For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for December 29, 2020

no flippin’ kiddin’

Didn’t Lynn Johnston do this joke just this past Sunday?

Not to disdain my friends and family members who do celebrate Christmas, but I have a lot less stress and expenses this time of year.

Elly is a dropout. She thinks “after math” means geography class!

Christmas is a pain in the butt.

Should have done some before math (budgeting).

Ain’t that the truth!!!!

Lynn’s Comments:

I couldn’t resist this punch line. Word play made my strip almost impossible to translate into other languages. Foreign papers either had to make a direct translation or change the dialogue completely! The best translators were often cartoonists themselves!

After math is Algebra. I dislike accounting but with my piddly account, I could do it with an abacus.

The demands for payment for your over spending on Christmas gifts, is your punishment for buying too many things, which are already forgotten about.

I tend to purchase/pay for Christmas gifts throughout the year, or at least starting in September. That makes the bill pay a lot less painful. Do banks still have “Christmas Clubs?”

I never have that issue. I set money aside all year and when I Christmas shop, I can pay in full at the time of purchase. No after Christmas bills.

But SO worth it,right,John?Right…right…?

For our family, no credit card for purchases for Christmas debt.

I don’t have this problem; I don’t have a credit card. I pay cash and budget responsibly.

Not just you but all of us billpayers……

All I got to say is John, you got that exactly right

You can plan on gifts, but it doesn’t prevent emergencies.

This is 1991, so look at the bright side John. Saddam Hussein has been defeated and the USSR is now in the dustbin of history. Two murderous regimes got X’d out.

Yes, but it bears repeating.

The 5th thing at Christmas that’s such a pain to me, 5 months of bills.