Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for December 09, 2023

  1. Mm wp001
    allen@home  about 1 year ago

    Well Darryl whatever floats your boat.

     •  Reply
  2. Blu
    Blu Bunny  about 1 year ago

    To Daryl, untangling them is like solving a Rubiks cube. He enjoys the challenge.

     •  Reply
  3. The rat
    Ratkin Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Lighten up, Wanda.

     •  Reply
  4. Badger 4 360
    sirbadger  about 1 year ago

    In January, he could get an empty spool from an electrician and wrap lights around it. That might not fit as well in the attic.

     •  Reply
  5. P1030260
    einarbt  about 1 year ago

    Fair point there from Darryl. She should just leave him to it.

     •  Reply
  6. Missing large
    angelolady Premium Member about 1 year ago

    They make spools for those, even. My husband coils them up like a hose and stores them in round tins. They uncoiled without tangles.

     •  Reply
  7. Noodleman 2  2
    Cornelius Noodleman  about 1 year ago

    He’ll probably electrocute himself before he gets half of them put up.

     •  Reply
  8. Mrpeabodyboysherman
    iggyman  about 1 year ago

    Next time use a larger container, Paul!

     •  Reply
  9. Fb img 1575732366064
    Macushlalondra  about 1 year ago

    You have only yourself to blame, Darryl. Wanda, just leave him to it. Shut the attic door lest his language be heard by the kids.

     •  Reply
  10. B3b2b771 4dd5 4067 bfef 5ade241cb8c2
    cdward  about 1 year ago

    Every year after Christmas, I put them away neatly, and every year before Christmas when I bring them down, I find they have rebelled and formed a giant knot.

     •  Reply
  11. 466976351 10226287680802333 1752535608101856512 n 2
    dlkrueger33  about 1 year ago

    That’s why I got a tree with lights attached. I’m not dealing with that nightmare anymore.

     •  Reply
  12. Win 20201204 12 32 23 pro
    oakie817  about 1 year ago

    remember it’s @ before # except after $

     •  Reply
  13. Huckandfish
    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 1 year ago

    She has one eye with two pupils. Don’t expect a lot of insight.

     •  Reply
  14. Missing large
    eced52  about 1 year ago

    Send him down to tractor supply and buy a hose wheel.

     •  Reply
  15. 2006 afl collingwood
    nosirrom  about 1 year ago

    Being the designated detangler and bulb tester as a kid trained me to put this stuff away neatly.

     •  Reply
  16. Missing large
    ctolson  about 1 year ago

    Hopefully the kids aren’t in ear shot, especially Hammie. FFFFUUUUDGE! No lug nuts involved.

     •  Reply
  17. Missing large
    goboboyd  about 1 year ago

    Suspend the ball of lights, as is, and call it the star that guided the dudes bearing gifts.

    Across the room from the Festivus Pole of course.

     •  Reply
  18. Photo
    6foot6  about 1 year ago

    it doesn’t’ matter how well you attempt to store the lights. They will always end up in a tangled mess.

     •  Reply
  19. Aoh14ggz hgcegfwgram r 8ouqo 4bp6nh8 34e3whf8w=s96 c
    Webby_dog  about 1 year ago

    Packing it up early I see!

     •  Reply
  20. 250
    ladykat  about 1 year ago

    It never mattered how carefully we stored the lights when I was younger; they would all end up in one gigantic snarl. Later on, I stored each strand in a large freezer bag. Now I have a nice fiber optic tree.

     •  Reply
  21. Photo
    DawnQuinn1  about 1 year ago

    Hey guys! Why put them away? Christmas is not come yet.

     •  Reply
  22. Missing large
    Cozmik Cowboy  about 1 year ago

    1) Go to your local hardware (or, as a last resort, home improvement big-box)

    2) Find the extension cords (outdoor ones, 25’-100’ range; household ones are probably elsewhere)

    3) Look around until you find the reels they sell for winding a bunch of cords on and buy a few

    4) When you take down the lights, just wind them onto the spool and Bob’s yer uncle; my 2 spools held several thousand lights

     •  Reply
  23. Missing large
    cracker65  about 1 year ago

    You do it Wanda.

     •  Reply
  24. C3aa8388 7e12 470d 9735 d5aaf1e3f776
    Charles & Susan  Premium Member about 1 year ago

    My husband does it the same way :)

     •  Reply
  25. Screenshot 20231128 222147 samsung internet
    Frank Burns Eats Worms  about 1 year ago

    Santa will find out if Darryl’s been knotty or nice.

     •  Reply
  26. Grumpy cat
    EMGULS79  about 1 year ago

    Darryl, the fact that it’s the best way to deal with fitted sheet sets doesn’t automatically mean it’s also the optimal technique for storing Christmas lights.

     •  Reply
  27. 43d42c13 032a 4c38 bae7 e97db5523c11
    Pet  about 1 year ago

    Our holiday tradition is me making a giant bowl of coleslaw for 16 people and forgetting it in the basement fridge :-D

     •  Reply
  28. Neil diamond
    The Quiet One  about 1 year ago

    That is the one tradition I can do without.

     •  Reply
  29. Bucky01
    Smitty  about 1 year ago

    Even when you TRY to put them away neatly, it’s almost guaranteed that next Christmas, those lights will have reverted to their natural state of tangled anarchy.

     •  Reply
  30. Missing large
    philwinn  about 1 year ago

    Funny

     •  Reply
  31. Fdr avatar 6d9910b68a3c 128
    Teto85 Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Some holiday traditions deserve to be reverently pulled out, gazed at, stomped on, shredded and reused as fire starters. This time put them away after carefully packaging them.

     •  Reply
  32. Missing large
    mbhiggins5555  about 1 year ago

    “If I get stoned and sing all night long…”

     •  Reply
  33. Imagesca66di1a
    Thehag  about 1 year ago

    I When I had a house I used to; take them down, separate each string. connect the string to itself. fold to fit a plastic grocery bag. tie the bag loosely. put the bags in a box.

     •  Reply
  34. Missing large
    Quentin1992  about 1 year ago

    He just doesn’t want to be told what he already knows.

     •  Reply
  35. Kay 053021
    kaycstamper  about 1 year ago

    I’d be outta there! Leave him with the mess he created!

     •  Reply
  36. Missing large
    prrdh  about 1 year ago

    Darryl uses this to exercise his capacity for patience and forbearance in preparation for the trials the holiday season will put those qualities to.

     •  Reply
  37. J face sprite
    J-Yoshi64  about 1 year ago

    What is it that Lucy van Pelt said about traditions?

     •  Reply
  38. Dvincent
    dv1093  about 1 year ago

    Here ya go Wanda. Show me how it’s done. (later) You did a great job! It’s all yours from now on.

     •  Reply
  39. 100 0515  2018 03 15 17 41 22 utc
    pchemcat  about 1 year ago

    “If you don’t like how I do it, then let me suggest that you take over the job.”

     •  Reply
  40. Missing large
    Alyssa the Great  about 1 year ago

    I do put them away neatly. They ball themselves up. And half of them break in storage.

     •  Reply
  41. Large starwars65leia
    comicalUser  about 1 year ago

    Take a thin, flatter piece of wood and wrap them around it . . . it is not hard!

     •  Reply
  42. Missing large
    wildlandwaters  about 1 year ago

    Actually he did, but some nasty elves…..

     •  Reply
  43. Missing large
    John Jorgensen  about 1 year ago

    Anyone have a holiday tradition that is aimed at anticipating next year’s holiday season rather than augmenting this year’s? I always watch the Simpsons episode “Kill Gil Vol 1 & 2” with the last of my Christmas leftovers. To me it very nicely illustrates that the festive spirit rapidly diminishes once the holiday is past, but also includes a dramatic reminder that the season will come around again.

     •  Reply
  44. Picture 001
    rshive  about 1 year ago

    I wonder whether there IS a neat way to put away Christmas lights.

     •  Reply
  45. Dd2001gv
    DevilDog2001 Premium Member about 1 year ago

    They make “light wheels,” where you roll the lights around a plastic wheel, and they don’t tangle. But Darryl doesn’t care. He likes to make things harder for himself.

     •  Reply
  46. Gc pfp
    BenGMan  about 1 year ago

    No, she doesn’t.

     •  Reply
  47. Be3792d9 563b 49b0 999a 11a53af6c8dc cute anime boy with glasses cute anime profile pictures for boys 1
    Takos  about 1 year ago

    It doesn’t matter how neat or careful you put them up. They somehow always come out tangled like they were in a hurricane.

     •  Reply
  48. Mew mew power animated gif
    ToneeRhianRose  7 months ago

    Haha! (^▽^)

     •  Reply
Sign in to comment

More From Baby Blues