For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 05, 2021

While it’s very true that you can’t put a price on memories, if you are lucky enough to be able to hold onto them, you can take them with you wherever you go…

That’s one thing most of us face. As we get to a certain age our horizons get much narrower.

I moved out of my childhood home more than 20 years ago, but it is still the house I see in my dreams. Had one last week where I was walking a recent TV character down the hallway.

My memories are not in any one location, Where ever I live my memories come with me.

“Ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on bra

La-la how their life goes on"

—Beatles

Why is Elly the one telling Phil? Is his relationship with his parents so terrible that they would rather stand outside, gazing at the house, musing on its worth, than give him a call?

“I wonder how much the house is worth?” For most people, they think about this before deciding to sell. If their house is not worth much, they might want to rethink that downsizing.

Why has Grandpa Jim decided to make all his questions into statements? Is he too cheap to use question marks?

♪♪ Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind ♪♪

sigh, how true…

Michael Scott’s condo in Scranton sold on eBay in record time for 80% what he paid for it. The buyer was highly motivated, as was he

The trouble with “priceless” is that we usually care more than the market will bear.

I really love the artwork in the last panel. It is all at once heart-warming and melancholy, and the perspective of seeing the house from that angle just gives me the feels.

My mother assumed that one of us kids would move into the house after she died. We never told her that we were going to sell it immediately. My therapist called it an act of closure on all the trauma we endured there.

Everyone faces this.

It is best, let a new young family create memories.

I will never leave this house I have been in for 51 years. I found it in a book of house plans. I bought the blue prints for it. (still have them) Had it built while we lived across the street, and we watched it go up. It’s fabulous in my eyes, and I love every board, every shingle. (soon to be metal roofing) It will be our youngest son’s someday, and the house he lives in, (also ours), will go to a grandson.

Maintaining a sense of impermanence throughout life helps in these transitions: it is the next phase. As a man, I have reached the stage of being “harmless” – when you know it is coming it is no problem at all. Our lives only have value because they are evanescent. Sic transit gloria mundi.

That is a true statement!

They’re in Vancouver, right? The old house probably isn’t worth much, but the land it’s on is worth a fortune!

It takes a real estate agent to put a price on your memories.

They won’t be selling the memories.

The house is only worth what a new buyer will pay for it. They don’t care about your memories at all. It is best to put all your photos away when trying to sell your house.

When we sold our late parents’ house near Disneyland, it sold for 25 times what they paid for it 54 years earlier. It’s amazing what that much time does for real estate, especially when it’s in a prime location.

Good luck getting rid of books. When my in laws had passed, the wife and I had to clean it out. Local library said they were so flooded with book from people dying that they would only take books printed in the last 3 years. Tons of old but great books went into the dumpster.

When I retired we decided to sell our house up north and move south. We were there 27 years. Longer than any other home. Our kids grew up there. I thought I would be sad the day we left and wondered if we made the right choice. It snowed the last night and the morning we left and I knew we made the right decision!