Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 12, 2020

She got you there in the end of the conversation, mister.

While cleaning out our Mom’s house, we discovered that she had kept every Christmas card, and every birthday card she ever got. Never looked at any of them, as far as we know.

Guess I better go out in the garage and check on my “The Yellow Kid” comics collection.

Touché !

Don’t fight, Frank. You one of the few happily married couples in the Strip.

Let it go, it’s not worth it.

Because if it was, I’d tell you ask Nancy how come HER clothes take up 90% of the walk-in closet space. ;)

[DUCKS]

I have 25 years of TV Guide Fall Preview guides, until the year they stopped making them small. It is interesting to look back at them.

It does seem heartless to toss personal cards and mail right after looking at them. However I don’t have a garage any more. Fortunately most everything I get these days is email. I haven’t sent cards for years.

S.I. contains cool articles that are fun and sometimes informative to read again later. What’s fun about re-reading “Hi, from Carol and Bob. Merry Christmas!”.

I keep cards with something either especially meaningful, like cards with hand written notes, or from people I especially love! Yes- sometimes I do look at them. Sometimes when I am discouraged, sad, or need a boost. And now some ofthose people I especially loved are gone. When I read the especially nice cards with their messages I realize those I have lost are still in my heart. Their messages are still alive to remind me and I feel encouraged, loved, and inspired to finish my own life doing my best as those I loved who loved me would want me to.

Touche nancy, touche. But talk about a double standard: nancy keeps christmas cards as keepsakes for sentimental value. But she chides frank for keeping sports illustrated—-no doubt the S.I. for the articles..haha

Frank it’s not worth it.

Better Sports Illustrated than a different kind of magazine.

Swimsuits are sports related.

Nancy 1 Frank zero. Remember Nancy doesn’t need to justify, but Frank does!Silence is golden.

Tit for tat.

School break is over; bring back Tiffany; it time to see the new roommates!

Hehehe. Well done, Nancy.

I have kept several ones that were particularly warm and meaningful. Those people are no longer in my life, but I can look back and be reminded of what once was.

Scan everything and put it in chronological order. Changes your perspective.

Throw it out! Useless boxes of paper like greeting cards and magazines are a fire hazard and will eventually become a massively horrific nightmare for Brad and Luann to sort through and throw away, costing them their jobs and relationships from the sheer time commitment involved in dealing with millions of pieces of paper.

Throw it all out!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sometimes Frank can be pretty annoying. But the Sundays strips with him and Nancy are very good. So real life.

His marriage aside, I think Frank and Bernice make a better match! Yes, there is a 25-30 year age difference, but you cannot ignore the fact that their ability to kill the fun out of others is a sign that they are a near perfect couple. :P

I used to save them and then I got the idea. I have a scanner and a computer, so I scanned them all into the computer. I also scanned in all my important information that is on paper. And I did the same with all the old and new family photos.

I’ve begun to hang onto “special” Christmas cards. Unusual, or very pretty ones, as well as ones with an actually note written in them by people I love. Since so many folks no longer send cards and I love displaying cards at Christmas as part of my holiday decorations, I actually have begun to display some of the older “special” cards among what handful of “new” cards I get for the year. That makes my display look beautiful and provides an excuse to hang onto those cards. -——I’m also glad that over the last 10 years, I hung onto every Christmas and Birthday card from my Dad. He’s no longer with us, but it makes me smile to read and display his cards….as though he is still here.

“Hey, not fair! I only keep one issue out of the year!”

not the same

…especially the swimsuit editions…

I keep my back issues of Nickelodeon Magazine in shoeboxes.

I save ours until the next December when I get together with other church ladies for a potluck lunch. Before we eat, we make Christmas place mats for people in the retirement facility. We take those with some more useful items on their wish lists so they have them for Christmas. We have a lot of fun and those simple place mats are well liked. We made 175 this year. I do frame a few cards as well.

That’s a fair trade, Frank; work on the National Geographic collection next.

All except the Swimsuit editions!

Frank pick your battles! This one isn’t worth it. It’s hard to just toss out cards from friends and family.

Touche’. And by the way, close your pie hole before you fall into it.

I wish I had kept all the comic books from when I was a kid, I’d be rich! I still keep stuff, but I am slowly clearing out, Before I throw old mail or books out I have to take one last look to make sure I REALLY don’t get joy out of it anymore.

One good reason to keep the cards is so you know who sent you a card last year and who didn’t, so you can pare down your list.

They ones I keep are the ones with pictures of kids. I like to see how they’ve grown in the past year. That being said, it’s because I don’t live near any of them and there are only 3 families. So, all of them since 2004 fit into a shoebox.

I don’t get many paper cards, but I keep my best birthday and Christmas cards until the next year’s batch comes in. With a very rare exception, last year’s gets tossed after I reread them. A few I’ll keep forever if they are the very last from a dead loved one or they make me smile.

Things are much easier to toss after they have been moved a couple different places. First from the mantle to the kitchen counter, then to the laundry room, then out to the garage. After they’ve been in the garage a few years they are easier to toss.

That’s silly! …uh, but don’t touch my 50 years of Road & Track.

I don’t save cards. I scan or photograph them and keep the digital versions which I use for screensavers in later years.

Don’t toss magazines like that till you’ve at least checked eBay first. Sometimes those things can be worth money.

My favourite SI issues are those with the reactions to the yearly swimsuit issue. And the swimsuit issues.

I cut the card fronts into bookmarks…sometimes add a ribbon. Recycle those babies!

We usually get somewhere around 40 to 45 cards a year at Christmas. I tried to think of something better than standing them up on the buffet in the main dining room. About 6 years ago, I happened to spot a flat Christmas tree – it is about 7 feet tall, and at the bottom, it is a little over 4 feet wide, but is only 6 inches thick from front to back, so it fits flat against a wall. It is pre – lighted, I put on a sparse amount of small red balls, and I put all the Christmas cards on the tree, so it became the Christmas card tree.

I kept cards and letters (the written kind) for close to 50 years, and finally went through them a couple years ago and shredded most. Kept a few from family members no longer here, and old friends that I had forgotten we used to have a pretty good correspondence going (where are they now?). It was very bittersweet reading those old cards/letters, but there was just no reason to keep them forever plus I don’t want my sisters to have to deal with all that junk when I’m gone.

We have two kids and we have two two – story houses (free and clear) in a desirable area of town, so when we pass on, each kid gets a house. Because they get the house for free, their job will be to get rid of what they do not want. Small task on their part to get a free house, especially since we are not hoarders. I’d take that deal any day…

“I Stand Collected”

“Oh, For Keepsake!”

“Boxed Card — Will He?”

“This Old Card Of Mine” (♪♫)

“Bundle Of Oy”

Ball is in your court.

The right Sports Illustrated can fetch a pretty penny, if I’m not mistaken.

Interestingly enough, the topic of the sermon during this morning’s service at church was about clutter and getting rid of it. As much as I can understand the logic of keeping both used Christmas cards and back issues of Sports Illustrated, like the pastor said this morning, if you haven’t used it in more than a year or so, you probably never will. Out it goes.

Scan the Christmas Cards. You get to keep them without taking up space.

Just cleaned out my mom’s house, had 70 years of old cards. Christmas, birthdays, mothers & fathers days and anniversary cards. What a waste.

Been there, done that, still doing it!

His collection fills up 2/3 of the Garage. Hers only a couple shelves.

Although both collections are much smaller since that family of Rats that they haven’t noticed yet moved in and began chewing the collections up to make nests out of.

Tomorrow: Inspector Clouseau or Nancy Drew?

Happy the family that hoards together!

both make good arguments on why do they have so many this or that.