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AI GeneratedThe creator shares a comprehensive journey of preparing for, hosting, and cleaning up after her daughter's combined birthday and Halloween party. The content blends intensive deep-cleaning routines and home maintenance with reflections on the rising cost of living, the importance of community support, and nostalgic comparisons between modern childhood and the past.
Welcome back to another get it all done vlog.
We have a lot to tackle in today's video.
We're going to be deep cleaning, regular cleaning,
ordering food, or not maybe not ordering it today.
I'll probably order it tomorrow, but kind of getting things lined up
in a list made for the food that we need for this party this weekend.
And I'm going to share with you guys what we do for birthday parties.
And I've done this for the kids birthdays
for the past like four years now and it has.
been so much easier than trying to cook food
or you know i don't know it just it's pretty easy
so we'll talk about that a little bit
but let's get into some cleaning first actually
we're gonna make a drink i love the propel
my absolute favorite electrolyte drink
and i pour it over the ice
because i don't know i like it to be kind of chunky i'm weird
Like I don't like it to be all the way mixed
if that makes sense. I like to every now and then
get like a big chunk of it. I know, weird.
This is the steamer I use and I love it. If you have like
weak hands, I always say I have weak hands,
and it's just because like, I don't know, after I've
like squeezed a trigger for so long,
my fingers start to like kind of go numb and get really
crampy. So this one stays on and you don't have to hold a trigger.
So I really like that.
I'm going to show you guys up close and
personal what the grout is looking like.
I know it looks funky, okay?
It's been a while.
I haven't done this.
I mean, we mop and stuff, but we haven't, like, steamed the grout.
Well overdue, but that's okay. We're going to take care of it today.
I'm just going to start on this corner of the room
and just kind of work my way through.
This was pretty time consuming.
I would say it took me about an hour, but like I said,
this grout is so stained up
and I really wanted to try to get as many of the stains off as I could.
I didn't get all of them, but I did get quite a few
and it looks a heck of a lot better than it did.
So that's all that matters.
I will have a steamer linked below.
By the way, I like it because you don't have to hold down.
A trigger, you just turn it on whichever level you want
and let it do its thing.
I am also scrubbing,
so I did grab like a bowl with some Dawn dish soap and an old scrubber,
and I am scrubbing as well.
And then I also ended up getting out my...
like handheld shampooer because this has a pretty good scrubber on it
and I noticed that when I was
using this I was able to suck up the extra water
so I wasn't making a huge mess and didn't have to
use a ton of towels. But once I was done
with that I did go in and just quickly mop over the tile
and what a difference that made.
Like I obviously didn't show you guys like a before
and after because you can't really tell on camera
but in person you could definitely tell.
I'm also doing a ton of laundry today.
I have not only like clothes to wash but I needed to wash all
the sheets, the blankets, extra blankets that we had.
I wanted to freshen those.
Just in case anybody needed them. Oh and the towels.
Oh my gosh we already struggle with having enough towels
in our household and then when you have guests coming I want
to make sure every single towel including the beach towels are clean.
Just in case.
And I washed all of them and tell me why we
still didn't have enough towels because during
the party, it poured down rain
and then all the kids needed towels to dry off and they
were dirty.
I was like, oh my gosh, we're going to struggle tonight.
I just knew it was going to be rough, but we all made it work.
And I'm thankful for everyone being very
like understanding and they're like us.
They don't really care about that kind of stuff.
Thankfully, I wouldn't be able to survive
if I had a family that was like super judgmental.
There ain't no way in hell.
But anyway, I ended up ordering some new athletic sets.
I freaking love these.
I seen them on Amazon when I was scrolling through.
It was like top seller.
I was like, you know what, let me.
Let me order them and see.
I love them so much.
Dylan loved this set as well.
So I was like, huh, we're going on a trip.
Let me go ahead and order them in every color.
I'm just kidding.
I just ordered my top three colors.
I struggle finding athletic wear
that I really feel confident in sometimes.
And that's what I wear 99% of the time.
So I was like, let me get a couple cute sets just
to kind of change it up a bit instead
of it always being.
Black, which I did order a black set too because, you know,
that's my go-to, but they're really, really nice.
The only issue is that the flare at the bottom is a little too big.
I'm gonna have to, like, bring them in a little bit.
I'm probably gonna try to do, like, a DIY sew.
We'll see how that turns out.
I'll keep you updated, but if you have really long legs,
those are gonna be perfect for you.
I'll link that set down below as well.
But, I'm also deep cleaning the bathroom.
I literally scrubbed the entire bathroom with these little wet wipes.
They're like the disinfectant ones.
I even did the floor and everything because, to be honest, it's kind
of pointless to even mop this bathroom because it is so small.
And then I feel like once you mop the
bathroom floor, the mop head is disgusting.
So, I, most of the time, will just hand mop the floors.
Does anybody else do that?
Please tell me I'm not the only one
who just hand mops the bathroom floor.
I'll be on my hands and knees scrubbing things down,
but it works and that way I don't have
to constantly go through O-Cedar mop heads
and feel like I'm like spreading the bathroom
germs through the house.
And then moving on, I needed to quickly clean out the fridge.
I didn't worry about making it perfect.
I could have pulled everything out and probably deep cleaned it, but...
I figured it's going to be full of leftovers,
I'm sure, by the end of the party and everything.
I just wanted to tidy it up, wipe it down,
rearrange some things that didn't really make
sense, so that's what I'm going to focus on now.
It wasn't sure what I was getting.
I
totally
forgot
to tell
y'all
at the
beginning,
but I do
plan on...
Cleaning up after the party in this video too.
So not only did I like finish getting
the whole house clean before the party
Then I cleaned up after the party and boy was it a mess,
but I told everybody to leave it
I was like just go it's totally fine.
I don't mind. I'd make it into a cleaning video
I know y'all will love it.
And that's actually exactly what I ended up doing.
So you'll see that at the end of the video, but
In the meantime, I'm going to go ahead and get my,
some of my chairs shampooed.
Now it's going to look like I'm making it worse,
but I promise once it's dry, all these
stains came out really well.
I'm using this little, I can't remember what the name of this,
I think this is the Eureka
brand.
I used to have a little Bissell green machine.
I really like that one too.
I actually prefer that one.
I think it works a little bit better.
This one works really great too.
I just feel like sometimes the trigger doesn't, the liquid doesn't.
Cleaning solution doesn't come out that great
but as far as getting the job done it does a pretty
good job but I promise it looks way worse than it's going
to end up being. It's just because
when the cushion gets wet it gets a little darker
but it did get all the stains out and I was really
happy about that. That's one thing I cannot stand about fabric chairs
is just trying the upkeep
especially when we have guests coming over like
That's one of the first things I think I need to get done
because I'm like, no one wants to sit there
but at a dinner table to eat on a dirty behind chair.
Meanwhile, nobody really cares.
I'm telling you right now, listen,
our house was so packed for this party.
My daughter actually wanted to do her gifts inside
because it's a little warm here in
Florida.
Y'all, she sat at the kitchen table
and everyone was like in the living room and in the dining
room or wait, no, in the kitchen, like around the kitchen island.
She was in the dining room and we probably should have switched it up.
We probably should have had everyone sitting
in the dining room and living room and then
had her at the kitchen island or something.
Because there was like no room.
We were crammed like little sardines up in here.
But hey, you know what?
You know how everybody always talks about you need
a bigger house to entertain.
You really don't.
You just need the right people to invite because nobody even cared.
Everybody piled in here and was happy as can be.
And I will be the first to admit every party,
every single time, I always think, oh my gosh,
my house is really tiny.
And then when people are coming in, I'm like,
oh, you know, it's a little tight in here.
I'm telling you right now, it's the last thing on anybody's mind.
anybody's mind everyone had a freaking blast
and I even like I'm so thankful for how this
party turned out for my daughter
because that is like I feel like every parent's
You know worry is that a party is not going
to go the way that you plan it for your kids
And you know one of the biggest things that break my heart
I don't know why i'm bringing this up because it's really sad
But let me just tell you anyway
So I scroll on social media and i'll see these posts
of these women that are like I invited every one of my kids
Classmates and nobody showed up and their kids are like
at the park waiting and these are people who don't have a village like
And by village, I mean friends family
Even just acquaintances that you know wanted
to show up for their kids. So then they're just kind of left
With not having a party, they buy the cake,
the cupcakes and, you know, they hope that
someone will come celebrate their child and I, oh man.
I try so hard to make sure that we go to birthday parties if we are,
like, specifically invited
because of that reason.
Like, I don't want anybody's kid to feel left out.
Even if it makes you uncomfortable, just go.
Enjoy a couple, like, it doesn't have to be forever.
You can go for 45 minutes, let your kids play,
sit in the background, maybe do some doom
scrolling while you're kind of keeping an eye on your kids.
Like, you don't have to make friends with everybody,
but to make sure that your kids
have the opportunity, I think it's so important.
But anyway, it just makes me realize just
how incredibly blessed I am to have a large
family.
My brothers, my sister-in-laws, my mom,
my dad, everyone, everyone who showed up for
us yesterday, friends that became family,
aunts, uncles, cousins, like all of it.
I just, I'm just so, so thankful.
And.
You know, you kind of, like, stop worrying about the small stuff.
Like, nobody really notices the small stuff
that you think that they're noticing.
Everyone's just there to have a good time and socialize,
eat some good food, hopefully
have some fun, whether it's, like,
the bounce house or play games, whatever it is.
But.
Anyway, I am scrubbing out my shower,
preparing because we had guests staying with us and
I don't think I've told you all this,
but the shower, the front bathroom shower, you
really can't shower in there with the bathtub.
It just, it's really uncomfortable.
It feels like you're going to tip over because it's so tall.
I don't like it.
So that bathroom is now strictly for taking a bath.
Eventually, I'd like to get like
a bath installed where it doesn't feel so high.
Does that make sense?
Like, it's hard to explain,
but you really have to step up into it and then step down.
And I don't really like that.
So I figured I'd clean this out really well.
So that way, everybody who needs a shower, they just come in here.
Or they can take a bath if they'd like.
Whatever you want to do.
It's up to you.
By the way, I'm using Dawn and super hot water to scrub the shower.
It works like a charm to get any of the soap scum off.
And I do it pretty often.
A lot of times I'll just keep the Dawn soap
in there along with a scrubber.
And sometimes when I'm showering,
I'll just quickly scrub some areas if I feel like there's
like a little soap kind of building up or something,
but it comes super clean.
And the best thing to do is like scrub it down,
let it sit for like just a couple minutes,
maybe five to 10 minutes,
and then do one more quick scrub and then rinse with hot water
and it comes crystal clear.
Well, it doesn't come crystal clear, it comes super clean.
That's what I was trying to say.
Anyway, I'm now steaming the bathroom.
Um, I don't like doing this.
I do not like steaming the bathroom.
I feel like.
So like you think your bathroom is clean
and like it doesn't stink until you start steaming
the tile with a steamer
or the toilet like area that will hit you in the face like a
ton of bricks, especially if you have boys,
if you know, you know, it's disgusting.
I don't like it.
I try not to do this.
I try to like scrub it with bleach before I do the steamer,
but I was already at it
and the steamer is a good way to not have to use a ton of chemicals.
It's just really, really hot.
It does a really great job.
But.
I still end up using some type of chemical,
whether it's like the wet wipes that are antibacterial
or some type of bathroom cleaner.
Just depends on what I have on hand.
I've been using, oh my gosh, I'm like stuttering.
I used this Clorox cleaner recently and I really like it.
I think it's just like the Clorox Multi-Purpose Antibacterial Cleaner.
I feel like it works really good at just like
a multi-surface cleaner, obviously that's
what it is, but I feel that it's not too strong as far as the scent.
It does a really great job at cleaning
and making me feel like it's actually sanitized.
So I have this new water flosser and every now
and then I forget how to use it properly.
And I spray like whatever's in my mouth
all over this plant.
So disgusting, I know.
But anyway, I had to wipe the leaves down,
get some of the toothpaste
that I had splattered all over it.
Just being honest.
That's true.
This water flosser thing is a game changer though.
If you've never used a water flosser,
you will be shocked at how like clean your mouth feels.
Like floss picks don't do it for me anymore.
I can't even, I feel like they don't even work
as well as my floss pick.
And I've just bought like a really cheap one from Walmart.
And I highly recommend it.
It's not too powerful where it's going to hurt you,
but it's enough to blow whatever is in between your teeth right on out.
And yes, I'm back in here switching over some more laundry.
I wasn't joking.
I probably washed six loads of laundry on this day.
Can't wait to see this electric bill and water bill.
I'm honestly just joking.
It really hasn't went up that much.
It's been steady $400, which is crazy to even say $400.
Oh my gosh.
Not to mention our insurance.
It goes up every year.
Every year, Florida insurance is so high.
Anywhere you go, it's high.
But I actually have really great rates.
Every time I try to call around,
nothing compares to what I have now.
And so I refuse to even change my insurance
because it's pretty decent.
But it's still going up.
It's going up another $100 to $200.
I'm pretty sure I calculated it out.
It's going to be like $200 extra a month next year
or once it renews, which is coming up.
And yeah.
It's crazy.
Between that, our electric bill being $400 now, I'm so grateful.
Listen, I know I talk about not moving anymore and how,
like, we decided to stay where we
are.
I am just so thankful that we did not pack up
and leave the many times we tried.
Like, every single time I, like, think back,
I'm like, oh my gosh, we made the best decision
ever because we would be so house poor right now.
Based off of just how much we pay currently like I I don't want
to struggle. I just don't
and I think once you've had such severe struggle like we have,
you will do anything to make sure you never struggle like that again.
Anyway, back to a positive note. My daughter loves this blanket.
It's actually a quill. I got it from Kohl's.
I love it too, but she loves it even more than I do.
So and right now she's got these really beautiful
Uh, like mustard color curtains in here
and the colors in this quilt match that so well
And it looks so good with her little lamps and everything in here
So I was like you can use it baby
Because really I was just having it
as like a throw at the end of the bed
And I feel like I just had deja vu. Did I tell y'all that already?
I feel like I said that already in a video.
Maybe I did. I don't know that just freaks me out
I hate that feeling a feeling like you said something
or did something in the past
Such a weird thing, but anyway, that quilt is so beautiful.
Moving on, I am hanging up a picture light over my artwork.
I ended up putting it on this wall
because I wanted to see it when you walked in the
door, and I also felt like
this wall looked really weird without anything on it, so that
is how I ended up putting that.
Oh, and surprise, surprise, back out here in the laundry room.
I wasn't kidding. I was staying on top of this.
I actually, like, as a matter of fact, I started
timing it so well that I didn't even have to have,
like, the buzzer on to tell me when things were
done. Like, I just knew mentally, like, oh, it's about time.
That, I never stay on track like that,
so I was super proud of myself that I
was able to get this much laundry done, and
Fold it and put it away whenever I was finished,
but that was because I knew company was coming
over and I didn't want to be embarrassed.
And then you'll notice I'm taking a lot
of blankets out, but I'm not drying them.
That is because I was trying to be mindful of my electric bill,
so I did hang some blankets
up to air dry.
Now this was the next day.
I was babysitting on this day so you'll see like a little surprise
guest here and there but we ended up having to run to Walmart
and grab some things for the party
so I brought her along with me
and then I'm going to give you a quick haul.
I just got back from Walmart. I ended up having to pick up
some ingredients to make some monster drinks i'll put them
on the screen what they look like
um just like little fun things for the kids
to do so i ended up picking up some clear cups
i couldn't find the exact ingredients that i needed of course
but i did pretty good i think
got pretty close to it i think they'll be excited regardless
um i did find the cranberry raspberry but
the Minute Maid blue raspberry drink i could
not find i did find the very blue typhoon though so
It'll have to do.
I did find the eyeballs, which was one of the most requested things.
Like, make sure you find the eyeballs.
So I found those, and then I ended up finding these sprinkles.
There was no red sprinkles at all, so I got those.
And then I got some gummies instead of the Dracula gummies.
I just got the worms because that's all I could find.
And then I did end up picking up a vampire makeup kit.
Dylan and I are both vampires.
He does have a scary mask to wear, like, down the haunted trail,
but like overall our costume at the party is vampires,
so I got some blood and a little bit of makeup for that.
Pumpkin carving kit.
I got these.
These smell so good, too, for the front bathroom and my bathroom.
The bathrooms.
I just like to keep it smelling really fresh when we have guests over,
so I want to make sure that the bathrooms smell good.
So I got those, and then I did get a new laundry combination.
I'm very picky with my laundry soaps.
I break out very easily. I have very very sensitive skin
and surprisingly I don't know why
but this Tide with the Downy the actual like the pods
are the best for me. I feel like it's
the perfect amount of laundry soap
for a load. I don't break out at all
and I do have um this like skin thing it's
called Keratosis Pilaris.
It's like really bumpy. They call it chicken skin.
But it flares up with certain types of laundry soap,
so I'm very careful, and this is the
one that I have found works pretty well for me.
Everybody's different, so keep that
in mind, but I like the smell of it.
I think it cleans our clothes really well, so I got that.
And then this week, or this month, whatever,
this will last us a while, I got the Unstoppables
number 24.
The last time I ordered the 26, and I loved it.
Loved it so much.
But this one's the cashmere, citrus, and amber.
This one's a little bit more feminine.
It reminds me of this other one that I usually buy.
If I can remember, I'll put it here on the screen to show you.
They're very, very similar, but I wanted to try this one out
because a lot of you recommended it.
And then for, like, towels, blankets,
and things like that, I did end up getting this as well.
It's a fabric softener.
Because for some reason, like, if I just use the Tide and this,
our clothes, or not our clothes, our towels get stiff pretty quick.
I think it's our water.
Honestly, but anyway, I ended up getting
that as well to kind of soften those up, hopefully.
And yeah, that's basically it.
Just got some sodas, like the cases,
Sprite, Coke, and that's it.
So now I need to make an order for the food.
So I'm going to sit down and go over all that,
kind of get a head count on how many people
are going to come so I know how much food to get.
This is the worst part about a party,
is making sure that you get the right amount of food.
So stressful. Just went through and processed my order.
I do order our food from Publix. I have
found this to be number one, the most convenient.
We get plenty of food and it's actually not that
bad whenever you're serving such a large group of people.
So I usually set a budget aside for food and drinks
and everything about 150 to 160 for each
of the kids parties. We have a large family
and typically I schedule the parties to be at like
the time of dinner or the time
that you would eat lunch. So most of the time
everyone eats pretty good
and I'd rather have way too much food than not enough.
So, for this party, we spent about $135 for food,
and I did end up getting, we're
actually having a variety,
because not only is it my daughter's birthday party, but it's
also like a whole Halloween thing,
so it's going to be a little bit longer, it's at dinner
time, I want to make sure everyone eats plenty of food.
So, I got subs, a fruit platter,
popcorn chicken, and we're ordering pizza.
Uh, I know it seems like excessive,
but I promise you guys, it's really not.
Um, we end up eating all of it
and we have family coming into town to stay with us.
So we'll have plenty of food to snack on,
you know, that night and then into the next
day for lunch and all that good jazz.
So.
I got a medium order of popcorn chicken, which serves about 18.
That was $39.99.
I got a fruit platter, $21.
And then I also got a sub platter, which was $28.
And you honestly get quite a bit of subs on that platter.
And they cut them pretty small.
So as long as everybody gets, like,
a variety of everything, there's plenty.
And then we're going to probably get four
to five pizzas on top of that.
And we usually get the pizzas from Little Caesars.
Actually, I was going to look that up.
Little Caesars.
I was trying to see if they had any discounts
or anything if you order online.
I can get 15% off your order of $15
or more or 20% off any pizza
with your delivery order
or another pizza.
So there's lots of coupons.
So I'll end up using probably the 15% off
or whichever one's available at the time of
ordering.
I'm probably not going to order the pizza until the day before
or even the day of.
I can just call in the order.
Um, we're only ordering like four to five pizzas.
I think it'll be fine. And I'll double check.
I'll call them tomorrow and see if I need to order in advance
for that many pizzas, which, like I said, I doubt it.
But anyway, um, so we'll get a pretty good deal.
And I think the pizzas are like seven bucks a piece, right?
They're $8, I guess, online. Dang, they have a stuffed pretzel crust.
We might get something. Just kidding. Oh, what do we got here?
Um, yeah, they're $8.99, I guess now. Wow, the price kind of went up.
It used to be like what five bucks
and then they went up to seven dollars and I guess they're up to nine
Which is still a really good deal. So I think it'll be fine
Um, and like I said, i'll hopefully get that 15% off and save some money
But yeah, so that makes our food total right around 130 ish
And then my mom is bringing taco dip, which is so freaking good
My mom makes the best taco dip one day i'm gonna get
her to make a video and like show us how to make it
Because I've tried. I've tried to make it.
But you know like when someone makes something
and it's very specific to how they make it.
It just tastes better when they make it.
So she's bringing a taco dip.
And then I think everybody's bringing like bags of candy for the kids
and stuff like that.
So we should be good as far as everything else goes.
But today I actually need to finish up decorating out back.
So I need to throw some like spider webs up.
Get little hats hanging from the porch and stuff.
And, um, finish cleaning up out in the building.
I need to vacuum and everything since
we do have family staying with us.
They usually stay out there.
So, I've got a busy day ahead.
Hannah's babysitting, so I have a little partner with me.
You might see her here and there.
Um, so we're going to get outside and get that done.
So, let's do it.
It was hot.
He's okay. He's okay.
I washed the cushions to the, um, couch out back.
And the first time I washed them, oh yeah,
see, they didn't come completely clean.
It's good enough. It works for me.
They're probably going to have to be pressure washed.
I'm going to get these and put them outside so they can dry.
How did he survive?
It's your granddaddy long legs.
Y'all see that?
All right.
Look
at this
guy.
Excuse me.
He just opens the door by himself now.
So I know y'all are sick of doing Halloween stuff.
I know.
So it's...
Especially spiderwebs.
But I did add a couple spiderwebs.
And I really just wanted to leave this audio in here just for memories.
I'm just, I love babies and I love her little voice.
You like it?
So this was after the party
and we had already thrown away all the trash so it looks pretty
decent right now but had I filmed whenever we woke up the next morning
y'all would be like oh my god
but it's because I literally told everybody not to help
so don't think that my family didn't offer
everyone was trying to help I was just like
no let's just enjoy ourselves and I'll get it later
so anyway I'm going to share taking down
the Halloween stuff now I actually did not film
Much during my daughter's party.
I was in full mom mode and just enjoying myself
and and the kids and everyone being there and I mean it was
It was so much fun, but it was chaos.
We had the haunted trail going.
We had all the guys in the trail scaring all the kids,
and we were all, everyone dressed
up.
I got some really great photos,
and I shared those on my Instagram if y'all want to go
check that out.
I'll have it down below in the description box.
If you don't have an Instagram, don't worry.
I'll share it in an upcoming video
if you want to see a couple pictures.
Maybe I'll include at the end of a vlog coming up.
But all those were taken on a separate phone
because I have my work phone and then I have
my personal phone.
So all that was taken on my personal
phone and I don't have it right now.
So anyway.
But putting all this stuff away, I was able,
you would be surprised as much Halloween stuff as we
had. I fit everything into three totes except for the skeletons,
but like all this little stuff,
it seems like a lot, but it really wasn't bad.
And it didn't take me long to clean it off
the walls. And I thought the spiderwebs
are going to be 10 times worse than they were.
It wasn't bad. Everything popped right off.
And I use tacks by the way, to get all those up. So if
decorate next year. The tacks are the way to go.
It's so easy. You can usually just pull them right
down and they leave the tiniest holes.
You can't even tell that they're there. And then as far as
the spiderwebs go, I didn't save any of those.
I tried to save the spiderwebs from a previous year
and then the next time I tried to open them
and spread them out, they just looked
really bad. It just didn't spread that easily
and they also had a funky smell.
It's almost like the whatever they're made out of.
It smelled really bad once it was in the tote,
so I decided to just toss any of the spiderwebs
that had been used.
Those went in the garbage, and then everything else,
though, I saved because we do want to
go all out next year as well.
It was such a hit.
Everyone enjoyed themselves,
and I felt like the kids didn't even miss out on trick-or-treating.
I haven't heard one of them say, like,
I wish we would have went trick-or-treating.
Like,
I enjoyed being at home and I think everyone
who came felt a lot safer just being, I don't know,
somewhere safe and not having to worry about checking candy
and stuff because we know everyone who brought the candy.
So I just, yeah, peace of mind, I guess, especially in today's society.
Sometimes I wish that we could go back in time
and show our kids what it was like
in our childhood where we rode bikes until the streetlights came on.
And if you were not home by the time it got dark.
And your dad had to whistle from the porch.
You knew your butt was in trouble.
Going trick-or-treating with your friends until you were, like, 14.
You know, stuff like that.
And it actually being, like, encouraged.
Now, I just feel like everyone's putting buckets on their porches and,
like, oh, please take one.
And then these kids are dumping the whole
freaking candy bucket in their bags.
And then I've been seeing posts that people are obviously mad
and they have every right to be mad.
You shouldn't do that.
That's crazy.
It's
Man, I've seen kids' faces plastered all over the internet
talking about, if you know these kids, let me know.
They stole the whole bucket of candy.
It's just crazy.
I remember we would be, first of all,
crazy.
there's no way I would do anything like that or anybody I knew
because we'd be scared someone was going to come out with a belt.
Back then, you were fearful
of what other people's parents were capable of.
You never know if Bobby's dad is going to come out with his belt
and beat all of us.
I'm just kidding.
No, but I mean, honestly, a lot of my friends' parents
Like, we were their kids, so we didn't do anything crazy.
The worst thing I ever did was ding-dong ditching.
Oh, what good times.
I did that one time, and it was the last time.
I was so scared.
I was with my childhood best friend,
and she had a friend that lived, like, next door to her.
He was so funny, but he was, like, a menace.
And I was always, we were doing stupid stuff.
One time, we took a canoe across the lake.
to go to McDonald's because it was like in our minds it
was faster going across the lake in the
canoe than it was to like ride our bikes on the sidewalk
and we got like stuck out in a storm it
was awful like the things we used to do like nowadays kids
are just stealing and I mean doing
like criminal things but when I actually think about
that I do think people did those things
back then we just didn't hear about it
as often social media has made everything like all in your
Like now, instead of.
You wouldn't find out about Greg doing something crazy unless
the parents talked about it.
Now, Susan shares it and it's got 400 million likes and 50,000 shares.
So, of course, people are going to hear about it a lot more.
But anyway, I'm going to finish up wiping this door clean.
And that was pretty much it for our cleanup.
Dylan and I cleaned up out back just off camera.
We did that while we were talking.
And.
Yeah, that's pretty much it.
Let me show you how empty and plain my house is.
So now what do I do?
What do I do now that it's all empty
and I don't really have that much fall stuff to
decorate?
I guess I had a lot more Halloween than fall.
Okay, I got all of this cleaned up.
Look how empty my kitchen is.
Oh, it looks so weird.
It actually looks nice, like nice and clean.
And then the living room.
Yeah.
You what?
I am.
All this and all this.
So anyway...
Here's the house.
Looks so empty, plain.
But actually it doesn't look bad.
It looks good.
And then outside is all cleaned up as well.
We still have the bounce house.
They haven't picked it up.
But they're probably going to wait until the rain passes.
It's supposed to be raining for the next couple days apparently.
But yeah, that's it.
I kind of like it that it's empty
I feel like the living room is full of stuff still.
Well, a lot of my decor I ended up putting
over here just to kind of hide it.
Because I put it behind the spiderwebs.
So I'll just have to spread everything out.
It'll look a little bit better.
Why are you hiding?
You scared to be on camera?
Did you move anything?
No, I didn't move anything because it looks empty.
You don't notice that all the spider webs are gone?
You just noticed?
Oh my lord, son.
Anyway, that's it for today's video.
Thanks for watching!
Bye y'all!
