The show kicks off with a sunny Saturday morning on https://FixIt-Radio.com, where John Rush and Steve Horvath dive into a surprisingly emotional and practical topic—tackling the daunting task of sorting through a lifetime of belongings. From the overwhelm of inherited estates to the “four box method” of keep, donate, toss, or relocate, John shares his methodical approach to staying sane while decluttering. But this isn’t just about organization—it’s about making tough calls, dealing with sentimental ties, and finding the right systems to move forward. Just as the conversation gains momentum, a caller shifts gears to a unique home repair
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Walter? Upstairs! Are you alright?
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In the floor behind the chair.
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And it’s that time, Fix It Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us. If you’re listening to a replay, we appreciate that as well. Myself, Steve Horvath from Geno’s Auto Service with me today. He’ll be around for Drive Radio as well. Larry Unger answering phones for us today. And, of course, Charlie Grimes, our engineer. But good morning, Steve. Good morning. It’s a beautiful day out right now. So 73 degrees right now. And it’s not going to be super hot today, not like we’ve had. It won’t be in the hundreds, but we’re going to be in kind of the mid-80s today. So if you’re out and about, please tune in and call in and let us know what your needs are, what’s going on. We’ll answer any questions that you have. We can do that two ways. Text line is 307. 200-82-22, and you can text us pretty much anything, anytime. So if you’ve got something on your mind, something you’re thinking about you want an answer to, even during one of the replays, by all means text us, and I’ll do my best to answer that even at that time. And then you can call in directly, 303- four seven seven five six zero zero three oh three four seven seven five six zero zero so i had several requests partially because i took this past wednesday off and did a bunch of work on this around uh my place just because of you know my dad’s estate and you know just trying to condense everything down after my mom’s death and so on and just going through items i had several people because of you know how it is You remind somebody of something, and now it’s a topic. And that’s what happened here. I had several people after last week’s show and then during the week saying, hey, can you maybe cover some of what you’re doing and how people should do this and so on? And I’ll be the first to tell you that this is one of those things that is not easy. Going through your own items or going through the items of other people that you’ve known, loved, whatever the case may be, none of this is easy. There can be emotional things that happen as you’re going through certain things. And I understand all of that. So I’m not going to tell any of you that this is an easy thing to do because there are things that you kind of hang on to at times, I think, because there’s an emotional tie. And that’s fine. And I’ll talk about some of that today. But I think at times, too, and I had a conversation with one of my clients this week about this. For some people, and I was this way, when I first looked at all of the items I had to go through, it’s daunting. I mean, it’s almost, I shouldn’t say almost, it is overwhelming. And for me, I was looking at all of the stuff, knowing everything I’ve got to get done. And for all of you listening, some of you have been listening long enough to know my journey here. I’ve been working on some of this for over a year now. I’m finally getting down to the end, but I’ve literally been working on some of these items for well over a year because i started memorial day weekend of 2024 so do the math i’m now way over a year into it and i’m on my second summer now and again getting to the end and and deciding what to do with certain items and so on but i again i i still have even with everything i’ve gone through even everything i did on wednesday I still have about because a lot of stuff we stored in the big plastic tubs. I’ve got about four tubs yet still to go through and decide, you know, what am I doing with certain items? And in this case, a lot of these items are, you know, old service manuals and things like that that Steve would be familiar with from the automotive world. Other things are just, you know, miscellaneous stuff. I mean, everything Steve from, you know, miscellaneous, you know, grinding wheels, sandpaper, you know, you know, disposal or sorry consumables i guess what i’m trying to say but even on those and you got to start looking at okay how pliable are some of these things are they worth saving are they not do you even want to put that on you know if it’s if they get so old that they get too brittle well now you don’t even want to put them on so those are the things that i’m kind of going through but my my first point of this and it’s in my notes It can be really daunting and literally overwhelming to some people because you just look at all of the things you need to do, and it literally can be paralyzing. And I’m not exaggerating. In my case, there were times where I just had to step back, literally step back, turn around, take a deep breath, and say, okay. I can only do, you know, that old saying, you eat an elephant one bite at a time. You can’t do all of it at once. So in my case, and you guys all know me, I’m a pretty particular, you know, individual. And sometimes all of the chaos of not being organized kind of can get to me, can be overwhelming. It wears you down. It does. Yeah. But I’m also a planner. I’m very good at organizing and planning and all that kind of stuff. It’s one of my character traits. I do well at that. So in my case, even in my dad’s garage, I had to go through all of the stuff that was in the garage. I started with, okay, I’m going to do a clockwise motion. So I’m going to start at the very left front corner of the garage. And I’m just going to start going in a clockwise motion throughout the garage. Now, I did start in the middle. So I did the middle first to be able to have room to do the clockwise. So first things first, yes. To do all of this, so let’s start there. And in my notes, it’s start small, finish fast. Okay, I get that. And I’ll talk about the finish fast and what I mean by that. So you’ve got to start small. You decide, okay, what am I going to start with? Pick something. This is a tub or this is a closet or this is a cabinet, whatever. This is where I’m going to start. You’ve got to have a starting point. You can’t let things get so overwhelming that you don’t start at all. But you have a starting point. And for me, personally, going through stuff, even when I do this at home, you need floor space. You need the ability to lay things out, to start deciding what am I keeping. Because that’s the next thing is they call it the four box method. What am I keeping? Okay. What am I going to donate or sell? What am I tossing? And then what do I need to maybe relocate? Does it need to go somewhere else? Do I need to store it in a different place? To me, I kind of think of that one on the keep and relocate at the same time. I don’t do that in a separate step. I kind of think, okay, if I’m going to keep this, then I’m going to keep it, and it goes here. Now, in some cases, though, I will agree with the relocate, because for me, in some cases it was, I’m going to keep this, but I don’t know exactly right now where it’s going to go, so that’s going in a tub. And I know you’re handling it twice, and the rule of thumb is don’t handle things two times, but if you don’t know exactly where you’re going to store things, then my advice is get a keep tub or cardboard box, whatever you want to use. But use that keep sides of things to where you can just start putting things in it where, yes, I’m keeping these, but I don’t know exactly where I’m going to store them yet. I mean, if you can put them away right away, that’s great. But in some cases, that’s hard to do because you may not initially have the room to put things away. Or in my case, you’re moving these items. They’re not staying any longer because that location is going away. So you don’t have the ability to even relocate them because the relocating is you’re moving them. Yeah, or you’re taking them home, putting them in your house. Exactly. You’re doing something else. You’re donating them to somebody, whatever. And that’s the other thing I did, though. I did have all that lined out when I started going through things. It was like, okay, here’s what we’re keeping. Here’s what’s going to trash. And I had a 40-yard dumpster dropped off, and here’s what’s going in trash. And in that case, it went right to trash. I did not delay. It just got tossed immediately. And then also the other side of it is, okay, if we’re going to keep this stuff or we’re going to sell this stuff, then I made my separate piles accordingly.
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In your case, I think there might be one other area would be recycled.
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Yes. Yeah, that cell, recycle, whatever. And we kind of divvied that up according to what we needed to do. But anyways, I’ll keep going. And this might be something we spend a couple of weeks on because there’s a lot to do in regards to kind of keeping things cleaned and organized. But Jerry’s got a question. Jerry, go ahead.
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Some friends of mine have a settling of concrete slabs in their driveway and then also in part of their basement. And they hired a company to come out, and they had really good luck with putting the foam underneath to raise up the concrete in the driveway. But the company didn’t want to deal with the basement part because they determined that The drain line going out to their septic system was in that area. They were afraid they’d damage that. So, you know, I’ve been looking into it a little bit with them, and I stumbled across something I’d never heard of before. And they use different names, but basically, I guess it’s… a possibility to spread some sort of small gravel or road base or even sand, not have a concrete slab, just put some semi-self-compacting material down, cover that with a heavy-duty vapor barrier, some sort of plastic, and then a couple inches thick really rigid foam boards and tape all the joints to keep, I guess, radon and water vapor out.
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or below and and then um screw down um plywood yeah i’ve heard i’ve heard of that as well and there are i think even jerry some builds that initially do that some areas of of town and i had a house like this at one time whereby you know you have that much movement, they’ll actually put a wood floor with about a one-foot space in between the bottom dirt and the actual surface itself. They’ll put trusses and all that in and actually do a wood floor basement. Now, that’s hard to do if you’ve already got concrete. So in their case, about the only thing they could do, Jerry, would be – and I guess the question first I should ask is how much heaving, how much settling of the basement is there? What’s the inches like?
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Yeah, on the outside – I’d say the slab has dropped about three inches. And then it’s actually basically cracked the slab running lengthwise in the basement to where if you go, let’s say it’s 20 foot from the center line of this basement out to the wall where they’re having trouble. maybe halfway across that 20-foot span, so maybe 10-foot across this room. It’s actually raised up a little bit in the center where the whole slab’s tipped. Gotcha.
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So it’s heaved in the middle. So it’s heaved and fallen off on the edges.
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So is the foundation itself moved at all? No, the foundation is good. The foundation is, what do they call it, beam on piers.
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Oh, okay, so it’s already been peered in a way. That’s why I was wondering what happened there.
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Yeah, the walls are good. It’s just the slab. But I’m thinking the most conventional option would be just jackhammer it out and re-pour it. Because I don’t think there’s actually heaving of the soil in the center. I think the whole slab is just kind of… Falling off on the edges. Yeah. But I’d never heard of this system where they just don’t actually use the concrete. I wondered if you had any knowledge about that.
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I have, but I think I’m with you, though. I think by the time, well, again, let me back up. How easy is it to access the basement as far as getting the, you know, if you jackhammered all that up and then hauled all that out, can you do it through a window? Do you have to haul it up through the house? What would that be like, Jerry?
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Yeah, they’ve got a Big walk-through patio doors. Oh, perfect. Okay, that’s easy.
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Oh, so it’s like a walkout. Oh, that makes it easy. In that case, Jerry, I think even for what you’re talking about with putting a base down and then the foam, you can have the same issues with that, by the way, with the heaving. It’s just a little easier to fix. The soil can still move even in that particular situation. The biggest thing you’ve got to do is make sure there’s no water getting into that area. So if it were me… I think the best thing to do is to jackhammer all that out, remove a certain amount of that clay soil that’s underneath, put road base back in, and this is what concrete companies can do. They put some road base back in, get all that compacted nice. They’ve got the ability with machines to do that, and then pour new concrete.
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Yeah, that would be the traditional approach, and I’m familiar with that.
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That’d be the best way to do it. But the less expensive would be to build another subfloor without concrete. Maybe.
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The problem you have sometimes in basements, though, is roof height. Do you have enough ability to build a, you know, quote, unquote, another floor? Because normally it changes door heights going back into the house. You’ve got to change. Sometimes those openings aren’t tall enough to be able to raise up. You know what I’m saying there, Jerry? It’s already low enough. Yeah, I don’t know what the house looks like. And could you put another false floor on top of that concrete? Well, I was actually thinking about taking the concrete out and then putting a false floor on top of that. Again, some of that’s going to depend upon what your room’s like.
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Yeah, that wouldn’t really be an option in this case.
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Not the way I would want to go, but I was just thinking from a cost standpoint. Concrete’s so expensive to pour.
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It is, although it is, but the labor to, believe it or not, by the time you do everything you’re talking about versus taking that out, given it’s got good access, believe it or not, they can jackhammer that and get it out of there in usually a day. They can get it done pretty quickly. It doesn’t take as long as you think. They get that down pretty quick and out the door it goes. And then re-pouring, it’s the prep time that’s the biggest thing, as you know, Jerry. Re-pouring is fast. They can pump the concrete in there. There’s all sorts of companies that will pump it from up above down in there. The pouring, it’s easy. It’s the getting it prepped. That’s what it takes. As you know, that’s the whole key to it anyways. Get it prepped properly. It won’t happen again.
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It’s not true with everything, though. Yep.
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Everything is a preparation. Very true. Absolutely.
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Well, thank you, gentlemen. I appreciate it.
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Good luck to them, Jerry. Now, one thing, too, that I would say, and this is something they should think about, the resale value of that will be much greater with that fixed than the way it is now. What they’re experiencing right now will be one of the biggest keys in if they go to try to sell that house, do something with it, that’ll be one of their biggest barriers of getting it sold is what they have right now.
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Right.
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It’s almost one of those things where you’ve got to fix it, otherwise you’re not going to sell the house.
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Right, yeah. All right, well, thank you.
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You’re very welcome. No, you bet, Jerry. Appreciate you very much. Thank you. Jeff in Montana, go ahead.
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Hey, good morning, John.
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Good morning.
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Regarding Jerry’s problem, there’s a substance out there called gypcrete. It goes by other names probably, but I know it as gypcrete. And it’s what they use when they’re putting down – In-floor heating, radiant floor.
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Right.
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So they put the tubes down, and then they just pour gypcrete, and it’s self-leveling, so you don’t have to level it. So you could figure out how much you need. And as long as he’s mitigated the water problem that caused it already, because that’s probably what did cause it.
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That’s the issue, most likely.
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Yeah, so you’ve got to resolve that. Are your downspouts away from the house? Is anything water flowing towards it? Once you take care of that, I don’t know how much Jeep Creek costs now, but I think it might be a more economical alternative than trying to do a jerry rig with gravel, road base and foam and all that stuff.
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Yeah, the biggest issue here without seeing it is how much is it heaved in the middle, because that’s the other thing he’s up against, or they’re up against, I should say. If it’s heaved quite a bit in the middle, you’ve got to take care of that, meaning you’re either jackhammering out a certain amount, you’re grinding, you’re doing something to try to get that heave out of the middle of it.
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Well, even with that, again, if it’s stable, if it’s not moving, you can put down enough of a jibcrete over the top of it to actually… Or a second one, but then you don’t have to jackhammer it out is my point, is that you save all that cost and expense. I like that idea. And you’re not losing the height.
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You’re maybe one or two inches at the most, hopefully.
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Yeah, that’s where you’re not seeing it. Honestly, guys, these are tough when you’re not there looking at it. I’ve heard that they don’t stick very well. They flake and break, but maybe that’s in the prep. No, you’re on the right track, Steve. That’s one of the things. When you put anything over the top of an existing slab, those are some of the issues you could run into. Is it not bonding correctly? Absolutely.
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Yep. I just wanted to offer that as a…
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as a solution because it’s not all that expensive i know they pour like an inch or two well you can up to like about an inch or so you can do self-leveling concrete and even fix a lot of things along these lines jeff the the issue is with three inches and heaving in the middle the heaving the outer areas um honestly i think you could get some concrete get some bonding material and probably fix the outer edges it’s that middle heaving that has me bothered because you got to fix that heaving in the middle otherwise nothing’s ever going to be level
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Right. Again, it looks like it might have heaved. Maybe it just kind of bowed up a little bit because the bottom went down so far.
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Well, if it’s three inches, this is where I’m not, I don’t know the math on this with that 10-foot spread. If it’s three inches out on one end, is it most likely three inches up in the middle? And if that’s the case, you’re not grinding three inches out. That’s too much. You’re breaking it out. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And that’s where I don’t know without without actually seeing it, putting a level on it, which that’s for Jerry, if you’re still listening, it’s really what should be done next is get one of those laser beam levels, put that right in the middle of the heave, figure out how high is that heave in relation to your outer walls. And that’s going to tell you a lot about what you need to do.
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Right.
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And the other thing I don’t know on this is what, you know, how much room, again, how much room did they give between the floor and the ceiling? Some basements are built where they’ve got 10 feet or so. They’re really nice and deep. Others, they’re barely eight, and you don’t have a lot of room to work with if you want to change anything around. The other thing you’ve got to think about is depending upon what type of mechanical is down there on top of that concrete, you know, water heaters and furnaces and so on, that all has to come into play as well. How finished is the basement? Correct. Correct.
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So anyway, just a thought.
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Good thoughts. No, appreciate it, Jeff. And yeah, and these are things for all of you listening. These are things that what I would recommend before anybody does anything along these lines, there are these people called structural engineers. And they’re not as expensive as you think to come out independently and look at things and give you ideas on what you potentially could do and what will be the most stable when it’s all said and done. You get the right engineer that knows the right area that you live in and the soil conditions and so on. most of these guys right off the top of their head can walk in and say, yep, here’s what you need to do. They literally, and you won’t spend a ton of money. I mean, you literally could get that advice for probably under $500. And it would be the best $500 that you’d ever spend to really know how should we attack this correctly. And in that case, you’re not relying on a concrete guy trying to sell you a job. You’re not trying to put Band-Aids on it. You’re really getting down to, and the reason I know this is, In my past, I’ve looked at different homes at times to buy that had areas where you were like, okay, how are we going to handle this? And even before buying the house, I spent the money, brought an engineer in and said, okay, what really needs to be done here to take care of all of this? Not always, but typically an engineer is going to say, yep, jackhammer this out and start over. Because of the drainage thing even Jerry mentioned, you need to make sure that all of this is done correctly. You may even want to add an additional French drain in all of that before you do anything else just to make sure that doesn’t happen again. That’s what an engineer can typically help you with and tell you. All right, we’ll come back. I’ve got a few more things. Somebody gave me some tips, by the way, on some of this cleaning and organizing. We’ll get into that in a moment as well. Don’t go anywhere. This is Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. And again, appreciate you all joining us today. Myself, Steve Horvath, Geno’s Auto Service with me today. He’ll be with me through Drive Radio as well. Got lines open, by the way. If you want to add anything to our last conversation, feel free to do so. 303-477-5600. Again, 303-477-5600. All right, I got a text message. Let me read a couple of these, by the way, that we just got in on the cleaning and organizing and all of that. One person just said that one of the things that you really need to determine when it comes to the are we going to donate or sell is, and this is, I appreciate you saying this, by the way, because that can be not the easiest of things to determine. I don’t know how else to really say that. In other words, yes, there’s probably some value there. But now you’ve got to start determining, okay, what’s the value versus the effort value? that it’s going to take to get said item sold. ROI. Exactly. You know, if it’s a $1,000 item, okay, well, that one’s pretty easy to know, okay, we probably should, let’s list this, let’s get this taken care of, let’s get this sold, and off we go. If it’s valuable, but it’s $20… and you got one of them, I hate to say this, but that’s one of those where I’m not selling something for 20 bucks. At that point, it’s not. Now, if you’ve got 10 items that are 20 bucks, well, okay, now it might be worth listing those and trying to do something with it. But keep in mind, the time and effort and hassle factor of actually selling that, you’ve gotta factor all that in. So one of the things that is hard to wrap your head around, and again, I know this from experience is, You look at an item and say, okay, hey, that’s too valuable to throw away. And it probably is. But how valuable is it and how much effort are you going to have to put into selling that and having some money come back in even to the estate or whoever you’re even helping with or your own pocketbook and so on versus should you go donate that and get a tax deduction? Just keep in mind, when you donate, you can get a donation for that depending upon how much it is and so on. You can go to Salvation Army, Goodwill, whatever, and they will give you a donation letter. Habitat for Humanity, any of these places that take stuff, ARC, they will all give you a donation letter that you can then use on your taxes. So that’s where you have to really start determining, am I better off with a $50 sale or a $75 donation? Sure. And by the way, those are not an easy thing to always determine.
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You know, like you say, let’s have a garage sale. Let’s sell it all. You know, that’s a whole day of your life that you’ve invested or at least half a day of sitting there, haggling, dealing with it. Not that I’m against garage sales.
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No, no, no. You’re bringing up a great point. But, you know, even Facebook Marketplace can very much be that same way where, you know, you’ve got people that will try to haggle with you and it’s a hassle. And then you’re trying to figure out where do you meet these people to get this stuff sold and, and, and, and, and. so again some of these things are not as easy as it seems to try to you know you look at something and this is where you got to really look at these things unemotionally you know take oh but wow when i was a kid you know we used to play with that or we used to use that or you know that was kind of this heirloom okay it might be to you but is it going to be to someone else And that’s where you really have to determine, is this a sellable item or not when it’s all said and done? I hate to say this. Antique furniture. Here’s one thing my wife and I have learned. Nobody wants that anymore.
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The interesting thing we’ve learned is nobody wants dining room dishes. We used to have the nicer dishes for company and stuff. We have three or four sets nobody wants.
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Kids don’t want it when they’re getting married anymore.
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That’s not the style anymore.
SPEAKER 08 :
Some of the silver, now, I’ve got the ability, even my high coin, you’ve got the ability to sell off sterling silver and things like that, and it’s more the value of the silver itself, not the piece. So there’s value in the metal of it, not in the piece of it. So those are things where you need to really look at it and make sure it’s not something that… I saw a video the other day where somebody had found at a thrift store, like a Goodwill, a huge, large silver platter, and it was like $15. Really? The silver value alone was like $200 that this person went and then traded in. So they made out really well on a $15 item from the thrift store that was actually – And that was somebody that actually should have done a little bit of research on that before donating it. They could have taken that down to somebody that does precious metals and gotten, because they’ll just melt that down and make something else out of it when it’s all said and done. That is an example of know what you have. And I will also say this. If you don’t know and you think something might be of value, that’s one of those items to set off to the side. It’s not even in the sell pile. In fact, I would say this is a separate pile, and I’ve done some of this. That goes into a pile where I need to know the value before I do anything else. It’s kind of going to go in its own pile for now because we’re organizing everything. We’re not going to spend a bunch of time figuring out its value now. That gets set off to the side. We’re keeping it. So it’s a keep item. But it’s not a keep to put away. It’s a keep to figure out can we sell it later. But I’ve got to do some research first to figure out is there any value here. For example, vinyl records. I’ve got a bunch of those that my wife and I are now going through from my mom. I’ve got two boxes of regular vinyl. size albums and uh 45s and and i’m going through some of the labels and some of them i know yep that one’s probably worth some money nope that one’s not yep that one is and i don’t know all of them so i’m going to go through what i do know to start with and set those aside and then ones where it’s like yeah i’m not sure these have any value and those are the ones you’re going to have to research and then figure out or The other option is you go find somebody that likes to collect vinyl albums. You let them go through the collection themselves, have them give you a decent offer. If you feel like you can come to an agreement on what the value is, take the money and run. Call it good. Your time, this is the key to this, your time has a value also. Even if you’re retired and you’re not doing anything, your time still has value. How much time do you want to invest? In my case, I’ve got two boxes of albums. How much time do I want to invest in going through each individual record? Now, if it’s a nice, cold, snowy day and you’re not doing anything else and you want to flip through some records, okay, fine. Take some time and do that. And these, luckily, aren’t taking up so much room that you couldn’t wait and do that. But I’ll give you another example. And these are things where I know some people are just going to be appalled at this, but we’ve gone through pictures. And my dad was a big car guy, as you guys all know, and did all sorts of things at different events and so on. But here’s for me personally, if there’s no person in it that I don’t know and it’s just a car. I hate to say this for everybody listening, but I can find as many pictures of whatever I want on the Internet, digitally speaking, that are probably in better condition and a better picture than the ones that I’m flipping through. Why save all – and I’m not joking. My dad probably had 500 pictures of – car meets and things he had been to and if i don’t know the person the car any of the history about it then what good is that to me location date time i suppose you could you could uh with all the technology we could use scan those and put them on a flash drive and then throw them away if you really were into that I have so many car pictures even of my own that I’ve done that with. I looked at my own photo album the other day, and some of you are going to laugh at this. I have 56,000 pictures in my digital photo, you know, on my iPhotos.
SPEAKER 09 :
But, you know, they found that photo of Billy the Kid, and that sold for, what, millions of dollars? Oh, a bunch of money. True. So you never know.
SPEAKER 08 :
True.
SPEAKER 09 :
One of those pictures might have Billy the Kid in it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Somebody was talking about really quick, got a text message in on putting in a garbage disposal, three new ones, all leaked from two different lows. You know what? That can happen. We in the automotive world, we can get a run of a particular part, for example, where you can order two or three of them and, believe it or not, still have issues because they’re all coming from that same quote-unquote lot. Am I right, Steve, on that? You can talk about that for a moment.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, we just had a new battery jump box, the newer style with the lithium-type batteries. And if they’re drained too low, they have to be returned literally out of the box. You have to return them. They’re coming shipped that way. So there’s obviously some kind of issue they’re having with this batch or this run of them, like you said.
SPEAKER 08 :
And somebody just said that by going through all of this stuff, something that you need to think about as well, because this is in the back of my mind, what are you leaving for your heirs to go through? Okay, so as you’re going through this stuff where you might be my age, so I’m 60, and you’re going through stuff from your folks that are in their 80s, and as you’re doing this, you’re thinking, okay, well, I’m going to keep this, I’m not going to keep this, blah, blah, blah. Okay, keep in mind, when you’re gone… Who’s now going to go through this stuff? And that should be in the back of your head as you’re starting to keep some of this stuff because the more you have, the more somebody else behind you is also going to have to go through. And I guess what I’m looking at is I’ve spent so much time doing this, I don’t want to leave that to my heirs. I don’t want that on their shoulders. I want to help them not have to go through and do these things that I’m now doing. Does that make sense, Steve? Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, that’s what I’m kind of thinking about. I don’t want to do this to them. Who’s going to get my tools? Who’s going to deal with all that? We’re starting to think about these things. We get long in the tooth and
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and I’m one of those guys that already had tools to fix tools. Literally, I’m not exaggerating when I say that because of what I’ve done as a living for the majority of my career. Mechanics, technicians, we typically don’t get rid of tools. Occasionally, you might get rid of something that you don’t use much anymore, but not much anymore. The only shift that’s happening, I’ve talked about this in the past, and this is something for you guys even as you’re going through things. So you’re going through some of your air stuff or even some of your own stuff. Air tools? I’ll be straight up honest. Unless it’s something very unique that you have a hard time replacing in a cordless tool, get rid of it. Because air tools are becoming obsolete. And I’m not… Please, trust me when I say this. Everything is becoming… cordless because of the convenience, even the power, everything else. You’re not having to run an air hose all around. The air hose isn’t leaning over the fender of the car, and on and on we go. I mean, all of those things that you used to fight with an air hose, you don’t with electric tools now, cordless electric tools. And the reality is there just isn’t that much use for air tools anymore. Steve, you can talk about that for a moment.
SPEAKER 09 :
Am I wrong in what I’m saying there? We’ve been switching over to all the Milwaukee half-inch, three-eighths. All those things have been helpful getting rid of those air tools. The only time we’re using anything now with an air tool is if it’s like a three-quarter inch where we have to take a bolt off that’s not removable without. So then you’re keeping it for that. Yeah. But the only thing we’re finding is that when we’re putting the wheels on, I don’t believe the electric tools are helping with the torque sticks. Remember the torque sticks where you put those on? Now they’re using a torque wrench. Correct. So we’ve changed our habits a little bit. But overall, it’s much better than tripping over a hose. I mean, think about how many injuries we’ve saved. in our lives over not tripping over a hose or a cord or whatever, just by electric.
SPEAKER 08 :
Somebody was just saying, which I did not know that even like Yeti coolers, which are very expensive, by the way, if you guys know what a Yeti cooler is, you know what I’m talking about. And this particular person said he, he just brought three hard site coolers. One was a Yeti to a donation site. The other day they say they have at least a dozen Yeti. So even Yetis have run their course yeti. So also have the Stanley Cups and a lot of the other, you know, trendy drink items and so on, you know, drink containers. So, again, those are some of those things that as you’re going through some of this and you look at it and you think, oh, yeah, there’s a lot of value there. Maybe not. Maybe not. It’s one of those things where you really need to be, you know, if you here’s something else. If you don’t know the market for said items. Find somebody that does. And the Internet can be good, although there’s a lot of scammers out on the Internet. So you got to really be careful and kind of weed through. But you some of you don’t like this, but I’m now using it more and more all the time. And this is an example of where it really does come in handy. You can use, like, AI, chat GPT, and literally even take a picture of something and say, what would the value of this item be? Really? And it will tell you pretty closely as to what is, you know, what’s the market for that used item going to be. Now, it won’t know, because I’ve not tested this yet, I don’t know that it knows what that old picture of Billy the Kid would be worth. I mean, that’s where you’re getting a little bit out there.
SPEAKER 09 :
Out of it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, or if you look at something and think, man, I probably need to get this appraised. Those can always be done. You can always get somebody to come appraise something that’s of higher value that we would take it to them and have it appraised instead of just getting rid of it. But you can use AI to determine a lot of values on certain things where you may be thinking, should I keep this or get rid of it? And AI can help you determine on some of that whether it’s actually worth keeping or not. I didn’t know it did that. That’s pretty cool. It will do so many things now that it’s absolutely amazing. And to me, that’s one of the useful tools of AI where normally you’d be out on the Internet scouring through website after website after website trying to determine a value of something. Now you can pop that right into ChatGPT and off you go. So really, really handy as far as that goes. All right. Other questions for us, keep texting, keep calling 303-477-5600. You can also send me a text message, 307-282-22. We’ll be right back. Fix It Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 08 :
All right, we are back. Fix It Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks so much for joining us today, by the way. We appreciate it greatly. And, again, for all of you that are texting in different things, advice, somebody said, this one, if you want to do it this way, fine. I’m still not a huge fan of cheap things on Marketplace just because of the type of people that you’re typically dealing with. This person said you can always do it. They Venmo you. They pick up off the porch, whatever. Okay, if you want to do that, that’s fine. I’m probably not going to do that. I’ll just be straight up honest. First of all, I just don’t want people rolling into your house and picking up off the porch. Yeah, for me, I don’t want to go down that path. That’s just not what I want to do. For me to make that worthwhile, you’d have to have a bunch of items. I think my wife and I, we had a great example of this. My mom had this exercise bike. Fairly new, good-looking bike, all that. Probably, I don’t know, $300, $400 bike if you bought a new. We dinked around a Facebook marketplace, finally got $25 out of it. Now, honestly, that wasn’t worth it. For $25, we should have just hauled it to Goodwill and been done with it. We’d have been a whole lot better off. I should have done that and gotten a $100 donation slip. I would have been better off with a $100 donation slip than the $25 we just pulled in. Now, I know it all equates to about the same, but the hassle, here’s what I’m going with. It’s about the same money as far as what ends up in your pocket, the tax savings versus the $25. If you’re in a 25% tax bracket, it’s all fairly close to that. So reality is, though, how much time did we spend and how many months did I trip over that stupid bike where I could have hauled it down to Goodwill to begin with or wherever and gotten a donation letter to begin with? And, you know, we’re not thinking about the other thing.
SPEAKER 09 :
you’re actually helping goodwill. That’s true too.
SPEAKER 08 :
You’re doing a lot of things with, you know, the, they can do a lot with that money. That’s right. They’re, they’re helping a lot of, you know, a lot of folk that are, you know, disabled and there’s other things that they can’t do. So that’s a good job for them. So yeah. Thank you for saying that, Steve, you’re exactly right. There’s, there’s the ability to to help others by donating that at the end of the day so it works out really really well so at any rate yeah and and but just like this texture said if that’s something that you want to do and you’re comfortable with that then you know what um be my guest um and i’ve got some other ones these coming in as well i’ll read to the i’ll read these as as as we go along here but A lot of you agreeing with exactly what I’m saying and had a client who’s paying for a storage unit in Alt. Most have had 60 of the black Home Depot totes. You’re paying $300 a month for maybe $600 worth of empty totes. Donate them. Yes, that is a great example of that is not money well spent in actually having those things around. Joe, you’re next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 12 :
Hey, John, I’ve seen some videos, instead of using this sacrete for setting a mailbox or setting a fence post, large-capacity rigid foam. Have you seen that or any opinion on it?
SPEAKER 08 :
I’ve never used it. I’ve seen it, yes. I’ve never used it. I’ve seen the videos and things on it where you put the foam down in, and it’s sort of that same type of foam they would use to jack concrete up. I see no reason, Joe, why it wouldn’t work. I’ve just never tried it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I mean, I wouldn’t put on something that’s going to take a lot of stress, but something like a mailbox or a fence post, like a decorative fence post, rather than getting, you know… Yeah, I don’t think I’d put them in for the gate hinges, you know, that, but if you just wanted to use them for the in-between posts or something, I don’t see why that wouldn’t work, Joe. Yeah, or if you’ve got a fence and you’ve got, you know, you’ve got one post, you’ve got to replace one post and a string or something. Rather than getting a bag of concrete and mixing water and pour it and waiting for it to set, I just… It looked pretty slick, and I just didn’t know if you had an opinion on it or had ever tried it.
SPEAKER 08 :
I’ve never tried it, but I do know that it is very, very similar to what the guys use that they actually jack the concrete up. And from what I understand on that and the research I’ve done there, the nice thing about this stuff is it won’t let moisture get down and around. Like, say you have a wooden post, for example, Joe. It won’t let moisture get down in there, where sometimes the concrete will. It’ll shrink and expand and so on, and you could get some concrete or some water down in there into the concrete itself, and then, of course, that’s going to rot that post away. The foam won’t do that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, because I’m thinking about I’m going to have to replace a mailbox here in the fall, and I was thinking about doing that.
SPEAKER 08 :
The other thing, too, about it, Joe, that’s nice is I’m looking at Home Depot. It’s cheaper.
SPEAKER 12 :
Really? Two pounds is $16, right? Okay, and do you have to mix it in a dispenser?
SPEAKER 08 :
It comes in a bag. You mix it in the bag and pour it in. Kind of like a two-part kind of thing. Yeah, exactly. It’s exactly how it works. Steve knows. There you go. That’s exactly what it is. I’ve heard they weren’t that good.
SPEAKER 12 :
How much is that three-pound bag?
SPEAKER 1 :
$16.
SPEAKER 12 :
And does it tell you how many cubic feet it would give you?
SPEAKER 08 :
Let me look here and see if it’ll tell me. Really quick, Steve, what did you say?
SPEAKER 09 :
I’ve heard it didn’t. work as well, but that’s a hearsay. I can’t say that I’ve ever actually tried it myself either.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I don’t know if I’d use it on a gate post, but something like a mailbox that’s not going to take a lot of stress.
SPEAKER 08 :
From what I’m looking at, you need a bag per post.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, one bag per post, and it’s $16. All right. Then I’ll probably try that.
SPEAKER 08 :
So I think for, you know, I’m with you, Joe. Would I, you know, for the cost, if I was doing, you know, 15 posts, would I just go ahead and do the concrete because it’s cheaper at the end of the day? You’re going to go ahead and mix that up and get it all in there and off you go. I’d probably do that. But in this case where you’ve got one post and you’re trying to make it quick and easy and less messy, because in this case it’s all self-contained, you’re not having to mix a wheelbarrow full of stuff or do anything along those lines. You just mix this up and pour it in. Yeah, I would use this, absolutely.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, great. All I was looking for, John, just a professional opinion.
SPEAKER 08 :
I appreciate that, Joe. Thank you very much. And that’s what we do here, 303-477-5600. We’ll answer those kind of questions all day long. Back to the organizing. And this is one where I’ll probably have to do this over a couple of weeks. So we talked about first things first, get yourself some floor space. And by the way, this is true even for storage units like we were just talking a moment ago. You could have a storage unit full of stuff. You could have a garage full of stuff. You could have a basement full of stuff. First things first, make sure you’ve got a place to do the organizing. So if that means that you’ve got to create a hole by restacking or doing whatever, get a hole first where you can then have a place to start doing your organizing with. And I think what a lot of folks will find, Steve, and it was for us, you’re going to throw a lot of crap out. Mm-hmm. You’re just going to go through stuff and say, you know what? No one’s ever going to use this. Yeah, it’s valuable. Yes, somebody else might use it, but where is that person on this earth? I have no idea, so I’m tossing it. There isn’t any reason in keeping it at that stage of the game. Soren, go ahead.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, so, you know, Joe was talking about that phone.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s what the REA up in Fort Collins uses to set the telephone poles.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, okay. It’s got to be pretty tough or it wouldn’t do that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, it works really well for all of the applications we’ve used it in. Great. Probably tougher than Quikrete on a lot of that stuff.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, good to know. Like I said, I’ve never used it. I’ve seen it used, and I know they use it to pump up foundations and things like that, so it has to be fairly tough or they wouldn’t be using it for that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, it’s very strong. It is pretty expensive, though, so just use gravel. It’s a lot cheaper.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, that makes total sense.
SPEAKER 10 :
But, yeah, for all the applications we’ve used, it works really well and holds up great.
SPEAKER 08 :
Thank you, Soren. Absolutely. I appreciate that. I’m sure Joe’s still listening, so that’s awesome. Thank you.
SPEAKER 09 :
okay you bet so i don’t appreciate that so there’s joe if you’re still listening there’s a testimonial from a farmer uh that’s out using this stuff on a pretty routine basis so there you go so on the tote thing one suggestion there’s you know they can buy those totes that actually kind of collapse and fold into themselves right into the lids so you can stack that’s a good 10 or 20 or stick with the same kind of tote thank you so you know once you pick one just
SPEAKER 08 :
Those black and yellow ones that we were just mentioning that were in a storage unit, those are fabulous. Those things. And they’re tough. They can stack. Those things are great. And the only other thing I’ve noticed is if you get too big of one, you can’t carry it. That’s true. They get too heavy. Yeah. So know what you’re going to be putting in it. Now, I’ve got another piece of advice along those lines as well that I’ll do my best to get to. Go ahead, Bill, though. You’re next.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, here’s a quickie. When I had my fence done, it’s probably been 10 or 15 years ago now. The guy dug the hole. This was a fence company. Dug the hole, put the post in, poured the powdered cement in, and then just filled it up with water.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I’ve seen guys do that, which for a lot of things works. If you’re going to do a gate post, I wouldn’t do that just because I don’t think that’s strong enough at the end of the day, Bill. But if you’ve got any other posts that you’re doing, it would be okay, sure.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s been 15 years, and it’s an 8-foot gate.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s good. Good testimonial.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, I got another question.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, go ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
Go ahead. Go ahead. Hey, you know, remember I called you up and I had those power ramps put on my truck? Right. When my wife picked it up, I didn’t pick it up, my wife picked it up, they told her to use a Teflon spray. Isn’t Teflon dead?
SPEAKER 08 :
No, I don’t. Well, you know what? That’s a great question.
SPEAKER 11 :
Because I bought some blaster that had silicone in it. You can still buy Teflon spray.
SPEAKER 08 :
You can still buy it. I’m looking at it right now. You can buy it at Ace Hardware, all kinds of stuff. They still make it. So, yeah, it’s still sold.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. WD-40’s got one and stuff.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s right. CRC, DuPont. I mean, there’s a bunch of them that have it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, so I wonder, so the silicone should be just as good as the Teflon.
SPEAKER 08 :
And they’re telling you to do that just to keep it maintained or what?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, right, right, maintenance, right. Just because, you know, have you ever seen one of those steps that slide underneath the truck?
SPEAKER 08 :
Right.
SPEAKER 11 :
I mean, there’s quite a bit of movement.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I installed them back in the day. Yeah, I installed them back before they used to be made by the factory. So, yeah, I put those on years and years ago when that company was in its infancy trying to get into the OEM side of it. I was putting those on, Bill, so yes. So the reason for the Teflon, wouldn’t it build like a barrier?
SPEAKER 11 :
I mean, I’m no giant, and I don’t even get that much of a lift on my truck. Yeah. For me, at my age and my physical damage I’ve done to my body over the years, the step was a killer.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, no, these work well. And what they’re talking about is spraying all of your hinge mechanisms and everything with the Teflon to keep everything lubricated. So is Teflon building a barrier? Yes, it will as well, yes. So the silicone is going to attract dirt? Yeah, I wouldn’t do the silicone, Bill. I would definitely do the Teflon.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, you know, I got a can of Blaster silicone. And it says it’ll repel the dirt.
SPEAKER 08 :
As long as it’s lubricating and repelling it at the same time, you’d probably be okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, so your preference would be the Teflon then?
SPEAKER 08 :
I would use Teflon if you can, yes. Okay. All right. Thanks a lot. No, I appreciate that, Bill. Okay, really quick. This is something that I’ve been investigating, so I thought I would wrap this into today here and kind of close out with this. And this is for the organizing of things, especially when you’re going to do totes. And I’m with Steve. Figure out what your totes are going to be so that they’re uniform. And some of you would maybe want to use clear totes. The downside to clear is they do still get dirty, and you still can’t see inside of them like you think you could. You might be able to tell that, okay, this tote’s got blankets, and this one has hardware, and this one has… I mean, yeah, you can kind of tell that, but believe me, it’s not like looking through glass. You’re still not going to see everything in that tote. You’re still typically going to pull it down off the shelf, open the lid, and see what’s inside of it. So, I’ve done some research. and here’s the direction I’m going to head when I’m all done. I won’t get this done probably until winter. I’m going to go to the harder totes like we were just talking about, the black and yellow or the black and red. Typically, if you wait until even like Halloween or Christmas time, those things get to be pretty cheap because they’ll bring a boatload of those in for Christmas decorations and so on, and that’s the time to buy these because they’re really inexpensive then. I mean, they’re in some cases less than $10 a tote. They get them way down in price, which is really nice. Now, since they’re usually black and you can’t see what’s in the tote, rather than using, you know, masking tape and then writing on the outside, you know, what’s inside of the tote and so on, there are now several different apps. And I’ve been researching these. I’ll tell you which one they end up using. But there’s now several different apps where you can pull up the app, type into what’s going to be in this container specifically. So this one’s going to have blankets and socks and whatever extra things you’re deciding to put in there. You put in the description of all of the things that are in this tote. And then you get a cheap label maker, and it shoots out a QR code or a barcode, depending upon how you want to do this, and you stick that on the tote. Then as you’re going through things in the future and you want to know what’s in the tote, you literally just scan over each tote and it will tell you everything that’s inside that tote because the app has all of that stuff stored. So I’m going to figure out that system and do that here as we go through winter. So as I store some of these things that you don’t get out on a routine basis, but you still want to know where it’s at and have easy access because that’s I don’t care who you are, unless you’ve got a memory like an elephant, and you can remember what’s inside of every single tote and where you put it, and you’re not using masking tape or you’re putting a label on it that you’re handwriting or whatever. I want a better system for that whereby it’s easier to find these things once it’s done. And the other thing about this is depending upon where you put some totes, some of you may keep totes in a garage, some of you may keep totes in a storage shed. Some of you may put it in the attic, in the basement. I mean, people store things in all different places for all different reasons. This app or these apps, I should say, will help you with determining, OK, where is that tub initially? So you’re looking for said item. You can type into the search where that item is and it will say, OK, that’s in X tub that you stored in X place. And then you go find that. You scan the barcode. You’ll know exactly what’s in that. You’re not pulling 15 different boxes off of a shelf to determine where did I put this heirloom that I’m now trying to drag out. That’s pretty cool. Make sense? I like that. It works. I’ve seen, you know, I got this idea. I knew somebody had to make this. And I’m like, okay, there’s got to be a way to store this stuff in a better fashion. And for some of you that may have, you know, businesses you know we all have different things that we store as time goes by business owners you guys know what i’m talking about there you just end up with stuff that you need to keep sometimes it’s inventory sometimes it’s inventory you only use in certain times of the year and so on well figure out a way where you’re better organized because the worst thing that happens or the to me this is one of the worst things that happens is you put stuff away and then you forget about it and then years and years and years go by. You knew you had that, but you didn’t know exactly where it was, so now you go rebuy what you already had because you had no way of really organizing what you had. And lastly, and somebody mentioned this a moment ago, and I agree with this wholeheartedly, think twice before you buy something. I don’t care whether you’re at the thrift store, if you’re on Amazon, if you’re at Home Depot, wherever you’re at. Think twice about buying something because do you really need said item? If you don’t need it, don’t buy it. If it’s not something you’re going to use on a routine basis, and in fact, I think some of the other things we forget at times is a lot of things that we might use once, you can rent. depending upon the item. Tables, chairs, all sorts of things along those lines. You can rent a lot of items where, let’s say you’re going to have a big party, and you think you need to go out and buy four, five, six-foot tables and a bunch of chairs to go with it because you’re going to have this big party. Don’t buy that stuff. Go rent that stuff for a day. There’s even companies that will pick up and deliver for you, deliver and pick up to where you’re not doing anything. All you’re doing is really helping them with their business when it’s all said and done, and you’re not storing that crap the rest of the year. You can do the same thing with tents and all sorts of things along those lines whereby you think you need this stuff, but maybe it’s for a once-a-year party that you may not even hold next year or the year after. Well, if that’s the case, don’t go out and buy a bunch of stuff for that. Rent it for that particular event and call it good. Make sense? Yep. And there’s a lot of things along those lines that you can do depending upon what the activity is that you’re actually getting into. But bottom line, and I agree with this texture that sent this in, think twice about what you’re dragging home. Do you really need it or not? Because if you’re only going to use it once or if it’s just going to add to the clutter that you already have, don’t drag it home. Because all it’s doing is adding to all the things that we’re now talking about in regards to what do we now need to get rid of so we’re not leaving this to our heirs and having them go through the stuff, by the way, that they’re just going to throw away. And I think that’s something to remember is this might be value to you, but is it going to be valuable to them when it’s all said and done? And if not, then don’t have it in the first place. All right. Another episode of Fix It Radio. Steve Horvath from Genos was with me today. Charlie Unger, or Larry Unger, answering phones. Charlie Grimes, our engineer as well. We’ll be back with our next program, whatever that happens to be. Drive Radio on Saturday is next, by the way. But for all of you listening, thank you very much. We appreciate it. This is Fix It Radio, KLZ 560.
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