Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 10, 2022

Trash day? I think she misunderstood what the garage sales were for.

Deciphering urban trash discards was once an actual application. Several decades ago, a group applied modern anthropological techniques to a search through the daily trash of a community – I forget where in the US that was. What they found profoundly altered their preconceptions concerning modern humans compared to those of ancient times.

Funny. See yesterday’s Jump Start: https://www.gocomics.com/jumpstart/2022/07/09

Was everything in black and white in Pleasantville?

There’s nothing to say you can’t do both!

Ms. Penwell looking younger with the ponytail.

If it ain’t broke don’t chuck it! In the immortal words of Wilson Phillips, “Hold on for one more day”

A cloud appears above your head

A beam of light comes shining down on you

Shining down on you

The cloud is moving nearer still

Aurora borealis comes in view

Aurora comes in view

And I ran, I ran so far away

I just ran, I ran all night and day

I couldn’t get away

There is a city in Silly Valley, Santa Clara, I think, that has two “Spring Cleaning Days” every year. You can put anything, and I mean anything, out for pick up and the garbage truck, I mean Waste Management Vehicle, will pick it up. Many time people are seen sifting through the pile of stuff others leave behind. Several universities also do something similar when students leave at the end of year. Big piles of stuff outside of dorms and frat houses waiting to be picked up and disposed of or rehomed.

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” The trick is to get them properly hooked up.

I confess to having internalized the immortal phrase that my working-class parents picked up during the Great Depression and WW2 and inculcated in my sister and me: “Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do.”

But the all-time winner in discussions of “stuff” is this immortal bit from George Carlin: https://youtu.be/MvgN5gCuLac

Sounds more like garbage sale.

Maybe both.

Both?

Ever since I got a route delivering food for the Senior Nutrition program, I’ve been astounded by all the things I’ve seen set out on the curb. We are so materially blessed, we don’t seem to realize or care — so much stuff could probably be easily fixed, re-purposed, broken down for useful parts…

I filled my car up the other night from curb finds; only kept one of them and gave the rest away on the local FB Buy Nothing group… Got another haul from my apt’s dumpster tonight…