Cloudy Bargain Hunters Mugs

"I miss fine stores everywhere."

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

Sale on the same stuff as last week.

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

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!"

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

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

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.'

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

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

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

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

Stuff: You Don't Really Need But Still Don't Have.

A Quiet Rebuke.

When Tia Carmen says... "I got it for a very good price!" it means...she stopped at a garage sale on the way home.

'My wife is going to kill me. All her shopping coupons are in that lost luggage.'

'What did I tell you? There's always a catch to those bargain internet travel fares...'

Coming Soon! More Stuff You Could Live Without!

"I just..."

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

'Rozlyn, that blouse is very cute! I think you should get it.'

That's supposed to say garage sale!

"Mommy usually reads me a story, then slips me a twenty."

'That'll be four thousand and eighty pounds please'

'I love shopping for clothing I don't need with money I don't have.'

"It's the only way I can justify buying so many shoes."

'Oh, just chuck it in a corner somewhere...'

Excess Baggage: Airlines are constantly working on new seating configurations.

'We don't know what it is but it was in the sale so we thought we'd better get one before they sold out.'

"The economy's been worsening for a while, but people still don't feel it, Rudy." "...Which means we still have time to get in on the despair action." "Despair action"? "We're going to expand our menu. Add more comfort foods, more 'sale' items, debt consolidation loans..." "Nobody's dumb enough to get a debt consolidation loan from some random guy." "Ha ha hoo hoo hee-"

'Bread, milk, cereal, sugar, sausage, potatoes, beans, biscuits. Click! So easy, but I do miss the sexy till lady.'

'And I want that end table for $40...' When bargain hunters crack.

Greatest hits, Greatest Misses.