Budgeter With A Twist Gifts

"I hate machine intelligence when an ATM says we've spent enough money tonight."

"We only got six days of funding."

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

"Everything's gone up."

"Where can I find the lefts?"

'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!'

"I think he said he wants to buy 'just the one'. You'd better fetch the manager"

'I need affordable daycare now!'

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

'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...'

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

"No one can afford to eat us anymore."

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

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

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

I'm buying last year's car today with next year's money.

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

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

'On my salary, microeconomics is all I can afford.'

Principal with 'budget cuts' in-tray and 'creative solutions' out-tray.

Low income vampires.

Rx. Warning: May cause sudden loss of income.

'Am I an additional cost or an incidental expense?'

"I often think of the 'Hereafter'. When I'm shopping I'm always asking myself 'What am I here after?'"

'If the 750ml and th 375ml of the '82 Beaumont are too pricey, how about their Merlot-scented auto air freshener? -- Only 99 cents.'

SOARING BILL

Maze Leading to a Cheese Shop

Affordable housing

'You have to spend money to make money.'

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

There is not much left after deductions and taxes, is there, Rodney?

"This project was a mismanaged rush job and woefully underfunded, but we did finish it on time and under budget."

"Our goal is to make prices so low that even our employees could shop here."

Woman in a card shop sees an 'Out Of Section' - Patience, Of Work, Nowhere, Your Mind.

"I should warn you, dear. I won't be able to meet my quarterly projection."