This That And The Other
This That And The Other
The Art of the Yard Sale
We debate whether yard sales are worth the time and effort while sharing stories from our recent experience selling family furniture and household items. The challenges of early morning setups, pricing strategies, and dealing with quirky customer behavior lead to memorable moments.
• Getting up early enough to catch the best sales requires dedication and planning
• Pricing items at yard sales creates a paradox - we want clear prices as buyers but hesitate to set firm prices as sellers
• Location and signage are critical factors that can make or break a yard sale's success
• Interesting characters including an Alabama football fan haggling over Auburn merchandise and a mailman making questionable choices
• Mr. Beast reportedly spent $500,000 for a private night at Disneyland but claims to need his mother's help paying for his wedding despite billionaire status
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welcome back. Episode something or another, not quite sure 40 something, 50, 50 it could be, 50 could be, it is not 50 it's close, is it not like, was it not? Yeah, we had to uh we're about to start and we had a spider right here on the mic stand and I tried to kill it and it ran under amanda's chair yeah, so when you hear me scream, it's because the darn spiders come out and we've got winston here.
Speaker 1:He's going to sit in again with us and I don't know if he's a spider killer, but maybe if it makes its appearance, he'll come out and take care of it.
Speaker 1:If he wakes up because he's going to take a nap. That's what he does when we start recording, but that's fine. We've got a couple of things to talk about today. One thing is yard sales. We're going to talk about that, because we had one yesterday. And then there's a story I want to tell you about with Mr Beast. Do you know who Mr Beast is? Maybe, maybe.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, so we'll get to him in a minute, but it's just an interesting story. Okay, that maybe you'll find interesting.
Speaker 2:But I did Question for you.
Speaker 1:Question for me Right now, right now. Okay, me right now. Right now, okay, do I look like a picnic blanket?
Speaker 2:you did remind me that we're gonna go on a picnic here after the episode.
Speaker 1:Okay, I thought that too, but it looks like you uh said hey, there's a tablecloth, I don't have anything else to wear. I'm gonna wrap it around my waist and voila wow which is fine. In for it, which is fine. Thanks, that's fine, but I was trying to be patriotic is that what it is?
Speaker 2:was trying to be patriotic.
Speaker 1:Is that what it is? Yeah, your earrings are patriotic.
Speaker 2:You didn't say my earrings.
Speaker 1:I do like your earrings. They're patriotic. You are patriotic colors, but the skirt is a picnic-y theme yeah.
Speaker 2:It was between this one or blue. If you had a basket in your hand, have I should have.
Speaker 1:So we want to talk about yard sales, because we had a yard sale yesterday. We've had yard sales in the past. We've gone to yard sales in the past.
Speaker 2:I love going to yard sales.
Speaker 1:We used to go to yard sales all the time and I would like to still start going, but nobody wants to get up as early as I do and go like, find the study, you don't get up early.
Speaker 2:Let's just put it that way, you have to tell me we're going and I will get up early.
Speaker 1:We can make plans to say, alright, we're going to yard sales this Friday night. I can say, alright, I know there's a bunch of yard sales tomorrow, let's get up and go to yard sales. You'll be like, okay, just get me up 8.15 we'll be leaving the house, bull Just get me up 8.15,.
Speaker 2:We'll be leaving the house, bull.
Speaker 1:Loney, it's true, true statement.
Speaker 2:No, it's not.
Speaker 1:If I got up and woke you up at 5.30, if I got you up at 5.30.
Speaker 2:Why are we getting up at 5.30? See, there you go. I can say 6.15,.
Speaker 1:You'd be like why don't you get up at 6.15?
Speaker 2:I try to let you sleep At 6.15,.
Speaker 1:You'd be like why don't you?
Speaker 2:get up at 6.15?. I try to let you sleep. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1:I try to make you sleep in, yeah so I'm still scared of the spider. I want to be. You should be hitting the yard sales no later. You should be at your first yard sale no later than 7 o'clock.
Speaker 2:No later than 7.
Speaker 1:That's what I yeah, and a real statement to me is I'm leaving at 6 going to my first yard sale. That's real to me.
Speaker 2:Okay, if we had a plan of action, if we had a list of yard sales and we weren't just driving around, Okay, so, like we used to get the paper and you could map out, I guess you would say but they don't do that anymore. We used to get yards the paper and you'd look and say, hey, there's a bunch of yards. Yeah, you would get that on friday night, so yeah you had to get up early.
Speaker 1:You just knew they're in and around town and say hey, we can just hit them where now it's like now, let's just go. Well, if you saw a sign that said you know yards of the mar, you might see one or two. Whatever you say, I know there's a couple out there at least. But now it's like you go out, you just drive around and find them, you kind of zigzag back in our town to you know you'll run across it's summertime so that's what you want to get started early anyway, because it gets so hot now.
Speaker 1:That is true, but I want to get there before people find the good stuff, before it gets gone you know I don't know, so we don't do it anymore. Hardly, you know, I don't. We went, I think, maybe to one last year. Maybe, and that was just because it was beside this park that we went to and we walked around it. Was that not the same time we walked?
Speaker 2:up the park, and then there's a yard sale right next door to it.
Speaker 1:It's because it just seems like there's not meaning no, there's still a lot out there. You know when you need to find me some. At one time the city was going to put a tax on. You'd have to have like a permit to have a yard sale and stuff like that that's a negative.
Speaker 2:That's a big two thumbs down.
Speaker 1:That's a negative, you know, leave me alone let me say let me sell my junk. Exactly this stuff's are bought and paid we've probably several times over and you're to tax me again for selling it.
Speaker 2:No, you're not, but anyway.
Speaker 1:Anyway, We'll get off that point. So we had a yard sale yesterday and reasonably well.
Speaker 2:That's fine.
Speaker 1:So your father recently passed away and so we just need to clean out the house and get furniture, stuff that we know that, hey, we don't want anybody. You know anything that we had found that anybody needed, or whatever. We've kind of gave you know a few things here and there, but everything else is like, look, we just need to start trying to clean up and get rid of some stuff. We'll have a yard sale, so we plan this out, and then all last week this is sunday.
Speaker 1:We're recording on a sunday, by the way, a day that we do not want to record on, but it always happens we got to get different and the reason I'm bringing this up is because we had the yard sale yesterday, so that was be saturday, and the week leading up to it is taking stuff that we have to add to the yard sale. If we can find some stuff, you know whether it's clothes, shoes furniture, my dad, he didn't have much stuff.
Speaker 2:He didn't have it. He was not a I will tell you this though once I started pulling this.
Speaker 1:Well, once I cleaned this furniture we started cleaning this stuff last saturday and that just any kind of for any time you're going to just kind of wipe stuff down and get it ready. I mean mean, that's a chore anyway. So we did that. But when I started hauling this stuff outside, Because you didn't wait on me. Yesterday morning, because I had to get there before you did.
Speaker 2:Because you didn't wait on me.
Speaker 1:I was like how many end tables do you need?
Speaker 2:You know, but you brought a couple from here.
Speaker 1:I did.
Speaker 2:Right but still maybe. Yeah. But he still had tables.
Speaker 1:Kitchen tables.
Speaker 2:He had little tables everywhere.
Speaker 1:I guess you call it maybe like a dining room table, possibly with the four chairs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was the kitchen table.
Speaker 1:No, that's not what I'm talking about, over there in the living room next to the fireplace.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it's a table. It's a table with four chairs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and a bar stool, a couple of bar stools, a couch, a recliner that we gave him because he had complained that his other recliner was broke, and he sleeps in a recliner because he didn't like sleeping in a bed, so he's used to his heart surgery, right yeah. So, hey, we're going to give him a recliner. That was still new to us.
Speaker 2:It was still good.
Speaker 1:We bought it because I had neck surgery. No, I had back surgery. Let me think this through surgery or back, sir, neck surgery and but then we didn't like it needed something because I knew I was going to have trouble sleeping, so that was going to give me a better option, so we bought this recliner 350 bucks maybe yeah, it wasn't much from From Big Lots.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nothing great, nothing fancy.
Speaker 1:Nothing fancy, you know. Reasonable guy to it Was not a great recliner, that I thought. So we thought, hey, here's a good chance. Hey, he could use it, take it down there.
Speaker 2:He never never touched it, never used it.
Speaker 1:It sat beside his other recliner. That was broke. That was broke, he never replaced. That's so funny. So we had that recliner in tables coffee tables, oh my goodness. And and all that had an old, like antique ashtray thing that had a little handle thing. It was porcelain on the top.
Speaker 2:A little handle and a couple of the ashtray had the hole in the middle and the handle went through the ashtray yeah and it sat down on the top, and then there was a bottom I don't know what you call it uh, the bottom of the tray it was like a way it was wire yeah it was wire, so it had another um shelf. Yeah, I guess you could call it yeah so we I made for magazines yeah, could be could be.
Speaker 1:Could be. You know furniture back then and now they're designed totally different because of your needs and stuff.
Speaker 2:Like this is designed for cigarettes. I've never seen him use that, by the way, he never used that, so all we could figure out is this came from your mama's house.
Speaker 1:I think so, we think so this thing could probably be 60 or 80 years old and it looked old and I researched it and found some that said that it was antique, vintage type stuff that could be kind of pricey. And then I found stuff that looked like it too that was worth $15. So we're like this could or could not be expensive and sure we can hold on to it, but really do we need to?
Speaker 2:let it go, let it go.
Speaker 1:Of course we sold it yesterday. Um, and then some tools and just just odds and ends, glasses, and then we mixed in our stuff with it and all that. So what we're getting to go ahead so my dad was a glass drinker.
Speaker 2:He didn't drink out of plastic stuff.
Speaker 1:Just coffee, though?
Speaker 2:No, he drank coffee out of a plastic coffee cup. It was a plastic.
Speaker 1:Just like you'd get at a just.
Speaker 2:It looked like it came from a restaurant. It does. That's exactly what that looks like.
Speaker 1:I can remember, you get a brown coffee cup, plastic coffee cup. That's what I'm thinking of. At'm thinking of places that you get.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what these look like and, but this one was black and that's what that was his favorite coffee cup, but now when he drank pepsi or whatever. It was always out of a glass yeah we always had glasses. Yeah, never plastic, and I hate glass.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all we got is plastic I'm good with plastic, but the glass will hold its coolness a little bit, maybe a A little bit better Maybe. Yeah, he had a lot more cups in place that a single person really needed. Well, none of them matched and none of them matched. None of them matched and then he had green cup, a glass, green glass with a white. I don't how do you explain this.
Speaker 2:You could say antique-ish it reminds me of what what some people eat like a sundae out of yep, that's right.
Speaker 1:That kind of square, that kind of like a pentacon glass and then it had that bottom on there yeah, so the whole thing is green except the bottom. The bottom is clear glass, the rest of it is like a green, the bottom was like frosted wasn't it. I think so. Anyway, he's had them forever, he's had those forever, so there's no telling.
Speaker 2:Those were mama's.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:No, those were his mama's, so those were my great-grandmother's.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so those were old, old.
Speaker 2:So those were old.
Speaker 1:But we gave those to a family member because they wanted, but he had promised those to, I guess everybody, I guess he promised those to you and several other people, so we just felt like it's better.
Speaker 2:Just you know I really didn't want them yeah, but since he but I would have never told him that, yeah, yeah so he always said they're gonna be yours one day always one day. So yeah, we had to drag all that stuff out yeah, it's just my question is yard sales worth it?
Speaker 1:and let's do the pros and cons, and having a yard sale depends on what your team is. Do you have a team in your yard sale project? I guess you'd say, if you've got several people involved, yes, hey, you can throw this thing together pretty good. It's still. It's a lot of work, don't get me wrong. But if it's just a couple of you doing it, is it really worth it? And, depending on your location, are you able to advertise?
Speaker 2:I don't think we were in a good location, all that stuff. So we found out yesterday I thought we were.
Speaker 1:We found out yesterday, the highway that we had high hopes for something and high expectations, and we shouldn't have, at least to me. I'm going to speak for myself.
Speaker 2:I think we sold more on Facebook when I put pictures on Facebook than we did sitting there. But every person that came bought something that's right, our first group.
Speaker 1:It was a total of 14 that they bought and I basically let them price it the way they want to. It was some old, good old boys, good old country guys and, I guess, a wife maybe, I guess, maybe just yeah, ask me how much for this.
Speaker 2:Just out riding hunting them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, with some tools and some hey, and that's what I'm telling you. These are like heavy-duty staples that are in a little box.
Speaker 2:I know they asked me and I like I didn't even know what they were, and then a plastic handle, an old axe like a hatchet. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then some wiring that I knew that somebody would use a dollar and I know it's expensive if you go by noon, but I'm like I'm not gonna cheat nobody out of anything. So when he asked me how much for this, I said what do you think? And he's like oh, you tell me. I'm like look, I'm not gonna jip you on anything. Whatever you think's fair, that's what I'll sell it to you for and have we not talked about that?
Speaker 2:we don't like when people do that, I know. Just give us a price. Yeah, it makes me mad If I go there and you want to give me a price? Yeah, but you just done somebody like that Because I did not want to jib them.
Speaker 1:Plus, in my mind I'm thinking if I tell this guy $10 for this thing of wiring, I don't want to in his mind think this guy is crazy. Why does he want $?
Speaker 2:So now do you look at yard sales different when stuff's not priced and you're going to go and have to ask people?
Speaker 1:Nope, I still have the same thing. Why do you not have this priced? If you're going to have a yard sale, you price it before I get there. So I know what you want for it. I didn't price it, I know. Look, I know I did it, I did it. I didn't price it. I put it out there because I want them to tell me what they want, because I want it gone and I want a fair price. You tell me. And if you jip me, I hope you can sleep good tonight, for you know, whatever I don't care, but the little axe or the, what do I call it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was like an axe handle thing or something.
Speaker 1:I just said it, you said axe. It's a smaller axe. What do you call it, hatchet? You said axe. It wasn't. It's a smaller axe. What do you call it hatchet? A little plastic, yeah, plastic handle, hatchet. He won't know how much for that. I said what do you think? I said a dollar. He said how, about two dollars?
Speaker 1:I was gonna say two dollars and jody said a dollar, and I'm like and he said what sure so he that? And then he bought some. But anyway, we'll get off of these guys. That said, but you know just some good old country people that came up there talking about fishing and all kinds of stuff. But uh, so I found out that the sign I put on the side of a major road might not have been big enough and maybe I should have had more. And I wasn't able to write like with a magic marker on it. What an era point which it was common sense, knowing it was there.
Speaker 1:And then we didn't have enough signs because by the time I did that there was only one sign for one side of the mailbox. I needed one on the other side to get traffic coming from the other way, and at the end of the other road I should have had a sign down there, because we didn't realize what was down there and how busy the road is to get people drawn in, so we lost business if you want to look at it that way, I don't know.
Speaker 1:But when I thought the road, because when I cut grass and all that, there's a ton of cars that come down this road. But when you sit out there at a yard sale and watch cars go by, nobody comes by.
Speaker 2:Nobody.
Speaker 1:So there was no traffic.
Speaker 2:But the weekend before the fourth are people gone I don't think you can people vacation the week okay, so if you say they vacation the week of the fourth.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of local people around there yeah they're not vacationing now next weekend for the fourth of july, that saturday after there are people going out saying let's hit some yard sales after the fourth. They've got their check, they got their money in their hand. Or is that going to be a waste? Should we do another one to try and clean up next saturday, or do we just wait and do it in a couple of weeks?
Speaker 2:so many factors.
Speaker 1:It depends on how holiday. That's why it look all right, let me get on holidays no, we're not putting all holidays.
Speaker 2:all Saturday, all holidays go on Saturday.
Speaker 1:No, none of this. Different Thanksgiving's not on every Thursday anymore. We're throwing it on Saturday, your 4th of July. That might be on a Monday next year and a Wednesday the year after that and a Friday this year. We ain't having none of that anymore. We're just dedicated to a certain day, and that's Saturday. All holidays are on saturday, no matter what. I ain't giving no teachers union a three-day weekend with federal workers. Three three-day week, no, no more of that. That's what it's designed for I don't care.
Speaker 2:That's what labor day was yeah, you're one of them.
Speaker 1:Because you like that extra day off, you got that right. People like me don't get it we have to work holidays. We have to do that, so I'm for the you could for the working man that has to work these holidays. I'm putting on saturday.
Speaker 2:Now I realize that you work on saturday too, so what's the difference?
Speaker 1:I'm doing it for the people. I'm not doing it for the selfishness of me, doing it for the people then the people like the three-day weekend I realize that people, I'm doing it for the people that have that don't get that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I realize that people, I'm doing it for the people that don't get that.
Speaker 1:And I realize that people work on Saturday. So they're saying, jody, this makes no sense, I have to work on Saturday.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:No, so I realize it, but I'm sorry. Everything's on Saturday. Christmas is now on Saturday, that's perfect. We can shut everything down. You ain't got to say, hey, what does Christmas fall on this year, what day of the week? I ain't got to look it up, I automatically know it's a Saturday.
Speaker 2:We're talking about yard sales, not holidays.
Speaker 1:I'm done. I'm done, but I was just saying it depends on how a holiday falls. If you're going to have a yard sale also, I mean the stuff's already drug out. It ain't going gonna take us well, most of it we just put under the carport.
Speaker 2:So yeah, the big. Hopefully it's still there. Yeah, if they need it.
Speaker 1:I guess I'm willing to do it just one more time and that's it. After one more time it's like free to a good home or it's being burnt you're gonna put it out by the side of the road and say free. Yeah, free. So that's my question. So are yard sales worth it?
Speaker 2:I think, if you like it, it is, and we do like to do it. I think it's all about location.
Speaker 1:That was totally about location, if you've got a good spot with plenty of vehicles going by, yeah, it's worth it, but after we got it set up, we just sat there and chilled. Oh, it was. It was nice to just sit there, but it seemed like it took about an hour before we got. It wasn't an hour, but it felt like it.
Speaker 2:Uh, for first straggled in our first customer hey, and let me tell you this well, the first customer was kind of early and then after that yeah, but let me get.
Speaker 1:Let me do this now. Don't get me wrong here, but do people not know how to park? How to stupid y'all? We have a driveway, all right. You come off the road and you pull into into the driveway right and you can go left or right and park in the yard, or you can park in the driveway. That's fine. Don't stay in the road and just park and block. Now there's a fence right, so you. You park in our driveway long way like you're parallel with the road. You're still in the road.
Speaker 1:You're blocking you just pulled off like on a shoulder yeah, it's like you've just put your mercy lights on and you've just stopped in the middle of the road, pretty much right, that's almost like it is, and we had two people do that like it wasn't nothing. I'm like are you and I hope that one person doesn't listen to this and they might be a listener, but I'm questioning you? I don't understand, because I think of other people when it comes to that. I'm like I don't want to block anybody coming in, especially getting out. Amanda got quiet real quick when I brought this up I don't know why but I couldn't understand that.
Speaker 1:And one of them was an Alabama fan. I found out because he was questioning a lot of stuff. We had a little jawing session when it came to pricing on something.
Speaker 2:Was that the mailman?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Well, he blocked it too.
Speaker 1:Mailman. I'll give it to the mailman because he's got signs and a lot and all that stuff.
Speaker 2:He just hopped out for a minute. He just hopped out.
Speaker 1:And he did something very questionable too.
Speaker 2:I didn't think he was even going to stop. Let's talk about him. I mean, I didn't think he put his car in stop.
Speaker 1:We're going to get to him here in just a second. I'm going to bring it up. Oh, dear but before that all right, we're back to the guy that was an Alabama fan. I had some Auburn stuff that was for sale. Oh, yeah, yeah yeah, Okay, so he's asking who's an Auburn fan and I'm like it depends on who's asking and you know why you're asking.
Speaker 2:Anyway, if you're not from Alabama, you probably don't know that we're talking about Alabama and Auburn football.
Speaker 1:Everybody knows Alabama-Auburn rivalry Rivalry. Yeah, I'm not like I used to be, I don't care anymore. That might be because Auburn isn't worth anything anymore. They're just terrible and whatever. So he brings a hat up there that I had $3 on it and he said you know, oh, he's the one, that he's the one.
Speaker 2:What?
Speaker 1:did he say? He said will you take $2 for it?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then something like since you're an Auburn fan, will you take $2 for it? And I said well, since you're an Alabama fan, I should charge you $4 for it. And I said well, how about this? Let's just meet in the middle and you pay $3 for it. That was back to the original price, just because I was being a smart butt about it.
Speaker 2:And it was a name brand. That's why I had one more dollar on it than the other ones. I put two on the other ones and three on that one, but I gave it to him for two dollars I know you cut me.
Speaker 1:I know you cut me Back to the mailman. We had some people there that we knew that we hadn't seen in a while. Oh yeah, talking to him and everything. So the mailman comes by, he stops, he gets out with the mail and he's asking you know you kind of what you know? Hey, do you want me to keep delivering, or just let me know if you're going to start having it redirected to another address? So then he asked about the tattoo on the leg of the person that's.
Speaker 2:Oh yes, that's right.
Speaker 1:You know that we're talking to, and they had a big tattoo on their leg and this tattoo is of a dog.
Speaker 2:Her dog apparently.
Speaker 1:It looks like a French bulldog maybe.
Speaker 2:I didn't see it.
Speaker 1:It was very detailed, it was nice. I mean, I'm not going to have a picture of a dog on my leg or my chest or my back or my body now, I'm not getting a dog tattoo. I'm just gonna tell you that right now but if you're into that, that's fine. It's just stuck up your butt, she's yeah I have a dog right beside me, so I don't need a tattoo right anyway so, but it was a nice tattoo, yeah, uh, and so he's he.
Speaker 1:You know he was saying, hey, who did that? You know, it looks good all this kind of stuff. And then she said, well, the guy also, you know, did the tattoo of the dog that's on my back. And so she spun around and what kind of top did she have on a?
Speaker 2:tank top, just a tank top, or whatever like that.
Speaker 1:Well, the it's the dog tattoo was kind of on the shoulder going into the back. Yeah, all this kind of stuff right there, so you really couldn't see it good. So old mailman decides to go ahead and grab the old strap and kind of pull it over right there so he could see the whole tattoo.
Speaker 2:She was okay with it. I think she was okay with it.
Speaker 1:But I wouldn't, I wouldn't. I would have just been like, yeah, that's nice, see the whole tattoo. And she was okay with it. She was okay with it. But I wouldn't, I wouldn't. I was been like I would have just been like, yeah, that's nice, you know what I? I wouldn't even say what a little bit I can say of the dog. I wouldn't have said anything because then she would might have like pulled it over them. So you could say, but I sure wouldn't have put my hands on her and like pulled down that was very, and her husband's standing there yeah so I meant to ask you about that later on.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't have liked it myself.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, Don't you ask permission. I don't know, I mean, if you were going to do that.
Speaker 2:I don't know I don't know.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I didn't need to see the tattoo that bad for you to do it.
Speaker 2:I could just glance at it.
Speaker 1:That was very interesting. We had an interesting day yesterday. So are yard sales worth it? They're worth going to. I tell you, we went to, I don't know A year or two ago, all the yard sales that we went to. There was nothing. It was either overpriced or it was just junk.
Speaker 2:Well, this year we should do the 127-mile yard sale 127-mile yard sale. Where's that? The one? That's the one that we've done before.
Speaker 1:I thought that was called like the 1,000-mile yard sale.
Speaker 2:It's the 127.
Speaker 1:Why is it 127?
Speaker 2:I think that might be the road actually, not miles.
Speaker 1:Is that the one up in Tennessee that we went to at that time?
Speaker 2:We usually start in Tennessee and come down to Nakalula Falls.
Speaker 1:Yeah that's right. Doesn't it end like right there? Or is that when it kind of tapers off in the direction we don't go out there? Or is that when it kind of tapers off in the direction we don't go?
Speaker 2:Well, that's where it starts. So we go on up and then, but does it?
Speaker 1:really start there if you're living in another state coming down south. Yeah, aren't you going to say we're trying to get to the starting point.
Speaker 2:It goes from here to here.
Speaker 1:You start up there and you work your way down to the start.
Speaker 2:So anyway, we should do that one. I don't know we might Take our mics.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's just gather up some more stuff. We'll have one more yard sale. Get it out of my system and I probably won't ever have another yard sale.
Speaker 2:It's in your system, all right. I thought you was going to put me out there for sale.
Speaker 1:If I can make a dollar off of something. I think that's kind of like with some of that stuff. When I asked him, you know how much would you pay for it? It's something like in my mind I'm like I am going to throw this away, I'm going to get rid of it, so just give me something for it, that's what in my mind.
Speaker 2:that's what I'm thinking, just whatever the price they're going to tell me I'll just take it. That's fine. But I'm just thinking You're totally opposite. When you go to the yard sale, you won't even ask them how much.
Speaker 1:You're right, it's just a different mindset.
Speaker 2:You can't be that way you can because you're making.
Speaker 1:You can't be that way. Well, I was, and I am I is Contradictive. I'm contradicting myself. I contradict myself all the time.
Speaker 2:Is that right? Yeah, I don't even know if I'm using it, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, especially if you're going to be selfish about stuff. That's when you contradict yourself, because you know, hey, I want it this way for me, but not for others. Yeah. I like throwing out prices. That's fine, whatever.
Speaker 2:I like it priced. I don't like to ask for prices, but then I didn't want to price yesterday at all.
Speaker 1:So this goes back to too I don't want to price clothes. Yeah, but clothes do need, unless you have a box or something set up or a table and you just say everything on the table and you've got like a dollar or 50 cents or whatever.
Speaker 2:That's what I did yesterday. I'm like a dollar.
Speaker 1:Dress is two dollars. That's easy, everybody gets it. I had a thing over here to where it was tools, loose tools. Then it was a bunch of sockets, but they're separate and everything. And I'm thinking I don't know if, if you went through all of them, you might have a couple of sets of sockets, but it is a ton of sockets and I mean, if there's just a certain socket that you need, I mean, so I'm not pricing every single one of them. And then how do you price? I mean, some of those sockets are like six bucks if you went and bought them new. But of course I'm not going to get $2 for one socket. So 50 cents, I don't know. Tell me If you need that socket, that bad, just tell me what you want for it and I'll sell it to you.
Speaker 2:But if you go to a yard sale your stuff better be priced because Joe didn't buy it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because if I get up there and it's not priced, I'm going to gripe to you and say I cannot believe it. What are they thinking? Apparently, they don't want to sell it because it's not priced. That's the way I feel when I'm in a store or anything like that.
Speaker 2:We price the big stuff though.
Speaker 1:But that's the thing I it. You make no sense. These people ask me the price so I'm obligated to talk to them. Now, I'm not obligated. If you don't have a price, I'm just obligated to say I guess I ain't buying it because you ain't got a price. I know it makes no sense. You make no sense.
Speaker 2:You keep showing them that.
Speaker 1:What has she got On the?
Speaker 2:yard sale. Have we covered enough? Yeah, on the yard sale. I'm done with the yard sale, are you Until next weekend? All right, let's talk about Mr Beast. Maybe we should do it on the 4th. You get more On the 4th Traffic.
Speaker 1:No, people don't have yard sale, they're not.
Speaker 2:That's not. I mean, I don't mean on the fourth, I mean next weekend is the fourth weekend the fifth you're talking about the fourth. Yeah, yeah, whatever, I don't care.
Speaker 1:I said, no, it feels weird to be doing that on a holiday weekend, but I'm good with it if people show up. Oh, but I was willing to do BOGO deals, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:He was getting rid of all of it. Yeah, I think I probably. We just probably need to line it up and just take separate pictures of it and put it on Facebook and it'll be gone. I think you do that, cause that's what I did.
Speaker 1:I think you do that. We do that Friday like the Friday evening, and you post it out there and say Push it out there and say, hey, this will be at the yard sale tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then see what happens.
Speaker 1:But, then let's talk about this. If we're back on the yard sale I was trying to get off the yard sale, so if you put something out there and then you get messaged, or whether it's through a direct message, or if they send you a text on, hey, how about this couch and this chair and this, how much have you got for all three of those? Or whatever it is and then you tell them and then they're like all right, I'm going to see if I can get so-and-so to come get it. And you're like okay, and this is like late in the day, when you're about ready to start shutting it down, shut her down, right, right. And so an hour goes by and it's like I've cleaned up and just those three or four pieces that this person is coming to get is just sitting there. I'm waiting. So what do you do? You text them.
Speaker 1:You message them and you say hey, are you coming to get them? You text them, you message them and you say hey, were you coming to get it.
Speaker 2:I already told them to let me know.
Speaker 1:All right, but you did it again, right.
Speaker 2:No, I never did it again. Never did it again, never did it again.
Speaker 1:So who's in the right and who's in the wrong?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:You don't know. I know who it is.
Speaker 2:It's the person that tells you Okay, I'm not coming today, you should have said.
Speaker 1:I don't know for sure if we're going to be able to get it Probably not. Can you hold on to it or whatever? Tell us something. Don't leave it up in the air like, yeah, we might be coming, we might not, I don't you know. No, tell us, but the thing is you don't ever answer back. Did they ever answer back? No, what's up with that? Look, I've lost it for society. Society is over with. This is like respect for people. All this stuff, it's over it's gone.
Speaker 2:It's gone, all right, no more yard sale I just don't understand people don't think about other.
Speaker 1:you, you leave everything open, right? It's like because I don't care anything about what y'all are doing. Yeah, I'm going to see if I can get so-and-so to come get it, and then I'm just shutting that door, closing that window. I'm not talking to y'all, no more or anything, while we're like, what do we do? Are we still waiting on them? If somebody comes by and wants this, can I sell it? Are they supposed to let you know something? What is the deal? Oh, we don't know, because they won't ever answer you. Tell you anything? Oh, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2:Get off your soapbox.
Speaker 1:All right, mr Beast, mr Beast. So who do you think Mr Beast is? I don't know, I just know the name. I haven't read this article in a week or so, so I don't remember exactly. I don't want to talk about it. Yes, no, yes, we won't talk about it. Hurry up.
Speaker 1:Mr Beast is like an influencer YouTuber. He's the guy that figured out the algorithm for the YouTube and started getting views, follows, subscribers, whatever you want to call it. And then he's in millions and millions and now he's like a billionaire. Because he figured he. He got to the point where he's got a team now that they dissect. He's the one that realized that, hey, at 3.5 seconds, if you haven't got the people's attention, they're scrolling, they're gone. He's realizing how important a thumbnail is. He's realizing this. He's realizing that. He's realizing that the 20-second mark if you've stayed on topic, you need to throw something in there, bam, to keep them watching, to get that length in there, that kind of thing. He figured all that out. He broke the algorithm. In other words, that's what he's known for. He broke the algorithm. In other words, that's what he's known for. So he takes over Disneyland for $500,000 for a date night in an empty park.
Speaker 2:Hmm.
Speaker 1:Did you know you could do that?
Speaker 2:I guess you've got a lot to catch up A lot to what you need to catch up. What do you mean? Catch up, that's nice. All right, let me read.
Speaker 1:That's nice. All right, let me read. Mr Beast is pulling out all the stops for a one-of-a-kind date night with an eye-popping price tag. Would you pay First of all? Would you pay that kind of thing? If you had the money, would you pay that kind of? Thing for date night Sure At Disneyland. Did I say Disneyland or Disney World you?
Speaker 2:said Disneyland.
Speaker 1:Disneyland, that's California, right, I don't know, disney world is orlando. Are you just saying that? Are you, are you done? I'm hungry, oh, I am too, but I'm like I'm not gonna tell you I'm about to take my picnic blanket and go.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure I have shorts on under the dress okay, he don't even give me time to change when we get home from church.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know there's so much going on, so much. All right. So the content creator, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, how did he?
Speaker 1:go from my name. I'm Mr Beast, but your real name's Jimmy Donaldson. He spent weeks planning dates for his fiance and himself. In a recent video sharing on YouTube, after the pair went on a number of romantic excursions costing anywhere from $1,000 to $100,000,. Talking about the other excursion, the couple headed to the grand finale a $500,000 private night at Disneyland. Disney won't just hand over their keys to anyone, but for this once in a lifetime date, they were given the entire park for one night. Mr beast said. I wonder what the time was. One night there's you can't tell me that disneyland, because they make a lot more than that in a day, or a night you know.
Speaker 1:So you know they, they would be costing them money if they shut stuff down. So we've got to be talking like 10 o'clock at night to two in the morning or something, I don't know. Something like that I would think. Uh, the group did star wars, galaxy's edge. Do you know what that is? I know there's a star wars theme, yeah where they uh hopped on a ride, relished in the fact that there was no line, then built their own lightsabers uh, an activity that typically books out far in advance, so I guess it's a popular thing uh, next up the disneyland's giant ferris wheel.
Speaker 1:Uh, after a round of games, the group. So I guess he's got a group of friends. Probably you know what I'm thinking. I bet he's got his wedding party.
Speaker 2:He's got his content the wedding party.
Speaker 1:He's got his content people.
Speaker 2:Or the wedding party. You said fiance, well, so that makes me think.
Speaker 1:But I'm thinking videographers from his creative side of it.
Speaker 2:That makes me think he took the wedding party.
Speaker 1:Maybe so. So after a round of games, the group secured multiple stuffed animal prizes. Rounding out the night, they enjoyed a dinner at a flower-lined table in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle. Do you know where that's at? I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 2:You won't take me to Disney, so I don't know, I know, I know I've been one time, I know.
Speaker 1:Let's see.
Speaker 2:I did not see the castle.
Speaker 1:But that wasn't quite the end of the night, mr Beast admitted, as he led the group to one last surprise a private Disney parade complete with beloved characters, twinkling lights and stunning floats. The day was truly once in a lifetime. The creator reflected.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:The video comes days after he revealed he is asking his mom to help pay for his wedding. Why are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:What Did you not hear what I just said? Did the video come? He put out the video that this is what they did. Let them know. Hey, you know, I took my fiancee.
Speaker 2:He don't need help.
Speaker 1:So the video comes days after he revealed that he asked his mom to help pay for his wedding. He don't need it, okay, despite being worth an estimated $1 billion per celebrity net worth I guess that's either the newspaper or whatever it is website. He claims he has very little money and needs his family's support to fund his upcoming nuptials. Responding to a post on Next which describes MrBeast as the only billionaire under 30 to have not inherited his wealth, the YouTuber with more than 400 million subscribers wrote I personally have very little money because I reinvest everything.
Speaker 1:I think this year we're spending around a quarter of a billion on content alone. So, ironically, I'm actually borrowing money from my mom to pay for my upcoming wedding, and it has LOL, which I love that he continued adding. But sure, on paper, the businesses I own are worth a lot. In addition to posting videos across several platforms, often featuring outrageous stunts and big-ticket giveaways, he also hosts the reality competition series Beast Games, which we watched one episode. I don't think we got past one. I mean, I think it would have been very you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know why we went back. You didn't go back to it.
Speaker 1:Which it awards its first season winner a record-breaking $10 million in prizes.
Speaker 2:So why did you waste money and go to Disneyland instead of putting $5 million on your wedding?
Speaker 1:You mean $500,000? Oh, whatever it was, it was $500,000. I don't know, I mean what does he plan on doing? He's a billionaire Number one.
Speaker 2:It's usually the bride that pays for the wedding, not the guy.
Speaker 1:But if you're a billionaire, are you still saying, hey, your parents, your mom and dad's going to have to?
Speaker 2:pay for this, don't you know? Well, apparently he don't have no money for himself.
Speaker 1:So what I'm saying is so you're a billionaire, you're lacking in money, cash assets, I guess I mean you've got all this.
Speaker 2:He don't got nothing in his bank account. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 1:Well, that's not what I'm saying. That's what he's saying. So he's asking his mom for help, but now what I'm saying is so how much is his wedding going to be? Are we talking, since he doesn't have a lot of cash on hand and all this stuff? Is it going to be?
Speaker 2:a simple why wasn't that the wedding when they went to the Disney World?
Speaker 1:I wouldn't think Well, hold on now, let's do this Now. If he paid $500,000 for one night at Disneyland and he's asking his mom to help pay for the wedding because he don't have much money, did he pay for the $500,000 at Disneyland? Or somebody else, because I was about to say, well, is it going to be like a cheap wedding? But it ain't going to be a cheap wedding if he splurged $500,000 for one night at Disneyland.
Speaker 2:Yeah, tax write-off.
Speaker 1:So how does his mom have this much? I don't know anything about his parents or anything like that. I was just thinking he's somebody that just you know they didn't have a whole lot, just a normal person, and he got all this wealth, unless he's gave a bunch to them and now he's asking for I don't know. That's crazy. I just found that story interesting. Whether you did or not, I guess that's a different question. I feel like I'm wasting my time. Well, you're looking at me, but whatever I don't understand why he don't got no money.
Speaker 2:He just told you.
Speaker 1:Because he invested. Yeah, he's just.
Speaker 2:Well then, pull that investment out. You should be saving.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think he's full of crap myself.
Speaker 2:That's what I think.
Speaker 1:I think it's just something he's saying that looks bad.
Speaker 2:I's saying that looks bad. I'm sorry, that looks bad.
Speaker 1:If he came out and we find out, oh, he's getting married and the story comes out that he's asking his mom to help pay for the wedding because he doesn't have the assets or you know, cash assets to do it. Okay, that's fine, because you reinvest all his money, got it, to do it. Okay, that's fine, because you reinvest all his money, got it. But then if you start the story off where he paid $500,000 for a night to this and then now he's asking mom, I'm like that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1:The story doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2:Maybe it's fake news. Fake news, all right, I'm going to eat.
Speaker 1:I am too, I am starving. All right, I'm going to eat. I am too, I am starving. We got barbecue. I'm ready for it. I'm going to eat me three barbecue sandwiches and some baked beans and some pickles and some pickles. What's that little full moon? What's that little sauce Chow Chow. Chow Chow, spicy Chow Chow, kind of stuff. Is it Chow Chow?
Speaker 2:Yes, okay.
Speaker 1:Let's go. We need to get a whole bucket of that and bring home.
Speaker 2:I think I could put that chow chow, they sell it.
Speaker 1:I could put it on everything I think We've had it before.
Speaker 2:What about a taco you?
Speaker 1:think that'd go good on a taco. I don't care for it, so I think it would All right. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Check us out on YouTube. Look, I always talk about putting putting these videos, like last time we talked about the Costa Rica trip you had and that you'll be able to see these monkeys.
Speaker 2:They ain't even seen my monkeys yet.
Speaker 1:No, I haven't even got it out there. It has been busy, busy, busy. I can't do it, I don't know. I'll try. I'll try. Hey, when you see it posted, it's out there.
Speaker 2:Comment.
Speaker 1:So yeah, and that and that TikTok, we're on TikTok, so thanks for watching Peace out.
Speaker 2:We will see you next week. Happy 4th, bye-bye.
