For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 05, 2021

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    Argythree  over 3 years ago

    While it’s very true that you can’t put a price on memories, if you are lucky enough to be able to hold onto them, you can take them with you wherever you go…

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    comicjunky Premium Member over 3 years ago

    That’s one thing most of us face. As we get to a certain age our horizons get much narrower.

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    AllishaDawn  over 3 years ago

    I moved out of my childhood home more than 20 years ago, but it is still the house I see in my dreams. Had one last week where I was walking a recent TV character down the hallway.

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    wjones  over 3 years ago

    My memories are not in any one location, Where ever I live my memories come with me.

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    Kind&Kinder  over 3 years ago

    “Ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on bra

    La-la how their life goes on"

    —Beatles

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    howtheduck  over 3 years ago

    Why is Elly the one telling Phil? Is his relationship with his parents so terrible that they would rather stand outside, gazing at the house, musing on its worth, than give him a call?

    “I wonder how much the house is worth?” For most people, they think about this before deciding to sell. If their house is not worth much, they might want to rethink that downsizing.

    Why has Grandpa Jim decided to make all his questions into statements? Is he too cheap to use question marks?

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    stillfickled Premium Member over 3 years ago

    ♪♪ Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind ♪♪

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    Chris  over 3 years ago

    sigh, how true…

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    Auntie Socialist  over 3 years ago

    Michael Scott’s condo in Scranton sold on eBay in record time for 80% what he paid for it. The buyer was highly motivated, as was he

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    The trouble with “priceless” is that we usually care more than the market will bear.

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    ilovecomics*infinity  over 3 years ago

    I really love the artwork in the last panel. It is all at once heart-warming and melancholy, and the perspective of seeing the house from that angle just gives me the feels.

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    StackableContainers  over 3 years ago

    My mother assumed that one of us kids would move into the house after she died. We never told her that we were going to sell it immediately. My therapist called it an act of closure on all the trauma we endured there.

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    cracker65  over 3 years ago

    Everyone faces this.

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    kab2rb  over 3 years ago

    It is best, let a new young family create memories.

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    summerdog  over 3 years ago

    I will never leave this house I have been in for 51 years. I found it in a book of house plans. I bought the blue prints for it. (still have them) Had it built while we lived across the street, and we watched it go up. It’s fabulous in my eyes, and I love every board, every shingle. (soon to be metal roofing) It will be our youngest son’s someday, and the house he lives in, (also ours), will go to a grandson.

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    flagmichael  over 3 years ago

    Maintaining a sense of impermanence throughout life helps in these transitions: it is the next phase. As a man, I have reached the stage of being “harmless” – when you know it is coming it is no problem at all. Our lives only have value because they are evanescent. Sic transit gloria mundi.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 3 years ago

    That is a true statement!

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    redfield Premium Member over 3 years ago

    They’re in Vancouver, right? The old house probably isn’t worth much, but the land it’s on is worth a fortune!

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    anomaly  over 3 years ago

    It takes a real estate agent to put a price on your memories.

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    Cactus-Pete  over 3 years ago

    They won’t be selling the memories.

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    locake  over 3 years ago

    The house is only worth what a new buyer will pay for it. They don’t care about your memories at all. It is best to put all your photos away when trying to sell your house.

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    Jan C  over 3 years ago

    When we sold our late parents’ house near Disneyland, it sold for 25 times what they paid for it 54 years earlier. It’s amazing what that much time does for real estate, especially when it’s in a prime location.

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    Sportymonk  over 3 years ago

    Good luck getting rid of books. When my in laws had passed, the wife and I had to clean it out. Local library said they were so flooded with book from people dying that they would only take books printed in the last 3 years. Tons of old but great books went into the dumpster.

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    Rand al'Thor  over 3 years ago

    When I retired we decided to sell our house up north and move south. We were there 27 years. Longer than any other home. Our kids grew up there. I thought I would be sad the day we left and wondered if we made the right choice. It snowed the last night and the morning we left and I knew we made the right decision!

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