Finding The Best Deals Gifts

"I'm afraid the price would make him toss and turn all night for months!"

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

Sale on the same stuff as last week.

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!"

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

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

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

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

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

'It's nothing serious. Rest is the best cure for binge shopping.'

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

'If by 'great', you mean 'terrible', then yes, we have plenty of great beers for under $4.00 a six-pack.'

"I'm beginning to think that buy one, get one free is not always a good thing."

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

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

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

A Quiet Rebuke.

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

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

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

"I just..."

'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."

'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."

"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-"

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

'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.'

"In layman's terms, it's £12,750."

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

Greatest hits, Greatest Misses.

"This is what happens when you award the contract to the cheapest tender...."