50 homeless GFYers:)

This thread makes me realize just how blessed I've been.
:drinkup Kudos to all of the survivors!

Yes tho id ratrher not discuss it. Part of the reason I have no toes now is due to a period of homelessness in 1990. Im better now :thumbsup

Nope, nada ... NEVER.

Left my parents home when i was 17, never went back and always had a roof over my head.

I have played homeless kid when i was younger and we went out to beg in the streets of montreal but after a couple of days we had to return home to mommy and some regular food ;-)

When I turned 18 my parents "asked me to leave" do to religious diffrences. Spent 3 months living in my car and staying at various friends houses when possible.

Luckely I studied hard and became the youngest stock broker at my firm by 19 and now work for one of the best Adult companies on the net :)

I grew up very poor and I lived in a car in a parking garage for about 8 months when I was 10.

Really makes you grow up fast and lean things with a different prespective.

I havent had a proper home for 4 years. I had the forsight to invest what little I had after being laid off to buy a nice 24ft RV. I have been living out oif it ever since and I really rather quite like it.

I can go anywhere I want I have cell phones and multiple maildops and I travel the USA constantly for adult work. SO I have no home, bu tI'm not sleeping on a bench either.
I really dont know if I want a brick and mortar house again.
I had a 5 bedroom but afte my divorce in 90 I never got it back, but damm do I have some stories.

my only angst is showering and gas mileage. you learn to be very resourcful about all that you do when your "onboard" living.

I have a freind here I work with who lets me park it stationary and I have power hookups. and I can park the Lexus there as well.

So yes and no, but there are times a really loved it when I would go to malibu on wekends and park it and be able to look out at the surf all day an do what i want and still work when I needed to.

I love RV life so much my "goal" is to make enoughh to by one of those custom bus coaches.
I knew a true homless gal in woodland hills and I offered her time indoors to relax and be "normal" but she never accepted and slept in the sprinklers every nite. I still see her 2 years later there. hasnt changes a bit.

Oh, I have a office to work out of, a car to drive and portable laptops to use. Heck the rv even has been used for Bang bus like sites too... I get 50.00 a nite for it plus gas.
I consider money gotten like that to be crazy money and I spend that unlike my income from site work that I horde like a mother fucker.

so do I have it rough? to some yes. to others its a dream its all relative to what your expectiing.

I still make more than enough to live Ok. And even if my latest Idea pans out and I make a bundle, I really wont have a desire to get a house at all.

possesions end up owning you, I have less than 75 dollars a month in expenses, I pay cash for everything. If I dont have the cash I wait till I do. the RVs 100% paid for and so is everything else. its the only way to live, debt free.

youd be suprised how fast money adds up when you owe nothing to anyone. :) the only bumme ris my bank branch doesnt extend into the boston/mass area. I got up there this summer for a shooting job and found I could nt get cash out. so i had to use my cards.

anyways... be resourcful.

never been homeless, thanks to myself and my parents

i've never been on the streets, been damn close a few times, but when it gets to that point, i make something work, and do whatever the hell i need to to keep a roof over my head

Thanks GOD I I've always had house, food and friends.

Briefly, and it fuckin sucked balls! However, unlike most homeless people, I had no desire to be there and pulled myself up PDQ.

I'm happy to say I've never been homeless.

Nope. Never. Don't plan on being homeless either. I have too many friends for that to happen. I could always just move to another country. I know people in at least 5 different countries who would take me in.

I was a hellion as a teenager :angel

When I was 16 , I refused to break up with the boyfriend that my parents hated and they kicked me out( that whole tough love idea) .

I lived/slept in my car for 3 1/2 weeks before I saved enough money to move into an apartment and share rent and expenses with a roommate.

It was no fun..... Middle of winter and my car at that point in time was a piece of shit with no heat or air.

But I made it through it and was on my own ever since then, makes you grow up really fast and learn responsibility in a way others your age never imagine .

Most people who know me would never imagine some of the things I've been through in my life, but I have no regrets. It's all of those things that makeup up who I am today.

:2 cents:


Ivy

never been homeless, thank God.

I always took you for some kind of bum, thank you for confirming my suspicions.

75 bucks a month. does that include food?

i know this one doesn't really count,
i sold one of my condos last march with the intentions of buying property in the US. I couldn't live in the other condo in the city. Then I decided I didn't want property in the US and started looking in BC again, for about 5 months I stayed @ a couple of ppls place in vancouver while searching BC. I didn't end up buying a house til Sept. so i slept on airmatresses and couches, using ppls high speed lines and being confused about where I wanted to be...

i was for a while, still am kinda, more like houseless, i stay with a friend right now, but dont have a place of my own

Move in with me

Had I not had family that cares I could have been in the past. However I've always had somewhere to go if shit ever got that bad.