Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K. the Foot Accountant, and welcome back to the channel. The Foot Centurions promo on FIFA 23 started yesterday as a big L, and it also started with an EA mistake because they had to change or upgrade some of the ratings on the cards they released because they made a mistake in their initial post and in their initial release of the cards. I want to talk about that and how those upgrades actually impacted the market and made prices move, and today's a big day on Saturday, not for content, but for potentially what could happen to the market. I'm not trying to get you guys scared about the team of your market crash, but I'm just saying where we are at right now in this game, getting closer and closer three days away from team of the year voting, we're getting close. So could there be a bit of a market downturn even as soon as today? We'll talk about that and what to expect on a Saturday of this Foot Centurions promo, and I also just want to take a look as what to expect during this promo. EA laid it all out for us on what they're going to do in this next two weeks because this is a two week promo. So let's take a look at that and everything else that's going on in this game. If you're excited for it, hit the thumbs up, subscribe if you're new, all the good stuff there. Let's start from the top, right? So yesterday, and a lot of you guys are probably feeling this way, this Foot Centurions promo just doesn't feel that great, especially when we saw them tweet this graphic yesterday with the cards on it. We saw the stats, we were like, oh my goodness, this promo looks abysmal, right? The stats don't look that good. The player selection is okay. There's some cool cards in here, but we at first saw it and we were like, oh my gosh, this looks absolutely terrible. But of course, what we learned really quick was these stats were not 100% correct because when you go in-game, this footprint still shows Trent Alexander Arnold is having 86 pace, right? As you saw in the opening menus here, it also shows that. But if you click into his card, and this is probably going to be fully upgraded and fixed up today all around everywhere, on the game, he has 90 pace. And if you looked at the in-game stats right away, at the start of the game yesterday, when these cards were first put in packs, he had 90 pace, but his pace stat on the face of the card still showed 86. So that is what a lot of people are referring to as the upgrade, right? EA actually didn't upgrade these cards. They had the correct stats inside the card the whole time. It was just the front of the card showing the pace stat as 86 that was incorrect. But of course, as they said, and they actually tweeted this out a couple hours prior to them fixing this, they said, we have addressed an issue where some of the face attributes were appearing lower than intended. This was visual only and did not impact the in-game performance. So the couple of cards that were messed up, right? Alexander Arnold is going from 86 pace to 90 pace. He gets plus two shooting, plus two dribbling, or plus two, sorry, plus two defense, plus one physical. Kempembe actually has 85 pace. And then Jamie Vardy has 90 pace, 90 shooting. And I think like Milner has a small upgrade, Jordy Alba has 90 pace. It's kind of crazy, right? They messed up like five or six cards and a lot of them they messed up the pace stat. So actually if you go into the menus, it's kind of funny here because you can see the correct stats on these cards, right? Jordy Alba 90 pace, 90 pace and shooting on Jamie Vardy. Footbin has them incorrect right now. So look at the in-game stats, not at the Footbin one. But that was just kind of crazy yesterday because when they upgraded those and when they tweeted that out, you saw cards like Trent and Kempembe actually go up a lot in price because people were like, oh my goodness, these cards got upgraded. They look so much better. But again, like we said, it technically was not an upgrade. It was just an EA visual mistake, but it did move the market a bit and it was pretty crazy. That was one of the, honestly, the most craziest things that happened yesterday. Now in general, like we said, this Centurion's promo, it just, it's okay, right? When you look at the promo team right now, yes, you've got a really cool Ben Yettered. You've got a cool Neymar. You've got a Trent Alexander Arnold that might be a top two, top three, right back in the Premier League. Of course, Kyle Walker is his competition. That's a really, really hyped card. Kempembe with 85 paces, nice. There are some decent cards that are in this promo team, but what people are not super happy about is the rest of the squad, right? The whole rest of the squad is almost fodder, apart from like five players in this team. And we didn't get the cards like the Zlatan, the Marco Royce, or so many of those other players that we were hoping to see inside of this promo that it just seems like this promo is perfect for those cards, right? Again, they didn't even give us detail about what Centurion card is getting an upgrade for like what 100 plus barrier they broke, or what they're getting the card for, basically. So that's kind of a bit of a bummer there, but they also laid out the entire promo week for us. They said there's gonna be the official release, of course, yesterday. The mini release will not be today. It'll be tomorrow on Sunday for team one. Team two is gonna be launching the 13th next Friday with the mini release on Saturday. So this promo is gonna take us right up until team of the year. And again, that's why we think, and we were talking about this on stream yesterday, that's why we believe that this promo is a bit lackluster and it's a bit kind of, you know, it's just kind of an L, right? Because that's what EA like to do. We talk about this all the time, time and time. And again, is that EA has to kind of rock with the ebbs and the flows in this game, right?  And right now, EA wants to disappoint us a little bit, even though it sucks, right? EA wants to disappoint us so that we can get excited again for team of the year coming in a couple of weeks, and then they can put out good content, and then it can be like, oh wow, team of the year is sick, right? That sort of thing. So that's kind of why this promo, this is honestly, it's a filler promo is what it is.  But a lot of people are not happy with this promo and I completely understand, but there is redemption, technically, there's a second week, and there's still some cool cards out, right? I mean, nonetheless, not that these cards are absolutely insane, but they are pretty cheap, and that's the next thing I wanna talk about is, this promo team is supplied a lot. I think EA got a lot of people to open packs yesterday. We were talking about this in the stream as well. I think they got a lot of people to open packs because they threw a Neymar, a Benyeter, a Kempembe, and a Trent Alexander Arnold. Guys that have not had special cards this year, or really usable ones, getting some pretty sizable boosts, putting them in this promo team with some nice cards, and then they supplied a lot of lightning rounds, and I think they got a lot of people to open packs. They also, again, are dropping these store packs. So we saw two of the extra store packs yesterday, the Team of the Week reboot pack, which is untradable, and then the Centurions essentials pack. This one actually impacted the market a lot. In the middle of that kind of stat upgrade, whole fiasco thing, Trent Alexander Arnold was like 260, 250,000 coins. As people were buying his card out, I think it was like the second or third hour after the promo, his price was like 250, 260, and that pack got released, and I'm not even kidding you, within 20 or 30 minutes, Trent went from 250 down to 205,000 coins, 210k, then EA fixed the stats, it showed his 90 pace in game, and his card went back up to about 260, 250, kind of 240 range where he is now. So there was a huge market impact, and just a lot of supply in general. When we were looking at these cards yesterday on the market, they were just supplied so much. With Winter Wild Cards, like if this Neymar would have been released as a Winter Wild Card item, I would kid you not, like remember how rare Benzema was last week? I mean, this Neymar would be so much more rare and so much more expensive if this was Winter Wild Cards, I feel, because the pack weight last week was just a lot worse, and they were just so rare. And these cards seem to be the opposite. They seem to be very supplied, and a lot of them on the market, which makes me not want to trade with them that much, and also makes me believe that they will probably have some pretty sizable drop-offs in price today. Now, of course, they're gonna fluctuate around, right? Neymar was just down to 2.5 mil or 2.5 flat. He's looking like he's rebounding back up right now. You know, if I was somebody that had this card, I would want to sell it, right? Because I think that even though Neymar is, it's a nice boost over his inform, this card's 700K, this one has a couple more positions, a different dynamic image, and a slight boost, and his 2.6 mil. I just feel like this card, and a lot of these other centurions are gonna dip down in price today. Now, some of them, you're like, Nate, how far can they go, right? Kim Pembe is on the Varan level of stats, and he's already a lot cheaper than him. I think this promo team has the opportunity, since it is gonna be a bit cheaper, and since these cards are pretty cheap, I think it has the opportunity to kind of take the rest of the market down with it, especially if this promo is an L that's going to decrease demand for teams and for gameplay. After this week in league is over, and after people finish their games, that's why I really believe, guys, that today could be a pretty sizable day for drop offs and price drops on the market as people start to think about team of the year. Now, again, I'm not trying to incite panic and it's always tricky around these times of the year because you always think about the market crashes and you expect them and you know they're coming, but what it comes down to with these market crashes, like every single time, is it comes down to what people feel like they should do and in preparation, what people are told to do on when to sell cards and all that sort of thing. And I just feel like we are getting closer and closer to hitting the tipping point, to hitting the edge where that switch kind of flips. We've had a really nice market the past two to three weeks, right? With Winter Wild Cards, there's a lot going on, a lot of gameplay demand. We've had a really, really nice market. All it takes is one or two days for that switch to flip and a promo Friday like we had yesterday to have a lot of cards start to drop in value. So just be very careful. I'm not telling you to sell. Again, we talked about selling earlier on in the week. The market on most areas is still up a little bit, but some stuff has started to drop just a tiny bit. Again, it just depends on the specific cards you're looking at. Some of the Winter Wild Cards from yesterday are going up in price, right? Andrew Robertson, of course with Milner and the Trent being dropped yesterday. This guy is up, right? He was 290, he was all the way up to about 330. Right now, he's 330 still. So, you know, a guy like that is up in price, Veran was up a little bit.  All I'm saying is just be careful. I'm gonna be pretty liquid today. I have a couple of cards and I'm still trying to quick flip and get out of and make a couple little bits of profit on.  This guy was selling at 630K yesterday and I got one for 520. So if I can get this out for 600K, I will be happy. But I'm gonna be sitting on my coins today and probably be pretty liquid. So I'm gonna take it easy and not try to do too much on this market today as you see a nice Neymar bounce from 255 to 275. I thought about flipping this Neymar card. But again, the supply there I didn't like and I just feel like there wasn't gonna be enough profit in it for me to spend 2.7 million coins to try and make 30 or 40,000 coins, you know? So I wasn't in it for that one. But I do expect those centurions to drop off a bit today. They always drop on Saturdays. That's almost always a thing that you see. Now, let's talk about just the content that we saw really quick yesterday because we did have an SBC that moved the market yesterday a lot and that was this Ried Márez. It was basically exactly as leaked. Five star skills, four star weak foot, right wing, the same stats that they were posted. He does have the center attack in mid position, which is nice. And I haven't seen any reviews. I haven't watched the inception review in this card yet. But it looks good. It looks very craftable. Márez is always pretty FIFA meta. It's coming in at about 270,000 coins, which fodder is another aspect that we gotta talk about really quick. 280, 270k, it's not that bad. A lot of upboats you can see. And of course, a lot of your Manchester City links are flying, especially the rare ones. This Cancelo yesterday, you can see on the graph. Take a look at this, from 380, boom. All the way to 450, absolutely exploded. Some of your other rare ones, Laporte, his World Cup Stories card was over 400k. He went from 380, 360, boom. All the way to 439. Kevin De Bruyne special cards, the other Cancelo informed. So a lot of stuff is up in price because of Márez. That stuff, just like we saw with the Serie A cards that went up on Thursday for the SBC Poletano, some of that stuff has come down in price, right? Sell into the hype of all these cards exploding, right? Cause this Kim and Jay was like 140, even 150. Now he's back down to 120 because the Márez hype and all of these new promo cards are here. So if you have those city cards, I would wanna sell those into the hype as well. But that Márez and the base icon player pick yesterday, the base icon player pick actually impacted the market a lot. I mean, I would say that based on what we were thinking in yesterday's video, a lot of it went according to plan, but there was a little bit of extra panic in there in the first, I don't know, let's say the first hour, the first 30 minutes after the content drop. I think so many people went out and did the base icon that actually caused a bit of a market crash because that SBC refreshed. You had Márez, you had the base icon and you had people opening packs for the new promo. They were going and doing the base icon to maybe having to sell a couple of cards to do that or to buy players to get Márez and their team. There was like a solid 30 minutes of just like pure panic, right? And the graph that I can show you because I had one of these myself that kind of summarizes it all was this brutal game Márez. He was 220. I bought one like right here at 200K. He went all the way down to 199 and was even lower than where I bought him at for a little bit. And then he absolutely skyrocketed and exploded. This is a really good picture of what happened to most of meta cards on the market. Yesterday, there was like a little bit of panic in the first hour after content with the new promo cards getting released and I think that base icon player pick because again, if you take a look at the popular page on footbin, what do you see? You see a lot of these base icon players and that tells me especially yesterday right after content all of these like Hulet, Maldini, Lam, Kaka like all of these base icons were on the front page of footbin most popular which means that people are doing the icon SBC and they're going and looking at the card A they either packed to know how much it is or B they want to know what baby icons they can get. So that use those tips. We talk about the popular page all the time. Use those tips to kind of figure out what people are doing on the game but that kind of created a whole madness yesterday. So of course when people are going and doing that SBC like we talked about in yesterday's video too I was expecting a slight like spike on fodder for an hour or two and then a drop and that is honestly kind of what happened. You saw 86 is the index go from 213 points all the way to 240. So like 86's yesterday were up at like 13K I think look at the graph of Parejo from 11,000 coins all the way to 13,000 coins now he's back down to like 11 and 12. Your 87's went up a good amount because I think there's a higher rated squad in the base icon. I think it's 80, 45 right? Actually Robbo, well Robbo's a bad example because he was out of packs as a gold card. Let's look at Verati. I thought these guys went up yesterday did they? Yeah a little bit from like 16K up to about 17, 18 but I think it was like your 85's went up a lot as well. Serge Nabri is 6.9 at the moment. Serge Nabri went from 7K, boom, spiked all the way to eight and is now back down. So if you sold or he traded with this spike at all you made some good coins there. And now I would expect to see fodder getting low throughout the day today on Saturday as well because like we said we've got this essentials pack that is here that a lot of people are opening it's only available for, is it available for one day? All right it's available for the whole weekend so this is here but we still have that big 100 players pack, right? We still have the Centurions 100 pack which is tradable by the way. Again, this right here does not say untradable so I'm imagining that it's gonna be a tradable pack today. If this drops today which it very well could that's gonna bring more supply to the market, more supply to your foot Centurions players and more supply to your fodder including a silver card. So watch for fodder to get lower even than it is right now later today because some fodder prices still like the 89s and the 90s and the 91s are still a bit inflated right? 91 rated cards are still 68k which is very high so I think those will hopefully drop off a bit and people are gonna do these packs man look 26% chance of a Centurions in this 1500 FIFA point pack which if you look at the other packs right 80 plus five, 85 plus star player pack 19% as well but that's untradable so why not open this for 1500 FIFA points for almost the same price FIFA point wise it's tradable and you have a very high percentage of packing a team in the week or a Centurions card. Yeah it's gonna be crazy if that 100 pack drops today because a lot of people are gonna do that one as well and that's gonna keep continuing to impact the market. Couple other things from yesterday the Ledley King loan moments card there it's free you can go get it for zero moment stars so you don't have to have any stars to get in. I believe this price range is mixed up it's like at 67,000 coins for this card obviously with his stats he is worth a little bit more than that I don't think he's worth too much more than like 100,150K even though he is brand new but if you go in here and you can see his stats in the store I'm gonna go claim the loan cause I have not done that yet but you can just go in here and claim it he's got 80 pace 89 defense and 80 physical so it's not a terrible card it's not amazing but seven game loan you get it for free that's nice right we knew that was gonna be coming today so that card is now available and there's some more moments in there based around him so that's kind of cool we had two objectives yesterday just to run through this stuff really fast too we had the Gulaski which honestly does not look that fantastic but you know it's not terrible I mean you just score some goals and rivals or squad battles for a Bundesliga team that is not a terrible card just going craft and then of course are not craft but complete and then you have a century of goals which is basically if you score 100 goals in any game mode you get some packs it's not anything super crazy but like 84 plus and then at the end of premium goal players pack so you got 91 days to do this as well so they're giving you a lot of time to get that done but again I think we just have to be careful on the market today I think there will be opportunities to trade and to make some coins but I'm gonna be very very careful with the guys I'm not gonna be spending a lot of coins today on cards that I think could drop off a lot and honestly I think a good amount of the market could drop off today but there's still weak in league demand so it's gonna be really really tough to see where the market goes but we're just gonna have to watch out for it right we're gonna have to keep an eye out and see what the pulse of the market is today because that will in turn give us kind of an idea of where the market is going to head later on now last thing I wanna say and talk about really quick is the World Cup icons have been updated so EA said that they might take a long time to fix this like it only took six weeks right shout out Clovenetti you know these cards took a while to update so your Drogba is no longer gonna look like Maldini and your players are no longer gonna have the incorrect in-game player faces so watch out with that stuff there if you have one of those in your team don't think that makes them any more or less desirable for say but they are now corrected in games so good luck with your weekend leagues good luck if you're grinding this weekend and I know that this promo kind of takes a bit of hype away from the game I completely understand that but let me know what your guys thoughts are down below because there are some really cool cards a part of this promo as well and don't get your hopes up for a player as we see today unless we have a leak because I really feel like it might be a quiet Saturday of content because we just came out of Winter Wildcars promo that's got daily player SBCs I don't believe that's a part of this Centurions promo so it's gonna seem in total like EA is pulling it back and the content is just not gonna be as amazing for the next couple of weeks but we're gonna start talking about Team of the Year soon and that's gonna build the hype as well in its own way so it's just kind of the calm before the storm I guess you could say so we're gonna weather that storm and get right through it and at least there's still a decent amount to do this weekend on this game so again, if you did enjoy the video smash thumbs up on a comment level if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new have a good weekend it's been Nathan with a count and I'll catch you guys later, peace out.


Hey friends today, I'm heading to the magic kingdom and I don't think I could have picked a better day It is absolutely gorgeous out and I kind of just want to hang out and Just do a lot of my favorite things in Magic Kingdom. So Let's go do this Seriously though. Just look at the skies. Everything is just so beautiful I don't think we're gonna get any rain today even and that'll be a shocker It's also Monday, which is also Columbus Day So we're coming off a holiday weekend not sure what the crowds will be like, but like I said I'm just happy to be here There's a couple of things that I wanted to get done because I kind of felt like I was missing them So decided a Magic Kingdom day was well overdue As soon as I walk in the town square area is actually really empty But this can always be deceiving There's times I walked in here and I haven't seen anybody Like gathering around and then once I get deeper in the park lines lines forever But the best thing about coming to Magic Kingdom with no plans or just to actually have a Magic Kingdom day is you go about your Leisure walk down Main Street just listen to the music and kind of eavesdrop on people talking and getting happy about seeing their favorite things And I like that. It's always a great time for me Especially during Halloween because then you get to see all the cool pumpkins and people dressed up in their favorite Halloween attire And then you get to look at the castle. How beautiful is that a little birdie also told me that there's a lot more the Madame Leota zippers that was just released So we're gonna actually see if we can get any but I heard that we can get some inside the ticketing area and Not have to wait in the sleepy hollow line. We're gonna test that out and take a look at that I think you can't and that is so awesome I ended up getting it and they're selling right inside there So even if there's a long line at sleepy hollow, just go in the ticketing area and you can buy them. Wow And of course I had to bring the zipper over to the Haunted Mansion just so I can set it here I thought about riding but The line seems to be a little bit long post-it wait time 70 minutes Sadly I think most of all the lines are actually very long But it's okay because you know like I said before I came here to just walk around at my own leisurely pace So let's just move along, huh? We could get in line for it's a small world at the tangled bathrooms Which is not too bad, especially if you have to use the bathrooms. Those are my favorite bathrooms the Magic Kingdom But honestly, I think I'm just gonna get out of fantasy land as soon as I can It is very crowded over here And it's more crowded than usual because they have that gigantic scrim up for it's a small world So it makes that pathway very narrow I'm gonna head to one place I know certain where I can just kind of sit down and relax But wow the Haunted Mansion line is a lot longer than I thought it was Kind of actually thrown back by it So the Haunted Mansion line starts here then goes all the way down and around Down here actually near Adventureland But the craziest thing is is if you actually go just a couple feet down on this little wooden pathway You can actually get in line for Splash Mountain right there You can literally get in line for Splash Mountain here and Haunted Mansion here. That's insane The place where I know I could sit down and relax is in Tomorrowland And I got to say Tomorrowland looks a lot better than Frontierland in Liberty Square I think it's just more open over here And I think everyone is in their lines waiting to get on their favorite attractions, but this is what I'd like to see When you see long lines you get kind of like a shock factor But that's because we're used to seeing lines tucked away right now We're practicing the six feet and the safety Sanitation and cleaning all the ride vehicles and that backs things up a little bit But like I said, it's busy, but it's not like Summer 2018 busy And here we are a Carousel of progress one of my favorite places to just come relax and sit down and definitely get out of the Sun I said it was beautiful earlier, but it's also very hot. It's hot and beautiful. I Actually love just watching this video about the history of the carousel progress You can look this up on YouTube and you can sit here and watch it. Oh look There he is Walt Disney This is my first time being in here since they decided to put in all the safety measures And it looks like they're seating every other row and like at least three yen So I'm really nice not too crowded still lots of available space if you can see behind me Looks like the Robins are getting ready to celebrate Valentine's Day today Year is it? Oh right around the turn of the century and believe me things couldn't be any better than they are today And tomorrow is just a dream away And you boy how does 4th of July we've had in years We've come a long way though since the turn of the century over 20 some odd years ago You know that pilot fellow Charles Lindbergh. He's about to fly a single-wing airplane all the way across the Atlantic He's never gonna make it Uncle Orville is taking over the coolest spot in the house, of course, and he's rigged up a real clever contraption He calls it air cooling Well, it's another Halloween here in the fabulous 40s Everything is better than ever now and we've got some amazing new wonders around the house to prove it For instance our refrigerator holds more food and ice cubes and thanks to our automatic dishwasher Oh, I don't have to dry the dishes anymore after supper Come on everybody, there's a great big beautiful tomorrow It's just a dream away Isn't it a pleasant holiday now turkeys in the oven it's peaceful and quiet. Yes 300 points like best score yet Well, it was peaceful until Santa brought that new virtual reality space pilot game John the oven should respond to your voice commands now Oh Now that was it that was nice and relaxing it does make me sad to see the people move were just sitting there though I wish it was running. That's another ride. I could probably just go on for hours and hours Now we're just gonna keep on moving around and about I probably need to get something to eat I'm a little hungry, so we'll see what kind of things we can get either sit down or maybe even just a quick snack But I'm sure we'll stumble upon something good The amount of people that are waiting to pick up an order from cosmic rays seems a little intense So maybe we'll look at joining a virtual walk-up list at one of the restaurants Ah, let's see what we can get here. We're gonna go to now and see what they have available Cinderella's royal table walk-up list no way Oh wow What do you guys think should we do it? I think we should do it That is absolutely mind-blowing guys I've never eaten at Cinderella's royal table and then all of a sudden I just like pop open the app and there it is So I I mean I had to I had to wow.  I feel like people plan this all the time and I'm just like, all right, let's do it Like what? It said it was a 55 minute wait, but I think we're gonna actually get in right away actually I absolutely love when spontaneous things happen like this Really just shows how much fun you can have at the park and just kind of go with the flow with things I mean, I wouldn't expect just going to Cinderella's royal table every time you come here, but I mean that was pretty awesome I'm not even sure what's on the menu, but I just want to hang out here until you know They actually text to me. I think I'm just gonna go hang out here. This used to be bibbidi-bobbidi-boti But yeah, this seems like a really cool place to wait And it's time. I'm so excited Thank you Oh wow Guys, like I said, I've never done this before so I've never even been in here. This is so awesome Wow Wow This is really cool I think I've seen this before in videos and this is where cinderella usually with me and great But they're not doing that anymore and also I remember watching videos and seeing Gus gus up there. Look at that. It's so awesome I don't know where to go. I guess we're going up there This is so awesome. I said it like a hundred times. I'm sorry. I get excited They even have a little elevator. That's really nifty I'm going up. Hi there. How you doing? Oh, wow Oh, now we can look down from here too. This is so awesome and cool I love it in here. It is so awesome All by myself got myself a two-top table and yeah, this is crazy. You actually get to see like Outside the windows and everything I definitely feel like this is one of those restaurants where I have to take my hat off You know, good respects to cinderella's castle. Take a look at this. They also have wines And even some beers. I think I'm gonna have to get myself a beer get myself a good old kronenberg Yeah, when in doubt you're in cinderella's castle The windows make it super bright in here. So I can't really turn myself this way Or else you're going to be blinded by the light Blinded by the light Looks like here's the menu and you can do uh, oh, it's a full course It's a three course. So you get an appetizer and entrée and a dessert all for 62. That's actually not too bad You can choose soup of the day or charcuterie or the castle salad and then for the entrées they have chickpea Roasted natural chicken breasts tenderloin of beef and then fish of the day I'm definitely getting the tenderloin beef and then for the dessert We've got the clock strikes 12 coffee pots to cream and jocke and guss Oh The clock strikes 12 sounds amazing, but The coffee pots the cream Oh boy, we're gonna have to think about this one Oh, look even cinderella makes an appearance This would be really cool at night Bye cinderella tell gus gus. I said hello Look at the fancy glass. They serve the chroming bergen Very fancy Wow, that is delicious Thank you And can we just talk about how awesome these coasters are? I really like them They're like a little collectible that you can keep put them in a purse put them in a purse For my appetizer I decided on getting the soup of the day, which is a butternut squash soup I don't know how that's gonna be. I don't think I've ever had a butternut squash soup, but Might as well try it here. I don't think I was interested in the castle salad or the charcuterie So experiment a little bit. I'll see how it is. Maybe I'll be a butternut squash fanatic Here is the butternut squash soup looks really delicious, but I gotta tell you about something really awesome I asked if there was any bread that comes with the soup because you know, I like to Dip bread or crackers in my soup and you'll never believe what he brought out for me He brought out a charcuterie because it has a little bread on it. That is awesome. Isn't it? So now I get to try the charcuterie and the soup How perfect I'm actually gonna use the bread to dip it in my butternut squash soup. I've never had either I like butternut squash soup Yep, I'm a fan now I wasn't sure but oh, yeah, this is the good stuff right here Look at that Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. So amazing so far and I absolutely love my beer Like this is just like a great environment a really cool spot As much as I love the kronenberg There's another one that's actually from canada And I think I'm gonna try it because I never had it before I googled it and it looks very fancy like Super super fancy a little bit of a dark ale, but I think I'm gonna go with that one next so I can have it with my dinner And look at that Just arrived The tenderloin beef it looks so delicious and thisparagus looks great. I'm excited to cut into this Oh Look at that guys.  Thank you good sir And look at that the dark ale came That's the good stuff. It's not like a porter. It's like it's a dark ale good stuff. Oh, I'm very happy right now my meal My waiter actually told me that I could have swapped out the asparagus for like french fries or mac and cheese Or even corn on the cob But I was like, you know what? No, I'm just going to take it the way it is and I'm so happy I did That asparagus is probably the best asparagus I've ever had I ate it first like I ate all of I know it was only like three stocks, but like I couldn't stop eating it So I'm so happy that I got that asparagus That steak did not stay in a chance seriously. I absolutely love it up here At least Cinderella's coming back out Now that the steak business is all taken care of I think we have to come back to the dessert and figure out what we're going to get I really think I'm going to get the clock strikes 12 even though the coffee pots the crimps sound pretty amazing The clock strikes 12. It just fits too perfectly done final answer Even though the cheesecake seasonally is pumpkin cheesecake right now I just had to go with the clock strikes midnight and look at it It's beautiful. Isn't it? Oh, I'm so excited to dive into this. This is going to be so good. I think They took my silverware away, so I only got a spoon. We're gonna see how this works I don't know what I should go right down the middle.  This is really really good and very rich I don't know how I can break that though and I want to break it because I think it's edible I should have asked for a knife. Oh, well anyhoo's. I really do love it. It's delicious In and I'm happy I went with this one Now I'm actually all done But I want them to give you kind of like a bird's eye view of what the restaurant looks like I know it's a little bit bright because of the windows, but it is absolutely Gorgeous in here. This is where Cinderella usually struts around I like that that she still comes out meets an appearance I would love to see what the kitchen looks like. They won't let me back there though But now we got a head back down the castle here. Oh, yes But you have to appreciate all of the art and the attention to detail It is so awesome Just like in the entryway here Very cool experience. I'm so happy this kind of worked out the way it did for me today And just think about it if cosmic rays didn't have a huge line I would have never have checked the walk-up list and I would have never went to cinderella's castle Crazy how things just play out the way that they do don't they unbelievable And with that, I think I will bid you adieu I don't know if I said that right, but anyhoo's.


Hey, and thank you so much for joining me today. I'm really excited that we get to have this conversation. I'm Angela Brown. And for those of you that are just joining us for the very first time, I run one of the largest training companies in the world. And I'm proud to say that because we've been in business for about 31 years. But over the last 31 years, we've worked with a lot of families, like thousands of families. And one of the things that we've discovered over the last 30 years is that there are people who hoard food. Now, what does a food hoarder look like? Well, the good news is they look like you and me. These are everyday normal people that range in all different areas of brilliance. These are people that are creative. They are resourceful. They find food that is maybe expiring and they find a way to stretch it a little bit longer. Maybe they cut off the edges of something that's expiring or they are able to put something inside a soup so that it masks the taste. I mean, these are really, really creative people. And I love the fact that people are resourceful and that they're stretching a dollar a little bit further. So while we are in an era right now of being aware of our money, and I say that because we are kind of in recessionary times, I really want us to focus on what is our food program and how are we using it to help us and not hurt us? And so I'm really excited that we're sharing this time together today. And I do wanna make a huge announcement. This is something that we're so excited to share with you. Over the last two years, our company Savvy Cleaner Training which trains house cleaners and maids has grown so much because of our hoarding and our decluttering processes that we're now spinning off into a new direction. And this is the last show that we will be broadcasting on the Angela Brown Ask a House Cleaner YouTube channel. Hoarding World now has its own YouTube channel. And so all of these shows starting today will be over on that YouTube channel as well. So if you are not subscribed and if you are not, or if you're thinking about it, but you have not joined us yet, join us over at Hoarding World so that you will be notified every time we have one of these shows. Now, one of the things that I do wanna mention is that we once had a 12 week series and it was really beneficial and it helped us in so many ways. And from that we were able to create a book that's almost finished, that's for you, that's a resource manual that helps us through all the things we've covered so far. But this is the beginning of the next 12 week series. So as we begin and we move forward, all of this is gonna be happening over at Hoarding World. So please come join us because I would love for you to participate and love to get your feedback and love to get your comments. But this is where we're gonna be answering those comments and also over in our Hoarding World YouTube, not YouTube but our Facebook group. So that's where we're gonna be. All right, so let's jump in today and I wanna talk for a second about how do you know if you are a food hoarder? Now, it is a great question and it comes from a place of, maybe you did not learn about food. Maybe you did not learn about food management growing up. I know that I did not learn about food management growing up. I'm one of 19 children. And growing up, here's the really peculiar part of it, we had lots of food, okay? Lots of food and every meal, there was lots of food for all of us and then as soon as the meal was over, we would start preparing the next meal and it took us two or three hours to prepare the next meal and then it was time to eat again. The problem is this, when I moved away from home, I only knew how to cook for 21 people. I did not know how to cook for one. And so I fell into a situation of hoarding food only by default, okay? It wasn't that I wanted to be a hoarder or that I was careless or that I had mental issues or whatever. It was just that that's all I knew. It was environmental, that's all I knew. And so as a result of that, what I did was I would go out and I knew how to stretch a dollar. I would take my resources and I would buy as much as I possibly could. I didn't just buy one apple. I bought the whole bag because for a dollar and a half more, I could get eight more apples than if I just bought a single solitary apple, right? But I wasn't eating all the food. I wasn't eating enough for 20 people. And the first year that I lived away from home, I gained 86 pounds. And the scary part of that was I gained 86 pounds because I was trying to finish all my food. I did not want my food to go to waste. So how do you know if you're a hoarder? And the answer is, did you come from an environment that supported finish all the food on your plate, right? Don't waste any food.  And if this doesn't apply to you what we're talking about today, please don't judge it. Just start thinking in the back of your mind. Do I have a food program? What is my relationship with food? And does this apply to anyone else in my family? Because maybe I'm not speaking to you today, but maybe I'm speaking to someone that you love that's a family member that we need to have this conversation with. And I wanna stop for just a second. And I wanna say hi to all of you guys. It is so excited to hear. Jilly Bean, good to see you. Cutie Tay, I've got several people here. Starter, Seed, Shan. I've got Tony Rose, AJ Vintage.  Thank you so much for joining me. I know it's right before Christmas and this is a special time that you were able to join me, so thank you. So ask yourself the question, how do you know? In this picture that we're looking at right here and I did this on purpose so that I could make myself tiny on the screen and I could make my pictures big. This is a person that understands protection of food. They have all of their food processed in a way that it is free from ants and rodents and mice and bugs of any sort. This is a really great way to store your food and it's in clear jars so that it's easy to access. The thing that we're missing on this particular picture is we're missing, I'm gonna say masking tape because there's no dates on any of this stuff and I don't know how old this stuff is. So we're gonna talk about some of these things and then we're gonna share some resources so that you can figure out, oh, yeah, I have containers like that in my pantry too. What do I do next? How do I know when to rotate them? How do I know how old the stuff is? We're gonna start talking about some of those and this is gonna be an ongoing conversation. This is not something we're gonna learn in one day. This is just the opening of the conversation. So I really want us to pay attention to the fact that because this is an ongoing conversation, we have to have ongoing tweaks to our program, okay? So lots of people, like I said, never learned about food and it's because nobody taught them, okay? So there's no fault to anyone. Nobody's being shamed or blamed but what do hoarders look like? Food hoarders look like this. They come from all walks of life. They're all ages. They're all socioeconomic areas. These are people from every walk of life, right? These are old people and young people and people that have no money and people that have lots of money. It hits everybody and it hits everybody because there's a mismanagement of food. So I just want us to be aware of that this can happen to anyone and it doesn't mean if you are a food hoarder, it doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you. What it means is, hey, we need some new lessons on food as we move forward, okay? So that's what we're focused on today. So I wanna ask the question, what is a hoarding food addiction? What does that look like? And what it might look like is gonna be different for every person because we all have different buying habits, spending habits, cooking habits and what have you. Like I said, I grew up in a house with 21 people, 19 kids. And so when I moved out on my own, what that meant for me was that meant I don't cook very well and when I do cook, I'm cooking in a great big stock pot that's gonna make enough for 30 meals. And so I can't eat it all before it goes bad. And so if my belief is that we don't waste food, then I can't let that go to waste. So what does that mean? For me, what I learned really quickly is that meant repackaging my food. So if I was gonna make a great big stock pot of soup, what that meant is I had to repackage them in smaller containers so that I could eat those smaller containers and just put those in the freezer, bring out one little container at a time and heat those up. Because even when I got married and now there are two people, I was still cooking for 20, right? Same problem. It didn't help any that there were more people now, only one more person, right? My habits were still set for 20 people. And so is that okay? Is it okay that I still shop at Costco, although I'm only shopping for a couple of people and not 20? And the answer is it's okay if you learn to manage that. And the food hoarding comes in when we haven't learned a management system. All right, so what are the signs of a hoarder in your home when it comes to food addiction?  It looks like there's food that's going to waste. It looks like we're not eating all that we have. You might open the door of the refrigerator and there's a bag of apples in there. And yeah, you did get a savings on it, but there might be six of those eight apples that are now starting to go mushy, they're starting to go bad. If you find yourself cutting parts of food off because it is bad or you take like a head of lettuce and you're like peeling it down to the nubs just to try to get rid of the wilted leaves so that you can find something that's salvageable, you might be a food hoarder. And so what does that look like? Starseed said, hey, I switched over to this new channel via the link and live chat. Hey, thank you so much. I think the Hoarding World channel has one subscriber at the beginning of today, so more subscribers is good. Hi, Lisa, hi, cutie Tay. So good to see you guys. And thank you so much for subscribing. This is awesome because we can carry on these conversations. So take a look around your house and ask yourself the honest question. Do I have a program with food? And then I want you to ask yourself the question. If you were gonna explain your food program to someone else, is it something that you're proud of? Like, hey, this is how we do food at my house.   Let's get you to a place where you feel fantastic about the food that you have in your house. Here's the reason why. The people that I work with, and this is true, most all of the people that I work with, okay? That I have for 30 years are really, really smart, intelligent, creative people.  And so I'm not gonna judge you on the types of food that you have in your house. But what I do want you to ask yourself the question is, is the fuel that you're putting inside your body, making you the best version of yourself. And I find a lot of people, especially during the holidays, they kind of get to a place where they're eating lots of sweets and they're kind of cheating on their diets and they're kind of like, I don't know. They kind of start feeling lethargic. They feel tired, they feel discouraged. They feel like, oh, I gained a few extra pounds and I should lose weight. So there's a whole bunch of stuff like that that's happening and it comes back to a lot of times, what are you eating? And so I want you to get to a place where you're saying, wait a second, I'm proud of the food program that I have. And it's sustaining me. If you guys went out and bought a really expensive vehicle, you would put premium fuel in it, right? And so we are beautiful, creative, talented people. And what are we putting inside our bodies? If we're like cutting bad stuff off the food and we're just kind of like scrambling and scraping by. And this happened in my own house. This happened this last week and I'm really embarrassed to tell you but I'm gonna tell on myself here. My husband bought a bunch of stuff for salads so we can make salads at the house. And he bought this little container of tomatoes and we did not eat it. We ate other things instead and the tomatoes went mushy. So he went and he bought a new thing of tomatoes for the next week's salads. Then he said, hey, listen, we should use up the old tomatoes first. Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second. They're mushy and they're bad. We let them go bad.  And then the new ones that you bought right now are gonna go mushy and bad before we eat those. Then we're just on this rotation cycle of eating mushy bad tomatoes. Let's not do that. Let's throw out the mushy bad ones. Let's start on the good ones. And then let's not buy any more tomatoes until we've eaten the ones we have, right? And that's the concept. Can we stop buying stuff just because we buy it every single week? Buying something every single week doesn't mean that it's necessarily good, right? So I wanna make sure that what we're using is the best version of us and is it healthy for us and are we proud of it? All right, I have to ask this question.  I bought myself some Twinkies. I bought myself something fun. And then they hide it in strange places because they don't want the family to see it or find it.  I'll just put it inside the dryer and I'll hide it in there. And then, you know, we went to a lady's house to do some clothing and we found a whole bunch of treats inside her dryer. Her clothes dryer and food inside her dishwasher. And she stored her bread inside her microwave. And I'm not judging her, but what I'm saying is there are a lot of people that hide food around the house. And if you are the kind of person that hides food, we need to have a conversation because what that tells me is that there's something that you're hiding from or that you're not comfortable having this food in front of your family or that it's a food program that you're not proud of. And so are you hiding food in places that really traditionally you're not designed for food? And that's the question. And so I just, I wanna throw that out there because that is a sign that you may be a food hoarder. And so I just want us to pay attention to the fact that it is possible if that's your situation. All right, so the next thing that I want to ask is do you panic, bye. During the pandemic, this became a huge issue for many people. And we ran into this again and again and again and again where people were buying food because it was out of stock. Then there, this fear set in where people said, there may not be enough. I better hurry and stock up on everything I can. So they went through and they started buying boxes of noodles and spaghetti sauce and things that were, we call them perishable non-perishables because they're not gonna perish immediately like some oranges or apples, for example, but they will expire over a period of time. And people just hoarded these things they bought up as much as they could and they stuffed their pantries and they stuffed rooms of their home. They stuffed boxes that are now sitting on the floors in the hallways of their home. And they said, well, that's my food storage. And they wrote it off as food storage. Hey Debbie, good to see you here. And AJ, it's so good to see you guys. Debbie says it's like hiding your drug or alcohol. That's true. When you hide food, it is an addiction and it is an issue. It's something that we really need to seriously think about. But did you buy panic food? Now this happens a lot, I know in my town, we never get snow, right? I mean, Charlotte, North Carolina, we never get snow like one day a year. So there will be rumors of snow. And if you go to any store, any store, like all the bread and all the milk, all the eggs, everything is gone. How long is it gonna snow like for a day? Like why is everyone hoarding all this food? You know, it's a panic buy or if you have relatives. Now I'm guilty of this. This happened over Thanksgiving. My family came for Thanksgiving this year all the way across the country.  I need all this food. So I went out and I bought lots of food and we did eat lots of food. But what I discovered was at the end of the holiday when everyone was going home, I had gobs of food, right? I had way, way, way, way, way too much food. I had purchased way too much food in anticipation of the relatives coming. And that's another version of panic buying when you just buy more than you actually need. And if you did the math on it and you said, okay, I have 12 people that are gonna be here for three days. So three meals times 12 people times through three days.  You're not talking gobs. You know, I don't need stuff for four months. And so what I did do is I bought some to go boxes and I sent everybody home with all the food they could take home because I don't have room for it and I can't store it. And I wasn't gonna be able to eat it, right? So then we ended up spending all this money. Oh, I saved so much money because I shopped at Costco. Let me check. No, you didn't.  And then you had to give it away because it was too much, right? I have food hoarding tendencies and I grew up that way because of the way I was brought up, right? Here's how I was brought up.  Yay, we were self-sufficient. And the cool part about that was every season of my youth, we did like 2,000 quarts of peaches, 2,000 quarts of pears, 2,000 quarts of applesauce, tomato salsa, cherries, apricots. It doesn't matter what it was. We just kept bottling, and bottling, and bottling, and bottling, and that was awesome. We had all the food we could possibly want. The problem is this. Do you have food you cannot manage? Because at the point my parents are right now and they're in the 70s, nearer to the 80s side, they still have all these orchards. Surprise, surprise, but the apples don't stop growing every year. And so what happens, and I'm not pointing fingers at my parents, but lots of people find themselves in this situation where once this was beneficial to them, but lifestyles have changed. And as lifestyles have changed, they no longer have the manpower to do the 2,000 quarts of pears and peaches and applesauce and grapes and berries and all that stuff every single season. They just don't have the manpower. And then what happens is stuff that they canned or bottled 10, 12 years ago, they now need the jars for that again. So now they're dumping out what was at one point good food so that they can can and bottle new food. And so what happens is they're now recycling the food storage without ever having eaten it. And that might be a sign of food hoarding if you have food that's coming into you that you do not know how to manage. And I don't mean that you don't know how but that your life has changed and it no longer is a good use or a good resource for you. It might be more beneficial to put out a for sale sign out in the front of your apple orchard and let people come pick apples and make a day of it. And then they pay you by the bushel that they take home. That might be a more advantageous way to get the best use out of the apples rather than spending all this time and energy canning all this applesauce that we're just gonna dump out and do it all over again just because that's what we know. Again, that goes back to the environmental issues of how are we raised and what is our belief about food? Starseed Shan says, out your parents' food turned into a wasting problem. It did and you know, they still can a lot of fruits and vegetables and I love my parents for this because we still have lots of kids and grandkids but the beauty of what they're doing now is they're giving it away as gifts to their kids and grandkids for their own food storage. And so I love that they're still willing to do that but I'll share this with you. There's a certain age at which doing that at the level they were doing it becomes unsustainable. You just can't do that forever. It's too much time on your feet, it's too much work, the hours are too long and you don't have the manpower to do that much volume with two or three people in the house that you did when there were 20 people in the house that could help out, right?   So that might be another sign that maybe you have hoarding issues with food. Here's one that gets most of us. I know I'm guilty of this too. You go inside the grocery store and they say buy two, get one free. Oh, wait, whoa, I only came in for one but now I'm gonna buy two because if I buy two, I get a third one for free. Like, whoa, that's a great deal, right? I love great deals. I have fallen victim to what most of us have which is special deals and clearances and savings and sales and all that stuff, right? I love a good sale. This happened to me last week. I went inside I was gonna make some mac and cheese for a party that we had and I wanted to buy a block of cheese and they said buy one, get one half off. And I said, wow, that's a great deal. So I bought two hunks of cheese when I only needed one. Now, what happened is I used the one I was supposed to use for the mac and cheese and the other one is sitting in my fridge. Okay, maybe I'll eat it but the reality is I didn't need it. I would have been better off just to have bought the one block of cheese that I needed for the recipe. So my question to you, do you buy special things for recipes and then after you make the dish or maybe you didn't make the dish, you have extras, extra spices, extra eggs, extra whatever that you're not using. This also happened to me over the Thanksgiving holiday I bought milk for a recipe, a whole gallon of milk for a recipe. We don't even drink milk in our house. And then after the recipe, which is like this much milk, I had like a whole gallon left and I couldn't give it away. Nobody in my family drinks milk. They're like, yeah, I don't want it. Now I'm lactose intolerant. Then I'm stuck with this whole gallon of milk. Like what was I thinking? Why didn't I buy something small, right? So there might be signs that you need to revise your food program. Now I need this as much as anybody which is why we're having the conversation. But as we change our relationship with stuff, changing our relationship with food is also important. That's gonna keep us on track as we move forward. So do you buy in bulk and then never eat the food?  And for those of you that shop at big box stores, it could be like Sam's or Costco or BJ's or some of the other big stores. And that's for here in America. I think overseas it's Tesco and some of the other big places. But do you buy in bulk? Now, I have been buying food at Costco for 20 years, right? I grew up buying big bulk stuff. That's what I knew. That was my comfort zone. And so what I had to do is I had to say, wait a second, if I'm gonna buy stuff from Costco, it's not usable when I get home unless I repackage it. In order for this to make sense for me and for me to get a savings out of it, I have to have room in my freezer. I have to have either room in my cupboards and I have to have the supplies to repackage the food so that I can use it. Jilly Bean says, AJ, the sad thing is now I don't even know how much I actually have. I don't wanna clean them out to sea. I missed AJ's comment, which is... That's my issue right now. My freezers are full. Yeah. So my freezers are full as well, but right now I do have a system and the system works for me. So what I do is I cook one day a month. I buy my stuff at Costco. I put everything out on the cupboard and I have nine crock pots and I lay all the crock pots out. And then I make soup and I do mashed potatoes or mashed yams. I do beans, I do a whole bunch of things and then I repackage them. And if you don't repackage them, they may not be useful to you, right? So here's what happened to me yesterday. I went to my freezer. I was gonna take some pictures for you. Excuse me. And I found this bag of beans in my freezer. Now, I haven't been doing the grocery shopping for the last couple of years due to the pandemic. Other people are now doing my shopping for me, but I was surprised to find this. There's a great big bag of beans. I was like, whoa, who put these beans here and how does it work? I opened up the pack and what I found were five smaller packs and each pack was like this big. It was enough for five people. Okay, they're not five people that are gonna be eating a meal and it's frozen. In order for me to use this, I have to heat it up or I have to thaw it out. And then I either have to cook half of it for the people that are here and then put the other half, what? I'm gonna, they've already thawed out now. I'm gonna refreeze them because now what happens is I have to repackage it anyway, okay? So in order for this to be usable for me, what I need to do is immediately when I get home from the big box store is I need to open all these packages. I need to open all the beans or open the rice and make sure that it's in smaller packages. Now, this is what I do do. I do buy the, I think it's called the Normandy blend at Costco.  And if I don't properly repackage it, it's not gonna be useful to me or anybody at the house. So what I do is I dump it out in a great big bowl. I scoop it out and put it in smaller Ziploc bags and each of those smaller Ziploc bags will serve two people for a meal. And you can just pop them right in the microwave and you can heat them up and steam them and they're good to go. The big bag is not useful for me, okay?  And a lot of times I find myself the only person eating dinner, right? Have you ever had this happen? And I want notes in the comments. If this ever happened to you, let me know, this happened to me too.  And so you've already fixed this big meal. They don't want it. You gotta make leftovers. You gotta put it inside your fridge. And then they go and they make themselves something else, right? If you have kids that are teenagers or above as an adult, it's gonna happen a lot where it's like only one person is gonna eat, okay?   And what are they gonna do? They're gonna go into the fridge and they're going to find the easiest thing to eat, the easiest, the easiest. And so if you have leftovers, if you have stuff that's prepackaged, if you have stuff that's in the freezer, they can grab out and throw in the microwave. Yes, they'll do that.  If you eat stuff right out of the bag, you might have a hoarding food problem, right? There's no program in place. So if your food is not prepackaged in usable portions, and I'm gonna say in one or two people, for one or two people, that's it, one or two people, it's probably mispackaged for your family unless you have small children and you do make sure that everybody sits down at the table and you eat simultaneously. Lisa says, wow, that's organized to have nine crockpots. What's really unfortunate, Lisa, and this one's for you, we did a clutter corner not too long ago where we pulled out all of our small kitchen appliances and I was sure that I had nine crockpots. I actually have 18 and they're smaller in all different sizes and I do use them but I use nine of them on a regular basis. So I say nine, I have nine, I actually still have 18 and I use them for parties and whatever different size crockpots but I use the nine on a regular basis, so spooky. Okay, so this is, I wanted to show you this. This is the process that I use and I say, have your food prepared for one or two people. The little containers that you see are eight ounces and the ones with the blue lid are four ounces and you'll see that there's red tape on the top of that particular package that's there in the freezer. The little containers I label with painter's tape and I have red, blue, yellow and green and that means breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks so that anybody in the house can go make a snack at any time by opening the freezer. We talk about, is it usable? Are they usable size portions? They can say, oh wait, here's a dinner food, here's a lunch food, here's a breakfast food, here's a snack food and they can grab it out, heat it up and they're good to go, right? So that is the reasoning behind having small packages of food. They do not stack well. They do not stack well little containers that are around at the bottom. So one of the things that we do do is we put them inside the big gallon Ziploc bags. I can hold in this gallon Ziploc bag in this picture you see here, I can hold 10 small little containers that are four ounces of avocados or beans or yams or whatever it is, it could be soup or whatever and I put the soup in the eight ounce ones because they have the screw on tight lid so that if you heat it up or if it is in the freezer, if it expands a little bit it's not going to fall apart, right?  So that's how we have that and that makes it usable for our situation. But I recommend if you don't have a program like that that you create one because if you have food and it's becoming outdated or it's becoming spoiled because you're not getting around to using it, then what money did you save even if you bought it on sale, right? Now there are a lot of people and this happened to my family a lot because we had a lot of food that was fruit and vegetables. I cannot tell you how many times I'm probably the most savvy at resaving food probably should be tossed or something, you know what I mean? If we had something that was expiring I could stretch it just a little bit further. I could cut out mushy parts of an apple. I could cut off parts of an avocado. I could cut off half of a banana. If it started to go bad, I could use the rest of it. But what if you were able to repackage it and use it before it went bad? And that's my question. We're looking here at some moldy cheese and people say, oh, well, cheese is moldy anyway. What's the big harm? What if we would have shredded this moldy cheese before it went moldy, put it inside a Ziploc bag and put that inside the freezer? That way we would have shredded cheese if we ever needed it for something and just use a little bit of it if we needed it instead of having a whole block that then goes bad that's not used, okay? So I just want us to start thinking differently about what is our food program and is it serving me because I'm a superhero and I need superhero food, food, fuel, food, right? If I don't have superhero food for my body, what am I feeding myself? And if I'm always settling for the moldy, almost bad, kind of bad, kind of taste bad, almost botulism like food, what does that say how I feel about myself? What that says is, wow, I'm so resourceful. But guess what? I deserve nice, healthy tasting food. I do. And so if I can just change my program a little bit, I can have that without wasting more money and without throwing away food. And I really want us to think about not throwing away the food. And then what kind of food are you eating? Do you have lots of perishable, non-perishables? This is a bunch of prepackaged food with a lot of preservatives in it. And by the time you look at all the ingredients, you're like, whoa, this isn't really food at all. This is just flavored chemicals, right? What do you have? And does it go bad? During the pandemic, we had people that were buying, these are single people whose homes we've been in, and they're buying 10, 15 pounds of noodles.  And so what happens is they would open the top of a noodle box, they would make some noodles, and then the rest of the noodles are in a cardboard box. And then suddenly, without their permission, there are rodents that come in and they start gobbling up things like noodles. And I hate to say it, but the things that we have in our pantry, even though they might be packaged in the boxes are fancy and it looks great. By the time that you go to use that stuff, it might have already been visited by someone else, a rodent or something, right? And once we have rodents and stuff sharing our food with us, it's no longer sanitary to eat. I don't want to eat in it if that's the case. You deserve better than that. And so if you're not gonna use all three pounds of noodles, grab a gallon jug, like a glass gallon jar, maybe an old pickled jar or I don't know, could once have had something else in it, put your noodles in there and put an airtight lid on it so that nothing else can get to it and label it. One of the things that we do, and here's a strategy for you, cut the front of the box off and tape it to the side of the jar so that you go, oh, these are noodles. Grab a piece of masking tape and write the date on it. I put this inside my pantry on 12th, 22 of 2022. So that from then on, you'll know that, oh, at the end of November, the end of December, right near the end of the year, I made these noodles inside this jar so that never again, like that first image that we saw where we had glass jars that were beautiful, looked like it belonged on Pinterest, but I don't see any dates, okay? If there are no dates on it, how many years old is this stuff inside that clear jar? How many years? And the reason I ask is because we've gone into a lot of homes and we asked people that have saved stuff in really nice jars and they got Pinterest-looking pantries. How old is this stuff? And they go, well, it was before the pandemic. Okay, so can we add like two years onto that? Cause we know that it was like two years and they go, well, it was probably a lot longer than that. Okay, was it five years? Well, probably longer than that. And when we start looking at the dates on stuff, what we're finding is that not just do they have perishable foods, but we're looking at stuff that has really old dates on it. Some of this stuff that has expired four, five, 10 years ago. We went to a house, I'm not kidding. We went to a house and they had expired food that expired in 2002. So we're talking 20 years ago. They had canned goods from 20 years ago. We got lots of comments that are coming in. Kristen says, comment was about stuff being in the hall as a sign of hoarding depends on small packages are also easy to share with neighbors. I love that you brought that up, Kristen. It is easier to share with neighbors if you have repackaged food and it's smaller, but if you have stuff that is not being used let's say that you panic bot during the pandemic and you have stuff. One of the suggestions that I recommend is that you do in fact find somebody to give it to and get rid of it so that you can start the cycle over. I don't want you eating 20 year old food because the food that you bought today is gonna last for another 20 years. I don't want that to happen. That's like the tomatoes that we bought, but let's eat the bad tomatoes so that we don't waste food. And then by the time we get to the good tomatoes they've gone bad, don't do that. Let's clear this slate, let's start over again and then let's put a program in place moving forward, right? We deserve that. We deserve that for ourselves and for our health. So do you have canned goods or bottled goods that have expired? We talked for a minute about canning cherries and applesauce and salsa and all that stuff every season. If you're canning 2000 quarts of stuff every season are you using it all? And if you're not using it all, oh, that's my food storage. I've heard that so many times. Okay, food storage for what? Food storage for what? What are you saving? What are you saving the food for? And if you are saving it, is there a rotation process? If there's a rotation process, that's fantastic. That's great, right? Let's find a way to rotate that. My question is do you have a weekly meal planner? If you're one person, how many meals are gonna eat a week? Probably two or three a day, right? So how much food do you need to buy? And if you're not following a food planner, and this is a strategy, let's create one. You can create one. There are so many apps that are available. And I will leave links to apps that are available that you can use that help you with grocery shopping and that help you with food planning so that you can plug in how many people are eating, what are we gonna be serving? And then you can figure out some of your dishes, your favorite dishes. If you're cooking the same favorite dishes every single week, what do we know about that? We know you're gonna have some of the same ingredients. At which point you will be recycling some of that stuff, right? If we don't recycle the stuff that we have, then you end up dumping out good food and it was a waste all the time, all the energy was a waste. So is it possible that at a farmer's market, you could sell the canned goods that you had, all of your bottled goods that you put together that spent all the hours that you spent, right? Is there a possibility that you could create an affiliate agreement with the local grocer? You know, in the town that my parents live in, it's a really small town. Everybody brings all their fresh goods to the market. So is there a possibility that instead of tossing stuff just so you have the empty bottles, is there a way that you can recycle that stuff or that you can sell it at the market? And then the question comes, do you take inventory before you shop? If you're using a food planner, this becomes easy. Now we use, in my house we use a keep file. Do you guys know about keep? Oh, it's so awesome. It's Google keep, it's absolutely free. I'm gonna leave links in the notes as well to Google keep, there's a YouTube tutorial on how to use it. Basically what it is is a free checklist and I can share my husband, I can share this with my husband just by adding his email on it. So when he goes to the grocery store there's a little checklist and check, check, check, check, check, and then if for any reason we do inventory and we say, hey, we're running out of something, we uncheck it at the bottom of the checklist and it goes back up to the top of the list. You can use the same checklist over and over and over and over again. If you bought it at the store then it gets checked off. If you need it, it gets unchecked and it goes to the top of the list. Then anybody that does the shopping and this is where it gets good, if you outsource that to someone else, right? You outsource that service to someone else.  Do I need to add items to that list? You can at any time add items, at any time you can remove items but then you're not just randomly buying stuff because there's no plan in place, right? So moving forward, I don't want you to go to the store and just buy stuff because if you buy three, you get them for the price of two. That is not healthy and it's not useful, right? That's let me buying stuff for 20 people if there's only one or two people in my house that are eating it at any given time. You don't need to fix big pots of food for 20 people, right? So we need to just think to ourselves, do we have a food storing system? Do we have a process in place? Do we have something that is going to serve us for the best version of ourselves? Now, I never go hungry. I never go hungry. There's always plenty of food but the reality is I'm not inspired to go make a really nice meal at every meal. If I open my freezer door and there is no pre-packaged food that I can just grab and heat up really quick on the go, it's easier for me to either go without food or it's easier for me to grab something on the go. Now, I know many people over the pandemic especially have become fans of DoorDash and Grubhub and I don't know what all the different takeout places are but they open their fridges, they open their pantries, there's gobs of food and then they pay somebody else to bring them new food. I'm not kidding, this truly happens. They bring them new food because they don't want any of the stuff that's there. You have to make it easy for yourself to eat. So in order for me to function properly, I have to eat on a regular basis. I mean like I'm human, I run off of fuel but it has to be easy and if it's not easy and effortless, I'm either not gonna eat or I'm gonna eat junk food because that's easy, right? So don't bring the junk food home and don't put yourself in a situation where you don't have what you need. All right, moving on, I wanna pay attention to the fact that you do have a choice.  If you were to explain your food habits to someone today, would it make you smile and go, oh yeah, I got this under control? I remember when I moved away from home, we didn't have food management. That is not something I was taught growing up and it took me until the first year after I moved away from home to realize that okay, I do have a cooking for a large family mentality. I like that, that's fine. I gotta figure out how to get it under control and it's very expensive if the food goes bad. Also I gained a lot of weight because I was eating all the food, trying not to let it go bad and I realized that doesn't work for me either. So I've got to have a food plan and for me the food plan is to cook one day a month, make all of your food for the month and put them in little tiny, resizable packaged foods, okay? So that's a strategy if you haven't used it before. Think about that, that might work for you but I do want you to know that you have a choice. When you are aware, you have choices. And so don't find yourself just calling DoorDash because you're bored, because you don't have time to fix a meal or because it tastes better, it does taste better and many of us have chosen to eat junk food because it does taste better than healthy food in many cases but if you will wean yourself off of some of the choices what you will find is that bananas are delicious, avocados are delicious. There are some really healthy food out there that when you get away from all the preservatives and the stuffings and the sauces and all that stuff, there's actually food that tastes really good.  This is, whoa, you're giving me healthy stuff. This is kind of cool. And then you develop a new taste for that. When I got married, my husband, no judgments on my husband, but he was a chicken fingers and french fry boy. That's all he wanted to eat, chicken fingers and french fries. And I don't blame him, they're delicious. And you put all kinds of sauces and seasoning on them. Yay, right? But over the course of time as we started scaling back from that and adding new things to our diet, he discovered he likes mushrooms and asparagus and avocados. I was like, whoa, look at you, eating healthy stuff, right?  All right, CEO says, this is incredibly helpful and it reminds me to shop my pantry. Growing up with food scarcity can really mess up how you shop for food. This is true. And my question for you is, how long can you go without going to the store? I know many times my husband and I have had contests. We're like, hey, can we eat from the pantry or the freezer for the next month or the next two weeks? And we'll make a note, we're not going to the store for two weeks. And it becomes creative like, hey, we have this, what can we put with this? How can we fix this? How can we serve this? And eating from the pantry instead of just buying new stuff because the new stuff is cool or it tastes better, right? So how does that work? There are strategies that we can use. And I don't want us to think that you are alone. You're not alone. There are so many people. I'm gonna say probably millions of people who don't have a food plan. They don't. I've been inside thousands and thousands of people's homes over the last 30 years. And here's what I've discovered. Many people, when it comes to food, they're winging it. Every meal, they're winging it. And every single meal, they're reinventing the whole process of food, eating food, serving food from scratch. Every single time, they're reinventing the process from scratch. That is exhausting. That is exhausting if you get up every day and you're like, what am I gonna eat today? And you go up in the fridge and you hope that new treats or new stuff has appeared. And then there's stuff that's in your fridge. Check this out. I'm not making this up. I promise this is true. People open their fridge and they're like, there's nothing in here to eat. And there is the pantry is full of food. The fridge is full of food. There's food everywhere. And people are like, there's nothing in here. So my suggestion to you, if that is the situation that you're in, is it possible that you can talk to somebody, that you can make a strategy, that you can decide that you're going to have some kind of a plan in place so that you don't ever find yourself in a situation where either there's no food and you're dependent on the door dashes of the world or you are dependent on junk food and the drive-throughs and what have you because you didn't make a plan. Now in the house cleaning business, we have lots of house cleaners who will go to a drive-through on their way to a job because they haven't made a plan for that day. And because they didn't make a plan for the day, then they're left to eat whatever is available to them. And so if you plan in advance and it is part of your daily schedule, it's waking up and saying, yes, I do have a food plan. Yes, I do have a process that I'm going to keep track of so that I don't find myself hungry at the end of the day and I got no smoothies with me. I got no grapes with me. I got no carrot sticks with me. I've got nothing to eat. And so therefore I'm at the disposal of whatever's available in the closest drive-through that I'm passing, right? Don't put yourself in that situation. For those of you that do have extra supplies and we talk about kind of clearing the slate and making this a possibility as you move forward. If you're clearing the slate and you're starting over and you've got a pantry full of food that has not gone bad, okay? This is not expired food. This is food that maybe a panic bought during the pandemic and it still has a year or two left on it. There are a lot of churches and there are a lot of food banks that will take that food from you. And they have a program in place where they're helping people that are at a disadvantage. And I wanna leave this as a resource for you because right now, especially as we approach the holidays there are a lot of people that want to give and they don't know what to give and they don't know how to give and they don't know to whom to give. And so this is an opportunity where you can say, wait a second, I deserve healthy meals. I deserve food that hasn't gone bad. Well, so do a lot of other people. And if you have the resources and you panic bought and you have a lot of food storage and I'm talking about if you have years of food storage stuff that you've canned or bottled or whatever and you haven't used it, this is a great time for you to go ahead and donate that to a church or a charity that then can use that and make sure that there are a bunch of people this winter that don't go hungry because there are a lot of people that don't have what we have. If you are in a situation where you have been blessed with a surplus of food and you're not gonna eat at all, please don't let it go to waste, okay? I really wanna encourage you to think differently about your relationship with food. This comes down to being honest with yourself. And like I said, don't make a judgment on this today. Just think about it. Think about the conversation in your head. You know, how do I feel about food? Do I just eat everything in sight? Or is there a specific plan for me? And then ask yourself the question, is this the best plan for me?  I don't know why, and I'll tell you this, it's kind of like a true confession. I love sugar. I love sugar. I don't know why. I'm really addicted to it like the rest of the world. It's in like most of the prepackaged foods and preservatives and whatever food that we eat. I love it. It's good. And it's not good for me. And as I start walking through the scenarios in my mind, like how does this make me feel better about myself? It doesn't. It makes me gain weight. It makes my mind foggy. I feel lethargic after I eat sugar. And if I'm not careful, it'll put me right into a food coma. And then I got to go night and night because I'm tired, right? That's how sugar affects me.  But logically it doesn't make any sense.  Yeah, it's the holidays, but stop giving me treats. I need to eat healthier foods. The treats are not serving me, right? So I want you to start thinking about what are the options available to you? All right. One of the things that I would like to highlight is that there is help and you're not alone, okay? There are a lot of groups that are available to specialize in food, food hoarding, food addiction. It is people that are working their way through changing their relationship with food. And if you're not a member of a group like that, there are lots of groups. There are lots of groups online. There are lots of groups on Facebook. There are professional groups that you can go to. There are probably groups in your neighborhood. There are groups sponsored by churches. The world is full of groups of support people working through the very same issues. It doesn't make you bad or ill or any of those things if you participate in a group. What it means is, hey, wait a second. I'm a superhero. I'm taking responsibility for my own health. Here's the secret. And nobody really tells you this when you grow up and it's not in the how-to manual of how to be like a cool person. Here's what people don't tell you. There's one of you. There's one of you. And how you fuel your body and how you take care of yourself depends on how you act and how you think and how you behave and a whole bunch of other stuff. And if you're feeding yourself with empowering foods, then you end up becoming an empowering person.  I remember reading something once I really hit home with me. It said, how are you going to create a million dollar business if you are eating off the dollar menu? And I started thinking about that. And I'm like, yeah, if I'm eating the cheapest, fastest, quickest thing that I can find, how is that gonna make me the best version of myself so I can turn around and produce the best results I can produce? And the answer is you can't. You can't. What you put in is what you're gonna get out. And if I walk around feeling tired and depressed and discouraged and lethargic and almost in a food coma, those are the results I'm gonna produce. So my question for you today is what are you putting in and what are you getting out and are you winging it on your food program and are you hurting food that is either going bad before you're getting to use it or do you have a program in place? And I ask you this question. I really want you to have an honest answer. If you're not sure, maybe it's time to create a program. There's only one of you. There's only one. And you're an amazing person.  I want you to wake up every day and go, yes, I survived, I'm here, I live today. And then make that day the most amazing day of your life. And what's gonna fuel that is the fuel that you put in. Make sure that you stay hydrated. Make sure that you eat healthy foods. Make sure that you eat the right foods and the right amount of foods and that you're not settling because that's what's in your pantry or that's what's on your cupboard or you have stuff that's already gone bad and you're just trying to salvage it. Don't eat salvage food. Eat the food before it goes bad because you can, because you deserve it. Because you deserve it for yourself.  All right, I've got a couple of questions that I wanna answer. AJ says, I would love a whole meal, planning, Google, keep tutorial video. Food is not my specialty and I would love one as well. Food is not my specialty. I am just a house cleaner and I'm a house cleaner who works a lot with people and these are the findings. These are the things that we've discovered and so I'm sharing with you just my opinions, just my observations because what I do know is this, when we get people on regular routines and these are regular routines of cleaning out their pantry and we have an upsell service that we sell in the cleaning business where we go inside people's homes and it's not a fun package because nobody wants to go through their pantry and go, oh yeah, I bought a whole bunch of food that I never used, right? But we go through and we help them remove food that is expired and food that has a little bit of time left on it and then say, what is the game plan for this? Do you have a rotation program in place? Do you have a food menu? Do you have a food planning guide? And then get them on the right track so that the next time we come back we're not doing the same repeat process. If every time I come to your house, all I'm doing is removing expired food. We didn't make any progress. That is not progress. That's a repeat of the old behaviors, right? I don't want you to repeat the old behaviors. I want you to come up with a new plan, right? All right, any other questions? I'm going to scan this really quickly here. Man, you guys are so great to have you here. A littlest broccoli, WC, AJ Vintage. You guys, this was so awesome that you joined me here today. I do want to let you get back to your day because I do respect your time, but I want to thank you for joining me here today and I'm going to leave the resources that I promised you in the links below and that will be over on the Hoarding World channel, not the Ask Angela Brown cleaning channel. And the reason we are breaking them up is because we do have enough conversations that we want to keep them separate so that we can serve both audiences in the most appropriate way. But as we move forward into the new year, because we're almost to 2023, I want this to be your best year ever. I want you to feel your best ever. I want you to look at people and people say, hey, tell me about your food. Probably never will, but if they did, you would stand up with your shoulders square back and you say, let me tell you about my food program and be proud of the food program that you've put in place. Not because there are a rodents and mice and there's ants and all kinds of stuff in your house. Not because food has been left out and there are wrappers all over. That's not something that's going to make you proud. I want you proud of the food situation that you have because that is your premium fuel for a premium person. All right, that's it for today. Like I said, I'm going to answer the questions over in Hoarding World. If you guys don't know, we have a group called Hoarding World. It is a Facebook group. It's a support group where you can find an accountability partner. And if you don't have an accountability partner, come on over because we would like to have these conversations with you. And as we move through the new year, we're going to be changing our relationship with stuff. So many people over there already have a head start, which is awesome. And then of course our new YouTube channel, which is our Hoarding World YouTube channel. And we're going to be bringing you more information like this because I think it's important that we have these conversations.  The things that they taught me was how to can and bottle and store it and save. They didn't teach me how to process it and how to cook for one or cook for two. Life skills you need if you live alone or you have just a spouse, you know what I mean? Secrets that will help you survive. And then stop buying stuff you're not going to use. This will save you so much money. And there are stores like in my town, there's a town store called Liedl, L-I-D-L. You might have seen it. I first discovered it when I think I was in Germany. And then it moved to America. And one of the things is they have like the same kinds of foods that I would find at a big warehouse, but only for one person. So I can go in and just buy smaller amounts. Instead of trying to buy in bulk to get the savings, I can buy little amounts and get the savings for only one or two people. And so instead of buying a bunch of tomatoes that are going to go bad, I can buy just enough for this week and only eat for this week and not buy a lot that then it is going to spoil. So there are stores, there are other options, there are farmers markets where you can just go and buy one tomato. I bought one apple the other day. What? One apple. I bought one apple the other day. And I made a comment to my husband. I said, you know, I've never bought one apple. Never in my entire life have I bought one apple. I always buy the whole bag. And all I needed for the recipe was one apple. And I bought one apple and I walked out of the store. And I felt so good. I was like, oh my goodness, I've turned a corner. Check it out. I just bought one apple, right? Buy what you need. Don't buy because it's on sale, buy what you need. All right, that's it for today. I love having you guys, AJ just mentioned the fact. She said, isn't lethal owned by Aldi? I don't know. I don't know the answer to that question, but I do know that Aldi is nearby our lethal. And Aldi is another one of those stores that I think started in Germany overseas and came this way. Aldi is another one of those stores that has huge discounts for small portion sizes where you can just buy one or two of an item instead of buying 20 or 30, right? So that is another option as well. I don't know where the stores are where you live, but check it out, check it out. And then I want you guys to keep me posted on your progress because I think I'm one of the biggest cheerleaders I know. I'm here and I'm clapping for you. And everybody that's on this chat right now live, thank you so much, but I'm gonna be following you. I wanna hear the updates. I'm rooting for you and I know you can do this. All right, that's it for today. Have a great holiday and I will see you next week, same time, same place, over on the hoarding world channel for our next Clutter Corner Live, which is gonna be another conversation that will help you change your relationship with stuff. All right, until we meet again, leave the world a cleaner place and a healthier place and a happier place than when you found it.