August 26, 2024 • 10 mins
Jack considers the accumulation of his possessions--with a particular focus on his Elliptical Machine!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's your move. One more thing. I'm strong andy, one
more thing. So I wish I knew the actual number
on this. I don't. Maybe you'd have a guess what
do you think I paid for my used elliptical I
bought fifteen years ago. It's a really good one. It's
(00:27):
actually from a gym, so it's the heavy duty commercial quality. Sure,
like you use it the gym. It's freaking really really good.
But I bought it used. Would you have a guess
what I probably.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Paid for it knew when it was new used?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
When I bought it from Craigslist five hundred bucks. I
was going to go seven hundred.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You think it was a gym quality?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah, more than that, because I bought one much more
recently than that.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I was just trying to figure out hundreds to low,
like twelve hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, might have been anyway, because I just moved it.
For see, I was living in that house, moved to
that house, moved to this house. This is the fourth
place I've had it in and I've used it. I
don't know what the total I've spent on moving it.
I just googling to see roughly what it costs. But
(01:23):
this is the fourth place I've moved it to, and
so because it weighs more than three hundred pounds, there's
a special price for that. So I paid a couple
of hundred bucks to have it moved again. The total
amount of time cumulative that I've spent on that elliptical
machine has got to be less than twenty minutes in
(01:47):
fifteen years. In fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Wow, you can get like a high dollar hooker for
a lower hourly rate than that.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well, I'm not worried about the price. I'm putting it
in the category of is this the stupidest, craziest, least
sensical thing I've ever done in my life? And that's
a high bar, trust me.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
They like, do you have a plan in life where
you're like, I'm gonna I'm gonna get on that thing
that's going to be after work going home thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I guess, Okay, I guess I do.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
It's hard to get a good quality gym level used
elliptical for less than fifteen hundred dollars, okay, which is
essentially what I remember.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I might have spent a thousand dollars on it, but
I've spent another thousand dollars moving it four times at
least and again cumulative over fifteen years, twenty minutes, and
I'm probably on the high end.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Use it or sell it in a minute and a
half per year. Yeah, I'm gonna use it or sell it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Jack, you use it or sell it at what point? Now? Yeah,
it's not. It's sort of become like a I don't know,
almost like a Joe. Now.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I was one of those sorry folks that fell victim
to the Peloton during COVID, the Peloton bikes, and I
used that thing twice and then it turned into a
really nice clothing rack, and I was like, I gotta
get rid of this thing.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Right, Wow, that's funny.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I've used a peloton more than that at the gym,
but not for some time.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
So the.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
We did not love the seats, and I got a
piece of gear. You don't actually so yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Where were we? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, give yourself two weeks and then get rid of
the damn thing. But throwing good money after bad although,
as you say, it's kind of become almost a family.
It's kind of be an heirloom of futility, a Charlie Brownish.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Thinking my kids might use it. Yes, Michael, No, I
say just dump it, just take it the dump. No, no, no, no,
it's definitely too nice. I would I would give it
to a family or something before I take it to
the dump, because it's a great piece of equipment. It
really really is high quality, really good one.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Here's what you do.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I got a brilliant idea. You just you're in a store,
you're walking down the street. You come across a heavy
set person and you say, hey, I noticed you're pretty porky.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I have an elliptical for you.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You probably have bad knees, right carrying that luggage around. Huh.
You don't want to run or walk. That's what it's
great about the elliptical. All you have to do is
pick it up. As I'll walk up to and say,
you're probably what thirty three thirty four thirty four? What bmi?
Probably thirty four bmi? Wow, not an elliptical?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, go up and put a measuring tape around their waist.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Jeez, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah. I'll tell you what there.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
What's underrated by people who don't understand economies and markets
and that sort of thing is the concept of and
I don't know the technical term, but it's the infrastructure
to sell the ability to you know, obviously taking money
and give out a product, that's the obvious part, that's
the easy part. But to hold an inventory, to ship it,
(05:07):
to deliver it, to be a place where multiple buyers
can come and the price can be set by the
free market as opposed to add dude with analyptical who
wants to get rid of it? You are in such
a weak position.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Yeah, so I will tell you Facebook marketplace and offer
up as where I've gotten rid of both of my
pieces of exercise equipment that were large, and you can
select by pickup only.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Okay, it's worked easily. So Joe and I both had
Nordic tracks twenty five years ago because we were endorsing
Nordic track thank you Gladys. And it was the nicest
Nordi tracks they made, so they're kind of expensive, and
I use that one like, I don't know, five minutes anyway,
when I went to move, I wasn't going to haul
that across the country, and I uh, I think I
(05:59):
put an ad in the for it. That's how long
it was ago, and nobody was interested. And then I
asked people around and nobody is interested. And then I
took it to the good Will and they said look
over there, and in the corner they had like fifteen
order tracks. Said we're not taking any more tracks. And
I try. I drove around with that thing in the
back of my truck to different good Wills and various
those kinds of places, Salvation Army, and nobody would take it.
(06:21):
You literally couldn't give it away. I finally, out of
frustration after dark, drove behind the good Will, pushed it
out of the back of my truck and drove off.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Wow. Oh, confess to felony littering.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Exercise equipment. Just it's amazing that they sell so much
of it new. There are stores. There's a store not
far from here from the radio station that sells that
stuff new all the time. And they've been in business
for a long time, so they must sell stuff. Man,
by that you.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Host you two hundred dollars to get rid of it.
That's my prediction.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You're probably right. I'll keep it. I'll keep it in
this house. Maybe next move I'll finally just nah. You know.
One of the problems this this makes me feel better
by myself, so maybe I'm just kidding myself. One of
the reasons I don't use it as much is I
live someplace northern California where the climate is so good.
I always think I'd rather go outside and do it.
So I like, I walk a half hour forty five
(07:15):
minutes almost every single night. But the weather's perfect, so
I'm gonna go outside. Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
God, you're not exercising on that thing because the weather's
so nice.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Right, well, I am getting exercise, all yeah? Or I
ride my bike just.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Sure, ambling down the street.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yes, walking into the donut shop, walking back out of
the donut shop.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Right, looking for somebody heavy to give your elliptical to.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
One other thing on the move in my crap was
I have so many things that I've moved that like
it's a like a kind of a bookshelf where it's
a lamp or whatever. Like I would never buy it.
It's it's it's crappy and I don't even need it,
but I move it. It's just it's weird. The in
Nurse of Stuff, I kept thinking about that Merry Condo
(08:03):
woman and what did she call that whole thing where
you're supposed to hold up rid of crap. You hold
up every item and see if it makes your heart singing.
If it doesn't, you're supposed to throw it away, which
makes more sense than not. I got so many things.
It's just like I would never purchase this if somebody
offered it to me in the street, I wouldn't say yes.
But I have it, and I move it from house
to house. What is that? It's weird. Yeah, the inertia
(08:27):
of stuff or things that belong. I don't even know
what it is.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Depends on your personality type and how you grew up too.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Right. The throwing something away that's perfectly good would not
happen in my house as a kid.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Well, right, exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I've been familiar with spoiled, little rich kids who they
would waste crap or get rid of crap or whatever
mean anything to them. It's an odd It's like the
flip side of a good quality. Like you say, you're
not gonna get rid of something that has value that's usable.
You're going to use it until it's crap and then
(09:05):
you'll replace it.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Man.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
But yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Hanson asked the question, is a dad, how many boxes
of kids artwork do I have? I got several, not
very big boxes, because you know it doesn't make a
lot of space, but I got quite a bit kids
art work through the years. I always think I'm going
to go through those one at a time someday, and
maybe I will, or maybe I won't. What did you
do finally? You still have that?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Or down to one box per kid? Okay, and he's
the flat plastic boxes that are Did you go through
it painstakingly and pick out your favorite stuff? Or yeah,
we curated it like a museum. Two Revolutionary War soldier
uniforms is plenty.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
We don't need thirteen. Let's get a couple of Civil
War era and then you know it's kind of curated
it now.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Every yell, every birthday card, Father's Day card that I
get in from my kids, I got all those still
in one spot. Those aren't going anywhere until I die.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
No agreed, yeh one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I don't. I don't know if I need every stick
figure on a bike from every grade. I think that'll
work well. If anybody wants a Buns of Steel DVD,
contact me well, and a Sie Master, right, I guess
that's it
It's your move. One more thing. I'm strong andy, one
more thing. So I wish I knew the actual number
on this. I don't. Maybe you'd have a guess what
do you think I paid for my used elliptical I
bought fifteen years ago. It's a really good one. It's
(00:27):
actually from a gym, so it's the heavy duty commercial quality. Sure,
like you use it the gym. It's freaking really really good.
But I bought it used. Would you have a guess
what I probably.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Paid for it knew when it was new used?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
When I bought it from Craigslist five hundred bucks. I
was going to go seven hundred.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You think it was a gym quality?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah, more than that, because I bought one much more
recently than that.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I was just trying to figure out hundreds to low,
like twelve hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, might have been anyway, because I just moved it.
For see, I was living in that house, moved to
that house, moved to this house. This is the fourth
place I've had it in and I've used it. I
don't know what the total I've spent on moving it.
I just googling to see roughly what it costs. But
(01:23):
this is the fourth place I've moved it to, and
so because it weighs more than three hundred pounds, there's
a special price for that. So I paid a couple
of hundred bucks to have it moved again. The total
amount of time cumulative that I've spent on that elliptical
machine has got to be less than twenty minutes in
(01:47):
fifteen years. In fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Wow, you can get like a high dollar hooker for
a lower hourly rate than that.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well, I'm not worried about the price. I'm putting it
in the category of is this the stupidest, craziest, least
sensical thing I've ever done in my life? And that's
a high bar, trust me.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
They like, do you have a plan in life where
you're like, I'm gonna I'm gonna get on that thing
that's going to be after work going home thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I guess, Okay, I guess I do.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
It's hard to get a good quality gym level used
elliptical for less than fifteen hundred dollars, okay, which is
essentially what I remember.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I might have spent a thousand dollars on it, but
I've spent another thousand dollars moving it four times at
least and again cumulative over fifteen years, twenty minutes, and
I'm probably on the high end.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Use it or sell it in a minute and a
half per year. Yeah, I'm gonna use it or sell it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Jack, you use it or sell it at what point? Now? Yeah,
it's not. It's sort of become like a I don't know,
almost like a Joe. Now.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I was one of those sorry folks that fell victim
to the Peloton during COVID, the Peloton bikes, and I
used that thing twice and then it turned into a
really nice clothing rack, and I was like, I gotta
get rid of this thing.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Right, Wow, that's funny.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I've used a peloton more than that at the gym,
but not for some time.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
So the.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
We did not love the seats, and I got a
piece of gear. You don't actually so yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Where were we? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, give yourself two weeks and then get rid of
the damn thing. But throwing good money after bad although,
as you say, it's kind of become almost a family.
It's kind of be an heirloom of futility, a Charlie Brownish.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Thinking my kids might use it. Yes, Michael, No, I
say just dump it, just take it the dump. No, no, no, no,
it's definitely too nice. I would I would give it
to a family or something before I take it to
the dump, because it's a great piece of equipment. It
really really is high quality, really good one.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Here's what you do.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I got a brilliant idea. You just you're in a store,
you're walking down the street. You come across a heavy
set person and you say, hey, I noticed you're pretty porky.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I have an elliptical for you.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You probably have bad knees, right carrying that luggage around. Huh.
You don't want to run or walk. That's what it's
great about the elliptical. All you have to do is
pick it up. As I'll walk up to and say,
you're probably what thirty three thirty four thirty four? What bmi?
Probably thirty four bmi? Wow, not an elliptical?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, go up and put a measuring tape around their waist.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Jeez, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah. I'll tell you what there.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
What's underrated by people who don't understand economies and markets
and that sort of thing is the concept of and
I don't know the technical term, but it's the infrastructure
to sell the ability to you know, obviously taking money
and give out a product, that's the obvious part, that's
the easy part. But to hold an inventory, to ship it,
(05:07):
to deliver it, to be a place where multiple buyers
can come and the price can be set by the
free market as opposed to add dude with analyptical who
wants to get rid of it? You are in such
a weak position.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Yeah, so I will tell you Facebook marketplace and offer
up as where I've gotten rid of both of my
pieces of exercise equipment that were large, and you can
select by pickup only.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Okay, it's worked easily. So Joe and I both had
Nordic tracks twenty five years ago because we were endorsing
Nordic track thank you Gladys. And it was the nicest
Nordi tracks they made, so they're kind of expensive, and
I use that one like, I don't know, five minutes anyway,
when I went to move, I wasn't going to haul
that across the country, and I uh, I think I
(05:59):
put an ad in the for it. That's how long
it was ago, and nobody was interested. And then I
asked people around and nobody is interested. And then I
took it to the good Will and they said look
over there, and in the corner they had like fifteen
order tracks. Said we're not taking any more tracks. And
I try. I drove around with that thing in the
back of my truck to different good Wills and various
those kinds of places, Salvation Army, and nobody would take it.
(06:21):
You literally couldn't give it away. I finally, out of
frustration after dark, drove behind the good Will, pushed it
out of the back of my truck and drove off.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Wow. Oh, confess to felony littering.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Exercise equipment. Just it's amazing that they sell so much
of it new. There are stores. There's a store not
far from here from the radio station that sells that
stuff new all the time. And they've been in business
for a long time, so they must sell stuff. Man,
by that you.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Host you two hundred dollars to get rid of it.
That's my prediction.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You're probably right. I'll keep it. I'll keep it in
this house. Maybe next move I'll finally just nah. You know.
One of the problems this this makes me feel better
by myself, so maybe I'm just kidding myself. One of
the reasons I don't use it as much is I
live someplace northern California where the climate is so good.
I always think I'd rather go outside and do it.
So I like, I walk a half hour forty five
(07:15):
minutes almost every single night. But the weather's perfect, so
I'm gonna go outside. Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
God, you're not exercising on that thing because the weather's
so nice.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Right, well, I am getting exercise, all yeah? Or I
ride my bike just.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Sure, ambling down the street.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yes, walking into the donut shop, walking back out of
the donut shop.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Right, looking for somebody heavy to give your elliptical to.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
One other thing on the move in my crap was
I have so many things that I've moved that like
it's a like a kind of a bookshelf where it's
a lamp or whatever. Like I would never buy it.
It's it's it's crappy and I don't even need it,
but I move it. It's just it's weird. The in
Nurse of Stuff, I kept thinking about that Merry Condo
(08:03):
woman and what did she call that whole thing where
you're supposed to hold up rid of crap. You hold
up every item and see if it makes your heart singing.
If it doesn't, you're supposed to throw it away, which
makes more sense than not. I got so many things.
It's just like I would never purchase this if somebody
offered it to me in the street, I wouldn't say yes.
But I have it, and I move it from house
to house. What is that? It's weird. Yeah, the inertia
(08:27):
of stuff or things that belong. I don't even know
what it is.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Depends on your personality type and how you grew up too.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Right. The throwing something away that's perfectly good would not
happen in my house as a kid.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Well, right, exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I've been familiar with spoiled, little rich kids who they
would waste crap or get rid of crap or whatever
mean anything to them. It's an odd It's like the
flip side of a good quality. Like you say, you're
not gonna get rid of something that has value that's usable.
You're going to use it until it's crap and then
(09:05):
you'll replace it.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Man.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
But yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Hanson asked the question, is a dad, how many boxes
of kids artwork do I have? I got several, not
very big boxes, because you know it doesn't make a
lot of space, but I got quite a bit kids
art work through the years. I always think I'm going
to go through those one at a time someday, and
maybe I will, or maybe I won't. What did you
do finally? You still have that?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Or down to one box per kid? Okay, and he's
the flat plastic boxes that are Did you go through
it painstakingly and pick out your favorite stuff? Or yeah,
we curated it like a museum. Two Revolutionary War soldier
uniforms is plenty.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
We don't need thirteen. Let's get a couple of Civil
War era and then you know it's kind of curated
it now.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Every yell, every birthday card, Father's Day card that I
get in from my kids, I got all those still
in one spot. Those aren't going anywhere until I die.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
No agreed, yeh one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I don't. I don't know if I need every stick
figure on a bike from every grade. I think that'll
work well. If anybody wants a Buns of Steel DVD,
contact me well, and a Sie Master, right, I guess
that's it
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