Families Handling Economic Challenges Gifts

"Since they graduated, have any of your children moved back in with you?"

Peter

"Aren't you the estate agent who sold us this house?"

Vulture sitting over a plummeting graph.

"We'd love to come, but we can't seem to find a sitter."

'Oh no! We're in negative equity.'

"We're callin' 'im Bill, coz he came at the end of the month"

"Well, I guess the bubble has burst over at Phillips Rodny Associates."

In Case of Emergency - Break Glass and take a BIG SWIG!

'I'm going to have to let you go.'

"Now pay attention when mother is speaking, Hubert!"

"Generation X, Y or Z? No idea. My brat is Generation SLSLWMAF - Stinkin' Lazy, Still Living with Mom at Forty."

'You thought I'd gone out of business? What gave you that idea?'

'Ironically, before I fell on hard times, I was a professional wine taster.'

'I'm a redundant bank teller.'

"Homeowner please help."

Financial life preserver

"The Big Bad Wolf Bank has served us with foreclosures."

"OK, I'll go to my room, but one day I'll get back at you by going to college and putting you into deep financial debt."

"I've decided to move back in with my parents."

'Did you tell the kids they could have a yard sale.'

Finance Company.

'So when I couldn't pay the mortgage, the bank offered me this rescue package!'

'You used to be an investment consultant, Fred -- what should I do with this quarter I found?'

'Sorry kids, we've had to introduce no-frills parenting.'

'The good news is that I can spend more time with my family. The bad news is my job is now only part time.'

"No kidding. Tell me about it."

I can't handle this mortgage.

"You moving back in hasn't been a picnic for us, either. I can't wait until you have adult children of your own."

'Great news! Our credit card limit has been raised enough for us to pay off our bankruptcy lawyer!'

'We need advice from an economist alright - a home economist!'

Thrift: 'Collect a smaller child than your own from school... It eats less and fits the old clothes of the previous child.'

"It's time to go home and put our parents into a panic over the upcoming back to school shopping season..."