The Buckets by Greg Cravens for December 08, 2024

What a nice feel-good moment. This strip is good at those, with the parents’ reactions part of the fun.

OMG… That’s funny!!!! Bonk Bonk Bonk…

I love this comic.

Love having “sword” fights with those.

Can those smiles get any bigger? Love it!❤️

That special time of the year when the ‘bonk tubes’ are longer than plain old paper towel tubes.

I can picture those 3 hanging out at stores that offer gift wrapping. Drooling over all those future ‘bonk tubes’!

My wife wants a party where we pass out the bonk tubes to everyone. A didgeridoo would end up devolving to one too.

I can remember doing that back when we were kids back in the dark ages! They had just invented the process for manufacturing cardboard!

A friend of ours calls them “dunt-da-dunts”. Presumably I don’t need to explain why?

Christmas tradition!!!!! Those giant ones were always good for a day. My brother and I would go at it as Zorro and pirates and Robin Hood. OF COURSE, THEY WERE SWORDS!! \^o^/

Sounds of the season when you have children. I remember sword fights with my older brother. Memories,,,,,,

BONK BONK ON THE HEAD!

Kirk: THIS ISN’T A GAME! NO MORE BONK BONK!

The next day "Mom can you wrap some more presents, our bonk tubes are wore out.

This is so great on so many levels. Kids having fun with the most ordinary things and mom encouraging it. Fantastic.

A cat would have asked for the boxes. To sleep in. Kids are more fun (as long as it isn’t at my home).

I’m surprised one of the kids can play a didgeridoo.

“Bonk tubes”. We had light sabers.

Boys will be boys.

Ah, the cardboard tube. Entertaining generations of kids for over 100 years.

If you play a didgerido too long, someone will come over and hit you with a bagpipe. :)

I still offer an occasional bop when the paper towel roll is empty. ☺️

I was scared for a minute, I was afraid they were going to make jailhouse pipes!

Boys and their toys, and a Mom who understands.

“Bonk tubes” … love it. This one made me smile.

We use very little gift wrap in general including Christmas wrap. We buy a gift for husband’s younger niece (15) as the rest of the family, including her older sister are adults.

Husband will buy a gift for himself and give it to me to wrap.

So that makes a total of 2 Christmas gifts to wrap per year. (One already bought and wrapped – we will see his family tomorrow at a bookstore for a reading by his sister of a book she wrote and published and will give his niece her gift then.)

I finally managed several years ago to convince him that when I say I do not want anything – I am not, as is shown on TV and the movies, being coy – I REALLY MEAN not to buy me anything. It is rare that there is anything I want or need (other than food, meds, and my two magazine subscriptions – and my computers which are already covered and are not gifts) It took me decades for him to understand that like Horton the elephant (Dr Seuss) “I said what I meant and I meant what I said”. Now he does.