Episode 83: Six "Preps" to Eliminate From Your Life

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Yeah.

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Hello, everybody.

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Hello, everybody. And welcome to the show The damp show.

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It's seriously show

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the truth. Lee show It's tress ling,

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just like in Ireland

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all over north Missouri were, as usual on the road in the in the little car we're heading to Jackson. We're going to the gun shop. At the moment, we're gonna be a trading off selling my consignment a couple of items because, frankly, it's just time to get rid of a couple of items.

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We have a toys for toys policy, folks.

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Right? And these air, these are items both the the guns that I'm selling off one is a, uh, polymer a r 15 all in one receiver with the traditional M 16 type stock on it that I bought to see what it would be like and if I liked it. And turns out I don't I like the upper that I put with it, which is apartment of State Armory Standard M for upper, which I like. Fine, put lower. I just don't like it's going away. And I'm getting rid of my last of the s r 20 two's the Ruger s r 22 just simply because she doesn't like the gun to shoot, and I just never find myself shooting it anymore. Just one of those guns, that he's fine. There's nothing wrong with it. It's a nice little gun, but I haven't shot it in a year.

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That's the thing. I don't hate it. I just There's no particular day when I say, Oh, I want to shoot that one

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So we are proving these from our lives, and pruning is something that spring is fruiting were we have to prune the trees in the spring, I pruned. I've only got one left to go, and I'm a little indecisive as to which plants to pull. I'm growing plants in the back room seedlings of our tomato plants that are gonna be planting in a a few weeks, and I'm that's I find that hard, but I'm pulling out. You have to leave just one of the plants. You plant four seeds or in one case, apparently ate seeds like six or seven plants.

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What apparently got out of the planet

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and I think one did. So you have to pull this the weaker ones to give the stronger ones all of the nutrients in space. So I did that this morning. It's always hard to pull out, destroy a perfectly good driving little plant, but it is what it is. So we're gonna talk about proving today, and I'm or not, just we're not really talking about pruning plants in this episode. We've got a episode airing very soon around this that we are talking about printing plants. But this isn't that we're talking about proving other things in your prepping life,

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pruning your pluck. Perhaps, and you may wonder why I bother. Oh, pray

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all the prep, all the preps ever.

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I'm kind of minimalists a lot of ways, but since I've become a proper ice find muscle saying, you know, I could see a situation where that would be useful and finding it harder to get rid of things them are holding drops. But there's only so much space. There's only so much resource is

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right, and some of the some of the preps that you could get rid of you can save money by getting right. Like these guns. I don't know what I'm gonna buy. I've I've sold a bunch of guns that I just wasn't using. They were. They came in. I replaced some of them with a different a different concept. Some of them might couple of my just really never did care for. I thought I'd like him. So I got this huge amount of credit is granted at the gun store just sitting there because I don't know what I'm gonna want next. But it's a resource I have.

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You find something, you've

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actually got a couple ideas.

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I've got a

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couple ideas.

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I'm suspecting that Henry is

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It's an idea. I'm not suspecting the Henry, but that's a different conversation. That

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is one of the categories of things we wanted to float as what you should prune from your props. Things that you've out found a better solution since you acquire the prep in the first place. In our case, it's these particular weapons. He's got something else to fill the same role, so there no longer really useful to us as perhaps that be more useful to us as opportunity. Go somewhere else, right? So things that have been upgraded that you have upgraded and along a related line because solar powered equipment is something I'm really fond of.

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You should share a window so it may take a picture. I won't because the window we have it in is a window that we don't really look out or anything like that. It's kind of dirty and stuff. It was just all we use it for us charging pretty much, you know, it's on the, you know, it's in the back area that we just don't care that much about frankly. And so it's kind of he. But we got all these solar flashlights and stuff lined up on this window. So and, of course, one dancing hula girl

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and a solar powered battery charger and solar power? No, the solar powered radio quit working.

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Yeah, so? Well, you go ahead and say that that girl is the most important girl. You sit there and all of a sudden you're like, Oh, is it morning yet? Then you hear the from the other room. You hear that? Click, click, click, click, like starting demands. Okay, it's morning.

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It's time. Get up. Some things start to

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get up. The hula girls I got that is a gag Christmas gift at the office three years ago, four years ago, long time ago, and she's still dancing what's what. You have to duster and clean off her solar cell. But

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a lot of cheap solar powered equipment doesn't last very long. By golly, that hula girl's been going for years.

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Way we have. We have one particular type and their plastic and rubberized at one particular type of solar flashlight that absolutely love. We got a bunch of,

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you know, we bought one and used it for a year, and it was showing no signs of degradation, of battery life, our ability to charge. So we piled up some more.

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Yeah, and it also has a a non rechargeable lithium battery in it, which just is just a regular everyday battery that you can use if the you haven't had a solar charge. So you it's like a back up. We leave those batteries on couples so we don't use them accidentally. You don't may not know that we do that, but we have no okay. And so those bad Those solar flashlights are great, but we know we had one of those. What are those which called it wasn't a solar. It was solar, but it had one of those cranking mechanisms with his hand. It was the crank. It was metal panel thing. Cheaply, cheaply made. Somebody gave it to me. I had it, but it fell on the floor in the case, broke and the flashlight still worked, sort of. But we pitched it the other day simply because, I mean, you know, if you got to be able to depend on something we can't depend on, I could never depend on the thing because the case was broken on it and the Chargers that he was, if he left you short

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prep, she can't depend on our trail, perhaps no. So that's the other category stuff that is not fully operable or might not be fully operable if you bought it a long time ago, and yet I haven't tried it out. Used it yet. If it's solar powered and or uses a battery of any sort, it fits in that category. If it's got parts that may oxidize on you and become a brittle four, made a grade in the sun and it's been sitting in in UV light. Those are reasons why things just might not work.

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I've got a lead acid battery that's five years old. We've never used it we've never had to use it. It is. I have it as a backup battery have maintained it. I put a charge around and I've maintained it, but it's starting loses its thing. So it's gonna be time to trade that puppy in and get another one. It seems like it's a shame you never use it. Nobody used it as insurance.

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Insurance is always a wasted cost if you don't have a disaster.

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So this was an insurance thing, and I'm gonna have to, you know, we'll have to make a make a trip and replace the thing. But that's what you know. Doing business is what it is like acid. But when we last so long and another thing, too, is, you know, if you have like, this is really a prep per se, but it is. It's not like in the world as we know it type prep. But if you have like a battery back up on your computer surge protection thing, you know that battery and it is probably lead as it it's going to die after five years. So just something to think about, you know, people who have like Juan Morrison and four wheelers. You know, those batteries last a year, maybe two. And you know, the battery's gonna die on him, so just be ready for it.

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And that's not something you can really prepping stock up. Because if you leave a lead acid battery said it's gonna degrade anyway, because physics, actually, because chemistry. But you know,

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right, so you know, that's just the way it is.

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So pull out those, perhaps ever now and then make sure they're still useful. I found our very first prep here last week when I was down in the basement, dear. Yes, it's been a long time more than a decade, but our very first prep was we got some gallon and some two litre bottle or plastic jugs that would use for other purposes like soda or water or milk or whatever. It was time. I don't know. We didn't know not to use milk jugs that time. So someone more milk jugs. We, uh, got ones of those would used, washed him out, fill them with water, screw the lids on nice and tight, put him in the basement in the dark underneath the steps. So if we ever had a boil order or something. Hey, at least would have ah, couple days worth of water that we wouldn't have to have. So with we could just go down and grab. That was our very first prep.

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That's been 20 years.

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Yeah, and I, I fear, if you have superseded the water collection and storage needs in better ways muscles. But I'm down there in the basement this week cleaning out some other junk, and I come across the jugs that we're stuck down in the basement, and one of them still had half a gallon of water in it. And the other ones were completely dry because they had either oxidized and split dumping the water all over our basement, which is

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fine. It's an unfinished basement. Yeah, it's just a concrete basement. It's got something in the water but

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didn't make the prep fairly useless. And some of the ones that were like milk jugs that we had sealed the screw top capsules or the two liters they had almost emptied themselves just by evaporating away molecule by molecule around the threads of these grew cap. Unless you've worked in chemistry lab, you may not know that that's a thing that they'll do that. But, well, some things do it even worse than water. And if you leave something sitting around for 20 years, it will do it with water, too. So

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good, you know there. So check your water, perhaps keeping fairly fresh and realize that if you're storing things and bottles that are not B p a free, the plastic deterioration into the water is going to make them fairly unusable in a reasonably short amount of time.

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I I must admit that for a three day emergency water situation that would be low on my list of worries. His B P A. Is an endocrine disrupter, and I certainly wouldn't want to ingest a whole bunch of it. But it's not something that's gonna be toxic to you over three days. But if the BP is leaching out of the plastic into the water, that means the plastic is becoming more rigid because that's what the B P A. Was there for in the first place is to keep it pliable. So as the BP a comes out, the plastic gets cranky and it will spontaneously crack.

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And that's also why, when you see these water bottles at the store early is B p. A. Free bottles are always really hard plastic. That's fine. Now you know why

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they make them thick wall? Because if they made him thin wall that start to crack because they didn't put the b p A in them, too, keep the plastic pliable.

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The strange things you learned by listening to the three b. Y podcast.

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I have more useless trivia in my head than any human being probably needs.

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I do, too, but unfortunately, mine is about like American in world history and geography. I know. So I was listening to. But this is my dad, Grecian. Get aggression, right? I was listening to a book. It's an excellent book. If you want to listen to an excellent book, it's an older book or read a book. We listen. My eyes aren't the best, so I like to listen. I find it. We travel. It's William Least Heat Moon's blue highways,

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two thumbs up,

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two thumbs up, great book or sees from Missouri. And basically he was going through a bad situation, and he just took to the road and spent months driving around the country, trying to find himself And it was shocking listening to that book to listen to where he was going. And we're like, Okay, been there. Okay. Been there? Yep. This is one section where he's in you. Arizona, Utah, on the border, going past the Vermillion cliffs. He's going up the mountain. Okay. It's like, uh, May early May. He's going up the mountains. He's laughing at the at the road, gets hazardous and wintertime snow storms. And he's laughing. And we're like, Oh, don't you laugh So it gets up to the top of this road? No. And he's like, Oh, there's a campground over here. I'll turn. Go that way. We're both gelling at the right time, you know? Don't go up to it in early March. Do not go up that road.

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Really May

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really early May. Yeah. Don't go up that road. Don't go up that road. Dude. You are going

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to get snow. We were up there in mid May and the first week it was open of the year.

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Yeah, it was snowing like you wouldn't believe it was while we went from, you know, 80 90 degrees, just 10 miles back down the hill. Actual snowstorm. Cool stuff. But, you know, it's funny, though, when you you listen about these blue highways. He's talking about these towns, but I've been there. Been there, been there.

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Tell you what. If you want to understand the mentality of rural America a little bit better and you're not from out here, you're more of a city person. That book will give you a feel. For what? It was a pretty honest portrayal of what a lot of people I've met her like it is. It feels very true when you listen to it and you look around at your neighbors and know the people you talk to, so

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you know. And here's what you're talking about proving. Here's another thing we've been doing. We've been pruning books. Uh, we We have a lot of really beloved books that we that we've had over the years, but we come to the point where most we're gonna keep some in case, you know, really bad things happen and we need entertainment and we can't have electronics. We'll keep some of our books, and the ones that were kind of irreplaceable cause the heart of mine. But for the most part, you know I would rather listen to an audio book than read a book. And barring that, I'm perfectly fine reading it on a tablet or my computer. I'm perfectly fine with that. And that is one less thing I have to have in my house to trip over if I get rid of that book. Yep. This is the example of one of the things we're talking about. Weaken prune stuff out of our lives without losing the value of it in normal times. And if things go bad, who's gonna have time to sit around and read 500 books?

spk_0:   17:28
Well, a lot of us might actually cause what else you know. That's why one of the reasons people read a lot of books, it gets dark. You get tired now there's there's downtime way still have a bunch of piles of books in the attic, and a lot of other people do, too, and we would certainly be trading him around. So it's not like we're gonna be booklets or anything. It's just Do you still really need this in your life kind of thing?

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Yeah, we've been doing a lot of that in our house. We've we've gotten rid of all of our old bed that we weren't using Clean up, clean up a bunch of space in that room.

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Yeah, I've been pretty sure using it. It's been my week

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we don't have, You know, we have our own place where we sleep and we don't have guests. So it was a water bed of all things in the mattress was probably 15 years old and, I don't know,

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fighting disaster to lead us in a disaster waiting to

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happen. And if things should go bad, that means the heater would kick off. And have you ever tried to sleep on a waterbed that isn't heated? It'll suck. The little

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sucks the life force out. Trust me,

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you do not want to do this.

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It's bad.

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So you know, we have extra batting way. We can put in a air mattress. If we need to have some other people in the house, that's fine. But for us in our lifestyle, we didn't need it. So now we have open space.

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Could I have my diversion of the day here? Yes. One thing I've discovered that if you are having trouble sleeping cool enough and there is no air conditioning. If you can feel like an air mattress and get water in it, so you're actually on top of water. Even if the water is 80 degrees, it cools you off significantly. That's what I was having trouble with. Overheating at night is of a medical issue. I would actually went back to the waterbed for men and turned off the heater. I still needed some blankets or it was underneath me or it would suck me way too cold. But that is the way the most efficient way to chill somebody down efficiently when there is, though electricity for air conditioning and stuff is to sleep on a water mattress will actually do it.

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I have to apologize for telling this story.

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Back wants to apologize, to be Let me be clear

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back when her Sorry, Michael, back when her thermal regulation was worse than it is now, it's still bad, but it's where it was worse than that. It is now due to medication, and we don't need to get in that it wasn't medication issue and about blah yada yada, but she was suffering hot flashes. I've had one hot flash in my life and it was miserable in mind was mine was due to medication as well. I was taking a supplement of something nice, and I don't remember why I was taking nice and but nice and and I do not get along. So

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it's a blood pressure medication.

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A natural quote unquote natural one. Okay, but yeah. Anyway, it messed me up bad had this hot flash s. So I have some sympathy. You should be sitting out there on her table and she paints should be sitting at our table painting or grading papers because she's That's something you d'oh! Yeah, I don't know what else

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he doesn't want to look sometimes,

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Yeah, working on some little fiddly bit for something or other. And she'll be sitting at her desk and I'll be sitting in my in my big, comfy chair on top of my my thing working a sudden I'd see close just starting to fly all around the room, just weave you, see you throwing clothes everywhere. I mean, not just taking it. I mean, she is like we closed. Flash

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was not in a cleaning mode here either. They've been on me a second ago.

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Yeah, within about a minute later. I'm cold. Okay, this is kind of humorous. The first time it happens the 25th time. It happens in a single night. It gets to be less humorous. And I am not exaggerating here.

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Yeah, well,

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so I I just wanted to invent some kind of environmental suit for her toe wear. So should crank up like a spacesuit, crank up the cooling knob and crank up the heaters. But

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then I kind of discovered that, Hey, if I really wanted to cool down and hurry, I could go and delay on the waterbed that heater was off on, and that would cool me down. And

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because we did

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time plan,

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we weren't using it. So we didn't keep it heated because, I mean, that costs money to run those heaters s. Oh, yeah. That was one of the things we pruned from our lives. We proved to the water, but now we kept the lumber and stuff like that. We could reassemble it as a waterbed. We'd have to get a new mattress because we didn't bother keeping a 15 year old mattress that was actually falling apart. As we were. We were emptying it I was hoping it wouldn't crack on us as we were emptying it, so it didn't

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get away with it.

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So that got pitch. But we kept the rest of bed and it's got good lumber, if nothing else.

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So as I was pruning, I came across some other things. I have, ah, feet that are kind of hard to fit comfortably for shoes. So what? I found a pair of hiking boots that fit me beautifully salty, went online and bought me a couple other backup pears of these guys, which he could get for. You know what, 20% of the list price? Yes, by getting him gently used online

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a lot of time. Those are lined boots. If you look at him, there just obviously had not fit somebody that warm, like once or twice. I haven't broken them in yet, and they just they didn't fit. So they get rid of him and you get per song on on the bay.

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So that's where of ah, gotten a lot of my footwear. But who knew that even when you're past 50 years old, if you start hiking a lot more with awaited pact than you used to your feet, girl, actually just spread out, but it feels like they're growing and I've got

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it when you're when you're not heavy. She's not having £120 ish

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and the Paks only like 35 that I quit. So it's not that it's that heavy. It's just that you put a lot of miles on them. They start spread out, and I can no longer use those hiking boots for actual hiking because I need a bigger size that I did when I bought him. Fortunately, I could still use them for yard work and things like that where I'm not going for hours.

spk_1:   24:36
Right when she took him hiking out in Colorado Blaster. Yeah, sure, our feet were just bruised, even though in our toes were bruised where they're running up against the front of her abuse. And she always been one who's likes her shoes tight. I'm much more of a loose shoe person, but she likes your shoes tighten. There's just no no given that. Fortunately, she's not like me. I have beat that they're different sizes. So one of my shoes is always too big, are always too small. I mean, I'll get it right. Well, what? My shoes is always too bad,

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depending on how you buy him. One is to bigger ones T's moment.

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But I did. I can't stand to small. Yeah, So what is always too big? My right foot is a good, almost a full size smaller than my left foot and, not surprisingly, that was born with a birth problem and my legs and

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and the

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had to wear these special shoes when I was a kid and all that kind of stuff, it's her not fine, Okay, they corrected it. They fixed it mostly, but I don't wobble that much when I walk. That's just the way it is.

spk_0:   25:49
The idea here is that some of the props that are of sized components I am not unique among adults in the United States and changing sizes of my body. No, that's not always choose. Sometimes it's so belts and pants and things like that.

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Yeah, I have gone through many sizes in my life,

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so if you have things that are size, you might want to consider if those still fit you

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or if you have, like, for example, and I haven't I keep some stuff that smaller than what I am because I am trying. I do try to lose weight, and if we get into a bad situation, I will be losing way. But there comes a point in time. I will never wear a size 34 again. I will never do it. I haven't in the last 35 40 years, You know, Not that I haven't. This is an example, Okay. But you know, I don't mind having stuff that's too big for me ever, because you could always use layers. But, you know, there comes a point in time when, you know, especially if there's got somewhere on it. It's something. It's an item that's been warm quite a bit, Uh, just time for to go

spk_0:   27:05
and the nothing is ever too big that is coming from a guy who is already big and has almost never been exposed to things that are really, really way too big for him. That was assure you, sometimes things are too big.

spk_1:   27:18
I've got, uh, football jerseys that are way too big for me because football jerseys are sized big because get the pads and stuff to go under. It's a natural hanging I put him on her and we reached almost to her ankles.

spk_0:   27:35
Yeah, yeah, well, I got this one for you, and it'll be it is. It'll be big, but that's that's fine. You can put something under it and I put it on and it slips off my shoulders from both sides because the neck hole is this widest my shoulders. I'm like, you know, really,

spk_1:   27:50
really. I just I just kind of told you, I got that for you. I actually got that for May. So that would actually be like a normal shirt.

spk_0:   28:04
Make sure things fit. Sorry, it's kind of the point there.

spk_1:   28:06
Yes, make sure things that And, um, it's okay if you want to store some of that stuff. If you got in a way place, put it in a bag. You put it away, getting outside someplace like we have an addict that really doesn't have much in it. That's fine, but really, it needs to be something that there's a reason for keeping a heavy winter clothing, for example, that may not exactly fit. There's a good reason to keep that cause that stuff's expensive. It's good it doesn't wear out

spk_0:   28:36
and it's got. I think you might actually really need in an emergency

spk_1:   28:40
system if it's too big because you can really layer, Um, it's too small, you know, somebody might use

spk_0:   28:46
that. Spends on whether or not you might be losing weight. Right? Have a great time at thrift stores because people grow out of things more than the shrink out of things, and there's a lot of small stuff it

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to a point now you, for example, or a size four sides six somewhere in that range on pants Your thing. This is another aside, but she's the kind of person that you know. She's a 50 something year old woman who has the waistline of a 16 year old girl. But all the stuff in the thrift stores and frankly, in the shopping malls and everywhere else you likely to go assumes that the person buying it who's that size is a 16 year old girl.

spk_0:   29:31
I don't want to be that sad 50 plus year old woman who's trying to look like a 16 year

spk_1:   29:37
old. No, in fact, right now he's talking about fashion. I'm wearing overalls and she's wearing camouflage hunting pants,

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cargo pants,

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cargo pants. Yeah, Hodgins. But they're actually boys. Yeah, she Where

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is now? Officially,

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Where's the boys to X As long as it's not one of those skinny cut. Ridiculous.

spk_0:   30:03
I don't care

spk_1:   30:07
if you wanted to send her something. That's the size she wears. Course. We don't publish our address or anything like that, but I suppose you could send it to our mail. We have a mailbox in a random town, so you could send to that. But I'm not really sure where that is. It was another That's another story. That random town mailbox. It's a pretty good idea. You should try it, but that's a totally different thing.

spk_0:   30:31
It's It's another story. That's another story last on the list, Uh, the fairly short term fruit food, perhaps like canned food. It's true. The canned food is still good past the date on the can. It's not true that it's good forever, and some things don't last as well as others. Peaches in particular. Yeah, can Peaches don't last Well, what a home candor. Professionally. Can

spk_1:   30:54
it also pineapples or not?

spk_0:   30:56
Yeah, pineapples don't last

spk_1:   31:00
keeps them pretty much in date. Something will last for have a corn something is not high acid. More hi, sweet, but not high as tomatoes don't last as well.

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10 degree degrade their

spk_1:   31:13
no butter has too much fat to really go too far over on the on the lasting chart. So yeah, something kind of gotta watch.

spk_0:   31:20
So for your short term food, perhaps are often of that kind you might want to make sure you keep him rotated, because otherwise you're just wasting gonna have food. That's it's probably not harmful, but it is. It does get nasty and taste bad and stuff like that. Emery's right when they get too old, especially if they haven't been in temperature controlled conditions. They degrade from wherever their tastes started, and they go down from there. I had a bad one out of place when I was working this week. Did you? Did

spk_1:   31:53
some of them some of those that we have at her.

spk_0:   31:55
I was trying to get the old ones, so I picked the oldest one I could find. And

spk_1:   31:58
it was pretty old. Yeah. Okay. Wave. Got that one. Boxing that bat in the back room that are. We bought him at it as a code equipped camper special because they were going out of out of date that year out of inspection date that year, And that's been two or three years ago. And I don't have a problem with that two or three years over on the Emory date because I know they've been crime in control. But, you know, some of these you get to the good years, get away from you. And you see, these 10 15 years I know there's people on YouTube who try these things is the bottom line is unless they're swelling up. You know, unless there is a stein of, ah, bacterial invasion or something. They're still okay to eat as far safety wise. But some of them get really nasty. Yeah, some of them start really nasty.

spk_0:   32:50
A lot of vitamins degrade as well.

spk_1:   32:52
Yeah. I mean, we have We have someone we just stored for way too long and, you know, ended up pitching them. Actually,

spk_0:   32:58
we got away on us. We forgot we had

spk_1:   33:01
him for a while. There was a dog. There was a dog that was next door to where I work. And I would go out there and I take I get an M R E. I'd open it up for the way way old ones like corned beef hash and stuff like that, and I take a little bit like the dog would get treats

spk_0:   33:21
quite a bit.

spk_1:   33:23
That dog didn't like anybody else from my office, but it liked me. Hey, that dog really liked me. I was its friend,

spk_0:   33:33
but so make sure you recycle three year old food. And while you're doing that, you'll find there's some stuff that gets old just because it seemed like a good idea when you bought it. But nobody really wants to eat it right

spk_1:   33:44
with me. It's always I notice by the same thing over and over again. And we have gotten We don't we pitched. But I know we've eaten. And I'm like, Well, what the world is? Why has it got such a way that some of those can potatoes? Yes. Oh,

spk_0:   34:02
I made a major right out of the

spk_1:   34:04
potato potatoes to eat because they just got a Wang Thio.

spk_0:   34:08
I hid them in food a little bit of the time Thio get rid of him, but yeah, if you find that you're avoiding it because you don't want it, if it's still in its expiration day, give it to a food pantry. If it's not, then you decide what you're gonna do with it. But whatever you do, replace it. There's no point in leaving it because it's bad. Replace it with something you like better. Something that Thea rotation you mu have. You've been moving through the rotation briskly on some items and less briskly on others. You replace the stuff with something you've been moving through briskly.

spk_1:   34:48
Now what? Well, what I'll often do when I want to try something different and I'm considering it. A zoo rotational food. I will buy a can or two of it. We have. We have one or two rats in our way. We use the rotation system, does come out and say it. We have written articles on it. We use the one from Thrive life with the can can thing where you put the kid in the back and it rotates down.

spk_0:   35:15
Can solid ator

spk_1:   35:16
can solider? Yeah, and we like very much. Yes, it's not perfect, but it's a plastic thing, you know. But we like it very much, really, really helps us keep our stuff fresh, but even still, I'm pulling out, You know, I'll pull out a green beans. I look at him, you know, they're two years over, and I bought him with two years left to go. Can has been in there for four years. The green beans air. Fine. It doesn't matter. They may be has beens, but they're fine. It doesn't matter. So I put that in there, and we got, like, one road that is just one off where we district uses Just something different, you know? And some things I try that I think I'm gonna really like And they're, like, ill No, something i d'oh and some things I'm tryingto to work my way out of like, for example, canned corn. I'm trying to work one of my rose out and replace it with mixed vegetables of a type Will eat

spk_0:   36:15
canned corn that having the Mexican peppers in it because we use that for Mexican cooking.

spk_1:   36:20
Yeah, it works really good on. I'm looking at it. That kind of stuff in when you're doing it, you watch your watch your tomatoes because those air acid and you watch your What's your high fat stuff? Like your peanut butter were a huge peanut butter. I mean, we have a row of peanut butter and it's got 10 jars about that. Yeah, more or less. 10 jars. Well, if we go through a jar of peanut butter a month, we're fine, I'm saying. But were excuse me? Were we to go ahead and put in a second row of peanut butter, we would start getting into the point where that peanut butter will be very old and very hard to stir up because we use the natural stir peanut butter.

spk_0:   37:02
And that's a sign that the oils are changing, too.

spk_1:   37:05
If it gets, the peanut butter gets really hard to stir up as a side that it's You know,

spk_0:   37:10
I have read that the fish in oil does stay well, and I have found that the fish in oil that's beyond its expiration date the tuna packed in oil. I found that to be just a CZ good as fresh body, so that seems to be okay,

spk_1:   37:28
not fresh clot. Such is a fresh How

spk_0:   37:31
would I know? I live in

spk_1:   37:32
Missouri fresh tuna, but anyway, fresh caught tuna steaks on the grill for

spk_0:   37:40
you, always some in the next year.

spk_1:   37:42
Okay, but long story short, we actually I prefer to buy tuna in oil. Not only doesn't last longer than tuna in water, I drain the oil out, so it's not. It's virtually the same amount of calories I find the taste is a little better, but she I don't think she likes it as well.

spk_0:   38:06
I don't like it as well. Mostly because I hate draining it.

spk_1:   38:09
Well, you see, You see what I did? I actually literally bought neoprene gloves just for doing tuna. Because I hate to smell a tune on my hands is another digression. Good.

spk_0:   38:20
You're having a great game. And

spk_1:   38:22
I hate the smell. A tune on my hands. So I put these neoprene gloves on harbor freight for, like, five bucks 100? Something like that. I put him on

spk_0:   38:32
their night. Really? Nitro close

spk_1:   38:34
trouble. Okay, I put him on. I do my tuna work. Get everything. I put the tuna cans in, they get in their own little bag and get sealed up so they don't stink up the house

spk_0:   38:45
and the animals don't tear him up. I need everyone. Makes it sound like hazardous waste because that's what they put on the HAZ mat suits. Is neoprene gloves.

spk_1:   38:55
Okay? Suits too. Yeah, that's where that comes from. A long story. Short, though we have Ah, we have a large collection of tuna. Can meet some of the other canned meats. I'm sure are perfectly safe to store for for years. I we don't eat kit. Where does not get the eater so separate? Tuna and salmon. That's pretty much the extent of our canned meat.

spk_0:   39:21
Even before I read the jungle, I didn't.

spk_1:   39:23
I know that one thing here lives here is a little good board aggression, but it's kind of interesting because I was watching they now sell, I guess maybe they're sold for years. Canned chicken.

spk_0:   39:37
I had that for

spk_1:   39:38
canned chicken. Right now we don't have these, but when you open up a can chicken, it has this most disgusting gelatin goop on it. And well, I was watching a thing on E Bay going. Oh, that's all right. Look, uh, no, that's okay.

spk_0:   39:57
It's chicken stock, dude. Going toaster. When you cook chicken and water, some of the proteins and the chicken come out to the water. When you cool. Um, it becomes a gel it's actually can be really nice food when fresh. It does look really unappetizing. I'll give you that, but it's actually good stuff now in the can chicken. It's probably awful soul. I wouldn't which make that's on the

spk_1:   40:21
head and drain off the keep the stuff and use it for gravy.

spk_0:   40:25
That's what you use it for. Soup stock

spk_1:   40:27
in the canned chicken I've never looked at the salt was starting with canned chicken.

spk_0:   40:33
Now most of it's probably full assault, and so I wouldn't. But if it wasn't for assault, I would

spk_1:   40:37
understanding the caning process in the hot canning process. When these chickens are canned, they're cooked because you have to cook him in the can as your caning it.

spk_0:   40:49
Yeah, you're sterilized the cans by cooking, and then they seal themselves for medically as they cool down. That's how canning canning process actually works,

spk_1:   40:59
right? So the chicken is cooked like the to the

spk_0:   41:02
canned stuff is always cooked.

spk_1:   41:04
Their tuna stuff is cooked, so you're not eating raw fish when you're eating tuna.

spk_0:   41:09
It also having sushi

spk_1:   41:11
sushi, and we actually have a podcast on that parasites into these percent situation. You haven't listened to that one. Go listen. That one next to it. A little grocery right out. Hey, we're in town. We're gonna get We're going to go into the gunshot pretty darn soon, so we're gonna have to hang it up for this episode. Thank you for listening. And here's

spk_0:   41:35
what you don't need its opportunity cost. It's storage space. It's hassle of searching through stuff when you actually need it. Make sure, Ah, life cleaner and more efficient and better prepared.

spk_1:   41:49
All right, we'll see you next time. Thanks.