Budget-savvy Builder Gifts

Cost cutting construction ideas that failed: using rhubarb instead of rebar in concrete.

'With such a tight budget we never thought it would be possible to build our dream home.'

"We only got six days of funding."

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

"Our detractors call it suburban sprawl, but I prefer thinking of our plan as 'sustainable over-development!'"

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

Club House. An eighty dollar green fee! -- I haven't even teed-off yet and I'm already in the hole!

Garage Music

Building a sandcastle and children's imagination.

Quicksand Swamp - Cheap Burial Plots.

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

'It's the only way I can afford this place.'

"No wonder it was so affordable."

"We've townsized."

Sundayafternoon Carpenters

Green Construction, 1/3 less 2 X 4s than our regular construction.

'I'm sorry, but all we have in your price range are a few bales of hay.'

'Private schools are really expensive these days - Why don't you home-school him?'

"Natasha cuts diagnosis costs."

"THREE quid for a romantic verse? Don't you have any snappy one liners for 50p.?"

'This is what telemedicine looks like for a small practice like ours.'

Wine Prices

Basic Shelter.

Travel Agents

'This is about all we have in your price range!'

Santa Claus's Tool Box

'On the positive side, just think how small the mortgage payments will be.'

'Not only can we build it for the same price as any gingerbread house, but we can do it for 40% less carbs and no trans fats!'

"I gave him some building blocks to keep him busy and off his computer. All he did was build a computer out of them."

Proletariat Steak

"It's here! And it only cost me $3 plus postage! You see, you don't need a lot of money to build a sweet machine!"

'Yes, it's about the solar panel you're installing for me...'

'Well, QUIT sending me back as a low-bid contractor.'

"We're a day late and four hundred million dollars short."

'We've had to lay off most of the nurses to pay for the locums...'