Another WTF GFM...

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A brother of a friend's husband on FB has a Go Fund Me to get "Friend's husband" a tattoo for his birthday". A tattoo ya'll. 

I just can't. 

I also had a friend who was doing a GFM for teacher yoga training like 2 years ago. I believe deeply in yoga and her husband makes six figures so I figured anything that wasn't raised, she'd cash flow. Nope. She just kept the money and now doesn't post at all on facebook about yoga or becoming a yoga teacher. Um. I'd like my 50 bucks back please. I make less than half of what your husband does. /bitter.

[doglove]

Wow.

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Wtf is wrong with people??!!

[stephreloaded]

I hate GFM unless is something really unexpected.

I have a friend who will set up one of these for moving for example. Then she realized that moving to that town was not a good idea and then she decided to move to another city and she set up yet another one of those. The new move makes no sense as most jobs are in the city where I live and she is now on her own on the other one still trying to find a job. I'm guessing she will move again and will set up yet another one.

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Yeah. I just can't even. in 2012 I set up a fund for my dog that had a sudden and traumatic injury. I literally moved out of my XH's house in Feb, my dog was stepped on at the end of May (crushed his windpipe), and my dad had a stroke a week later. I was up to my eyeballs in debt and my dad lived 11 hours away.

I had to set it up in an action plan with a charity that donated to my dog's care. It wasn't a GFM but something else. I did that, sold items (and had to show proof to the charities), get a doctor's note from the vet, etc to prove I was doing everything I could to help raise funds for my dog. RedRover and Brown Dog really helped and I donated the money back once I was on my feet again and able. Without that 800 dollars, I would have put my dog to sleep. So I don't totally think GFM is a terrible thing.