1. Even now when a bank statement comes that shows I'm overdrawn, or the gas bill for the central heating seems enormous, my mind turns to quite inappropriate strategies, like boiling down the ends of soap, and lighting fires with candle ends and spills of screwed-up newspaper to save buying wood. (BNCI)
2. She didn't know how to budget or how to keep track of her expenditures, and she cried every time she opened her bank statement. (BNCI)
3. Every year a bank statement informs us that the Trust has lopped a mildly painful number of pounds from our far from princely pensions and every year we wonder whether we should continue to belong or not. (BNCI)