S3:E9 Don't Forget The Laundry Room

Of all the places in the house that we so often overlook adding a little interest and a little charm, for some reason, it's always the laundry room. And for a room being so integral to how the house has to work, we do a disservice to ourself adding the special little details and the things that make it feel nice, 'cause listen, if it's gonna make me feel any better trying to fold some laundry or match some socks, I need every bit of help I can get. Am I alone in that? I hope not. Well, that's exactly what we're talking about. So, the perfect time to listen to this is when you're doing some laundry. Throw it on, and then you can curse along with us as you're pairing the socks. Let's get to it

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Of all the places in the house that we so often overlook adding a little interest and a little charm, for some reason, it's always the laundry room. And for a room being so integral to how the house has to work, we do a disservice to ourself adding the special little details and the things that make it feel nice, 'cause listen, if it's gonna make me feel any better trying to fold some laundry or match some socks, I need every bit of help I can get. Am I alone in that? I hope not. Well, that's exactly what we're talking about. So, the perfect time to listen to this is when you're doing some laundry. Throw it on, and then you can curse along with us as you're pairing the socks. Let's get to it

Jeremy 1:46

Dwayne,

Dwayne 1:47

Yes.

Jeremy 1:47

that came

Stuart 1:47

the

Dwayne 1:50

Sadly, I

Stuart 1:51

person that came up with today's topic. Oh. Oh my God. We talked about this when you left. Laundry room. Laundry room. Yeah, laundry room. Why did you want to speak about the laundry room?

Jeremy 2:02

room? interested.

Dwayne 2:04

Um,

Jeremy 2:05

Cause I

Dwayne 2:06

it's

Stuart 2:06

I think, well, well, I think it's always overlooked or

Dwayne 2:11

overused, and if

Stuart 2:12

and people don't put any effort into it.

Dwayne 2:14

and or any

Stuart 2:15

You know, they thought into, "Oh, it's just a laundry room." It's like, well,

Dwayne 2:18

you know

Stuart 2:19

you know what?

Jeremy 2:20

it

Dwayne 2:21

it, it takes a

Stuart 2:21

it, it takes a lot of action. So why don't we think about it and really get it right?

Dwayne 2:25

And those who

Stuart 2:26

Those who are in the laundry room will love it.

Dwayne 2:27

it

Stuart 2:28

Plus, it makes it... At the end of the day,

Dwayne 2:29

always

Stuart 2:30

I, I always worry about the function and the artwork. So that's it.

Jeremy 2:33

Well, you

Stuart 2:33

Well, you know, it,

Jeremy 2:34

I don't remember if

Stuart 2:35

I don't know if it was the last podcast or the one before that, it was,

Jeremy 2:37

designing

Stuart 2:38

design with function in mind, not just the pretty.

Jeremy 2:41

so I

Stuart 2:41

Right. And so I admitted in our closet that,

Jeremy 2:43

so

Stuart 2:44

so for me it's like not pretty, it's functional. So that's, that's exactly the way you

Jeremy 2:48

the

Stuart 2:48

do a laundry room. 'Cause a lau-- Like right after like a kitchen

Jeremy 2:53

and a

Stuart 2:53

and a bathroom,

Jeremy 2:55

like laundry

Stuart 2:55

like laundry room, like in my opinion, laundry rooms are above bathrooms. But,

Jeremy 2:58

um,

Stuart 2:59

um, and even though you could do the bathroom inside, but you're always gonna have a toilet, you're always gonna have a, a place to shower, and always gonna have a place to wash your hands.

Jeremy 3:05

But a

Stuart 3:05

But a laundry room, you

Jeremy 3:06

it can, it can

Stuart 3:08

do things that work.

Jeremy 3:10

everybody knows they

Stuart 3:11

knows they have lived in a house or an apartment or a condo where they went somewhere in their life where they didn't

Jeremy 3:15

didn't have a

Stuart 3:16

have a laundry room, or the laundry room they had was like a little three by five, two by three maybe, like closet-

Jeremy 3:21

and it was a disaster, and they

Stuart 3:22

and they wished about it the whole time.

Jeremy 3:24

Mm-hmm. Well,

Stuart 3:26

Well, okay. So

Jeremy 3:26

with with laundry rooms, what kind of tips can we give people?

Dwayne 3:30

Well,

Stuart 3:31

Well,

Dwayne 3:31

I'm doing

Stuart 3:32

I'm doing a, a remodel right now.

Dwayne 3:34

and it

Stuart 3:35

It literally is gutting the interior

Dwayne 3:37

And, uh, it's an

Stuart 3:38

it's an older house from

Dwayne 3:40

1970s, and it

Stuart 3:41

and it has

Dwayne 3:42

storage

Stuart 3:43

garage,

Jeremy 3:44

It has a

Dwayne 3:44

storage

Stuart 3:45

a storage room that's attached to the garage. Like you put

Dwayne 3:47

rakes

Stuart 3:48

rakes and shovels in,

Jeremy 3:49

Mm-hmm.

Stuart 3:50

and then it directly backs up to the laundry room. The laundry room

Dwayne 3:53

big

Stuart 3:54

is big enough for a washer

Dwayne 3:56

a little

Stuart 3:56

and dryer,

Dwayne 3:57

right?

Stuart 3:57

a little counter, taking out

Jeremy 4:01

"Well, since

Dwayne 4:01

taking out fireplaces and moving

Stuart 4:03

and load of walls

Dwayne 4:04

and

Stuart 4:04

the bathroom.

Dwayne 4:05

I said, "Can I

Stuart 4:06

And he said, "Can I take this wall out between

Dwayne 4:08

the laundry

Stuart 4:08

laundry room and

Dwayne 4:09

garage

Stuart 4:10

the garage storage,

Dwayne 4:10

close up the

Stuart 4:11

close up the door in the laundry room,

Dwayne 4:12

and

Stuart 4:13

and make it one great big laundry room?"

Dwayne 4:15

And the

Stuart 4:16

the first answer was,

Dwayne 4:17

"Oh,

Stuart 4:17

"Oh, no, we need that room for,

Dwayne 4:19

storage

Stuart 4:20

storage in the garage." And I was like, "Well, what are you gonna put in it?"

Dwayne 4:22

"I don't know."

Stuart 4:23

You know. You know. Right.

Dwayne 4:27

gonna

Stuart 4:28

That was the I

Dwayne 4:31

Literally, that's I don't

Stuart 4:32

don't know. Clearly that's I don't know.

Dwayne 4:32

But, you know,

Stuart 4:33

You know, anytime you

Dwayne 4:34

somebody to

Stuart 4:34

somebody to take a closet out or storage, they instantly freeze and lose their minds.

Dwayne 4:38

you think

Stuart 4:38

They think that, you know, I got a place to put my crap.

Jeremy 4:41

Well,

Dwayne 4:42

so I

Stuart 4:43

so I started-- I said, "You know, if I can capture your laundry room,

Dwayne 4:46

this gives me

Stuart 4:47

gives me lots of opportunities."

Dwayne 4:48

And I said,

Stuart 4:49

And I said, "So if I were to look at this as a garage,

Dwayne 4:51

imagining, I don't know,

Jeremy 4:53

know,

Dwayne 4:53

shovels and rakes

Stuart 4:54

rakes, and water hoses, and all that kind of stuff, right?" Mm-hmm. She said, "Oh,

Dwayne 4:58

yeah."

Stuart 4:58

yeah, yeah, yeah."

Dwayne 4:59

"So

Stuart 4:59

I said, "So it's an attached two-car garage,

Dwayne 5:01

but you

Stuart 5:01

but you also

Dwayne 5:02

a

Stuart 5:02

a

Jeremy 5:02

detached

Dwayne 5:04

two-car

Stuart 5:04

two-car garage."

Dwayne 5:05

I said,

Stuart 5:06

I said,

Dwayne 5:06

I

Stuart 5:07

"Can I not have,

Dwayne 5:09

uh," what's his name?

Stuart 5:10

St. Patrick, her husband,

Dwayne 5:12

"just

Stuart 5:12

just put everything in the detached garage and let that be part of your storage building?"

Dwayne 5:16

she's like, I guess so."

Stuart 5:18

So

Dwayne 5:20

It, it,

Stuart 5:21

it

Dwayne 5:21

was,

Jeremy 5:22

you

Stuart 5:22

you know,

Jeremy 5:23

it would

Stuart 5:24

probably

Dwayne 5:25

change, change aversion to

Stuart 5:30

entire view of something.

Dwayne 5:31

this is

Stuart 5:31

Oh, this is how the house is. Even though they're ripping out everything

Dwayne 5:34

I don't wanna

Stuart 5:34

else, I don't want to take this one wall down.

Dwayne 5:36

So,

Stuart 5:37

You

Dwayne 5:37

and

Stuart 5:37

know? And

Dwayne 5:37

once I

Stuart 5:38

once I started explaining what to do with it and how to use it,

Dwayne 5:41

we're on

Stuart 5:41

we're on board, and it's exactly what happened. We took the wall out and made a big room.

Dwayne 5:45

and now we

Stuart 5:45

Now we have,

Dwayne 5:47

stations

Stuart 5:48

in it and a sink. And she said, "I've, I've never had a laundry room sink.

Dwayne 5:53

She said, "Do I--

Stuart 5:53

Do I--

Dwayne 5:54

don't

Stuart 5:54

I don't think I'll use one." I was like, "Well,

Dwayne 5:56

how do you...

Stuart 5:56

how do you--

Dwayne 5:57

if

Stuart 5:57

like, if you get your shoes dirty, where do you, where do you wash them?"

Dwayne 5:59

and soak them?" Or,

Jeremy 6:00

Or,

Stuart 6:01

In the kitchen.

Dwayne 6:02

ugh.

Jeremy 6:03

That's

Stuart 6:03

That's why we laughed. Yeah.

Dwayne 6:05

Well,

Stuart 6:06

I remember that

Jeremy 6:11

remember

Stuart 6:11

people joke.

Jeremy 6:13

it,

Stuart 6:13

there, there is this funny, like, mental barrier. I guess it-- the thought is like if you take two spaces and you take a s- a wall down, you make the house one,

Jeremy 6:24

that you've

Stuart 6:25

so you've somehow lost something.

Jeremy 6:26

And I

Stuart 6:27

And I think that's how-- where we need to change the perception of we're n- actually not losing something, we're actually gaining

Jeremy 6:32

we didn't

Stuart 6:32

Like, you've got that luxury of

Jeremy 6:35

taking in some space and

Stuart 6:36

space and

Jeremy 6:38

by all

Stuart 6:39

combining it

Jeremy 6:40

do it, 'cause it, it will

Stuart 6:41

with another space and getting real good stuff out of it.

Jeremy 6:43

But don't be

Stuart 6:43

You become real good friends. I didn't see it that way, but now that you said it that way, I was like, "Yeah, yeah, it really does once you put it that way." Well, we, we

Jeremy 6:49

way. Like, yeah. Well,

Stuart 6:49

kind of panicked a little bit

Jeremy 6:50

in, out-- when we

Stuart 6:51

when we were taking,

Jeremy 6:52

fourth

Stuart 6:53

floor trenches down

Jeremy 6:55

on

Stuart 6:55

on our main floor

Jeremy 6:57

because we converted

Stuart 6:58

part of that is in a closet and we need to put a washer and dryer in a closet in that room. Does it make any sense that I can-- if I walk you by the bedroom- Mm-hmm that's converting to our closet,

Jeremy 7:06

and that

Stuart 7:07

in that bedroom originally had a closet,

Jeremy 7:09

and

Stuart 7:09

and in that closet is where we put our washer and dryer.

Jeremy 7:11

there's a

Stuart 7:11

So there's a closet in that closet.

Jeremy 7:13

But, and so we

Stuart 7:15

and so we were worried, like sadly, sadly, I want to say

Dwayne 7:18

you, you're not

Stuart 7:18

to you, you're not very closet-ish.

Jeremy 7:20

I started-- I was gonna

Stuart 7:21

I was trying to make you- Hmm.

Jeremy 7:27

I'll do it in the closet,"

Stuart 7:28

It's been a long time since I've been in there. I-

Jeremy 7:38

Um, okay,

Stuart 7:40

okay, so if you have somebody that doesn't have--

Jeremy 7:43

they

Stuart 7:43

if they can't

Jeremy 7:44

some

Stuart 7:44

take

Jeremy 7:44

a wall

Stuart 7:45

a wall down,

Jeremy 7:47

are there

Stuart 7:47

are there things that you would suggest

Jeremy 7:49

or things

Stuart 7:49

or things you've done

Jeremy 7:51

that can- potentially help in any capacity?

Dwayne 7:55

Get your lighting right, because usually it

Stuart 7:57

Usually it has a mood light right in the middle of the room. You can't see- Yeah.

Jeremy 8:01

get

Stuart 8:01

I know they

Jeremy 8:03

a

Stuart 8:03

have the mood lights because,

Jeremy 8:05

middle of the room so you can't

Stuart 8:05

They're cheap.

Jeremy 8:07

Why

Dwayne 8:07

Mm-hmm.

Stuart 8:07

No, it's just like... It

Jeremy 8:09

lights because, uh, they're

Stuart 8:09

is. But treat, treat, treat it like any other room in the house right first. Like if you, if you, if you... You know, it's a pretty light thing to do.

Jeremy 8:15

happy.

Dwayne 8:16

Well, that's

Stuart 8:17

That's the part of it is that the laundry room for most people is an afterthought, and that's why we're doing this. Right.

Dwayne 8:24

it doesn't need to be an afterthought.

Stuart 8:25

It needs to be thought

Dwayne 8:26

of because,

Stuart 8:27

because,

Dwayne 8:27

you know, you put a

Stuart 8:28

you know, you put a whole lot of effort into a,

Dwayne 8:29

a, a guest bedroom that you don't use

Stuart 8:32

hopefully very much,

Dwayne 8:33

yet

Stuart 8:33

but yet you're in this laundry room 10 times a day.

Jeremy 8:35

Mm-hmm.

Dwayne 8:36

So

Stuart 8:36

Right.

Dwayne 8:37

g- get the

Stuart 8:38

Get the lights on. That's an easy, easy thing. You know,

Jeremy 8:39

fix.

Dwayne 8:40

And

Stuart 8:40

now

Dwayne 8:40

make,

Stuart 8:41

make, um,

Dwayne 8:42

LED

Stuart 8:42

LED can lights

Dwayne 8:43

they're,

Stuart 8:44

that are not necessarily... I'm talking about

Dwayne 8:46

installation, stuff like

Stuart 8:47

and stuff like that, but just the lights themselves are

Dwayne 8:49

30 bucks, I

Stuart 8:49

bucks. I mean,

Dwayne 8:50

bucks

Stuart 8:50

they're 25 bucks or so. Get you a few of those, and it will change your life because as you see what you're...

Dwayne 8:56

s- Look, I

Stuart 8:57

Look,

Jeremy 8:58

I put on,

Dwayne 8:59

I've dug

Stuart 8:59

I've been honest. I've said that before. We did

Dwayne 9:01

all

Stuart 9:01

all three of them.

Dwayne 9:02

a

Stuart 9:03

Had the booth stay right in the middle of my chest,

Dwayne 9:04

tells

Stuart 9:05

that tells you- I brought the laundry in first. They all...

Jeremy 9:08

every

Stuart 9:09

Because at that moment,

Dwayne 9:10

when he

Stuart 9:11

it wouldn't deny. It truly didn't change. The brainwashing part, but, uh,

Dwayne 9:18

like at least I could

Stuart 9:19

at least I could see it in the laundry room, right?

Dwayne 9:21

in our laundry

Stuart 9:21

Because in our laundry room- Well, you have a nice big window. Yeah.

Jeremy 9:25

a

Dwayne 9:25

I-- There

Stuart 9:26

got a window and counters, yeah.

Dwayne 9:29

Yeah, it's-- no, I, I, it's,

Stuart 9:30

you know,

Jeremy 9:31

a,

Stuart 9:31

I, I... It is a lucky

Dwayne 9:32

as a

Stuart 9:32

part of the deal, but that was a...

Dwayne 9:34

So the

Stuart 9:34

So the backstory is when I'm telling you about

Dwayne 9:38

the house I'm

Stuart 9:38

the house I'm talking about remodeling, it has a storage room that heads to the garage

Dwayne 9:42

that we

Stuart 9:43

that we took the wall out. Our house plan called for that exactly.

Dwayne 9:48

I

Stuart 9:48

So I wasn't, I wasn't even being smart.

Dwayne 9:51

was just

Stuart 9:51

I was just gonna

Jeremy 9:52

a

Stuart 9:52

replay exactly what I did 20 years ago when we built

Dwayne 9:55

the house.

Stuart 9:56

house,

Dwayne 9:56

I

Jeremy 9:56

and

Dwayne 9:57

looked at it, and it, we did exactly that same situation. And actually,

Stuart 10:01

that's what I was gonna do. It, it actually,

Dwayne 10:02

Stuart,

Stuart 10:02

there is that,

Dwayne 10:03

plan

Stuart 10:03

house plan didn't call for a window because the rooms were so small, it, it was chopped up. And again, it goes back to

Dwayne 10:11

the,

Jeremy 10:12

the

Dwayne 10:12

because the,

Stuart 10:13

the,

Dwayne 10:15

the, the,

Stuart 10:15

the interior room, if you speak, was right out the garage door, so-

Dwayne 10:19

wouldn't have had a window. So

Stuart 10:20

And so the exterior room

Dwayne 10:21

what the

Stuart 10:22

was what the storage room would have been in the garage. Does that make sense?

Dwayne 10:25

Mm-hmm. And

Stuart 10:26

Mm-hmm.

Dwayne 10:26

have a

Stuart 10:26

didn't have a window or something. And we want the window

Dwayne 10:29

in a

Stuart 10:29

in a storage room, so we'll pay for it, but it'd be a complete waste of room and raise the price.

Dwayne 10:34

when we

Stuart 10:34

When we took the wall down, then we had to have that wall. Obviously, well,

Dwayne 10:38

a window

Stuart 10:38

window in and then take this right under the window. So it's not only-- It was a purposeful, thoughtful decision

Dwayne 10:45

20 years

Stuart 10:45

20 years ago. Oh,

Dwayne 10:46

now I

Stuart 10:46

well, now I can get light in here. Right. And not only that, but it's also beautiful and pretty. Uh, we have a, an ironing board that's an old school

Dwayne 10:55

am

Stuart 10:55

iron board with,

Jeremy 10:56

least.

Stuart 10:58

on the wall. You know, it's just one of those

Dwayne 11:00

$200 $200

Stuart 11:02

$200 things that hang on the wall.

Dwayne 11:03

Um,

Stuart 11:04

But, but it hangs. It's- So it folds down.

Jeremy 11:07

thank

Stuart 11:07

Right. Yes, folds down.

Dwayne 11:09

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's,

Stuart 11:10

It's

Jeremy 11:10

It's,

Stuart 11:11

got,

Dwayne 11:11

got a

Stuart 11:11

it's got this little cabinet with a glass door on it. It's like a little mini,

Dwayne 11:13

uh, ironing board, but it's

Stuart 11:14

board, but it's more than enough. So,

Jeremy 11:16

And, uh, So, uh, he

Dwayne 11:16

and, uh, anyway, that, you know, we got that.

Stuart 11:19

that,

Dwayne 11:19

c- is

Stuart 11:20

that means those are not super expensive, but

Dwayne 11:22

did one

Stuart 11:23

I did look for a house a long time ago and

Dwayne 11:25

we put it in her,

Stuart 11:25

put in a

Dwayne 11:26

her

Jeremy 11:26

a

Dwayne 11:26

master closet and you

Stuart 11:29

where you opened it up

Dwayne 11:30

it,

Stuart 11:30

and it, it lit up, and it had a light built into it and all kinds of stuff. So you can get all kinds of versions of those things hanging on the wall. It, it's for my bar owning music playing hillbilly judge. She, she loves her some good...

Dwayne 11:41

She's an Eastern

Stuart 11:42

eastern Kentucky hillbilly girl, so she loves the ironing board

Jeremy 11:45

Mm-hmm. So the

Stuart 11:48

God.

Dwayne 11:49

so in the window, like you said, Stuart,

Stuart 11:51

It can be a lot. You

Dwayne 11:52

key. That,

Stuart 11:53

that are just not... But that's where you need to start.

Jeremy 11:54

things

Stuart 11:54

Well,

Dwayne 11:54

you can

Stuart 11:55

so we can see what you're doing. With windows, this is where I'm going through. And my husband did something very interesting. This, this, this is a problem that

Jeremy 12:03

Our pr-

Stuart 12:03

I have is the clo- uh, closet,

Jeremy 12:04

uh, laundry room

Stuart 12:05

laundry room that's on the front of the house, where I think it's, it's pretty common for a lot of people. And

Jeremy 12:09

I guess,

Stuart 12:10

I get

Jeremy 12:10

the

Stuart 12:10

depressed.

Jeremy 12:11

we

Stuart 12:11

Well, we are on, like I mentioned we are on a main intersection,

Jeremy 12:14

we have a

Stuart 12:14

a very busy, intersection stop in front of our house. So people are always stopping. Uh,

Jeremy 12:18

well, if

Stuart 12:18

well, not-

Jeremy 12:19

at night, I hate

Stuart 12:22

you

Jeremy 12:22

people

Stuart 12:23

people being able to look in.

Jeremy 12:25

Now we've

Stuart 12:25

Now we've got these boxes of valances that are in there.

Jeremy 12:28

and so

Stuart 12:28

so I'm

Jeremy 12:29

Motorized

Stuart 12:30

roller shades

Jeremy 12:31

that will

Stuart 12:31

that will be hidden,

Jeremy 12:32

that will

Stuart 12:32

that will just come down at night, because I hate the idea of people looking at me. Right.

Jeremy 12:36

It doesn't bother me on the other ones 'cause I've all

Stuart 12:38

It won't bother me on the other wing because I've got regular windows. And they'll look at me.

Jeremy 12:42

I'm like,

Stuart 12:42

It's funny because I'm like, "I don't want people looking at me folding my Hmm.

Jeremy 12:48

Is that weird? just don't like people looking in like

Dwayne 12:50

no, well, no,

Stuart 12:51

No.

Dwayne 12:51

well, first, we're not gonna

Stuart 12:52

We're not gonna guess what you do. You do what you feel comfortable.

Dwayne 12:55

I

Stuart 12:55

But I would probably guess they would say

Dwayne 12:58

most

Stuart 12:58

most people are gonna drive by and walk past you pretty fast, and they're not really gonna look at you Looking into your laundry and it's probably just a piece

Dwayne 13:06

did care,

Stuart 13:07

underwear.

Dwayne 13:07

you just hold the

Stuart 13:08

Holding underwear up and just say, "Look at me."

Dwayne 13:10

at the end

Stuart 13:11

end of the day, I mean, if you

Dwayne 13:13

underwear,

Stuart 13:13

underwear out, do you wear it? Right.

Jeremy 13:15

you know, the, the, I

Stuart 13:17

I think the reason-

Dwayne 13:17

there.

Stuart 13:18

Well-

Dwayne 13:18

a boxer or a brief,

Stuart 13:20

Oh my lord.

Dwayne 13:21

Well, we'll

Stuart 13:21

Whatever.

Jeremy 13:22

I'm not a

Stuart 13:22

I'm not a breezy person.

Jeremy 13:23

I, I'll

Stuart 13:24

I'll wear whatever I want.

Jeremy 13:25

I have

Stuart 13:26

I have no problem. I, I'm not, I'm not, uh, exclusive. But,

Dwayne 13:29

for those

Stuart 13:30

for those blisters that are,

Dwayne 13:31

in

Stuart 13:31

in

Jeremy 13:31

now.

Stuart 13:32

your neighborhood, they

Dwayne 13:32

they don't,

Stuart 13:33

don't-- They won't opal you now. They just know what you wear, and they don't care. Well, let me tell you why I'm-

Jeremy 13:37

about the

Stuart 13:38

paranoid about the people looking. After we first moved into the house, um,

Jeremy 13:43

we basically

Stuart 13:45

spent a little bit of time kind of looking through here, and we didn't have our draperies,

Jeremy 13:49

up

Stuart 13:49

up yet.

Jeremy 13:50

And

Stuart 13:50

I was

Jeremy 13:50

watching, Orange Is

Stuart 13:52

Orange Is the New Black.

Jeremy 13:53

And, uh, if you don't know about

Stuart 13:55

if you don't know about the show,

Jeremy 13:56

like it's,

Stuart 13:56

it's like

Jeremy 13:56

women's

Stuart 13:57

women's prison. There are all these women telling stories, and there's

Jeremy 14:00

sex

Stuart 14:00

set pieces that are different. And one time I was leaving, and I guess I was trying to go through the garage on my feet

Jeremy 14:05

had to

Stuart 14:05

or heading

Jeremy 14:06

store.

Stuart 14:06

around to

Jeremy 14:06

don't know

Stuart 14:07

the garage door. I, I don't know what I was doing, but I was

Jeremy 14:09

my

Stuart 14:09

outside the house, and I got to the stop sign,

Jeremy 14:12

just

Stuart 14:12

and I just happened to look over, and all I had were titties in my face.

Dwayne 14:16

Oh.

Jeremy 14:16

"Oh my

Stuart 14:18

my God.

Dwayne 14:18

And

Stuart 14:19

you want me to say? I hear this.

Dwayne 14:20

that

Stuart 14:21

That probably doesn't happen much in your life. No.

Dwayne 14:24

No.

Stuart 14:24

Mm-mm.

Dwayne 14:25

Okay. Okay.

Jeremy 14:25

I

Stuart 14:26

Right. So I was looking, and,

Jeremy 14:28

but

Stuart 14:28

but it, it, it terrorized me to the point of, "Oh my God, I have to have these things closed because people are stopped here constantly." Like if they drive by, that's one thing, but we have a four-way stop. Everybody's

Jeremy 14:38

it's

Stuart 14:38

stopping. So I'm trying to protect the people in my neighborhood and me.

Jeremy 14:41

The neighbors. Maybe your TV's

Dwayne 14:42

And they

Stuart 14:43

And they- Maybe your TV's too big. No, no, no. We don't have a big

Jeremy 14:47

We don't have, we don't

Stuart 14:47

TV.

Jeremy 14:48

We are not

Dwayne 14:48

Or the boobs are too big. Maybe. You never

Stuart 14:50

Yeah.

Jeremy 14:51

remember correctly in the, that video, it w- that

Stuart 14:53

Like we gave one away.

Jeremy 14:54

and we

Stuart 14:54

He was mentioning that

Jeremy 14:59

But

Dwayne 15:00

Can you imagine the, the people driving by? Well, look

Stuart 15:02

when people drive by his place, it's so dang- Well, Lord.

Jeremy 15:05

"I

Dwayne 15:06

Mm-hmm.

Jeremy 15:06

were

Stuart 15:07

They were just

Jeremy 15:08

Why are there boobs on their TV?"

Stuart 15:10

Like, "What the heck?" "Are they watching me?" Um, that's what

Jeremy 15:12

I'm gonna do is to

Stuart 15:13

to do is just build, um...

Dwayne 15:15

Oh,

Jeremy 15:17

if

Stuart 15:17

if there's... If it's a long house, you kind of figure out you're planning it,

Jeremy 15:20

is a lot of

Stuart 15:21

a lot of people love the idea of

Jeremy 15:23

you get the

Stuart 15:23

is get the front door to instead of the

Jeremy 15:24

to, you know, set them side by

Stuart 15:26

side-by-side and put a counter on top, i think that's fine and dandy,

Jeremy 15:28

But

Stuart 15:29

and maybe. But I will always suggest if you can, to stack them Mm-hmm because the vertical space becomes something so much easier to use for many different things. you're going to use it.

Jeremy 15:36

in,

Stuart 15:36

You know, on a daily basis, right?

Jeremy 15:37

laundry room to begin with, right?

Stuart 15:38

So if you can stack them that space to be taken up

Jeremy 15:43

with

Stuart 15:43

right with the machine, and then you'll think about that space you gain from moving the machine

Jeremy 15:46

machine

Stuart 15:46

can make one machine come from the left at the top or right from the top and come all the way to the other side.

Jeremy 15:50

Now you've

Stuart 15:51

Now you've got a whole big area

Jeremy 15:52

do

Stuart 15:53

you can do dry racks, hanging things,

Jeremy 15:55

um, extra storage

Stuart 15:57

storage Then the folding table,

Jeremy 16:00

bars up

Stuart 16:00

bars.

Jeremy 16:00

there's-- It gives you a

Stuart 16:01

gives you a lot more possibility there that you actually have access to, aside from if you're five foot two and you're trying to

Jeremy 16:09

reach

Stuart 16:10

reach above one of these front loaders to try to put something on there. Get a stool.

Jeremy 16:15

it. Guess what? And

Stuart 16:17

Get a stool.

Jeremy 16:17

though there's a

Stuart 16:18

It doesn't get you, that doesn't get you everything up. Yeah.

Jeremy 16:23

a,

Stuart 16:24

of the

Jeremy 16:27

one of those like

Stuart 16:28

things for a home like this

Jeremy 16:30

beau-beautiful laundry

Stuart 16:31

often, but before it would be for a few things and six foot like I am. Right. You couldn't- It's amazing how much- Well, LG has finally made a washer-dryer stack that all the controls are in the middle. All of them in the middle.

Jeremy 16:45

are all in one.

Stuart 16:45

oh very smart?

Jeremy 16:46

Cause we

Stuart 16:46

Because we just got one for Uncle Pete's new house when he renovated and stuff, and I was like, "All the controls are in the middle." So yeah, I had never seen one. Yeah.

Dwayne 16:57

That's a... See, okay, that's a, that's a

Stuart 16:59

That's awesome. Yeah. Well, I have to tell you, our washer and dryer are front load and they are

Dwayne 17:03

by

Stuart 17:03

side by side.

Jeremy 17:04

Mm-hmm.

Dwayne 17:04

and then

Stuart 17:05

and then Kathy has this,

Dwayne 17:06

because she

Stuart 17:06

this, Kathy has back issues

Dwayne 17:07

that, uh, when we

Stuart 17:09

when we remodeled this,

Dwayne 17:10

that they

Stuart 17:11

that she couldn't go up and down. So she had Ray,

Dwayne 17:17

uh, our contractor, build, uh, I don't know,

Stuart 17:20

I don't know, six or eight inches

Dwayne 17:22

base out of wood, you know, with enough for the,

Stuart 17:24

platform for her. And that way I was able to

Dwayne 17:26

what it,

Stuart 17:27

do a top

Dwayne 17:27

So five and a quarter is

Stuart 17:28

load.

Dwayne 17:29

Uh, and raise it

Stuart 17:30

it raised it up a little bit. So

Dwayne 17:31

countertop, and

Stuart 17:32

up with

Dwayne 17:33

up, and it's another

Stuart 17:33

and then it brought us up another countertop.

Dwayne 17:35

And when I

Stuart 17:35

And when I first looked at it, I was like, "That's gonna be a little tall."

Dwayne 17:38

But at the end

Stuart 17:38

But at the end of the day,

Dwayne 17:40

uh, it did,

Stuart 17:41

it di- and it's funny, it's almost like for us, it's the ideal height for folding everything

Dwayne 17:49

because we

Stuart 17:49

of

Dwayne 17:49

have two

Stuart 17:50

us. But that, that...

Dwayne 17:52

And

Stuart 17:53

And we'll, we'll

Dwayne 17:53

show you

Stuart 17:53

show you pictures, get pictures up when we talk about it on the podcast. Um,

Dwayne 17:58

but for

Stuart 17:58

but for ours, that it serves as a place

Dwayne 18:00

us a place to sit

Stuart 18:01

to put the laundry basket and the folders. Hmm.

Jeremy 18:05

Well,

Stuart 18:06

Hmm.

Jeremy 18:06

Lord

Stuart 18:06

Lord knows I love a folding

Jeremy 18:07

I'm so

Stuart 18:08

table, and I'm so thankful that we have our little,

Jeremy 18:10

uh,

Stuart 18:10

island that's made of that. Again, we did not get a... Unfortunately,

Jeremy 18:13

went...

Stuart 18:13

we went with, we went to Ikea and I did not get like the cheapest

Jeremy 18:17

one that they

Stuart 18:18

one that they had. We got one that at the time was a nicer quality of hardwood

Jeremy 18:21

like actually

Stuart 18:22

think it was made out of like real wood versus-

Jeremy 18:24

was a long time ago. Um,

Stuart 18:27

anyways, I had to put

Jeremy 18:28

plank

Stuart 18:28

plank foam on the back of it because it wasn't finished off, and then

Jeremy 18:32

called

Stuart 18:33

the stone guy and

Jeremy 18:34

had a

Stuart 18:34

piece of stone cut for the top. So we have a real nice island. The stone cost more than the piece of furniture

Jeremy 18:39

did.

Dwayne 18:40

Well, that's a high

Stuart 18:42

a high low.. Ok, I'm going to tell you what we spent

Dwayne 18:44

on our

Stuart 18:45

on our laundry room, but i'm going to say help

Dwayne 18:47

me remember to talk about Robin and her laundry room

Stuart 18:48

So,

Dwayne 18:48

laundry room. Okay. So

Jeremy 18:50

so

Dwayne 18:50

our,

Stuart 18:51

laundry room, and again I'll show pictures is

Dwayne 18:53

pretty. It's very

Stuart 18:54

there the cabinetry,

Dwayne 18:56

came

Stuart 18:57

from Lowes!. It's just low.

Jeremy 18:58

Stock

Stuart 19:00

oak cabinetry if you have any reference at all. It's not fancy. And,

Dwayne 19:05

we painted it up, trimmed it

Stuart 19:07

and got a good trim carpenter,

Dwayne 19:10

Probably

Stuart 19:10

probably put more money on wallpaper

Dwayne 19:12

than we did on the cabinets,

Stuart 19:13

cabinets. Definitely put more money on the countertop than the cabinets.

Dwayne 19:17

But it's the

Stuart 19:17

But it's the idea of you don't have to do everything high, high. You know, for example,

Dwayne 19:22

don't

Stuart 19:22

and you don't have to do everything low because that also shows

Jeremy 19:24

shows up.

Stuart 19:25

so you can mix it up and So

Dwayne 19:25

it up

Stuart 19:26

once it's all said

Dwayne 19:26

said and

Stuart 19:27

I'm just proud of the fact that the cabinetry looks pretty good And it's just low, modest cabinetry. Un-unpainted, unstained,

Dwayne 19:37

basic, off the

Stuart 19:37

top shelves with took

Dwayne 19:39

the truck

Stuart 19:39

loaded it up

Dwayne 19:40

it took it home

Stuart 19:40

kind of thing, kind of amazing Hmm.

Jeremy 19:42

Thing. Hmm. Pretty pretty. Hmm.

Dwayne 19:44

Now, I will

Stuart 19:45

I will say

Dwayne 19:46

Robin

Stuart 19:47

laundry room,

Dwayne 19:47

is

Stuart 19:48

it's not huge.

Dwayne 19:48

Truthfully spent

Stuart 19:49

a small

Dwayne 19:49

fortune

Stuart 19:50

on it

Dwayne 19:51

it.

Stuart 19:52

And because it's right off her kitchen on the main part of the house and you see it, it's very prominent,

Dwayne 19:57

And we had beautiful painted cabinets. We actually did reclaimed h- um,

Stuart 20:02

um,

Dwayne 20:03

wood countertops, um, kind of very

Stuart 20:05

Kentucky

Dwayne 20:06

looking, uh, had

Stuart 20:08

had lockers built in.

Jeremy 20:09

Beautiful. Well,

Stuart 20:11

she needed it to be a laundry room slash storage for the kids slash bar because she's a nice catholic

Dwayne 20:18

uh, I was like... I'm like,

Stuart 20:21

Like, i can't get it to be like a backpack and for laundry room and your, your

Dwayne 20:27

your alcohol, right? It's not

Stuart 20:29

It's not, it's not that big a space. And she's like "well, that's what it has to do"

Jeremy 20:32

Well,

Dwayne 20:33

I figured

Stuart 20:33

And I figured it out and it turned out beautiful.

Dwayne 20:35

But the

Stuart 20:35

But the long story

Jeremy 20:36

is

Dwayne 20:36

I gave her

Stuart 20:37

I gave it to the

Jeremy 20:37

that

Dwayne 20:38

countertop

Stuart 20:39

countertop to fold everything right, like you talked.

Dwayne 20:42

Talked about,

Stuart 20:43

the folding station Well, I go there once and she's folding clothese in her dining room

Dwayne 20:48

right next to it

Stuart 20:49

hahaha

Dwayne 20:51

And I'm like, "Well,

Stuart 20:52

back

Jeremy 20:53

How

Dwayne 20:53

why, why..."

Jeremy 20:54

much

Dwayne 20:55

you know her, right? You know her,

Stuart 20:57

Yeah. Yeah. And I'm like, why aren't you folding this in your laundy,

Dwayne 21:00

room?"

Jeremy 21:00

well come here

Stuart 21:01

and I walked in, and LORD

Dwayne 21:01

Well,

Stuart 21:02

that husband of hers had bought

Dwayne 21:04

hers

Stuart 21:04

had bought more bourbon

Dwayne 21:06

and it

Stuart 21:06

and it was--

Dwayne 21:07

that

Stuart 21:07

that folding station had turned into a full raging bar

Dwayne 21:11

so it's beautiful to look at

Stuart 21:12

but anyway. And

Dwayne 21:14

The

Stuart 21:14

the laundry room turns into more of a bar versus a laundry room. I love that. It makes sense. It makes no sense, but i'm telling you it worked. Well, you know, kind of like what you talked about with your

Jeremy 21:27

laundry room, like with

Stuart 21:28

room, like with the wallpaper

Jeremy 21:30

you know, all

Stuart 21:30

and all that treating a true laundry room like it's a regular room in the house

Jeremy 21:34

I

Stuart 21:34

I want to

Jeremy 21:36

sure that

Stuart 21:37

I say this

Jeremy 21:38

with a little bit

Stuart 21:39

caution because laundry room are a great place like a powder room. You have some fun wallpaper or some color.

Jeremy 21:45

color. but good God, let's not make it Pee-wee's Playhouse 'cause people can

Stuart 21:51

Yeah. It can go from bland to what the fuck real fast Yeah. Yeah.

Jeremy 21:55

You know what I mean?

Stuart 21:57

I agree. Yeah, I, I think that's something I've mentioned before when you were on here.

Jeremy 22:02

we were in Nashville on a tour of homes

Stuart 22:03

and there was this cute,

Jeremy 22:06

laundry room. It was

Stuart 22:07

transfer, and they decided they wanted blue cabinetry and they picked the worst color imaginable

Jeremy 22:11

they could

Stuart 22:11

but even if you tried to look

Jeremy 22:12

past that

Stuart 22:13

even if

Jeremy 22:14

it had,

Stuart 22:16

they fun wallpaper, and then they had found a fun mosaic plaid, uh, tile,

Jeremy 22:20

that they

Stuart 22:20

then they used as a backsplash,

Jeremy 22:22

I

Stuart 22:22

Which I love the plaid tile It was just using it all in combination was a disaster.

Jeremy 22:26

Then

Stuart 22:27

they used some, like, graphically

Jeremy 22:29

printed,

Stuart 22:30

floor tile in there in

Jeremy 22:33

casino in Las Vegas. There was

Stuart 22:36

pattern everywhere.

Jeremy 22:37

And you, you know, it

Stuart 22:39

It looked so garish. But I'm sure whoever did it,

Jeremy 22:42

I think they

Stuart 22:42

they had a

Jeremy 22:42

wiener dog,

Stuart 22:43

because there were weiner dogs in

Jeremy 22:45

the wallpaper.

Stuart 22:46

it brought them

Jeremy 22:47

so much happiness

Stuart 22:47

but i thought

Jeremy 22:48

Lord

Stuart 22:49

this is the ugliest damn thing and they spent so much money on it

Jeremy 22:52

It was Peewee's Dog house, it was awful

Stuart 22:54

Oh my God.

Dwayne 22:55

Well, I just finished a laundry room and I

Stuart 22:59

worried,

Dwayne 22:59

that, mm, how to say? She

Stuart 23:02

She says, "I want,

Dwayne 23:03

I want it

Stuart 23:03

I want navy and hot pink." And I was like, "Oh, gosh", and she's bold

Jeremy 23:10

So,

Dwayne 23:10

what I end up doing, and I

Stuart 23:12

And I

Dwayne 23:12

time I

Stuart 23:12

was oh I hope this turns out and

Dwayne 23:16

It's not

Stuart 23:16

it's not a huge laundry room, so what i did was

Dwayne 23:18

color

Stuart 23:19

drenched everything and painted absolutely everything navy blue It was scary for,

Dwayne 23:23

a laundry

Stuart 23:24

laundry room. but we put down white hexagon marble floors, um, painted on laundry doors, white countertops.

Dwayne 23:29

But then the fun

Stuart 23:29

But the fun punches are that I wallpapered the ceiling,

Dwayne 23:33

and I

Stuart 23:33

and I have this white and hot pink lattice.

Dwayne 23:36

And

Stuart 23:36

And then the window treatment is a floral print that's just the wallpaper that's out in the hall way so it connects the dots.

Dwayne 23:43

This

Stuart 23:44

this was one of those where i

Dwayne 23:45

was

Stuart 23:45

I was worried painting something that dark that dark, that what she wanted was navy

Dwayne 23:51

hot

Stuart 23:51

and hot pink.

Dwayne 23:52

I

Stuart 23:52

And I knew that the

Dwayne 23:54

busy wallpaper

Stuart 23:56

out in the hall was already pre-planned,

Dwayne 23:58

I had to

Stuart 23:58

so I had to work that into

Jeremy 23:59

into

Dwayne 23:59

a

Stuart 23:59

in a way But I was worried about that one, but it turned out

Dwayne 24:06

I'm probably a little more conservative than not, and this was a bit strong,

Stuart 24:06

being strong, but she loves it, and it turned out pretty cute, so wallpaper on the ceiling You know, there's a little

Dwayne 24:12

thing to

Stuart 24:13

bit

Dwayne 24:14

because it's a little bit of

Stuart 24:15

it

Dwayne 24:16

and it does a whole lot.

Jeremy 24:17

Mm-hmm.

Stuart 24:17

Well, I've been kind of quiet today 'cause I have a headache,

Jeremy 24:21

too much money on it and

Stuart 24:22

and

Jeremy 24:23

And,

Stuart 24:25

so

Jeremy 24:28

you know. You say that, but you have a beautiful closet. It's

Stuart 24:34

It's a foreign thing to me. No. No.

Dwayne 24:38

Now, wait a minute. In your

Stuart 24:40

I'm playing.

Dwayne 24:41

aren't you doing a big fancy laundry room, and we had a controversy about a countertop?

Stuart 24:45

No.

Dwayne 24:46

maybe? Nope. Nope. Okay.

Stuart 24:48

yes. Yeah, flooring because I have a pink and tan and speckled terrazzo floor.

Jeremy 24:57

floor.

Stuart 24:57

That was a debate.

Dwayne 24:58

Yeah.

Stuart 24:59

actually, no, um, the laundry room itself currently and in the new one

Jeremy 25:05

one is

Stuart 25:05

large at all. But we have a stack, and then we have a pantry unit next to it, and then we have enough for a folding counter next to it.

Jeremy 25:16

to

Stuart 25:16

But truly, laundry in our house is every day.

Jeremy 25:22

day.

Stuart 25:22

day.

Jeremy 25:23

Mm-hmm.

Stuart 25:24

One, because, my Jeremy's very OCD about laundry, and if there is something in the laundry hamper at 5:15 when he gets home, the washer's going at 5:16.

Jeremy 25:35

Hmm.

Stuart 25:36

Like, literally every day. So we efficiently use that space a whole lot. But what we don't have in the current house, which we are blowing out in the new house, is a mudroom, which is actually separate from our laundry room because that's where shoes and backpacks and extra refrigerator and dog crates and all of those things are gonna go. And it's, oh, it's probably 400 square feet

Jeremy 26:06

feet of nothing, you

Stuart 26:07

a mudroom, you know. But that's what we use more than a laundry room because

Jeremy 26:12

Cause

Stuart 26:13

laundry, it's... You might do two loads in a day, but it's, it's done, it's folded, it's put away. It's-- Nothing's there. So

Jeremy 26:21

fancy. So yeah. I've got laundry that's in the washer today that w- I put in two nights ago and washed it. I haven't gotten it out yet to put it in the dryer.

Stuart 26:30

Oh my God.

Jeremy 26:32

I've got to

Dwayne 26:33

Well,

Jeremy 26:33

I come in. actually, I'm not gonna. I have to rewash it. I have to rewash it,

Dwayne 26:37

Yeah, I'm

Stuart 26:37

Yeah. I was gonna say, rinse that again. You're a person--

Dwayne 26:40

the person... Are you

Stuart 26:41

Are

Dwayne 26:41

s- you used to b-

Stuart 26:42

you--

Dwayne 26:43

socks

Stuart 26:43

have to keep buying socks because you weren't doing the laundry room. Yeah. Are you still doing that

Jeremy 26:50

okay, so first, uh, there's

Stuart 26:53

few things on the planet that i love more?

Jeremy 26:56

Than a new pair of socks. Oh, God, they just, they're so good. I read once that Justin Timberlake, this was early on, once they hit it big, that was one thing that he never washed. He always bought, he wore new socks every day he liked it. And I'm like, "Oh, I connect with the rich and famous. I get this. I understand this. I want that."

Stuart 27:13

But how wasteful, right. How wasteful.,

Jeremy 27:16

Um, no, I did. I would, because I would hate, I hate washing socks. I hate pairing them. Oh, God, I hate them. I hate it so much. and then, and then we had so many, and there were so many different kinds Jeremy said, he was like, "You've got, we've got to get rid of these." I was like, "Okay, fine. We're, we're just gonna start over." So I went out and I bought like 50 new pair of white socks, and did not understand the concept at the time that like places like Ollie's these like very high discount, places, that it was a quality of you wash it once and then it disintegrates. I didn't understand that that existed. and so then I had to go buy more again. But no, I don't do that anymore. But you know, speaking of the socks, one thing that we did that, you know, I, I want it to be pretty, but it has to function, right? We've talked about that. What Jeremy did was he got a little box and he calls it the sock graveyard, and every time we have a sock that's mismatched, it just goes in there, and then when we do it, then it's, it's easy to find. So it just kind of tucks away. It's always there. We know

Dwayne 28:22

Mm-hmm.

Jeremy 28:24

a lot. Yeah,

Dwayne 28:24

Yeah, that's a smart idea, it does happen. I don't know where the socks go, but that does happen.

Stuart 28:29

I don't either.

Jeremy 28:30

either. I, I, I just do not understand it, how, how that happens. But I'm really bad at putting stuff in the washer, and I don't hear the, the little music that it plays when it goes off. I mean, I know I'm getting old. Listen, my dad was in a country band when I was little. I played around them practicing at night. I was in marching band, I was in drum corps. I then taught band for a long time. I have been around a lot of loud shit my entire life, and my hearing sucks. I know this. and there's just certain things I can't hear anymore, and that's one of them. Now, Jeremy says it's selective hearing. It is not. I can't, I can't hear it.

Dwayne 29:08

If we're in the back of the house, and it goes off, Jeremy's like "you better go do that" and I'm like "do what"

Jeremy 29:12

I'm cl-clueless." Um, the other thing that we have, which, uh, I don't remember where we picked it up along the way in our laundry room that made a big difference, was because I was notorious at like keeping stuff Or having stuff in there, and I didn't wear it for a very long time. And then I knew I needed to donate it. Well, then I would just leave it there. I would just still hang it up until I went to go donate stuff. Well, now we have a donate now bin. So anytime there's something like a little... whether it's a little box or whether you have like a little hamper

Stuart 29:40

or something, it doesn't have to be big because hopefully you aren't donating lots of stuff all of the time.

Jeremy 29:45

Anytime you pick up something, you're like, "Oh God, I need to get rid of that," you can put it in there, and then it's all put together by the time you decide that you

Stuart 29:51

need to drop it off and donate it.

Jeremy 29:51

And do

Stuart 29:52

I actually have one of those in, in our laundry room because, you know,

Jeremy 29:56

room.

Stuart 29:57

Ally is growing a lot and, you know, she'll wear something and I'll wash it and I'll pull it out of the dryer. I'm like, "Hmm, well that's not gonna fit anymore." So I just throw it in the thing, you know? I've also learned that children's clothes shrink

Jeremy 30:12

know,

Stuart 30:12

incredibly fast.

Jeremy 30:15

Hmmm and i don't know if that's

Stuart 30:16

don't know if s- if that's by design because they know you're just gonna buy more in two months anyway.

Jeremy 30:21

Yeah, I bet that has something to do with it.

Stuart 30:23

I mean, literally I could buy her a T-shirt,

Jeremy 30:25

and

Stuart 30:25

she could wear it twice. I wash it the second time, I pull it out and it looks like, you know, a toddler should be in it. I'm like, "Hmm."

Jeremy 30:33

Well, you know, this

Dwayne 30:33

Probably a fit you.

Jeremy 30:38

you. know, this is also one of the issues with

Stuart 30:39

fast fashion right, so the fabrics are

Jeremy 30:43

aren't as nice, so they don't launder as well. But when it comes to a kid,

Stuart 30:48

Yeah.

Jeremy 30:48

ultimately, I guess it matters because like you said, she's growing so damn much.

Stuart 30:53

Okay.

Dwayne 30:53

Now I'll speak of,

Stuart 30:54

I

Dwayne 30:57

the basement of my house and they moved into it, and they

Jeremy 30:58

and they

Dwayne 30:59

So the, the basement already had a laundry room for them and had a, an older set of washer and dryer, but

Jeremy 31:06

but

Dwayne 31:06

not too old. I mean, really pretty good. But it's mismatched. One was a GE, one was a Maytag, another story, but

Jeremy 31:11

but

Dwayne 31:11

really basically brand new, right? Well, then she had a really nice set that

Jeremy 31:16

that

Dwayne 31:16

she brought back from the house they lived in all the time.

Jeremy 31:19

time.

Dwayne 31:19

So I got that switched out, last week for the, the okay set to the really good set. Well, how do you get rid of a washer and dryer? Well, the only avenue that I initially had

Jeremy 31:29

had

Dwayne 31:29

was to put it on Facebook Marketplace. And I will just say, for any of us that have ever dealt with that, not all, I don't want to be a, a swipe,

Jeremy 31:39

but many

Dwayne 31:39

but many of the people that buy things on Facebook Marketplace, my

Jeremy 31:46

my path.

Dwayne 31:46

So far, uh, there's something wrong with these people.

Jeremy 31:49

know.

Dwayne 31:52

So it is a relatively

Jeremy 31:54

that's not

Dwayne 31:55

n-new Maytag dryer. I mean,

Jeremy 31:58

the warnings

Dwayne 31:58

almost brand new Maytag, and the other GE is pretty darn new, pristine, $400 for the set. Okay?

Jeremy 32:06

is fair. Okay?

Dwayne 32:08

Set,

Stuart 32:09

if you don't got one, that's a great deal.

Jeremy 32:11

a great

Dwayne 32:11

It's a gr- it is a great... I'm just telling, I'm not

Stuart 32:13

Or if you have, you know, college kids moving to an apartment, that's an even better deal.

Dwayne 32:18

Set, set, pristine. How much is the washer? I bet I've responded five times, "How much is..." You know, it says set. I don't understand what you don't understand what set is, right? Video, pictures, set. so last night the set was $400. So somebody sent me a message at

Jeremy 32:39

eleven

Dwayne 32:40

last night, by the way, and, uh, I responded how-- And he wanted to know how much the washer was.

Stuart 32:46

You tell them it's $400 and the dryer's free.

Dwayne 32:49

Well, almost did that, but I didn't want to be a jerk.

Stuart 32:53

Oh, I would.

Dwayne 32:54

that and I sent, I sent $300. I thought, "I'll sell the washer for $300, and I can sell the dryer for 150 and be ahead of the game." If you, if-- Look, if you want to be that, I'll just play the game.

Jeremy 33:04

game.

Dwayne 33:04

But anyway, these pe- Well, can you take $330? That's not within my budget. No. No, $400. Can you deliver it? No, but I h- No, at, what, that was another request. Can you deliver it? I'm like, "No, but I can give you a delivery person's name and number." Of course, you know what they were, crickets, right?

Jeremy 33:24

right? Of

Dwayne 33:24

I'm like--

Stuart 33:25

Right.

Dwayne 33:27

I'd rather burn it than let them have it.

Jeremy 33:28

burn it. I got, I got a little funny side about, um, and God, this is gonna sound so judgmental, but I was at a client's house. We

Stuart 33:36

Mm.

Jeremy 33:36

renovating their kitchen, uh, they had taken all of their existing cabinetry, and w- They were gonna put it on Facebook

Stuart 33:42

Mm-hmm.

Jeremy 33:46

all. And while I was there, the people came to pick it up. And were someone who really needed it,

Dwayne 33:53

Mm-hmm.

Jeremy 33:54

needed clothing on their child and shoes. Um, yeah, it's a different breed of people. And, uh, like I don't want it to sound jud- I don't want to sound judgmental because I, I, I,

Dwayne 34:07

No, no. Let, let's stop there. Stop right there.

Jeremy 34:10

Oh, Lord." I was like, "Okay, Lord." I was like, "Here, honey, can I put it in your..." And of course, they pic- they came in like a Miata

Dwayne 34:15

S-

Jeremy 34:15

pick it up. What the hell are you gonna do

Dwayne 34:16

yeah,

Jeremy 34:17

cabinetry in a Miata?

Dwayne 34:18

yeah. Stop right there. There was-- I ha- because of downsizing and stuff, there was a Broyhill, which is a, just an okay brand dresser, and it was, again,

Jeremy 34:27

know, pristine,

Dwayne 34:29

you know, it's Broyhill. I'm like...

Jeremy 34:30

forty years

Dwayne 34:30

So I put it on Facebook Marketplace last year, and I think it was, 100 bucks. I don't know what it was. N-not, not a lot for what it was. And this gentleman, um, responded pretty quickly,

Jeremy 34:42

bought it,

Dwayne 34:43

it, came with his

Jeremy 34:45

twelve-year-old

Dwayne 34:45

and I helped him. A very nice man, the total opposite of

Jeremy 34:48

of

Dwayne 34:48

what I'm dealing with this washer and dryer. I mean, just appreciative and kind and responsive and

Jeremy 34:53

and just normal,

Dwayne 34:54

right? And he started explaining how appreciative he was

Jeremy 34:58

that

Dwayne 34:59

was an elderly lady that he went to church with and, um, that

Jeremy 35:08

basically

Dwayne 35:08

she was abandoned, and she was fragile, and that he was moving, uh, her into his house with his two other, his wife and two other children, so she could convalesce for a while,

Stuart 35:19

Uh-oh.

Dwayne 35:20

extra storage for her clothing, right? So you hear all that, the goodness that's involved with that. And I thought about it. I said, "Well, that's pretty, that's a pretty amazing story." So days later, this tells you how bad I am with stuff,

Jeremy 35:34

stuff, he

Dwayne 35:35

out to me. He said, "By the way," uh, 'cause at that point I, I, I knew he's normal, and I exchanged my cell number with him,

Jeremy 35:41

him,

Dwayne 35:41

and, um, he sent me a picture. I had left Chloe's graduation diploma the dresser. And I'm like, "Uh-oh, oops. Uh-oh, oops." And he gave me-- And he lives in a nice area. And,

Jeremy 35:56

he said, "I have it if you ever do," you know, And, I said, "Yeah." And, uh,

Dwayne 35:56

anyway, I went to get it, and I met his wife, and she's just lovely and just the sweetest people, right? after I left, and this is where I'm gonna score a point, I looked at it, and I,

Jeremy 36:08

I, I, I

Dwayne 36:10

refunded his money. He paid me through Venmo, and I refunded his money back.

Jeremy 36:14

That's

Dwayne 36:14

Right?

Jeremy 36:15

Yeah,

Dwayne 36:15

Well

Jeremy 36:16

Paying it forward.

Dwayne 36:17

Pay it forward. Like, 'cause I saw, I saw in real time what this person was doing, and it was a nice house, but not a huge house, and the kids, and bringing somebody in. It's like, if anybody needs to get something back, this is this man doing something good.

Jeremy 36:31

good. So

Dwayne 36:32

uh, I don't wanna beat up on the Facebook 'cause right now they're driving me crazy with this washer and dryer. But, you know, there's also good... There's, there's, right, there's good people out there. There's also good p- Well, I worry about, you know, you have pe- somebody come to your house, I'm like, "Oh my God, are they gonna come to your house and k- uh, mm, kill

Stuart 36:45

Right.

Dwayne 36:46

you know, stab you?" And all that kind of crazy stuff, 'cause there's some crazies out there too. But there's, there's good

Stuart 36:50

Wha-

Jeremy 36:51

I had somebody tell me once, "You just act crazier than they are and they won't, they won't bother you."

Dwayne 36:56

Well, True story. I had some scrap metal. I'm doing everything in my house, so I had scrap metal free to pick up, and the people that came were, you know, they had less than, right?

Jeremy 37:08

right?

Dwayne 37:08

But, you know, a little bit of the special spectrum

Stuart 37:11

Oh, God.

Dwayne 37:16

they were

Jeremy 37:16

were

Dwayne 37:16

getting it because they needed the money to

Jeremy 37:18

to

Dwayne 37:18

get their phone turned back on, which is a sad story. And, um, she keeps now messaging me on Messenger from Facebook if I have more scrap metal to give her.

Jeremy 37:30

basically to buy more scrap metal

Dwayne 37:31

I'm like, I just had this one batch. I don't know what to tell you."

Jeremy 37:35

the gateway to the metal.

Dwayne 37:37

and I, I... Now, oh, the o- the point of that one, yeah, I am the gateway. Uh, they want their phone back on, bless their hearts. But the other thing that said something, because I kind of read the room and I thought, "Ooh, I don't know if I really trust these people being here." I mean, they didn't seem seedy, but it was off, right?

Jeremy 37:51

something,

Dwayne 37:51

said something, and I just, I pulled my hillbilly card out and I was like, "Yeah, yeah." I said, "You know, I'm moving, doing all this." And I said, "Because, you know, we're getting ready to do some things." And I said, "You know, if I have somebody here, I'll just get that gun out and I'll shoot their ass off," right? And I was like, "I'm plant-" And I do have a gun, and I probably would shoot you. I've really... I'm crazy

Stuart 38:07

Wha-

Dwayne 38:08

right?

Jeremy 38:08

And I said, "You know

Dwayne 38:08

Right? But I planted that seed of, "Don't come back," right? I

Jeremy 38:13

full gym in the

Stuart 38:14

W-well, we got our,

Dwayne 38:15

I really did.

Stuart 38:16

we got our washer and dryer when we were moving the first time off of a client because he hated the way the buzzer sounded, and he was getting a new one. And he had just bought it, stacking washer and dryer, brand new.

Jeremy 38:29

are

Stuart 38:30

I was like,

Jeremy 38:30

like,

Stuart 38:31

Well, does it work?" He goes, "Yeah, it heats, it washes, it does all the things it's supposed to do." He goes, "I just hate the buzzer."

Jeremy 38:35

what

Stuart 38:36

took it home and started using it. Now listen,

Jeremy 38:38

I

Stuart 38:38

it sounds like a dead crane drowning in the pond, but you know when that dryer's done.

Jeremy 38:44

hahahaha

Dwayne 38:46

I love

Stuart 38:48

my God. Yeah.

Jeremy 38:50

I

Stuart 38:50

Is that

Jeremy 38:50

instead

Stuart 38:51

do? Yeah,

Dwayne 38:52

one.

Jeremy 38:53

that I have. Yeah, the

Stuart 38:53

the little friendly one.

Dwayne 38:55

Yeah. Yeah.

Stuart 38:56

Oh, it does this like, "Rah, ah, urr." It's like, "Oh,

Dwayne 39:00

We're ready.

Jeremy 39:03

Well,

Dwayne 39:03

Okay.

Jeremy 39:04

I

Dwayne 39:04

Have we learned anything?

Jeremy 39:05

hope they have, you know, laundry rooms. Treat them like every other room in the house. If you put you some fun wallpaper, change out the lighting, make sure that it's functional. Oh, and put, get the... You know what? I, my favorite thing to do Is I wanna make sure that either we have music in there, because if I have music, I'm much more apt to do something. and so get You like a little Alexa or a little Bluetooth speaker and just have your little, like, easy jazz. I got easy jazz running down in the, in the

Dwayne 39:28

Is that right?

Jeremy 39:29

right. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Trying to calm down Mabel.

Stuart 39:32

model them panties and dance while you're folding towels.

Jeremy 39:36

And if you drive by my house, just honk and wave. It's fine. We'll

Dwayne 39:39

Yeah, it's how I can wave

Jeremy 39:41

as always, thanks for listening, and we will see you all again next week. Bye.

Stuart 39:46

Bye.