Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 09, 2022

Are you sure it was only a year sense you been in there?

I think it has something to do with food being the foundation of the economy.

A shed of broken stuff.

Throw it all away. Don’t look back.

At least 7 of the 11 items in the first three panels are recyclable.

The consumer moniker may refer to building/renting storage sheds and buying stacks of containers (not apparent in today’s strip).

Reminds me of my basement…

Yes indeed. But that “you might need it one day” mindset is completely gone in the next generation after ours (our kids).

George Carlin on ‘Stuff’. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac

Hoarders?

especially when you aren’t eating any of it.

I’ve got motorcycle parts for a bike I haven’t owned for 40 years.

Now Janis can have a “she shed”

Hey. Arlo. They called you “consumers” because you consumed. Trash is what is left after consumption.

I imagine that every landfill in the country would be filled in one day if all of us cleaned out our attics, basements, garages, and sheds.

Oh, yeah. Don’t forget that many of us also rent self-storage units.

Throwback reference to one of my all-time favorite A&J comics, from 1999:

https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1999/08/20

First put on front lawn. You would be surprised what gets picked up

That is what happens when you only go in once a year?

Junk keepers?

Because when we break something we go out and consume something new rather than repair things.

Just take that s__t, toss into the back of the pickup, and take it to the dumpster!

I have to do that from my own shed this spring – but it’s still snowing here. They must live in the South.

I don’t like having junk around, but why is it that I frequently need the thing that I threw away just days before?

You are a consumer when you buy anything. You bought all the junk in the shed.

I work very hard not to accumulate damaged or worn items. If I don’t use it, it’s supposed to go out the door.

I am not 100% successful.

Nobody ever asked you to eat all that stuff.

You are just one link in a very long chain…

Consume: gut deplete, drain, exhaust, expend, spend, use up, annihilate, decimate, demolish, desolate, devastate, do in, pulverize, raze, ruin, shatter, smash, tear down, waste, wreck, annihilate, blot out, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, obliterate, remove, rub out, stamp (out), wipe out…

Nothing about “throw away”

When soon to be ex husband left me I had to move from the house we were in to a 1 bedroom apartment, my sister hadn’t gone into a nursing home yet so she had the bedroom and the living room became my living room/bedroom/home office, I asked him if he wanted to be there when I packed up to divide stuff up and he said no he wasn’t going into the home until I was out, yes he was and still is that spiteful with me, so he told me that I could take what I wanted and after I left he would go in and take what he wanted and get rid of the rest so I did and boy did me and my sister leave him a lot of stuff and junk that we didn’t want or couldn’t fit into our small apartment, he cursed me out for all the junk I left behind and I told him it was his idea not to come and help me. Easiest way to get rid of stuff I didn’t want or need without doing all the work.