What's up friends, this is Steve your neighborhood CRT expert and today I'm going to jump into the pricing. That's right recent pricing for any Pro CRT monitors and this is a segment that I've featured in the past, you know six months I've really been tracking sales of Pretty much for any pro video monitor that happens and the ones that I'm really taking a look at are those that are on eBay because they are very trackable and anybody who wants to go back and find any of these individual sales Should be able to do so by just doing eBay search history and sell listings for the specific time period So again today's video We're going to be looking at specifically March and April in 2020 because I want to see what kind of Reaction the market is taken to our quarantine situation. So if gamers are locked up in their house Are they spending more money on pro CRTs to make sure they can finally play with one? Well, let's see What the statistics say so first off? Let me move myself a little bit Back down in the picture here and we'll get started on this presentation. So again, here are the details Let me move myself a little bit out in case you want to read him, but It is we're looking at pro CRT monitor sales on eBay mostly in North America Okay, the sales data does reach between March all of March up to May 5th I even went a little bit beyond May 1st So we've got a couple extra days of data in there and in sales Most of them are going to include shipping costs I did mark on there if they were a local pick up So you'll be able to tell which ones were locally picked up They do not include taxes and that's something I wanted to say a quick second about Because over the last couple of months for sure I've noticed on any of the sales that I've done that eBay has charged Sales tax for your area sometimes for the monitor So that's if you're already paying a high price for the monitor Then you got to think about that too. Is it am I going to be taxed or if I'm getting this transported across Some kind of line of a border That's outside of the country am I gonna have to pay a tariff most likely so check those out See what your normal tax rate is for your area and then I'm gonna have notes on some of the monitors that were sold Highlights some specific monitor sales and I didn't list this on the details But then we're gonna look at everything at the end and we're gonna see you know what's actually happened in the market I'm gonna give you some more tips that if you're looking for a monitor What's the best way to get the best price on one and then we're gonna keep going and that'll be it for this today's episode so first thing let's jump into some sales data right away and The first thing I want to look at here. Oh, excuse me real quickly is the sales data for Ekigami CRT monitors and again, I want to say something else. I've highlighted like smaller monitors in the past I did not go through if they were not, you know 14 inches or 13 inches or larger and if they did not have Pretty much RGB. I left them off this month's Statistics, okay, so let's just go back into this Ekigami data. Okay, you have five sales of noteworthiness During that time period for Ekigami The first ones are just some standard not I know just regular RGB monitors what I will warn people is that these ones are not gonna Look the same as like, you know these higher this higher end one the one I have highlighted in the middle is the highest end one and it is HTML and that is Or the HTM 1517 are and that is the model that's pictured over here on the side That is a high definition or multi-format monitor So it'll go from 240p all the way up to 1080i so it's on the level with you know your 14L 5 PVM and then of course any BVM that is a multi-format also This is that's this version the other ones, you know, they're going for about 300 Plus dollars I mean the prices are all over the place on this one because a lot of people just aren't aware of what they are So this is a monitor you can get a deal on but you have to be careful We'll warn you because some of the monitors just don't you know it some of them. It can be really old and I don't personally feel like the shadow mask to Ages as well as a Trenatron tube and what I mean is is I just personally I think the Trenatrons can look a little bit better after you know even after 20-30 years and sometimes You get a little bit more washed-out look earlier You know at least in my experience with some time some shadow mask tubes I'm not saying you're gonna have that problem with this but I've noticed on my old Which are come from the 80s my old ikigamis just they just don't look any good that good But any monitor from the 80s would look probably bad. Okay, so This one is our HTMLR sale that was $500. Okay. This was the actual sale right here $500 sale and I brought this up because I thought this monitor should have easily sold for a little bit more than 500 with shipping But you could see what the issue was It said it worked fine. It wasn't tested but when they had their patterns brought up It was all red. So it looked like just the red gun was firing I don't really know anything about this monitor because I haven't had the pleasure of working on this specific version So maybe it was an easy fix for anybody who owns one of these and they thought they'd get another one But I just wanted you to know that there was a reason that the price was $500 Because normally this monitor would sell for at least two three hundred dollars more if it was in really good condition Now I did try to scourge the internet and find some anything noteworthy of a JVC monitor sale And so some of you may know that there are some JVC monitors that are pretty good This was really the only decent one that I could have find worth noting and it was a DTV 170 or 1710 CG again a Completely multi-format monitor that will go all the way from 240 to 1080 I and this one Actually was fully loaded it had a cards for the original RGB card and You know S video and analog video card with it and even maybe an SDI input on there So this is a very good monitor again The price is 850 because I don't know the exact price of it It was listed for like $1,200 but a best offer was accepted and eBay removed the Exact amount of a best offer. So I was guessing that this would have gone for about 850 because I don't feel like Somebody would have just put a really low bid in there and gotten approved. It did include shipping It said so anyway, that's about it for the non-sonies. There really wasn't a lot of movement at least of anything that was quality I couldn't find really any good panasonics that were sold And that that has more to do with just the market not being there where there's no more inventory on a lot of those and We're really running low on them. So another great PVM that I have featured is the Olympus oe v Model and we've got sales data here for the Olympus and I'm gonna go through here and show you What we've got we've got three one for three sales, which are 14-inch monitors and those are the same as a 14 m2 MDU medical version and then the 203 which is the 20 m2 MDU medical version, but I Wanted to show you there is one outlier here that is extremely cheap for an eBay sale And that was this March 8th one that I underlined and that was for $250 it was the only one out of any of these monitors that was game tested It was sold by a gamer, but it was a local pickup in New Mexico So you'll notice a lot of times in here when there are outliers like that It is because they're locally done and locally picked up Some other information of importance here these Olympus monitors most of the time came from Recycling facilities I could tell they were sold by recyclers. So that means they came off of lab or medical equipment They were never used for gaming most likely up till you know somebody buys them now And they're largely untested beyond being turned turned on for power So keep an eye on these Olympuses I always do because they tend to they're really great monitors the same thing and you'll see how much less these are actually selling for then the M2s you line directly from Sony and This is just a little bit more you could see what the pictures looked like on the listing Sometimes you just get a picture from the front and you wouldn't even see the screen turned on and other times you'd get Pictures like this where it would be some wacky color green on that picture. So that was for example the $400 Sale $390 sale of the Olympus monitor. That's that one. So just some information there about that now we're going to go into some BVM sales and To be quite honest with you there weren't again a ton of sales There was just you know, we're running low on the inventory of these higher quality monitors, which I'll speak to more at the end But we did have a colossal sale on eBay and that was for this D 341 or I W you monitor and that was 3750 dollars and it was local pickup only so Just so you know that and then we've got two 14 f5 views one was best offered at 375 the other was 460 so again, that isn't a completely analog BVM and very nice 14-inch BVM, but you're only gonna get 480 I and 240p out of that model and So that's kind of why the the price is a little bit lower and matches more along the lines of 14 inch PVM Now the last one here is a 20 f1u. It was best offered But that one was listed for way high. I mean that was the shipping cost total was 21 48 So there's 20 inches and above Especially on BVMs. It's really difficult to find unless you get a local sale or Something else like that similar. It's really getting me difficult to find a good Low, you know any kind of low price on anything over 14 inches, especially in a good work at BVM now Let's look at some of that m2 data that I was mentioning before when it came to that Olympus oe v and That is the 14 m2 and the 14 m4 u sales. These just generally have a ton of sales but Again, there's still a few these monitors on eBay But the we're really getting lower and lower and lower on the number available each, you know quarter The there's become less and less and less of these listed on eBay So during this time frame, we had nine total sales of the 14 inch m series monitor for m2 use or five m4 use and That's the price. There wasn't a huge price difference between the two. Those are the average prices 430 to 460 now, what does that mean? That means I'll tell you exactly. I've got my list here We got one that went for $334 one that went for $548 one that went for $358 and one that went $480. That's all the m2 sales all four of them So that'll tell you that you're going to be paying the lowest prices were $334 for a shipped one and barely tested just to power on or one that might be fully tested and has a good listing Going for as high as $548. That's a big price difference there So you definitely can save some money, but again the lowest price in two that was sold 14 inches 334 dollars shipped that was working and then the m4 use There were some Lower priced sales on there that kind of threw the average off a little bit So I'm going to show you because and then there were some that went crazy high So that a $460 average out of five sales. We had a $503 sale of $450 sale. There was a $270 sale of a 14m for you that was a local pick up and then there was one that went on there for $240 okay, so that was an instance where somebody had it listed and just didn't know what it was and had it even power tested I never saw the listing, but it went for only $240 so there's an example of somebody that was just patient watched ebay found one for cheap bought it $240 for 14 and for you as a steal because a month later in April one the very last sale was $732 $732 for a shipped 14m for you that was not restored and it wasn't sold by either myself or save on Pat It was just another Actually used audio video equipment company, so there's an idea of the m4 use I will mention quickly that is a price increase over last quarter's numbers of almost 30% Especially on those 14m to use the last average price for those was under $300 shipped for one There was tons of them sold and again, I think the price was about $290 so you got a big jump there especially on the m2's, but there's still an opportunity sometimes to find one It's just far a few and far between All right, so let's take a look at some other Sony pvms that are 14 inches that were RGB That's sold so we got 1350s There was a couple sales of that monitor and they average 290s, so that's in that's a still a pretty good monitor in the 50 series But it's very much the lowest end of the 50 series, so you're gonna get a lower TV line count I believe that's a 450 line tube on that monitor still does RGB But it doesn't have as many of the features as the 51 Q or the 54 Q Which both sold for surprisingly about the same price so that whole family of 50 series I couldn't find any 53s of note that were clean and sold, but there you've got another 7 monitors selling for between 270 294 and that's that's a little pretty even where the place was the lowest I will tell you where there was a 1354 Q that actually sold online Shipping was a hundred and seventy eight dollars, so that was extremely cheap It's the best deal on that one and there was a 1351 Q that was sold locally for a hundred and thirty dollars So that was a pretty good deal for whoever wound up getting that one Some other things to note there wasn't I haven't seen as many L2 series during this quarter only one 14 inch sold for 350 makes sense and Then there were some 14 in six use that are selling for actually more than the 51 Q's and 54 Q's and Honestly, I preferred the 54 Q to the n6 you if you had a choice between the two or they were the same shape The only thing is is the n6 is a newer monitor most of the time than those Q's and 50 series So take that into consideration All right Let me get myself out of the way make sure you could see all this information. We've got the 20m twos and The 20m for you sales data. These are the exact sales of these two monitors first up We got five sales of the 20m to so again When people say, you know, hey, how much of these costed this is how much they're costed, you know, just because you don't You know, you think the value might be too high. It doesn't matter. It's that's this is literally hard data. So The 20m to you. Let's just look at these quickly 647 806 426 457 599 and 8. Well, that's all 20m for use But there's a big price difference the lowest 426 the highest 806 and again, none of them were restored But this is all just a diff. This is a difficult thing to do ship a big monitor and really anybody who gets a Sony pvm 20m to for less than four hundred fifty dollars and it arrives shipped and fine You consider yourself to have gotten a steal or a great deal Because honestly it costs a lot of money to safely pack and ship these so these people did not really make any money Or not much money unless they got the monitors for pretty much nothing Which is a lot of times what happens with these resellers on eBay and Let's look quickly at the last three, which are the m4s, which is the 800 line all analog monitor from Sony and They have three sales there the lowest being the last one at 534 one before that for almost twice that and then a Local pickup for eight hundred and fifty dollars. So this one was an outlier to where someone got one for five hundred and thirty-four dollars Cret an incredible deal when you consider that one sold just two to three or three weeks four weeks earlier for almost twice as much keeping on those again, that's very condition heavy and Don't want to buy One and it's been that kind of money for something That's just not in good shape So make sure that if you are looking at those you end up with a good shape and one in shape But just some really incredible price numbers there on that 20 and 4 and m2 you and again those have gone up Significantly since there's not as many sales data on the monitors has been in the past just a couple of large sales really Kicks the average up on the price. So here's some other finishing up with these analog only Sony PVM sales. We've got a 1354 Q had three sales average five hundred and ten dollars They were all pretty much right around that number 2030s prices of 2030 Surprisingly has gone up and that I don't really know why but it's maybe something to do with the aesthetics but You're looking at it easily now and over six hundred dollar average on general on eBay for a 2030 now 2030s and you can find them generally sometimes one will pop up for four hundred dollars or So used to but now They're definitely where the three sales for an average of six hundred and then I wanted to point out these larger monitor sales We had three of them a 2950 and 225 30s the 225 30s went for about the same price nearly 670 dollars was the average. I mean One was 600 one was 750 And the 751 did include some speakers. So They were both local though no shipping on there and even the sellers would not ship that monitor same thing with the 2950 $950 local sale Still really difficult to get those monitors and if you find one in your area that works, it's worth grabbing All right, here's some of my favorites the multi formats You get myself out of the way just so you can see all the data here First off, this is the 1405 and it is by far my well one of my favorite 14 inch PVMs or even BVMs because it has such a beautifully small form factor You'll notice put I'm about to do some research or you know show you some videos where I'm comparing all the multi formats that Sony made because now I have them all and You'll be blown away by how much smaller in just frame size The 1405 is compared to like the a series or even the D series BVMs So that's going to be a great video, but here's the L5s man April and early May was a huge month for the L5s five sales Let's go through the numbers here because people have been telling me that they think this is just a $300 monitor in my discussion boards, but they're they're way off for you know retail on this Multi-format monitor the price has gone up April 1st 550 April 25th 609 April 25th also was the 393 Which was the video I did about my purchase of my 1405 and that was negotiated down from about $600 list price 1405 again on April 27th for 500 and then another one on May 7th for $770 so again they're all over the place between 500 and Almost $800 so I do have another listing on here for a fortune or an L5 and I'll show you here Soon, but it's not included on these datas and there is a specific reason for that because it was restored so let's get into some restored monitors and Show you some highlighted sales now. Everybody here might recognize this one. This was a restoration project I did and it sold it was a Sony PVM 14 n6u that is a hundred percent recapped 100 or well there was one cap I didn't replace because I couldn't get it so it's 99.5 percent recapped and Fully calibrated great condition. I have installed a newer tube in it and so 500 people like oh my goodness five hundred twenty dollars. Well, that's still new tube calibration and Fully recapped it That's still is a good deal. So That's a lot of effort put into it and again if you even buy one of these they go for you know $300 and then you're adding all again What I just told you most of them won't have the newer tube in them and they won't be professionally checked out and they won't be Professionally recapped. So there's the example on that sale I've got a couple other ones to highlight here like I said there was a 14 L5 that sold for 874 Dollars and that was from our buddy mr. Save on Pat himself That's the listing right here. You can tell his listings all look high quality and they look the same So but just make sure that if you do get on there and find a listing it looks like this that it's coming from save on Pat Because there has been a bit of a shadiness going on where people are like copying his listings and listing them online for quick sales And these high-end monitors especially out of the country somebody from Canada was doing it and kept getting called out for it But you know, we'll talk about that in a second, but I just want to highlight this This one was just professionally serviced by save on Pat and again the 14 L5 for 874 dollars shipped and of course he had a couple of other monitors a 20 L5 to so another one of the greats and this one sold for $1,650 and that was a local pickup. So no shipping there $1,650 so when people you know say how much is a 20 L5 and someone's like well a good price for a Recapt one is a thousand dollars Well, honestly, you're off. Okay a good price for a recapt one shift brought to you is going to be at least $2,000 now, okay. There's just a huge limit on the number of those 20 L5s and currently Even me I have a list of people that are willing to pay $2,000 a piece for them. I just don't have the monitors They there's literally a list of two or three people that want them so badly and I just don't have them available myself or I would provide it for them and that's So so a 20 L5, you know, honestly if I found a 20 L5 You know, that was for a thousand bucks and somebody had up a day were restored I'd probably buy them just so I could get them to these other people that are on my list of people and that would be You know a great profit. So there's not any reason To go through and think that you're good. I mean if you find one for, you know, a thousand bucks It's working good. You should grab it All right, and then finally we've got the highlighted BVM sale that is this huge BVM this D24 E1U that was WUU that came with the remote is fully loaded Reserviced refurbished by Save On Pat and again $3,750 and there was no shipping in that so that was a local pickup out in California And I just love seeing that kind of a sale because it just doesn't happen very often Especially on eBay and especially one that you know is going to be legitimate And that's what this is when involved Save On Pat. So those are the huge huge restoration sales from this quarter and I've got of course some big takeaways here. Sorry for the silly little bar graph thing on the picture But let's see if you can go through and read these with me First off most Sony PVM and BVMs have increased in price Exponentially I just showed you on the M series that was enough to throw in some good data where we had over a 30% price increase in a quarter and Then other monitors that are going for just huge amounts of money are the 20 inch ones especially a good 20 inch one that means a 20 m2 a 20 m4 and Definitely anything that's higher quality than that The best deals are still going to be your local sales And that's because you're going to save anywhere from 150 to 200 plus dollars on your shipping and freight charges and you're also going to avoid the risk of Having it damaged or destroyed So just take that into consideration if you find something that's local to you and you want to buy it Don't wait go ahead and get it because again somebody else will some people are driving I was listening people talk about driving 400 plus miles one direction just to get a monitor and then driving home. So You know people are doing desperate things to get them, especially if they're cheap So if one comes available locally, that's the way to do it your best prices locally are going to be usually retro gamers that want to get rid of a monitor they sell them for pretty decent to local people and then obviously the still old school ways of trying to go out and hit up every local Instance of every local industry that might still have had any of these in stock whether that's some kind of medical facility or medical wholesale supplier or Medical resupplier reseller and then of course anybody in the audio and video Industry that still would have these okay Good things come to those who are persistent and random and what I mean by that is the People are persistently checking on eBay every day. Maybe twice a day for new listings. Those are the ones who are getting the best deals That's obvious. I mean ran because random great deals are available. Like I said, we had some incredible deals where you had a 14m for you go for $240 shipped that's an incredibly random deal that somebody got on there some other Incredibly good random deals would have been the hundred seventy eight dollars for a 1354 queue and of course nearly all those Olympus mod well half the Olympus sales were incredible deals too because People just aren't searching for that as much as the name known monitors like the Sony's Restored monitors are selling for more and a premium price and that's a good thing for me and Pat Because that means we can still keep doing this and people still want to get them So that's actually a good thing that they are selling for more And it's a way for you to add value to your monitor if you go and buy one and you get it for cheap You think well if I can do what Steve's taught me or shown in any number of his videos on restoration If I can do that to my monitor, it's gonna instantly add three four hundred dollars in value to the monitor depending on which monitor is easily I I've said this a few times, but supplies are still extremely limited on larger monitors and better monitors And I don't see that changing there's no Place that is shown up with large amounts of stock anymore and our friend mr. Nick he Who you know you've seen some of my episodes in the past about? CRT sells Sales on eBay would have definitely involved the only shop first watch all those other names this guy was using to change up his store Well, he's gone from eBay So he's not even providing monitors back to eBay He must be running low or just holding on to his stock, which I doubt I think it's more of him running out of monitors Most top-end monitors are not being shipped outside of like a 14 inch Most people are just not willing to ship those top-end monitors, especially anything that's multi-format and over 20 inches, okay? And it's not a good idea to really do it even if you trust your shipping company You're still going to be taking a risk no matter what Be cautious about deals that are too good to be true because scams still do exist And I've had people send it to me where again if something's listed and it's too good to be true And you're getting shady information from the seller or no information back when you message them Don't feel bad if the sales gone and you missed the deal because most likely it was something shady involved always check people's feedback Definitely check what else they have listed for sale make sure that it's not a bunch of bogus looking stuff Ask them if they do know how to pack it. There's nothing wrong with putting a message on there and saying hey how do you plan on packing my monitor and Can I you know some people would even pack it better if you do that because they know you're paying attention So those are just some quick tips. The last thing I do want to show you is Etsy because There are some PVMs and BVMs for sale on Etsy and we just talked about our friend Nick and I'm sure some of you will recognize these listings because they've all moved over here to Etsy and Nick's over here slinging his wares on Etsy now and so these are just the monitors that he had listed at the time of this video and still super high prices and I know that He doesn't pre-service these he offers to take him to save on Pat for you and let's save on Pat charge you more to Fix them, which is fine for Pat because but you know just so you know these prices are gonna be extremely high for him and He didn't have much left. He had one 20. Oh five still listed down here at the bottom, but there's our famous Sonic 2 picture and Here's just the last photo of his listing page, which I thought was kind of quite kind of funny here because It's cause this is a CZC so many PVM and BVM enthusiasts So he's trying to remarket himself over here, which is fine on Etsy. I don't care He's getting better feedback on here and kind of hit reset So just know that that is what you're looking at for PVM and BVM sales I will warn anybody that buys something on Etsy. I've gone over there like return policy and customer service policy It's nothing like eBay's so you're not nearly as guaranteed on the protection of your money You'd have to pretty much rely on doing a PayPal transaction and again. I'm not sure Whether there's a direct pay option. I've never even bought anything off of Etsy. So Anyway, make sure you're familiarize yourself with The rules and know what risks you're taking when you use that but that folks is our big-time episode for MarketWatch this month and So hopefully you can see just kind of what prices are doing and it takes some of those tips and try again Don't be in a rush To get one if you find out about BVMs and PVMs Don't be any huge rush to go buy one sit back watch some of these things because the worst thing you can do is get Into a rush overpay for a monitor that's not as good as the price is asked and then have a bad shipping disaster And then all the sudden you've gone from something you really wanted and we're enjoying to or try to enjoy to play and it's It's just been messed up Now that's it for this episode. Hey, if you stayed with me this point, please make sure you like and You know subscribe and all that stuff to the channel But if you have any experiences you want to share about sales, maybe you've bought in the last two months And you want to add it, please do so in the comments.  Did you feel like it was a good deal? How did you find the monitor? There are some other places to still find monitors There's a reddit page that has CRT listings in a CRT Enthusiasts page on there. There's a new Facebook page that's taken the name CRT market watch and put that on as their name So look for that group. They're sharing listings from all over the world in there So you can look into Exporting but remember export is gonna take longer usually and then you're gonna have to deal with tariffs depending on the Negotiations between your governments of your country and the country you're taking it from and so there will be a specific tariff Applied to the price which could be high depending on how much you paid for a monitor because there are a lot of good monitors that are Multi-format and larger that are still available overseas. But again, leave me a comment Let me know what you think whether you've had a good sale experience or anything like that and guys I'll see you all next time with some more retro content. Have a great day


the quality of this video I as I always say I hate filming the screen with a camera but I want to show this running on a real machine not in a virtual machine I have a flash drive here my laptop's off I'm going to turn it on and I'm going to choose my boot device on my particular computer it's by hitting F12 at boot time but of course that varies from machine to machine and I am going to choose to boot from USB and what's on this flash drive is an installation of grub with an ISO file ISO file is a live version of Debian you see I have two options in here because I've configured grub in two different ways I'm going to hit E to go into edit mode for this first one here to show you so we're sending some parameters you can see that I'm setting the ISO file the ISO file in this particular case is in the root folder of my USB flash drive but it could be placed in a sub folder if you want to put your ISOs in to separate folders so they're not clearing up the root directory if you're going to use the USB drive for other things and then the loop back loop and then the ISO so we're setting a variable called ISO file and it's pointing to the ISO file and then we're using that that variable so you could write right here you could write Debian dot slash Debian ISO but we're getting a variable because we're using that in two different places so it's easier if you yeah use a variable as normal so what's happening here is grub is going to be mounting this ISO file and then within that ISO file it's going to find the Linux kernel that's why that says Linux there and in Debian it's well here it's going to be on a loop back device it's going to be on this device in a folder called live and it's called VM L I N U Z 1 there's a another kernel on this distribution which has the same thing but two at the end because there's more than one boot option in there and one's the installer this is for the live distribution I've done tutorials before on booting stuff like this and I'm drawing a blank I always thought say sys linux or sys lin or something like that is what's a different bootloader you can use and when you get the ISO it has a config file in there I've shown previous videos so you get this information from there but let's go over this so we're loading up the links kernel with some boot options that live and configure I got that out of the off the live CD there and we're saying from ISO we're saying that the ISO file again here is under dev and it's on the second hard drive sdb and the first partition and the ISO file and they were loading up the initial RAM disk from that same drive under that folder live and as in it ram 1.img in the case of Debian of course you have to look at what's on the ISO to figure out what's to put in the grub config file so what's happening here is grub boots and grub is what mounts your ISO file once it's mounted it's mounted like any other drive and you just have to point the bootloader to the proper kernel and give it the proper parameters that you want and the initial RAM disk now this was my first solution looking at stuff online I'm not that great with with grub I mean it looks so simple but you do one thing wrong and it won't boot properly but this is from ISO here and I'm pointing it directly to the ISO on a particular hard drive this will cause problems if you have multiple hard drives sorry for the blurriness there if you have multiple hard drives multiple USB drives and maybe this USB drive won't be sdb and maybe have more than one partition so it will be sdb1 so that's why I didn't like that so I spent a little time and looked around and there in newer versions of grub there is another option and I escape here I'm gonna go down to the second option and hit E to add that and it's almost identical except for instead of saying from ISO I say find ISO and just pass it the ISO variable that we set up here so this should work regardless of what hard drives you have in there so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna boot this option by hitting either F10 or control X I'll hit control X and it's booting from the command list and it's loading up just like any other distribution of Linux of course is running as a live CD so as far as this is concerned it's it's a live CD running off a USB drive it's a ISO file the ISO file is mounted again it loads the kernel to RAM the initial RAM disk and then the initial RAM disk will find you're at the file system in this case it's a squash file system it's squash right or squish I think it's squash a squash file system which is very common among live CDs and any second here also this is the what I get the LXDE yeah the the LXDE desktop version of it but this should be the same config for grub no matter what desktop version you download of Debian and there you go we got Debian running off the USB drive as an ISO file benefits of this as opposed to doing other way like using UnetBooten is it's not as cluttered you get an ISO file and you can put multiple ISO files in there and you have to configure the grub file properly and it's different for each distro so using the grub file for this is not going to work on Debian or Ubuntu for one example is that the Debian live puts its kernel and its RAM disk in a folder called live where Ubuntu uses a folder called Casper I believe that Linux Mint uses a folder called Casper as well so you'd be pointing to the wrong place plus they their kernels and their initial RAM disk have slightly different names but as you can see you can boot Debian off an ISO file I've given more in detailed instructions if you just search through my videos for multi-boot there's a few different videos where I do different ways of multi-booting USB drives so thanks for watching again sorry for the quality this was just I wanted to show this running on a real machine on a virtual machine just to show that it does work thanks for watching as always I hope you have a great day and please visit filmsbychrist.com that's Chris Decay check out the links in the description also put a link in the description to the grub file that I created for this USB drive so you can copy and paste it and will hopefully work in less years from now they changed the setup on that live CD thanks for watching


Because why y'all say? Am I available? No, baby, I'm not. I know. Who's baby? I'm stuck. Like. Straighten, straighten, yo. Don't not get straightened, but straightened. Don't not get straightened, but straightened. Don't not get straightened, but straightened. Straight, you don't get straightened, straightened. And this gang said fat, be patient. Gang, niggas act like the gang went vacant. Niggas act like something fake. Back to my channel. Today's video is gonna be the start of the vlog. If y'all watched my, I think vlogmas, I was talking about trying weekly blogging. This is no promise. This is just me. Gonna try to start at the beginning of the week this week and see how this weekly blogging will go. If you're new here, hey girl, my name's Akira Jenae. Don't forget to subscribe and join the family before you leave, okay? We would love to have you over here.  Just because, honestly. I had curl my hair Saturday night. It's actually Monday. It's noon. It's 12, 22 in the afternoon. Didn't plan to get up a little bit earlier, but girl, it's raining right now. And y'all know, it just, it's just been feeling too good to get out your bed when it's raining. So hopefully I think it's like down a little bit. This is gonna be an exciting weekly vlog, I believe, because we are gonna be home decor shopping and getting back into apartment stuff that I'm very excited about. And I know you guys are too. It's from a JVP collection. Okay, I'll always link down below. But, sorry, girl. My eyes are burning. If y'all don't follow me on Instagram, definitely don't follow me on Instagram. My Instagram is at underscore Akira with three A's. Let's see how it'll look. I say follow me because I usually post little stuff like this to ask y'all. So, basically I had said, what other videos do y'all wanna see for 2024? I see that y'all really like the Sunday resets, reset videos type of videos like that. A lot of y'all had responded back to me, so I didn't share them or anything because this is just for, you know, me. So a lot of y'all, it was like shopping videos, getting a life, maybe get ready with me for day night, updated Q and A, business video advice. I do have entrepreneur videos coming up and planned, updated Q and A, an actual grocery shopping video.  Because why y'all say an actual grocery shopping video, not just pick up? Y'all know I do not like go in the stores no more. Like, girl, I can't do it, I'm sorry. And I got my little sheen, little mini phone ring light on. Anyways, I'm gonna do that. I wanted to do that as well today because I do need to meal prep for the rest of the week. I work tomorrow and the next day, so Tuesday and Wednesday, so I'm gonna need to meal prep. So I do need to go to Sims and I need to go to Sims to actually give me my actual physical card. Cause, yeah, I usually, like I say, just been doing pick up. So, you know, already logged into my account. Anyways, so y'all were saying budget finances at a YouTube videos, pampering day, travel vlogs, Q and A, deep cleaning, weekend, week in your life. So what I'm doing right now, when was the last time you did natural hair video, anything home decor related, self care.  So I kind of already know what y'all want, but it's like, I like to hear it from y'all to make sure I'm on the right track. So today, we're gonna go to HomeGoods. Maybe Sam's, if I fill up to it. Like, I don't like doing a lot of stuff in the rain. So tomorrow I may just save most of my, like, errands for in the morning cause I have something to eat for tonight. And it's literally supposed to be raining all day long. And tomorrow, Tuesday, just say it's gonna be very windy. So we'll probably wake up early tomorrow and go nails, toes, and what I say, go to Sam's. But I do wanna go do some a little bit of shopping today. I ain't been at HomeGoods since last year. And that's not even like being one of them people. It's literally like, I don't think I went to HomeGoods at all in like, December or anything. Like, I think it was like November, October, you know? So yeah, we definitely gotta go do that. And I would like to find some hairspray because the hairspray that I have just isn't doing it anymore because like my curls are really cute right now but they're gonna fall by the end of today if I don't like spray them. This is the Aussie Mega hairspray. I've had, I've had this for years. And I know it is probably bad to even still be trying to spray this because like, I don't even know if y'all can see the rust up on there. Like I've had this, I've been out of college for a couple of years now. My freshman year college was 2016. I definitely feel like I had this around freshman and sophomore year college. So I need to find a freaking hairspray. The other things that I need is, I'll tell y'all when we get there because I already been talking for five minutes. I'll talk to y'all when we get to the car because I thought I would have to curl my hair again with that little, this T3. I'm telling y'all, she be doing her big one. So I don't even have to really curl my hair. I'm gonna do like this little piece right here. And that's it. I still gotta take prints out. He just got done eating.  So yeah, he is all out of shampoo. Gotta get him that, think he's good on dog bags. So I think other than that we're good but we do have some home decor items that we are searching for. Girl, I just got back in the house from walking prince. It's cold. Like it's still sprinkling and yes, it's gonna rain on and off all day. So I had him a little letterman jacket and then I got this little, it's a crop top, yes, but with my pants, so how wasted it a little down but my pants got ripped in them.  So I'm about to put on my other little bitty pretty little thing, two pieces that I got last year. I've already wore the, I think in my first vlog for this year, I wore my brown one in the vlog. So now we're about to wear the black one. Excuse prince, he's going crazy. And don't mind my apartment behind me. I am also recording a deep clean with me video today after I get back from doing all of my little window shopping and or shopping for the apartment if you know what I'll find. That's why I said tomorrow I'm gonna go and get my nails and toes and stuff done because I do really need to deep clean. So I'm about to change into this real quick and I'll be back. Okay, it's 121 now. I've been trying to do boomerangs, pictures and stuff like that. I would like to take a picture today, but like my face ain't done, like for the gram. This will be working with though, let me turn this off. So it was, it is so cold outside, but I got on my little Letterman jacket, pretty little thing, two-piece set. And then I got on some vans and then this is my only literally black bag. So we're rocking out with this. And then my glasses, I did a whole haul on like six, seven pairs of glasses that I got. I need some perfume. I'm about to put on my little combo that I wore on Saturday.  And I'm like, thank you, honey, I'm just out. But what I wore, I like to combine the dossier floral lavender. I forgot which actual perfume this is supposed to be like a mug of, but as y'all can see, girl, I be, yeah, I'd be spraying this real bad. And then I also got this from that collab I did with Synths Angels, or Synth Angel, Synths Angel. This smells really good. I forgot what smell this was. It's vanilla as well as this one. Y'all can go watch a video. I got a whole separate video of me showing these perfumes, but I like to mix these two. It's the perfect combination. Smells so good. And I literally sat on him and he was like, mm, you smell good. Yes, that's exactly what I wanted here, baby. And I also, I'm getting some more perfume sent from dossier, but I can't remember if I picked this one out or not, because this is my favorite one. I picked out four more for them to send me, but I did it while I was at work. And I wish I would have remembered or took a picture of that one, because that one smells amazing. I'm about to head out now. It's already literally one o'clock, and by the time I get back, it's gonna be probably dark outside, because there's no sun out. It's dark already, so I know four o'clock is gonna be freaking pitch black, so. And I also need to, I got to post a video today, but I need to do time stamps, so that's why I'm trying to hear if I'm going home goods. I'm gonna get gas today. Yeah, we'll just see where everything takes us. I'm about to take my little light off, because I'm not taking this out with me. All right, and I'm trying to record a TikTok today as well. I don't know why, I'm gonna wait til Monday. I gotta go to work tomorrow. I wanna wait til the day to where I gotta prep and get ready to go to work tomorrow. I wanna record a TikTok today, a deep clean with me, and the start of a weekly vlog. What am I tripping on? I don't know, but we about to go girl, because I'm burning up. I got my heat on and I'm in all of this. Yeah, let's go, let's go. The box is that one. 16, 19. Cheap of the Amazon, I can tell you that. Come for that, but we're gonna get it. Yeah, that looked the same. And the other box cheaper, I think, yeah. Or is that the, is that the same one? No. No, okay, yeah. Thank you. How much is it gonna be? This is a trash can, that one's $59. I'm not trying to pay over $30.  Bro, I'm looking at trash twice a day. One more, because this even, this is more, that says, this is $79.99, it's $13.2. Let's see you. Show's in the home store, because, oh, it got two waste baskets in it, though. Right. So obviously, you guys can see that it is raining. And I just got out of home goods. Ain't no telling how long I've been up in there. I'm gonna have to look at these clips or something. I've been in there for a long while, because it's literally $3.29. And my job had text me, my job text me 40 minutes ago and asked me, could I come in tonight? Am I available? No, baby, I'm not. So that was 40 minutes ago, and I was already in there for a good hour. So I've probably been in there for about two hours. Like I said, I ain't been in home goods in a minute, so I wanted to look around and see what they got. I spent, my budget was to sit $100. I spent $98. I got everything except for the trash can. So Walmart, it shows that they have one for $50. So I'm gonna go ahead and go buy that. I'm starving. So yeah, I'm about to, let me just go ahead and taste them back. I really need to go, but I got stuff to do. Like they don't ever, like if y'all was to ask me that this morning, then yeah, I would have definitely came. But I wanna pick up like Friday or this Saturday. Like I don't wanna work a Monday, especially now when it's like storming and stuff either. I may go ahead and just go to Sam's first, because I do gotta take a picture and I need to get in there and get my chicken breast. And I think that's all I need out of Sam's is that chicken breast. Because everything else, y'all know, I just did that big grocery shopping haul. So like I got everything else. So no worries, thank you for responding. Yeah, you're welcome. All right, let's go, cause I'm hungry.  And I'm about to eat one and then say, but I'm going to Bayhouse as well this week. So I don't know, we'll see. But I can't talk to y'all while driving in the rain. So I'll talk to y'all when we get to Sam's in Walmart. I don't know if I told y'all, my job takes me and asks me if I can come in. No, baby, I cannot because when I do try to pick up, y'all always cancel me. So don't ask me, okay. I'm about to do a quick haul. I need to scan my receipt though. And my fifth app is always linking my bio if y'all want to sign up so we can both get some points. But I spent $98. They're probably going to give me 25 points. You begin the most points when you go like grocery shopping because they be having special items on like an extra point thingy or whatever. I don't know. I'm going to give y'all a freaking haul because I'm super excited to unbox all of this stuff. My total today was like about $150 for like all of this stuff. So obviously first y'all can see it got rained on. I got a new trashcan. It's a 13 gallon. The brand is nine stars. It's the one to where you can literally just swipe your hand across a little bit, motionless or whatever motion sensor trashcan. I got this from Walmart actually. Walmart, it was on sale for $55 regular, like 60. I don't know if I showed y'all the trashcans or if I, I think I did a clip but I don't know if y'all can hear me, but the trashcans and home goods like started 60 and up for like a 10 gallon, 7.8 gallon. Like the one that I actually needed was down there $100, baby. I'm not about to pay $100 for a trashcan. Like I'm sorry, but I want it stainless steel because all of my appliances are stainless steel, obviously y'all know that. And then the trashcan that I have right now is this one. I've had this trashcan for years, like four plus years probably. It's time to let her go.  I hate having to touch the trashcan. So I am glad that I got lucky and found a motion sensor trashcan because you know why you cooking and stuff? Like even if I don't touch it, like let's say I'm throwing away like a piece of paper or something. If I touch the paper on the trashcan, let's say like the paper guy throw up on it. The throw up was already on the trashcan. Like I hate that type of stuff. So I literally got lucky with this one. I'm super excited. So I got that and then from home goods. I'm gonna just take everything out. She didn't bag anything. Okay, from Sam's Club, I didn't take out any of them because it was raining girls. Y'all know I love this chicken breast. The Italian style herb grilled chicken breast. Mine is 1043. You can buy it. They have different prices just per pound. So one, two, three, four, five. It's five in here. It looks like it's kind of like frozen. My last one I don't think was frozen. It might've just came up. But anyways, 210 calories, 32 grams of protein. Y'all better get on it. And I also calculated my meal prep. So I get five chicken breasts, one box of macaroni. I can get three meal prep containers. And then with my potatoes, I only cooked two potatoes that time. Y'all saw me in my Sunday reset. I cooked two potatoes and that got me three meal prep containers as well. So I calculated five meal prep, so five chicken breasts. And I calculated everything. So basically it comes up to like $67 for like the box of macaroni, this, all of that. And I'll be spending $67 per month for 24 meals. Just think about it. Like I'm spending, like if we go out to eat, I'm spending $60 on myself to go out to eat. So spending $60 for five meals each week for the whole month. So like for 24 meals, that's insane. So it's just crazy to think about like how much money we really be spending on food. When we go out, like that one meal is it could feed me for the whole month. So yeah, I'm gonna be buying these weekly though. Like I said, I just calculated like $10 for each week. So it's four weeks in a month. So I just calculated that so that it'd be $40. And then one box of macaroni gives me three meal preps. So obviously I'm gonna need two more. So I just did like two bucks in macaroni. Like I calculated everything. So each dinner plate that I make for meal prep, that'll be $2.88 for my whole entire lunch.  Like it's just crazy. Like I can just get into a whole school about that. But girl, like we are really paying so much these days to go out to eat. I also stopped by my mailbox, got my meal. Somebody had most of that meal not even mine. One of the people used to live here. So yeah, the first thing I got, I'm super excited about, girl. I need to also record this for a TikTok. Girl, I got these. It's a four pack. It holds 22 ounces red wine glasses. Y'all know I only drink red wine. So this was, girl just calling my name. It was 1699. Obviously you can see the brand. Benquit Tuscan. I opened these in the store. I think I was recorded when that lady was like, I'll let, like she was nice.  But girl, I didn't even have to go to Amazon. The ones on Amazon are like $34. Is that the crack? Uh-oh, I might have to take that back. Is that a crack? Yeah, they look like this crack. Okay, I might take these back because I don't, it's a little bitty crack. Yeah, I'll probably take these back and exchange them because I don't want nothing. But anyways, like a pack of four or five of these on Amazon was literally like $34. And I got them for 1699. I thought this was so cute. Like girl, vibes, yeah. The aesthetics, yeah. And it can hold a lot of wine, too. Got is this two piece kitchen drying mat set, two pack for $6.99. I have one, but one that I have is brown. I've had this for a few years, which is cool because, you know, my cabinets and stuff are brown, but she just didgy. Like I've had for a while, she got spice and stuff on her. Yes, I can wash it. Yes. I already know what you're gonna say. Do I want to? No. These, if they get dirty, whatever, yes, I'll wash it. But I really wanted something that kind of just matched a little bit better. Gray does not match, I don't really have anything gray, but I really wanted it because the black one, and it was cheaper to get this two pack rather than the other two pack that was two black ones. So yeah, anyways, they're just dry mats. Y'all know I like to use my dishwasher, but the dishwasher does not clean my glass cups in silverware all too well. Like silverware more so than the glass cups, but my glasses, I just have to hand wash all of those. Like it's still, like they'll be clean, but it'll still be like, I don't know. Like I don't know what it is. Like maybe the stuff out of the actual like dishwasher pod, it kind of seems like, get on there. But yeah, I'm just gonna be cleaning all of my glassware like by hand, so I got that to dry my stuff. Returning to the kitchen steel, I got this pack of mints for $9.99. It's the, I can't even see the brand girl, but silicone oven mints really needed some more oven mints, some that actually match my decor, not no raggedy, janky ones, so got two of these. I also got these for $6.99, they're just towels. I needed some for the stove because I don't have any, and the one that I do have, I only have one. So I wanted a new set of that. I think I got pretended to the kitchen. It's this multi-use four section food storage container from Core Kitchen brand, $5.99. Girl, come on out. So they got like pasta over here, another pasta over here, the fettuccine over here, and then basically whatever you wanna use this for. I thought this would be so cool to really free up the space in my pantry over there because I don't like, I don't be eating that much pasta anyway. So this one container literally will free up all this other space. So basically, I got one for elbows, spaghetti noodles, fettuccine, I got panini noodles, so I'm really excited to start putting this to use. Other two things I got is this Hawaiian Miss Essential Oil bathroom spray for the air in the toilet. So I thought this would be really nice to replace my other one, I'm kinda going low. It was only $3.99, it smells really nice. So you can spray it in the air in the toilet is what really made me get this. And this is just some shampoo for Prince. Y'all know I told y'all that I had to pick up some. It's the Berry and Coconut Deep Cleansing plus Brighton and Pet Shampoo, paraben-free, pH balance is from TropiClean. It smells amazing. Like this was $7.99, granted. But girl, it just smells like, it smells like, I don't even know, just tropical in the berries and it just smells really fresh. So I know every time I use this on Prince, he's gonna smell amazing.  I'm not about to give him a bath now.  Last couple of things I got, girl. They had this at home because they had like four left. I really think I may go back tomorrow and buy another one because like, my couch is pretty big. I'm gonna put it on my couch right now. I wish this was black. If this was black, I'll put it in my room. But I don't know, we'll see. Cause I got white stuff in there. But I know I need two of these. It doesn't matter where I put it, I need two of them. So these are $16.99. And I know I haven't showed y'all my guest room transformation yet because it's not done. But I do have a couch in there. And this would definitely look nice on there.  Maybe just, maybe one or two more. But girl, it is so soft. It's just the not pillow, super soft. Like this is one that you can actually like lay on. And it's the truly low home plus decorative pillow. It don't get no better than this. How sticky cute is that? And then the ultimate reason why I also went in home goods was because I needed a new hamper. My hamper broke on me last night. This just says wash and dry. This was $14.99. The brand is Wellington and Hulk, I believe. So yeah, just the cute little laundry hamper needed it real bad. I also need to record a deep clean today. And it's already about 35 o'clock, girl. So I'm about to be cleaning until like eight o'clock. I need to cook first. I'm gonna cook me one of these chicken breasts. And then I'm also gonna cook macaroni, roasted potatoes. And I'll probably saute some spinach. And that's gonna be my dinner for tonight. And then I'm also gonna be meal prepping this for the rest of the week. So I just got back in from walking Prince outside and girl, Prince is not playing around with the rain. Okay, normally it don't really face him, but it is like really pouring down right now, girl. So it was a man, we kind of like walked around my building but there's a man who didn't have an umbrella or whatever. So he was like running back to our building. And so Prince kind of was like thinking, you know, if it helps if somebody running, they're gonna, you know, run to like start playing. But that's normally the door that we usually come back in in. And so he literally like ran up to the door and was like just sitting there like, girl, let me up in this door. So he went to go outside so bad, he was standing by the door and so he went outside. There mommy of that TikTok or where that dog wanted to go outside really bad. And it was like storming, raining, lightning, thunder and all of that. And then it might've been like a drummer's shampy, I probably don't know how to talk about. And then the dog, he finally ran out there and then as big as she was like, there, go, go, go out there. That's what she wanted or something like that. And then instead of being boom, and like lightning struck and the dog literally like behind took all the way under him and ran back into the house. So that's what they reminded me of. So hilarious.  Let me take it. Anyways, I got my food cooking, roast. I just put some more oil on there. So they're cooking right now. So what I'm about to do is go ahead and pop this chicken breast into the pan over there. Here are my kitchen is just the mess. I haven't ate all day. So I think I want this big one right here. I already got a little bit of oil in there. Pop that mug in now. My macaroni's done. So I got one, two, three, four more chicken breast left. It looks so freaking good. It's already cooked, obviously, the chicken breast, but I like to put it in the pan and add butter, maybe a little bit of salt and pepper, a little oil. And plus when I bought this, it was like in the, not the freezer, but it was kind of like, it had a little bit of ice on there. Or like you can just tell it was really cold. So I like to put it in here to get it extra, extra fresh because I can't, like I couldn't just warm this up in the microwave and eat it like that. Like I have to cook it like this. Plus I like to make a cheese sauce for my roasted potatoes as well as the meat. So when I'm done kind of just heating this up on top of the stove, I'm going to make my own, like kind of like a little cheese sauce or whatever for the potatoes and for the chicken. And I like to make that with heavy whipping cream, my seasonings, a little bit of cheese. So I'm going to let this rest a little bit and then with the flavor from the chicken, I'm just going to go ahead and make the cheese sauce in the same pan. That's a pro tip. I even do this when I'm making like what, use the same thing that your chicken was cooking in, like the same pan to get all of that flavor. So I'm going to do, not much, just going to do a little bit of cheese sauce. Pepper, like to do some garlic powder, a little bit of salt. And we're just going to, it's a lot better before I put the macaroni on there. I'm going to do spinach, but I don't feel like doing it because I'm ready to eat now. And I know I don't really care about vegetables that much anyway, so save it for somebody else. It's 6.50, I'm done eating. I definitely got theitis because girl, I'm really going to take a bath and go to bed. But I have the freaking deep clean. My apartment is a literal mess. It's a literal mess. Y'all will see the deep clean hopefully Thursday, maybe Friday. That's what I'm trying to hear you record it today so that I can edit it all day freaking Tuesday. And hopefully this company know like what I do and you know, just that whole shebang. But yeah, I'm tired. The food got me, not leave me alone, what? He looks so much better after a bath as well. Like he's actually white instead of brown all over now. And then I just like the way his fur be all soft and silky. His ears are still a little bit wet or damp. I guess you can say, hmm, what do you smell good?  Say bye to the people. Say bye. Say bye right here. Hello, bye. All right, I'm gonna talk to y'all a little bit later. I am about to go ahead and switch SD cards and start recording this deep clean with me. Obviously there's gonna be a separate video. So I will see y'all trying to snip. There are a mommy, I was watching Chelsea, Chelsea Jenae and Sebastian then got up on the counter and ate her dang food. And Prince, that's definitely him. He will get anything like, girl, these dogs are just crazy. It don't matter how well you train them or whatever.   Like literally. I just can't even deal. That was the fact that she caught it on camera was hilarious. Prince normally get into like the trash. Like he never really just got into food that I leave out obviously because he is in his biggest Sebastian but I feel like if I was to leave a, like if I was to leave a plate of food out and then go get in the shower, like leave it out like low, he will definitely get it. Hey y'all, it is 11.58 at night. Literally just got done with my deep clean. It took about four and a half hours simply because I was taking some breaks and was recording. It usually takes a minute to record. So I'm gonna try to put together my new stuff or just put up the new stuff real quick. I mean I gotta work the next two days so it really don't matter. I'll be sleep all day.  So I'm not gonna be at home to be able to get anything done. So I was drying my little kitchen towels and these. These are thick. So they took a minute to dry. I washed them as you know, y'all know who hands been touching on that type of stuff. I need to put a lot of clothes actually real quick in the dryer so I was as well. So I'm excited and I'm glad that they're black. I feel like I folded that with a little skin. All right, that's done. I'm tired. Now I gotta take that trash out. Wash the deep clean with me. Y'all should have seen the deep clean with me before this one. But yeah, I'm about to go ahead and unbox these because I'm gonna need this tomorrow.  I'm about to just unbox all this stuff and get it ready to use. I got literally one plate in the freaking sink and I don't even feel like washing it out. I just don't have the energy. I've been out shopping cleaning this apartment all day long. So yeah, we're done with that. Here he go with his toy. Okay, so it's a pretty decent size. I'm glad I got two. I wish they both would have been black, but you know, beggars can't be choosers, can they? Trying to get these little things out of here. I talked to my best friend today. Y'all know, Nikki. So I was on the phone for like an hour while I was at home goods. We both came to the conclusion that she needs to come back home. Okay, like, just drives me insane. So I'm gonna put these up under my little kitchen cabinet there. Don't try to move now, cause you can't get down. I'm excited to use these. We're gonna get my trash can put together. So we're gonna peel this. I feel like it made me feel like buying this stuff today. It just made me feel like how I feel every time I would like, y'all know I moved every year. I'm not moving this shirt up, but y'all know it just makes me feel like that new apartment excitement, you know, furnishing your new place, living in your new place, so. I like to get new stuff every now and again and stuff that like, you know, I actually would need or whatever. Batteries required. Don't forget your batteries. Can I get a triple A or something? Even go, child. Okay, that's how you open it. Yeah, so like, it's really easy putting on this bag because it's easy putting on this bag.  So like these are the kind of big one and like your smoke detectors and stuff. So yeah, I'd be having those double A and triple A. I thought it was gonna take like double A batteries to some girl, so I'm just gonna go ahead and set it up right here. I think, I don't know, because this one is a little bit more slim, but like this one is bulky. So my trash can out showing at all could be quite honest, but at my last apartment, it was kind of hidden under the island so like you couldn't even really see it. And then I remember having it before in my laundry room. Like now that that's like a open and closed one, I would put it in here, but it's like I don't wanna keep moving it back and forth. Right, what if I put it in here? Does that, is that given like living room or is that given kitchen? I don't know. Cause if I put it right here, I feel like that's just all in an open, you know, like I don't like it. Never thought it would be such a life or death matter with a trash can, you know? And I definitely don't wanna put it over there on that side. What do we think about that? I feel like y'all gonna say that cause it's like it's hidden. So when you walk this way, you know, you not immediately seeing a trash can over there. Like it's just wall. Okay, I already know what y'all gonna say. Y'all gonna say keep it over here. So I'm gonna keep it over here cause you can't really see it until you come around this way. So we'll keep it over here. I got a look right here. What y'all think? Should I remove my white pillows or what? I'm about to go back to home goods tomorrow and literally get the same exact pillow. So think about one pillow over there and another pillow over there. I did turn my pillows to the back to have it all black because the design was getting on my nerves again. I can't take it, especially with this rug. I just feel like it was too much going on. So I would like all black pillows with the white. So my only thing is like, this is like giving me really white and this one is not like it's giving dingy. So it's like, should I have a solid pillow to be a pillow right here and then have this? Like it's the fluffiness throwing the couch off again. What y'all think? I don't know. I really want that not pillow on my couch because I don't think it's gonna, I need to take the tag off of here. I don't think it's gonna look good on my bed. Like if this was a black not pillow, I feel like that'd be cute. Which I think, because I got white in my room. I feel like I would want it to be black. You know, let's put that right there. Let me go karate chop my pillow. Which I think, should I get one to go in here as well or no? And the thing is, I just feel like, that is like extremely white compared to like that. That's not that white. Is that not something y'all love too? But y'all know I got white nightstand, that's white. This is white.  I don't know. Y'all comment down below. Do y'all like it up here as well?  Don't say go, cause I don't like go. He's not going in here. I think I want to be here. Morning, it's one nightstand in the evening. I just got up about stuff to do today.  I also have to work today. So what I'm trying to do right now is I'm on my MacBook in my office or whatever. I'm about to import this deep cleaning footage to my external hard drive. And it usually, since the clips are, I think a little bit long, it usually takes a minute for it to actually upload to my computer, like sometimes take about an hour or so. So I'm gonna go ahead and have this footage importing so that when I get back, I can like take my computer to work with me and edit to go ahead and get a jumpstart on that. So that's what I'm doing. What we have to do today is I think I'm gonna get my nails done. We have to get batteries for my trash can. We also have to go back to home goods because girl, I want another one of those not pillows. And I hope they still have some. Like it was like four or five when I went yesterday. So I kind of want about three just in case I do want to put one in here in my office space. I was trying to do like a full, what is it? Like room transformation, I guess you can say. And yeah, I need y'all opinion basically. So that's why I think I'm just gonna add that into one of my vlogs because only thing I did, I did a few things, but it's like not enough for like a standalone vlog. If that makes sense, like I would have to just add it into something because I'm not sure what exactly I want to do in this room anymore. So I'm gonna clean it up, clean up the room and stuff like that. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow because I don't know, we'll see. But that's what I gotta do. So I may end up buying three not pillows. They 16.90 so we gonna see, we gonna see. I'm for sure buying one. And I think that was all that I needed out of there.  I am gonna start a full like entrepreneur vlog. Hey y'all, update. It is, okay, Chris Brown. 232, I would like to be home by like 330. I got my nails done. I tried to record up in there, but girl, it was a few people like looking and like y'all know I'm still shy. So okay, the sun wanna come out the minute I try to show y'all my nails. Like one no sun out today at all. Anyways, we got a cute, regular, classy, French tilt. Get into it. Get into it. I told him not to cut down my nails because I haven't had long nails in a while and this is pretty long for me right now. So I told him just to keep it. I'm gonna get a new set. Y'all know I'm trying to do the first and the 15th. So since I just got my nails done on the ninth, I'm gonna try to keep these nails until the first. Probably like the last week in January so that it technically be my first and then I'll get a fill on the 15th. That's just, it's just gonna have to work out that way because I can never remember like when I get my nails done or when I need to get my nails done. So it's easier for me just to do the first and the 15th of every month.  And then after I get the batteries, we're gonna go ahead and head to Home Goods. I have my eight today, it's 233. I also need the meal prep for the next two days while I'm at work. So yeah, let me scan my receipt as well. He only took him 30 minutes. I mean, I only got a fill, but it literally, I clocked him. It was 148 and he really got done in 30 minutes. So it's a guy did my nails today. His name is J-A-M. It's usually a girl that do my nails. She always said her number three and I had to say the number six or eight today. He did good though. He was quick and also I didn't record either because as soon as I would try to pull out my phone to record, he already on my other hand that I wanna record with. And then when they start to drill and get close to them cuticles, baby, I'm stuck. I don't do no sudden movements, nothing because you not about to cut me. So when he was on them, he got to them cuticles, girl, I'm okay, stuck. So I'm about to go ahead and go to Wally World. I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really hate this Walmart. I kinda wanna, but Kroger's name be high, no. I need to get gas as well. I think I'm about to go to home goods first actually and then stop at Costco to get gas. And then I may honestly stop at Kroger to get the batteries because I just, I just can't deal with Walmart anymore. So I'll talk to y'all when we get the home goods cause I want this pillow real bad. Three left. Yeah, so I have a code 6704. Yes, and can I just get a McDouble with only cheese mustard and pickles? What's the five one you want for a dollar? I just want one. Pickles, mustard, and cheese, of course. And just a large orange Fanta. I'm starving. Why does it look like my screen is blurry? Am I tripping? Okay, there we go. Now, I did not want McDonald's, but it's right here by home goods. I really wanted Water Burger. It's right up the street as well. But I'm like, I can come here and get all of this stuff for like less than $10. And then it'll literally be, I think my Water Burger meal is like $12 or $13. So I don't want this, but I'm gonna have to get it. And then I'm gonna go home and meal prep. What time is it? It's three or five. I said I want to be home by like 3.30. I need to get those batteries. Where am I to do this thing? Home goods, I need to get gas, I'm gonna get gas. I need to take $50 out of my account because I want to put it in my little cash envelope. Stuffing thingy that I was telling y'all about. So I'm gonna try to start that today. I need to open my meal when I get home. And I need those batteries. I need to look up, I'm starving. Like, I don't hold my fries fresh. I've been craving McDonald's fries. I hope they're fresh. I need my drink to hit. Hey, how are you? I'm good, how are you? Oh, yes, please. Thank you. You too. I wonder what people be thinking when they see the camera. Like, of course a lot of people know what vlogging and stuff is or whatever, but I hope they don't be thinking like the camera like directly on them because maybe it's not. Lord, please let my fries be fresh. I know. Thank you. Maybe she is cold, okay. Y'all know McDonald's, we gotta check. Check our food, man. Ooh, we at my burger, it's fresh and my fries fresh. She said it's cold. Opening up that door back and forth. It's like really, really windy today. Ooh, girl. Thank you, Lord. Now, I know I'm supposed to eat McDonald's, but we ain't even gonna talk about it right now. But when them fries and that burger fresh, busting. And y'all know I told y'all that. I love me a good McDonald's Sprite, but this particular McDonald's Sprite does not hit. Like, I used to get it all the time, morning, evening, night, what have you. It never hit, so that's what made me start getting orange phanta at McDonald's, but I still like me a good Sprite. Not gonna lie, but it's just like, I'd be scared, I already told y'all this before, I'd be scared to get a Sprite, because if it's flat, I'm gonna be pissed and then you gotta go back into whatever, whatever. In the orange phanta, I've only had one bad orange phanta. Every other orange phanta that I've had has been hitting, like, definitely up there with that Sprite. Not gonna lie, but that Sprite a different breed, baby, it got crackin' at the sum, okay? And I am about to roll into Costco parking lot right now.  Even though I do have hand sanitizer, still, I don't wanna do that, plus I got a burger this time, so I'm gonna use my hand sanitizer, obviously, and eat in a car, but I would like to do that before even touching the gas pump, so Costco it is. Comment down below if y'all eating the parking lot because I know a lot more people do it than people like to say. Like, the Chick-fil-A that's close by me, people will get Chick-fil-A and then they'll go to the Target parking lot eating the parking lot, and I'm one of those people. It's just funny because it's like the people that I'll see in the line in the parking lot, like in the Chick-fil-A line, they'll be in the parking lot eating a Chick-fil-A, then they roll off. It's just so funny. What am I doing? I'm up here talking to y'all when I'm supposed to be parkin' and eatin' park right here. It's goin' like that, babe. But yeah, it's funny because everybody who get Chick-fil-A, they literally go to that Target parking lot and literally start eatin'. I do it a lot, especially when the food's fresh and you know you ain't about to be home because I still gotta get gas and stop at Kroger. Yeah, who about to eat right now? I wish I woulda told her to give me some salt packets because you need it fresh, but they could use a little bit more salt, but they got salt. I don't even know how they salt no way. Y'all never wanna lose me. It's stuck in my head. All right, I'm about to get some gas. Got my Sims card, I got my Costco card. I ain't about to get no gas without no money. I'll take my damn card out. Trippin'. Oh, Lord Jesus. 4-11, I need to be getting ready for work. These are the right ones for my trash can. I went ahead and got the actual name brand one so it can actually last a while. I'm gonna need three out of the four for the trash can so hopefully it lasts a long while. And then I think yesterday I showed this knife set in my basket, but I didn't get it yesterday because my total yesterday was only supposed to be $100 and I spent like $95 in home goods. But I really wanted this knife set so when I went back today, I got it. It's only a five-piece set, it was $29.99 compared to $55, but I got it obviously because it's black and matched with aesthetics as well as the whole thing is black but it only comes with five knives and five knives that I actually use. So the one that I have over there right now, it is a lot of, I mean, it's a nice set. It got like a lot of steak knives and stuff in there, y'all know, the kind that literally everybody got now. I got mine in like 2021, but everybody got it. This one, you say some? This one has no steak knives so I'll be able to use all of these because out of that whole thing, I think there's like two, four, six, eight, 10. It's like 11 knives over there and I'll probably use three out of the 11. So I'm like, I might as well just get a really good knife set that I'll use all the knives in there, you know, the ones that I like. So they don't got those rigid edges on them. So I'm excited about this one. I'm about to open this up actually to make sure, you know, everything in here. And also it won't take up as much space over there because this apartment, I'm limited on counter space. So this one is a lot smaller than my other one over there. I'm not going to use, put these in a dishwasher. I'm just going to leave them in the sink and clean them myself because my other one, I put those in the dishwasher and they said they were dishwasher safe, but they kind of rusted up a little bit as well. So, oh yeah, these are nice. The other thing I got, obviously you guys know, that's what I went in there for. I got another knife to love. They had three left. So I got two out of the four that they initially had. So we're going to go ahead and put this on the couch and see how she looks. How do we like that? Should I just keep the two? Like one on this and get off. All right, do we like that you guys? What we thinking, what we thinking? I just feel like the white, not pillows are just so freaking white and it's like throwing off with these pillows. I haven't like watched these pillows or anything. I think I should wash and bleach them, but are they going to still keep the same fluffiness? I don't know. Haven't took the tags off these yet either because yeah, trying to make sure they actually go. I don't know, I just feel like the white fluffy pillow is throwing me off. So I'm going to need some other type of pillow, but I do like the not pillows over there. I like that it looks a lot slimmer over here and I have a lot to work with now. I'm going to do something like that. How do y'all like it like this? Or should I just keep it like this? I used to have my stuff like this. This over here in the corner and then that like that. Which way? We're going to go like that for right now. Okay then. Yeah, we real fancy witty. Good morning y'all. Good morning. It's 7.15, I just got home. Just took prints outside and everything. Be ready to play. And baby, it's bed time. So yeah, I know I'm trying to do the weekly vlogging thing. Today is Wednesday, 7.15 in the morning. I'm Lily about to cook breakfast, shower and stuff. Take my sleeping pill and go to bed.  So for Wednesday, it's literally just going to be spending the morning with me. Other than that, I'm going to be at work. And then I'll talk to y'all again tomorrow morning when I'm on my way to take prints to his grandparents house. Yeah, cause it's like 47 now. So I left my camera at the house and the lighting is horrible, but down here with my man spending two days with him, he's putting air in my tire because they're low up freaking again. 36, I'm sorry, it just updates so late. Okay, so I'm on 33, 31, 32 and 36. It's just going to have to work. All right y'all, I'll talk to y'all later. Thanks man. Yeah. See who's gonna say I'm camera.