Bargain Queen Gifts

"I signed up for a shopaholic class. It was a real bargain."

"No, there was no 'Buy One, Get One Free.' You're twins."

"It looks like our house got sick and threw up the attic."

Beach con-man.

Sale on the same stuff as last week.

'Now that I've lost weight, I can't afford new clothes in my size.'

"Freudian, Jungian, Adlerian – none of it compares to retail therapy."

"It was terrifying experience being faced with that kind of compulsive, insane behaviour...I tell you it's positively the last time I put foot in the sales!"

'What do you do with the time you save?'

Cut Price

SALE

"They're on special offer so I got three times more than I could ever use for twice as much as I could afford!"

Will work for ETFs

'You can forget the Captain's table-we're not paying that kind of money just to eat with the crew!'

Thrift: New way to eat eggs (avoid needless transport costs).

Hamlet's struggle with online shopping addiction. To eBay or not to eBay.

"Wait a sec, I have a coupon around here somewhere."

'That's what I thought, finances are tight: She's switched to no-name cat food...'

The dumpster code - find something, leave something.

"I'm beginning to think that buy one, get one free is not always a good thing."

Shop struggles to sell books about recession: '90 per cent off on all credit crunch books' (Titles incluude: Beat the Crunch! Who's to Blame? We're all Doomed!)

"I saved us a hundred bucks on a Jolly Jumper."

'If by 'great', you mean 'terrible', then yes, we have plenty of great beers for under $4.00 a six-pack.'

"Which of these will look the prettiest without the others?"

'It's nothing serious. Rest is the best cure for binge shopping.'

"T-shirt weather's coming. How ready are you?"

"If the economy's ground to a halt, we can help by carrying on shopping."

(Visual gag) Wellard's annual BIG HANDBAG SALE!! A woman is dragging a huge bag out from a bag shop

Man sees sign stating dog for sale, house and land thrown in.

"It's a 'Black eye friday'. I got it in a fight over a 56 inch TV."

"I just..."

When Tia Carmen says... "I got it for a very good price!" it means...she stopped at a garage sale on the way home.

"Sure, shopping online is faster and cheaper, but there's something almost sensuous about carrying an armload of packages!"

'Rozlyn, that blouse is very cute! I think you should get it.'

"I want you to know that emotion overrode reason."