Hello Shelley --

There already are lots of good suggestions here, so I'm not going to add much. I had to ask my T this week to STOP making suggestions, bec. I felt overwhelmed by so many.

I wish I could help you materially. I agree w/those who see no need for you to feel guilty about owning a computer.

Or, for that matter, for accepting gifts of a meal, movies, a book, from other people. Learning to accept help and outright kindess from others has been very difficult for me, and I am still working onit. I even find it hard to accept compliments -- and I wonder what other people are seeing in me that I'm NOT seeing, and wonder how they can say such nice things about me. And why my family doesn't see these nice things about me.

I hope you find a food bank. Perhaps someplace that recycles books and magazines.

I am trying to learn about how to set up a free website (for example, at bravenet.com) that would get enough traffic so that if it carried affiliate ads, I might get a little extra income from that. I'm still not quite sure how the whole process works -- and, of course, it would have to be set up so that it didn't cancel out the disability income.

But of course, when my body hurts -- and I know my physical pain is relatively minor -- and when my depression is spiking -- doing anything productive is out of the question.

I am glad that you checked in with us, HamsterGirl. I was worried when you weren't here for a few days. Guess I should have PM'ed. Didn't think of it til just now.