have you ever been homeless?

50 homeless GFYers

This thread makes me realize just how blessed I've been.
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

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

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.




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.