with people at charities.
Pray for gods will and believe it has been done as in the Bible he promises to do so in Romans chalter ten verse three as stated above. God always answers yes to prayers of salvation so be good so he answers and pray for these people salvations and pray for your own saying that it wil save you worry and yah and believ it will and yah.
Go into buildings for phones and warmth pretend ur shopping make yourself look nice and yah
Go into buildings for phones and warmth pretend ur shopping make yourself look nice and yah
Go into buildings for phones and warmth pretend ur shopping make yourself look good so as they won’t kick you or or not help you. Read the comment down below for more. Share mistreatment on go fund me or more for help for you and on signs and look up signs to use
And use library computers
Stationed at Camp Pendleton in 1955 as a private E-1, even in 1955 $30 a month didn’t go very far in California. We had a regular weekend circuit in LA when up there on liberty. Of course, the first thing to do on Friday night was to check in at the Victory Service Club which allowed servicemen to sleep on some cots. You could also sleep in chairs. I spent one long night sleeping on the shuffle board table. Hardest surface I ever slept on. Saturday morning there was donuts, coffee, hot chocolate, I think orange juice. Of course you had to listen to a sermon. There really is no free lunch — or breakfast in this case. You might have to actually buy lunch. No McDonalds in those days. But Saturday night was the Hollywood USO. They had lots of food and you might meet a Hollywood actress doing her patriotic duty. Sunday. The Victory Service Club was closed by the time the USO closed so Saturday night you were on your own. Sunday morning there was a church someplace near downtown LA that had a morning fellowship hall where they served sandwiches, coffee, etc. I don’t remember any more free eats on Sunday but that was a long time ago. Everybody at Tent Camp Two knew the circuit.
LC Chuck: Intrigued by your statement “…. and you might meet a Hollywood actress doing her patriotic duty”. Was that free too or did you have to pay?!!
Her patriotic duty was to dance with peons for a couple of hours. Most guys bragged a lot but I don’t know of one who ever bragged about going home with a well known Hollywood actress. Most of the time you couldn’t get near them because they sere surrounded by too many guys.
A very interesting article! I must admit this is the first time I have ever heard the homeless mentioned for source material, but it is true… they are closer to shtf than 99% of all the pundits on the subject. Certainly from an urban setting
The only significant difference is that most of the “homeless” are drug and/or alcohol addicted or mentally ill or a combination of all three. Hopefully, none of the readers on this list have any of those afflictions. If you do, and you are unable to kick the drugs and/or alcohol, life is really going to be miserable if the curtain falls. When medication disappears we are going to see a lot more bizarre behavior in the world than we see now. Whether the criminally insane are turned loose or left to die in their wards will be a decision for whoever is in charge of that institution. There are some really scary people locked away that only the people associated with the court and mentally ill system see. Not to mention the prisons. There are folks in prison who really fall into the mad dog category and are so dangerous to anyone around them that they present an immediate threat to anyone they come in contact with. This is off topic on this particular article, but it is a realism that needs to be considered and constantly kept in the front of one’s mind in an EOTW situation. A psychopathic personality can be utterly charming but is totally lacking in any sense of morality. Hard to understand for the average person until you see it up close and personal and even then it is hard to comprehend.
Ur right,
and sometimes
It’s best ta put a mad dog down.
Chuck has it on the nose: Yes yes yes. This is one of the things most insulated and privileged people have missed. I was married to a cop and three months of hearing his horror stories changed me from a kum-ba-ya Liberal to a SHTF Prepper. There are some seriously deranged people out there who behave so far outside the understanding of the average “nice” person that methinks the greatest danger to most would be the element of shock… the inability to even wrap your head around the level of insanity, psychopathy and cruelty encountered.
I live in AZ, 180 miles north of the border. All those fighting the border wall have no clear understanding of what’s coming in. Cartels think nothing of beheadings and gutting people. They control the land 30 miles north of our AZ border. So you have those people to contend with in a SHTF situation as well. Google “BLM Sign southern AZ” – you’ll get a quick education.
Not to mention that yard workers know our city like the back of their hands. Anyone who travels the city doing any kind of residential repair or maintenance has a very good grasp of where the food, money, vulnerabilities are.
Not trying to enhance anyone’s paranoia, but just know the people who live on the fringe and who haven’t had it easy are the ones who will survive much easier than most of us.
Find your tribe. Learn self defense. Simplify your life. Start getting rid of things that weigh you down. Learn to not be too attached to your things (unless they are things that will help you in a pinch.) And always have Plan B, C, D and E.
Good luck people! Keep yer powder dry.
Jeez, I could’ve written your post (married to a cop, live north of the border, though I’m closer to it than you). My spouse had a line of duty injury and is out now. I don’t think people in most others states have a clue just how unbelievably bad the UDA (illegal immigrant, for the non-LE folk out there) situation really is. Even one of my siblings didn’t realize; she asked though, honestly wanting to learn the daily impact here. She was completely stunned. Most simply don’t think about it. I’ll admit I didn’t before I moved here. 75% of our hospitals closing, roads decades behind in repair and replacement let alone keeping up w/population (roads are funded by fines, & UDAs statistically do not pay theirs), 30% of drivers are uninsured so insurance is sky-high, hit-and-runs are routine at dozens a day.
Pardon my tangent. It’s good to vent to someone who can identify. It’s gotten so much worse the last few years. We’ve moved our preparedness into overdrive.
Stay safe.
You just described California. There may be a few cities up north that have not been effected, not sure. Sorry to hear its there also.
Couldn’t hv said it better
I wish the Missus saw it the way you do. No willingness to prepare at all.
Just start prepping yourself. I did and then my husband joined in.
Right, SHTF would mean less of a change for the homeless.
Homeless is not a definition of character, it is a temporary financial state. Many individuals who had been middle class taxpayers now also find themselves in this uncomfortable reality due to loss of employment causing home foreclosures, or extended recovery time due to accidents and illness, or loss of physical homes due to weather disasters.
Regretfully, with current weather warfare methods strongly in play, and plans Agendas 2021 and 2030 in progress, there will be many more victimized. It is a lifestyle particularly difficult for women with young children and for the elderly. Life in shelters is often severe, and usually allows only overnight accommodations – up by 5am and out on the streets by 7. Although there are rules, the lawless do not always follow them there either, which endangers the law abiding,
My own 18 months in a homeless experience were assisted with attendance at morning Mass, and quietly sketching while sitting in Panera’s until libraries and employment search offices opened. I always traveled with a small black suitcase on wheels which contained essentials. During nice weather I would sit in the park with a friend or two. My practice of praying daily rosaries and hobby of drawing with colored pencils brought beauty into my life that could be shared . The art I continue by working year round on Christmas cards – which people tend to keep and put on decorative display each year.
I have taken some time to describe these things because life in the USA will never return to what we remember of the past. We are in a different and challenging era where widespread tribulations have begun. Remember that Almighty God is real, holy ,eternal and Merciful; He helps us during our time on earth if we let Him – but our real forever home is with Him. May He be blessed forever!
Don’t know how many restaurants still do it but in my younger days you could go to ” happy hour ” at restaurants and buy a drink of some kind ( soda was the cheapest ) and eat free food like chips, chicken wings ect.
A buddy of mine lived in California in the 80s and 90s (he may still be there, but we’ve lost touch). Bars had happy hours Monday through Saturday. You bought a drink and hit the chow line of cheap buffet items. Taco fixin’s, burgers, cheap pizza, et cetera.
We called my friend, “Dollar Bill” because was was very “thrifty.” He’d go into a bar, get a cranberry juice, tip the bartender a buck, and then get food. He was usually there about an hour. There were five bars he liked, and alternated… a certain one Monday, then another Tuesday.
When he introduced me to this, he was shocked that I bought a beer. “Man, that’s three-fifty with a tip.”
The premise that homeless people will do well in a shtf event is pure BS. The homeless live off the rest of us. They know where to beg to get hand outs of money and food. When the shtf all the hand outs will stop and they will be the first to go.
Their only survival tactic is to beg for change that they use to buy alcohol or drugs which is the reason they are homeless to begin with. They should not be revered as survivalist.
Start learning how to primitive camp and you will learn much more survival skills. Start in summer with weekend trips when you are comfortable with that move to late fall. Then winter camp. primitive camping will teach you to develop survival skills with out the reliance of begging.
He walked slowly along a bustling city street, his eyes darting to and fro scanning for the scant opportunity to find ANYTHING to eat. There were no wads of dollar bills in his pocket but rather only a few coins that clinked together as he trudged in the rain. “When you’ve lost everything you had, and are now living on the streets, it’s easy to become filled with feelings of depression, desperation, anger, or sadness.” His response was eloquent, thought out and well stated when I asked him, in all sincerity, how he was doing. “Instead, you need to replace those feelings as much as you can with hope, and the way to go about that is to adopt a positive outlook on how things will be in the future.” I stared at him as he continued, “for example, you think how nice it will be to see your friends, your family again, and that everything will go back to normal someday. You know- things like that” I asked him another question. “If you don’t mind me asking, what’s the hardest part of being homeless? I mean, other than having no bed to sleep in?” He grimaced, “The hardest part of survival is not the physical aspect of it. I’d say it’s the emotional aspect. I try to keep focused on food, keeping warm and dry but not having anyone to talk to, well,” he paused for a second and looked down at the wet sidewalk, “people just don’t stop and ask questions like you’re doing. They see me as a bum and turn their face away, like if they don’t see me, I don’t exist. They don’t know I’m a man who had a job, a wife and two daughters… a LIFE! I made some stupid mistakes. I KNOW it and I’m paying for it! But damn … I’m still a person.” I didn’t know what to say. I thought about my current situation. Pay cut, mortgages due, other bills due, can’t find time to organize my desk or all my tools and then I remembered an old saying, ‘there’s always someone better off and someone worse off than myself.’ “All I have is this.” I handed him what I had in my pocket. He graciously accepted and quickly tucked it in his own pocket. “I wish I could do more.” He smiled, “You did more than I expected you would.” I don’t write this to boast but rather to prompt all of us to see beyond the troubles of our own world and expand our awareness. I remember hearing a cynic state, “I never give anything to a beggar! They’ll probably use it for booze!” To which I responded, “In the end, I would rather be judged for giving to the wrong person than be judged for not giving to anyone.”
If he is so together and articulate, what is he doing jobless? Oh, the job he can get is not the job he wants? It doesn’t pay as much as he is worth? A while back I watched a panhandler and a bank guard. The bank guard probably is making $12.00 an hour. He is not an armed guard which pays more. The bank guard gets social security and medicare taken out of his wages. He is not eligible for any of the social benefit programs because “he makes too much money”, but he is working and holding down a job. In the twenty minutes that I watched them, the panhandler made more money, assuming everyone who handed him a bill handed him only one dollar than the guard made in that same period of time. After 20 minutes the panhandler headed into the liquor store that was a few doors down from the bank. So back to your eloquent street person. He can’t find a job. Has he tried any of the fast food places? They are always looking for workers. How about temporary employment filling unskilled labor jobs? How about the local farms which are always looking for farm laborers? Probably not. You know why? There is always some sob sister who will come along and hand him and now her money so they can feel all warm and good about themselves. It’s called enabling. It’s not charity. You got snookered, conned by an articulate panhandler who has polished his line. He might have even cleared more tax free dollars that day than you did.
One thing I’ve learned, is when applying for jobs, they almost always ask for your home address. If you’re staying at the Salvation Army, you can use their address, but all the employers know it’s Salvation Army. People assume you must be a felon, or druggie, alcoholic, mentally ill- instead of possibly just having fallen on hard times. So, many don’t get hired, unless they have a “good address”. ..decent clothes, good hygiene. So it’s sort of a catch 22.
Can u use a fake or do they verify. If so use a friends or family’s. If u don’t think they’ll be one hundred percent supportive or to be safe if not like parents or siblings then call first maybe use public phone it costs money or ask to call on someone’s phone we’ll walkkng kn street maybe ask to use address. Internet probably has propel who’d do this ask to shelter with people at charities.
Can u use a fake or do they verify. If so use a friends or family’s. If u don’t think they’ll be one hundred percent supportive or to be safe if not like parents or siblings then call first maybe use public phone it costs money or ask to call on someone’s phone we’ll walkkng kn street maybe ask to use address. Internet probably has propel who’d do this ask to shelter with people at charities. Thx
Maybe dont fake as if they find out other companies won’t want to hire you if they figure out but just an idea Can u use a fake or do they verify. If so use a friends or family’s. If u don’t think they’ll be one hundred percent supportive or to be safe if not like parents or siblings then call first maybe use public phone it costs money or ask to call on someone’s phone we’ll walkkng kn street maybe ask to use address. Internet probably has propel who’d do this ask to shelter with people at charities. Look up on library computers people like this or any charities to go to to try this u think will have good odds or jobs that need no address
God bless you. Thank you. Good advice.
I know I’m late, but GOD BLESS YOU MAN! @dance the world needs more people who think as you do.
Sordin: Not all homeless people are the way they are because of drugs or alcohol. Some just don’t have enough money coming in compared to what they have going out. Most of the homeless in my area seem to be senior citizens that don’t get enough money on there S.S.I. checks to cover home, utilities, food, and any medication they need. So most would reather live on the streets than starve.
I try to avoid the homeless, , most quickly become leaches, i camp as far away from town as possible, hunt trap n fish to boost my food supply,, some really good tips here, i will be homeless again in a few months n lookn foward to it,, what i have learned over de years could make a Intresting book.
Agreed. Ive done what i had to do to ensure my existence. It didnt take long for me to understand that if you’re homeless, it’s best to NOT associate w/ others that walk the streets at night. You’ll fair better finding a remote place where you and what you have left can be safe from those that will take it from you while you’re brushing your teeth at the gas statuon! Its always important to not look the part as well as you can. Hygiene is #1.
Sordin,
You are correct that the selfish are selfish whether poor or rich. However, it is also true that the kind and thoughtful are kind and thoughtful, whether poor or rich.
Why there is a Heaven and a Hell – after Final Judgement+
I agree, imitating the homeless is not a long term strategy; I think the pointers here are meant more for short term strategies while one is getting out of an urban environment (should one find one’s self stranded there, say due to current job location) and trying to stay “under the radar” or at least survive with what can be scrounged in a town or city, until you are able to get to a more long term sustainable situation. For instance I had heard of the old newspaper trick many times (tho not sure how available newspapers are anymore, with most of them gone digital these days), but I never thought about putting petroleum jelly into a can for an instant “stove” – good tip. I keep a mini survival bag under my car seat, ready to grab in case I have to abandon my car somewhere and head out by foot (very likely, if gas supplies are depleted and/or too many car crashes from panicked people block the roads); I have some of those cheap mylar blankets along with lots of other small but usefull items, such as a firestarter, all-in-one tool, wire snares, etc.
I also agree with the person who said earlier, “Just start prepping yourself”: my husband thought I was a little crazy when he first met me (in an urban environment in CA), but now he is totally onboard, loves our rural cabin, understands why I have all these extra supplies around. Just reading the news today will convince most people.
Ur right,
and sometimes
It’s best ta put a mad dog down.
Greetings. The beach areas of Southern California have a high number of homeless people living there, mostly because the weather is decent. 20 years ago the L.A. homeless newspaper, i forgot what it is called, estimated 30,000 people living on the streets. It must have increased since then. A huge number of homeless people are abandoned women and their kids with no support system behind them. I am surprised at the number of people commenting here, who think only bums or drug/alcohol addicts are homeless. It is a false assumption and cruel. Anyone could become homeless at any time. That’s why we prep and read tips how to survive when SHTF. If you are not currently homeless, consider yourself one of the fortunate ones, give thanks, and do a kind bit for those who are less fortunate. Nice article, by the way. Thank you.
You’re 100% correct.
Dear left coast chuck, yes there are numbers of people addicted to stuf. Yet have you ever been or known of someone involved in an on the job accident ?? How long it initially takes to get that first penny from compensation. Then while you are completely immobilized and then seeing doctors, as bills pile, including rent. There are those that do not care that you may have been I valve in an accident etc. You may or may not win a settlement, but by the time you do. All those docs need to be paid off. All basic bills too. Before you know it it could easily be out you go. And then there are the soldiers who return and sometimes return to a life changed. So what appears one way may well be another. Also some of us hate to see family expecially children go without food. So what we have had you can make that car payment and see a child in the family hungry. Or do what you can and then watch the repo from the bank come when you were close to paying it off and ruin chance at getting to a job on time because no you’ve got a bike if your lucky. Try riding that in 17 degrees. When you try to rent now your credit rating in fully blown, not to mention a few thousand more tacked on the bill by the bankers that take your car. Bob Marley had the words rat race quite well done. As for a panhandler. I’ve held out food I already had when they say they are hungry, if the take it they probably were. But if I ever gave a dollar as long as my heart was in the Wright place, the Lord knows the difference and my intentions. Who ever takes it it is upon them to have free will to choose. But I usually offer food or to buy food. There but for the grace of God go I.
When I got out of the service my wife was pregnant with our first child and so ill with morning sickness it was a chore to get out of bed and eating was almost out of the question. Within a week I had landed a job. It was a job a hated but I went to work every day anyway. Any time there was an offer of overtime I took it. I didn’t have a car. I rode a bike or took the bus. When my wife was ready to deliver I took her to the hospital in a taxi. Brought her and the baby home in a taxi. Enrolled in night school. I left at 6:30 in the morning and got home by 10:00 or 10:30 pm five night a week. I worked Saturdays because it was an overtime day. I took care of the grounds of the apartment house where we lived on Sunday because it got me a 20% discount on the rent. I never missed a day of work the whole time I was in school even though there were days when I was really sick and should have stayed home. I didn’t get my first car until I got a job in my field of study and started making good money. I didn’t get a new car, I got a car that cost less than one month’s pay and paid cash for it. Of course it had a few problems but fixing the problems was less money than buying a newer car. Plus no payments. I always bought within my budget and didn’t have any payments except rent and utilities. When I bought a house, I bought one that was well within what I could afford even if I lost my job. I didn’t get a newer car until I had been in my career job for a couple of years. We didn’t have TV for a couple of years after I got discharged. Finally a service buddy gave me his old set when he upgraded. That was our first TV and lasted us until we were well settled in our first home. The first year and a half we lived on a lot of soup and boiled rice. So, yeah, I’ve walked the walk. I have always lived well below what I could afford. Even with working and going to school we still put away a little each week in savings. Tight? you’d better believe it. My wife washed diapers by hand and hung them on a line in the “yard” of the apartment house where we lived. She made all of our kids’ clothes from clothes that we couldn’t wear because parts of them were worn out. She turned the collars on my shirts and cuffs on the sleeves and darned my socks. When the collar and cuffs of my shirts were finally totally worn out the body of the shirt became a blouse for her or clothes for the kids. While I was in school I worked jobs didn’t pay much and were tedious dead end jobs but I did my best at them and always went away with outstanding recommendations. When the place where I worked burned down my boss got my a job at another company with better pay and I didn’t miss a day.
So perhaps you can see my questions to “dance”. Why the moocher on the street wasn’t working. If he is so articulate and able to bemoan his fate because of “mistakes” why is he unable to find a job? Any job? Flipping burgers? It ain’t much but it is a start on a satisfactory employment record. And in your spare time when not flipping burgers you are out looking for something that is better and pays more or you take part time work when you are not flipping burgers. You work days at the burger place and nights doing janitorial work. Oh, yeah, you can do it. If it is 17° out and you have to ride your bicycle you bundle up. If it is raining, you take a change of clothes with you so you have dry clothes when you get to work. You tough it out. You hang in there. You do your job to the best of your ability and you strive to do better. Numerous Vietnamese families came to the U.S. with absolutely nothing but the determination to make a life for themselves. I read of one family who lost everything on their trip to the U.S. They even lost family members to pirates in their escape from Vietnam. Today the family numbers doctors and college professors in their ranks. They worked in restaurants busing tables. They worked as janitors. They worked as laundry workers. They were never without a job. They worked while they went to school. So from arriving speaking no English at all, the children graduated from college and went on to earn high degrees. They didn’t owe a fortune when they graduated from college because they worked the whole time they were there and lived frugally while in college. It still can be done. It can’t if you squander your money on manicures and tats and cable TV and the latest in cellphones and sit on your butt waiting for someone to stick the teat in your mouth, it requires gumption to get out and hustle after work, taking the scut jobs and applying yourself until you either move up or out on to something better. End of lecture for today. By the way, I spent a year working at the California worker’s comp board, so I am very familiar with workers comp.
Outstanding!
Very to the point. Wonderful story!
Couldn’t hv said it better,,, most homeless i have run into are just lookn to leach onto some sympathic SUCKER then they drain de life outta them n move to de nx SUCKER
Bullshit.
I don’t know if your bullshit comment is directed at me or Tom Catt. If it is I, then I call you out. That is the life I lead from the time I got out of the USMC until until I got a good paying job in my chosen field. Our first child was a cranky baby. We took him to the doctor who pronounced him fine with no physical defects. I would come home from school and work late at night to find my wife crying because the baby was crying and wouldn’t stop. We didn’t have any family support. Her family was in Japan and my family was all on the east coast. My closest support was two Marine Corps buddies, one would take me to SF in the morning for the cost of the bridge toll which at that time was 25¢. That saved me 50¢ a week because bus fare was 35¢ one way from Oakland to SF. The other was a field adjuster for AAA and wasn’t in town all the time but helped out occasionally. He lent me his VW bug to take my wife to the hospital for our second child and to bring her home, so I didn’t have to use a taxi. That, and the used TV. And that is all hard cold fact.
So if it was my life you are applying your bullshit term to, STFU. You don’t know what you are talking about.
As for the Vietnamese family, the book named names and named employers and I have no reason to believe it was fiction. There was too much concrete, checkable fact recited to be fiction.
I see that your nom de plume is Korean. The success story about the Vietnamese family has been repeated over and over again by Korean immigrants who came to this country not knowing the language and almost penniless and through working incredibly long hours at scut jobs and living more frugally than most homeless, managed to bootstrap themselves up. The blacks complain about them opening stores in their neighborhoods but the blacks who were born here are unwilling to keep their stores open 24 hours a day with both husband and wife tending the store and the husband working at some other manual labor job all the while living in the back of the store with the kids back there where mom can keep her eye on them making sure they are studying hard so that they will qualify for college. It called bootstrapping your way up the ladder.
If it is Catt’s comment, I can only say you haven’t met a lot of the “homeless” in SoCal. The ones standing on the corners of shopping malls and busy intersections are leaching scum. There are all sorts of programs to help them get off the streets. They don’t want those. They like their life style and want to persist in it. They qualify for MediCal because Barry Obama expanded the definition of disability until anyone can qualify. That’s what cut the unemployment during his reign. If you were disabled, you weren’t unemployed. You couldn’t work. Voilå! The unemployment rate went down.
You only have to have worked part time for 2.5 years to qualify for lifetime disability. Once you are qualified for disability you are qualified for MediCal, food stamps, free cell phone (paid for by taxpayers, not actually “Free.”) You can collect food at Food Share and the innumerable do-gooder organizations who provide meals to the consternation and dismay of their neighbors because the homeless then shit in the bushes any place they feel the urge; dump trash, used needles, empty liquor bottles and any other detritus they happen to jettison.
Catt is absolutely correct in his categorizing the bums he has encountered. I concur 100% in his evaluation. I have been closely involved in the derelict problem in coastal California. It is worse here than in most other places because of the snowflake attitude of the populace and the resultant politicians and bureaucrats. I had a business in the downtown area for 25 years and had daily encounters with the scum. They used to be confined to the downtown areas but there are so many some 20 years later that they are all over the city like fleas on a dog.
Your comments are always ‘in line’. It must be that ‘old school’ vein we’re stuck in. Most everything (above) struck familiar chords. Folks today are so spoiled, they can’t even recognize it. Appreciate your comments, always.
Gettin Old
December 4, 10:52
Your comments are always ‘in line’. It must be that ‘old school’ vein we’re stuck in. Most everything (above) struck familiar chords. Folks today are so spoiled, they can’t even recognize it. Appreciate your comments, always.
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That’s what’s up brother!
Hotels offer free breakfast?
Not in my neck of the woods.
If you just walk in the door and say you want free breakfast, I think you will be shown said door very fast.
You’re doin’ it wrong then and will never likely need to do otherwise.
you are all stupid with your comments. you think people want to be homeless. sometimes shit happens and not because of drugs and or alcohol. just walk past the homeless like they aren’t even there. pricks
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Some great comments and information. Thank you! I think both sides are right, there are some homeless who like it and are doing well and others who should be helped. Everyone, has to do what they think is best to do. Our experiences have shaped our opinions. God bless everyone!
You are right – there is a broad spectrum of homeless, as in any other social category. There are those who will do anything to lift themselves up, and those who will sit around feeling sorry for themselves. Those who just need a helping hand, and those who are on the take. It’s hard to tell who is who, but you can always be kind to someone every day.
Well said! 🙂
I have worked with homeless people for years. Some are what people think that all of them are – addicted and/or mentally ill. These are the ones that everyone sees in the parks or on the streets, but they’re only a slice of that population. There are mothers with children living in cars. There are students who couch-surf. I have personally talked with secretaries, teachers, builders, even one doctor and a lawyer, who became homeless after a personal disaster (or 2 or 3).
There are also homeless people who work two jobs but can’t make enough to rent even a studio.
It’s so easy to judge what we don’t understand. We have a massive homeless population in this country. I view them as economic refugees, ignored by their country, their government, and everyone else.
There is an industry of “helping the homeless” with food, clothing, etc. This is admirable but we have to be careful of becoming enablers. These businesses and nonprofits depend on a steady stream of needy people so that they can take home their paychecks.
One last point: being homeless breaks people. If you think you would never self-medicate to combat the misery, you’re either stupid or a liar. If you think you wouldn’t go a little crazy, do things out of desperation, maybe even try to go to jail so at least you’d have a place to sleep, try living on the street for a weekend.
I have found myself currently in this position. Without resources to work with – it is brutal.
Thankfully, I have years of bushcraft behind me. There are many skills which cross over nicely.
This Christmas it is about making alcohol stoves…en mass. A hot bowl of soup or hot water water bottle makes a world of difference.
To the homeless: believ the Catholic kne true god or any God is helping you, because they all look out for you so henceforth will agree to this probably the Bible isreferencing them too. He always answers prayers of salvation as in Romans chapter ten verse thirteen in the Bible, It says For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” The Bible is God’s word, everything even words not written by the gospel authors telling the story of Jesus is part of God’s word to us, so believe it. So be good and holy, stay away from repeating sin, pray for God to forgive you, and pray for your salvation, and believ God will answer you, as he will and believe he has as he did and try to improve your life, as all options are God trying to help you by giving you good opportunities and ways to be good so take him and your life will improve. Also get jobs at places that require no skill or places that will be nice so just try asking around but first at places u know will hire not to tarnish reputation and make people know you asked everyone and not want but maybe this can get you sympathy and someone will hire tell them this to get ahead of other businesses and they have good press. Tell them their god will like this or other people will like crushes but don’t offend them or make it oook like you are trying to bribe that may not end well. The best thing to tel them is next: this might also have bad effects like the bribe they hing, but it might work: Tell them their is good citizenship awards given by the daughters of the American revolution, the national association of secondary school principals, and the EPA and the center of digital government if your companies deeds get out there. There is also company awards like in Canada the Canadian business and partnership awards if the imagine Canada charity, and others like this tell them this too. Invest into constant getters ask people well walking for help. Make yourself look nice and get like fast food jobs. Get people to give you Uber rides or lyft rides have people order these it if their kindness ask or maybe say I’ll pay you might not be best to lie as people will get word around abot scam so get money maybe take local job and use Uber’s or lifts to get far away jobs by having someone schedule multiple rides if possible to get you to farther away job. People have ibères across country so u can bring money after first scheduling and then give it to driver and tell him next location. Use library computers and stuff to look up jobs and get addresses and write them in paper and maybe ask workers for something to write on. Here’s other tips they are for the homeless do for helpers so ask for the stuff it says to give and so on and use what is told to be told to the homeless if you are homeless: give Non money gifts or ask for them. Also homeless can dress nice and walk on street and to ask for help like using someone’s phone to look up help,call accuantance or get Uber or lyft and then u pay or they pay Go to library to use library comput
Tell them about help from religious or charity groups or locally travelling shelters. Also, tell them to call for rides to these so no accidents form walking near cars, like call aqquantences kr family (tell them to call them for help no matter where or who they are, even if you have a bad relationship with your aqquanyances or friends so they help) maybe 911 or loft or things though 911 calls not for emergencies might be illegal. Also tell them about jobs from companies that give to anyone or jobs that anyone can fill. Tell them about kind hearted companies and tell them about companies that have helped before anywheee , even if they’d re not charities to see if hey will help anywhere. Look this up if these exist near you and can be used before u drive so no accidents. Tell them this give them non money gifts like essentials and food. If u are homeless ask for this stuff. Try using government programs or local religious aid and charities to get necessary supplies and money, and also go to local traveling shelters that travel locally to different housing places so you will always be supplied for. Also ask for shelter in companies and stuff and share mistreatments if they do or refuse so other companies especially will help you to get press or praise over the otter co that refused you. Also say that it will give good press f you help me if your wrokers do even if it’s not still st or having to do with the store when you ask. Take advantage of other périple like this maybe say get your crush to notice or Hearn of this and they’ll like you stuff like this. Or that you can get friends by sharing what you did or their god will reward or what will happen Also ask for shelter in companies and stuff and share mistreatments if they do or refuse so other companies especially will help you to get press or praise over the otter co that refused you. Also say that it will give good press if you help me if your wrokers do even if it’s not still st or having to do with the store when you ask. Take advantage of other peopl like this maybe say get your crush to notice or Hearn of this and they’ll like you stuff like this. Or that you can get friends by sharing what you did or their god will reward or what will happen they will get citizenship awards like the good citizenship award or the American citizenship award if they share deeds ir find ways to have others find out or say you’ll show or whatever and look up if they report you for not sharing so you can say that’s was another guy if u try the same trick and people don’t help and also don’t let the money take pics tell them I don’t want my image seen but that’s can help them describe you on the net for peopl to not help so maybe don’t be that descriptive. Am praying for you.
ZC, I get that you are probably sincerely trying to offer suggestions to help someone who might find themselves in a homeless situation; but your very long, run-on nonstop writing makes it very difficult for others to decipher what you are trying to say.
Try organizing your thoughts a little better (for instance by topic: places to get food, ways to find work. etc.); try hitting the “Return” button to put a space or blank line between topics. That will make your comment much more readable, even if there are still some misspelled or missing words.
I am a mother, grandmother & great-grandmother of 70 of 70 years old. When I was in my late 20’s/early 30’s I got divorced. At that time I and my two daughters lived in the mountains of California. I hadn’t worked outside the home in a long time, but I did what I had to do to take care of my girls. I moved in with a friend and her son and went to work as a waitress at night (my friend was a waitress during the day), so we traded – each taking care of the other’s children while they worked. Then I moved into my own place, after getting a job at a fire department as a night dispatcher. So, my children then were alone from the time they got home from school to the time they woke up in the morning (a neighbor friend watched over them), however they had to get themselves off to school ALONE. I would get home from work, cook dinner, do laundry, help the girls with their homework and then have to leave for work at the fire department. I eventually moved closer to work, got a morning newspaper route, would get home and get my daughters off to school then go to school myself (putting myself through beauty school), and then to work. I graduated, passed the state test for becoming a hairdresser with a score of 93, and started working in a beauty salon but still keeping the morning newspaper delivery route (still getting my daughters up around 4 a.m. to help me), then getting them off to school and me off to the beauty salon. In the afternoons I had another part-time job in a beauty supply store (the “salon” was in the rear of the store). So, as is obvious, I did what it took to raise my daughters. It wasn’t easy and I felt guilty when I had to work nights, leaving my daughters sleeping in the house and getting themselves to the bus stop for school…all alone. BUT whoever said life was “FAIR” or what part of “life” has “easy” in it??? I have no sympathy for people not willing to do the same….to WORK doing WHATEVER job (or how many jobs) to live responsible lives…to take care of themselves and their families. Today my girls and grandchildren are all responsible, hard working, family oriented people, who love God and love their families. So….whoever you are out there….there are no excuses for living a useless, “poor me” life!!! Grow up!!! And, Show up!!!
Way to go, Mrs. EA. My sentiments exactly. I too have had my life’s ups and downs, including all the cash I had and some of the bank’s cash go down the drain in a business venture that even “experts” said was well-planned and thought-out and looked like it would be a success, only to be jinxed by a serious of mishaps over which I had zero control. It took me ten long years to pay off the debts that venture left me with but I did it.
I agree 100% with your comments. Show up! Get busy! Work hard! Be willing to do whatever work is available until you find better. Take two jobs. Don;’t spend so much money. You can live without TV. You can live with basic land line service. While it is getting harder and harder, you can actually live without a computer. Or if you can’t a basic computer will do. You can trim your own fingernails. You don’t need a fancy manicure. You cam comb and brush your own hair. You don’t need a permanent. Or you can do them at home. I have cut my own hair for over 40 years. Yeah, I don’t have long wavy locks and the job has gotten easier and easier as the years roll by but I still cut my own hair.
For most people it is like government. It isn’t inadequate income, it is inappropriate spending.
Did you watch the film?