Debbie and Spencer in the overgrown lawn – credit, SB Mowing, via GoFundMe
Who knew so much power lay behind the simple act of mowing the lawn.
That’s what Spencer from SB Mowing, the prolific social media account, has shown us before, and is now showing us again as his yardwork channels $685,000 to a woman who had no money for rent or groceries.
In a video posted on his YouTube channel on Friday, Spencer introduced his followers to Debbie. She, like most of his beneficiaries, has a terribly overgrown lawn and no money to hire anyone to take care of it.
In fact, Debbie—like Beth in a previous video GNN reported on—has no money at all.
“Debbie has had one of the hardest stretches of life imaginable, and she’s been carrying most of it alone,” SB Mowing said in a GoFundMe.
It started when her husband was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and given 90 days to live. Debbie had to be his caregiver until he passed away. During her grief, a contractor she’d hired for tree work took a $2,000 deposit and never showed up.
“A neighbor wrecked her car and didn’t pay for it. She fell 3 months behind on rent, put off dental and health care she genuinely needs, and there were days when she and her dogs went without food because she simply couldn’t afford it,” the GoFundMe page continued.
According to KAKE News in Wichita, an Uber driver who took Debbie home from the grocery store reached out to Spencer and explained the elderly woman’s situation.
Spencer and his father then came out with their kit and spent two whole days battling back the years of overgrowth and carting it off to the landfill. Afterwards, they took a war chest of things she had prepared to sell in a yard sale to Habitat for Humanity and brought back the cash without the work.
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Spencer’s nonprofit SB Mow it Forward took care of Debbie’s three-months of back rent. Then he set up a GoFundMe that went viral.
It raised $685,000 from more than 22,000 donations—all of which has gone to a trust of which Debbie is the sole beneficiary.
It’s the kind of story that makes you pause in the face of someone saying that social media is all political arguments and cat videos.
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