August 7, 2025 • 7 mins
Tiff traveled back to her childhood hope to help her dad with phase 2 of cleaning out his garage, wanna hear about some of the unique things she found?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're waking up with the three things I found in
my dad's garage while cleaning it out. Hi, good morning.
I'm back from three or four days in hell, and
you two things can be true. You can be in
hell and happy at the same time if we're connected
on social at the tiff to F's Potter like the Wizard.
(00:21):
Through the last couple of days, I'd been sharing the
behind the scenes of cleaning out my dad's garage. It's
all a part of my phased plan to clean out
my parents' hoarder house. Last summer. I did the first
floor of the house this summer. My dad's got a
two story garage. Like think of your neighbor's house. It's
the size of your neighbor's house. It's massive, and my
(00:43):
dad hadn't been in there in like thirty years. The
videos from this place were wild. I could go on
for a long time about it, but I'll try to
contain it for two or three minutes. So, yeah, I
found the X rated tapes. We're gonna want to you
know what, If we're gonna start with my as, we'll
start hot. I found the X rated tapes, and my
sister and I we looked at each other in lost it.
(01:08):
I mean, granted, this was like day three or four
at this time, a little delusional from like mouse dead,
mouse fumes and dust and garbage. But we found the tapes.
And I think that there's every moment us in a
child's life where they two find the tapes in their
parents' house. And we're gonna leave it at that for now.
(01:30):
But we were gig guly and also horrified at the
same time. You have to laugh to keep from crying. Right. Also,
my dad had newspapers from the day that Elvis Presley died.
Let me repeat that. My dad had raw copies, actual
newspapers that were still in fairly good condition from nineteen
(01:54):
seventy something, thirty years ago on the day that Elvis
Presley died. Isn't that wild? And so, of course when
we were sitting in the grass debriefing after the you know,
the day's work, because that's that's how I do it.
And I'll explain here in a hot second, but you
go through everything. We were looking at the newspaper of
how much things cost at that time in life. Wild
(02:17):
You could buy a vehicle for like three or four
thousand dollars on the day of this newspaper a whole car.
Imagine brought buying a brand new car for four thousand dollars.
No wonder why millennials and gen z Is are struggling
right now. Isn't that nuts? Lastly, my dad's got some
(02:38):
pretty cool cars in that garage. If you haven't had
a chance to check out social at the tiff to
F's potter like the Wizard, he's got a nineteen seventy
something Ford, a Chrysler er Baron that's a Tudor. But
it was also like, yeah, all super cool in that
time because they had only made a couple of like
maybe maybe a two thousand of them in that year,
(02:58):
could have been two hundred. I don't remember. The stories
start to blend together, but I'm super grateful that I
was able to take some time away from work in
Cincinnati and help out my family. And I got a
lot of really cool comments on social from those that
I've done the same thing, and from those that are struggling,
from those that are appreciative of the view on what's
to come. In fact, if you're intrigued by this and
(03:19):
you're like, oh, yeah, someone in my life is a hoarder,
and I don't know how to manage it. I'm going
to give you my top three easy tips at least
from what I've found in the last two years, on
how to manage that. Give me two songs. We'll get
to that next Good Morning. The tapes Good Morning Shows
back in full force. I was traveling over the last
four or so days helping my dad clean out his
(03:41):
hoarder garage. You're waking up with TIF in the morning
on Kismino seven one. How are you? First of all,
before I get into the story, how are you you good?
It's been a day, a couple of days since you
and I have connected, So if you haven't left me
a talk back with Tiff yet, I'd love to hear
your voice. You update me on you. So I had
kind of deep you on some of the stuff that
I had found. If you're just walking into the conversation
(04:03):
for the first time this morning, I had gone back
for the second phase of cleaning out my dad's house. Now,
the first phase was the actual house. We did that
last September. Some videos are up on social media for that,
and then I'm working diligently to get up my final
reel on the before and after of cleaning out my
dad's garage over the last It took four from Saturday
(04:26):
to Tuesday. We worked hard. Yesterday I'm like I, I
didn't get out of my bed until noon yesterday. I
needed a full day to recover. So the number one
question I get on social is how did you get
your dad to do it? Right? Cause I think that
there are a lot of millennial parents that millennials who's
(04:46):
parents but rather were a part of that hoarder generation
where their parents never threw anything away. My dad is
seventy six for some context purposes, So that's the number
one question I get is how did you get him
to do it? So I figured i'd chare if you
were in that same boat. The number one thing you
have to remember is that it's probably never going to
(05:06):
reach the standard which you would want to live in.
I had that harsh realization about three or four days
into it. It just needs to be enough where it's safe, healthy, manageable,
and that they feel comfortable living in. So our expectations
and our standards were a little different between my dad
and I. We were able to come to an agreement
(05:27):
and conclusion on it. But that was the first thing
I think I got to check you on I had
to check myself on it too. Second is there was
a lot of lead up conversation to what was coming.
You know. It wasn't like I just walked into the
garage one day and started throwing things away. I needed
to give my dad time to process what was coming.
(05:47):
And I think I'm a pretty lucky person. So that's
tip number two. You got to give time, and you've
got to have some lead up conversation. And I also
think it's a little bit of luck in the third
piece of advice I'm going to give you. Yeah, Yeah.
My dad knew that he wanted this done, but didn't
know where to start. And so some of our conversation
was listen, as you enter the final chapter of your life,
(06:11):
whether you're here or not, like this needs to get done,
and when you leave this earth, hopefully years from now,
whatever is left over, I'm gonna throw it in the trash.
So if there's some value to this, like the Elvis
Presley newspaper I found by the way, if you missed
our last break, my dad had a copy of the
(06:31):
of the newspaper on the day that Elvis Presley died.
The newspaper's over seven thirty years old, was from the
seventies and it was in pretty decent condition. So those
are some of the tips I can offer this morning,
and I am sharing more on social at the TIF
to F's Potter Like the Wizard. While I have you,
I'm just very curious if you've done something similar, what
(06:53):
is the most wild thing that you've found in your parents, grandparents,
or someone's house seven four nine seven one. Does it
beat the X rated tapes I found or the Elvis
Presley newspaper like
You're waking up with the three things I found in
my dad's garage while cleaning it out. Hi, good morning.
I'm back from three or four days in hell, and
you two things can be true. You can be in
hell and happy at the same time if we're connected
on social at the tiff to F's Potter like the Wizard.
(00:21):
Through the last couple of days, I'd been sharing the
behind the scenes of cleaning out my dad's garage. It's
all a part of my phased plan to clean out
my parents' hoarder house. Last summer. I did the first
floor of the house this summer. My dad's got a
two story garage. Like think of your neighbor's house. It's
the size of your neighbor's house. It's massive, and my
(00:43):
dad hadn't been in there in like thirty years. The
videos from this place were wild. I could go on
for a long time about it, but I'll try to
contain it for two or three minutes. So, yeah, I
found the X rated tapes. We're gonna want to you
know what, If we're gonna start with my as, we'll
start hot. I found the X rated tapes, and my
sister and I we looked at each other in lost it.
(01:08):
I mean, granted, this was like day three or four
at this time, a little delusional from like mouse dead,
mouse fumes and dust and garbage. But we found the tapes.
And I think that there's every moment us in a
child's life where they two find the tapes in their
parents' house. And we're gonna leave it at that for now.
(01:30):
But we were gig guly and also horrified at the
same time. You have to laugh to keep from crying. Right. Also,
my dad had newspapers from the day that Elvis Presley died.
Let me repeat that. My dad had raw copies, actual
newspapers that were still in fairly good condition from nineteen
(01:54):
seventy something, thirty years ago on the day that Elvis
Presley died. Isn't that wild? And so, of course when
we were sitting in the grass debriefing after the you know,
the day's work, because that's that's how I do it.
And I'll explain here in a hot second, but you
go through everything. We were looking at the newspaper of
how much things cost at that time in life. Wild
(02:17):
You could buy a vehicle for like three or four
thousand dollars on the day of this newspaper a whole car.
Imagine brought buying a brand new car for four thousand dollars.
No wonder why millennials and gen z Is are struggling
right now. Isn't that nuts? Lastly, my dad's got some
(02:38):
pretty cool cars in that garage. If you haven't had
a chance to check out social at the tiff to
F's potter like the Wizard, he's got a nineteen seventy
something Ford, a Chrysler er Baron that's a Tudor. But
it was also like, yeah, all super cool in that
time because they had only made a couple of like
maybe maybe a two thousand of them in that year,
(02:58):
could have been two hundred. I don't remember. The stories
start to blend together, but I'm super grateful that I
was able to take some time away from work in
Cincinnati and help out my family. And I got a
lot of really cool comments on social from those that
I've done the same thing, and from those that are struggling,
from those that are appreciative of the view on what's
to come. In fact, if you're intrigued by this and
(03:19):
you're like, oh, yeah, someone in my life is a hoarder,
and I don't know how to manage it. I'm going
to give you my top three easy tips at least
from what I've found in the last two years, on
how to manage that. Give me two songs. We'll get
to that next Good Morning. The tapes Good Morning Shows
back in full force. I was traveling over the last
four or so days helping my dad clean out his
(03:41):
hoarder garage. You're waking up with TIF in the morning
on Kismino seven one. How are you? First of all,
before I get into the story, how are you you good?
It's been a day, a couple of days since you
and I have connected, So if you haven't left me
a talk back with Tiff yet, I'd love to hear
your voice. You update me on you. So I had
kind of deep you on some of the stuff that
I had found. If you're just walking into the conversation
(04:03):
for the first time this morning, I had gone back
for the second phase of cleaning out my dad's house. Now,
the first phase was the actual house. We did that
last September. Some videos are up on social media for that,
and then I'm working diligently to get up my final
reel on the before and after of cleaning out my
dad's garage over the last It took four from Saturday
(04:26):
to Tuesday. We worked hard. Yesterday I'm like I, I
didn't get out of my bed until noon yesterday. I
needed a full day to recover. So the number one
question I get on social is how did you get
your dad to do it? Right? Cause I think that
there are a lot of millennial parents that millennials who's
(04:46):
parents but rather were a part of that hoarder generation
where their parents never threw anything away. My dad is
seventy six for some context purposes, So that's the number
one question I get is how did you get him
to do it? So I figured i'd chare if you
were in that same boat. The number one thing you
have to remember is that it's probably never going to
(05:06):
reach the standard which you would want to live in.
I had that harsh realization about three or four days
into it. It just needs to be enough where it's safe, healthy, manageable,
and that they feel comfortable living in. So our expectations
and our standards were a little different between my dad
and I. We were able to come to an agreement
(05:27):
and conclusion on it. But that was the first thing
I think I got to check you on I had
to check myself on it too. Second is there was
a lot of lead up conversation to what was coming.
You know. It wasn't like I just walked into the
garage one day and started throwing things away. I needed
to give my dad time to process what was coming.
(05:47):
And I think I'm a pretty lucky person. So that's
tip number two. You got to give time, and you've
got to have some lead up conversation. And I also
think it's a little bit of luck in the third
piece of advice I'm going to give you. Yeah, Yeah.
My dad knew that he wanted this done, but didn't
know where to start. And so some of our conversation
was listen, as you enter the final chapter of your life,
(06:11):
whether you're here or not, like this needs to get done,
and when you leave this earth, hopefully years from now,
whatever is left over, I'm gonna throw it in the trash.
So if there's some value to this, like the Elvis
Presley newspaper I found by the way, if you missed
our last break, my dad had a copy of the
(06:31):
of the newspaper on the day that Elvis Presley died.
The newspaper's over seven thirty years old, was from the
seventies and it was in pretty decent condition. So those
are some of the tips I can offer this morning,
and I am sharing more on social at the TIF
to F's Potter Like the Wizard. While I have you,
I'm just very curious if you've done something similar, what
(06:53):
is the most wild thing that you've found in your parents, grandparents,
or someone's house seven four nine seven one. Does it
beat the X rated tapes I found or the Elvis
Presley newspaper like
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