Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for December 21, 2023

Decked with bottles and pills or paid for by bottles and pills, is there a difference or simply self awareness?

My first tree in my first apartment as a single man was decorated in empty beer cans and the pull tabs.

Fa, la, la, la la la la.

Our little four-foot tree’s main decorations are starfish we collected while combing the local beaches.

The Speech Bubble goes to the wrong person in Panel 2…

Her mother empties the bottles herself!

Every year I bought my wife a special ornament. Never knew what it was going to be, but I’d know it when I saw it. The Christmas after we spent a week in the Black Hills, I saw a bison ornament. Had to get that one. One year I bought her the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones. You have to admit, nothing says "Peace on Earth, Good Will toward men’ like the Iron Throne.

“Pills and bottles” would have fit the meter better.

Could be worse, parents could be urologists.