Like so many people out there, I hate asking for help.
There are times we must rely on our community though, and this is one of them.
I’ve stepped out to do something big and risky, and its taken much longer than expected. I’m starting a skatepark, it is happening. I have a partner who is loaning me the money to get the park started and fund it for the first few months.
We have the lease, but have no solid timeline on when we will be able to get in there and start building. The last update I received a week ago said the contractors were still waiting on a permit and thats why construction hadn’t begun yet. Once it begins they expect it will take 4-6 weeks to finish. I expect it to take at least 6-8 weeks.
The biggest lesson I’ve learned learned in this endeavor is that everything takes far longer than anyone admits. It drives me crazy.
I’m now finished earning the modest sum I was by doing some nannying this summer. I’m still doing deliveries, but summer is the slowest time of year for that market and even weekends can be incredibly slow.
I can’t give a commitment to any ongoing hour job, and I need several hours a week to work on the skatepark.
In short, I’m broke.
Some in my family believe I’m still sitting on a lot of money becuase I came into a trust at age 18.
I am incredibly blessed to be 31 and have no student loans becuase I used that money to pay for my own education as well as my husbands. The rest has gone into housing and helping us pay our bills in in hard times. Its gone. I have no savings now, only debt, and a good amount of it from this last year we’ve been paying our last few bills each month on credit cards in the hopes I would have an income soon. Our cards are maxed out.
I’m here asking you my friends and family, to help me pay my bills and buy my groceries so I can get though these next few lean months until the skatepark is open and I am able to start drawing a paycheck.
Any money given to the skatepark will be subjected to taxes whereas money gifted directly to me is tax free. The skatepark is well funded. I am not.
If you believe in what we are doing please help out by helping me pay my bills and keep food in my fridge while I work on this important endeavor!
TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER!
