I’m not normally one to speak out against someone else’s actions. I’m the one that sits back and lets everyone else do the talking for me. I’m not one to point fingers, or attempt to ‘stir the pot’. Well, publicly, anyhow. Usually, several other people will say exactly what I was thinking anyhow.
I’m not too proud to ask for help. I’ve done it before. I’ve done it here on my blog. I’ve done in face to face with my friends and family. Heck, I still have that little chip-in widget in my sidebar… which isn’t doing any good anyhow, so I might as well remove it.
But, when I ask for help, its for something important. Like, groceries. Or, filling my propane tank. Even helping make a payment on Tom’s van.
I’d never have the nerve to ask anyone for help buying a toy. Ever. That’s just … unnecessary. A toy is exactly that. Its not essential to ones daily life. Its not a ‘make it or break it’ situation.
I’m not saying that the toy is not worth purchasing. Hell, go ahead. If I had the cash to buy something like that, I just might.
But, to put it out there to ask your readers to donate their hard earned money for a toy?
Tacky.
Rude.
Inappropriate.
If you need help keeping your electricity on? Post about it. Ask for help.
Do you need help from getting your only form of transportation from being repossessed? Blog about it. Add a widget to your blog.
Are you trying to find a way to make it across the country to see your mother before she passes away from her terminal cancer? Please, ask the world for a hand!
But, a toy? An expensive toy? An unnecessary, costly toy?
Don’t ever ask me for a donation regarding a toy.
Its just inconsiderate.
There are people struggling today. And, I mean STRUGGLING. People are loosing their houses. People can’t buy groceries. People can’t buy new shoes for their kids. People are having to get rid of any luxury they own to help make ends meet.
I am not even struggling so badly that I’ve had to give up a luxury, yet.
And, I’ve not asked the blogging world in the longest time to throw me their spare change. I know that this isn’t the time to ask for help. Most everyone is looking for help. A lot of people are struggling.
And, I’m definitely not asking you to help fund a completely ridiculous request, either.
If you feel the need to donate somewhere, consider these links:
Christopher Reeves Foundation – help research a cure for Spinal Cord Injuries
When you have no class and dignity or a conscience and your entire being is one of entitlement and you have convinced yourself that you have charmed the entire internet with your lack of discretion and willingness to over-share…and when you have spent the better part of 4 years tearing your husband apart, resenting the fact you got pregnant and got married when you were a teenager so you blame it on him and you toss him out on his ass and then take him back, what other choice do you have but to ask the internet to by him a motocycle so he won’t leave you when he finds out you’ve been fucking your boss?
I mean, seriously, she totally had no choice but to whore herself out YET AGAIN for money.
I’m surprised at you for not being more compassionate and understanding. You big meanie.
Finds out? The husband found out about it months ago & his nose is continually rubbed in it. The “handout” blogpost is a new low. Disgusting.
I agree with the post and the comments. It’s nice to see that I’m not the only one who has felt like this for a very, very long time.
Does that mean I should ask for my $500 back?? JUST KIDDING.
I wished them well on their anniversary but that’s all they’re getting from me.
Who’s fucking who? Am I the ONLY one left in the dark?? Srsly??? WTF.
Let’s not forget how they drove one of their “best friends” back out of the state with their low antics. The motorcycle thing is icing on a cake.
here is how i feel.
it is crass, rude and stupid.
Say i have 20 bucks i want to give away, and Im looking for causes to give too.
Oh look! someone wants a motor bike. Bikes are fun, I will give to this cause! YAY! *Donate*
Then I continue on my blog reading and see that this person would like ten bucks so they can continue to get physical therapy becuase they had a fucking stroke!
But dammit!!
I wasted my money on the bike. Wish I could take it back and give it to a WORTHY cause.
It was wrong to do, plain and simple. Ask for money for a NEED, not a want
Tracy – Go check out jestertunes.com. He has an interesting post up.
WOW..whew, I am not the only one that is not totally charmed by this. Thank god.
I hear that the “friend” was fired. So yeah. Good friends.
The friend was “let go” but from what I hear she’d have rather hauled ass all the way back across the country than be near those two any longer. Guess they ran another one off!
The ability to ask for help when you truly need it is actually a virtuous thing.
The audacity to ask for help paying for a 10 year anniversary motorcycle is completely different.
Though I would totally donate to the fund that pays for the husband to take his ass back to Iowa without her.
I’d donate to that too…but only if he took his kids with him.
As if she’d let the kids go with him. That would likely get her kicked out of the mommy blog crowd.
If he grew the balls to divorce her unfaithful ass, he’d have a very good chance of getting those kids. I do not hold out hope for that, however. He seems to be ok with not owning a backbone.
IMO, she should just hand them over to him…it would free her up for all the exciting trips she wants to take and all the fun she wants to have and all the other things she’s resentful and envious of that she reads about other people doing.
On that, we absolutely agree.
Someone in hell just got an icecube.
They’re blaming Hilly for your post, you know.
Me, or Jester?
Where’d this bit of info come from?
Jester, not you. I have sources I do not wish to name.
I know they are blaming Hilly. But Hilly is a big girl who has more than ably responded to their misguided accusations.
They seem to forget that I (and several friends) spent an day and evening with them in Miami to experience their interactions first hand. They forget that people can actually read the things they post on the internet. Most importantly, they forgot the most important rule of a true mafia — keep everyone you trust with your secrets extremely happy.
As arrogant and superior they are, I suppose it’s hard for them to fathom that the entire world is not in love with them…I mean, how many times has Adam said he doesn’t understand why anybody would dislike him…and he’s not lying. He really doesn’t get it.
She’s not the first person that’s been thrown under the Adam & Britt bus and she won’t be the last…which is sad. There are people who still think the sun shines out of their assholes.
No, I don’t believe either of those people are friends to anybody but themselves. When you are so self-centered and self-absorbed, you don’t really have much room to truly care about others.
Well, as you’ve said… some people are horrible judges of character.
Thanks for the icecube Jester & Donna! I needed that! Get pretty hot down here.
I had no idea. I live in a cave I guess. I suspected… but yeah. I’m dumb.
I had the same thoughts when I read her post. If it was something actually *needed* that’s one thing. I had no problem asking for money 6 years ago when our car was repo’d, and even though we only received a whopping $10, it was a donation out of concern for us, not because I’d said “wow, my husband wants a big expensive gift and y’all are going to pay for it.”
I can’t fathom begging my readers (the few that I have!) for $3k for a TOY, and I can’t fathom why people have actually got her over the halfway point.