Budget Whizzes Gifts

"We could save money by turning the TV off every time they mention Boris."

What's wrong with the computer you've got?"

'You earned this corner office by cutting corners...'

'The cutbacks begin to affect wizards.'

Fuel bill gone through the roof

"Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% budget allocation."

"I'm glad they want comedy... the budget is a joke."

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

"Everything's gone up."

'Well I've finished the project on time and on budget!' 'Oh, that means I've given you too much time and too much money!'

'As part of our alternative budget management strategy we've got Tim on 'Hail Marys' in here and Geoff sacrificing a goat to Woden next door!'

You can't fool all of the people all of the time, especially with our advertising budget.

'Wow, my own desk!'

'What if we televise government budget hearings and make them pay-per-view?'

'I need affordable daycare now!'

Overdraft limit.

Sales - We could try a 'free offer' but it would cost us.

'If the universe and everything in it is expanding, how come our budget gets shrunk all the time?'

'Yes, I think you better had ask Santa for it. Because there's no way I could afford to buy it.'

'The hospital needs to cut its drug budget...Mrs Miggins will be seeing what she can do for the Oncology department with hot twigs and frogspawn...'

"The company must save money. That's why we've got to be easy on the carpet."

"Sorry, I'm late. I didn't realize how much credit you had on your card."

Serious bummer! The bank says I'm overdrawn.

"As company chairman I'd like to thank you all for participating in the evenings entertainment and saving me �4000."

"Times are perfect for us masochists!..."

Realty. Remember

'Good news I'm ten percent under budget.'

'You can't sit like that all the way through the Budget.'

Number 2 in a series of unlikely events: "There's more money in the budget than we know what to do with so you don't need to ask me every time you just need to spend a few hundred quid."

'There's not much of an incentive after taxes.'

'I know the marketing budget is stretched...but I still think we need professional models!'

"This new budget plan to save us millions has cost us billions! How much to switch back?"

"Sometimes I get the crazy feeling that he blames us for the budget overrun."

"There have been a few cutbacks in the anesthesiology department."

Everything became too freaking expensive today.