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Comics I Follow
Pickles
By Brian Crane
Luann
By Greg Evans and Karen Evans
Frazz
By Jef Mallett
Peanuts
By Charles Schulz
Calvin and Hobbes
By Bill Watterson
Doonesbury
By Garry Trudeau
Frank and Ernest
By Thaves
For Better or For Worse
By Lynn Johnston
Non Sequitur
By Wiley Miller
Real Life Adventures
By Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich
After 35 years as an independent building contractor, which meant saving every leftover because “we might need this on the next job” (we did use quite a bit of it), the process of selling, giving, and disposing took a number of months. The governing criterium for saving anything was that I had to know exactly where it would be used within the next six months, with a commitment to follow through and use it. As for things I might need in the future, there are people that will store these things for you. They charge a reasonable fee and the items are like new! They’re generally called “store-keepers” and they operate businesses called “stores”. Sure I’ve had to buy items I threw away several years ago but I didn’t know which items I would need and I haven’t been cluttered with hundreds of items I’ll never use. And a real plus is that I was able to find the item. There’s even a guy at the “store” who helps me find it. So liberating….