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Question about care packages for people who are or have been homeless (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey folks, it's getting cold, worried about folks in my area.

Would y'all prefer a care package with socks, wet wipes, a lighter, some candy and clif bars, or would you prefer the equivalent in cash? I figure some things are probably hard to get to shops to purchase, but I wanted to ask folks who have been there and know what's most helpful.

If you would prefer a care package, what are some important essentials that you'd want to have in it?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

i co-founded a tiny org that did essentially this

our packages contained (off the top of my head):

clothes (usually from a charity shop, two birds stoned at once)
wet wipes or soap
pack of socks
matches
sometimes a little hexamine stove (like they put in ration packs here) when we could get them cheap
for smokers a pouch of tobacco (bought from a guy that smuggled it from the continent, cheaper when there's no tax on it lol), rolling papers, and filters
some food, usually stuff we cooked ourselves

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

thermal underwear

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Those little magic heat packs are good

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I was homeless for one winter in a cold place. I would have preferred the cash, but your list would have been good too. The hardest things to get for free that I really needed were socks, toilet paper and blankets. I could get free clothes at a couple places, but they never had socks.