It’s that time of the year.  To be honest it’s my favorite holiday of the year! It’s technically not even a holiday, but to let the cat out of the hat – its the Super Bowl!! I love the Super Bowl.  Mainly because  I seem to pick the winner almost every year.  That’s right! I always bet on the game and most of the time I win.  I think I’ve won 8 out of the last 10 games! So the money has been pretty good I should say!  Unfortunately this year with all the holidays over, I am flat broke! I have no money to my name.  And when I say no money, I mean I have a piggy bank with change, but that is it!  SO I’m going to have find some quick cash, so I can put a bet on the big game and win some money to pay my bills I owe!  I can’t wait! Usually we get a bunch of guys together drink beer and eat off the grill.  Usually its hot dogs and hamburgers and other assorted meats.

My neighbor says there is car title loans in Columbia available to get the paper work going for me. They are also referred to as auto title loans. The business is called Car title loans in Morrow, but car title loans are also called auto title loans. Here is the link: http://www.COLUMBIA-MO-CAR-TITLE-LOANS.INFO .  Why spend all day in a bank when you can go get an auto title loan and have money right away! I can’t wait to get some fast cash.  Whoever invented car title loan in Columbia is really clever.

Johnny B.

Eagles (and geese) may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.

I think there’s a lesson here. Last year I was walking along Slade Street and ran into a high school friend.  Oh was she riding high, in her Lexus (she is/was a trophy wife), leather boots, fur coat, Chanel sunglasses.  I buy my clothes at TJ Maxx and Target (no animal dies for my clothes!), and drive a Volkswagon Golf. We had a coffee at Starbucks, and the conversation was pleasant, although she managed to mention three foreign countries they’ve traveled to in the past couple years.

Fast forward to 2009.  I hear her husband dumped her, his real estate company is completely bankrupt, they lost their house. I’m not saying I wish such things on anybody (noooo not meeeeee).  But it more or less makes me feel happy we’re weathering this downturn without a major disruption.

Last month the refrigerator went on the blink, and my own husband was out of work. We just didn’t have spare cash for a new one.  My husband said, in joke, maybe we should store our food in the cars. So I looked at my Golf and said, “hey, we can get a car title loan.”  Sure enough, I went online and found Palatine Title Loans, where car title loans are available in about a day.  Which was perfect, because we were able to order a new refrigerator for delivery before the food went bad (we actually did keep the frozen foods out there for one night, since it was about 10 degrees out).

This weasel survives, thank you very much.

Palatine is also near, Inverness, Lake Zurich, Deer Park, Barrington, and Buffalo Grove.

My sister is a big cat person, so big that it was getting the best of her.  So we did an intervention with some questions I found online.  They were:

• Do you select your friends based on how well your cats like them?
• Does your desire to collect cats intensify during times of stress?
• Do you buy more than 50 pounds of cat litter a month?
• Do you think it’s cute when your cat swings on your drapes or licks your butter?
• Do you admit to non-cat owners how many cats you really have?
• Do you sleep in the same position all night because it annoys your cats when you move?

She answered yes to every question.  So we sent her to a therapist in Crystal Lake, a recommendation from a friend of mine here in Barrington. This was kind of expensive – $1600 – but we thought better that than her losing her $2500 security deposit on her apartment when she moves.  The good news is she saw she had a problem, and has begun giving the cats away, one by one, to new homes.

The hard part is paying for the therapy.  I agreed that I initiated it, but only to the point of covering half the expense: $800.  It definitely pushed my limits on cash for this time of year, but I found a great answer to that problem.  I found I could get a title loan on my car at Barrington Title Loans because my car is paid off.

It’s now possible to visit my sis without asking to open the windows.  Believe me, you don’t know how much that investment was worthwhile.

By the way Barrington is near Middlebury, Barrington Hills, Inverness, Palatine, and Deer Park.