The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for August 15, 2024

$750,000 is a shoestring budget in Silicon Valley

Semantics.

I can flip it on a shoestring budget.

That really is for a Big foot!

That’s a big shoestring to budget for.

I think the other shoe just dropped.

Give him the boot honey!

“You said it was built in a forest. Where are the shoe trees?”

Time to downsize. Move to a Clodhopper.

So, I get that the artist is going for the pun, but shoestring budgets are for low income people, so the play on words as a contrast doesn’t work.

Good thing she didn’t buy a Croc. Too much drafts!

Does it come with odor eaters?

And it’s “insole”ated for the winter months.

He should leather get a loan.

The realtor is a heel.

And your Property Tax collector absolutely loves the 25% annual home inflation. And the homeowners love it too, which shows you can fool most of the people most of the time.

These boots are made for walkin’, she replied.

With all the Californians moving into the Reno area the cost of living has increased more than the national average and the price of single family homes went from a median of $250,000 to $590,000. Prediction is that within two years it will hit $700,000. Average local income is $20-25,000 annually.

Perhaps a one-room sandal would be more in her price range.

A shoestring budget IS for low income people!