Car Bargain Hunter Gifts

'Backseat folds out to a bed in case you run out of gas on the way home.'

"Dad's helping me buy a car. They're giving us a deal just to get rid of us."

'And this one has a digital readout to tell you 'how-much' the car is depreciating!'

"58 M.P.G. easy.."

'On the bright side, it gets nearly 40 miles per gallon!'

'Best of all, this baby has a GPS that finds the cheapest gas.'

Car Dealer

"It looks like our house got sick and threw up the attic."

Beach con-man.

Sale on the same stuff as last week.

'Now that I've lost weight, I can't afford new clothes in my size.'

Cut Price

"It was terrifying experience being faced with that kind of compulsive, insane behaviour...I tell you it's positively the last time I put foot in the sales!"

'What do you do with the time you save?'

"Freudian, Jungian, Adlerian – none of it compares to retail therapy."

Will work for ETFs

SALE

"They're on special offer so I got three times more than I could ever use for twice as much as I could afford!"

'You can forget the Captain's table-we're not paying that kind of money just to eat with the crew!'

'If by 'great', you mean 'terrible', then yes, we have plenty of great beers for under $4.00 a six-pack.'

"T-shirt weather's coming. How ready are you?"

(Visual gag) Wellard's annual BIG HANDBAG SALE!! A woman is dragging a huge bag out from a bag shop

"I saved us a hundred bucks on a Jolly Jumper."

Shop struggles to sell books about recession: '90 per cent off on all credit crunch books' (Titles incluude: Beat the Crunch! Who's to Blame? We're all Doomed!)

'It's nothing serious. Rest is the best cure for binge shopping.'

"Which of these will look the prettiest without the others?"

"If the economy's ground to a halt, we can help by carrying on shopping."

"I'm beginning to think that buy one, get one free is not always a good thing."

'That's what I thought, finances are tight: She's switched to no-name cat food...'

Thrift: New way to eat eggs (avoid needless transport costs).

"Wait a sec, I have a coupon around here somewhere."

Hamlet's struggle with online shopping addiction. To eBay or not to eBay.

Man sees sign stating dog for sale, house and land thrown in.

"It's a 'Black eye friday'. I got it in a fight over a 56 inch TV."

"Sure, shopping online is faster and cheaper, but there's something almost sensuous about carrying an armload of packages!"