Pay for Erika's U-Haul + $1,220 for Taco Bell

Happy hump day my friends!

Today's shameful post comes to us from Dubuque, Iowa. Meet Erika and Anthony. In summary (see link at the bottom of the page if you are inclined), they need $2,000 to move back to Michigan (their home state) from Iowa. Their car isn't able to drive that far of a distance, the U-Haul is expensive, gas is expensive, and earning your GED is expensive. Gal darn things are just so fucking expensive!

Disclaimer: Anything and everything written is solely for entertainment purposes. In no way, shape or form is the writer of this blog entry discouraging Erika or Anthony for following their dreams to move home. However, work your ass off like everyone else. Not our fault that your car is falling apart.

Once again, this GFM was sent to me by a friend and upon the initial reading of the request, I understood the hardship. Poor, struggling kids with a young baby (those damn babies are overpriced, if you didn't already know) living in Iowa, several hundred miles from both of their families. Then I re-read and came to my senses. Why the fuck did you move to Iowa? It can't have been for a job. I don't think anyone would pick up and move to Dubuque unless it was for a job that paid well, and if you can't afford a moving truck, I'll take a wild guess that it wasn't worth the move. It also had to have cost a pretty penny to get all of their shit out there. Seems baffling to me.

Next, the actual GFM page states that the young family will be living with the child's grandfather and step grandmother until they can get on their feet and into their own home. Two points to raise here. The first - come on now. You will be living rent free. You can't scrounge up the $600 for the U-Haul? Seriously, what kind of job moved you to Dubuque, Iowa that won't allow you to save $150 per month in order to pay for said U-Haul? The second - where the fuck are the baby's grandparents? Why is money being requested on the internet from strangers instead of the grandparents? Perhaps Granny and Grampy are recovering financially from a move back from Iowa as well? Sounds like everyone here needs to see a financial planner one day.

The actual request is for $2,000. As broken down on the page, they need around $600 for the U-Haul and around $180 for gas. That equals $780. That is a difference of $1,220. What is the additional $1,220 going towards? That's a lot of Arby's and Taco Bell pit stops from Iowa to Michigan!
(I personally have to drive to Indiana next week. Perhaps I should start a GFM for $100 so I can stop at every Cracker Barrel along the way. Yum.) The page does, without so many words, suggest it will be going to getting E and A back on their feet. However, it's more fun to assume about all those cheesy gordita crunches.

Lastly, it states in the final section of the GFM page that Anthony will be working while Erika completes her GED. I'll offer you some advice, young whippersnappers. Both of you need to work. Nobody ever made it big by sitting around on their bum and reading a book of high school learning materials. There are GED courses that are offered online at your own pace, or something called Night School. Instead of asking for donations online, get yourself a job and contribute to your bank account and to society. Make your kid proud of you.Where there is a will, there will always be a way.

$425 of your $2,000 goal has been met. Not quite enough for the U-Haul, but more than enough for the gas and for some value menu quesadillas.

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Help Olivia enjoy being 24 years old!

What a great first account to share on this page. Everyone, meet Olivia! I'll sum up her story for you.

She's 24, went to two different colleges and lives in Los Angeles. It's expensive there and she has student loans and wants to go on vacation and not work extra shifts. She's asking for $60,000 to help pay her loans. She has three that she has to pay on every month, in addition to other things like rent, food and champagne. Every dollar raised will go towards those loans though!

I'm not sure if this request makes me want to laugh because it's so funny or if I want to stick my head into a 500 degree oven and call it good.

Unfortunately, college is really fucking expensive. Everyone, rich or poor, will agree with that. At age 24, I will assume that the majority of Olivia's friends and contacts on Facebook are experiencing a similar situation. Struggling with an entry level job while attempting to make ends meet and paying down those ding dang student loans. I wish I had the balls to ask my friends to pay my student loans! What courage.

Los Angeles is also expensive. Everyone knows that. I'm pretty sure the first line you're told after you've been shoved out of your mother's uterus is, "Don't move to LA, it's expensive there." I'm sorry, dear Olivia, but no one is going to take your $60,000 request seriously when you're in LA. Move back to Michigan and take part in some local fashion shows and work from the ground up like so many other aspiring designers. However, if you're asking for $60,000 to pay for your loans, you probably aren't wise enough to consider the alternative and move the fuck out of California.

It must be nice to enjoy being 24 and to not work that hard. She really wants to not have to work so many doubles and maybe take a few trips. Wake up and smell the smog dear. If you want that life in Los Angeles as a inexperienced 20-something, you're going to be working quite a few doubles. Want a vacation? Since you live in Southern California, pretend you're on vacation all the time, or take my earlier advice and FUCKING MOVE.

Good luck though on the $60k babe xo

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Welcome!

Welcome to GoFundMe Shaming! As GoFundMe becomes more and more popular, I think we all have noticed absolutely ridiculous requests for money. Pay for me to go on vacation, pay for my baby's diapers, pay for my electric bill, pay for my student loans, etc. etc. etc.
You post a stupid GoFundMe online, I'll find it and laugh at it! Simple as that.

Contributions (meaning links to GoFundMe's that I can publicly shame) are welcome. If you find something shameful and want it posted, send it my way! gofundmeshaming@gmail.com

Peace and Shaming xo