For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 01, 2023

hope you do good housekeeping, Gordon

One person’s “junk” is another person’s ….. “treasure!!”

;-)

Are those walls aluminum siding held together with rivets??

Wasn’t it supposed to be going into the basement ?

My first bachelor apartment had all sparse Goodwill furniture that came from the city library (sturdy and marked “1939”) except for the bed which I built to replace my sleeping bag. For the mattress I simply bought a foam pad and covered it with sheets.

The stains won’t bother him but if they did he could always get a slip cover for it.

I wonder what Gordon’s girlfriend will think when she sees the place?

And this is why Gordon is known as “El Schlubbo”..

I know the grunt and strain routine. I just moved in a recliner sofa by myself.

And it matches Mike’s shirt

They’re entering a great time of life.

Now there will be “guests” that will invite themselves to his apartment. Just like vacation homes that will have uninvited relatives “drop by”.

We don’t get to see how they got it through the doorway? Disappointment, be my blanket!

Gordon must start somewhere.

Matching stains are sometimes nice.

The looks a lot like my first apartment. Mine was a garage with a bathroom. They boarded up the big door and put in a deep sink. I loved it.

A home that is your own is beautiful – regardless of the quality of the furniture or environment. Doing it yourself, within your budget, is freeing. My first apartment had milk crate book shelves and a fold out sofa bed I bought for $15 from Goodwill.

I think many of us had an old hand-me-down sofa as the first sofa we owned. Usually something that Mom & Dad, or Grandma, no longer wanted.

Panel 1: They forgot “PIVOT!”

The only one with any initiative.

Guess that makes him a decor ator.

They should start a band and use that apartment for practice. Michael got a work helmet for Christmas, so he can be a construction worker. Brian can be an Indian. Gordon can be a sailor and Lawrence can be a leather-clad biker. Just need to find a name for their band.

The Suburbanites?

The Townsfolk?

The City Dwellers?

Gordo is so down to earth. He is going to do just fine in life.

It ain’t much, but it’s Gordons, which is more than can be said for some people around here I suspect. Detractors generally despise success of others that is greater than their own, even when it is just cartoon success.

I can see “grunt” and “ow” in a word bubble, but “strain”?

A pre-stained mattress takes away some anxiety for young men

He’s so glad to get away from home and have his own place he probably will appreciate his new home and take care of it…

Fits his lifestyle!!

Hey, we all gotta start somewhere.

Pivot. Pi-vot. PI-VOT.

Ah, the eternal struggle of moving a couch up a flight of stairs.

I was going to say I hope Gordon bought beer and snacks for the guys to help him move in the couch. Since they’re underage soft drinks will have to do.

First apartments are very memorable…..

For a guy who could be miserable he chooses to look on the bright side. Very impressive for a ‘surly’ teen :))

Decor straight out of the October, 1996 issue of “Appalachian Living”….

Waste not, want not.

:D .. makes me smile.. the feeling of being out on your own for the first time is GREAT and familiar things from home are perfect, even if flawed!

Nicely done Gord!

“PIVOT!”