Budget Strategy Enthusiasts Mugs

NPFIT Budget

'You have to reconcile your gross habits with your net income.'

'What's the smallest budget you can manage on?' 'The most you can give me!'

'And this is my strategic money reserve.'

'I couldn't imagine bringing a child into the current fiscal-cliffy world.'

"This guy might like fiddling with numbers, Dad – but is he any good at sums?"

"The good news is that profits are up 76%. . . The BAD news is that costs are up 83%."

"Well you said you wanted a simple, cheap solution!" (IT Solutions).

"I hate check writing, but, hey, it pays the bills."

'My husband thought he could save money by repairing it himself.'

Small Businesses Go Under.

The ways and means committee reaches the tipping point.

Rare Medical Conditions - The compulsive desire to work out restaurant bills correctly

'In a cost-saving move, I've replaced your cubicle with a back pack.'

'My pay envelope is empty.' - 'Your deductions equal your salary'

'The attack will have to wait until tomorrow Congressman. Today is furlough day. . .'

"It's our latest targets...We have to do twice as much with half the stuff in a quarter of the time!"

Budget Munchies

7.9% Fewer Drones

"Post-holiday dieting will be much easier this year. Our disposable cash flow will be diverted."

"Rumours of a crisis in the NHS are groundless...Spending is up by 2%, management ratios down by 62%..."

'The legislation HR2109 would increase state aid to education. Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for you.'

"Okay, what's your next, more expensive security system?"

US Deficit

'I want to return this wallet. I can't seem to keep any money in it.'

"Strategic plan B: We chop down all the office plants and grow vegetables."

Bureau of Spending Decreases and Deficit Reduction - 'Wait a minute! How can that be?'

Gas prices up.

Piggy Bank reads 'How to Manage Your Money.'

'I finally understood 'negative numbers' when the teacher said they're just like the US budget deficit.'

'I think we should budget on the number of budgets we draw up'

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

"In order to balance the budget we will need to make sacrifices, and you are mine"

'Well, you're bankrupt, but look on the bright side -- it only cost you eight dollars per transaction!'

"Well, if I can't get an increase based on merit, how about one based on the cost of living beyond my means?"