Welcome to Hope Helps. Upon gathering intel for this review, I noticed a few problems. First off…read moreEVERYTHING. Second off EVEN MORE some how. Let's get into what this place is because the name is about as vague as it gets. This place accepts donations from denizens of Kingsport Tennessee in the act of giving free hand outs to those in desperate need of Food, Water, Clothes, or other supplies. Sometimes they host a giant Yard sale on Saturdays where people can sell their goods in hopes to make money. They provide some things for free (But nothing you REALLY need like food and water), only on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 AM to 2:30 PM. However after reading the updated hours, now it's only 10 AM - 2:30 PM on Thursday only. They keep the really good stuff inside. All the food, water, clothes and supplies one would need to get by. Of which they willing give out. The Problem is, you need an APPOINTMENT to take items. And there's a limit to how MANY items you can take. If memory serves and don't quote me on this, I think it was 10 items. If you want to make an appointment, you're gonna be waiting for like a MONTH. AND they are ONLY OPEN on THURSDAY! So basically, you only can get donations on ONE DAY of the 7 day week with a very long waiting list to get supplies you need like NOW. By the time you actually are able to go in to get items, it will be too late to be helpful, and not enough to be helpful. You could do volunteer work. For ever one hour you work, you basically are granted $1 you can use to buy one of their items. My husband did this volunteer work and it was less effective than calling Corporate on a Bad Business. Meanwhile we're financial struggling cause given how high the cost of living is these days, we can barely afford our Rent. Not to mention at that point we were both unemployed. Side note, there's literally a homeless woman and her dog living in their car next to the store with permission to live there. I legit mistook it for loitering and alert the Police about it before I realized, or her and her dogs are legally permitted to live there. This place is a joke. A waste of your time. It's like someone dangling a carrot over your head which is just far enough out of your reach to get. If you're so big on helping those in need, why be so darn restrictive that it's no longer being helpful. It's just being an annoyance. Given your donations you legitimately have everything you need to help those who can't afford basic things like Food and Water. You're literally sheltering a homeless woman outside your store basically by allowing her to stay, and yet you have this many restrictions. Hope Helps? Yeah right. More like I Hope you have another plan to get help, cause you ain't finding it here.

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