Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 30, 2021

Calvin will put his money to good use.

“That was a test and you failed. No allowance! "

What did Dad give his son, 25¢? That certainly won’t buy him much… just a gumball.

A whole 25¢? If only…

For your allowance, you are expected to do a few chores…..

My all time favourite Calvin strip!!!! XD

Don’t spend it all in one place, Calvin!

If his parents meant to teach him the value of money, he should be given chores to do & earn the money. He learned nothing. That appeared to be 25 cents; he can’t get into any trouble with just a quarter…or can he? LOL

Buy off Moe?

Sure we’ll give you an allowance, but first you’ll have to do these chores that will help you (all together now) BUILD CHARACTER! ;D

Well, what did you expect?

You want Calvin to learn?

His dad should’ve told him he’d have to do chores for an allowance!!!

Megalomaniac in the making…Calvin would make a great Bond villain! :D

Oh yes, that’s right. Our son is evil. Why do we keep forgetting that?

I never had an allowance. I learned the value of money with a paper route.

this ranks up there as one of my favorite strip. there’s many of them, some touching, some ridiculous and then there’s this. thanks Mr. Watterson

Calvin got his mba at the Daffy Duck School of Finance and Misers.

And thus Lex Luthor gets his start.

He certainly has learned the value of money, but he has yet to learn the difference between the definition of riches, and the definition of child’s allowance.

25 cents used to go a lot farther.

further?

$.25=$.50 today, even in 1991 I don’t think it would buy a candy bar or bus fare for a kid < 12. Didn’t he have enough money ( $5?) a week ago to buy a punk rock LP?

Wow! Six to Scrooge in a heartbeat. Wait until he finds out just how much a dollar a week doesn’t buy. Scrooge to Oliver Twist in a slow spiral of poverty. …may I have some more, sir?

He was only their psycho son. Now he’s their salaried psycho son. Bad move.

Fred inculcates his value system into the young Donald.

Calvin should really consider using his inside voice.

Have him fill out a W-9 so you have his information for his 1099.

Um, Calvin? Your dad didn’t say how MUCH of an allowance…?

Dads thinking the value of it, Calvins thinking the power of it.

Calvin will find that he actually has a “crypto-allowance”.

Hopefully he doesn’t live in Illinois, California, or New York and can actually keep some of his allowance…

Sure, let’s hope he lives in one of those states with low taxes and crappy roads, schools, power grids and infrastructure.

Allowances are the greatest thing for pre-teens and up. We fixed the amount they would give and gave them a list: I have to clean your room minus 5, I have to pick up after you minus 4, you get anything but a B or A minus 10, you are late coming home minus all of it for that week. You don’t do your chores minus 3 per chore. You give me attitude minus all of it for the week. A little rough the first 4 weeks, after that all the way up to 18 or they got a part time job, which ever came first, no problems.

Wait until he sees what 25 cents a week gets you. That’s what I got when I was his age. Actually probably more like around 9 years old.

Apparently giving Calvin money isn’t sufficient to teach him the value of money.

Of course you blew it. Just handing money for nothing does no good. Unless one earns it, one will never knows its value.

I dunno, Dad, seems to me Calvin gets it…

Embarrassment by son: the real reason Dad works at the office all the time…

Panel three is a Classic.