This That And The Other
This That And The Other
34. Reunited and It Feels So Good: Welcome Back to Our Podcast!
Our return marks an exciting new chapter filled with updates on life, thrifting, and DIY projects. We're back to reconnect and share the adventures we've encountered during our break.
• Updates on life since November
• Insights into our new podcast recording setup
• Thrifting adventures and favorite finds
• DIY tips from our furniture refurbishing experiences
• Plans for video content on our YouTube channel
• Engaging with our community: what you want to hear
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Welcome back, episode 34. It's breaking news we are back. We haven't recorded since November 4th. I looked back just a minute ago and it's been a minute.
Speaker 2:Been a hot minute.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of stuff that's happened. New president.
Speaker 2:Christmas is happening.
Speaker 1:Thanksgiving happened.
Speaker 2:Merry Christmas, happy New Year, happy Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1:That's right, yeah, everything. So we are back on track and it's going to be every week. Don't say that we're doing something a little different. We're actually videoing this episode. So we have a YouTube channel this, that and other. It will be on that. So go there and subscribe and you will see our first guest, which is Winston, which I would say he's in my lap, but he's not. But he's laying. We're sharing's not, but he's laying. We're sharing a chair. He's laying right beside me.
Speaker 1:He's asleep he just can't be without you can't be without me, so I had to let him in here. So we finally got our podcast room pretty close to being done. We didn't get our uh light, like we had talked about. We have it, we just didn't put it out here to illuminate. It's back in your room, isn't it?
Speaker 2:oh, the big light. Yeah, the big light. What light are you talking? Yeah, yeah, I stole it but. I hadn't used it one time but what do you think? You like the setup honestly, I like outside better, but I know that's not an option. So it's good. It's manly.
Speaker 1:Well, it can still be an option because it's going to start warming up. Yeah, we're still going outside.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll go by the fire pit.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We did that one time, didn't we? Or no, we never did the fire pit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we did, because I remember taking all the stuff out there to it. Okay, it was a hassle, it was fun, but it was a hassle.
Speaker 2:Everything's a hassle, yeah.
Speaker 1:What's not a hassle. So what's going on? What have the people missed?
Speaker 2:They've missed us.
Speaker 1:I know. So if you didn't know what we look like, now you do hey.
Speaker 2:She's the cute one. I don't know about me. You're the hot one, so I have to stay up in my mic because I refuse to wear the headphones.
Speaker 1:That's right, you wear a mic yeah, well, you, you wear your headphones for the simple fact so you can hear yourself, so you know if you're wandering off the mic. Well, and so you didn't want to mess up your hair, right?
Speaker 2:Right, but I know to turn my head. What to sniff, yeah, why is that so every time I either come on here.
Speaker 1:But you're on video now doing that. I come on live.
Speaker 2:I know right, I come on live. My nose runs. I don't know If you go back and watch.
Speaker 1:Well, you can't go back and watch my live.
Speaker 2:You do a lot of sniffing. Yeah, I've noticed why I don't know. It's crazy.
Speaker 1:It is.
Speaker 2:So now I'm just sitting here with the mic up in my face, because I won't wear the headphones, because I mess my hair up.
Speaker 1:What's that fun?
Speaker 2:I bet that's loud you keep doing your feet like that. I bet that's loud you keep doing your feet like that.
Speaker 1:What am I doing?
Speaker 2:Your blue jeans are rubbing your boot.
Speaker 1:You can't hear it.
Speaker 2:You tell me that you can hear everything that's fine.
Speaker 1:Well, if they can hear it, they hear it.
Speaker 2:But that's just what I do. You won't let me eat jelly beans.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's different. Why? Because you smack. Well, that's like what I do. You won't let me eat jelly beans. Yeah, that's different. Why? Because you smack. Well, that's like smacking. That's like chewing gum or having a piece of peppermint in your mouth. You don't need to do that when you're recording, because people can notice.
Speaker 2:Well, okay, what we got.
Speaker 1:I thought you had a topic or were we just talking? I thought you had a topic.
Speaker 2:Or were we just talking Our first day back in three months?
Speaker 1:No two months November 4th, Three months.
Speaker 2:So almost three months.
Speaker 1:Well, almost four months right, November, December, January, February.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you count November because you're at the beginning of it. Well, you say December.
Speaker 1:Tomorrow is March.
Speaker 2:What's Sunday.
Speaker 1:I don't know. Sunday's my birthday.
Speaker 2:Oh, did it take you a minute to realize it?
Speaker 1:I thought about that the other day and it creeped up on me. I did not even realize that it was here.
Speaker 2:It's creeping up. Happy birthday to me.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Happy birthday. Here's your present I know, I mean, I know, we're sitting mox you got no, we got new mic stands yeah you got new chairs, you got a couch, you got a rug what do I get?
Speaker 1:so, yeah, let's say we went, so like we've been pretty hot and heavy the last two weekends going thrifting Is that what you'd call it? I know you watch people that go out and buy stuff. Hey, let me tell you something. If you go out and you're like at a, what do you call it a thrift store? I don't really call them thrift stores.
Speaker 2:But they're not really antique stores either, but they say that there's like a.
Speaker 1:It's got a thrift store vibe to it, yeah, but they're not always. But it's not a flea market.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:You could almost say like an indoor type flea market.
Speaker 2:It's almost like a consignment shop with not yeah, it's more like a consignment shop than a thrift store.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean because a thrift store is not people's things that they put in there and they're getting paid for it. These shops are where like a consignment shop, but they don't pay consignment.
Speaker 1:You just pay rent for it, right?
Speaker 2:So it's like an antique store, but it's not an antique store.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but my point being is like now I've gotten into where I just like to call it thrifting. Yeah, I'm starting to look around and they, you know, you see all these tags that people's got. They want to call it vintage. Everything is everything is oh, but hey, well, I'll get to something I just thought of squirrel you know, squirrel my mind just everywhere.
Speaker 2:Jump out of the chair.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, coco would if she was oh, that's right. Yeah, but everybody thinks something If it's old, it's vintage, well no.
Speaker 2:And they jacked that price.
Speaker 1:Right, right, just because it's old. But if you, if you go under the Google app or just go under Google, I guess, whatever you call it, but if you go under the the camera button, I guess, yeah, it's not really. It's kind of like a screen, yeah, and you take a picture of the item. You know, get a good picture of whatever item, say I don't know, think of something A cup, a Mickey Mouse cup that looks like it came from Hardee's.
Speaker 2:Remember Hardee's when they used to have the glass cups. The glass cups, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, glass it ain't a cup. Is it a cup if it's glass?
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, it's a glass.
Speaker 1:So it is Not really a cup, is it? It's a glass. But you take a picture of that and it's like bam, it pops it up and gives you different sights on the value, or it gives you a little place to where you can put in more information. Say, you know the year of it but you don't know anything else about it. So you take a picture of it, you can pop in the year, and then it throws out all these suggested sites and then dollar amounts and stuff, and so we just, kind of you, can spend all day doing that if you don't watch it but you see something like some kind of fine china type thing and you go to the back and you see that stamp and you're like trying to get a close-up of that stamp to see if it might be something.
Speaker 1:But we found some stuff. That was it. We can go back to that painting I found in a dumpster oh, yeah, and I just got it out because I thought well, whatever it's in your building. Right, it's in the building but, uh, I took a picture of it and, of course, because of it not being in great shape, but the painting's fine, it's the framework that's around it, but at $150, it's like $400 new $150 if it's like whatever.
Speaker 2:Why didn't you sell it?
Speaker 1:It's part of my retirement package. I'm holding on to it.
Speaker 2:You might need some more of those.
Speaker 1:It's holding down some dust up there because it yeah, next to my miter saw I probably need to put it somewhere else yeah but yeah, a few weeks ago we went to a place it's going towards um. Is it past huntsville? It is past huntsville, is it?
Speaker 2:not. Which is that?
Speaker 1:place that's on the side of the road that we've always talked about it's coming back from Huntsville.
Speaker 2:It's not. I mean it's before Huntsville. It was going towards Huntsville, but it wasn't all the way to Huntsville. It was closer this side. Didn't I say before Huntsville I don't know what you said.
Speaker 1:Because you confused me.
Speaker 2:It's before you get to Huntsville.
Speaker 1:Anyway. So we went in there and it is a very cool Before you get to Bucky's. Yeah, very cool place to go into and you can say everything is vintage.
Speaker 2:But why did we stop?
Speaker 1:Because you saw a big old bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Well, it was the symbol. It's the big bucket that you see on the sign.
Speaker 2:But it never crossed my mind that it was from a store. I mean from the restaurant.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And Jody's. Like you know, that just came from the restaurant, right? I'm like, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:But they had several things like that. I can't remember, but they had several big sign things like that.
Speaker 2:But you get inside and everything in there is like locked up Is that where the barstools were.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hey. And if we're talking about barstools, if you watch it on YouTube, I'm putting the picture right here right now, and you've got to see these barstools. It's like the bottom half of.
Speaker 2:A girl's hiney, a girl's hiney, a girl's hiney wearing cowboy boots wearing like a skirt right, no it was like a bathing suit. Bathing suit like a. Okay, yeah, like you can see her, hiney yeah I should have sat in it I would. I think we would have got thrown out because I think the guy was coming around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because the other people were taking pictures. Well, there was other people. They sat in it. I don't know if they sat in it. She sat in it. Oh, did she.
Speaker 2:I bet she sat in it and the alarm up front went off.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't doubt it, because everything I don't think anything was under $200 in that store. No way they had, you know, a little antique type, um, say like uh, salt and pepper type things that would be like 500, you know, or just a lot of cool stuff. But he was definitely retail. He wasn't trying to. I mean, he was trying to get everything yeah, you could.
Speaker 2:I had old blow molds. If you know what that is Christmas blow modes. I want everyone can get it.
Speaker 1:I mean anything from the 20s, 30s, 40s 50s.
Speaker 2:I know like I really probably could go back.
Speaker 1:Oh, I could go back and look longer. Yeah, yeah, because they had it was late when not late, but it was.
Speaker 2:When we were coming back, we were coming home and we were ready to be home.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So like if we went just for that, or you know, when we go on a trip I can go by there and browse Every time we come back there, just stop and browse, but you think it has different stuff.
Speaker 1:No, there's no way that it would. It is so nice, Everything is nice and neat and organized A lot of stuff behind. You know glass, you know it's got good lighting.
Speaker 2:Who was the big? The two statues when we first walked in, or like the wax dummies, who was that when we first walked in?
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't remember now. We took several pictures.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think we did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll put any of the pictures on here. Who?
Speaker 2:are those.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:They looked good.
Speaker 1:But it had a lot of neat stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But nobody. I don't know if it do. You think he does it just to have the store open for people to look at, Because everything is so high that I don't really know of anybody that would go in there and buy something.
Speaker 2:Unless it's something that if you're a collector, you're a real collector, If you collect a certain thing and you found something there. Yeah, Like I wonder if he trades.
Speaker 1:Well, like toys, the old time toys, and stuff and dolls that you Say like. Well, he had Mickey Mouse collectible stuff that looked like from the 30s Well I don't know when Mickey Mouse was, it wouldn't be that old, but anyway it was like some of the original Mickey Mouse designs and it'd be a doll that you know it looks crazy but it's old and you know it'd be like $1,000 or some crazy number, but it was really neat.
Speaker 2:So that's what we've been doing.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So going back to what we've done the last two weeks, we've just gone and we've hit these little. We go back to the flea market, consignment shop, thrift store a little bit of everything and just trying to find stuff for the podcast room. Trying to find some furniture. We found a rug last weekend, find a couch, a small couch just smaller than what we really thought it was. But yeah, but it looks. You can't see it from the camera because it's right behind the camera, behind you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but but it's, it was, it's just for looks, but then the lady's, like you know it'd be a good dog couch, and I was like you know what? You're exactly right, because it's small enough that this dog that's sitting right beside me right now could be laying in it, because you're not in it well so, but it would be perfect. But it's a nice little couch. I like it, but it's like 50 bucks yeah so it wasn't bad.
Speaker 1:But the thing is, she gave us 50 worth of pellets new pellets to go with it it was was like seven pellets and each of them were $10 a piece and they just threw them in when we bought the couch, amanda's like I don't really care, I'm like well, we're taking them.
Speaker 2:I don't care for pellets, because you just chunk them off. And where do they go? They sit over here and pile up. Some of them are like hard pillows, so when you put them behind you you're just like stuck up like that. Well the pillow you've got right now under your arm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, that's right.
Speaker 2:That's a squishy one though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but the other ones look new. I do like the brown looking ones. But I was telling them, man. I said no, we'll just take them. I said if they're $10 a pile, I mean that's 50, 60, 70. They gave us five, six, seven pillows, I don't know. But if we ended up reselling them, you make our money back, break even on it. And we still got the couch. So that's kind of neat. And then we finally found these chairs.
Speaker 2:After you put a table together.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness, yeah, if you want, you've got to watch this video, because I'm going to put all this in. We set it up, I built a Welcome back.
Speaker 2:We're filling you with a lot. Welcome back.
Speaker 1:yes, we're filling you in with a lot, yeah, just a little bit of everywhere. So I built a year and a half ago, I guess a year ago it was oh it's, it's been over, oh it has been because we've been out of that little consignment store for a year.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:So I was built. I built a farmhouse table, kitchen table, and then I was building benches to go with it. And then I started building more benches and I built a couple of tabletops for the farmhouse tables, but I never built the, the legs, actual frame of it. So I had this one, like I don't know, four by four, three by four top, just leaning against a wall in my building for a year no, it's in our.
Speaker 2:It was in the little foyer before in the house. That's right, remember, yeah so it's leaned up. Yeah, because you, you tell me every time we walk by, it's like you're gonna get rid of that thing. Yeah, you're gonna go ahead and put it together.
Speaker 1:So what I'm saying is so I didn't really take care because I had it leaned up against the wall and what happens to a piece of wood, something like that? And you got leaned up against the wall it's gonna warp. So sure enough it it warped. But so for the last probably three months I've slowly worked on the, the base for the table, painted it got, finally got it because we had a budget and we knew what we wanted to spend, but we just couldn't find what we wanted.
Speaker 2:So I'm like why can't we use what we got and that's what we were gonna do?
Speaker 1:yeah, I wanted to take. I've got a higher bench in my workshop that I built. It's a tabletop that's from a old restaurant has gum under it yeah, it's got people's names, you know, carved into it and it's got some probably 50 year old gum stuck on the bottom of it. But it's a cool tabletop so I built it, so I built a frame around it and and I made it a little bit higher a little bit higher than a regular.
Speaker 2:And I'm a short girl, so I don't like high.
Speaker 1:But I built it higher than a table because I matched it with my miter saw stand, because sometimes I've got a long piece of wood. If I've got a 12-foot piece of wood, I can rest it across that bench and on the miter saw stand and it works perfect. So I just made it even with that. So then bench and on the miter saw stand and it works perfect. So I just made it even with that. So then after all that I was like you know what I want that thing in here, the two by fours I framed it with I can sand it, stain it, all that kind of stuff put it in here. But I'm like you know I'll have to take part of it apart to get it in this room and it was heavy too right and it was heavy well, the tabletop really yeah, the heaviest part about it.
Speaker 1:But I was just going to have to take a little bit off of it to get it in here and I was like, if I do that, we can't have regular chairs, we've got to have bar stools. So I've been on the hunt for bar stools for months and months, it seems like and we found no bar stools that we liked at all.
Speaker 2:Amanda did not like the idea. I did not like the idea at all, just because.
Speaker 1:Like you, put this table in here.
Speaker 2:I don't like a bar stool because I'm short, and if you don't have something for me to rest my feet on, I get very uncomfortable. Yeah, I'd make it work for you, though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but the way this table I built, I guess you'd say that you could rest your feet. That still might be too low for you, but I could build you something wherever you're going to sit at. Anyway, I was going to do it. I really still. If I had the choice, I'd still put it in here and you'd just stand at it if we had to until we found some barstools, because I wanted that in here. I just like that tabletop. So that was not going to work. So amanda pretty much forced me to build the base of that farmhouse tabletop, worked on it. Yeah, got it, got it together. I painted it brown they're like, well, that's ugly and I painted it white they're like what's.
Speaker 2:What's up with that? You're talking about the base, yeah, okay, so people's like what's?
Speaker 1:up with that. And then I went back and sanded it, you know, sanded over it here and there and made it look distressed. So it looked good and then so I could not put the thing together and then get it in here. The tabletop is heavy, so I was was gonna have to bring it in here. Me and nicholas brought the tabletop in here, then we brought the base in here, laid everything down and, like I said, the tabletop is warped, so when it's on the ground it's still raised up.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's just you know, it's not bad extra tabletop because when I was into building these, because you made it for me and then I decided I didn't like that one. I wanted it different and a different color.
Speaker 1:Well, I wouldn't say that, but yeah. I'm just saying you do things that I want, I know, I know To make me happy. I do, I try. So we had it. So Nicholas had to stand on the middle of the base, everything's upside down, while I'm trying to screw it all together and then get it done, get it flipped back up. It's heavy as all. Get out. Get it set up. Bam, it's done. Tried to find. Got the rug working, got the table on top of it.
Speaker 2:Still didn't have chairs, though.
Speaker 1:Still didn't have chairs. Still didn't have chairs, though still didn't have chairs, so we're like didn't have chairs, so we're like you know what the bar still I found one, got one bar still, just because we found a good price on and I thought maybe we can find a match or whatever.
Speaker 1:got it now it's too tall for the table I've gotten here, so we're gonna have to use, like, the kitchen table chairs if we're gonna do anything in here. So the kitchen table chairs if we're going to do anything in here. So that was a plan. Well, I'll be doggone. That was a Saturday and it was three days, is that right?
Speaker 2:Tuesday.
Speaker 1:It was a Saturday, so it was last Saturday when I put this tabletop together and got it in here, and then Saturday. So that was Saturday, then Sunday, then Monday, then Tuesday. Somebody sends me some pictures of some chairs that she found and then next thing I know we get them. And so now they're stuck in our living room because I've got a tabletop that I've got to flip back over, take the top off because I can't get it out the door to get it back out.
Speaker 2:He did not, he was trying every which way for me to let him leave that table in here.
Speaker 1:And you just couldn't do it.
Speaker 2:There was no room.
Speaker 1:No, I was like let me put the table, Just let me squeeze it over in the corner.
Speaker 2:And I knew if we'd done that it would never come out. But the thing about it was it was going to be an option.
Speaker 1:It the bad part was it was going to be an option. It was going to be an option Like we can podcast, like we are now. If we have a third person, at any time we'll pull that out, move these chairs around. You'll never see it. Just when you record, you've got the table and the people, or however. I was just thinking it was a different option. But then I started thinking about my mom. She wanted me to make her one a while back and I just I got burned out. I was building all this stuff. I was doing too much.
Speaker 2:He was trying to find a hobby. Well the hobby became too much work. It was a second job Because you're Mr Perfection, I don't know and it had to be.
Speaker 1:Well, this was back when we had that little, that booth at the consignment place too, so I was trying to keep stuff going, keeping that full right, so anyway. So, uh, yeah, I shot the pictures to my mother and asked her hey, I don't know if the color of the top, because the top does have a tinge of a green color that you said I see it just Just a little maybe.
Speaker 2:And you know how things look different in different lights too. So, I mean, it may just be, I don't know. I just like I'm more of the grays and this table's brown.
Speaker 1:Well, I really wish you know they did away. It was called gray smoke.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's my favorite.
Speaker 1:That's our table, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and's my favorite, that's our table right, yeah, yeah and. I don't like shiny and Jody likes shiny, so I have matte finish on my kitchen table that he built.
Speaker 1:And then the one that I just did now is shiny.
Speaker 2:It is shiny, jody loves it. It looks wet.
Speaker 1:That's why I like it. But the matte finish, it turned out good. I'll put a picture of that too, of what our kitchen table looks like. It turned out very good, but anyway, long story short. So my mom wants that table, so we took everything apart. Now it's in what we call the red room, which is like a foyer of the house, along with some other stuff that I can talk about here in a minute, but so that. So today is friday, so in the morning we are delivering that tabletop, because this gets it's in two pieces, like I said. So when I get over there and get it in the house, I got to put it all back together again in the midst of moving her table and getting and trying to squeeze it in and all that stuff, but anyway. So we had a couch in this room a big couch a big couch that's actually.
Speaker 1:It was two year left up against that wall and it's an ashley couch, ashley furniture isn't that correct? Yeah, it did not get. This room right here did not get a whole lot of attention. Nobody ever really stays in here. We had a TV in here at one time. I'd come in here from time to time, but it just didn't get a whole lot of attention. So the couch did not really get worn down from sitting in it, but it was like the color. It wore down.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:What little bit? Maybe just because it's a few years old, I don't know, but it didn't hold up. In other words, but anyway, moved it out, took it apart, my goodness. And the way this room goes out into the hallway you had to raise one end up high turn, my goodness, but anyway, so we have somebody that's gonna take that, but it's in that in our red room we have a little path from the steps so there's like furniture that in the next several days is gonna be gotten rid of.
Speaker 1:But you can that. Down there it's just like a one path you go from door to door. It's a catch-all room. Yeah, down there, it's just like a one path you go from door to door.
Speaker 2:It's a catch-all room, but then again you're afraid to get rid of furniture because we got a son. If he goes off to college, I don't want to have to buy stuff. Yeah, so you don't know what to save. You don't know what to get rid of.
Speaker 1:But we do have another couch that he can use.
Speaker 2:It's a little bit smaller. It's smaller, yeah.
Speaker 1:But the person that needs a couch is going to a good home and then she hopefully might take the kitchen table that my mom's going to be getting rid of. That we're swapping out. Yeah, so I'll be bringing it out. So the thing is, where is that thing going to go when I bring it back tomorrow?
Speaker 2:Actually, I think that could go to the church and we put it in when those rooms not being used.
Speaker 1:And then she can make arrangements, and then she can get it from there.
Speaker 2:Oh yes, that's a good idea.
Speaker 1:I think that would be okay. I wish they could do that couch that way too.
Speaker 2:We could do that, couch.
Speaker 1:It would fit. I want to make it convenient for them and not make it more of a hassle.
Speaker 2:Well, no, if it's there, then they can get it, and then we could just meet them and help them get it out.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think that would be fine.
Speaker 1:Anyway, yeah, we need to find out about that.
Speaker 2:Anyway.
Speaker 1:No, people don't care about that.
Speaker 2:Right, that's a good idea I just had, though.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't have those. Often Jody says I don't.
Speaker 1:So yeah, tomorrow. So tomorrow morning, do that, moving all that stuff around, I'm gonna have to edit this thing. I'm going to edit the other podcast. I got to study for sunday school. I'm behind. I should have already studied for sunday school lesson. There ain't enough hours, oh, and I gotta work in the morning. That's the other thing. And I and I need another trailer tire for my trailer and that can't wait. There's $105. Bam, like that you better go work then. You better go work, winston ain't missing a beat over here?
Speaker 2:Well, no, because he's right up your homie.
Speaker 1:See ya, be careful. Then that would be Nicholas going to work out.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, that's just what we've been doing the last month. We have done more than that.
Speaker 1:That's really the last couple of weeks. We've done a lot the last couple of weeks. Yeah, it's really been Stayed busy.
Speaker 2:But now we've got to where we like to go on Saturdays and do hunt those treasures, treasure hunting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but if I'm not tied up, sometimes I have to work on Saturday I don't know. I guess you'll have to go find a treasure.
Speaker 2:You won't let me go by myself.
Speaker 1:We've hit all the places in our little town.
Speaker 2:There's nothing around. We've got to venture out just a little bit farther. We've got to find some stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but these places, you know, once you go there, one time there's really. I mean, maybe it's a few months down the road I could go once a month.
Speaker 2:You know if the we got two places in our town.
Speaker 1:Why is the Salvation Army not open on Saturday? That's right they need to be open on Saturday. That's right they need to be open on Saturday, because I think we could go down there and find something.
Speaker 2:That's true too. I don't know why they're not open on Saturday.
Speaker 1:But those people that you know when I was talking about doing the Google thing, taking a picture. You follow some people on YouTube that her and her boyfriend or fiance husband, whoever he is- I think they're married.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think they are but they video their self going to these places, especially the salvation army and now they got a goodwill is that goodwill?
Speaker 2:yeah, it's good. Okay, we don't have a goodwill, but they they get a lot of yard sales, so I'm hoping we can do that.
Speaker 1:But they find the value of this stuff.
Speaker 2:They think something might be bad, I mean, that's how she makes a lot of her money. She don't work. That's what she does.
Speaker 1:She resells it, she homeschools. But the thing about that is the whole shipping part about it.
Speaker 2:That's the part I don't like. So I just now started. I've been doing the nail business for almost three years and I just now started shipping my own stuff. But I just bought a scale and a little printer because did you yeah, but I didn't know about it from no tiki-taki shop.
Speaker 1:That's been much, that ain't much anyway that scaling will be right because it's from tiktok, I mean, oh no, the scale wasn't.
Speaker 2:The scale was from walmart no the scale was from walmart, um.
Speaker 2:So anyway, like I don't like to go to the post office and stuff, because I work three minutes from home so I never go to town unless it's on Friday or Saturday, and on Saturday your post office isn't open until 12. So I just I like the part of thinking and going and hunting and stuff, but as far as packing it up and shipping it, I don't want to go to the post office. But now I don't have to Because you just go through shipcom. Nuh-uh, pirate ship, is that what I used?
Speaker 1:Pirate ship.
Speaker 2:Yeah, pirate ship, and you pay for your postage right there and it prints you out a label and you put it on your package and go.
Speaker 1:You weigh it.
Speaker 2:You got to weigh it, so I might think about doing it a little bit now. You know selling stuff, but when you do that like eBay, and stuff takes a percentage of it, right, so see, that's what I don't like. I'd rather sell it to a person myself than through eBay. But how's somebody going to see it if you don't go through eBay?
Speaker 1:What's the other couple that we watched, jamie and Sarah, on YouTube and they're not doing as much now. They're more into buying houses and flipping houses, but they're the ones that started the whole palette, buying and then reselling that, and she would resell that on facebook marketplace right, so sometimes she would have locals, so that would be good.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's a thing, yeah, with her.
Speaker 1:It always showed that they picked it up at her front door they had a ring, yeah, ring camera they put the money under the mat, took the item and left.
Speaker 2:But my point being, you got some trust right there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my point being is she did a lot of shipping too and I just that just seems like a headache. I know I know you need to think of what the shipping cost is going to be and add that into what you're going to sell it for?
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely, you know is going to be, and add that into what you're going to sell it for you know.
Speaker 2:So you're not losing money or not making as much, because just a little box of nails that don't weigh like I think it was 1.47 ounces you put it in in ounces and one box of nails that's not big at all, and then in your little shipping pouch mine was a nine by six and most of them where they went. I think I shipped six of them or something like that was four dollars and eight cents to ship that one thing that's a lot that is a lot.
Speaker 2:So I mean for that and that doesn't weigh anything and it's small. So I couldn't imagine some of this stuff that I've seen some of them ship.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:But they have to count that shipping in there or they're losing right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh yeah, because that's part of your expense, Right? So if I bought something for $10 at Goodwill and I know the value, I know I can get twenty five for it. Right, so that's fifteen dollars profit. But when I ship it it's going to cost me six bucks. So is it worth?
Speaker 2:eBay, you pay shipping. Some people are do free shipping If it's free shipping.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's great, but so is it worth it if you're just doing a handful of things every once in a while if you're doing it all the time. Yeah, of course it adds up and it's right you know you save a little bit more return on it. I don't know. I don't know either. I would like to do it. I'd like to resell stuff.
Speaker 2:I would like to do it, but the shipping I just well. Now to me, my little business that I have. It's going to be better for me, but still I don't like the shipping part. It's the part I don't like.
Speaker 1:True.
Speaker 2:I like the hunting, the stuff and getting yeah but I don't to think to ship it.
Speaker 1:I don't, I don't like it all right, well, welcome back everybody we've told you the last two weeks of our of our lives and we've been gone for three months. Yeah, so we'll be back every Monday. We'll be back on our regular schedule. Maybe, Don't even start that. Here we go, maybe. No, it's going to happen. Every Monday, 20 or 30-minute episode About all we can get now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, time wise. Yeah, because I'm already itching, I'm already late. Yeah, from my live.
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Speaker 1:Well, we're going to put little videos out there. Oh, before we go, we need to talk about the antenna.
Speaker 2:Oh, the antenna that took me forever to order because I really didn't want it, because it looks like a big old.
Speaker 1:Well, you made it sound like I'm All right. This is the thing I wanted to get an. I want to cut the cord. So bad.
Speaker 2:We want to get rid of satellite. Yeah, because we really don't watch it. So we have spectrum. Or do we wait and make this the next episode?
Speaker 1:We can do that. You know what we could actually do.
Speaker 2:Next time we will talk about an antenna.
Speaker 1:I can say we could hit that end button right there and hit that record button again and we could start episode two. It'd be a week behind. But anyway, yeah, we'll do that another day. I just got done that's a whole new.
Speaker 2:That's a whole other topic.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That we could go probably 20 minutes on that.
Speaker 1:Because actually I've still got dirt on me right now from being under the house because of this stupid antenna that I've been dealing doing.
Speaker 2:All right, we'll talk about it next, yeah.
Speaker 1:Hey, we appreciate y'all being with us, and that's true Happy birthday.
Speaker 2:Thank you, we're back for your birthday. Yeah, all right, see ya Bye everybody.
