Budget Bear Tamers Gifts

'They cut my hours at work, so to save money I've decided to do my own taxidermy!'

Welcome Spring.

"Gas. Regular. Premium. Super. You don’t want to know."

"...and that growl has turned many a hunter into vegetarians!"

'According to the budget, we'll have to count on body heat to keep the offices warm.'

"I'm on a tight budget. Make it look like I cut at myself."

'The scariest story I know is escalating health care costs.'

'Well, maybe upteen zillion was too general a cost estimate.'

'Our new simplified energy bills just have a few options starting with 'Grossly inflated' and progressing to the premium 'Bloodsucker' package. . .'

White House Garage Sale.

'If only you could do this with a cow once in a week, we'd save a lot of money for the food delivery service, Rupert!'

'The popularity polls love what you've done with the budget deficit....moving the decimal one point to the left.'

'I said we've got to lift up our numbers! I did not say to turn a loss of 150.000,- into a loss of 280.000,-!!'

Stockmarket investor's trays 'Up' and 'Down'.

"Shoot, I forgot this place has early checkout."

'You can't sit like that all the way through the Budget.'

'The operation we want you to do is to remove 25 from our budgets.'

Gas Price Reads: Way Too Much.

"Yes dear. But, I don't think you're actually supposed to dispose of your disposable income."

What it will take to give all our children a world-class education.

"There have been a few cutbacks in the anesthesiology department."

"There's no getting away from the numbers....only by forgetting holidays, giving up drink, the cinema, meals out and socialising...will we be able to afford any quality of life when we retire."

'Of course, that bid's just an estimate.'

Park. Don't fear the animals, try to analyze their motives. Don't be "afraid," be "a Freud"!

"If you hibernated you wouldn't have to worry about losing an hour's sleep to daylight savings."

'Remember, Henderson - A penny saved is a departmental oversight.'

Generation Rend. Young man rending his garments in anguish at extortionate rents.

'Ted has devised a simple chart that explains why we need to quit buying so much stuff.'

'I want to eat healthy food, but it takes green to eat green.'

"I feel that just as as I think I can make ends meet, someone moves the ends!"

Wild Window Washers

"Leave it alone, Larry...those things are loaded with saturated fat and cholesterol!"

"I worry that more infrastructure spending will mean more schools!"

To-Do List Chaos

"Move over! - I just got the bill!"