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MerryBlooms

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16. Do you realize how difficult it is to be unhoused?

Reply to Ponietz (Reply #12)

Tue Jun 9, 2026, 03:50 PM

5 hrs ago

We help a gal who bathes in a filthy creek. Her phone is dead most of the time. Our mobile home park, replaced Our fence, and now we have no gate. We use to help way more people.
People are trying to survive. Our little gal just wants to have a little garden on the side of a filthy creek.
Ugh.
Picture please, for one moment, having a menstrual cycle, unhoused. So, yes. At this time, I can help her, but I am fully aware there are hundreds just like her, getting Zero help.

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Please don't forget thousands and thousands of your neighbors have lost their food stamps and are quietly starving [View all] questionseverything 7 hrs ago OP

I won't. Harker 6 hrs ago #1

I take the casting of my vote dlilafae 6 hrs ago #2

This breaks my heart Grim Chieftain 6 hrs ago #3

Thanks for the reminder that not everyone is able to buy food. Beacool 6 hrs ago #4

Thanks for the reminder that not everyone is able to buy food. Beacool 6 hrs ago #5

DURec leftstreet 6 hrs ago #6

Find the food bank closest to you BonnieJW 6 hrs ago #7

Ty, that's what I was trying to say in my clumsy way questionseverything 6 hrs ago #9

Please give us some places to donate. Thank you. No antiwomen groups (Baptists, Catholics, etc.) efhmc 6 hrs ago #8

It's true most food banks are run by religious groups questionseverything 5 hrs ago #11

Thank you. efhmc 5 hrs ago #13

Google your local area. Some might take a bit of a drive... MerryBlooms 5 hrs ago #18

Other Churches ms.pamela 4 hrs ago #28

Illinois had already started cutting snap and medicaid questionseverything 4 hrs ago #30

Everything got cut for folks that got that laughable COLA MerryBlooms 5 hrs ago #10

I'm So fn sick of people telling others go to food banks! MerryBlooms 5 hrs ago #14

I agree completely, I am do sorry if you are going through all of this questionseverything 5 hrs ago #15

Thank you! Small feminine products, baby wipes! MerryBlooms 5 hrs ago #20

Hard working folks, but because don't have first, last, deposit, MerryBlooms 5 hrs ago #21

Ty for reminding us about baby wipes and feminine hygiene needs questionseverything 5 hrs ago #22

We also supply garbage bags MerryBlooms 5 hrs ago #24

We didn't know how deep the evil would go, I could not have said it better questionseverything 5 hrs ago #26

Hot days, I've been giving frozen Gatorade MerryBlooms 5 hrs ago #25

Vote for food 2026! Ponietz 5 hrs ago #12

Do you realize how difficult it is to be unhoused? MerryBlooms 5 hrs ago #16

Housing subsidies are also unavailble. milestogo 5 hrs ago #17

Yes the repubs have taken everything good questionseverything 5 hrs ago #19

Almost non existent here in Oregon, now, and idiotic republicans MerryBlooms 5 hrs ago #23

Thank you stage left 5 hrs ago #27

If we can just help a little bit. Feminine products and also dog food or dog MerryBlooms 3 hrs ago #32

Republicans Dave Id 4 hrs ago #29

Jesus said, "whatever you do for the least of them, you do unto me " questionseverything 4 hrs ago #31

They're probably just trying to pretend it away. calimary 5 min ago #33