One of my wife’s closest, longest-term friends happens to be a real estate agent. And she shared the following insight about people “our age.” She said, people always say they want to downsize but they still want every single amenity they had before. Plus room for storage. Not us. We pay extra for storage. You know the deal. We put the stuff that used to be in our garage in boxes that have never been opened, into a storage unit where they remain in boxes, unopened. About the only thing we use from storage is a folding table and chairs which come out for two occasions only. One is tailgating at Giants games (which I do a lot less of the older I get) and the other is for holidays when we have company and we don’t want said company sitting cross-legged on the floor. John, on the other hand, was smarter. He moved from a house to a house. Okay there was a temporary apartment in between, but why make it easy on yourself?

In a previous blog I shared a conversation I had with my wife when we downsized to an apartment, and it was a downsize, from approximately 3,000 square feet to 2,000. I think our exchange captures the essence of the downsize. ME: There is no need to bring over 4 sets of china. They won’t fit. SHE: There is no need to have 4 televisions in a 3 bedroom apartment. They won’t fit.

Guess what happened? We now have 4 sets of china and 4 tv’s. And no place to put anything new, hence the need for a big storage unit. Sigh. As the Fab Four sang, “ob la di, ob a da, life goes on, brah.

And finally, our long-awaited, oft-promised New 60 comic book collection is here. The New 60: A Comic Collection or the Ages. Check it out at https://a.co/d/j2wjguY

Buy early and buy often. Have a great weekend,

Andy and John