Practical Resources for the Homeless and Poor

Education
- GED Tutoring
- Literacy Tutoring
- Life long learning
- Traditional college, etc.

Recreation
- Reading
- Board games (Scrabble etc)
- The park
- The public library
- The college library
- create your own hobby

Low Cost food
- Grocery store sales
- Food banks
- Dollar stores like Dollar Tree
- buy in bulk and share with others, divide the cost

Inside cooking etc.
- Microwave
- Hotplate
- Small "dormitory type refrigerator
- Solar freezer or refrigerator

Low cost housing
- Good luck
- Rooms for rent
- live in a cheap office with bathroom and use if for your business making it two places in one with half the cost.

If you have to sleep outside of traditions resident buildings
- Self-storage unit
- A field of a friend or kind landowner
- Never on a used railroad track but only on an abandoned railroad bed
- abandoned property of a kind landowner
- Your car or van, bus etc.
- An RV Recreational vehicle
- Boat, pontoon boat
- Semi tractor truck
- Semi tractor trailer but keep the gate open or make a door
- If you sell at a flea market and have a lock-up space then sleep there but check first with management (if the illegal mexicans can do it why can't You?

Low cost Clothing
- Store sales
- Clothes bank
- Thrift store
- Yard sales
- Flea markets

Make Money
- Sell at flea markets
- Consignment sales in someone else’s store
- Your own online business
- Online auctions etc. (eBay, Yahoo Auction etc.
- Odd jobs
- Yard sales
- Thrift store etc you and your friends started

Sanitation - Showers
- BIVOUAC BUDDY SHOWER http://www.bivouacbuddy.com/index.htm
- YMCA/YWCA or Fitness Center (will require membership)
Fire Station
City Recreation
Some Churches with a "family Life Center"
- Friends
- Solar water heater

Sanitation - Toilet
- Portable toilet http://www.outbackpack.com/
- Five gallon bucket with trash bag liner, toilet paper with spray Lysol etc.


Low Cost Transportation
- Walk
- Bicycle
- Moped
- Electric golf cart (some municipalities will let you use them
- Electric Wheelchair great if you are handicap or elderly. (you can find them used – check with a medical rental store for a returned but still good electric wheelchair

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