Garfield by Jim Davis for December 13, 2020

How many times is that so far, Jon?

And also for falling through the roof, Breaking a wall while hanging Christmas lights, and what else?

Well that ruined Jon’s excitement of the holidays

what a scrooge the HOA is

If it’s so ugly why are they selling it at Christmas?

huh?

Twelve more days until Christmas. In my little complex of eight units… I have not seen anyone with a tree. Peeked out the door earlier today and saw that someone finally put up a wreath. Christmas is reflecting the rest of 2020 – dark and gloomy.

It’s probably not that ugly. Just over-wrinkled.

That’s what you get for choosing to live in a tiny slice of fac*sm. After everything I have read, I will never, ever, ever live in an HOA.

I think they want it bigger…

I live in a free society where my neighbours don’t get to tell me what I should do in my home!

Well, Jon IS the Master of Disaster …

You seem to forget, Jon. It’s Christmas in 2020.

Wrong Garfield. It gets you a bit lower and around the back.

What happened to the mailman Garfield use to terrorize, and torture?

And THAT is why I will never live in an HOA home. Renting an apartment has less rules than a HOA does. House Nazis, that’s what they are…

A memory: We had a 3-foot-tall Santa that my dad would put out on the front porch every year. One year he decided to put Santa on the roof. My younger brother & I were watching TV in the living room when we saw my dad fall past the window. We ran to the back door as my dad was walking in, holding his wrist (I will NOT describe the injury; let’s just say it wasn’t pretty). He asked my mom to drive him to the hospital. Suddenly, my mom noticed red on the collar of his coat and freaked out, thinking he also may have had a head injury. I looked closely…and started laughing. My brother followed suit, then Dad caught on. Mom was just about ready to kill us: “What is so funny???” Calmly, Dad asked her, “What did you do just before I went out there?” She answered, “I touched up Santa.” He asked, “What did you use?” That’s when she got the joke: Dad had ♫ lipstick on his collar ♫ Yeah, she got it…but she wasn’t amused. LOL

HOAs are only good for people that don’t want “Those Kind” of neighbors. Well, being a person that actually IS one of those kind of neighbors from time to time, I doubt they would have let me buy in. :-p

“Ka-Chuk”? Rip Haywire is Garfield’s mailman?

I love the marquee panel! The name and face in ornaments is very artfully done. Great job!

I won’t live in an HOA area. Why pay someone to tell me what to do? A block away is one that charges $400 – $800 a MONTH!

My HOA has outlawed Christmas, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah etc.. As well as outside and inside restaurants. Also BBQ s all gatherings of more than one.

I may not have much, but ain’t nobody going to tell me what I can and can’t do to my trailer…

NEVER EVER would I pay someone to tell me what I can do on my own property!

I didn’t know Jon was wealthy enough to live in a neighborhood with an HOA…

It was always assumed that Jon and the gang lived somewhere out in the sticks. So what do they need an HOA for? The modern day equivalent of the Pleasant Valley Sunday / Harper Valley PTA hybrid if there ever was one.

BTW, what if an extremely GARISH Christmas display was put next to a grove of autumn-denuded non-evergreen trees; would the trees look CHARMING by comparison.

Ouch… The last panel though.

I lived in a HOA once! NEVER AGAIN!! I left after they charged me and all the other Home Owners $600 each to repave the parking lot that didn’t NEED repaving!

Some people just have no taste in outdoor Christmas decorations.

I would tell said association to go &%*^ themselves.

Tis the season to be jolly indeed.

funny

HOAs are organizations you have to pay so they can tell you what to do with your own property. Not a fan.

Ugly is in the eye of the beholder…

Anybody that uses an HOA is NUTS!

Don’t forget a gift for them.

I avoid that sort of problem by not associating with the other homeowners.

Then again, neither do I have a yard Santa.

What would an UGLY YARD SANTA look like?

Alright, this breaks all sense of credulity, there is NO way that John lives in a neighborhood with an HOA

Today marks the twelve-day countdown to Christmas. Both ugly Santas and decorations are respectively days one of two of this tradition. #12daystogo #Xmasontheway :)

Jon’s neighbors made an HOA for Jon as the only member. What does that tell you about how his house looks? :)

poor jon can’t catch a break this holiday season :0(

That doesn’t seem reasonable.

Ouch.

Cruel irony.

Since when did he live in an HOA?

idk

it gets you in your pockets.

Or as Animal Crossing would say it, Happy Home Academy.