Gofundme?

There is a feature on Facebook that can be launched to raise funds for various causes.  The feature is called GOFUNDME.com.  I know nothing about how it works, only that accounts are set up to raise funds for various individual situations.

In recent days, I've seen several posted.  Two are to raise funds for funerals for unexpected deaths.
One is a plea for funds to send a child to Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.  Another is a bid for money to replace a vehicle that was destroyed in some kind of civil riot somewhere.  All worthy causes, I'm sure.

I think most families carry life insurance to cover funerals and car insurance to cover vehicle damage (unless policies don't cover civil unrest).  But if they don't, how are the rest of us responsible?  I am a Christian and a charitable person.  My church espouses "Live simply so that others may simply live". In the vernacular: I'm down with that.  The truth is that I DO live simply.  There are no frills in my life!  I live in a tiny house with a "new" 7-year-old vehicle.  I have no real social life that costs money.  My income is such that I have to decide, month-to-month, what things I can have and what things I can't.  I give to my church and favorite charities as I can, but now I'm wondering if I shouldn't just set up a gofundme account for myself and say, "My house needs a new roof" or "My house needs new carpet".  But those aren't sob stories.  I guess I need to say, "I can't live well because I am retired and on a fixed income."  Not sad enough?  Probably not.  I came from a different generation of folks that took care of their own.  Taking charity was for the uneducated and downtrodden.  I am neither uneducated nor downtrodden.

I see the whole gofundme thing as nothing short of begging.  It's one thing for a friend or family member to set up a charity account for a person or family, and quite another for the family itself to ask for money.  I guess I'm too old-fashioned for today's world.

Come to think of it, I've run myself so short on money this month that I'm not sure I'll have enough cash to buy Halloween candy for the trick-or-treaters on the 31st.  If you wish to contribute to my plight, just mail your hard-earned funds to:  Peggy's Little House-on-a-Slab, Plainfield, IN.  And God bless you!