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FOOD
- Find your nearest food bank or mission, for food
- grocery stores with free samples, bakeries + stores with day-old bread
- different fast food outlets have cheaper food and will generally let you hang out for a while.
- some dollar stores carry food like cans of beans or fruit
SHELTER
- Sleeping at beaches during the day is a good way to avoid suspicion and harassment
- sleep with your bag strapped to you, so someone can’t steal it
- Some churches offer short term residence
- Find your nearest homeless shelter
- Look for places that are open to the public
- A large dumpster near a wall can often be moved so that flipping up the lids creates an angled shelter to stay dry
HYGIENE
- A membership to the YMCA is usually only 10$, which has a shower, and sometimes laundry machines and lockers.
- Public libraries have bathrooms you can use
- Dollar stores carry low-end soaps and deodorant etc.
- Wet wipes are all purpose and a life saver
- Local beaches, go for a quick swim
- Some truck stops have showers you can pay for
- Staying clean is the best way to prevent disease, and potentially get a job to get back on your feet
- Pack 7 pairs of socks/undies, 2 outfits, and one hooded rain jacket
OTHER
- first aid kit
- sunscreen
- a travel alarm clock or watch
- mylar emergency blanket
- a backpack is a must
- downgrade your cellphone to a pay as you go with top-up cards
- sleeping bag
- travel kit of toothbrush, hair brush/comb, mirror
- swiss army knife
- can opener
Reblog to literally save a life
Homeless help line:
Call 1-800-786-2929For homeless veterans:
Call 1-877-424-3838National Runaway Switchboard
800-RUNAWAY (786-2929)
Available 24/7
www.1800runaway.orgBoys Town National Hotline
(For at-risk teens and children)
800-448-3000
Available 24/7
www.boystown.org/hotlineFind a local food bank
www.feedingamerica.orgCrisis Call Center
800-273-8255
or text ANSWER to 839863
Available 24/7
crisiscallcenter.org
- is this the place that they call paradise?
- houston
- capillaries
- untitled
- vertigo
- the time it takes to heal
- the light pours out of me
- race for the prize
- standing at the sea (with david delruelle)
- pathways
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My favorite albums lately, which I just recommended to @transluminecent and also recommend to you.
1) John Maus // We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
2) The League Unlimited Orchestra // Love and Dancing
3) Cocteau Twins // Blue Bell Knoll
4) Buzzcocks // Singles Going Steady
5) Thomas Dolby // The Flat Earth
6) Harold Budd/Simon Raymonde/Robin Guthrie/Elizabeth Fraser // The Moon & the Melodies
The Cramps in their very first lineup, back in 1976: Lux Interior, Bryan Gregory, Poison Ivy & Miriam Linna.
They look so cute, it’s like looking at a newborn’s photo.
“…Got asked to be a drummer in an avant-gard (sic) band, they want someone who’s never touched a drum kit. These people say they’re better than anyone, truly bizarre. Tux (sic) is 29, Ivy like 26, both beautiful young college graduate Californians (!) who finally want to get a band together in the Big Apple…”
Miriam Linna, The Cramps’ drummer, ‘76-’77.
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