Personal Finance Education Gifts

'I think we may have an income problem.'

'Progress of a bookshelf'

"I'm not here to slay you. I'm here to talk to you about diversifying your investment portfolio."

"We were able to retire 6 years early by canceling cable & eliminating anything fun."

Investments - remember, you are what you invest in!

Watering Money

Will work for ETFs

'He's downgrading the credit agencies.'

Piggy bank #6: Union Jack.

'You have to reconcile your gross habits with your net income.'

'We are entering an era of thrift, so in place of champagne and canapes, there will be a jumble sale.'

'You shouldn't have taken that personal pension.' 'You shouldn't have taken that endowment mortgage.' 'When do you get your free tv license?' Job's comforters, today.

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

'The scariest story I know is escalating health care costs.'

'You've been pre-approved for another credit card.'

"I'm taking your advice and saving my money!"

"My lessons on Enlightenment are a prerequisite to my graduate-level course on Investing in Derivatives."

Frank, you had to get a second job? I should have read the fine print on that investment that guaranteed I'd "clean up"!

'Can you see the future of my 401(k)?'

Psychiatry. I got in touch with my inner child, and now I'm going broke buying video games!

"Your portfolio is too conservative."

'It's a type of credit card that self destructs when it reaches the limit I've set for you.'

"Now you know how Daddy feels when Mommy overdraws the checkbook."

"I know it's not in our nature, but we really gotta stop charging everything."

Yes, dear, I remembered the coupons and saved a few dollars. The Adventures of Marriedman.

Financial Advisor. The next time you let your inner child out to play, don't let him play with your credit cards.

Man on a unicycle trying to guard credit from nasty 'Bankruptcy'.

"The time has come to talk of many things; of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of double-entry bookkeeping, too."

I don't trust banks. I keep some of my money right here. It's prudent to have a financial cushion.

Student Debt

'Withdrawal symptoms.'

"If that income is personal, why do I have to tell you about it"?

'I'm being denied access to the Warren Buffett within me.'

'It may seem we're sinking deeper into debt, but really we're just experiencing a quarter of negative growth.'

'You mean that if one of us came to a sticky end I would receive a hundred thousand?'