Budget-savvy Person Gifts

"Drinking fountains were too expensive to install, but we are providing a garden hose to drink from."

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

"He doesn't fiscally stimulate me anymore."

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

BMA criticises 'Black Hole' of NHS IT spending

"No one can afford to eat us anymore."

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

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?"

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

Take one Per Day as Affordable.

Affordable housing

"Wow, they want $10,000!"

"That fly paper's paid for itself."

Sam's Nation Building

Low income vampires.

"Sergio, we don't have to spend so much money on health insurance."

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."

'Computer Prices' blowing away you money

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

Senior Brand Name Medicine Cabinet

"Natasha cuts diagnosis costs."

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

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

'We only want small portions. I'm counting my calories and he's counting his pennies.'

"Please tell me it's a local call..."

One upside-down tomato planter. I can't wait for juicy, free tomatoes. It's $23.37 with tax. Not bad for homegrown tomahtas. Plus $8 for potting soil, $15 for the hanger, $11 for organic fertilizer, $16 � Hey! � Where are you going? To the "Pick and Save" market.

"We have our round cuts and these are our budget cuts."

'I've asked Santa for a tank of unleaded petrol.'

"Our water bill is sky high. You've got to start taking shorter showers."

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

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

'I don't care if this security software was a bargain; it shouldn't reply with 'close enough' when I enter the wrong password.'