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How long can I go before I break!

We are still in Vegas because w have no friends or family elsewhere and we don't have a dime to our name so its quite impossible to get House of Vegas right now. And why is everyone making it out like we've never worked? My husband worked at the same company for 5 years and has been unemployed for 3 months. He had to start paying the tickets this October which is why he has the bench warrant and once we've finished these requirements of looking for work 35 hours a week to get the only money we have coming in via TANF hes decided to do the days in jail to pay off the tickets.

How is no money to move out of states, having no family to help us (quite literally my family gave me up to the fster system and I aged House and my husbands family aas all moved back to El Salvador) excuses? Its practical that we need some money saved up to move having 3 kids and all of the call your family suggestions have just ended by my last statement. We've worked for our kids. Before I wa put on bedrest with my second pregnancy I worked 60-70 hours a week as a gas station shift lead for a year and a half. And I actually can donate plasma now. I forgot about that. I had two blood transfusions having my daughter May of 2011 so its been a year and I believe I can donate again if my Iron is good enough now so I will check into that.

And trust me, I've been on my own since 16, I know no one is going to support me and I'm sure I'm much more grown up than you ever could be Superfly. I've been through more **** in my 23 years than alot of people go through in a lifetime.
 
For some reason everytime I wrote out in that last post it autocorrected to House lol.




And to the oil fields thing... My husband has.never worked in an oil field, hes not very physically fit and I could see myself doing that job moreso than him lol. I'm more physically able to do work like that, my husband really.belongs behind a desk or.counter as far as jobs are concerned.
 
Chelsea said:
We are still in Vegas because w have no friends or family elsewhere and we don't have a dime to our name so its quite impossible to get House of Vegas right now. And why is everyone making it out like we've never worked? My husband worked at the same company for 5 years and has been unemployed for 3 months. He had to start paying the tickets this October which is why he has the bench warrant and once we've finished these requirements of looking for work 35 hours a week to get the only money we have coming in via TANF hes decided to do the days in jail to pay off the tickets.

How is no money to move out of states, having no family to help us (quite literally my family gave me up to the fster system and I aged House and my husbands family aas all moved back to El Salvador) excuses? Its practical that we need some money saved up to move having 3 kids and all of the call your family suggestions have just ended by my last statement. We've worked for our kids. Before I wa put on bedrest with my second pregnancy I worked 60-70 hours a week as a gas station shift lead for a year and a half. And I actually can donate plasma now. I forgot about that. I had two blood transfusions having my daughter May of 2011 so its been a year and I believe I can donate again if my Iron is good enough now so I will check into that.

And trust me, I've been on my own since 16, I know no one is going to support me and I'm sure I'm much more grown up than you ever could be Superfly. I've been through more **** in my 23 years than alot of people go through in a lifetime.
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Don't bet on it.

As far as everything else - I'm sorry but it sounds like alot of your problems are brought on by yourselves. What kinds of tickets does he have? I don't know if you had posted that. And you are saying tickets, plural, right? More than one? He didn't learn his lesson the first time?

Pull up your big girl panties and go find a job. You have the money for a cell phone with internet on it, you should have the money to pay off that bench warrant. Excuses and blame aren't going to get you out of this hole.
 
A $35 pay as you go walmart plan isn't the same as $2000 in tickets and without a phone how do you propose I find a job? Yes he got pulled over once but got multiple ticketa which include not yielding at a croswalk, speeding, and he didn't have the current insurance on him. We fixed the insurance part and the other ticket was for out license plate light being out, what they call a fix it ticket here in NV and driving with an expired temporary plate. We couldn't get the car to pass smog and we were both working the day we had to get the plates renewed. He was actually pulled over outside of the DMV. NV is rediculous with their fines.

And we've applied to walmart, Party City, McDonalds, Carls Jr, Burger King, Subway, Auto Zone, Walgreens, Kmart, Petsmart, Firehouse, Kinkos, FedEx, several Medical facilities in the area, Smiths, Albertsons etc... Over 200 applications each. Made resumes and even gone on a few temp jobs in the meantime. We've made resumes etc, have good interview clothes... Just finding a job is difficult right now so don't judge us until you're in our position.
 
OK you said if he paid off the $85 bench warrant, he could go back to making payments on the $2000. If you can pay for a cell phone, you can pay the bench warrant fine.

Ain't nobody gonna take care of you. You're grown. You gotta take care of yourself. Why can't your husband find a construction job? I think you said somewhere that he's more of an inside worker job. Well you know what that sounds like to me? National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation? Where Cousin Eddie has been holding out for a management job. For seven years.

Y'all are gonna have to do some things you don't like to get you out of this hole.
 
Superfly said:
Don't bet on it.

As far as everything else - I'm sorry but it sounds like alot of your problems are brought on by yourselves. What kinds of tickets does he have? I don't know if you had posted that. And you are saying tickets, plural, right? More than one? He didn't learn his lesson the first time?

Pull up your big girl panties and go find a job. You have the money for a cell phone with internet on it, you should have the money to pay off that bench warrant. Excuses and blame aren't going to get you out of this hole.
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This thread is a reminder to all of us that the surest way to get into the whirlpool of poverty is to have children when you're very young. I feel for Chelsea and their lives, most especially the children. I get the impression that they've made some bad choices. And maybe continue to do so. I can't even imagine getting $2,000 in tickets and having to have a bench warrant issued before I started to pay them. Can't even imagine having to donate blood to make ends meet. Don't understand an excuse that says, paraphrased, "Our plates were expired because we both had to work the day they were due." Your comment later in this thread: Y'all are gonna have to do some things you don't like to get you out of this hole," is the truth.

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I'm sorry, Chelsea, but these all do seem like one bad decision after another.

I hope you get a second chance soon. I know you will because it sounds like you're trying hard. And when you get that second chance, I hope you'll manage your lives in a way that doesn't leave you at the mercy of a beater car that won't pass smog, no insurance, and driving on expired temp plates. You made the comment, I think, that all your friends are in the same boat. You need to find some new friends.

I wish you very good luck and hope you and your husband both find jobs soon.
 
Kids who fall in love think the next logical step is having a baby. Unless you are solid and stable and on your feet, that is the worst thing you can do.
 
Chelsea said:
A $35 pay as you go walmart plan isn't the same as $2000 in tickets and without a phone how do you propose I find a job? Yes he got pulled over once but got multiple ticketa which include not yielding at a croswalk, speeding, and he didn't have the current insurance on him. We fixed the insurance part and the other ticket was for out license plate light being out, what they call a fix it ticket here in NV and driving with an expired temporary plate. We couldn't get the car to pass smog and we were both working the day we had to get the plates renewed. He was actually pulled over outside of the DMV. NV is rediculous with their fines.

And we've applied to walmart, Party City, McDonalds, Carls Jr, Burger King, Subway, Auto Zone, Walgreens, Kmart, Petsmart, Firehouse, Kinkos, FedEx, several Medical facilities in the area, Smiths, Albertsons etc... Over 200 applications each. Made resumes and even gone on a few temp jobs in the meantime. We've made resumes etc, have good interview clothes... Just finding a job is difficult right now so don't judge us until you're in our position.
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Hey Chelsea, your situation is heart braking, and whilst many posters gave excellent advice to you here, you are still the fish in a dried-out pond. Maybe we can build a "horror-floor", a technique that crisis counsellors use to try to turn the spirit around. So, what would happen to you and your family, if you ran out of everything with still no money coming in, and you were stuck on the street? The police doesn't just drive by a homeless family that doesn't look like a bunch of junkies, does it? What would happen to you then?
 
We had insurance on the car. We had moved and just hadn't gotten the proof of insurance yet. We turned in the insurance when he went to court.

What's not to understand? The Nevada DMV is an all day event and we both had to work the day they expired, it was our fault for not going earlier while we tried to get it to pass smog. We had to drive I think it was 100 miles because we had put a new aattery in the car and it takes a while to pass smog afterwards, but we didn't know that

when we put the battery in.

I guess its not understood that we have to keep our $35 phone on to get our $513 a month. And if we ended up homeless I guess we would be homeless. We would live in our car, beg for money to keep gas in it so our kids are warm and we could take showers at my friends place... Nothing else we could do really.
 
Chelsea said:
I guess its not understood that we have to keep our $35 phone on to get our $513 a month. And if we ended up homeless I guess we would be homeless. We would live in our car, beg for money to keep gas in it so our kids are warm and we could take showers at my friends place... Nothing else we could do really.
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Chelsea, did you vote at this election? Congratulations to every fellow American, welcome to the (real) face of The United States in the 21st century. Why is the USA a hotspot of worldwide immigration? Because most countries live under $1 a day ... only currency manipulation.
 
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