Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 09, 2023

Pretty open ended beginning there Arlo.

He’s doing all the work because she wants to rummage through boxes

Schrödinger’s cat??? I hope not!

Good analogy. Curiosity killed the cat.

Is Arlo’s thinking of Curiosity killing the cat?

Schrödinger’s cat! Ludwig will be jealous if they find him. ;)

I would never ever discard any boxes, without looking inside them first. You might get a surprise and find something valuable and forgotten.

“….in fact I believe I left a cat in one of these boxes.”

So what do you do with all of those family artifacts that you wound up with, you’re the end of the family line, and closer to the glue factory every day?

Schrödinger!

can you say ’Schrödinger’s cat’ ? :D

I haven’t opened the dish pack my china is in since moving in 1988.

Quantum superpositions in the attic…

The time to be ruthless is before you put the item into the storage box.

Curiosity is not always about cats…wise up Arlo!

And the cat wants to push everything off a ledge?

Are the contents dead or alive?

He’s worried that looking through all the boxes will result in keeping so much stuff, that they cannot downsize. It happens. Then you take too much with you and eventually need to really be brutal and do it again (doing this now)…

Unless someone tosses it in your coffin, you can’t take it with you.

We are all different. I dislike surprises enough that I would rather discard something valuable I didn’t know I had than to find out I had it.

My wife persists in asking me what I want for Christmas or my birthday and I always tell her “nothing.” I have even explained to her that getting gifts distresses me and she knows my history of awful surprises, but she still persists. The distress can be like losing a pet, and it can take me days or weeks to recover my emotional balance. A couple years ago we were driving through Utah and came across a small town called Orderville with a monument proclaiming the name. She joked that was the place for me, and I quickly agreed. Do Not Disturb. I had a job that consisted mainly of correcting problems in sophisticated systems; the job was fun because I was not directly affected by the problems and I almost always prevailed. What could be better?

“If not expired, they have been diminished by inflation” I believe after a year or two from purchase the companies start charging an administrative fee to the balance so they can eventually remove this outstanding balance from their books.

Don’t worry they will downsize. Wives are outstanding at downsizing their husband’s possessions….

When we moved I mistakenly put a box full of cookware in among a bunch of others to go to Goodwill. Luckily there was a big thrift sale at our new home city where we could buy frying pans and pots cheap.

This could be really good… A lecture and thought experiment on “Arlo’s (Schrodinger’s) Cat” in relation to Quantum Mechanics, Down Sizing, and Relocation!

I have no idea what Arlo’s last comment means. If I were Janis I would have no answer to him.

Put on a pair of shorts I hadn’t worn in three years and found a twenty dollar bill in the pocket.

We found several boxes like that while downsizing and did look through all of them. It was interesting. We probably saved one box worth of stuff from 6-8 boxes. Most things were tossed, shredded, or given away (some old toys).

Yard sale report!!!! sold about half our ‘stuff’. Made 300 bucks CDN. About $16.98 US. Works out to about 11 cents an hour, so I’m keeping up with the third world kids digging up lithium. Livin’ the dream.

I’m with Janis. Let’s discover what’s inside the boxes!

It seems Janis is resistent to a potential move to the coast while Arlo may be ready to go.

At the very least, Gene’s toys are now considered vintage and may be worth thousands of dollars!

curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction etc. etc.

They didn’t label any of them?

Should have said Schrödinger’s cat. ? Look it up.

Schroedinger’s cat?

You might find something that should be valuable, But can you find the one fool that’s willing to buy it from you. So you put it away because maybe your kids will want it.

Is their name Schroedinger?