Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 29, 2023

Indeed

Personally this would look like role reversals between us.

Arlo sees it coming! He’ll be outnumbered and the pressure will be enormous.

Je suis Arlo….

Arlo loves to stir the pot, but hates when others finish the stew.

“Can’t you see this is a slippery slope? It might force to do something besides sit around for the rest of my life and be complacent!”

“Haven’t packed a single suitcase and already the kids are trying to move in and run our lives!”

Do cigars even come in boxes anymore?

It’s the end of cash. Only digital currency now.

So slide Arlo slide!

I don’t remember ever having seen Arlo look angry. It’s not a good look on him.

Everybody wants a piece of the action. What will the kids’ cut be?

Wonder if they’ll have to pay taxes on that, look what happened to the Facebook Marketplace stuff.

Just go with it Arlo. It’ll be less painful in the long run…

Please slide card…or let the chips fall where they may.

All that work will be put into the yard sale and they’ll make maybe 20 bucks the rest will be stolen by one of those retail mobs

My wife and I worked ticket sales for Septembeerfest. She did CC on an iPad and I did cash. Touchscreens do not like my fingers.

He is always outnumbered.

Apparently, Arlo’s middle name is “Ludd.”

Hey you kids! Get off of my lawn!

I rarely use cash anymore. I keep an emergency 100 dollar bill in my wallet, hasn’t seen the light of day in years. I don’t even know if it’s still there, I am married after all.. LOL!!!

Hey, eventually those kids may be taking care of you round the clock or picking your retirement facility. Get used to it.

Arlo is afraid they will see the walker with the tennis balls on the feet and think it is his.

I have been to estate sales where they take credit cards, but every yard/garage sale has been cash only. And as a degenerate record collector, I’ve been to a lot of them.

A slippery slope indeed.

You guys made the NY Times crossword today: 25 Down: “_______ and Janis (comic strip)”

Let it go Arlo! Get on the horn and start pricing dumpsters to be dropped off the day after!

Progress is not always progress!

I’m thinking the kids will find a lot more to sell than Arlo has in mind.

There is a slippery slope….it’s Arlo!

I hope they remember to adjust their pricing accordingly due the % cuts for the card service and the card companies.

Preach it, Arlo!

My dad has always said “The whole world’s turning to horse manure!”, and I have to see that on this (if nothing else) he is correct – and it is our duty as grumpy old farts to fight it kicking and screaming!

Trust me, Arlo. It’s easy peasy.

Dang! Popular arc. Reading all the comments is like “War and Peace”.

Or, reading all the daily “Calvin” comments.

Arlo, you need to face it, “change”:is coming.

We have had 5 yard sales over 15 years and everyone had cash. No one asked for credit.

He is and he is!

Don’t forget a ten key that prints. What, you think you can still do math in your head…Wrong. My most humbling math experience was at a state fair in Springfield Missouri. The Lion’s Club earned all its money by handling ticket sales at the dozen entrances to the fair. They gave you a cigar box of money and six different rolls of color coded tickets…jrs, srs, family pack, school kid, etc. it was a nightmare…a flood of packs of people walking up the road alongside car after car all full of people…every possible combination of ticket category…all anxious to get going. So you are adding up five different numbers in your head while counting noses and guessing ages. I had an MBA with an emphasis in accounting and worked as a commercial lender in a bank…I was way overmatched. At the first nightly audit of my remaining tickets and my cash box I was 20 dollars short, which I had to make up out of pocket…..while several of the 80 year old Lion’s balanced their sales box fine. Sigh. Switched to Rotary next year.

it’s me but this ‘strip’ used to be whimsical and amusing. now its more like real life. make what you will of this

Yep, we are old. The large screen is old, the telephone is where we watch. The wallet and cash is old, tap with the phone and it’s paid. Times they are a changing.

Stay where you are as long as you can. Moving and downsizing is the beginning of the end.

Arlo isn’t thrilled and he wants to stay. Janis can get a divorce and move closer to the kids. Everyone wins. Hey, a guy can dream, can’t he?

When I started my guitar repair business, it was just cash. When I added credit cards, business went up. But when I added Venmo, it almost made credit cards obsolete. Venmo and cash is the most popular.

I have to go with Arlo on this one. Why mess up a simple yard sale transaction with credit/debit cards? Does anybody remember Rube Goldberg, a cartoonist from the 1930’s, who was always coming up with ways to make simple things complicated? There was even a name for his devices: Rube Goldberg contraptions.

You are going down that slope whether it is slippery or rough.

This is probably just me, but I think Meg is pregnant and they are dying to tell Janis and Arlo. And, not that they won’t help with the yard sale, but I just think they want to tell them in person, and this is a great excuse to do that! Maybe just wishful thinking but, we’ll see!

I want to see Luddie’s reaction to Meg, and if he sticks his nose up at Gene for never coming to see him.

Whenever I suggested something new, my wife would make it happen, even when I was just thinking out loud. I never learned to keep my mouth shut and now I live in Albuquerque instead of Oregon.

I like cigar boxes but not cigars!

Sorry Arlo, they are going to gang up on you and there is nothing you can do, expect some surprise’s dude.

“We have a cigar box.” That gave me a good laugh.

The bottom of that slope is the convalescent home for cranky Arlos. <];0)

There are three kinds of such “yard sales”—the kind where you just want to get rid of stuff most other people don’t want either; the major “estate sales” where the mission is to get anything and everything out of the house so it can be flipped; and ones in-between.

Just yesterday I cruised by a “garage sale” in my neighborhood. The garage was a Quonset hut big enough to hold a giant motor RV; the owners were downsizing EVERYTHING to convert to a permanent RV lifestyle; and there was everything from trivial doo-dads to two late-model cars for sale! As it turned out, I didn’t find things I had stopped by looking for, BUT I found enough of certain other items useful for myself and the extended family (from house-building tools to collectibles to agricultural equipment to pet-keeping and kitchen appliances to a railroad-issue company jacket) that my normal wallet contents would have been outstripped instantly, and I would have had to take out my credit/debit card. As it turned out, I haggled my way down to the still-above-average contents of my wallet that moment……. now, had I been able to buy the garage itself, as I joked as I walked in………

The “kids” are just a little too pushy.

It is important for children to learn about buying things/making money using actual money as it is tangible and therefore something which will make an impression on them as opposed to just putting everything on a card and never actually seeing the money paid out to set the concept of money as something which is limited, has to be kept track of, and not as opposed to use of credit cards which is ephemeral and one does not see the limits on their money. Children will NOT as they grow understand the concept staying within the limits of the money one has if they do not learn to deal with physical money and see it going “out” in payment. A credit card is so far removed from them seeing the money going out – they do not make the association of the money being used.

I see the difference in husband’s sister (now in her 50s) and my sisters – one of who is even younger. To his sister there are no limits to money as all is paid by credit card and she never was taught to deal with money as cash.