Pickles by Brian Crane for August 08, 2021

A good old shirt is a mighty fine thing. Until it wears ALL THE WAY out. Note that “wears all the way out” means different things to guys and their spouses.

one would think the person who sold Earl the shirt for fifty cents was the same person who bought the from Earl (or Opal) shirt for a dollar

I swear Brian Crane has a monitor hidden somewhere in our house.

Not only that, it’s been washed!

“… and it’s like it’s new again.”

Old fashion Economics ?

My dad has a shirt like that.

Took the shirt cut to become a rich person Earl, huh?

THE MAN’S A GENIUS, A GENIUS, I SAY!!

Wall St works the same way.

Brilliant! (said with a British accent)

What goes around …… Comes around ;-)

I’ll give you two bits for the shirt.

A few years ago, I bought an old wooden high chair, poorly painted white, for only $5.00.

I painted it with a black distressed finish and sold it for $50.00

:-D

It’s rare, but I love it when you can beat the system.

With out the lovable Roscoe , this cartoon isn’t worth 50 cents . Sorry to Brian .

Oy

Best shirt is a ‘’painting shirt’‘, the one you put on when ’’it’s gonna get messy’’. i had this ratty old sweat with welding holes and five colors of paint, sleeves chopped off. It was just getting comfortable, and Mama Panda threw it out.

Funny story…recently I listed a bunch of old compact discs for sale on FB Marketplace and wound up selling them all to one person. A few days later, I was browsing through Marketplace when lo and behold, I see that the guy I sold them to is selling the same CDs for twice as much as he paid for them. Hey, if he gets it, good for him!

Smart Earl…smart?

This is my sister’s first husband. He had clothes from the early 50s – she swore they were from high school – so she packed them all up and took them to the thrift store. When he found out what had happened to his good clothes he went to the store and bought them all back! It cost him less than $4 to redeem them, but he cussed and fussed about it for months. He wore socks with holes in the toes and heels, and the outfit he wore to his son’s wedding was a disgrace. In fact, when the son remarried he rented a tux for his dad, just to make sure he wasn’t embarrassed by the man.

So – did he sneak in, change shirts, and then show off his new/old shirt? Change in the garage? Did he first go out topless? Maybe he got a trade-in on the old one at the garage sale . . .

I buy shirts and crew pants at the thrift store and garage sales. Most are like new. My son calls them dead guys cloths. He’s probably right, but the price is right.

Clothing Tycoon!

Despite multiple washings, it probably still smelt too much like Earl…

Well, not quite when you consider inflation.

A new money-making racket for Earl?

Sell high, buy low …right?

It’s called moth deflation.

A lesson in trickle-down economics?

Or 50 cents behind.

Earl is giving many of us ideas!