Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 03, 2021

And the sad reality dawns upon Janis. The worth of a thing is the value we put on it and there is more value in memories and experiences.

My mother was convinced her house was full of treasures. My brother disagreed. He figured we’d need a nine yard dumpster.

Just give them to good will.

I’ll take them, Janice.

Sturdy commercial stuff – in other words, plastic.

The set may have some value to a company that deals in discontinued and replacements pieces. Value would depend on the pattern.

Just have the dinner parties, even if they are just for you and Arlo. And if there are a lot of dishes, it means you can go for several days without needing to wash up.

Try a living estate sale and get rid of some of your other never part with stuff.

Sign of the times

This comic is a repeat, right?

When it comes to ‘hand me downs’ i prefer photographs. they don’t take up much room and if the people and places are identified they are better evidence of family history than dishes.

Target practice, china shatters really cool when hit with a 9mm and larger.

Good Will would then have to waste money having the Junk hauled to the dump

My mother had a ton of China, She left it to my sister. She has been offering it up to the rest of us but no takers. The Crystal is the same boat

Decisions, huh?

Donate them to the local skeet shooting range.

my son doesn’t even want my dvd collection

Next episode: Anybody need some twelve days of Christmas glasses?

Try replacements,com

If she didn’t even display it, why would she think anyone would want it? Option given.

Go online. There are many china groups and people looking for pieces of defunct patterns to replace those they have broken over the years.

Leave it in the basement for Gene.

ENJOY the dishes. Use the dishes on your OWN table. Every meal. Every day. Make some NEW memories.

I have sold about five sets of dishes on EBay. You don’t get the value you would like, but they get sold. The problem is the bubble wrap costs about $20. I have also bought quite a bit of china on EBay, but I like having two Christmas sets, two Thanksgiving sets, a set for Mexican food, a “good” set, an everyday set ( that is expensive china], and the variety of table clothes and flatware to with them. Now, if I could just actually cook.

“I thought you and Mary Lou might want it. You know, for sentimental reasons.”

Must have missed that part, huh, kid?

And then there’s things like this https://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/yard-sale-find-turns-artifact-worth-500000-76212443?cid=clicksource_4380645_15_hero_headlines_headlines_hed

I believe this is a rerun of an older strip. Spoiler Alert: Doesn’t Janis leave them in the box with a note saying how her Granny brought them across the country years ago…..My Mom had “fine china”, I saw it, but it was never used. After she passed, I got to see it. It was “Made in China”. My Mom was such an innocent soul. Never went to school a day in her life.

… and thus we learn that everyone is sentimental about their own things – and there is no real accounting for what people will be sentimental about. I have a recording on my phone of my 80+ year old mom leaving me a voice mail where she sang happy birthday to me.

The sturdy commercial stuff is heavy duty Melmac.

Take a little time and do some research. There’s some valuable stuff out there, especially crystal. It won’t take long, and maybe you’ll earn that vacation you’d like to have. Maybe.

So Gene’s saying they’re too Klutzy for fine china. I know what he means, they need industrial strength dinnerware for their business. And it needs to be very plain to keep people from stealing it.

I find this whole arc to be very sad. On top of that, it’s hard to believe that this first ran almost 3 years ago! That time went by really fast.

This scene has replayed all over the US many many times

“Dishes the last time I’m going to offer…”

Reality must be faced in this instance. Grown up kids have their own furniture, dishes, wall-hangings and style etc. You can’t just take one house and put it into another. Since my parents are so reluctant to go through their stuff on their own, I already know that, at some point, I am going to have to move back to where they are for a loooong period of time, and live and work there to deal with it all and be away from my own family. Even knowing that doesn’t seem to move the needle with them.

Maybe Replacements.com will take it.