Budget Strategy Enthusiasts Pillows

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.'

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

'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?"

"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.'

The ways and means committee reaches the tipping point.

Small Businesses Go Under.

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.'

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

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

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

US Deficit

Budget Munchies

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

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

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

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

"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?'

Doctor to man: 'You'll need to empty your pockets. For symbolic purposes, let's start with your wallet.'

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

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

Piggy Bank reads 'How to Manage Your Money.'

'What happens when we run out of gas?!'

Gas prices up.

'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'

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