Hello friends. Today we're doing a reading vlog that I have put off for years and years and years and years and that is stopping my screen time for reading. It's almost time for Meg to serve. I'm late to this. As we all know, like everyone in their mother has done this reading vlog, I have not because I'm scared. I don't like the idea of being told I have to read for this many hours a day. There's gonna be hours because I do spend a lot of time on my phone. I do. I do. I do. But like, here's the thing. I watch a lot of YouTube, right? I watch a lot of YouTube. I'll often have a YouTube video up when I'm cooking or doing the laundry. It's either that or an audiobook, right? Are the two things I'm consuming. And YouTube makes your phone so fun. Sometimes my phone will be open when I'm doing other things. Anyway, it's not really to defend myself. But anyways, I have never done this vlog because I have been too afraid, but I think that it's time. So today we're gonna be doing a week of stopping my screen time reading. Every single day I have to read the amount of time I was on my phone a week before. I've seen a few people do it different ways. Some people do it. They have to read like the average screen time amount every day. But I think it's more fun to get a bit of variation. So we're gonna be doing like what I was was what day is it today? It's Thursday. Double cheeked up on a Thursday afternoon. How long I was on my phone last Thursday is how much we have to read today and so on and so forth. So yeah, are we ready? We're gonna go find out what those those times are together. And then we'll discuss the books that I'm planning to read for this video. I'm intrigued to see whether it feels like I'm reading a lot or whether it doesn't feel like I'm reading a lot. Do I read more than this usually? Like is this gonna be a walk in the park or is it gonna be hard? I don't know. So last Thursday, is that last Thursday? I guess it is. Last Thursday, I spent four hours on my phone. So we have to read today for a nice round four hours. Oh, one thing I'm gonna say is I'm not gonna be physically reading. I will often I'm counting listening to an audiobook. And when I listen to an audiobook without physically reading also, I'm reading slower. I read at slower pace. So it's not gonna be four hours if my page counts like Megan that's low. I'm not gonna be necessarily like physically reading for four hours every day. I will be in I will be counting the moments where I'm listening to an audiobook while I'm doing a dishwasher whilst I'm cooking, etc. Anyways, four hours of reading today. It's currently caught past two. And I don't have a ton of other plans. Say I got reading sprints, my patrons tonight, which is very well timed. I would like to try and end it when I'm ending the reading sprints, although they are going to then cook dinner. So you know, we got a bit of got a bit leeway, but I would like the reading sprints are at five. So I've got a couple hours before then. And I would like to get some reading done before that. But I have got a few other things I need to do. Anyways, tomorrow Friday, shorter, two hours and 53 minutes. What was I doing when there's that big spike? I must have been watching. Oh, that's like dinner time. I just said I threw caution to the wind. And I obviously watched something on my phone whilst I was cooking dens. That's probably what that big spike in the day is like. Otherwise, that was a really low day. Saturday, four hours and 23 minutes. Okay. I feel like this is a lot of reading every day. Sunday. Okay. No. Okay. Sunday is the only day where we're not going off of the total because that says five hours and 57 minutes. However, you may zero in there on one hour and 10 minutes on a health and fitness app. That is all trails. As you can see, don't look at Royal Match. That's my audio book. I mean, Tom were on a walk and he had my phone and he was using that app to like see our course for the walk. So I was not on my phone. You're on your honor. It's false evidence. We're just normal men. What do you mean normal men? We're just innocent men. Oh, so what is that? That's four hours and 47 minutes. Yeah. Four hours and 47 minutes. I have to read on Sunday. Monday. Oh, five hours and 13. Then Tuesday, four hours and four minutes. Oh dear. And yesterday, four hours and 54. So some of our higher ones are on the end there. Interesting. And I spent that much time on Instagram. What am I doing? Get a grip. Leave my life Instagram. In terms of books, we're going to be reading. We have three books here that have been on TBR Cludeau so far this year that I do not have set plans to read. So we've got Helly and Death. We've got How to Kill Your Family and A Curious Beginning. So I would like to use this blog to get round to these. However, another book, whenever I've envisaged doing this vlog, a book I always picture myself reading is Night Film by Marisha Pestle because I don't think, if I don't read it in this video, I don't think I'm never going to read this book. I'm just terrified of it. It's very long. It's about 600 pages. The audiobook is like 23 hours long. So I think I'm going to start with this in this vlog and I want to prioritize this because I really want to read this. This has been a five-star prediction for me in the past but it still is. I don't know why I'm talking as if it's no longer a five-star prediction. But this is a five-star prediction for me and I want to read it but it's so long that I feel like I'll always be put off. However, I think if I do it in a vlog where I'm probably going to be reading quite a bit, I think this would be the perfect time to tackle it. So that's what we're going to be starting today. I'm going to go make some late lunch and start the audiobook and I'll probably check in with you when I'm starting reading sprints later because I'll probably read a little bit, do a little bit of work, do reading sprints and then we will see where we are. That is the plan. This is our TBR. I feel like this will probably be the amount of books we're going to get through. I think we're going to read roughly this amount or something close and I'm going to go start the audiobook for night film. I'll probably just listen to the audiobook for a bit and then I'll pick it up physically when we've got reading sprints and we will see how we do. Then we just had dinner. Yeah, call pass 10. I have done. Oh, let me show you the proof. I've got to show you the proof. I've got to show you my hard work. I read for four hours and one minuté. It was how much I read for. Focus please on her. I did it. And what page of night film am I up to? I'm up to page 200 exactly. Actually, no, 201. Page 201 of night film and I'm loving it. I'm loving, loving this book. I'm having so much fun reading this book. Now listen, four hours to read 200 pages is not the quickest. However, some of that quite a lot of today was me listening to the audiobook whilst I did other things like cooking, et cetera. We open up with a girly dice, right? It seems that she k-worded herself and alive herself. She is the daughter of this infamous cult horror movie director, right? That is very secretive. No one knows much about him. He's got all these fans who like have all these conspiracy theories and there's this journalist who once said that he was like bad as these killers because this guy's films are like spawned copycat killers of the horror movies, et cetera. And so this guy is known for being like an opposition to this director and he decides, oh, I'm going to investigate. I'm going to investigate the death of this girl and then he's kind of formed this unlikely group of detectives with him and I'm loving it. If you guys don't know, it's Mixed Media Baby. Look at these pages. Look at the stuff. Throughout. Throughout. There's loads of stuff. I mean, there's also chunks where it's just loads of text, but there's also... And I'm just having so much fun. I love Mixed Media. I love Mixed Media. Why can't every book be Mixed Media?  Like giving me photographs and being like, oh my God, this is Cordova spotted in a 1960s ballroom. Absolutely. Absolutely. I didn't know it's your neck. I just listen. I think, I think my love for Mixed Media comes from I was, I was a drama kid, right? I was a theater kid, right? I did drama lessons from when I was like four years old. I did drama all the way up to A level at school. I just, and when I did drama at A level in particular, I, when I was making a show, right? Because when you did drama at A level, you have to be like, you have to stage stuff. You have to direct stuff. You have to like come up with a concept. I just love creating a moment. I love a concept. I love a concept. I love a dramatic concept. Do you understand what I'm saying?  You've got a motive. You've got a reason. You've got a whole creative vision. And I feel like that's what Mixed Media often gives me. I just think it's doing it so well. And I also think this is written really, really, really well. I think it's written really well. I've never read anything from Marisha Pestle before, but this book, it's flying by considering I've read 200 pages. Like that's not bad during the day. If I could finish this in three days for a 600 page book, I think that's pretty impressive. I just can't stop reading it. I just can't stop reading it. I can't stop turning the page. I'm so excited. This is perfect. This is the perfect book for this reading vlog. I am so happy. I'm having so much fun. And I have so many questions about her and her dad and the reasons behind everything and the truth behind everything. And there's so many little interesting seeds being laid as to what could be going on behind the scenes behind these secretive scenes and why she would do what she has. I mean, has she been murdered? What happened? Was she not? Like what? There's just so many questions being laid. I am having so much fun. I just think it's just, it's everything I want. It's everything I want. Oh, I'm loving it. I don't know what else to say to you. I'm loving the cast of characters we built up, but just the mixed media, babes. The mixed media does it for me like, give me an email. Give me a website with a photo. I think I can explain to you. I am getting five star feelings. I'm getting five star feelings from this. I'm getting perhaps a five star, perhaps a five star in the making. So yeah, tomorrow hopefully we'll make a good chunk away through it. But listen, reading 20 pages of it today, I'm not upset about it. And it is only day one, but I did not feel like it was a struggle reading the amount I did. However, I may be saying something different by the end of this vlog. It's only the first day, but I'm feeling great. I'm having the best time ever. So I'll see you tomorrow in the morning, but we are off to a wonderful, wonderful start. Good morning friends. It's Friday, Friday. Today is our shortest reading time. I just checked. We got ready for two hours and 53 minutes. Very specific now. Again, to like specific numbers. It was a nice round for four hours yesterday. Yeah, 252 minutes today. So it was our shortest amount of reading we're going to do any day. I'm going to go to Waterstones today. I'm going to go to the Waterstones Cafe and read. Now, I can't promise you how much I'm going to film because it kind of stresses me out a little bit. I may, I'm going to bring my camera, but I may just film stuff on my phone because a little bit less, you know, makes people a little bit less sidelight, like whip out my phone and things. They think, oh, should she take a cute Instagram story or whatever? We're putting out my camera. They're like, uh, so I'm going to try and film. I'm also going to have a little browse for books. If I see any, I want to buy it. I'm going to have myself buy them because I haven't bought any books this year yet that weren't for specific videos. I'm feeling like if they have a copy of the Warm Hands of Ghost by Katherine Arden, I will probably pick it up. I'm probably picking up because I'm very excited for that one. So yeah, that's the one I'm thinking of getting if they have it, but I'm going to have a little browse in the books, but then I'm going to go to a cafe. I'm going to have lunch in the cafe. I might also have like a hot chocolate later.  I'm going to do some editing there. So I might edit first and then read or read and then edit. I don't know. I'm going to spend probably quite a lot of my day there now today. My goal is to read more physically today. I mean, I did read quite a lot physically yesterday, but then I like cooked and did stuff, where I listened to the audiobook, whereas a lot of this section is like, we've got to get through it. You know what I mean? It's like not a lot of mixed media, whereas there is a lot towards the end. I would like to read like another 200 pages today, even though I've got a bit less time. If I read more physically, we can read more per hour. So yeah, let's see how much reading we get then. I'm going to go go to Waterstones, wish me luck, wish that I don't get too scared. It may just be Phonefish. I don't know if you can tell the difference, but I feel different filming on my phone versus like, oh my god, my camera. Anyways, I love you guys. Let's go. Have a nice day at Waterstones. I'm so excited. A lot of the amount today, I actually went three minutes over. Say sorry. I couldn't contain myself. No, I was listening to the audiobook whilst I was making dinner and I went over the time without realizing it. So I'm still loving it. I'm still loving it. We've got, we've got stuff to talk about. However, I do want to just acknowledge I chatted this big game about going to the Waterstones cafe yesterday. I went there. The cafe was shut. Cafe was shut. So I was very upset about it. I had to go elsewhere for lunch. It was a very traumatic experience. This is what trauma looks like. But I did pick up two becks to cheer myself up. I just shake really. You saw me pick them up. I didn't film anything else in Waterstones. I was too upset. I was few men. My plans would even ruin. No, I picked up all the hands of ghosts by Catherine Arden, which I said I would look at the spread. I'm so excited to read this. I'm like, in buying these books, I'm like, should I sec the other, the rest of TBR and just read these books right now? But they're on T-Belkudo. They're on T-Belkudo. So I'm like morally obliged to read them. I am so excited for this. I feel like I've heard wonderful reviews and then I spot a book. That somehow I'd somehow missed off of my like new releases spreadsheet. I've missed off of my most anticipated releases for the start of this year video that I did. But I'd followed the author on Twitter for years since this book was announced, since it was like in the, I don't know, publisher's weekly, whatever that like book announcement thing is that I spotted it is Miss Austin Investigates by Jessica Ball. Excuse me. A murder mystery with Jane Austen as the detective. This is a potential mother. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. What do you expect me to do? What do you expect me to do? You expect me to not buy this? You expect me to not buy this? Also, I had 10 pounds credit on my Waterstones card and then I paid for the rest in cash. So like, these were free. These were free. So yeah, I'm very excited for both of these. But let's talk about night film. I am still loving it. I'm still loving it. I'm still loving it. I'm still loving it. This is making me think of like, I do, I don't read them very often because I'm scared off, but I love a big book. Can you stop insinuating things, please? I love a big book. Like, it's making me remember why I love so many books that I love. I love spending time with a long book. I'm thinking back to like, some of the Jade Ward, Jade Legacy books, or the Secret History, or all my other favorite books that are long. I just sometimes I love a long book where you really, there's just, if I'm enjoying it, it couldn't go wrong because if you're bored, you're bored. But if I'm enjoying it, I love just how into the depth of the story we get to go. I always say I don't, for me, a book should be like a tree, which have the main trunk of the story, but we should have little branches, and those branches break off into different branches. Or like, this is my like, Thursday middle club, right? I feel like those books constantly have little, little diversions on it.  You know what I mean? It's just like, one line. Whereas there's probably some parts of this that aren't gonna be relevant, but it's building up this complex mystery of Cordova, and this family, and what happened to Ashley, and the secrets. And I'm just, I'm so enjoying it. I'm so enjoying it. I love how we're getting to get into the depth of these characters and the storyline and the mystery. And like, I'm loving it. I need to read more long books. I mean, this might be the longest book I read this year. I think this is longer than the longest book I read last year. It's like 580 pages. I'm just adoring it. I'm adoring it. I'm having so much fun. Tomorrow we have, I just had a look. Tomorrow we have, I've already forgotten. We've got read for four hours and 23 minutes tomorrow. At my physical reading speed, I've got four hours and four minutes left of the audio. So the goal is to finish this tomorrow. Also, I just want to say, the other day I posted my February wrap up. And in it, I'm talking about how a lot of the books I read, I have them physical with the audio. And I'm like, oh, it's not sustainable. I know I should be not reading as many audiobooks ever. And some people in the comments think I'm like bashing on audiobooks as a form of reading. Absolutely not.  Whenever I meet anyone, who's like, audiobooks aren't my reading. I pounce on them like a tiger. I won't have it. I am the biggest proponent of reading with audiobooks. What I'm talking about is how it's not financially sustainable. A lot of the books, a lot of the audiobooks I read last month, but I was talking about that though, I got from either my library or from Everand. So I didn't pay for them individually. This one's on Everand. But sometimes like the books I want to read are audiobooks are not audible. And it's not financially sustainable to buy a audiobook, nor do I want to like create the perception that like, you know, it's different for me because it's like this is my job. So like, I can kind of justify that way. But I don't want to create a perception that like everyone should always have an audiobook. Do you know what I mean?  I'm not like people shouldn't use audiobooks. They're not real reading. I'm not saying any of that. I love audiobooks. That is I'm more saying Megan need to come back because it's like not a financially sustainable move. So I just wanted to clear that up because I got a few comments. I'm like that is it never crossed my mind that people could think that's what I meant because I'm the biggest fan of audiobooks. I did not explain myself correctly. So anyways, I'm going to continue listening to a new book for this and reading it physically. I feel like it's going to be a five star. I feel like it's going to be a five star. I am absolutely loving it. There's nothing else to say. I am probably not going to check on me tomorrow till I finished it. Could I just this is the kind of book that I just I've already spoken to you quite a bit about it. I just want to finish it. I don't know what I think. So I'll see you tomorrow evening. After four hours and 23 minutes of reading and hopefully I'll finish it. Hopefully I will finish this book and all of our other books are going to be so fast. I can pry us into this but we have a 600 page book in three days. That's pretty impressive. Anyways, I'll see you in the morning. No, one morning tomorrow evening. Bye. It is Saturday evening. I have had a bit of a weird day. I woke up feeling like I was coming down or something. Whenever I'm starting to get ill, my like glands in my throat, I've spoken about this before. They like swell up and get really painful and they were so painful today. So I spent the whole day basically just reading and sleeping. I napped twice. I never napped anymore, but I napped twice. So I was kind of just trying to nip it in the bud because I don't want to be ill for the rest of this vlog. So I just thought if I take it chill today, then I can be successful the rest of the vlog. I need to go brush my hair. Hang on. Also, I keep filming with you whenever I've literally just eaten dinner, but I've got a high school musical movie night, high school musical three movie night in eight minutes with my patrons. So I have to film now. But let me show you my timer. I have read for the whole lot of time today. I read actually, I think for like three more minutes that I have a space to. And I finished my film and I'm torn and want to give it. But I think it's just going to miss out on being a five star and it's going to be a 4.5. But I think I'm going to rate it a five on Goodreads, which I have stopped doing. I stopped rating 4.5 stars as fires on Goodreads. I'm running them up like reserving that for just the five stars. But this is so close. I just didn't love this like latter third as much as I love the rest of the book. There's this section, I'd say like 150 page from the end that's written in a bit of a weird way. And it just kind of lost my engagement a little bit. I just stopped caring as much, which is a shame. But I think also with a book as ambitious as this, it is hard to stick the landing completely, right? This book is trying to do so much like, look at how excited I was getting while I was reading it. Oh, my glands are bad again. Oh, my God, I've got to do a husband's movie night. Hopefully I'll survive. I feel ill. I can't sleep all night. Yeah, it's trying to do so much. It's leaving so many little trails of things that like, I don't necessarily blame it if it doesn't completely stick landing. I can understand why some people wouldn't enjoy like the end ending. I did. I think it's a pretty fitting way to end the book, but I can see why some people wouldn't enjoy that. But I loved this. And also the length wasn't a problem for me. I loved how long it was. I loved how long we got to spend these characters. I really grew to love our characters a few bits of it. I'm like, there's like a romance, no, not a romance, there's a romantic interest that just does not need to be there. I was like, Oh, God, stop it. Release me from these shackles of this happening in books. But I'm so glad I read this in this video. Otherwise, I probably would never have read it because it is such a daunting task. But I've read it in three days. I think that's pretty impressive for like, a 600 page book. And I really did enjoy it. I think the writing is very fun. I'm interested in trying more from Marisha Passell. I think she's only got two other books. So let me know. Are they all quite different? Nothing else give me the same vibe as this. I know one's called Never Well and Wait. And then there's her debut. I don't know what that's called. On the whole, this is a very, very impressive book. I am kind of sad. It hasn't quite made it to a five star. And I was like, kind of, should I just like give it a five? But if I'm honest with myself, it hasn't bit that last third. It started to get a little bit like, trapped by the amazing traps that it had laid throughout the rest of the book. Does that make sense? And the weirdly written bit kind of lost me a little bit. I was like, oh, I don't know if we like the route we're going down. And I was scared it was going to be that for the whole book, but it wasn't. It was like a little section, but still, it lost me a little bit. So we have to decide what we're going to read tomorrow. I remembered also that Merd isn't easy, which is a nonfiction about the forensics of Agatha Christie is on TV Alcludo. And I have not got plans to read that. So these are four options. Here's the thing. These three are all like, I think could be five stars, right? I think could be a similar level of enjoyment to this. So you think I want to pick these up? But I feel like after enjoying a book like that so much, for me, it's a lot of pressure to like pick up something I think is going to have to try and match. This is why I'm not a mood read dad. This is stressing me out trying to figure out what order to read these books in or like, I'm probably not going to read them all. So which ones to read? Oh my God, I'm stressing me out. I just need to be told what to read. I can't I can't make this decision, please. I can't make this decision. I thought about giving my patrons the vote, but I know they're going to pick a curious beginning. And I don't know if I'm ready for that. I am leaning towards how to kill your family. Because when I pass on what do you like to know?   So I'm kind of tempted to go for a book I don't think I'm going to enjoy as much and just try to bash it out quickly and then pick up one of these ones I think I'm going to enjoy more. I know that does not make a lot of sense. Okay, I'm aware of that. I'm aware that does not make a lot of sense. Because these are all books I'm more excited for. But I think I'm more like this world to like make room for these and other videos. Whereas this could just be on TV, including get kicked down the path. So I'm leaning towards reading this. I mean Richard Osman blabbed it saying I loved this book that gives me hope might be misplaced hope, but it gives me hope with three days into this I'm often finding myself especially yesterday when it was my shortest reading day I really wanted to read more yesterday I had to stop myself today not so much day was like a little bit of a weird day because I didn't feel very well. But I'm often finding myself wanting to read more I'm probably going to regret saying that because tomorrow is our longest day yet isn't it is like four hours 40 or something. So we shall see I have got the audiobook for this on ever and we shall see what I pick up but I am leaning towards this because I feel like I just need to read something that haven't got any pressure around. Hello friends I've just realized I'm sitting in pretty much the same place as last night's clip but we have to live with that we're set up here now it is Sunday we have a lot of walking today me and Tom we want like 10k so I'm very tired I have not read for the full amount of time yet I am on two hours and 58 minutes so I've got like an hour and 45 minute left of reading to go but it's like eight o'clock so by the time the friend is reading I'm gonna be I'm gonna like close those book pages and go because we all know I have a grandma I like to go to sleep very early so you're not gonna see me again tonight however I am about halfway through how to kill your family by Bellarmacchi I decided to pick this one up next because I did want something where I was like no pressure you know I mean I've read this very slowly I've pretty much just read this via the audiobook today and it's fine it's fine but here's the thing I don't care I kind of went into it with that expectation right because I when you've been reading a lot of oh they're just fine books you know it gets annoying but when you're coming off the book or something great it doesn't bother me as much so in this basically following a girl who's killing her family I don't believe in the glorification of murder I do believe in the empowerment of women basically she was raised by her single mother her mother has died and she is killing off all the horrible members of her father's rich ass family her father's like one of the richest men in the UK he gave his mother nada nothing or if he's to recognize her as a daughter she's like I'm gonna kill this horrible family's lineage of one by motherfucking one so that's what's going on and I mean the writing is just fine like this is a very popular book in the UK this is like you see it in all the supermarkets like Deirdre loves this book for some reason you know I think the writing is okay the character is annoying right she's annoying but she's not meant to be a like or character but like she isn't she's a bit insufferable she's a bit insufferable and she doesn't have to be likable but when you're just in her head you're so in her head it's very voicy it's very like it's from her perspective but it's incredibly like narrated it just gets a bit much you know what I mean like we're basically reading her do these murders over and over again and like reflecting on doing these murders and it she told us in the beginning there'd be seven and I think we've had four people murder so far and it's just getting a bit repetitive I'm hearing the same conversation over and over and over again like her tracking them down and figuring out a fun way because each of them like has a way to murder them that's like personal to them she's like how what's the most ideal way I can murder this person because their characteristics and traits and lifestyle that wouldn't be clocked do you know what I mean I don't want everyone to know that I've murdered them they've all looked kind of like accidents so far and then she like goes to the process of researching and planning and oh I get so nervous but excited before I kill them and it's just getting a bit repetitive it we're just following the same pattern over and over again and it's not very fast paced so here's the thing it's fine it's like a three star at the moment I don't think it's egregious but it's not doing anything particularly you know or inspiring for me but I don't mind that because it kind of feel like it takes some of the heat off those other books down there that like five star predictions it kind of makes me chill out about reading them a little bit more so yeah I don't know it's fine but am I excited to pick it up not really however do you know what I am excited for I got a parcel when I arrived home from the walk today this is from my Amazon wishlist I'm very excited to see what it is so shall we open it together I have no idea what this is someone has very kindly sent me something we've opened it I'm guys this is really main minute oh my god there's two books oh my god it's from Kersi Kersi is one of the kindest people on discord what has Kersi sent me oh my god okay okay okay so we've got night watching which Kersi's was a five star and then we've also got Andrea Kersi's been trying to get everyone on our discord on our patreon discord to read this oh my god Kersi you're so kind thank you so much I have been planning on reading this and night watching was on my t-da and a thriller that I've heard really really good things about this is about a woman who tucks her kids into bed and but there's someone in the house and she's like I think trying to figure out should she run is she gonna hide what's going on I think like the first chapter the first line is there was someone in the house the drama Kersi thank you so much Kersi is always gifting people stuff on the discord we then we had Kersi mess where everyone banded together to send Kersi back works it's honestly one of the most amazing things how the community has grown over there and everyone's making friends and Kersi has been a really cool part of that so thank you so much Kersi I'm so excited to read both of these oh my goodness and I have never had someone tell me to read a book as much as Kersi's so much to ask for Andrea so I've got to do it now I'm very very excited this one is about three women who were all murdered by the same man and I think we're reading from their perspectives I don't know if they ghost I don't know how it works I don't know how it works I don't know if we're reading before before they're murdered or after but thank you so much Kersi oh my gosh I gotta go send her a message so tonight I'm not going to check in with you again tonight but I am going to go read for another hour and 45 and I'll probably get close to finishing this tonight and then I will just finish off in the morning and check in with you and then we'll decide tomorrow what I'm going to read tomorrow and where we're going to go and who I'm going to do anything if I'm going to stay at home and read who knows the world is our oyster anyways I shall see you tomorrow once I've finished this but let's not expect great things good afternoon friends hello we've had a good day walking spots got some ice cream and I have finished how to kill your family we haven't finished reading for today the amount we have to read today is five hours and 15 ish minutes and so far I'm on four hours now if you're a perceptive you notice it's taken me a little while to read this but why not really I've read it in two days but like I could have read this a lot quicker than I did the majority of this I just listened to the audiobook when I was reading it which does mean I read it slower I think I'm going to settle on a 2.5 maybe a two maybe three I think 2.5 is a good middle ground because I'm kind of like two three two three so let's just call it a 2.5 I've been thinking about this because it's Richard Osman is on the front saying I love this book okay okay Richard interesting and listen I listened to Richard Osman's podcast and he they spoke about blurbs and like the you know book author quotes the other day and he's saying you know we know it's already but the idea of these is to give someone who picks up an a book store an idea of what the book is going to be like so I'm thinking hmm why is Richard Osman on here how is this similar to the Thursday Meta Club other than the fact that like there's deaths and killings whatever and the thing is the Thursday Meta Club is very much I always say this it holds up such a light to human nature and really examines the ways that we behave and the ways that we act and what we like what we don't like right the difference is Thursday Meta Club is a very positive outlook on humanity this is the most negative look on humanity you can ever imagine obviously she's killing her like rich family members but in the process of doing so she manages to like this main character hates everyone hates absolutely everyone I found this good read of you about groups that this hideous main character hates okay bear in mind I do not write this list so I cannot remember examples of all of these but quite a few of them I can remember examples of so these are the groups that this of society that this main character at some point according to this reviewer I can I can account for a fair few of these not all of them um hates fat people women bonus points for plastic surgery Asian people old people people with dementia gay people people with eating disorders mentally ill people people who like frogs rich people also poor people teenagers people who struggle with addiction stupid people pret middle-aged women people who take baths pansexual people people with chronic illnesses people who care about social issues influencers of any kind her mom one direction the reader so that is very much true she's just this incredibly negative outlook on humanity I'm not saying books can't have critiques of humanity but this is just like dear god my god really there's nothing it's just it's just it's just a negative fest and that's just not what I want to read I don't I it's fun to read from an unlikeable main character if they've they're giving me something they're giving me some drama but my girlie is just like just so negative about everything and she's exhausting to read I also think that the plotting is not good the story is not paste while the ending is so so anticomactic it's so anticomactic like it is such a disappointing ending to what you've built up throughout the book it just feels like dear god like why have I read this entire book I am glad I finally read it it's an interesting book to have become so successful within the British population I think it's like millennial women millennial women humor and I'm not in that age bracket you know I mean millennials are kind of this elusive age bracket to me because I feel like whenever you're alive you kind of get to know the ways and habits of like your parent generation and your generation and there's usually this generation in the middle where like you don't have a lot of people in your life at that age because of the way like family ages work do you understand what I'm saying I don't have a lot of millennials in my life so I just think that's possibly who this is um marketed towards so I'm gonna give it a 2.5 I don't think it's the worst thing I've ever read but girlie should go back to who she written for guardian vogue advice yep so we've got like an hour and 15 minutes to the reading left to do today and then we've got two more days of reading so we're gonna get through as many of these as we can now here's the thing I am so excited for all of these that I really don't know what to pick and I might go off piece we'll see we'll see we'll see we'll see we'll see we'll see in terms of what I'm gonna pick up next I've been going back and forth between all three each day throughout the day I'm like I'm gonna start this one next I'm gonna start this one I'm gonna start this one the majority today I was thinking I was gonna start a curious beginning next however I cannot get my hands on the audio but anywhere it's not available seemingly anywhere in the UK and I think for this challenge an audiobook is essential it's really essential an audiobook because they need an occasional like while I'm cooking to make up that hour in order to like get stuff done so I don't know if we're gonna be reading this in this video it might have been put aside I'm excited for both of these but right now I am really fancying murder isn't easy the forensics of Agatha Christie by Carla Valentine and I kind of feel like whenever I'm getting a little you know little feeling like oh yeah I can read some nonfiction I have to pounce on it wow I have to I have to pass that feeling because otherwise I could put off for so long this I've owned this for a very long time I've owned this for a very long time and I've been assured there's no spoilers in it and I'm just feeling like I'm kind of in the mood to read it and I feel like I have to make a while the sunshine I mean because otherwise it could be like another four years and it hasn't been for us I think I've owned this like two years so I think I'm gonna pick this up next it's all about Agatha Christie and her knowledge of forensics which was so ahead of the I think I've told you but when did I tell you about this I told you about it in T-Belklude but things I know about her she invented the phrase scene of the crime I think that was in was it in I'm not sure if it was in the mysterious affair of styles or murder on the links but it was one of the first occuparrow books was the phrase scene of the crime she invented that and she was also before she started writing during World War I she was a nurse and like a hospital caring for like injured soldiers and she developed a really good knowledge of poisons there she like ran like she also like wrote a little newspaper about going to hospital anyway it's very interesting so that's what I know about her but we're gonna go much greater into detail on this and I'm just feeling like a bit of nonfiction and listen we all have I have my nonfiction goal this year which the goal is to read 12 nonfiction by the end I'm already on two so in order to get caught on the way there that would be wonderful so yeah I'm gonna pick this one up next I'll check it with you probably tonight I'm gonna go make dinner now it's only making the conflict chicken the other night but I made it like a perry perry sauce I'm making it there's chicken cats you carry tonight so I'm gonna go make that and listen to the audio but I'll probably take up most of my time I will give you my first impressions hello friends it's bedtime but I'm just checking in the dishwasher's aren't apologies if that's noisy I have read for my a lot of time and I am how many pages into this I might I haven't got a bookmark but let me try and show you visually I'm about 56 pages in so I've made like a good start but I'm not gonna say any thoughts yet it's too soon it's too soon I can't check in this thing with a nonfiction I have to let the ideas percolate in my brain I have some thoughts but I'll share them in your morning anyways I'm going to bed but I have read for my amount of time I'm starting to get a bit fed up of this I've had it enough you know what the first couple days I was absolutely thriving Pascara's have been like I want to do things other than read you know I'm just consuming a lot of information I'm just reading for a lot of time every day but I am also enjoying or will have thoughts again but I'm enjoying not having to read a certain amount only having to read for some amount of time I think often my reading has a lot of pressure to read like I have to read a whole book today I have to read 100 pages like I have to read this amount today whereas I just have to spend a certain amount of time reading it's a different different element but like I just want a day off you know often I'll read like really heavily for three days then maybe not read for a day and then read very heavily like my reading naturally goes through kind of peaks and troughs where my peaks be even more than I'm reading in a day at the moment and my troughs would be like nothing and I'm missing those troughs you know because I think my style of reading does work well for me so yeah just girly things anyways let me go read some more tweets about Kate Middleton conspiracy because I'm very pulled up very deep in it and then um and then I'm gonna go sleep okay bye good evening friends sorry I haven't spoken to you yet today it's been a very busy day in terms of I filmed a video an edited video also just wanna say I don't know how much I've won this in this vlog because I'm this is my favorite hoodie at the moment but I'm doing a lot of clothes washes I want but we already have a lot of clothes drying space here so I'm having to do a lot of clothes washes just like keep up with the demand um so I've washed us at least once in the course of this vlog if not more I am halfway through um mad isn't easy the friends that I personally buy kill the Valentine I didn't say that very well oh shit my internet just cut out and I'm on a live stream I'm enjoying it but there are some caveats well I first I want to say I'm listening to audiobook like with everything in this video in order for this video to happen in order for me to read this amount every day I have to have the audiobooks in order to like make up that counter you know because I have to listen to one dream make up or while I'm cooking this book is very voicey nonfiction in terms of like it's very full with the author's emotions and the author's opinions and the audiobook writer they've chosen has time set by the audiobook writer of this is so like affected is that the right way to say it like keeps saying stuff and a very interesting way to actually laugh in a way that's saying stuff it's getting weird I don't know how to explain the way that she speaks but it's like sometimes it goes like trying to be funny I don't know how to explain it I really I don't know how to explain it you have to hear it to understand I needed to like bookmark some point in the audiobooks I could play it to you I looked up the audiobook narrator narrates a lot of like women's fiction I hate that I hate that you know terminology but if you saw let me find some of the covers this is important investigative work right this is very small on the screen but these are some of the other books that this author has narrated and like there's a lot of there's a lot of I scroll to this other day there's a lot of books that look like that do you understand what I'm saying like I think that can help you understand the the tone this audiobook writer is striking but anyways in terms of the book itself I think it's very very interesting so far in terms of like forensic details with Agatha Christie we have covered fingerprints trace evidence guns basically and documents and handwriting and it is very interesting I really really appreciate the author not spoiling things there's no spoilers in this which you know I've been very excited to read Lucy Wersley's Agatha Christie book but I'm only has spoilers fucking everywhere so there's no spoilers in this and I do think it is interesting but there's just something about the writing that I'm not loving I don't think it's like the best written nonfiction you I've ever read right I think writing style writing quality is still as important in nonfiction as it is in fiction in terms of the way that you've put that information together and the way that you convey the information and I just don't know if I'm like obsessed with it it's fine at the moment sitting like a 3.5 or 4 it's very very interesting it's making me want to read more Christie like absolutely right this second I'm really enjoying it but like as a piece of nonfiction I'm not like oh my god this is the best thing I've ever read you know it's incredibly interesting to me and my niche interest but I don't yeah I don't think it's like out of this world incredible so I'm gonna continue reading it tonight as moments where I feel like it is having to bulk out certain elements of information with like other real-life cases or you know there was one we had a whole long chapter on guns and it's like Christie didn't like guns she didn't use them all that often or her knowledge of them wasn't the best but let's have a whole chapter on them like I feel like there was moments where it's reaching a little bit and trying to pad out the book and it could have been shorter and tighter and really focused on Christie and there's moments where I feel like I mean listen a wider forensic knowledge is still needed and important and interesting like it's needed for you to understand everything else that it's saying like this this guy invented this forensic research or whatever but sometimes I just feel like it's the weaving of the different things it's trying to bring together isn't necessarily like perfect because that makes sense also I know that like most of the time I'm in the shadow of my camera and I film in this spot I need to change that hello I have read today so far for where's my timer about three hours so I'm probably not going to check in again tonight I'll include a screenshot here's my screenshot of me finished reading tonight JK I actually ended up reading for like an hour longer than I was meant to just very slowly but yeah I'll see you tomorrow once I've finished finished murder isn't easy okay friends I ended up reading this a lot slower than I usually read I think just because it's non-fiction I really end up rereading parts of this and like taking my time with it and really slowing my reading down so today I have read for three hours and 30 minutes but since I over read last night I think I mean how much was I supposed to read yesterday four hours and four minutes so you're over read by like an hour and a bit yesterday so yeah between last night the more that I read last night I've read what I was supposed to do today sorry that the lighting isn't ideal by the way is that better I don't know Tom's got my ring light so we're having to deal with natural lighting it's the life of a day for I I enjoyed this I'm gonna give it a 3.5 I think the reason I really had to slow it down was there is something with the writing that was not 100% doing it for me it just took me a little longer to read then something I this is a topic I'm so interested in there was just something about the writing that meant I had to slow it down in terms of my reading one thing I don't think I told you that was so interesting hang on I think it was at the start of the guns chapter it talks about how are you ready for this Cludo was partially inspired by and then there were none I've connected the two dots you didn't connect shit but I've connected them originally when the game was originally devised it had 10 guest characters the same number as how many there are and then there were none and then there were none and they also have more weapons in the final edition and many of the weapons also feature and then there were none ah there was a bottle of poison and axe and a hypodermic syringe which are all including the original game and will all cause a death in Agatha's book Agatha even jotted down an idea for a Cludo themed murder mystery story like my worlds are just converging my worlds are converging that made me so happy to find out but anyways yeah the whole forensic side of this was very interesting it's a topic I don't know a ton about I found it interesting but like it took me a long time to read it it took me a long time to read it there was just another writing that didn't 105 of me so I don't know if I'd read more nonfiction from Carla Valentine it just didn't 100% but I still think if you are a big Christy fan this is an interesting book you know it really brings to like her knowledge of forensics however like I said sometimes I think it is struggling for things to say sometimes the the source material is a bit lacking and it's like trying to make bigger points and it hasn't doesn't necessarily have the source material it reminded me of when I was at uni and like I really wanted to make a point in an essay but like I hadn't really read anything in any of my readings that really backed it up and I was like struggling I was like trying to bring in things that don't necessarily link up I'm like just really trying to get that um yeah to get that to link up so we're done reading for the day because we read over the past two days kind of the right amount I could have read more I think I haven't felt great there's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes that's very exciting life stuff but it's also taking up a lot of my brain space and a lot of my energy so I think I read these fairly slowly well definitely the latter two night film I think I did read quite quickly and this is really the big highlight of the vlog for me because I don't think I would have read this any time soon if not for this video I think I would have put it off for years and years and I really really really enjoyed this I cannot recommend it enough in terms of how I found the experiment at the start of it I really enjoyed it I really enjoyed knowing I mean that could also be there on my shorter reading days I struggled more towards the end when I was reading more but um yeah at the beginning I enjoyed it because I liked knowing I have to read for a certain amount of time versus I have to read a certain amount because often I'm like trying to read as quick as I can but just saying to myself you just have to read for four hours and however much you read is however much you read I enjoyed but in the last past couple days also I am not feeling very well I've had a really bad headache the past couple days but the past couple days I've been kind of like um what if I don't read I just don't want to read and also the way that my personal reading goes is I'll often read for like six hours one day and nothing the next I don't read consistently amounts every day like sometimes I'll read loads over two days and then won't read anything for two days and so on and so forth so I think there were certain points that I was like I need a day of not reading and like doing other things in life you know but I think it's an interesting experiment don't know if I'll do it again these two well this one was not successful this one was successful with a few caveats and this one was a very successful read so let me know if you read any of these and what you thought of them but I had a lot of fun making this vlog I hope you guys enjoyed it I don't know how long this is going to be it's either going to be like really long or actually not not that long and that's most vlogs anyways guys I love you guys so much thank you so much for watching to the end of the video and I'll see you very soon in another one bye


Right-wingers were initially ecstatic following news that billionaire Elon Musk would be purchasing Twitter But just a week into his reign as chief twit Right-wingers are already turning on him in droves and viciously so So what set them off you ask well?  So Twitter's head of safety and integrity Yoll Roth tweeted We're staying vigilant against attempts to manipulate conversations about the 2022 US midterms Read on for independent analysis of our team's work now Elon Musk responded to that tweet saying that he spoke to civil society leaders and members from civil rights organizations such as the ADL the NAACP Lulac about how Twitter will continue to combat hate and harassment and enforce its election integrity policies now He then followed up by saying Twitter will not allow anyone who was deplatformed for violating Twitter rules Back on the platform until we have a clear process for doing so which will take at least a few more weeks Now all it took were those two tweets and the right collectively has turned on him because they don't want to hear that Twitter will combat hate and harassment, but that's something that advertisers want So you're not going to attract advertisers if this becomes a dystopian racist hellscape more so than it already is right So he's looking at the profitability of Twitter and how to go forward and make money and the right just doesn't like that So they're not happy and they voiced their outrage Tim Poole tweeted out.  Or have anything to do with election integrity? This is not sounding like a triumph for free speech dot dot dot Jack Passobiak tweets every member of this group of divergent views called for Trump to be censored while he was the sitting President of the United States. He added keep your getter truth social and telegram accounts up and running Tom Fitton writes the left that supports mass censorship of their political opponents certainly seem well represented here Benny Johnson who accidentally outed himself as a homosexual on Twitter calls on Elon Musk to fire Yol Roth saying You will never restore public trust at Twitter when the guy in charge thinks 100 million Americans who support America first are quote literal Nazis and even cat turd has turned on Elon Musk And Elon Musk assisted cat turd himself This was one of the first things that he did as chief twit But now cat turd is saying I admit when I'm wrong and I was 100 wrong about elon musk changing twitter The new twitter moderation council is just a bunch of far left fanatic groups who were never targeted here No average joes no real conservatives. No one to represent the people actually targeted now federalist co-founder Sean Davis points out not a single conservative in the entire bunch I don't think that there are any conservative civil rights groups. So that's probably why now someone responded to Sean Davis saying this I think he referencing elon is starting to worry about profitability and not ethics Now even though that last tweet was from a twitter rando I just had to point it out because hmm this idea that a billionaire is prioritizing profits over ethics I mean to me that just sounds completely unlikely. I feel like billionaires almost all of them If not all of them definitely prioritize ethics and people over profits That's how they amassed their wealth in the first place by being very ethical people So that person is definitely onto something I'm being facetious obviously So as you can see they're outraged and that's just a small sample of the outrage and backlash to elon musk Now he did respond to the hate that he's getting from the left and the right So he's going to respond to people on the right who don't like that He met with civil rights leaders and that twitter will continue to combat hate and harassment And he also is responding to people who reacted negatively to news that he would be charging people eight dollars per month for verification So he says to all complainers, please continue complaining, but it will cost eight dollars Now he also shared this sad bojack meme of people apparently willing to pay eight dollars for a starbucks frappuccino But not eight dollars for twitter verification And he adds being attacked by both right and left simultaneously is a good sign That last tweet sounds like cope if you ask me because I think that he wasn't expecting the right to turn on him So quickly the right wants results. The right wants people who are deplatformed to be reinstated The right wants donald trump back and elon musk isn't delivering and he's probably not going to fundamentally change twitter In the realm that they want him to change it with regard to hate speech and harassment because as he said himself If it's a free-for-all which it will not remain that way or will not be that way specifically Then you're going to turn off advertisers. So he wants to make this a profitable platform He sunk billions of dollars into this deal. So he wants to turn a profit Which is why he's trying to charge people eight dollars and he's I guess shocked And posting sad wojak memes because people don't want to pay eight dollars for verification But they'll pay eight dollars for frappuccino. Yeah, but people aren't paying for verification currently So unless you could substantially Give us a good reason to pay money to you then people just aren't going to do it So I love how his response is. Oh, well, you know, it's a good sign that I'm being attacked by the left and the right Hmm for somebody like you who needs constant validation I actually don't think that he's just secretly loving the fact that he's being attacked by the left and the right and that He feels as if this is proof that he's doing everything right. I think that he hates this I think that he just wants to be loved and the fact that the right is already turning on him after they made him a hero Is deeply hurting his feelings deeply hurting his feelings. So look, I find all this hilarious I admit that I definitely did not want elon musk to buy twitter and I still am not necessarily happy with him buying twitter But it's kind of paying off in the sense that this has been very very entertaining I haven't cared this much about twitter in a very long time And I've got to say seeing the shit show seeing him propose these terrible ideas to try to find some way to desperately Make a profit seeing the right him The right wing turn on him It may have made him buying twitter All worthwhile in the end because I'm loving what I'm seeing so far And I genuinely hope that the right continues to attack him because I love to see them eat their own And especially after they boosted his ego so much to have him fall from grace This quickly. Oh, it's just you love to see it. It's so great.


Alright, so this Ben's trip was very very interesting. I found some really great stuff to sell I left some extra footage in this one because I think I missed a lot of stuff So you guys let me know in the comments what you think I should have picked up, but wait until you see this one item Oh my goodness Wow, and then I see these sitting in someone's cart like really who buys stuff like this Stay tuned for more on that and here's one of my cool finds. I'll show you how I listed that Hey fellow buddies. Thanks for watching Dollars for online Amazing, right? All right, let's get started All right, so that was just an empty safe. I did not even have to open it. It was Empty. All right. So you guys like I said, I left some extra footage in here There's some things that as I was watching this back that I feel like I missed this is a lovey It's a security blanket if you ever see those pick them up that one was in really bad condition So I left it behind but those can be a big money bolo and they are great bread and butter So anytime you see those lovies definitely Definitely look them up and if they're really cheap just grab it and go All right Wait until you guys see what I find in one of the bends. Oh my gosh. We all had a good laugh some of the ladies there that um I've been shopping with that. I'm getting to know. Oh my goodness. We were we were laughing That's towards the end of the video. So you're definitely gonna want to stay tuned I don't know what that was but it was kind of cool Okay, so I pick up this pan and I think it was for an induction cooktop But the inside was kind of scraped so I left it behind But I know those induction cooktop pans can be high dollar I'm wondering now if I should have got it. Let me know in the comments if you would have bought this pan. I Should have looked it up at least and it had the cool pattern, but it didn't have a lid this I thought about getting for Poshmark It was like baby boy Baby shower items. I feel like that stuff would do good on Poshmark, but I left it behind I do look for sealed DVDs. I Kind of a sucker for picking those up. I know they're major bread and butter, but if they're sealed I don't have to test them. They're really cheap. They're easy to list So you will see me pick those up from time to time and I totally missed that bop it right there I cannot believe I missed it. I think it would have been a bread and butter I don't know. I have one that I bought here the In one of my other halls and I did a couple videos on my reseller testing Bolo products channel where I'm testing it and Oh my goodness. It was so fun. I haven't listed it yet because it's fun So I'm hanging on to it for now I tried to get my husband to try it and I did better than him But anyway, that was a different style. So I know that any time picker He sold one it was brand new in the package and it sold for big money It was a big money Bolo, but it was in the original packaging I think that's why it went for more, but I think it was more of that style. So I cannot believe I missed it You guys let me know if you see anything else that I miss I did pick this little guy up I have listed these before I Figured it was probably like 50 cents or less by weight not not much at all I pay a dollar 79 a pound at my Goodwill bins and I think it's 59 cents a pound for books and I did venture over to the clothing. I found a couple things you guys know. I don't do much clothing They're more accessories, but stay tuned for that. Some of my finds are near the end I did sell one item already. I find a really cool vintage item. I've got it priced kind of high You're gonna see it here soon I've got it up for auction just kind of feeling out the market I'm not sure what this dollhouse was, but I know at my bins if you talk to them for the heavy items They will work for you work with you on price Because that big dollhouse would have been a lot of money at a dollar 79 a pound more than I would want to pay for it But I didn't even look it up. Maybe I should have if you guys know anything about that Let me know this is the item. I think the head is paper mache, but it's made in Japan I love vintage made in Japan items. It is posable. It's just really really cool So I'm excited about that one if it doesn't sell on auction. I'm going to probably Put it at a hundred dollars or best offer and my sale will kick in and take it down to around 75 80 bucks for that and I'm just gonna kind of wait on the right buyer I feel like it's unique and different and it's still got the original tags All right, I can't remember what that was. I did open it up and check it out and I left it behind so Some sort of maybe crafting thing or something So normally I leave the sound in the background of me ruffling through the bends I did not do that today. So let me know in the comments Do you like it like this where it's quiet and just my voice or do you like it better when you can hear me? digging through the bends in the background Put that down in the comments. So I know and I know it's probably gonna be a big mix of Some of you are gonna like it one way and the others are gonna like the other way So maybe I'll just mix it up, but feedback is always good Lots of this was a fun trip I didn't get a ton of stuff, but I feel like I got some good stuff and I did leave in some extra footage So I asked the question do you guys like the extra digging and a lot of you I think more said yes than that said no and I have been putting some uncut versions over on my reseller No, wait on my sourcing with Bola buddies YouTube channel So if you want to see the uncut versions the longer videos without me talking no education Just me digging you can go over to my sourcing with Bola buddies YouTube channel and check those out and They are always much longer because I cut a lot of footage out I didn't cut much out of this one, but this is a longer video. It's about almost 30 minutes So I just thought you guys would enjoy this one because I feel like there's so much stuff that I could have picked up and made money on All right, I'm trying to remember what all was in here. Do you guys pick up the little cartoon hats? I don't know what that was. I Did put this in my cart and then I was like I do not want to ship that thing that is going to be super annoying to find a box that that's going to fit and I Don't think it was special. I could be wrong. Let me know if you guys would have bought the giraffe all right and Shout out to the ladies. I've been shopping with you know who you are if you're watching. Thanks for watching Super super fun. I've been seeing the same people over and over and we shop together and talk and chit chat and it's a great time All right, I don't know what that was Let's see See right now like when I'm not talking that digging would be cool. There were some masks I did I handed those off to somebody else who was picking up all the masks. I don't think that they were They weren't like fun World Division. I don't think I'm looking for the scream masks or anything that looks really old like the dawn pounds and stuff like that Now this little guy I did not buy it But I just recently sold two of those that I got out of a mystery box That is not something that I would typically pick up It was in one of the thrift store mystery boxes that I got and there wasn't a whole lot in the box So I was just trying to make my money back and I decided to list those and they actually sold So that was pretty cool. I thought I would just share that comp with you guys again I didn't grab it because there was only one Legos anytime I see Legos I grab them I just have an ongoing pile of Legos and then I will put them in lots and sell them that way but Definitely collect them another thing that I always grab at the bins are sticker sheets that are sealed and I just have Stickers that piles and piles of stickers and I'm just collecting them and then I will sell them as a lot They are super super lightweight same with the Legos. It's just kind of a no-brainer to grab those and hold on to them All right The bins were packed open house Anybody Would have grabbed those. I don't think those sell for much and get them at Lowe's and stuff like that and Definitely check out some of my other bins videos if you haven't seen them I've done two collaboration videos with dad planted if you're not following him definitely check out his channel I did put these in my cart vintage Music piano books stuff like that. Sometimes they can do well those I ended up opening up and they had a lot of writing in them And I looked up comps and they weren't high enough to warrant keeping so I threw those back in the bin This is pretty cool This is some type of advertising, but they're blocks They're buildable blocks and they say like interstate and some different stuff So I went ahead and bought that and I've got it up for auction because I really don't know if there's a market for it Or not it's probably gonna be a long tail item, but the blocks aren't branded. They're just a non Unbranded block that this company uses to advertise. It's a pretty cool idea actually This is pretty cool. Do you guys remember playing? Is it ski ball? I remember going to like those places and playing ski ball when I was a kid. That was always one of my favorite games All right, I Don't know what that goes to a lot of those play sets that are bigger I just I won't mess with I did grab that. It's a little power ranger any small toys like that I will throw those in my cart if I do not list them individually I will hang on to them and I will put them in a lot and I will call it a toy box and a lot of times I'll sell those on Mercari or I list them on eBay also, but I like to sell those on Mercari Just fill up like a large flat rate box full of smalls And then people will buy them for their kids to just dig through and play with I mean I guess a reseller could buy it. This is a soap. I'd looked it up. I couldn't find the exact one I ended up throwing that back in I probably should have got it. It probably would have been a good bread and butter item Probably long tail, but maybe not Probably should have got the soap. Would you have got the soap? Let me know in the comments. I do pick up all these little V-tex anytime I find those they are lights and sound and They're just a bread and butter item, but it all adds up, right? That's a paw patrol tower. It's missing pieces I do know on one of the play sets There is that top piece that you look through that comes off and that is a good bread and butter replacement part Did find another Lego booklet if you watch my last Benzo Benzo my last Benz video I found like 20 Lego manuals check out that video to see what I found. I found some really great stuff. I turned I'm gonna turn $68 into about $800 from that last haul So check it out if you want to see how I dig in the Benz And a lot of times I go in after everybody's already picked through it And I find the little treasures the bread and butter that adds up that a lot of people miss This is a pair of Solomon shoes. They're so dirty. You almost can't even tell look at that But I'm gonna clean these up. I can't even tell you what style this is But I'm gonna clean them up and I'm gonna put it one of my videos So stay tuned for that. Thanks Courtney for the opportunity to show your people this because it's a mess Okay, so Are these magic the gathering cards should I have grabbed those I I should have stopped the camera and dug a little deeper on those My husband was just talking about those the other day that He picked some up at a sale or something He was talking about him. I'm like, I know some of them can be a bolo And I know terry from mindful recycle who has an amazing channel She just gave me an app where you can look up Those cards like pokemon. Is it yoji or I don't know what it's called and then magic the gathering And it tells you the value. So I'm gonna download or upload. What do you call that that app to my phone? But I have a video coming soon Where I feature her store. She is amazing And I talk about the app in that video. So stay tuned for that I'm not sure which video is gonna post first. So Definitely look for it if um, you're watching this All right, let's see what else we got here These little tykes these go with those waffle blocks You remember the waffle blocks that I bought a whole bunch of they kind of look like those But um, I'm not sure I didn't pick those up because those were a newer version the ones I picked up in the other video were vintage So, um, maybe I should have grabbed them. I don't know, but I definitely grabbed the people There's two of them. They they look like farmers or cowboys or something like that But decent comps on those Now I showed you these in the beginning a sneak peek. I do have these up for auction Um, most of them are people are selling them individually for 12 to 15 dollars a piece I'm gonna sell mine as a set of four that makes the most sense to me because Nobody else has them listed in a lot I've got them up for 64 dollars and 99 cents on auction If they do not sell I will increase the price put it on and buy it now with a best offer And I also, uh, usually run around a 25 percent sale There's the other little tykes guy All right So what did you guys think about those shoes that dad planted is buying? Would you buy those shoes? No way No way would I spend that much time cleaning those shoes? I looked at them up close and I'm like, it looks like they're a little bit messed up right here And he's like, we will see So, um, I'm looking forward to seeing his video on how he's going to clean those and if they're going to clean up And if they're going to sell so you guys tell me in the comments Would you have bought the muddy shoes and make sure you go over to dad planet's channel and sub him up so you can see What how he does it and what they end up selling for so I don't know if he's going to do an actual video of him cleaning them or if he's just going to show like Um, how they looked before and after in a video No clue, but I'm definitely interested in seeing that because that is not something I would have picked up You guys I grabbed a clothing item. This is a tie. I just thought it was cute. It's um a bread and butter item It's uh into africa. I think is what it's called and it's got like the safari animals on it I just thought it was cute and it was lightweight. So I went ahead and grabbed it So I did venture to the clothes sometimes like I'm waiting on them to bring out new hard goods And I'm like I might as well look at the clothes I did find um, it's not this video, but it should be in my next Ben's video that I just recorded. I'm getting everything listed now and then I have to do the edits But I found an ll bean like bag And I kept it for myself. All right, you guys I was so excited about this. I was like, I found a bolo Well, it didn't work the music worked, but the figures did not skate on the pond So I am parting it out and at the screenshots that I'm popping up here Are how I parted it out. So I got four or five listings out of that I'm still going to make really great money on it. It'll probably be long tail I'm going to have to wait on that person who's looking for those missing parts, but I had all of the figures They were in excellent condition So I'm hoping to get about 30 to 35 dollars just out of the figures alone There's another item coming up also that I find that I was really excited about I found a sold for 72 dollars and then I opened the box And I realized that the main component was not in there But I am going to sell it For the box and the stuff the instructions the cd the other things that are still in it. So that's coming soon I can't remember. It's something for like your pc To like for gamers. Maybe I'm not a hundred percent sure if anybody is watching and you know, you can let me know in the comments I feel like it's coming up, but it may be a little bit down the road Those were I looked those up. They were not good enough to buy. They were kind of heavy also Little cabbage patch there I will tell you digging through the bins is just It's it's so fun. I love it All right, it's a draft picture Somebody must have collected drafts that donated So I have a question You know how they have the drop-off location for you guys to drop off stuff that you're donating Does that go straight into the bins or does it go into the goodwill because this is attached to a goodwill They're right next door But I'm wondering if they take stuff to the goodwill or if it just goes into the bins Because I donated some stuff the other day and I was really really curious about that. I should have just asked them I had stuff in my car and I'm like, I'm just going to get this out of here right now so All right There is a cup I pick it up I look it up. I can't find one like it It doesn't have the lid So I'm trying to remember the brand. I think it starts with a tea You guys will probably recognize it But I've heard that people do decent with them All right, here we go. We've got marshal and then that little aerial clip clop I haven't listed the clip clop yet. This is the mug. I'm telling you about is it Oh, I can't remember what tervis or trevis or something like that Should I've got that that tumbler cup? Let me know in the comments you guys All right So the clip clop I'm going to hold on to until I find another one I did find three of them in one of my other benz videos that I did and I listed those three as a lot So those are great little bread and butter items I don't know. Was that like a potato peeler or maybe a carrot peeler Since it was shaped like a carrot that would make sense All right, you guys are still waiting to see the crazy item I find And I did not buy it. I did not buy it. I left it in the I left it in the bin I did pick this up because in one of my recent benz video I missed a yeti everybody was like you missed the yeti and I went back and I watched and I missed the yeti and it was teal I loved it I can't believe I missed it I did pick up this scarf. I have not listed it yet The reason I picked it it up picked it it it it up It's because it's hand rolled there on the ends And I threw it in the washing machine because it was a little dirty. So I still have to get that listed. It's just Lazarus, I believe So it's not a high-end brand. I did get this hat. It is a Calvin Klein hat It's super cute. It's like a little floppy beach hat. I figure somebody's gonna buy it. It was an excellent condition And um, I scooped it up. I've done pretty well with those types of hats all right I do like this section. I have to admit sometimes I find some stuff In uh, like the bags and stuff purses and I don't know hats scarves accessories. Is that what you would call them? I do find a bag that's brand new with tags that I picked up And you're gonna see that here shortly Right here. It is a Cabela's small gear bag And it's got the original tag on it. So I figured I could not go wrong with that, right? Somebody's gonna be looking for that probably for like fishing or something and I found this little kids youth a youth medium north face hat so Figured that would be a nice bread and butter That I don't know what that was. Is that like a should I've got that hat? Maybe I should have got that hat Dad Planet pulled a hat that he listed for over 200 dollars out of A bin like this in our last collaboration video. So go check out that video to see what he found I would not even have looked twice at that hat And he hasn't listed for crazy money. Okay, so here's that uh, pc thing I was talking about So there's some sort of like board or something inside of it that was missing But a lot of times people will buy the boxes this barbie sold super fast. She's um, like a hawaiian barbie And yeah 17 bucks plus shipping and here it is you guys Condoms there were condoms littered throughout this bin It's funny because I looked over and one of the gals was holding them up and was like anybody need these So We all had a good laugh about that. It just goes to show you that you can find Anything at the bins there we go. We were throwing the condoms together. So maybe somebody will need those and They'll buy them. I don't know Kind of funny, right? So let's see. What else do we find here? Lots of treasures lots of treasures today There's my cart. All right That is like one of those uh step one step two, but they're really big and bulky anybody ever sell those Again, they probably reduce the price because it's a big bulky heavy item and they just want that stuff out of there I grabbed these. You know, I threw them in my cart. I figured they'd be bread and butter But sometimes those trading cards can surprise you Mine were definitely bread and butter. I went ahead and still listed them just because I had them Uh, they'll probably be long tail. I don't know if they'll ever sell Probably not the greatest buy, but I didn't want to risk leaving them behind and having them be something special The magic of gathering or whatever those cards are called.  I have sold those in the past. I thought it was going to be a really long tail I got that same drum set in a mystery toy box from a thrift store So I went ahead and parted it out, but the drum sticks sold pretty quickly. So I was hoping to find the other one Those are kind of heavy those toys. So I went ahead and left them behind. They're more of a long tail Item, but the drum sticks I was going to get but I never did find the other one So I just threw it back in the bin. It was probably in somebody else's cart, right? Thank you guys so much for being here. I do a ton of what sold videos on this channel So be sure to check those out also This is my other channel sourcing with bolo buddies and I also have reseller testing bolo products And I do a lot of live listing shows over on this channel So be sure to check those out. They will be linked in the description of the video I also have a facebook group that is almost up to 60 000 members So come on over and join that to learn about more bolo items to look for and mentioned in this video was dad planet Definitely go give him a sub Be sure to check out the description of the video like comment share and subscribe. Thanks for watching