Becoming Debt-free Mugs

"At last they paid off their sub-prime fairy-tale and lived happily ever after."

"If I made as much as him, I could retire in a couple of days"

"I'd better enjoy this while I can. It's the only home I'll own without a mortgage!"

'Honestly Bob, it's not that bad. If you can make as much next year as you did this year you'll be able to pay off your outstanding taxes for last year. That'll just leave the interest, the tax for this year and... my fees.'

"Hey, honey, the credit card company increased our debt... I mean our credit limit!"

Investing your savings

"Here's what you wanted – a strategy to live abundantly, build capital, surpass your peers and disappoint your heirs."

Medical student overdrafts...careers in the law.

"So, the bills still aren't paid? You've never been good at money management."

"And to finally break free from the crippling burden of my student loans."

"I know it's not in our nature, but we really gotta stop charging everything."

'Having the money tree has really helped out.'

'...and please God, protect the social security fund for another sixty years.'

'If the best things in life are free, we have too many of the worst things.'

'The pain in my head always seems to subside when I flush your bills down the toilet!'

'That was Mr.Osgood, sir. He's just made his final payment.'

Wide screen TV

'It's great not needing to put anything aside for a rainy day.'

"It's over!"

'I didn't make any money last year because you destroyed my incentive the year before.'

"Apparently he told Chris Tarrant it was just enough to pay off his mortgage!"

'There's no interest on your purchase for a year. Then we become VERY interested in your balance after that.'

I spent it all under the silly notion that it was all mine.

"This one's called 'unpaid electric bills'."

The man who finally got his account in the black

"For what it cost me, it SHOULD be big."

'Will that be on your store charge?'

'You'll need a better credit rating before we can give you a credit card?'

The Adventures of Recession Man! M'lady, you seem distressed. I haven't had a raise in two years. My bills keep going up but my income has stagnated. Fear not. I can save the day. You can get me a raise? I can help you see things differently. We'll talk it out, then I'll give you a back rub, and you'll feel your anger dissolve into sweet kisses. Typical! some man fashions himself a superhero who can sweet me up in his arms and dismiss all my problems. Whoa, this economy's a powerful nemesis. It'

"I don't know what we'll do when our adjustable-rate mortgage resets."

In case of insolvency break glass.

'I'm glad the American Dream is still alive and well somewhere.'

Pay Peter...Pay Paul.

"We've been pre-disapproved for another loan."

Worrying over the large number of bills to pay.