Family Budget Manager Mugs

"The family finances just don't add up, so we're going to have to let you go."

"This is not permanent...we'll be back as soon as things start to look up."

"I need to see your budget proposal."

"Force quit! Force quit! Force quit!!"

"At $4 a dozen, it's hard to balance a career and a family."

'On the plus side we've saved money by getting all the numbers on one graph.'

"At these tuition prices an acceptance letter is pretty much a denial."

"Can you give me a haircut that says, 'If you mess with my budget I'll rip out your soul, wring it like a dish towel, and drink it from a teacup'?"

'When training my son, keep him totally ignorant. I'm grooming him to be VP in-charge-of -denials.'

"Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% budget allocation."

"Well the good news is that we did save a little money by not investing in cyber crime protection...."

"Sorry, stock-market jitters."

Unable to afford scaffolding, Dave ties plungers on his feet to get up a wall.

Your energy bill is enclosed. You might want to sit down.

"Let me put on my 'working' head."

Smart card.

"What comes after zillion?"

And this is a little ditty I wrote called 'the third quarters profit and loss account' ...Colin often wished that he'd followed his first love and taken up a career as a musician

'Looks like we'll have to break into the piggy bank to find our endowment funding.'

'We grow our food, have solar energy, use bikes instead of car...now if we could only stop buying knickknacks!'

'I wonder how the economy is doing.'

Economy.

"This guy might like fiddling with numbers, Dad – but is he any good at sums?"

'I couldn't imagine bringing a child into the current fiscal-cliffy world.'

Keep the econoimy moving

"The good news is that profits are up 76%. . . The BAD news is that costs are up 83%."

City Finance Dept: My Way/The Highway

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

'This home based business is easy to set up. Everyone knows that women are better at multitasking.'

'Henry, I'm here to trim back your budget.'

HS2

'Surely you can manage on your salary!'

". . . We're being sucked into the UK national debt!"

BMA criticises 'Black Hole' of NHS IT spending

"Hired! You're just what we need in our budget office!"