Should I Borrow Money?

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Sometimes it makes good sense to borrow money
Too often, your paycheck is spent the minute you get it. You pay a few bills, make a trip to the grocery store, and fill the tank with gas.
You’re almost tapped out.  Fortunately or not, your kid mows [...]

A Loan till Payday Can Help You Get Ahead

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Getting a loan till payday is misunderstood in some circles
The economy is a wreck. The jobless rate is rising. Homes are still being lost to foreclosure. Gasoline prices are creeping back up. Groceries are more expensive every week. [...]

Deep Fried Butter | Where Do I Sign Up?

What I wouldn’t give to have it in my mouth
I may need a loan till payday. Why? Because I have to stock up on butter and buy a deep fryer. I want to feel those slick gifts glide down my tongue. I want to embrace it in my mouth until [...]

What are you waiting for? Make some deep fried butter! (Photo: commons.wikimedia.org)

Chick Fil A Will Give Me a Free Meal If I Do What?

Free food for Cow Appreciation Day
This is just about the strangest promotional strategy I have ever heard of. Chick Fil A today will give a free meal to anyone who is dressed, or partially dressed, like a cow.
Chick Fil A has long been using the “Eat Mor Chikin” advertising campaign, [...]

Chick Fil A cows in last year's Rooster Days Parade in Oklahoma

Should I Rent or Buy . . . or Both?

Rent-to-Buy Deals are the Order of the Day

These are altogether confusing financial times. If you’re a seller with a house languishing on the market, you might wish you could get rid of the mortgage, rent a place, and get a loan till payday.  If you’re a potential buyer, you might [...]

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Fast Cash for Best Friends

The Dog and Larry are Best Friends
The Dog and Larry have jobs down at the shop. The Dog works like a dog, making his rounds in the tall grass behind the shop. He’s not sure what kind of work Larry does. But it’s the kind of work where Larry sometimes [...]

The Dog worked hard every day

Cell Phone Elbow is Your Smartphone Malady of the Day

Cell phones can make you weak
Aches and pains tend to follow you through life, like uninvited guests who fart in your rose garden. I say “you” because I plan to have my limbs replaced by cybernetic meat hooks.
But back to that rose garden. I beg your pardon, but take a [...]

Money’s My Best Friend

I said “no” to a payday loan
I just got back from the Sunbanks Rhythm and Blues festival, a four-day music and camping event at beautiful Banks Lake near Electric City, Washington. I had to take time off from work without pay in order to go, and financially I was [...]

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