Budget Warrior Gifts

'Of course, that bid's just an estimate.'

'Overdue books: $10- a day fine: 'The city hopes it will make up for library budget cuts.'

'The operation we want you to do is to remove 25 from our budgets.'

"This budget needs more fat for me to trim."

'Our new simplified energy bills just have a few options starting with 'Grossly inflated' and progressing to the premium 'Bloodsucker' package. . .'

"I know I told you monsters weren't real, son, but the one under your bed happens to be very real."

Fighting off the Fringe Economy.

'I can't 'Pay as I go'. I can't even pay for where I've already been!'

'So... cutting my funding, eh? Well, I've got a pair of mutant fists that say otherwise!'

What's this £25 extra labour?

'Wow! Look at the speed of his cuts!'

"I want everything you've got!"

'I want to eat healthy food, but it takes green to eat green.'

"I feel that just as as I think I can make ends meet, someone moves the ends!"

"Yes dear. But, I don't think you're actually supposed to dispose of your disposable income."

Economic crisis

'I said we've got to lift up our numbers! I did not say to turn a loss of 150.000,- into a loss of 280.000,-!!'

Government Employee Credit Union: Buy Now Sequester Later.

Budget cutbacks at Spinco bicycle messenger service.

Sticker Shock 2007.

"I'm on a tight budget. Make it look like I cut at myself."

"There's no getting away from the numbers....only by forgetting holidays, giving up drink, the cinema, meals out and socialising...will we be able to afford any quality of life when we retire."

"...Now gas is almost as expensive as bottled water!"

"Move over! - I just got the bill!"

Generation Rend. Young man rending his garments in anguish at extortionate rents.

"Gas. Regular. Premium. Super. You don’t want to know."

'On the plus side we've saved money by getting all the numbers on one graph.'

'The government's right. Not counting, food, clothing, energy, shelter, health care, or transportation, inflation is hardly going up.'

"I want you to know that emotion overrode reason."

'We're asking what america can do without to reduce the deficit...no, ma'ma! the Gop and Dems are not options!'

'According to the budget, we'll have to count on body heat to keep the offices warm.'

'Honestly Bob, it's not that bad. If you can make as much next year as you did this year you'll be able to pay off your outstanding taxes for last year. That'll just leave the interest, the tax for this year and... my fees.'

"This is the World Bank? Somehow, I had pictured it differently."

Depressed Businessman at Office Christmas Party.

'The scariest story I know is escalating health care costs.'