Panic Buyer Pillows

'Quick! sell me a lure,any lure,I just found an empty compartment in my tackle box.'

"Did you order 8000 tins of beans, 10,000 litres of water, 400 bottles of vitamins C tablets, 500 rolls of tin foil. . ."

"Panic-buying in expectation of a public sector strike."

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

'Going...Going...Gone! Sold to the lady with more money than sense.'

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

"What we didn't have but obviously needed was an alarmist."

'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.'

"I always end up buying way more black-truffle honey than I intended."

'Well, well - this should create a nice little wave of panic and hysteria.'

The End is Nigh

"The door-to-door sales rep was very persuasive, but in my defense he only sold me one."

"Twenty-five thousand, do I hear thirty thousand? Let me remind you all - this is the last Thin Mint cookie in the sleeve..."

'Man, I've bought heaps on my credit card this month...It always amazes me...How many things I'd rather have than money.'

The contract was not worth the paper it was written on, which considering the paper was not a good sign.

'In conclusion; our major contract expires tomorrow, we have no idea what we want, and no knowledge of the market, It is time to pass this across to the Procurement Team...'

I need a raise. This is no time to joke. I've been on a buying binge at the iPhone app store and I can't pay my credit card. These apps are worth it. They're life-changing, they're

Woman impulsively buying a book about how to stop impulse buying.

Every Friday lunchtime procurement managers would gather to boast of the size of bid documents they had received that week.

Karen was delighted that both her large and small suppliers had turned up for her industry day

"I shop to forget what I bought last year."

'The old one fell apart.'

"It's almost flu season! Stay indoors! Touch no one!"

Adrenaline is flowing down there with lots of last-minute, panicked Christmas shoppers! The DNA is frantically looking for heirlooms that'll be passed on in succeeding generations. It seems no price is too high for the helium atom - it's buying everything! Meanwhile, the neutron can't charge and hasn't been able to buy a single gift! Tempers are getting short! A big nerve angered other shoppers by blatantly cutting in the checkout line! And there's a quarrel over a parking spot with a whit

'Maturity: the instant-degratification phase of life.'

"They're willing to throw in their kidneys."

Panic Button

Salesman given 10 minutes under extreme pressure to sell to buyer

'Look at the adorable garden gnome I bought today!!'

I don't think we should have linked the remote to the credit card

"I'll have all that, and this."

'It was an impulse buy Mary. At 75 percent off in the New Year sale AND free home delivery. . .'

Think Small.

If you don't see what you want, buy something you don't want!

"Of course you don't need to tell me about your procurement plans for the year ahead. That would spoil the surprise and give us time to deliver value for money and who needs that?!"