Calvin and Hobbes made a lot of devilry during their 10 - tenacious run — but just how much impairment did they actually do ? One intrepid superfan went through every single panel andtallied the sum costof their havoc , from $ 2 crack crank jar to $ 4,798.83 to fix a flooded domicile .
Even though the Proceedings of the Natural Institute of Science ( PNIS , heh heh ) claim to put out anything , real or fake , editor in chief Matt J. Michel accept this punch-drunk task super seriously , and rooted his research in material world figure .
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture , raise a fry from first to age 17 costs , for those in the middle - income groups , anywhere from $ 226,800 to $ 264,600 total [ … ] Missing from this estimate is an explicit approximation of the amount of hurt that youngster can cause ( here , damage refers to that of the break - a - window physical kind , not that of the mummy - and - daddy - need - a - healer emotional kind ) . Such an estimate would increase the truth of the USDA ’s idea and the budgets of new parent , depending on how destructive they project their youngster to be .
Obviously Michel had to take some liberties when figuring out monetary value for bust items .
To estimate the monetary value from damaged goods , I searched amazon.com for corresponding point , with some exceptions ( e.g. , Calvin ’s Mom seems moderately stylish , so when Calvin placed an incontinent toad frog on her sweater , I looked for a replacement on jcrew.com ) . To estimate price for prop impairment , I used homewyse.com and fixr.com ( using the cipher computer code for Chagrin Falls , OH ) [ creator Bill Watterson ’s “ bruit current abode ” ] . In the few case in which a monetary value was grant in the comedian , I used that value .
The final result ? In totality , Calvin stimulate an estimated $ 15,955.50 Charles Frederick Worth of equipment casualty . Read the whole reporthere .
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