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Single Mom’s Tax Return Facebook Post Goes Viral: ‘My Kids Don’t Want for Anything Because My Priorities Are Straight’

This mama’s winning the internet! Single mom Christina Knaack posted a photo of her rent receipt to Facebook on Wednesday, February 22, noting that she’d used all the money from her tax return to make the big payment — and commenters are applauding her for her actions.

“I got back $5600 on my taxes,” the 29-year-old mother of two from Gaffney, South Carolina, captioned the image. “Instead of buying my kids the latest Jordans or fancy electronics I paid my rent for the YEAR. I’m a single mom and I do it all buy myself on a minimum wage job. I kno that a roof over my kids head is what’s important. My kids don’t want for anything because my priorities are straight. And this also means I will have that extra 450 a month to do things with my kids.”

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As of Friday afternoon, Knaack’s post has garnered more than 330,000 reactions and been shared nearly 134,000 times. A stranger who was touched by her story even opted to start a GoFundMe campaign. In subsequent posts, Knaack also revealed that numerous people had reached out to her in hopes of donating items for her and her two daughters — Serenity Grace, 2, and McKayla Michelle, 4 months.

Christina Knaack
Courtesy Christina Knaack/Facebook

“Going to get a PO box tomorrow,” she posted Thursday, February 23. “People have asked to send my daughters things and I don’t mind it. I appreciate the messages (that I’m still trying to go thru so please don’t think I’m ignoring anyone) and all the love I’ve received.”

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In an interview with local station Fox Carolina, Knaack explained that she had originally written the post as a way to show family and friends that she had gotten her life back on track after years of struggling with addiction.

Christina Knaack
Courtesy Christina Knaack/Facebook

“I was in addiction from the age of 16 to 26 and I never thought I would make it out,” she said in the Fox interview. “I was homeless. I know a lot of girls in Florida, where I’m from, who are recovering addicts.”

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Knaack, who has been clean for three years, added that using her tax return money to pay a full year’s worth of rent was a no-brainer for her. “It’s better throughout the year. Like, I don’t have to worry about my kids saying, ‘Mommy, I need this,’ and I can’t get it because I’m still trying to debate if I can pay my light bill or if I can pay my rent,” she said. “You see too many posts now, like, ‘Oh, I got my kid the latest Jordans’ or ‘Look, my 7-year-old has an iPhone 7.’ People lose sight of what’s important. … It feels great.”

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