# Please help my family keep our home.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-my-family-keep-our-home/715871>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 24, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-my-family-keep-our-home/715871 "2015-03-24T17:02:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Time\_Like\_Tears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Time\_Like\_Tears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Like_Tears)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-my-family-keep-our-home/715871/18 "2015-03-25T15:39:00Z")

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This will be my only non-reply bump, and so I will make it substantial.

I am aware of the debate over donation threads on the board, and all I will say is this - I am thankful to have access to a large pool of creative minds and helpful people, thankful for the opportunity to share my story with so many who can help in so many ways. I try to do the same for all of you when I feel I have something to contribute.

> [@A four thousand dollar trip to Europe for a fourteen year old?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-four-thousand-dollar-trip-to-europe-for-a-fourteen-year-old/715939/10):
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> Its a reflection of the culture I was raised in, but I absolutely hate myself every time I have to ask other people for money. I will suffer through a lot and exhaust every single option before I start to beg from anybody.

I absolutely concur. It took a rather dire situation for me to ask for ANY help, and even then I am motivated by the sudden nature of this situation and the urgency with which I must try to find solutions.

**I hope I am clear in that I am not specifically asking for money from you.** If that is a way in which you can help, I have given you a platform and will accept! To all who have given of their hard earned wealth to assist me will go my undying gratitude, at the least.

But I ask here, on the SDMB, because I also want **ideas** , from the practical to the somewhat insane and everywhere in between, for what I can do. Many of you have been where I am now. Many of you have life experience and expertise on the matters that I will be dealing with. That is why I am being as transparent as I can, because I know that the devil’s in the details and I need to be looking at a (distressingly) big picture here.

Thank you, all of you. No more bumping, though I will try to be thorough in answering questions and expressing gratitude.

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