Hello, for those who actually spent the time to see this, well thanks.

I am a husband and proud father. We are a family of three. We are currently living in a guest bedroom will all our belongings crammed in the bedroom and part of the basement and attic, about 20 sq feet total. Our son often is in the room with us and privacy is often a dream. He is 12 now about 5 foot 7 and 164lbs. needless to say there is little room for all three of us to stay on the queen bed since he is the size of an adult. He does have a small bedroom the size of a large walk in closet that used to be a plantroom/study. It is a old house we share with my wifes parents. We have no living room or anything else we are allowed to use so we mostly hide in the bedroom.

We almost owned our own condo years ago but the seller turned out to be a criminal and skipped town without notice the weekend before closing. Most of our savings was lost and the rest we had to use to attempt to pay off the bills we made in prep to move in. we went from a debt of only 5,000 and a new home awaiting and within weeks faced no home, moving back in with the inlaws and are now 20,000 in debt. My wifes family is unwilling to help and my family is filled with inmates and alchoholics.

 I in fact am the first member of my family to go to college, and before I got sick had even graduated from cooking school and did a good job with the work. I currently go to college with help from medications that limit the symptoms of the ailments I now work with. Among the list is Severe anxiety disorder, Agoraphobia and OCD.  I currently only go to school online because I can't handle some of the large class sizes in normal state college.

We have worked hard to be strict and get the debt down. However because of my disabilities I am medicated for so i can try to live as normally as possible. I now only leave the house for school and when i can go to a place like a park trail with little interaction. I have severe social and generalized anxiety,OCD, Depression plus some auditory and visual hallucinations. Shopping has become a mission as I have to calculate which stores will have the least customers and at which time. My wife works 2-3 jobs and getting by is all we can manage.

Currently we have been able to pay off the 20,000 in debt will the help of ebay. it took us over 9 years but we are now trying to save up enough to get our own space, a home to call our own. As you can imagine in this economy, it only multiplies the problems. but all of america is suffering to a degree we realize. My medications cost alot even with the crappy insurance we have and my son has gotten appliances in his mouth to fix a jaw misalignment. He will also need braces soon but we are saving up and hopefully he can get them in the spring of 2010.

We want you to know that much of the stuff we sell we get donated to us from friends who know of our situation. What we buy is often used tshirts etc for our son and some videogames and dvds for us to have something to do for fun in our room. We do want to make money but strive to be fair in our pricing, especially shipping. Unfortunatley we aren't a large seller so we can't offer free our 3.00 shipping we have to charge the rate neccesary to handle the poundage and all the shipping supplies plus gas. We hope you understand.

For those who want and are able to donate paypal money just messages us and we willgive you our info to do the transaction. WE DO NOT HAVE INTERNET AT HOME, so we are forced to use the local library for internet. so understand it may take us a few days to respond to messages or ship out items. we can't be reached on the weekend as the library is closed.