Money help: Me and my two kids don’t have money for a X-Mas dinner or no money for me to buy them gifts. - Help.com

I know a group where I live that is going to prove dinner and gifts to a family this Christmas. And once when I was a kid we got hifts provided to us somehow. So, there might be a program that can help you, if you do a little research.

There are a lot of churches out there that are helping folks like yourself I’d start there.

The Salvation Army or an organization such as that should be able to help provide you with some gifts. Make some calls and I’m sure you will find some help.

There are programs that provide both. Churches, Toys for Tots, Salvation Army, or your social worker might know. Your local newspaper might also be able to give you some advice.

I’m finding it strange that you say you have no money for dinner. What do you ordinarily feed your kids? Can’t you just make them your nicest meal, light a candle, and sing Christmas songs over dinner? Maybe you could get together with another mom who has little and share the cooking tasks, each bringing your best dish. Maybe you could make star-shaped sugar cookies and decorate them together with colored sugar and sprinkles.

You could also make the holiday special by borrowing some Christmas books from the local library and read your children a Christmas story or two. Another way is to take them to church, maybe for a candlelight ceremony on Christmas eve, or go some night to a place where there is an illuminated Christmas manger display and tell them the story of Christmas. And your two-year-old would probably enjoy making some decorations with you.

The six-month-old isn’t going to care about presents, but I bet there are nice things you could make for both of them from things around the house. It’s pretty easy to sew a doll or teddy bear (old towels are great for this), or to knit a colorful scarf. You could make hand puppets and do a puppet show with your two-year-old to entertain the baby.

Where do you live?

How do you use a computer when your homeless. I am not being a jerk I really want to know. Are you in a library. You question said MN are you in Minnesota?

No one said you were wasting anyone’s time. We’re trying to help you here. Where and how do you ordinarily get food for your children? Do you stay at a shelter? WHat happened to make you homeless? Don’t you have any relatives that you could turn to?

Could you ask the friend that you sometimes stay with to let you join him or her in making a nice Christmas dinner? What part of the world do you live in?

worry about you and your kids before giving lavish gifts at christmas

i only speak english?

Oh sweety i can read but I’m not sure what “welfear” is
or “tranportian”

go back to school

No, Monday, of course we would not succeed at living off $75 a month in food stamps. That’s why we work.

Look, I have compassion for a person who is down on her luck because of some emergency—that’s why I tried to help Latoya to begin with. If she lived near me I would take her shopping and help her make a nice Christmas for her children. That’s why I keep asking where she is.

But I DON’t have compassion for people who consider handouts as a lifelong entitlement, and who b***h that they are not getting enough. Latoya did not seem to imply that it was the responsibility of OTHER people to make her whole–she simply asked for advice. But, Monday, you sound like you are dangerously close to believing that the world owes you a living. Maybe I’m misinterpreting you, and, if I am, I apologize.

Me, I work very, very hard to support my family, and I would never think of transferring that responsibility to other people. Even when I can barely make ends meet, I always try to find ways to help other people who are less fortunate. But I have much MORE compassion with people when they are making efforts, not when they are making demands.

Latoya, I wish you luck. Monday, I wish YOU luck, too–but I also wish you would target your energies in a more appropriate direction—for example, toward solving your problems through work, prayer, and education. Your anger is not going to make your situation better.

I will say prayers that both of you make good progress and improve your situations in 2009.

Go to a local church for example my church has the Angel Tree Program which adopts families in need and provides food and gifts. A lot of churches I know of reach out to folks in need in their communities.