You know the econmoy is bad when...

[Dayna]

"When dumpster diving for store and restuarant scraps is sounding like a great idea just so you can eat."

Been there, done that

Dayna

[ADraeger]

Instead of a puppy, you buy your kids a milk producing goat. 

[brier patch charlie]

When the sheep start saving there wool to make there own sweaters.

[Lady Ann of Draycott]

The local Ford Dealership calls your company personally to tell you they have some great deals on new and used vehicles in case we would like to come on down and check them out...

(I've worked here for over 15 years and this is the first time they have ever done that) 

[Demetrius]

...gas drops to $3 per gallon and you think that's good!   

[Demetrius]

...you win a million bucks on Deal or No Deal and the banker has to ask for a bailout-

[brier patch charlie]

When people stop there car and jump out to pick up a penny.

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

When you over qualified for a job and it's at doing Janitorial (Scrubing toilets)

When gas prices keep falling because the speculators on oil are more worried about their stock portfolio being in the tanks from all the other stocks dropping.

When 3 months ago you had spent $10,000 to buy stock and it's now worth only $100

When the 90- year old handicap great grandmother who lives next to you gets busted for selling illegal drugs trying to make ends meet.

When Bonnie and Clyde, The James Younger Gang, The Dalton Gang, become your hero's and role models and you want to be just like them.

When road kill because supper beccause it's the only meat you can put on the table

When you dump 1/2 the gallon of milk you just bought into another gallon carton then fill the rest of the cantainers up with water to streach them both

When standing on the street cornewr pan-handling starts sounding more promising... but then people stop to ask you for a spare penny when they see you doing it.

[Demetrius]

...we have to cut pennies in fourths to make change...

[brier patch charlie]

When people are willing to go to Prison just so they can have a roof over there head, 3 hot meals a day and free cable.

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

When people are willing to go to Prison just so they can have a roof over there head, 3 hot meals a day and free cable.

They do that even when the economy is good. It just picks up when the economy is bad. Some criminals break laws once out just so they can go back in and have the "Easy" Life. No bills, fod is cooked for you, it's easier in there... to a point and not at the end of a knife one.

[Queen Bonnie]

 When your 401K is now a 1K. Sigh.
My fixed income is now a broke income! Sigh.

[Tipsy Gypsy]

When you buy a toaster, and they give you a bank as a gift. 

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

When it is more expensive to watch an episode of House on the TV than it is to actually buy a real house.

Thanks to Steven Colbert for that one.

[NoBill Lurker]

you notice that the credit card company's have stop sending you all  of those pre-approved offers or any offers at all !

(this makes me and the trees very very happy  )