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i had a very brief period of homelessness of a couple months when i was younger

i wasn't scared because i knew i could get out of it and i had much less stress than my prior situation, i got a job after about a month and after working another month could afford to rent a room in a house share and build myself up from there

24 hour gym (cus shower, toilet, drinking water, electronics charging) is the most important so you can keep up appearances

warm clothing and bedding is also important so you dont freeze to death at night, and you need a smart outfit for job interviews

i ate dirt cheap carbs (oats, bread, jam) and a cheap multivitamin and probably spent less than £1 on food a day, not much money has to be put towards food

oh ye this was before the days of smartphones and unlimited mobile data so i would sneak into a local university (literally just walk in) and sit in their IT lounge and use the wifi and electricity to apply for jobs

if you're young they dont question you cus they just think you're a student

c4 said: 

i had a very brief period of homelessness of a couple months when i was younger

i wasn't scared because i knew i could get out of it and i had much less stress than my prior situation, i got a job after about a month and after working another month could afford to rent a room in a house share and build myself up from there

24 hour gym (cus shower, toilet, drinking water, electronics charging) is the most important so you can keep up appearances

warm clothing and bedding is also important so you dont freeze to death at night, and you need a smart outfit for job interviews

i ate dirt cheap carbs (oats, bread, jam) and a cheap multivitamin and probably spent less than £1 on food a day, not much money has to be put towards food

 

 Warm clothing like socks, sweatshirts, gloves and beanies? Do colors matter? Darker clothing seems to be more expensive than non dark clothing. I'm not entirely sure what can be done for bedding other than maybe some yoga mats and some fleece blankets. 

Would hand warmers work? 

Canned foods over dried foods(ramen/crackers, soups)?

Lenalee said: 

I've been lucky enough to never had to experience being homeless though I can imagine it's scary and exhausting.

I've put up some threads elsewhere so I'm mostly just going to compile lists. I know there's been a few people here that have been homeless and would like to know what your experience was and what are some things you could have used when you were homeless? 

Would you have preferred food cards or gift cards to gym memberships? 

I have some basic hygiene products like soap, shampoo, toothpaste and toothbrushes is there anything that would have been more helpful? 

 

 when we were homeless, and when i was homeless on my own, it was very hard to find a safe place to sleep. Even when sleeping by the piluce station we would be woken by creepy crack heads abd orayed thwy would leave us alone and that they wouldn't attack us. i have been offered "solutions" in exchange for sexual favors. i never took tHem. The most helpful thing when homeless is a car i would imagine, i never had one ehile homeless but sleeping in a car is much safer than sleeping on the road.

I was 17, kicked out of the house after fighting with mom and I hit her back , stepdad came home and basically told me to get our or he will stab me

I had just my phone and my id with me cuz its obligatory to hold it in romania after the age of 14, and my slippers. I went behind the metro station near our house and cried a bit then composed myself and thought that I need to find money and a place fast

I first went to the stores we frequent to ask for cola and some croissants saying mom will pay later and got the idea of calling moms acquitances i got on my phone to tell em mom asked them for X amount of money etc

I thought that if I ask for large amounts they might call her to confirm so I just said 20 lei 50 lei etc and rode the bus illegally to go to their places to collect, at the end of the evening i had approx 200 euro in the exchange rate of that time

I collected the money then remembered that I have a grandma and grandpa (lol, we didnt visit them for years since our family always fights and stops talking to each other)

I went to them, they let me stay one night, then kicked me out cuz mom threatened to stop giving them money if they keep me

I was out at around 9 AM and I realized im not gonna survive in Bucharest as a homeless, the homeless kids dont take to newbies very well, you will most surely get robbed or worse

So I hopped on the romanian national train and hopped off on this station called Lugoj near the Serbian border, did it just cuz it looked good

I booked myself in a dirty ass hostel with gypsies smoking and talking non stop and started thinking about how am I gonna find a job

I went outside for a walk and saw a bunch of dirty construction workers and asked them if its easy to get a job there and they laughed at me and told me that I wouldnt resist cuz I look "weak" but that I could try

So next morning I did some research and found out that they are building a road between Lugoj to Arad and there was an office and I called em and asked them if they have space for someone to work

They told me to come over they looked at me and said what can you do I said I am good at computers and they laughed and said its not much use but that I could carry iron and wood, they gave me a bed in the workers guesthouse and 3 meals a day and I had to carry 10kg to 40kg metal bars everyday and shit was horrible but I built some nice muscles and put food in my stomach

I learned how to tie metal bars with copper strings and build beton arme turn cement make scaffolding etc slowly

One of the engineers there was turkish and we got close, he used to buy me food and give me advice etc, his company had stake in the road and they had a team of romanian workers who worked for em also

He had me task for protecting the construction site one day (remote ass area, u could see bears walking sometimes), I decided that it was a good idea to get some of the gypsies to help me steal iron, copper, utilities like concrete crackers

I started swindling the turk and his company for acting as a translator and taking over the document and finance work for the turks i.e told em tax stamp costs 4000 lei when it costs 1500 lei and middlemanning their agreements and paperwork and sneaking some money where I could

The money was good and I was at the club every weekend buying drinks for the ppl but then I got caught one day for doing the iron reifnrocement bars theft too late in the monring (about 4am) got greedy

I was fired then I realized I dont wanna live in Romania anymore and went to Turkey to my dad since I had turned 18 anyway recently

Honestly that initial construction worker talk seems to be universal- "you look weak but let's see what you can do." Most of them are willing to give you a shot and not reject you out right. I'm glad you were able to find place to sleep and eat in exchange for work. 

Were there items that might have been more helpful to have in-between being kicked out and getting to the actual job? 

Lenalee said:

 Warm clothing like socks, sweatshirts, gloves and beanies? Do colors matter? Darker clothing seems to be more expensive than non dark clothing. I'm not entirely sure what can be done for bedding other than maybe some yoga mats and some fleece blankets. 

Would hand warmers work? 

Canned foods over dried foods(ramen/crackers, soups)?

yeh anything to protect the extremeties mainly, if it doesn't impede you sleeping i'd say a balaclava too might come in handy, i remember waking up in the night because my head hurt from the cold and nose had gone entirely numb

make sure you have petroleum jelly like vaseline if its a cold climate and slather it on your lips and around your nose, otherwise the skin will dry and crack at night

i made do with a sleeping bag and 2 thick blankets and it got me through 2-3C nights

haven't used a hand warmer but doubt they'll hurt

maximise calorific value for weight when it comes to food, dry things that require no prep like bread, cereals, nuts are cheap and go a long way. if its cold you need to maximise calorie intake since your body uses a lot of energy to keep you warm

Lenalee said: 

Honestly that initial construction worker talk seems to be universal- "you look weak but let's see what you can do." Most of them are willing to give you a shot and not reject you out right. I'm glad you were able to find place to sleep and eat in exchange for work. 

Yeah, they did not have enough manpower for this 300 mile european road project and we had another homeless dude who was working like a machine (prob afraid to go back to the skreets), they were taking every retard in and giving em trials xd

Were there items that might have been more helpful to have in-between being kicked out and getting to the actual job? 

  Hygiene and care items like combs, interview clothes, painkillers and basic antibiotics, socks, switchblade for protection, your documents and if ur a goon lockpicks

The most important thing though is to have the belief that one day you will be out and lead a normal good life again and never lose it, no amount of items will help if u dont have this, u will be like those hobos who go back to street after getting shelter cuz learned helplessness

i mean it seems like majority of them just want money for whatever drug habit got them there in the first place. but for women i think TAMPONS lmao...