Blondie on a Budget is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Frank R. Strayer and starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake and Rita Hayworth.

[1] Blondie Bumstead is having trouble balancing the family budget, particularly as she wants to buy a new fur coat.

Her husband Dagwood also needs money for the membership fee of a fishing club he wants to join.

Blondie becomes jealous when she finds Dagwood with an overfamiliar old friend, Joan Forrester, and begins to suspect that they are having an affair.

After Dagwood wins money in a competition he decides to buy Blondie a fur coat, but uses Joan to try it on for size.