Do you have a lot of LEGO to sort and don't know where to start? I'm trying out this system for sorting and storing our family lego bricks, and it involves finding pieces in different categories. The categories are for our Lego collection but you could adapt this to the kind of Lego sets that you have stored.
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Do you have a big box of Lego, just like this, and you don’t know where to start? You know, maybe it’s your kids’ Lego, or maybe it’s your Lego—or both mixed together—and it just kind of ends up like this. It’s like a Mumbai mix.
And what happens is that it never gets used. This has been in the garage for over a year because it’s just... it’s just overwhelming. My wife mocks me for saying that Lego is overwhelming, but it is! The kids don’t know where to start with it; I don’t know where to start with it. Every attempt we’ve made to sort this or get it into some kind of usable state has eluded us—until now.
This is the channel where we try new things to make your family happy, and the thing I’m doing to make my family happy today is making the Lego usable again.
Have a look at this—I think I might have found a way to do it. The problem is that if you’re looking for something, there’s no easy way to rifle through. Well, you can, but it’s such an unpleasant experience. There must be some kind of basic sorting we can do that’s easy and makes us feel like we’re making headway. And also, it has to be simple enough that we don’t just give up after 10 minutes. I think I might have cracked it—or at least made a start with it.
What you’ll need for this method—and obviously, your Lego is going to be completely different from ours, but hopefully, this system will help you—is a way to find general groups so you can at least start separating your Lego and actually get started playing with it again.
The system is this: I bought some Ikea freezer bags. I know, I know, great for the environment, isn’t it? But anyway, I’m trying to make it less horrendous than it is. So, I’ve got these Ikea bags—the big ones, the huge ones—and I got some tape you can write on. It’s like paper tape, sort of like parcel tape. And I’ve got a Sharpie.
Now, I’ve got a 20 kg box of Lego. I actually weighed myself on the scales, which is always a fun experience, but I know for a fact this box came out at 20 kg. So, we’re just going to start with the main box and work on weeding it down. I want to pull out 20 kg of Lego!
I’ve just seen this—I’m an ADHD dad, by the way, so this is overwhelming. My wife is right to mock me for it; my brain just explodes at the thought of even starting on this. But I’m already spotting stuff we can use. By the way, this is from the Galaxy Explorer—the classic 1979 Galaxy Explorer—which is in pieces in here somewhere. I know it’s worth a lot of money, and there’s also sentimental value there. These pieces were so precious back when Galaxy Explorer came out. If I can at least harvest some of these, I might be able to sell them on eBay or do something that honours them. If it doesn’t bring us joy, we can let go of it. But let’s at least pull out the stuff that could be used again.
So, here’s the system. Come over here. I’ve got the bags, and I’ve labelled them. The labels tally with a very basic breakdown of ways to sort Lego. This is just a big sort. I suppose we could get more finickity once this first sort is done, but at least you’ve got a fighting chance of finding something—or using something—or selling something online.
This is my system so far. Tell me in the comments how you would change this. What I’ve got at the moment are the 1x2x3 bricks, which are actually sticks, aren’t they? I should’ve called them sticks, but anyway, the 1x2x3 bricks—I’ve even got the L-shaped threes in there.
Then we have sticks—the 1x however long they are. Then there are bricks, the classic brick. I thought this would be the biggest bag, but looking at the potpourri—the Bombay mix of Lego we’ve got—I’m not sure there are that many bricks in there. I’ve got a funny feeling we might’ve filtered them out on a previous attempt.
Then we’ve got slopes—those strange pieces—and I’ve got loads of these from the 1970s. Then we have 1, 2, 3 plates—like the 1, 2, 3 bricks, just the small flat ones. Then there are stick plates. I don’t know if I’m using the right terms. If you use different terms, let me know in the comments.
This is just something I can remember as I go along while trying to get the family involved. Then we’ve got the 2x plates, which aren’t sticks but are wider plates. We also have tiles, anything shiny and flat. I’ve put a selection of different tiles here as a visual aid to help with sorting.
For older Lego, we’ve got a 1970s Lego bag. Look at this vile stuff in here! Tell me if I’m wrong, but I assume there’s still demand for it—things like old windows, grabbers, and wheels. It’s fascinating, really.
I’ve also created categories for weird stuff, arches, screens and seats, train parts, Technics, minifigs, wheels, and clutches (things that grip or click). The idea is to just get started and feel like we’re making progress.
Let me know if this system helps you. Thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button—it really helps me keep this channel going. And right here is what YouTube knows you’re going to love watching next. Oh God, I don’t know where to start!
Cheaper Broadband! What is the best broadband internet deal? How do you get onto the cheapest broadband package price or negotiate your monthly fees down? I show how I halved our monthly internet costs by making only 2 phone calls - though, the second call was made by the broadband company to me! If you hate to negotiate, I share how I avoid all the sales talk and leave it to the internet company to bring the best broadband plans to you, with 3 best tips at the end for how to bring your internet bill down.
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Are you watching your internet broadband fee go up and up and up each month? You know in your bones that you could get a better deal or even move to another provider, but you're putting off making that call and making those savings that you know you could make right now. I know exactly how you feel, so I'm going to show you how I halved—yes, *halved*—our monthly fee from £54.39 a month all the way down to £20 a month for 18 months. And I know that's even more than 50%, and over the course of 18 months, that will save us over £600. So, uh, it's the wind, I’m not crying tears of joy.
I know why you're putting this off—because the broadband companies do everything they can to make you feel bad about this and to make you feel grateful for what you've got. And you don't want to make that call because you... you don't want to make things worse, or... or you don't want to be offered a deal that's not that good, but you're going to take it because you're scared that you'll lose even that.
I'm going to show you how I ignore all of that and what I do to sidestep some of the sales techniques they use to try and make us pay more each month for our broadband. It's going to involve making two phone calls at least, and you've just got to hold your nerve. The... the trick behind this is to completely believe that you *will* leave this broadband provider.
Now I've got the whole family on my back saying: “What?! Don't lose our internet! Don't get our internet cut off!” and it does involve a bit of nerve, thinking that that might happen. But I promise you, if everything goes wrong, you can just go back as a new customer. That's the first tip.
*Can I start by taking your full name?*
Are you the main account holder?
*Yes.*
And do you know how much your latest bill was?
*Uh, £54.39.*
Okay, I'm just going to get into your account. So how can I help today?
*Uh, just need to, uh... I just need to cancel the, uh, the account, please.*
Okay, can I ask the reason for the... the disconnection?
*Yeah, my wife’s found a... a broadband deal for £20 a month, and, uh, I think this is in my name, so I... I need to close this down so she can get that one started.*
Is that with us also?
*No.*
Let’s see, is there a new supplier?
*Yeah.*
Okay, I mean, I... I could see if I can get the... get your price down because you've been with us a while. So even though it’s £54 at the minute, there'll be some... some pretty good discounts on your account. Are you happy enough with the speed, the 250 speed?
*Yes, thank you.*
Does anybody work from home with the internet?
*Yes.*
And how many people are in the house at one time?
*Uh, four. Four people.*
Okay, so keeping the same speed, I'd get it down to £30 a month, down from £54.
*Yeah, that's more than the £20 that she’s found, so I... I don't really need that, thank you.*
So is it £20 dead?
*Yeah, for two years, I think.*
Okay, and what speed is that—uh, same speed?
I mean, that will be a new customer deal, so it will be heavily discounted. But then you just have to... just watch when you come out of contract because the price will double.
*Yeah.*
When you come out of contract.
*Yeah, they tend to put it up, don't they?*
Yeah, but that's just because it’s a bit like this one where you've come out of contract...
*Uh-huh.*
So, I mean, if you did stay, I've got my own discount. I’d get it down to £23... £23 a month.
*Yeah, that's... that's still more than £20 a month.*
It is, but considering it's a new customer deal elsewhere, because you've been with us nine years, I'm not matching it, but I'm not... not far off.
*Yeah, at the moment...*
That's what happens when you are with somebody a long time, is your discounts get better over... over the time. So, in the long run, you are better off staying. In the short term, you're going to be paying £20, but then all these discounts that are on your account at the moment are just going to disappear.
*Yeah, but for two years, that's... that's more than... that's more than £20.*
But only just, I mean, it’s three pound out, and that's your customer deal—yeah, you're an existing customer with us. I mean, I can give you a speed upgrade for the £23 as well.
*I don’t...*
I can go up to the 350 for £23 now.
*I was really happy with the 250, to be honest. So I can't really go back and say I’ve... I’ve... I can't cancel it because I'm paying more. I’ll look like a bit of a chump. I... I look like a bit of an idiot, so I... I can't do that, sorry.*
I mean, just to cancel over three pound seems a bit of a shame.
*Yeah, but I...*
You have a cooling off period with your new suppliers, so even though you've signed up, you can still cancel and change your mind. You know... you don't have to tell them what price it is. You can just cancel, if you... if you want.
*Yeah, but at the moment it's... it's... it's less than £54 a month, so I... I... I think I've better, you know, just close this. Do you... do you need me to send back the... the... the box? Do I need to post that back to you?*
Yeah, we need it back. So is the new service installed yet?
*Uh, no. She’s just waiting for me to do this, so I... I... I just need to... to... to close this.*
So you no longer give 30 days notice. You would just go through your new supplier, uh, so once you've signed up with them...
*Yeah.*
Um, to avoid any unnecessary bills, you just go through them, okay? So, um, you would just notify your new supplier of your intention to switch, and we'll send any and all the relevant information out.
*Okay.*
Um, so you need to contact your new provider who will notify us of your intention to switch. As soon as you've got your install date, uh, your disconnection then lines up with that, okay? So it’s just a bit easier way of doing it.
*Oh, lovely. Thank you.*
No problem. Is there anything else I can help with?
*No, that's... that's really helpful. Thanks for your help.*
No problem, no problem. So you just need to organize it with your new supplier now, um, just get the install date, and they'll do the rest for you.
*Brilliant, lovely. Thanks for your help.*
Well, no problem, no problem. Have a nice weekend.
*Yeah, you too. Have a great weekend.*
Thanks a lot. Thanks. Bye-bye.
*Bye-bye now.*
Okay, so that took 12 minutes. I mean... oh, it's difficult, isn't it? It's difficult; it's brinkmanship. But I say stick with it—go with it. So they've offered £23, and I know you're probably screaming at the screen saying, "Take it, take it, take it," and you're probably right. And it might be that they say, "Oh no, we can't offer that to you again—we've offered it already," but... I’ll put some lights on.
I say stick with it, because it was £20 a month. I've had that for the last four years, and £23—is that a 15% increase? Also, I’m... it's sticking in my throat slightly, as you can probably hear, that they've obviously whacked me on to £56 per month, so I've paid that, so I've got to now divide that extra over the two years.
Hold strong!
But now it’s two days later, and guess what? They called back! They called back, and luckily I've managed to start the camera rolling. The sound's a bit rubbish at the beginning, so I put subtitles on the screen, but this is what happens next.
*Yeah, it’s £54.39.*
Would you say you’re sort of happy with that speed, or do you have any issues with it?
*No. No, it's perfect. Absolutely.*
Just to cut in here for a moment—did you notice that the very first question that was asked is: “Are we happy with our internet speed?” Now that's a really standard question, but last night we were having real problems with our internet. It... it was almost as if the speed was being throttled, and it might have been a complete coincidence that we just happened to have problems with the internet now, or who knows—maybe it's part of the sales tactic. Just don't know.
*Okay, so. If I was to apply a new discount for you, um, basically if I sort of rebuild the package for it, it’s 250—the sort of standard price for it now comes in at, uh, at £60. But then I've got a £37 discount here to drop it down to £23 a month. And then what I can do on top is apply a £3 personal discount, which is the highest one we can offer for, uh, for broadband deals. The overall price—I can then drop it down to £20 a month for you.*
*That would be really helpful, because my wife has managed to find somewhere for, for £20 a month, so if... if you're able to offer, like... oh, can I, how long would that be for, please?*
*It’s, uh, for 18 months, and it’s the same speed that you’ve got now there as well, so you wouldn’t be sort of dropping it down at all.*
*Okay. And, I mean, during on this term, that actually went up during the 18 months. Is it likely to go up during the 18 months, you know, whatever we go through now?*
*Well, in regards to all providers, we also go through a rate of inflation increase every year. So every April with ourselves, it goes up by 3.9% plus rate of inflation slack. So like last year, it went up by 8.8% altogether. So if you, if it goes up by 8.8% again, you’re going down to £20, uh, plus 8.8%, it will then go up by about £1.70. So after April, it will go by about £21.76.*
*Brilliant. That’s really helpful. So that’s in April. Lovely. Um, well, do... do I need to do anything to... to... make this happen?*
*So, um, if you were happy to... to go ahead with it, um, that’s all I do on this call, is it just sort of send you over the details? You’ve got to copy in writing, and then I... I put it all through for you then, my end, so it'll only take me a couple of minutes there.*
*Brilliant. Because, um, your latest bill was £54.39. Um, your next bill with us will only be £2.81, so you're getting some credit back for it. And then after... after the £2.81 in November, uh, December then will just be the £20 onwards to you, okay?*
*Perfect, thank you.*
*Brilliant, um, anything else that they could look up for you today?*
*No, it’s extremely helpful. Thanks, thanks for your time.*
*Yeah, no, that’s no worries. Well, thank you for your time anyway, and take care now.*
*Thank you. Thanks for the call.*
So we did it! We managed to cut the broadband bill by more than half, and we're going to be saving over £600 over... over the 18 months. So it's—my goodness, those two phone calls are painful, but they're really worth doing.
The first technique is to make sure that, uh, you give them a date of notice, so a 30-day notice. Start the call by saying, “I want to end this on...” If it’s the 25th this month, say the 25th next month.
The second thing I do is to put the blame on someone else. So I'm lucky I have a beautiful wife that I can blame for these things, and it means that all the sales techniques won't work because I've told them I'm not the decision maker on this, and that really steps up their game.
The third is to *not* accept the first offer. Whatever they tell you is a first offer, and even if they say “This is it—if you don’t answer now, we’re going to take this away,” or imply that—just know that you can take your business anywhere, and you could even leave and come back as a new customer where you'll definitely get a better deal anyway. But they don’t want to do that—they just want to keep the people they want. They want to reduce their churn. For the companies, it's not personal; it's a numbers game. But for us, it's intensely personal because we don’t want the internet to get cut off, and I don’t want my family blaming me for losing the internet to the whole house.
So I appreciate there’s real pressure here, and they know it. Don’t let them make you feel grateful for something you're paying a lot of money for. I am calling this a dad delivers success! Leave me a comment down below and tell me some of your techniques or tips and tricks that you use to keep your internet broadband monthly fees down. And thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button—it really helps me to keep this channel going. I really appreciate it, and right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next.
How can you cook the PERFECT AROMATIC CRISPY DUCK in an Air Fryer?
I share how easy and quick it is to make this delicious Asian duck dish: with the correct cooking time and temperature using a Ninja Foodi Max DualZone Air Fryer for half a duck.
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Look, can you see Casper over here? Here you are—the definition of hopeful there. You could not look more pleading. Oh, Casper! Hello, welcome back to the channel! Can you cook Peking crispy duck—so it's crispy aromatic duck—in an air fryer? That's what I'm trying, and you're seeing video footage from the future. I do not know how this is going to work out. I've just edited these pictures in, and I'm doing this for the first time, and I have no idea whether this is going to work in this Ninja Foodi Max Dual Zone air fryer. The details of the air fryer are down in the description, and I've got this from the supermarket here in the UK.
Let's open it up. Obviously, wherever you're watching this around the world, it's probably different for you, but in this country—the UK—we can buy crispy aromatic duck. This is half a duck. Doesn't look like half a duck, does it? This is a half duck, and it's come prepackaged. It's not frozen; it's just chilled, and I think it's got some sauce and seasoning on it. But in the box, you get some pancakes and some hoisin sauce as well, which is lovely. But it's the duck that we need to work out how to cook.
I've said this a few times on my air fryer videos that Ninja say you do not need to preheat the air fryer before cooking. But I think with the duck, I do want the... I do want the duck to hit the heat—hit it as soon as it goes in. By the way, this is a regular feature on the channel called "Bung it in the Air Fryer," and I have a whole playlist of food that we have bunged in the air fryer. But to preheat, obviously, I don't need to bung anything in the air fryer, so I'm going to choose... let's choose roast, and, uh, I’ll put it on the highest temperature I can. Hit start.
This is just to warm up the chambers. I’d better check they're clean... Yeah, clean... Oh no, someone's had a sneaky croissant in here! Okay, we're going to have to stop that and preheat the other zone. So I'll hit on to roast, temperature, and we'll just... we'll just give it 5 minutes.
While that is warming up, it's time to prepare the veg. We could do this while the duck's cooking, but there's no time like the present. So this is my beautiful, hardworking, unstoppable wife cutting up the cucumber. She's feeling a bit self-conscious about her cutting, but it's way better than my vegetable cutting. We're just going to cut these into strips and arrange them in a nice Asian bowl, and we've managed to find a few spring onions from the bottom, right... right at the back of the vegetable rack in our fridge. We thought we had four spring onions here, but one of them doesn't quite make the grade, so in the bin that goes.
And you can't hear this with the air fryer and the music in the background, but the chomping in the background is Casper. He's having his dinner. It's good that he has this now, so he's not begging us when the duck comes out of the air fryer. Sorry, Casper, this isn't for you. And just as self-consciously as the cucumber, because we're not chefs—we're just sharing our cooking times, and you can, uh, judge our techniques as much as you like. We don't care; we're the ones that get to eat this, and hopefully this walkthrough is helpful for you if you're planning on some crispy aromatic half duck in the air fryer.
I think the basket is nice and hot now, and I have washed my hands. And on the instructions, they do say for a regular oven you need to place it skin side up. So I'll try and do that—that's the skin side up—and hopefully it fits. Oh, can you hear the sizzle? Amazing! It's exactly why I wanted to preheat it. And I'm going to put that in here... let's clear—you want to clear all of this.
You're watching this in the future, so I will put on screen now the actual time that worked out for us. But for this experiment, I'm going to put it on roast, and I'm going to dial up 400°F, which is 200°C, and I'm going to try just to start with... I’m going to try 25 minutes, but I'll put on screen now the actual time that you'll need to put it on for.
It is time to "Bung it in the air fryer!"
All we need to do now is to hit the big start/stop button, and fingers crossed, we'll see how this comes out. Just something else that we can get ready—and that's the sachet of hoisin sauce, the plum sauce. Oh, I need the bowl. It’s going to have 25 minutes to get this ready and very elegantly prepare that for the table. More plastic bags... So now we have the sauce, and the cucumber and onions ready to put into our pancakes.
It's the final countdown now... 3, 2, 1. Let's see how it's looking! Oh my goodness, that is looking absolutely sizzling. Hoping it's coming across on camera, that is looking absolutely perfect. Now, I... I think that's ready to go, but I don't have a... a meat thermometer, so I'm going to put it in for a few minutes extra just to be sure. But I think... I think that that is looking crispy and done to me. Let's just put it in for another 5 minutes, just to make it super crispy.
It is now 5 minutes later, and let's see how it's looking. Oh boy, so putting it on for the extra 5 minutes hasn't completely wrecked it. Let's elegantly put it into the shredding bowl that I've got ready here. I have to do it one-handed 'cause I'm holding the camera. I was always told it’s good to let the duck rest for, uh, 5 minutes before shredding, so I've given it a few minutes.
It's shredding time! I've got my two forks—let me put the camera up here—and then I'll just use the forks to open it up, and wow, that... looking at absolutely... perfect.
Look, you see Casper over here? You are the definition of hopeful there. You could not look more pleading.
Oh Casper...
Let's get this delicious duck into a pancake. I... I've waited far too long for this, so I've microwaved the pancakes, and I'm just putting on some hoisin sauce, ready for the cucumber and the spring onion.
I know I'm just doing this in a rush.
Uh, on goes the duck, and food preparation when I'm actually dying to just get it in my mouth is not my forte.
Okay, not... not the most elegant pancake in the world, but it's just for a quick test...
oh my goodness.
I am calling this a Dad Delivers success!
I hope this helps you cook duck in the air fryer.
I need to clear my mouth.
I am calling this a Dad Delivers success!
I hope this helps you to make crispy aromatic duck—Peking duck, half duck—in a Ninja air fryer. And thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button—it really helps us to keep this channel going. And right here is what YouTube knows you are going to love watching next. I want to eat this.
We did it! We found our perfect American Style fridge-freezer. The LG Instaview GSVV80PYLL Freestanding 60/40 American Fridge Freezer in Prime Silver. This video is a first impressions unboxing in our kitchen and it's gorgeous. I give you a full tour of this double door fridge freezer and it even has a door where you can look inside with two taps on the window!
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Hello, welcome back to the channel. Today is a really big day in our house, probably the biggest day for the family. Here's a little sneak peek—this is a video about the LG Instaview American-style fridge freezer. But let me tell you how we got here first.
I never thought, when I was growing up, that I would ever own or use an American-style fridge freezer. And then, 8 years ago, the magic happened, and we did it—we got our first American-style fridge freezer. It was a momentous moment, really exciting. But then, after eight years, it went wrong. So this is what the fridge looks like on the inside. There's this little door that lets cold air into the fridge compartment from the freezer, and this door—I think it's called a damper—just stopped working. It iced up; we fixed it, but it just stopped working from time to time. So it was freezing our stuff.
It was a John Lewis branded fridge, but unfortunately, it’s made by Daewoo, and Daewoo decided to stop making fridges. We just could not find this part anywhere. It feels terrible that we can't fix a thing, but we tried for about a year, and I failed. So then we went on the hunt for a new American-style fridge freezer. I've got a whole playlist of videos where we've been just out in shops, staring at fridges.
There were some things we knew we wanted. I really wanted some handles, like our lovely fridge, and that's quite rare to find. And we also didn't want a drink dispenser or ice dispenser, partly because it takes up a lot of space in the freezer compartments, and partly because it's actually a bit useless, isn't it? Instead of just being able to get a glass of water, you have to wait for it to drip out at whatever speed the fridge pumps out. And we also thought the kids—and probably me—would be goofing around and feeding the dog directly from the dispenser. So we didn’t go for the dispenser, but we wanted a fridge that was a bit premium, with something special, but without the drinks dispenser.
Because the drinks dispenser is a feature they put on, it's really difficult to find a fridge with something special about it that doesn't do the ice and water. Well, behold—we did actually find one in the end, and this is how our fridge looked this morning. Very sorry state. We thanked it for its service, gave it a last clean out, but you know what? It's going to be so nice to not worry about all our food being frozen and thrown out.
So, behold! This is the LG Instaview. I'll put the actual model number on screen now. We’re heading for tea time, so you might hear some dinner time noises in the background, but this is the first evening of the LG in our house, and it is looking absolutely magnificent. But the best bit—the best bit—is this.
You ready?
You can actually see into the fridge without opening the door! I can't believe we managed to find a fridge with something special here and nothing special here. We really like this. It stands out a bit proud, and you’d think that American-style fridge freezers surely just have the same depth, but no, which is good because it probably means more space inside.
I think we need to adjust it so that it tilts—it's tilting to the back a bit, so that's not straight. You can see it's kind of flush at the back of the door, but it sticks out a bit here. I think we need to adjust the feet tonight, and that will give us about 5 cm push back. But we do like that it kind of stands out; it’s making its presence known. It's an LG.
Should we look inside? Let's look inside. So this fridge will never look like this ever again. Let's go for the freezer first. I do have a video where we see it in the store, but here are some first impressions. This is a first impressions unboxing, and, uh, the beeps, by the way, are the air fryer, not the fridge. You can see it's got really nice lighting up here, and because it stands forward, it doesn't whack the oven as well, so this is a huge, huge step forward for us. We’ve got one, two, three, four shelves and two bucket shelves—I don’t know what you call it; I was trying to think of the name there.
What's beautiful about this is that the shelves clear the door, and the Samsung fridges that we've seen do not do that. The second thing we love is they’ve got handles, so you can actually take these out—you can just take them all the way out for cleaning or for stuffing with frozen food. Let’s put that back in. And they glide on these glass shelves, which is a nice touch. There’s like a chrome look; I can't tell if it's metal or plastic. It feels like metal on the edges there, so that's fantastic.
It comes with a really measly ice dispenser, but it’s a little dinky ice tray. You probably heard it going “ding dong ding dong” to let us know that I left the door open. I should really let it cool down, but I really want to show you how it looked before we stuff it with food. And then we’ve got adjustable shelves, so this shelf could be on either of these prongs. But it comes with one, two, three, four shelves, and they’re really deep as well, really generous shelving there, so that’s going to hold a lot of stuff, I think.
So let's close that and... should we do the tap again? I can't wait to do this tap. Ready? Oh! So I'll take this label off now. It’s just to... it’s just to show you how it comes, and oo, it's obviously empty at the moment. We’re going to fill it up; I’ll see if I can put that on the video. But if you wanted to turn the light off, you can just tap it again. It's amazing—the quality of it feels really premium.
So we probably wanted something a bit darker, but I think it looks good. I think it looks nice, and it kind of goes with the ovens there. So let's give it another tap, and we'll take a look inside. Yeah, so I didn’t get my handles dream, but we do have grips under the middle of the door here, which is really good. I don’t like the reach to the side—it’s a silly thing, but I just... I love that you can just pull it or pull it. So there's no reach around.
And then behold, the ThinQ. The trays on here are huge, and you can get versions of this LG Instaview fridge freezer where this part of the door opens. I think there’s a catch under the door, but they haven’t provided it on this particular model. But I don’t think we need it; we just wanted to be able to see inside. And I reckon you could get a six-pint of milk there easily. We’ve got four pints now, and we’ve already started to fill it up with pasta and jars.
So you get one, two, three, four shelves, then over here we’ve got one, two, three, four shelves in the fridge. And oh, we really wanted—so this is on our wish list, we didn’t get—we really like the fridges with the brushed chrome back, so that looks like a sort of premium feature that most fridge manufacturers put. So this isn’t their top, top model, but it looks nice, and nice and bright as well.
LED lighting! Look... oh, should we do a... unboxing peel? Oh, this is going to be so satisfying. Here we... go. Aha! I'm so glad you’re here to... to enjoy this with us. We’ve got door cooling, so there’s a special feature here—I’ll put that on screen now—how the Door Cooling Plus works. Multi-air flow—I don’t know what that means.
And we’ve got a bottle rack or a wine rack, which is easily removable if you wanted the extra shelf space or... I’m getting a reminder... yes, fridge, honestly, we’ll close the door soon. You change the temperatures here, so the temperatures are displayed on the inside. How do we change it? Should I try pressing fridge? There you go—you just press the right button for what you want to change, so you just keep pressing fridge and take that down to four, and same with freezer.
Now I won’t do this now, but it has Wi-Fi. It has a Wi-Fi connection—apparently. I have no idea why I would want to talk to my fridge, but we’ll see. Express cool, express freeze if you need to do a fast freeze, and you can lock these controls by just holding this for 3 seconds... there we go. So now nobody can change the temperatures until you hold the lock down for 3 seconds. There we go, it's nice, perky, perky messages.
Down here we have the fresh balancer and the fresh zone. So the fresh balancer, you can adjust by switching that over. I think it changes the humidity inside, so there’s like a little air gap, I guess. I love how the drawers come out and don’t hit the door. So, Samsung, you might want to take that out of LG’s book. This is absolutely gorgeous. So we'll close that one, and... and the bottom one doesn’t quite clear the door, but it goes to about here. You just need to open the door a bit more to get full access to that veg rack.
We had that on the last fridge, where we couldn’t open it all the way because of the door, so it’s just a design of... of fridges, I guess. Interestingly, no fridge shelf at the bottom so that you get extra space in the veg zone or the fresh zone. I don’t know what else I can show you... cuz I'm starting... I’m going to need to close that.
I think... I think I am calling this a Dad Delivers success! So after about 3 months of looking, we have finally done it—we finally found the fridge freezer of our dreams. So I hope this mini tour, this unboxing, helps you choose your features and your brand and your model of American-style fridge freezer. We've got a whole playlist of our search—that’s on screen now. And thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button—it really helps us to keep this channel going. So thank you, and right here are all those other fridge freezer videos.
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Do you have a big box of Lego, just like this, and you don’t know where to start? You know, maybe it’s your kids’ Lego, or maybe it’s your Lego—or both mixed together—and it just kind of ends up like this. It’s like a Mumbai mix.
And what happens is that it never gets used. This has been in the garage for over a year because it’s just... it’s just overwhelming. My wife mocks me for saying that Lego is overwhelming, but it is! The kids don’t know where to start with it; I don’t know where to start with it. Every attempt we’ve made to sort this or get it into some kind of usable state has eluded us—until now.
This is the channel where we try new things to make your family happy, and the thing I’m doing to make my family happy today is making the Lego usable again.
Have a look at this—I think I might have found a way to do it. The problem is that if you’re looking for something, there’s no easy way to rifle through. Well, you can, but it’s such an unpleasant experience. There must be some kind of basic sorting we can do that’s easy and makes us feel like we’re making headway. And also, it has to be simple enough that we don’t just give up after 10 minutes. I think I might have cracked it—or at least made a start with it.
What you’ll need for this method—and obviously, your Lego is going to be completely different from ours, but hopefully, this system will help you—is a way to find general groups so you can at least start separating your Lego and actually get started playing with it again.
The system is this: I bought some Ikea freezer bags. I know, I know, great for the environment, isn’t it? But anyway, I’m trying to make it less horrendous than it is. So, I’ve got these Ikea bags—the big ones, the huge ones—and I got some tape you can write on. It’s like paper tape, sort of like parcel tape. And I’ve got a Sharpie.
Now, I’ve got a 20 kg box of Lego. I actually weighed myself on the scales, which is always a fun experience, but I know for a fact this box came out at 20 kg. So, we’re just going to start with the main box and work on weeding it down. I want to pull out 20 kg of Lego!
I’ve just seen this—I’m an ADHD dad, by the way, so this is overwhelming. My wife is right to mock me for it; my brain just explodes at the thought of even starting on this. But I’m already spotting stuff we can use. By the way, this is from the Galaxy Explorer—the classic 1979 Galaxy Explorer—which is in pieces in here somewhere. I know it’s worth a lot of money, and there’s also sentimental value there. These pieces were so precious back when Galaxy Explorer came out. If I can at least harvest some of these, I might be able to sell them on eBay or do something that honours them. If it doesn’t bring us joy, we can let go of it. But let’s at least pull out the stuff that could be used again.
So, here’s the system. Come over here. I’ve got the bags, and I’ve labelled them. The labels tally with a very basic breakdown of ways to sort Lego. This is just a big sort. I suppose we could get more finickity once this first sort is done, but at least you’ve got a fighting chance of finding something—or using something—or selling something online.
This is my system so far. Tell me in the comments how you would change this. What I’ve got at the moment are the 1x2x3 bricks, which are actually sticks, aren’t they? I should’ve called them sticks, but anyway, the 1x2x3 bricks—I’ve even got the L-shaped threes in there.
Then we have sticks—the 1x however long they are. Then there are bricks, the classic brick. I thought this would be the biggest bag, but looking at the potpourri—the Bombay mix of Lego we’ve got—I’m not sure there are that many bricks in there. I’ve got a funny feeling we might’ve filtered them out on a previous attempt.
Then we’ve got slopes—those strange pieces—and I’ve got loads of these from the 1970s. Then we have 1, 2, 3 plates—like the 1, 2, 3 bricks, just the small flat ones. Then there are stick plates. I don’t know if I’m using the right terms. If you use different terms, let me know in the comments.
This is just something I can remember as I go along while trying to get the family involved. Then we’ve got the 2x plates, which aren’t sticks but are wider plates. We also have tiles, anything shiny and flat. I’ve put a selection of different tiles here as a visual aid to help with sorting.
For older Lego, we’ve got a 1970s Lego bag. Look at this vile stuff in here! Tell me if I’m wrong, but I assume there’s still demand for it—things like old windows, grabbers, and wheels. It’s fascinating, really.
I’ve also created categories for weird stuff, arches, screens and seats, train parts, Technics, minifigs, wheels, and clutches (things that grip or click). The idea is to just get started and feel like we’re making progress.
Let me know if this system helps you. Thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button—it really helps me keep this channel going. And right here is what YouTube knows you’re going to love watching next. Oh God, I don’t know where to start!
