My bro Dwayne told me the cigarette lighter was invented before the match. Man, that’s messed up.

It makes you wonder about all the other things that happen backwards. Like how my mother paid for her car repairs. She used her car to pay for the mechanic.  No lie! She had about $1200 on an estimate and not enough money to pay for it. But she needed that car - she drives five days a week to Gardendale for her job. So unless she got it fixed, she wasn’t going to work.

My sister came up with the fix. She is on the internet all day and night, so she found this company that loans you money for the value of your car. She went to Car Title Loans in Bessemer. They gave her the money the next day.  Maybe not so messed up if it works.

I was reading the first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It To Beaver.” Which is funny because my mother said their family kept the outhouse until the 1970s. I don’t know why, she said it was because they are frugal people.

And that’s something they pass down in our family.  My mother is so frugal she reuses coffee filters and tea bags. My brother is so frugal he takes his foot off the gas if he sees a red light three blocks away. I’m so frugal … well, I’m not quite so frugal.

Last month I spent beyond my paycheck.  No biggie, done it before. But I’m topped out on my credit card balance, so I couldn’t borrow any more there. My problem is my car broke down and it needed repairs. The repairs would cost $600.  WAY more than I had. So I went online, looked around at car title loans, and found Birmingham Car Title Loans, a company that even the rest of my family can appreciate. They save you time with a quick application form, approvals in ten minutes and the money is available the next day.

Maybe I don’t save money, but I do save time, and since time is money, isn’t that then the same thing?

They say before you get married, you need to keep your eyes wide open.  After that, half shut.

Girl, do I know THAT.  When I met Bill, he was a strapping pile of boy.  The boy remains, but he’s mostly just a pile now.  Oh well, he loves me and provides through it all.

Except, I lost my job in Edwardsville last year, and there are not a lot of new jobs available there, here in East Alton, or Collinsville, Granite City, Alton, Highland, Madison, Troy or Venice or any other place nearby.  And what Bill doesn’t know is that sofa we bought last year in St. Louis was not $250 like I told him, it was $2500.  Guys are funny, they have NO IDEA what things really cost.  I was planning on paying it off myself instead of going through the whole “justify this expense for me again” thing.  However, with no job, no income and about $1700 remaining on the payments, I had to find a solution.

The answer was an East Alton Car Title Loan, an easy way to finance things when your car is paid for (and oh yeah, thanks for not letting me get a new car last year, Bill).  So car title loans can get you cash for things you need, or needed as is my situation, fast and easy and all online.  Problem solved.

By the way East Alton is near Hartford, Bethalto, Alton, Wood River, and Brighton.