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Having a very tough time with Christmas coming up

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Hello everybody, my name is Ryan and I am a single father to one beautiful four-year-old girl. I don't want this to sound like a sob story I'm just putting it out there to see if there's any options.

In October I was laid off for my job of 8 years without severance, we lost our apartment in November then eventually lost our only vehicle shortly thereafter. I'm currently staying with my daughter in an extended stay hotel which was my only option. The savings that I've had have paid for about a month of this hotel I have enough savings left for about two more weeks, I reached out to the salvation army, Catholic charities, and DuPage pads. All three of them had no possible option of assistance which I couldn't believe. Without a vehicle it's very difficult to get anywhere our only option is lyft. I've applied for pretty much every job within a 1 mi radius of this hotel and so far I've had no success getting employment. I have an associate's degree in multimedia and information technology I'm extremely knowledgeable when it comes to anything technical whether it be a cell phone tablet computer smart home equipment Smart Home security pretty much anything regarding today's technology and Home Technology. I'm only riding this because I was hoping that somebody out there or possibly a few people out there would have a suggestion other than the ones I've already listed. Staying where we're staying it's costing $500 a week which is more than an apartment. My beautiful 4-year-old daughter is with me pretty much all the time and does spend time with her grandmother sometimes I want her to have a good Christmas but having to pay what I'm having to pay just to have a roof over our head leaves me with absolutely nothing to provide for Christmas for her. She's such a good girl and she deserves better however these are the cards that were dealt to us and we're just trying to go with it and I'm just trying to get back on my feet so I can provide her not only a good Christmas but a good life in general and staying in a hotel like this is not providing her good life. So if any wonderful person out there has any suggestions please direct message me with any information you may have, at this point I'm open for any options that will help me get out of this horrible situation that I'm in, and to get my daughter out of this terrible situation that she's in. I'm simply trying to get her some Christmas gifts so she can have a good Christmas this year even though we're in the hotel we still have a tree and we're going to make the best of it...


It's so tough seeing all these families that are well off running around the mall picking up anything they want to pick up but most importantly going back to their beautiful home with their family and all of their Christmas lights put up my daughter she's these things and wonders why we have to go back to a hotel when other people get to go back to their beautiful home with Christmas lights and a beautiful Christmas tree in the window while we have kind of a pathetic little tree that I wrapped with lights I did the best that I could do she gets kind of sad because when she sees these things and these families all together shopping carrying their shopping bags going back into their home she just gets very sad, and then obviously I get very sad because I can't give her what they have not even close. It's very hard to explain to a four-year-old why other people get to go to their homes and drive their nice cars while we have to walk everywhere and rather than going back to a home we come back to a hotel without any shopping bags and a small Christmas tree it just makes me very sad that's all...





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Ryan Stowers
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Downers Grove, IL

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