Downsize Survivor Gifts

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

"The good news is you’re the only one we’re not firing ... the bad news is you’re the only one to run the department."

Let's get organized

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

"Hey, you stick your neck out on a regular basis, it's gonna happen. The important thing is to just get up and keep moving forward."

Do you mind if we stop calling this a "starter house" now?

'My diet's good...I'm two weeks ahead of schedule.'

Second hand furniture.

Yardless: Please help

"My online account predicts the things I should own, then buys them with my credit card. It�s very convenient, but I do now need to move to a larger house."

It was getting worse. Bob's power suit kept wanting more and more, whereas Bob just wanted out.

A man is living in small box apartment trying to read a book, but is surrounded by people engaging in noisy activities.

'The massive arrests have made the plans for downsizing much easier.'

"In the current market, it's just more practical."

'I found the home maintenance manual in the attic. I think it's got mildew.'

"I see the downsizing continues."

Yard Sale

"Not to mention the park view."

'I thought people were quite receptive to the change seminar.'

Estate Sale! All the stuff my kids said they don't want to inherit.

'Money is a bit tight at the moment, so instead of cash we wondered whether you'd settle for 20% more meaningless protestations of how much we value you?'

'I've misplaced everything.'

"I'm thinking of leaving these crowded condos and going to a place that's been deserted for years...the mall."

"The house doesn't seem big because the kids are gone - it seems big because we've shrunk so much."

"Hey, Dunleavy! I hear the boss is clearing out more dead wood today! Maybe you should've just stayed home and called in stick! Get it? Called in stick?"

'My old Nehru suit! And in a pocket there's still a bottle of aftershave lotion from the glove box of my '55 Nash Rambler.'

'That was when I closed five distribution centres, mothballed a factory and sacked 3,000 workers.'

"There's lots of things in my life I absolutely needed to put in, and now there's lots of things in my life I absolutely need to get out."

"Our smart home must know how must clutter we have, because it took it upon itself to rent a dumpster."

"We settled into the one-level after our hips got bad."

"I remembered that time you said you wished you had a biographer."

"Life isn't fair, and that's what makes it fun."

"All my stuff is 'Rosebud'."

"Would you like to see today's liquidized menu?"

For the musician strapped for space...the Murphy piano.