Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for April 30, 2013

Money, time and energy….

“Hang on, help is on its way…”

I look back at those “remember when” gift items that you can buy at Bob Evans and some other places, that tells you what happened and how much things cost when you were born…. and I think about how over time costs for everything just crept on up while the world goes around… in my “salad days”, gas was just under or around 60 cents, apartments were only a couple hundred bucks for a decent one, and grocrery prices covered many times what it would cost today… I remember seeing Tastykake baked pies/cakes that can go in a lunchbox @ around a quarter, then by the nineties, went up to fifty, then 75, now the same size costs over a dollar! and the ingredients sure changed, maybe to mostly cut costs for them…. same with just about everything… sigh….

Funny…..I always seem to come to the same conclusion, Fritzi!

Honey, don’t we all.

Fritzi’s speaking for all of us!

What’s with the hand sign in panel one? No one types like that!

BLAME THE I.R.S., AND EVERYONE ELSE IN PUBLIC OFFICE!!!!! THEY ARE THE ONES SPENDING YOUR HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS FRIVILOUSLY TO PAY OFF THE NATIONAL DEBT!!!!!!

well…. at least yer not FLAT BUSTED….!!!!

The local theater was .09c for kids when I was a kid. My grandmother would give me a quarter. Popcorn was a dime, a box of gum drops was a nickel, and I always came home with a penny!

DON’T DO IT , FRITZI. Save yourself for me.

Now THAT’s an outing!

There’s an old saying that ‘Guys don’t make passes at chicks who wear glasses’. I think Fritzi proves that saying is totally bunk, cause even wearing glasses, she’s just too hot to pass up!

I LOVED Sluggo’s saga for sure. But…the brevity of today’s strip is a welcome relief. and for sure…it stirs up just as much nostalgia and deep thought!!

Welcome to the club.

@Estrelita..& Iam ….don’t go off on a rant or anything……….LOL

Inflation -when you are broke-with your pockets full of money.

imagine 20 years from now people will look back at 2013 and wonder why everything was so cheap?

Think we’ve had bad inflation?When I was in Turkey in 1964, exchange rate was 9 lira per US$.If I’d taken $100 US, converted to Lira, put in savings at 6% compound interest, and gone back in 2004, I would have had 3/4 of 1c!

Don’t we all!

Wouldn’t take me all day to figure THAT out.

You know what? I AM gonna think of Fritzi’s hand gesture as a shout out of “I Love You” in ASL to all of us readers from Guy… intentional or not, thanks, Guy! We do appreciate you, too!

If they used it for something worthwhile, I wouldn’t mind so much. Borrowing $ from China then sending them aid. Huh? Sending Pakistan $. Huh? Giving illegals benefits. Huh? $ to green companies going bankrupt one after the other. Huh? Not stopping the fraud in the welfare & disability system. $ to find out why pigs stink. Almost a billion $ for empty bank accts that should be closed. Studies for why lesbians are more prone to drinking problems. Huh, huh, and huh. If you don’t want to pitch a hissy fit about stuff like that, then you are as big a fool as the pols think all of us are.

Marrying Phil would help. It would get a better tax deduction.

Wher’s calimaghazi? I’m sure he would give you anything you wanted, but you’ll have to pay a steep price.

Re: Estrelita – I thought what she had to say was interesting – and it seemed to tie in with the observations by IamJayBluE . What, exactly, did you find so objectionable?

Some comments prove the degeneration, irreverence and decadence that lurks in society in general, and on some threads…..