The Buckets by Greg Cravens for January 07, 2015
January 06, 2015
January 08, 2015
Transcript:
It's been weeks, but I finally got all the evergreen needles, bits of tinsel, and glitter out of the carpet where the Christmas tree used to be. You sure? Have you done the barefoot test yet? I'm positive! I don't need some crazy test of your to prove it. Ok! Well done, then. Darn it!
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Liverlips McCracken Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Standardized tests rear up and bite Sara once again.
gregcartoon Premium Member almost 10 years ago
We haven’t had a real tree in the house for years (how weird is that sentence, really?) and yet I think there are still little brown slivers in the carpet. They used to fir needles from Christmases long ago. It’s not even the same rug on that floor.
Perkycat almost 10 years ago
Years ago, we bought a gently used house and vacuumed the carpet. We got up so much stuff and vacuumed again and got just as much stuff. We took out all the carpeting and put in laminate flooring. We’ve had laminate flooring ever since. Greg Cravens – “it’s not even the same rug on that floor” - too funny!
Comic Minister Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Sorry Sarah.
dzw3030 almost 10 years ago
The “barefoot test” works for cactus spines, too. :-))
amaryllis2 Premium Member almost 10 years ago
I was cleaning up after the Christmas guests went home and found a strand of that plastic Easter grass. Haven’t bought that stuff since my kids were about the ages of my toddler grandchildren.
Allan CB Premium Member almost 10 years ago
why do I get the feeling this was a Greg & Paula discussion? :D
Hunter7 almost 10 years ago
The barefoot test works best in the summer. After many vacuums and a couple of rug shampoos. And not at the beginning of summer with the 1st barefoot. But some random day, sometimes after the May longweekend and before the Thanksgiving weekend in October. In a spot FAR from where the Christmas tree stood and where you walked barefoot many times. there you will step upon a piece of coloured tinsel that last saw the light of day during the 1980’s.
mafastore almost 10 years ago
This strip is on the day after Christmas ends (1/6) so why did she take down the tree weeks ago? Christmas day was not even 2 weeks ago? It is now, as I write 1/12 and our tree is still up as it always is until the 3rd Monday in January, the day we set to start taking it down, actually take all 3 trees down. Yes, they are artificial trees, but they still shed needles and I always find them in the house, all year.