I respect danski and I believe what he says is true, it does look like money mismanagement and it doesn't happen overnight on a foreclosure, but we also don't know the whole story.
I don't think it was a scam because one, she didn't go asking for help and two, she's logged on and not responded to this thread. There were offers before to donate stuff to her as well as trying to get vendors to donate stuff and getting the media involved, now there seems to be some sort of turnaround that might be driving her off. Heck, we've all been in a bad spot before at some time or other, I don't think we're talking about paying off her home and buying her husband a new Corvette here, I think we're talking about getting them caught up or a little ahead, at least until her husband can get home to help sort the thing out. Poor money management or not, put yourself in his shoes whether he knows about it or not. He's either not concentrating on his job over there, which could kill him if he's going out into the boonies (he doens't exactly look like a pencil pusher), or he'll come home devestated that he's lost his house.
She said she ran a home daycare out of the home, my wife did that for a number of years until all our kids were old enough to be in school all day. I know that she probably made maybe $5 an hour and fed them as well. Her husband is enlisted most likely although he had a C5 ZO6 that he got rid of when she became pregnant.
In any case, $5 or $10 from a bunch of us wouldn't kill any of our budgets to help them out. I have a suspicion that we won't hear from her because she's probably embarassed and the home will foreclose. I can't swing a Bennie, but I can swing a Hamilton or a Jackson. In any case, she's probably too prideful to ask or accept help from us, but I invite her to shrug off her pride and just consider it a gift, it is the Christmas season after all and the baby is very cute.
