Book Bargain Hunter Gifts

'I might see if they're any cheaper online.'

Books the Prof Ordered. . . More Cost-Effective Books Ordered By The Bookstore Manager.

Student to other about shredded paper: 'Some of these used textbooks have really been through the grind.'

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

Sale on the same stuff as last week.

Beach con-man.

'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."

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

"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!"

Cut Price

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

SALE

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!'

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

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

"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!)

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

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

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

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

Sign in book shop window: 'Critics agree the book is much better than the movie.'

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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

'My wife is going to kill me. All her shopping coupons are in that lost luggage.'

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

Countervailing Clichés.