Budgeting Gifts

"Will you stop saying 'ouch' every time I cut something out of your budget?"

"I want you to know that the school board is very pleased with your efforts to make this new budget work."

'Ooops! My mistake. That was the yearly budget estimate, no the monthly estimate.'

Belt-tightening

Rishi Sunak

"I am not being ridiculous! Have you seen our electricity bills?"

"I know these school board annual budget meetings tend to run very late, however ... "

'What I don't understand is how all three of us managed to get the figures wrong!'

"What I don't understand is how all three of us managed to get the figures wrong,"

'Why bother to budget? So we can worry before we spend money, as well as afterwards.'

'Are you keeping pace with spending predictions?'

'...by doubling up on patients in the MRI, we're able to cut costs in half...'

'Excellent proposal. Let's take it upstairs and see if it flies.'

-"I finished the project on time and on budget!" -"Right, next project you get less time and less money!"

Cutting corners can cost money.

'If you're alive this time next week, you'll be living beyond your means.'

-"Why bother to budget?" -"So we can worry BEFORE we spend our money as well as AFTER we spend our money."

"I know we said we would get you a laptop.. but this will have to do until business gets better."

"I'm just saying, maybe you should have gone for the more expensive hearing aids!"

'Of course I know the value of a dollar...that's why I'm asking if I can borrow your credit card.'

Your Pizza Dollar

"We should have read the fine print more carefully before buying these cheap airfares."

'It's amazing how little a thousand dollars will buy these days.'

"But if we didn't measure things we wouldn't know how good we were at measuring the things that we're measuring!"

'There's light at the end of the tunnel.'

'We've got all the figures, we just haven't decided what order to put them in!'

'Thank you for the treasurer's report, Miss Elkins.'

Re-Tooling Costs - "Could you be a little more precise than umpteen million?"

'Rooms are $200 a day. Did you want nurses. . .? Bed. . .? Sheets. . .?'

'This second prescription is to calm you down after you see the cost of the first one.'

'That's not in addition to your pension, that IS your pension.'

'Our expenses have decreased 20 per cent since we started refilling our own ink jet cartridges.'

"The good news is that I've got all the figures...the bad news is that I'm not sure what order I'm meant to put them in!"

'It was hard enough making ends meet when it was just the two of us. Now we have a baby and suddenly there's four more stomachs to feed.'

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