Outside of living costs, my wheelchair batteries are slowly approaching end of life due to... idk planned obsolescence bullshit with lithium-ion batteries and how much you can charge them and get out of them per charge as they get older and-- a lot of shit I don't understand but the point IS, they're slowly dying on me.

My wheelchair is how I go places without a million exhaustion Every Time. The optimal OEM replacement is $500 (plus whatever shipping); I can't even figure out what non-OEM option might work, plus I'd rather not risk fires and explosions. (Mind you, I don't know why a 24v 20Ah (480Wh) battery is $500 but that's fucking disability markup for you. ๐Ÿ™ƒ๐Ÿ™ƒ)

(Also, I need a better/different cushion. My tailbone hates my current one - it worked great for my old chair but... lmao.)

We have a vague plan to ask a local-ish medical supplies store if they carry or can get this battery and if so, how much (aka will it be a better price than ordering it ourselves) but we'll still need to be able to *pay* for it.

So... if anyone is able to help out, that's great. ๐Ÿ’• (If any of y'all know someone who can absolutely spare a whole $500 at once, stick this in their face and be like "come on help them keep their independence" lolol.)

For real tho, passing this along to a wider circle is A++, the more eyes the better, and if that's all you can do: thank you!! I appreciate it! If you can manage $1, or $5, or $10, $25, whatever increment you can spare: thank you!! I appreciate it!

My cashapp is $Inoru
Spouse's venmo (because I don't have venmo; pls specify "for Inoru's chair"): @californiummm

Ask @camilla for PayPal/zelle info if cashapp or venmo don't work for you. ๐Ÿ’• (please also specify "for Inoru's chair")

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Hey help us afford to do a move and also keep living because it's expensive to keep living. (Why life is so expensive, I don't fucking know, but y'all, whew. ๐Ÿ™ƒ๐Ÿ™ƒ๐Ÿ™ƒ)

Payment info in spouse's post per usual, ask him for PayPal or zelle deets!

(Or just cashapp me $Inoru. It'll all get where it needs to!)

We appreciate every bit of your help, from passing along our posts and hopefully getting them to the eyes of people with $$ to spare, to those who spare the $$ and keep us kicking. (Or, y'know, rolling. Depending on the day. ๐Ÿ˜‚)

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key (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image this is going to pay most of my bills for the July cycle but I need to start pushing really hard to get #MutualAid for August! and expenses for moving which we didn't know was going to happen and we need to buy things like lights and maybe a kitchen island. as an aside I have no clue how it is now halfway through 2025. my spouse @[email protected] and I are both disabled Jewish and Jewish-ish queers trying to survive in suburban Los Angeles, with our cat Zoey, and we need help with basically everything while I'm in school and they're doing job readiness (and not ready yet). we're in the beginning of moving that's what we really needed but that's a hasty process with a lot of unforeseen expenses that we already don't have money for, so anything and everything helps us! this move is the first step towards getting at least partially out of an abusive situation. currently we're at 0/1000 that we need, this gets us solved for this month and August and means we can buy needed items for moving like plastic bins to put things into. payment methods below: CashApp: http://cash.app/$ceahettan (a bunch of muppets) Venmo: https://venmo.com/californiummm (dror lieb) ask for PayPal/Zelle. #Crowdfund #Crowdfunding #DirectAid #DirectGiving #Disabled #DisabledCrowdfund #FinancialAid #Generosity #GiveTzesakah #HelpFolksLive #HelpFolksLive2025 #Mazeldon #MutualAidNeed #MutualAidNeeded #MutualAidNow #MutualAidRequest #Queer #QueerCrowdfund #Trans #Transmasc #TransNonbinary #TransCrowdfund #Tzedakah as always thank you. we appreciate everyone, including people who just boost it or point their well-to-do friends about it. our cat Zoey thanks you too.

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key (@[email protected])

as of 05/14/2025 UPDATING this again! I got my top surgery on 01/31/2025 y'all rock! and with y'all's help we were able to cover the additional food needs easily and build up a little bit of excess that carried us through February. but it's May now and we're falling behind again. we've also paid off spouse's wheelchair purchase entirely. now it's just regular old credit card debt. our #MutualAid post now that things have settled down. #MutualAidRequest #TransCrowdfund #HelpFolksLive #HelpFolksLive2025 #MastodonForHarris #Mastodon4Harris #Tzedakah #DirectGiving #DisabledCrowdfund #DisabilityCrowdfund #Crowdfund #Crowdfunding quick intro: @[email protected] and I are two Deaf, disabled, Jewish/Jewish-ish, neurodivergent/autistic/ADHD and unemployed queers in southern California. aside from food stamps and Medi-Cal we receive absolutely no social welfare benefits while I await any progress in my SSDI application. financial aid helps, but as I told one of my case workers, we put it towards medical needs and then bills and then there's virtually none left and I'm still in the same boat that I'm in to begin with. everything else that we have comes from the generosity of other people like you. spouse is doing a job training program through department of rehab, we'll see when that turns into a job, and they get money to cover the transportation. I've left university where I was studying Religious Studies and gone back to the local community college studying Addiction Medicine, and while I'm also going through the department of rehabilitation they don't fund any of my shit because I get financial aid I'm sufficiently funded according to them. anything we have comes from the generosity of others. I'm currently pretty unemployable; all of my previous employment has been in the transportation industry, which I am out of as I am also, for health reasons, out of a commercial driver's license since January 2023 after the very rapid loss of my trucking job for health reasons. radical transparency because I think everyone deserves to know where the money they give to us is going: - credit card with about 3500 in charges, because we've been trying to survive since fuck knows when, this was initially a balance transfer card and I'd paid the most of it down and then we ended up needing money we didn't have to pay for things we needed but didn't have. I also made several purchases in anticipation of financial aid that wasn't what we had hoped it would be at community college, so the ghost of those hangs around. I have a couple of other small credit cards too. current monthly credit card payments total about $150. I've paid off the one that was totaling over $200/month, so that frees that money back to the rest of the credit cards. - cat food and cat litter. our cat Zoey thanks you. but seriously, this is how we're able to buy her wet food and something better than the house store brand kibble that even most of the outdoor cats won't touch. - occasional boba or other treat food/drinks, because having nice things now and then helps keep us feeling human. - necessary professional clothing. uncharted territory etc, and it's definitely taken a tone up from what we'd previously been getting away with of living in comfortable athletic clothing and pajamas and stuff. - food at the end of the month when our food stamps has run out. everything helps, from the smallest of donations to shares to large donations and anything in between. we really, really need to break out of the bubble we're in and reach some new audiences who might be able to support us, because our close friends do a lot and it's unfair for them for us to end up relying on them so much (although we're very grateful). payment methods below, with display names since it's different than here. CashApp: http://cash.app/$ceahettan (a bunch of muppets) Venmo: https://venmo.com/californiummm (dror lieb) ask for PayPal or Zelle, they're doable but my PayPal has my deadname associated to it and I try not to have that just floating around the internet. thank you, we appreciate you all!

kolektiva.social

Anyway I actually opened fedi for a reason.

Aka turns out breathing well at night is expensive? In that you should keep the cpap clean and shit right?

I was looking into that and frankly a wiggly 6 foot(+) bristle brush in a wiggly hose sounds Exhausting and also ow so I found an alternative. Expensive but... I'm much more likely to actually *use* it.

It's a little US$190 machine that washes the hose and mask for ya. Then you just hang to dry. (Supposedly there's a dryer add-on but every time I click it, it redirects to more cleaner tablets? Weird.) Sounds way better for brains and all my joints but the price is making me o__O a bit.

So if you can toss some $ towards acquiring it, my cashapp is $Inoru; just say it's for cpap shit or something lol.

I've also added it to our wishlist, if someone is wild and generous enough to just get it outright: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/18KTT0ZMUTSWD?ref_=wl_share

(Yes yes but beggars, choosers, etc)

Boosts also perfectly welcome and wholly appreciated btw!

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Hey. Help us pay for my new wheelchair? I'm desperately hoping the issues with my current chair are that it's old and battered and possibly needs more in repairs than would be worth it (it's better than NOT having one, don't get me wrong...). But $1,100 (rounded slightly up) is a dear price even if cheaper than we'd ever get anything custom.

We're hoping to pay it off in chunks, since we used a credit card, but. The assurance of *having* the money to pay it off would be awesome - and y'all can say you helped buy my chair! Win/win!

Current goal is at $50/$100

(Unless that's changed literally while I've been typing ๐Ÿคฃ)

My cashapp is $Inoru, spouse's CashApp is $ceahhettan and his
Venmo is @/californiummm; ask them for paypal/zelle. Comment wheelchair or a Blue wheelchair emoji with specifically-for-this donations! Any amount helps and I/we appreciate!

<*wiggles in New Wheelchair excitement*>

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camilla (@[email protected])

hi everyone! we have a new #MutualAid #MutualAidNeeded #MutualAidRequest #MastodonForHarris #Mastodon4Harris #HelpFolksLive #HelpFolksLive2025. we just replaced @[email protected]'s power wheelchair with a new one that'll be here Saturday, for the fun sum of $1093.95 on a credit card, with monthly payments of just under $100. y'all, we bought this on faith and a prayer (and a reserve that will help but can't wholly cover the payments and help us not be crushed by poverty at the same time) because their old power wheelchair is unsafe now. it can't be driven across a curb cut without them ending up in the street, much more severely than my chair does. the motors struggle a good bit of the time. part of them having independence is the power wheelchair, so I'm asking to help us with the price of agency and independence as disabled individuals. as y'all probably know, we're both disabled and neither of us work, and we mostly survive off of the good will and kindness of our close friends and random strangers. February bill: $0/100; anything over goal will be paid to the credit card above and beyond the required payment to help pay it off sooner than the 12 months. put wheelchair in the comments. CashApp: $ ceahhettan (will say a bunch of muppets) Venmo: @ californiummm (will say dror lieb, my Hebrew name) ask for PayPal/Zelle.

kolektiva.social

Can we get some traction on this? Some viral spread? (For something that's not a virus! It'll be novel!)

We need help and the blatant truth is there isn't a safety net when you're dangling above rock bottom but below bare minimum that's expected as somehow achievable. All the programs and cash benefits and shit? You have to actually be *on the streets* in CA to qualify - and usually for some amount of time, too.

They don't even give hot food ebt on disability grounds if you're under 65 - because apparently younger people can't be That Disabled or something idefk ask DPSS.

Anyway. Please share. Please give. The generosity of friends and strangers on the internet is literally what's keeping us going.

Spouse's apps in his toot, ask about zelle tho.

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https://kolektiva.social/@camilla/113689755229164470

camilla (@[email protected])

hi all, going to give this #MutualAid thing a try again. I've been really kind of bummed that even when I have posts up I get no traction, so please if you see this boost it. @[email protected] and I are disabled and queer. and just about shit broke, or trying to claw our way out of it (while I fruitlessly try to sell our now unused RV so that it doesn't just become a blighted unused RV stuck in my parent's driveway now that I can't drive). but the bills are always due and I can't go up while being dragged down. we have a credit card that I've been using for necessary expenses and a few nice things, and I know the bill comes due. we additionally need to buy Inoru a few more work-appropriate shirts and pants for their day program at the independent living center near here that they're doing through the department of rehabilitation, because we just don't have many. and I have #TopSurgery coming up at the end of January, which means we're going to have a ton of extra expenses while I recover, and new wardrobe items like another binding shirt to join the rotation so that I can wash them, button front shirt and some lightweight zip up hoodies, so that I have clothes I can wear without raising my arms above my head, et cetera. so while I'm out of work, and from being the primary breadwinner in our household, we are struggling here. I could give you the excuses as to where our money went from the settlement I got from being hit by a car, but it was necessary things like paying off debt then. and now we need help again, so this is me extending the alms plate. I don't know what we have to do in order to be worthy of help here. please help if you can. one, two, five dollars helps just as much as bigger donations if not more. #Crowdfund #Crowdfunding #HelpFolksLive #HelpFolksLive2024 #MutualAidRequest #MastosonForHarris #Mastodon4Harris #DisabledCrowdfund #TopSurgeryCrowdfund #TopSugeryFund #TransCrowdfund cashapp: $ceahhettan venmo: @californiummm PayPal has my dead name: [email protected] Ask for Zelle, which has to go through my father but is possible if anyone needs it. we vastly appreciate every little bit.

kolektiva.social

Seeing as it's #GivingTuesday, help out a queer disabled couple - strapped for cash bc we can't work, my spouse has top surgery coming up in January (which is covered but the onfollowing expenses of easy food etc are Not), we have a cat whose needs need to be prioritized, and frankly: poor people deserve nice things too.

Open up your hearts and your banks, you big rich folks, i know you exist on mastodon; fellow skint folk, we know your hearts are willing but the banks be sad, and if all you can give is a boost, that's enough. โค๏ธ

We live and survive off crowdfunding and the generosity of friends. Thank you, always!

Cashapp: $Inoru
Venmo: @ californiummm (yes this is my spouse's. It all ends up the same place more or less. Lol.)

Ask @californiummm for PayPal or zelle info, that's theirs to handle lmao.

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