I Must Raise Money Immediately for Rent & WIFI - Asking STEEM for Help

UPDATE:

Thank you so much everyone for your encouragement, upvotes, STEEM, SBD and Paypal transfers. I am still in need.

New Post Link with updated information:
https://steemit.com/busy/@fitinfunfood/situation-critical-my-rent-and-wifi-are-not-paid-and-now-are-both-overdue

EMERGENCY! I am now 200 STEEM short of my goal which is PAST DUE.

I have 83 USD in my US Paypal, sent by STEEMers, that I cannot access. Paypal will not take my Malaysian phone number for an SMS. Maybe someone can help my who lives there now.
Original post:

In today's post I am asking for your help. Last month at this same time I asked for help with my living expenses and so many of you came through. After I posted I almost immediately got the help I needed. I am asking again because although most of my STEEMing life is going better, I am still not able to pay my bills.

I know everyone has their own life and problems they need to care about – but a lot of people will give help when asked. You cannot help me if you do not even know I have this problem.

Last month when you helped me, so many of you said I am just the type of person STEEM needs to succeed. I hope you still feel that way, and I am still 100% on board with optimism.

TLDR:

• Please send any amount of STEEM to @fitinfun so I can pay my rent tomorrow.
• Please upvote any current posts on any or all of my blogs; especially the older ones.
  @fitinfunfood
  @bxlphabet
  @fitinfun
• Please support any or all of my blogs in an ongoing manner so I can continue on.
  @fitinfunfood
  @bxlphabet
  @fitinfun

Who Am I?

This is Sharon French @fitinfun. I am a 59 year old Canadian, living alone in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. I lost “Half My Size” with natural methods 8 years ago and since then have been writing, taking photos, shooting videos, and coaching people to help others lose weight naturally like I did.

My son @bxlphabet has severe PTSD due to the trauma of growing up with me, an obese and very ill single mother. His memories are of me being taking away in the ambulance and not knowing if I would be back while he stayed with the teacher.

Helping parents lose weight for the sake of their kids is a big part of what I do and the reason I do it.

My son is not posting now and I am using his account until I hope he returns.

My life took a 180 degree turn when I lost the weight. I had a similar turning point when I got to STEEM in June 2017. From that time on, I have been here and working this place to help it succeed while supporting myself at the same time.

I have Rheumatoid Arthritis, an autoimmune disease. I cannot walk well and I never know when debilitating symptoms will appear. In one example, the stress release when you all helped me last month sent me into a huge flare that is not over yet. But eating bad food, or working too hard, or just about anything can cause a flare in symptoms.

The online life works well for me since I can work when I can work and lie down when I have to. My old 9-5 life as an accountant is no longer possible.

I have three blogs on the STEEM blockchain. I am posting:

• Healthy Food Ideas on @fitinfunfood <<< New as of Jan 1
• Easy Exercise, PTSD, Health Information and Art @bxlphabet since Aug 2017
• Motivation, Minnow Tips and Everything Else on @fitinfun since June 2017

I Must Raise $120 USD in 24 hours.

• I have to pay my rent and I do not have the money for it now.
• I need to pay for more wifi time in days, as dtube and STEEM suck it up.
• I need money to eat.

And the total I need including the above is in USD:

85 Rent
50 Food and supplies
75 WIFI
75 Travel for my VISA in 15 days from now

This is about 300 USD, which is close to 1200 STEEM. I will have post payouts, but I cannot predict them. We get "hits" of $8-$12 sometimes and then a similar post gets less than $1.

My total is much higher than I asked for last month because:

• I am doing dtube videos now on a limited wifi plan – the videos are killing the time. What last month was topping off, has become about $20 a week now on top of the plan cost of only $20 a month. Upgrading the plan is not possible for a variety of reasons.
• I have the visa trip outside the country to pay for each 90 days, and it is coming up now. The place I will stay in Singapore has great unlimited wifi, free breakfast, and cheap Chinese food next door. I will be taking my external drives and spending the whole time compressing videos. This is not a sightseeing trip, but a chance to do some intensive wifi work.

How can you help?

For Immediate need

• Send any amount of STEEM to @fitinfun
• Upvote any posts, especially the older ones at:
  @fitinfunfood
  @bxlphabet
  @fitinfun

The rent is due tomorrow and I have about half of it now or coming in time. The other expenses are coming in the next days, to 2 weeks.

For future need

• Please follow the accounts of:
  @fitinfunfood
  @bxlphabet
  @fitinfun

We get @busy votes daily based on the collective SP of our followers. @fitinfun gets great votes. The other two accounts do not. All of us follow back because everyone is obese, overweight, or loves someone who is. I follow all in every place I go online for this reason.

• Delegate to SP to any of the accounts
  Out of the blue, while I was writing this post, @majes.tytyty came by to say he could help me with delegation. I pay 14%-15% for delegations now through @minnowbooster. If you would like to offer me any delegation at a cheaper rate, I am all ears. I would like to have a bigger vote than the 4 cents, 2 cents, and 0 cents I have with the accounts now. I want to vote for more of the little people I see every day, but I can't at my current power levels.

• Set us up on your autovoter OR visit us on occasion

Last month, when I asked for help, I was added to some curation trails on the two accounts I had at the time, and I am so grateful.

Some of the people that helped me have also come back to vote posts.

But for the most part, I am talking to new people without much SP. The people who are getting help with minnow tips are minnows or less.

Why should you help me? Why do I think I am worthy of help?

I am an asset to the STEEM Blockchain.

When I got here as a weight loss coach to post content, I had no idea even what bitcoin was. I had only heard the name. STEEM/SBD/SP? I had no idea. I just liked how the posts looked and had friends here that told me it was a good place.

As a content creator I post and try to do that well. As an accountant, I try to figure out the systems at STEEM to make use of them. As the writer I have always been, I post my knowledge of this place when I get it to help other people too.

• I post 2-3 posts a day on each account. The majority of those are to help other people, especially small fish, in various ways. I get many comments on my posts and answer them all. People are grateful for my help, but they are small in their vote.
• I make 200-300 comments and replies each week between the three accounts.

In the last week these things have happened.

• Three posts were chosen by @c-squared for curation
• Five posts got @trufflepig accolades (Great post, low payout.) That little pig loves me and I'm always glad to see him, but several times a week when he visits, I wish I had the votes instead.
• Three of the @fitinfunfood posts were featured on the “Hit Parade for Newcomers” posts of @arcange for how many comments they got or good payouts for noobs.

I feel proud of the accolades but this still does not help with upvotes.

Here are post examples from each account:

@fitinfun

Do NOT Power Up Your STEEM to SP!!! Minnow Tip for the STEEM Blockchain

In this post, I’m telling the babies how to lease delegated sp so they can make more than 5 comments a day. There are also a few other strategies to succeed when new that cost STEEM, and I mention them as well, and tell how to do them.

Comment for Cash on the STEEM Blockchain

I'm telling people with low RC how to make their 5 comments a day pay so that they have money to lease delegated SP as noted above.

@fitinfunfood

My new @fitinfunfood blog has been a hit! It is 14 days old and look at this!

I have so many people on it and asking for help with food. The topic is huge and I am so glad I was able to pull it off from @fitinfun with the help of a free account offer for Christmas from @emrebeyler.

A few food posts a week was not helping people when buried on fitinfun. Now I have a place to talk only about healthy food and people are responding.

Minnow Tips after One Week from fitinfunfood

By starting this new account, I have been "lucky" enough to understand the problems of low RC first hand. We sure did a number on our little guys.

So in the post above, I tell all the minnow tips I learned a few days for a new account and got a LOT of people chiming in. I posted links to about 20 of my older minnow tips posts on various topics here too so they would all be in one place.

I will not post screenshots, but if you go to the comments of any of those four recent posts above, you will see people thanking me and asking more questions, and telling me they had no idea of the particular thing I said.

For example, one new person had no understanding of why the RC kept going down and was so happy to find out that he should stop editing posts.

@bxlphabet

What is PTSD?
This post did nothing on STEEM. But I have it in many groups elsewhere and have gotten over 20 comments from others whose lives are devastated by ptsd or a family member who has it. My explanation of this brain injury is helping people who really need the help, while spreading the word about STEEM and @dtube.

Easy Exercise - Use Your Wall to Help Your Back

This is the most recent Easy Exercise post of many linked it in and many more to come. With 80% of Americans now obese or overweight, easy exercise you can do at home is my focus. Few people over 300 pounds want to get up and go to the gym, or have the bravery, money, and time to do it.

Everything I talk about for exercise is do-able at any weight. Many of the moves can be done in bed or at your desk. These are things that helped me lose "half my size" eight years ago and they still work for me today.

Twitter

My biggest focus to promote STEEM has always been Twitter. I have a list of 500 STEEMer's there and Retweet from it to my 5000 other real connections. Thanks to @nathanmars efforts, we know have at least 100 new people actively tweeting STEEM posts now.

I have been active on Twitter since 2013 and use it to tweet steem posts of my own and others every single day. I have always done that since I got here, and I used to get no response from STEEM connections.

Now, I am getting 20-30 ReTweets and replies to the tweets I send from steem daily now. About half of those are from my other connections, so we are being seen.

One of my other hats is Twitter Coach which I did for a couple of years. We have energy and enthusiam on Twitter now and need some fine tuning in our efforts. I have a series of posts coming to try to help us do better out there. I am 100% thrilled with the action though. It is a breath of fresh air and I am meeting a lot of STEEMers I did not know before the dtube explosion.

Questioning the idea of @fundition for ongoing help

I got the suggestion to try this last month but it seems like an overwhelming task. Apparently I would make a long term budget and put it into this program. If anyone reading this is a wizard of fundition, I would love to hear from you.

Questioning my @dtube Participation

Should I keep posting on @dtube? It’s sucking my wifi bad. Until November 15 2017 when I moved to this place, I never had metered WIFI before, and never had to pay for it in shared accommodation like I live in now.

I have taken many steps:

• I altered my laptop to a metered setting
• I turn my wifi on and off all day to save the time
• I turned off all media (I no longer see photos in steemit posts)
• I stopped going to any internet sites except STEEM related
• I no longer watch any videos at dtube or yt

But still, my wifi cost is now more than my rent! I cannot even count on the "cost" to upload a video to dtube. It varies for no reason I can tell. Sometimes one video upload takes 1 mb of time. Another time it will take 5 mb even though it did not take longer in minutes.

People who have helped me

Last month, so many of you helped me and I am so grateful. Often people helping said it was not enough. But it is enough! I just need to keep going, and with everyone's help, I will.

If you can "only" vote some posts - It is enough.
If you can "only" send 1 STEEM - It is enough.
If you can "only" offer advice for how I can do better - It is enough.
If you can "only" offer encouragement and good wishes - It is enough.

This is the power of STEEM.

You are tagged because you have supported me in the past in a variety of ways. This list is in no order.

@mariannewest
@majes.tytyty
@surpassinggoogle
@kachinhenry
@berniesanders
@kiwideb
@chbartist
@oldtimer
@tattoodjay
@dswigle
@iamjadeline
@khimgoh
@socalsteemit
@derekrichardson
@josephinengpy
@maarnio
@jerrybanfield
@jaynie
@jeronimorubio
@marty-art
@stackin
@sergiomendes
@felt.buzz
@slowwalker
@ausbitbank
@abh12345
@happydolphin
@mediahousent
@oldtimer
@theycallmedan
@worldcapture
@zord189
@scrooger
@stephenkendal
@braaiboy
@thedarkhorse
@neoxian
@canadian-coconut
@reonlouw
@giantbear
@wonderwop
@josephsavage
@ecoinstant
@d00k13
@travelling-two
@vincy
@arunava
@lenasveganliving
@dimitrisp
@shaidon
@oleg326756
@kemelendez
@sergiomendes
@doomsdaychassis
@mermaidvampire
@ngc
@katerinaramm
@dwiitavita
@jiujisu
@lizanomadsoul
@metama
@marblely
@aggroed
@good-karma
@pfunk
@pharesim
@themarkymark
@netuoso
@reggaemuffin
@blockbrothers
@teamsteem
@furion
@arcange
@nextgencrypto
@dragosroua
@steemgigs
@c0ff33a
@thekitchenfairy

Thank you so much for reading my post everyone. I am dedicated to STEEM and plan to be a continuing part of its success.

~ Sharon @fitinfun
Discord: fitinfun 2249
[email protected]

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It is that time of year when the fitness equipment is out and the diet books are being read. I lost "Half My Size" eight years ago by using natural methods, and you can too!

This is Sharon @fitinfun. I am posting:

• Healthy Food Ideas on @fitinfunfood
• Easy Exercise, Tips, Health Information, and Art @bxlphabet
• Motivation and Everything Else on @fitinfun

Please follow along or contact me directly if you would like some individual help with weight loss and health. Anyone can do this if I did.

And be sure to fitinfun no matter what!