Cost-saving Specialist Pillows

'Since you said Botox was too expensive for you - I used play-doh.'

'The 'insourcing' will go ahead and some jobs will be off to Leeds or Manchester, but I think I'll be safe...'

No, I didn't know they were going to cut the office furniture budget in half.

'We should buy London and ship it to the States!'

"Post Covid it was clear that the old 9-5 was no longer viable, our industry lends itself to home working."

"One silo is for grain, the other is for the money we save on gas."

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

'Phone for help? Are you mad? Have you any idea how much it costs to use a mobile abroad?'

Janet always was ahead of the curve...she outsourced herself.

"Do you know that we saved a ton of money on legal fees by being more ethical?"

'If I'm going to do an effective job of reducing costs, I'm going to need a bigger budget.'

"As company chairman I'd like to thank you all for participating in the evenings entertainment and saving me �4000."

'And finally, there's option three, a classic business model that would reduce our marketing, supply-chain and production expenses by 85 percent!' '

"We can probably just about afford to run the pilot-light."

"He's not our founder. He just found us the most tax loopholes."

'Here we stopped workers taking home pens.'

'I've just thought of a way to save the company £1800 a month.'

"Boss, I have a suggestion for you that's win-win. It'll save you thousands of dollars in health insurance premiums... If you pay to have me cryogenically frozen and then thawed every other day, I'll get to live to be 180, and you'll get an employee who's young and productive for the rest of your life."

How to do without

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

'What's the smallest budget you can manage on?'

'We just drive by and throw candy and stuff like in a parade.'

"It would appear that our 'rainy day investment fund' hasn't even yielded enough to buy us an umbrella each."

'I hear your fees are very reasonable.'

"I'm finding this model very economical!"

"This wasn't the kind of budget cuts I had in mind."

A=Gets the job done (efficient) B=Wasteful if spent (flashy) Available resources

"We need to be extra careful about expenditure...and I thought we could save a but by having the Xmas, New Year and redundancy parties at the same time!"

"And, in our continuing effort to minimize surgical costs, I'll be hitting you over the head and tearing you open with my bare hands."

"One day this will all be outsourced."

"Too bad leaves can't replace salt for the roads each winter. It would save us a ton of money."

"The good news is we're going paperless. The bad news is it's the employee's bathrooms."

'I'm feeling a lot better, Nurse -- how about switching me to the cheap stuff?'

'It says take all this medication - if you can afford it.'

'Sir, wait! You can't go yet! The register hasn't finished spitting out all your valuable coupons.'