(Part 3) Top products from r/Adulting

Help her with getting those documents, first and foremost. Set up a weekly coffee date with her to sit down and make phone calls and go through all the steps/strategize. Don’t do it all for her — involve her and show her how to make informational phone calls, etc. introduce her to the adult process of “red tape”, since her mom clearly never wanted to do it.

Set her up with one of these:
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Get her started on all her basic “life documentation” that usually a parent would handle — SS card, birth certificate, ID card, (and copies of all the above), passport if possible.

Collect any old medical and dental records from childhood. if mom doesn’t have these, you can usually have them re-released to you. If she can she should ask her mom about basic medical history — diagnoses, surgeries, cause of death, on both sides of the family. Take notes.

Make sure she’s current on all shots and vaccines. Planned Parenthoid and other low income clinics are great.

Get any documentation of grades and academic performance from high school/middle school/grade school. High school diploma or GED certificate.

If she’s out of the house for good — like if her mom is actively hostile or abusive — she should collect any other important family information before she goes. Contact info for extended family members, special photographs, etc.

If she’s of age, get her signed up for SNAP/food stamps and local youth/low-income public transportation card.

Help her open her first checking account. Debit card. No credit cards. Warn her away from debt.

Prepaid basic cell phone. Cheap laptop or ipad+keyboard. Login info for her bank account. Link the phone with a Venmo and PayPal account for easy money transfer, if you’re going to be helping her get on her feet.

You should also look into local (in your town or the town she’s headed to) youth support services/social workers. She might be able to get a caseworker. There are usually programs that will help with tech literacy, putting together resumes/starting the job hunt, signing up for classes, etc. Your local community college should be able to point you in the right direction.

If she’s still in high school — see if she has any teachers she likes, or school counselors. You want to surround her with as many supportive adults as possible and you should all be talking to each other. Ask if she has any favorite/supportive aunties or neighbors.

Ideally, having her in therapy would be great so she can figure out next steps but it’s pretty expensive. Look up the Open Path Collective for local low-fee options.

Here on Reddit, a few good subs:

r/povertyfinance

r/internetparents

r/Momforaminute

I first went through and tossed anything that didn't have a matching bottom/top and anything where the seal was less than ideal.

I stacked up all the bowls as best as I could, kind of nesting them inside of each other.

Then I organized the lids in the same order, but I used a pot lid holder like this to store them.

What about something like this?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002E35WE

A Chappell’s review tho

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