Budget Queen Mugs

The Old Woman was thrilled to bits with her shoestring budget makeover!!

"These are the principal qualities we're looking for in our new recruits."

"Ten Dollars?! I can't eat that." Bob was on a strict low-cost diet.

'So far, all I can tell you for sure is how much I've charged you.'

"No one can afford to eat us anymore."

'Before we unload him, he'd like a written price support.'

"This is a third-year medical student. To cut costs, your insurance company dismissed the surgeon."

"What wine goes well with £5.52p?"

Now hiring: crowdfunding expert to reduce the US budget deficit.

Husband dismayed to get cold mutton for dinner again. Wife comments that someone must be economical on the housekeeping money she is given.

"... And how are you enjoying the cheapest bottle of wine on the menu?"

Take one Per Day as Affordable.

'Don't overdo the mustard, sir -- we're trying to control costs around here.'

U.S. Department of Deficit Spending

Sam's Nation Building

Deep in the heart of the one-star restaurant district...'Guess what you're eating buffet!'

Affordable housing

"If only there was a thesaurus for numbers."

"Wow, they want $10,000!"

Low income vampires.

"It's a new way to stretch leftovers. Saw it in Homeopathy Now."

A Room (with adequate light and ventilation, no psychotic neighbors, near a grocery store, in a halfway-decent building in an O.K. neighborhood [not Queens, please God] for under $2000 a month) of One's Own

"Our goal is to make prices so low that even our employees could shop here."

Dad she's fallen into the cereal again!

Senior Brand Name Medicine Cabinet

"Natasha cuts diagnosis costs."

'I'd like to stay and watch. It usually cuts the bill by 30%.'

'The lower-priced items contain genetically-modified foods not yet approved for human use.'

'It's half as good as our $10 special.'

Budget Stoplights.

"Get used to it...I think we're going to be eating them for a while yet..."

"It was all we could afford in the end."

'Sorry about dinner, honey...ever since your dad was laid off work we've been trying to figure out new ways to make dinner.'

'I like my wine the way I like my prescriptions - generic.'

'The armed forces are having to respond to new kinds of threat.'