Yachts of Money

What else do you do with boatloads of money, but buy a crazy expensive boat?

Explanation: "yacht" and "lot" can sound quite similar, depending on your accent. 

Text:
A: How much money is in your bank account?
$: Boatloads.
A: So like, a yacht?

Price of Love

 

... But you really should cap how much money you pour into a vehicle. That's what I did, anyway, which led me to sell my beloved first car rather than get the transmission repaired. She just wouldn't start one morning and it was very sad. I had already been gently car perusing, so it wasn't a total shock and I had some options lined up fairly quickly. And I loved my second car! 

Text:
L: I loved my first car!
M: How much money did you spend on repairs?
L: You can't put a price on love!

Grocery Prices

 

One day I took Ori with me shopping while Mark and Robin stayed home and when I returned home I brought the groceries in first since Ori was sleeping in his seat and I wasn't ready to disturb him so this comic happened.
Please note that this is a joke and I did not barter for groceries (who even does that) and also yeah I still have both kiddos. Baby was out of sight for like a minute while safely secured.

Explanation: In fairy tales, the ultimate price to pay is usually your firstborn. Seems like someone asking for your second-born would be a discount. 

Text:
M: Where is the baby?!
L: I traded him for groceries - they weren't asking for a first-born so I figured it was a good deal. 

Steep Pricing

 

I don't recall what type of tea we were discussing, but it was a more pricy kind. Personally, I like Plum Deluxe (not a sponsor) and their pricing isn't bad, especially with sales, but their shipping takes a while. But their tea is quite tasty! We got their Advent calendar this year and it came with a checklist so you could remember which ones "jingled your bells" or were "not my cup of tea." I would like to do it again next year - it was nice to have a new tea to try each day with our breakfast. There was only one tea that we didn't try - it had pineapple (a no for me) and mint (a no for my husband) so we gave the sample to my in-laws. 

Text:
S: That's a steep price!
L: Well, it is tea.

Money Laundry

 

So a quick search revealed that laundry mats are a common component of money laundering because they expect large amounts of cash in those venues which means they can fudge the numbers more easily, but my take is that people launder their money the traditional way i.e. washing and drying in the machines. Squeaky clean money. I'm not going to include links here because if you want to research crime, you must do that on your own. Now I want someone to run on the platform "Launder Clothes, Not Money." Please make it happen. 

Text:
B: How long will it take your man to launder the money?
M: There's a Laundromat nearby that has a 30min wash and 45min dry, so Johnny should be back in under two hours.
B: ...
M: I hope he took enough quarters. 

Stinking Dollars

 

Happy early Birthday to my brother!
Now I'm thinking of a scene where there's a mob boss type person telling a lackey to launder the money and then that guy just.... takes the suitcase of money and tosses it all into a machine at the local laundry mat. He returns with the bills all haphazardly stuffed back in the suitcase, still warm from the dryer. While waiting for the lackey to return, the boss is talking about how long it should take for the lackey to go to enough businesses to buy then sell items only to be surprised by said lackey with his suitcase full of warm money after a 30min wash and 45min dry. Now I'm thinking of a comic about this...

Text:
A: It costs three hundred stinking dollars?!?
L: If your money is stinking, maybe try laundering it. 

Twenty Dollar Bill

 

On a related note (pun pun pun), I'm glad our insurance covers most of our appointments. Now I kinda want to look into why bill can mean what I have to pay someone and also paper money and also a shortening of "William" which does not have the letter 'b' in it anywhere. I recall overhearing a group talking about how British or Medieval names change the first letter in the diminutive (i.e. Margaret to Peggy) and William would fit that. 

Explanation of the comic is that Mark opened the mail and found a bill from our dentist. I thought he was meaning a $20 green note but he was in fact meaning we needed to pay $20 to our dentist since insurance or previous payments didn't quite cover everything. I mean, it would have been odd for our dentist to send cash to us so the payment request makes much more sense.

HAPPY SEPTEMBER! It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Text:
M: The dentist sent us a twenty dollar bill.
L: Yay!
M: No, not that kind.

Big Bucks

I forget where I heard the phrase 'big bucks' that sparked this comic, but I think it has always brought a deer image to my mind. Now I want to find the origin of the phrase. So bucks are slang for dollars, which is kinda common knowledge, but apparently that could be due to people trading deer skins for goods, which made them a type of money. So the big bucks are worth more, since that's how commodities work. So that makes sense I think.

A: The biggest deer come from your forest.
B: Yeah, I raise the big bucks.

Gift Card Denominations

I have to admit, my first thought when I went to buy a gift card and this question was asked (thankfully through the computer so there was not an awkward human interaction) was exactly this comic. It's funny that money has denominations and so do religions but they are not parallel.

Text:
L: And I'd like to buy a gift card.
C: What denomination?
L: Ummm.... Baptist?

Crunching Numbers

We went on a trip in September to the West Coast and we went on a wildlife tour and saw orca dorsal fins in the distance (which still was pretty cool). We also saw other wildlife and it was a great boat ride.

Text:
O: Accountant, stop eating the calculators!
S: I'm crunching the numbers!

Price Per Head 2

Congrats to my sister!

Price Per Head 1

How rude.

Refund My Paid Attention

Fish Coins

Muggy Weather

I would like to go back to snow please.

Flushing Money

He's a problem solver :)

Smashed Pennies

We went to Hershey Park last week for our anniversary - it was very nice.

Money talks

Cold hard cash