Posting Do's and Dont's
Please take just a minute to read over these posting points.
When you are posting on 2Hands, please be honest and up-front about your situation...
Do Not ask for money without providing details about what the money is for.
Do be very detailed about your financial situation, provide amounts needed and for what. START YOUR POSTING
WITH YOUR CITY!! PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE TO DETERMINE IF THEY CAN HELP!!
Do allow people to pay utilities directly. Word your ad to prove this. Avoid giving your account number but feel free
to give the name of the utility requesting payment. Example: "Please help provide a single mom with the necessary
amount to restore the heat in my house. I am owing $xxx.xx to (the utility) and I will happily release my account
information so you may pay (the utility) directly. Thank You for looking at my post. If you have any questions or want
to know more about my situation, please fill out the form so 2Hands can give you my information."
Do not act bossy... We see so many ads from people being very short in their words and almost demanding with
their requests. Example: "Need food ASAP for my kids."
Do you think anyone is going to respond to that ad? We guarantee they will not. TRY THIS: "Empty refrigerator
and my children are hungry. Please Help."
Do be nice! This is so very important, do not allow your posting to lack please and thank yous. A simple suggestion,
but could very well mean the difference between receiving and NOT receiving assistance.
Do not ask people to put money into your PayPal account. These NEVER receive assistance. 2Hands attempts to
monitor these requests very closely and will remove any mention of PayPal.
Do give details about clothing sizes and toys your children would like.
Do not give your first and last name, emails, physical addresses, names of friends or family or even your cat in a
posting. 2Hands edits postings to the best of our ability, removing any names and email addresses from postings.
We do this for your protection. We need to gather information from people wanting to assist. If you put your name
and email address, you open yourself up to solicitation.
Do CHECK YOUR SPELLING! Always take a minute and look over your posting. 2Hands does not have the time to
correct spelling in postings and a lot of postings are hard to read because of the many mis-spellings. We suggest
first typing your post onto a Microsoft Word or Works or similar application and then running a spell check before
copying and pasting into the request field on the Assistance Request Form.
Remember, you are needing to tell your situation in such a way that someone reading will know what you need, why
you need it, and how you need it resolved. The more detail about your need the better able people can judge their
ability to help.
2Hands has to deal with many situations where people have wanted to help a posting that was not very clear in their
need only to have to reject helping because once the details were brought to light, they realized they could not
assist. Time wasted for everyone involved.
Now, post your need!
Wishing you the best!
The 2Hands team
When you are posting on 2Hands, please be honest and up-front about your situation...
Do Not ask for money without providing details about what the money is for.
Do be very detailed about your financial situation, provide amounts needed and for what. START YOUR POSTING
WITH YOUR CITY!! PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE TO DETERMINE IF THEY CAN HELP!!
Do allow people to pay utilities directly. Word your ad to prove this. Avoid giving your account number but feel free
to give the name of the utility requesting payment. Example: "Please help provide a single mom with the necessary
amount to restore the heat in my house. I am owing $xxx.xx to (the utility) and I will happily release my account
information so you may pay (the utility) directly. Thank You for looking at my post. If you have any questions or want
to know more about my situation, please fill out the form so 2Hands can give you my information."
Do not act bossy... We see so many ads from people being very short in their words and almost demanding with
their requests. Example: "Need food ASAP for my kids."
Do you think anyone is going to respond to that ad? We guarantee they will not. TRY THIS: "Empty refrigerator
and my children are hungry. Please Help."
Do be nice! This is so very important, do not allow your posting to lack please and thank yous. A simple suggestion,
but could very well mean the difference between receiving and NOT receiving assistance.
Do not ask people to put money into your PayPal account. These NEVER receive assistance. 2Hands attempts to
monitor these requests very closely and will remove any mention of PayPal.
Do give details about clothing sizes and toys your children would like.
Do not give your first and last name, emails, physical addresses, names of friends or family or even your cat in a
posting. 2Hands edits postings to the best of our ability, removing any names and email addresses from postings.
We do this for your protection. We need to gather information from people wanting to assist. If you put your name
and email address, you open yourself up to solicitation.
Do CHECK YOUR SPELLING! Always take a minute and look over your posting. 2Hands does not have the time to
correct spelling in postings and a lot of postings are hard to read because of the many mis-spellings. We suggest
first typing your post onto a Microsoft Word or Works or similar application and then running a spell check before
copying and pasting into the request field on the Assistance Request Form.
Remember, you are needing to tell your situation in such a way that someone reading will know what you need, why
you need it, and how you need it resolved. The more detail about your need the better able people can judge their
ability to help.
2Hands has to deal with many situations where people have wanted to help a posting that was not very clear in their
need only to have to reject helping because once the details were brought to light, they realized they could not
assist. Time wasted for everyone involved.
Now, post your need!
Wishing you the best!
The 2Hands team