Budgeting Blunderer Gifts

'I put money in the stock market and now I don't have any to put in the supermarket.'

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

George doesn't really like me using the credit card.

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

"Everything's gone up."

'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!'

City Centre Development - "...We've spent all the money on the model."

'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.'

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

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

'I seem to have brought the wrong brief case, your honor.'

'The popularity polls love what you've done with the budget deficit....moving the decimal one point to the left.'

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

'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.

'To save money, Bob started making his own wine. This Chablis, for example, only cost him $329 a bottle.'

'I realize it's not much of a war, but it's all we can afford right now.'

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

SOARING BILL

'You have to spend money to make money.'

'I've just had a terrible nightmare that we were living sensibly, within our budget!'

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

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

Man Struggling with Taxes/Clothing/Medical/Misc/Food/Shelter/Education.

'I know the zoo had cutbacks but this is ridiculous!'

Cost of the military.

'We didn't make out so well in the last round of budget cuts.'

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

'I need another raise so I can pay for the car that I bought to celebrate my last raise.'

"Yes, that's our bathroom. We're a startup, so plumbing and running water is a luxury."