Best IKEA bathroom glass shelf? Brogrund unboxing review and installation instructions!

The ultimate bathroom upgrade: transforming our toothbrush and sink area with the IKEA Brogrund bathroom shelf! How do you put up an IKEA Brogrund bathroom glass shelf? We've been using an IKEA Mosslanda picture shelf in the bathroom, which was great at first. But over time the water from the toothbrushes sink in and destroy it. So we've gone for a stylish metal and glass proper IKEA bathroom shelf... but it means installing it. So I show you how to measure, level and drill the shelf above our bathroom sink.

Revamping our bathroom with an IKEA glass shelf!

0:00 Best IKEA bathroom glass shelf? Brogrund toothbrush shelf

1:48 How to put up IKEA Brogrund bathroom glass shelf assembly instructions

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Ikea bathroom shelf!

How do you put up an Ikea bathroom shelf? 

The Brogrund bathroom shelf

Hello my name's Neil - I'm an Ikea dad what... aren't we all?

I try to encourage myself to get things out of boxes and uh to to actually put things up

so the way I'm doing that is to do it on camera, which sort of makes it harder.

But at least I know that I might be helping something else with my struggle with the putting up of the Ikea things. 

Today we're going to be putting up this! It is the Brogrund bathroom shelf but the great thing is it replaces another Ikea product that was never intended to be put in the bathroom by Ikea. 

Let me show you this, is actually the Mosslanda art shelf. 

You’re supposed to put pictures on this... Not toothbrushes and toothpaste and other things that I've removed.

It served us really well for... for five pounds or I think it's five dollars it’s... it's lasted sort of okay. 

The trouble is, because it's made of this kind of MDF... it doesn't cope very well with the pounding that it takes from me and my family with our regular toothbrushing. 

So we're gonna remove these and I think Mrs Ikeadad is going to be very happy that we are going to remove the picture shelf that was never meant for use in bathrooms. 

This is where I've stored my Ikea bathroom shelf: on top of my Godmorgon bathroom storage cabinet. Hey would you like a look inside?

The video is not supposed to be about the Godmorgon bathroom storage cabinet: it's lovely.

We've had this for about five years. It was really difficult to put up...

My first step is of course the coffee... cup of coffee. I should get some branded mugs shouldn't I? 

I've got the screwdriver finally so now we can undo this. 

I'm gonna do it one-handed so I won't be able to catch it when it falls... down it comes... 

So it's down.

I think the family are going to be really happy about this going.

Look at the state of it! Oh my goodness. Next we can delicately unbox the Brogrund bathroom cabinet... you know bathroom shelf it's not a cabinet.

Be careful! You've gotta be careful because there is glass in this.

It comes wrapped. You get a metal like bar thing that holds the... the glass shelf.

To show you some of the detail here: look at tha,t so this feels really solid.

This feels much better obviously than my five dollar picture shelf.

So if I measure and find the midpoint... oh why is this so hard?!

Half of 77 quick! 33.5... no it's it's 38.5 

I'm gonna need to hold these up because if I made them flush with the tile... it wouldn't allow for space between the plates and the edge of the cabinet shelf holder. 

Drill a hole there and a hole there.

Time for drilling. I'm gonna go for a number six drill bit to fit this raw plug but I'm going to get a smaller drill bit to start with... just to get a pilot hole just so that... because it's a lot easier to be a bit more accurate with this, and to actually make the hole.

And then I'll make it bigger with the proper number six.

Ah it didn't go quite as straight as I've hoped. 

Here’s the moment of truth to see if these fit in the holes... yes number one... yes number two... I was worried about that one... yes to number three fantastic! 

And final one oh please be a winner here we go... number four dammit! There's some brick dust inside oh no...

Number four please please please... 

yes perfect!

I wouldn't usually do this but I think it would help to clean up the mess so that the Shelf can actually sit neatly on the tiles there. 

Yeah both plates are up. Let me put the camera up here. 

The next thing we've got to whoa!

You have to hook it over the the metal plates. 

Now there is some flexibility in the Shelf to bend it ever so slightly so now both of those are in that's it!

It's up! It feels really solid, that's good. It was a bit of a pain but it doesn't feel like it's going to fall off the wall. 

We now get the Allen key and we'll tighten up those screws at the bottom of each side of the Ikea Brogrund shelf and it's on... it's fixed so next one I've still got some battery left. 

I unwrapped the glass Shelf so I put the curved side front and it just sits on the pegs. 

Yeah baby! If this video is helping click the Thumbs Up Button if you've reached this point say hi in the comments - be great to hear from you. 

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How to clear GMAIL storage if you hit Google 15GB limit

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How to clear GMAIL storage if you hit Google 15GB limit

How do you reduce the size of files in your Gmail account? 

Can you get your Gmail under the 15GB limit for free storage on your Google Account?

In this video, I'm sharing 3 ideas for what to do to clear gmail storage and bring down the size of files... if your Gmail account storage is full and not receiving emails. Together we can fix the gmail storage full problem. 

How to clear GMAIL storage if you've hit Google 15GB limit

0:00 How to fix Gmail account full storage problem

0:47 Tip 1: How to clear gmail storage if it is out of storage using Google One: To clean up space and see the emails with the largest attachments

2:35 Tip 2: How to search for big files in Gmail using the search bar or advanced search to clean gmail storage

3:37 Tip 3: How to make a new gmail account to create a new address to give out as our junk email address, to stop more emails coming in

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Do you need to put your Google Mail on a diet? 

Has your inbox ballooned so that it's now full and Google wants you to pay a monthly fee? Every month? 

Has your free Google storage now hit its limit and you think that you might need to reduce your Gmail? 

I know exactly how you feel, my Google photos was full so I made this video about reducing the size of photos and videos in Google storage - without deleting any photos or videos... 

And someone in the comments asked me how can I reduce the size of my email storage? 

I hope this video helps because I have three tips to bring down your Gmail storage under the 15GB limit to get that Google free storage. 

Let’s dive straight in, and this is tip number one: go to Google one! 

And the easy way for us to get here is to just type in one.google.com into your browser. 

It’s the area where you can manage all of your storage here on Google. 

It’s really important by the way go to the top right hand corner and make sure that you are logged into the correct Google account... and on this friendly page that tries to sell you stuff, we have “storage and more with Google one”. 

And right at the top we have three options here: storage, backup, or clean up space. 

Let’s click on “clean up space” and that brings up this page. 

You can get to this page really easily by going to one.google.com/storage/management and if any of these links change I'll put the latest link down in the description for you. 

This is just an overview to give you some ideas of places to look to reduce your storage size. 

If we scroll down on this storage manager page we've got different options here but there's a really handy one here: large items, and emails with large attachments. 

So let's click on “review and clean up” and here we can instantly see emails with the biggest attachments. And there's a really handy pull down menu on the top right hand side here where we can choose the size of the attachments... so I could choose anything that's larger than 20 megabytes. What we can do here is actually select something that we want to delete so I'll just tick on this box here and then in the top right hand corner we have this big scary blue delete button, and that permanently deletes these files. 

Tip number two is for us to search for large Gmail emails and that's really easy. 

We can do this two ways: we can either go to the search box and type in “larger:” and then I'll type in “10M” that's for 10 megabytes, and it brings up all the emails larger than 10M. 

Thankfully I've only got one because I've cleared out this email address. 

Yeah this is is a sound file that's 23MB so this is a good way to spot emails which have large attachments within Gmail. 

The other way to do this is again in the search bar: there's this icon here for advanced search settings and that brings up this pull down menu. And we can type in here, size, let's say 20MB and then I'll hit the search button and again it brings up all the emails with file attachments that are larger than that size. 

So we can use either of these to spot the emails with the big attachments. 

Let’s go for our final tip. I'm going to suggest making a dirty Gmail address. It’s really simple, we've just got to do the steps that we took to make Gmail in the first place. 

We all need to give out email addresses from time to time for things that aren't important. 

They might be to get discount codes in stores or to sign up to things online that aren't that important to us. 

So this stops us from getting more junk email taking up the space in the first place. 

All we need to do is to log out of Google or open up an “incognito” or “private tab” and type in google.com and then click “sign in”. 

And down here underneath the “sign in” there's a button to “create account”, and it gives you three options. 

I’ll choose “work and business” and we can create this Google account in exactly the same way as we did with our original account... except this time we'll set up a username that will be the name that we remember to give out when we're in a junk mail situation. 

But if you're finding that photos and videos are taking up your Google storage, I've got you covered. I've got two videos right here: one video for doing this on desktop, and one to blitz the photos and videos on mobile, without deleting any of your precious photos and videos. 

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Best hand blender? Bosch Maxo Mixx 1000W

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Best hand blender? Bosch Maxo Mixx 1000W

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What is the best hand blender or hand mixer or food processor under $100? I really like this Bosch MaxoMixx 1000W Hand Blender, so unboxing for a first impressions review. Trying out the hand blender, cutting bowl and whisk. I try new things out to make your family happy... I'm calling this a Dad Delivers Success.

Unleash the Bosch Hand Blender in our kitchen?



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Are you like me and wondering what is the best hand mixer or hand blender? 

Hello I'm Neil: this is the dad delivers Vlog where I try new things every day to make your family happy and I hope we're gonna make our families happy with this! 

It's the Bosch maxo mixx 1000 Watts hand blender or hand mixer. 

I don't know what to call this and they've not actually named it on the box either. 

Say what you think it is down in the comments below but I've noticed even Bosch haven't put on the box what they think it is. 

So this is just going to be uh - do you want to come closer? 

This is just going to be an unboxing or First Impressions review and I'll tell you the story of our hand blender.

Whoo, that looks nice - and in here very nicely wrapped, this is the bit that we need. 

My amazing Unstoppable wife, she had a hand blender and I had a blender when we first met. 

This was a very long time ago and over the years we had the same hand blender. 

And over the years all the bits have just been merged. 

I don't know which one of our hand blenders survived, but one of them did and one of them didn’t. Oh look at this! He's just snuck off!

[Music] 

Casper?! [growl]

[Music] 

I've actually used our old hand blender on this video here. 

It’s my recipe for hummus - beautifully shot - hey should I get it out of the cupboard? 

This thing is so old now and the state of it! Look at that. 

But it's the attachments - the bits the vital components that’ve just kind of fallen off and disappeared over the years... 

We finally had to bite the bullet and get a new one and this is the present that I got for Christmas. 

I'll put a link to this one down in the description below. 

I was going to try and make some hummus. Let me show you the bits. 

By the way I love how on the - on the box it says “maximum Bosch power” 

What exactly is maximum? 

What does that even mean? 

Maximum Bosch power. I think that's what's going to solve our energy crisis that we're living through at the moment. We're going to live on some of that maximum Bosch power! 

It's looking all beautiful and pristine and new here's some beauty shots of it looking all nice and laid out before I wreck it with chickpeas and Tahini. 

And I wanted to make this video because I'm starving. I've got the heating off, the kids are at school, I've got the house to myself and it's absolutely freezing. 

I literally don't know where everything is so just... that's the dog cupboard! That's not right. 

Let’s... I swear this channel is just going to be 100 videos of me making hummus. 

Right, so the the “i” button is just on off at normal Power.

And the “T”  button? I think it's like a turbo button it's much higher powered.

And you can change the speed on the top of the dial - uh oh, blend myself uh, you can change the speed at the top of the dial here if I can cut close 

[Music]

So should we do this? And I've got it... I've got to get this done quickly before the kids get home and wreck my lovely recipe Studio setup. 

We got these from Costco. I don't know what they're doing to the lemons to make them this big but... I don't care. I like that they're big... 

I Like Big MELONS and I cannot.. no not melons! 

I like big LEMONS and I cannot hide... it's something that I want inside... my hummus! 

This is very professional instead of moving the camera I'm bending over and just craning into shot.

So we've got some lemon juice. I've got some olive oil: it's supposed to be extra virgin. Pretend this is extra virgin olive oil. 

If you if you like the look of the microplane Grater there's a link down in the description. 

So let’s put in the garlic... now this is tahini - oh man. 

It’s because I want to get to the blender! 

I want to put the blender on. I'm running out of battery now but let's get the blender out yeah! 

It's time to do some blending, so I'll turn it down to the lowest settings. Turn it down to zero and then I'll press the button...

[HAND BLENDER NOISE] 

[Music] 

[HAND MIXER NOISE] 

Let's put the speed up - a bit difficult with one hand [HAND BLENDER NOISE] oh yeah that's sounding good [HAND MIXER NOISE] should we go turbo, let's go turbo.

I want to show you the blades but oh you can see them. 

There you go that is what the blades look like. 

This is making short work of my chickpeas and hummus ingredients. 

It has a powerful 1000 watt motor - don’t forget that's with maximum Bosch power! 

And it's anti-splash. You know that little skirt around the side? Apparently that's to stop splashing. And this is the easy release: you just push these two buttons here. 

I've got hummus all over my hands! You push these buttons either side and it releases this. 

And then when you do that - the same as my old one - handy hummus holder for the whisker there! You can clip this on and then if I get the Whisk... push that into place here...

The ergonomic handle is kind of rubberized, and this kind of a brushed Chrome side there. 

Sorry I've got... I've got hummus all over my Surface! 

This is the bit that we really wanted the... the blender. 

You open it by twisting the top. 

The blade just comes out like this and it says you should um chop up the bits first, before you put them into the blender. So here's an onion. I'm going to chop it up. Just peel it. Just cut it into chunks. Throw that one in. I’ll cut it quite coarsely to see how it copes and then I guess you put... I should put this in first! Because it can’t... stick it in... the lid on, and then twist the lid, and then sit the power unit... and so they just push it down... clip it like that... and then press the button I guess.

Unless I'm doing this wrong, maybe I'm doing this wrong, maybe you can help me: leave a comment below... but I find with these hand blenders that the blade spins round and all the stuff sits on the top so the stuff doesn't get cut? You know what I mean the onion whatever you're cutting tends to build up under the blade, and then the blade just spins rounds and you have to kind of push down the stuff... the... the food... the ingredients to be cut properly 

[Music]

This is how the onions work out in the end 

[Music]

[Hand blender noise]

[Music] 

I am calling this a Dad delivers success! 

I like it, I really like it. 

First impressions: I like it, if anything changes I'll put it in the description down below and I'll also obviously put a link to this. 

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Best childs car seat? Review Joie Trillo

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Best childs car seat? Review Joie Trillo

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Unboxing and how to assemble and fit a Joie Trillo childs car seat into our car... Brings back memories of when the children were toddlers and I was even more sleep deprived, If you're looking for a kids car seat, you might really like this one: especially if you're on a tight budget after the first car seat.

The Truth About Buying Car Seats For Your Child



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Hello welcome back to the dad delivers Vlog where we... 

Hello I'm Neil welcome back to the dad delivers Vlog where we try to make your family... out we try new things every week to make your family happy... 

Hello I'm Neil welcome back to the dad delivers Vlog where I try new things every day to make your family happy. 

I try it every day, I don't actually put all of them online. Maybe I should 

I might do that over the next few weeks anyway today we're going to unbox this! 

it's a Joie, or is it Joie, Trillo or Trillo group 2/3 baby car seat or car seats for children 

This is just a quick Impressions first review... sorry we've got a birthday situation going on here 

It's really difficult isn't it? Buying car seats, Because unless you go to the store and see it yourself and sit in it... it's really difficult to decide which one to get for your child. 

You’d think on some level they're all safe so then it just comes down to does it fit in your car and how good does it look 

Let's open this one up. I had a few spoiler shots there of what this actually looks like but that's in the future. 

I'm going to open this in real time. The colour of this one is Ember and you can... you can get them in all kinds of designs 

This one is in the Liverpool Football Club colours, so it actually looks like those seats that you get on the side of the stadium which you know... those are seats for children... 

I need to clear a space for this. 

You get this as three parts - oh instructions. 

What I love about the Trillo is that it's got a cup holder - no it’s got two cup holders! Look at that! 

Helpfully it comes with this little booklet in which it lists every car's compatibility 

I guess I should have really checked this on our car first before my sister got it 

She's bought it for her five-year-old son and according to Joie, this seat is good for kids all the way up to 12 years old 

Definitely got to get my 12 year old in this to test that 

I'm putting this together in real time so you can see how I do it 

Do not take this as how you should do it and you know... go suing me. 

Is that even necessary to say that? 

Obviously follow the instructions. I'm not qualified in any respect for any of this, you know, to be a dad. 

Apparently you've got to get the headrest and put it on the back and I'm gonna put this into here - and there's some buttons on the back here - oh right 

Now you pull this latch and that pulls the buttons in 

You can use that to adjust the height of the headrest and I think I'm supposed to tuck this under here, and then I can clip this to the bottom... put the back on 

I've got to clip these u-shapes at the bottom here 

If I push them down onto the base - just push it down like - this ah can't do it - ah swine - so that one went in easily obviously this one doesn't 

See my kids are now you know 11 and 14, so I'd forgotten the joys of babydom 

Oh that didn't sound good let's try again 

I bet there's a video on their website showing it going in instantly 

This is not going to sound good - here we go - there we go - so now it's locked into place 

Now if I spin this round you can adjust the headrest with this latch here and there are also instructions for how to fit it with either a seat belt or with the isofix 

I'm going to attach this using the isofix catches so let's get this into the car 

We're gonna go swimming 

You know it's sad that my beautiful 14 year old is holding the camera... I used to... I used to put the car seat in for you like this 

And I used to be sleep deprived and angry but - I still am - yeah because of you, so if you're sleep deprived it... you will actually miss this when you're older. I promise! 

You can pull this out here and you can... I know, I know it's like... if only I could like monetize this knowledge somehow... so if you're lucky enough to have isofix... Do you want to point it down here? You can see that I'll pull this... 

(Oh can you put it over there, I like sitting there)

Jump cut! 

Okay on the other side then see... we can't do it this way around because I'm in the way! 

Okay... it's just velcro - oh God look at the state of our car. 

Blame it on dog. 

Does your car look like this? Leave a comment down below, and you just get the hook and clip it to that... clip it to the isofix thing and then I think you can tighten it up - and can you see that going in? Don’t all cars have isofix? 

No they don't - they don't - so if your car doesn’t... well apparently you would use just the... right yeah I can't put that in, because I don't know if that is true. 

Anyway to tighten the isofix I pull... pull the strap... that’s for another video yeah

yeah look I'll put something in the description because I can't be bothered to look it up right now and then should I move the seat back so you can see it? 

You can get me some shots that I can play music over it and it looks really like an advert so that Joie will sponsor me for videos like this? 

I think I'll need 50000 subscribers before companies allow me to demonstrate their products. 

Why not hit the Subscribe button while I'm not being sponsored and you'll get to see the reality of what it's like to be a dad... So this is a test with actual six-year-old at 18 kilos so just over the 15 kilo... what does it feel like?

And then to get the seat belt over let’s... let's put the seat belt through the red holder here... 

And then this goes underneath... you're able to pull that over... well done... under the armrest there - great - and then you put this over your shoulder like that and we're good to go! 

Are you okay there? Sorry, I feel I'm shouting in your ear! Thank you for being awesome and hitting the Thumbs Up Button. 

What else should they do? 

Can you like And subscribe too? 

That is an excellent idea Ollie thank you! 

Can you please help my dad get to 1 million subscribers. Just click on his face thanks bye! 

Can we have dinner now?

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How to search comments on YouTube?

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How to search comments on YouTube?

How do you find your own comments left on other people's YouTube channels? Unfortunately you can't search for someone else's comments on other channels, but if you're looking for your own YouTube comments these 2 methods might help. How to see your comments on YouTube with Watch history and Google Takeout.

Find ALL your YouTube comments, instantly!

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1:13 How to search and find your own comments on YouTube? Using your YouTube history.

2:53 How to see all your comments on YouTube, using Google Takeout

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Hello I'm Neil, welcome back to the Happy Hut!

How do you search for your own comments right here on YouTube?

So those are your comments that you have left on other people's videos.

I've found two different ways to do this: the first way is really easy but it's not very good for searching way back into the past. And it doesn't bring up that many comments without a lot of scrolling. 

The second way I think is brilliant, but this method takes a bit longer because it means downloading all the comments you've ever made right here on YouTube. 

I know why I want to search for my comments. Usually it's either to help me find a video that I've seen in the past and I can't remember the title of it... or it's to go back to a comment that I've left in the past to see if anyone's replied to it. 

The YouTube dashboard for comments isn't very good, is it? 

And when you press on it, it brings up the latest comments but it's really easy to miss replies. 

If you know a different way of searching through in comments please leave a comment down below - Leave a comment! A comment that you can't search for! 

But if anything changes after I've made this video, I'll leave a link to the very latest YouTube help article.

Let’s jump into the first way for searching our comments.

All we have to do is go to youtube.com - your regular YouTube page - and in the top left hand corner there are these three bars. 

We'll click on that and that opens this menu.

We’ll go down to “History” and that opens up our “watch history”... But what I didn't realise was - look over here on the right hand side - under all these other options there's “community history”, “clear watch History”... all the way down here we can click on “comments” for “manage all history”.

This opens up a page called “Google my activity” and it's where all of our activity on Google is stored. 

It’s very helpfully opened up the YouTube comments page on here but there's one small problem with this. I think it's quite a big thing.

There's no search bar! There's no search box to go through my comments, so these are all the comments that I've left on YouTube, ever, in Reverse chronological order!

But I can't search them. If you want to search through - maybe a year or two - this isn't a great way to do it. But if you want to search for a particular word that you know is in your comments... so I'll hit the “command F” button on a Mac, or “control F” on a PC.

The search term that I'm going to type in is RPM and it’s... it's jumped me straight to the comment right there. 

It's showing there's only one comment, and it's taken me straight to that comment. 

This might be all that you need, but for me it wasn't enough because I want to go back through all my comments.

If you're finding this useful thank you for being awesome by hitting the thumbs up button or the Subscribe button: let's take a look now at the second way to search our comments.

We need to go to a website called takeout.google.com

And this is a special service that Google provide for you on your account so you can see in the top left hand corner, it says “Google account”. Google takeout is great because... it's also scary because this is where Google stores all of our data.

And it offers a service where you can download all of the data that Google holds on us.

You can see here at the top of the page: “Export a copy of content in your Google account”.

So this includes everything like Google Photos, “Blogger”, “Fit”, “podcasts", that... just everything. 

But if you scroll all the way to the bottom, it also holds our details for everything we've done on YouTube. Obviously, YouTube is owned by Google: that's why we're doing this through Google takeout. Because it's offering to download everything, everything has been ticked. 

You can see all these boxes have been checked, so we don't want those, so firstly I'm going to “deselect all” by clicking on that button there... and you can see nothing is ticked. 

And then we'll go down to “YouTube and YouTube music” and we'll check that box... and within this box you can even select the YouTube data that you want to download... “View History”, “Your Videos”, “Your subscriptions”... we don't need any of that, so I'm going to hit “deselect all”. 

I'm just going to click on this box here: “my comments”. 

And then we'll click “OK”.

I'm just going to get a “download link via email” and I only want to export it once... zip file is okay. 

I'm hoping there won't be more than one gigabyte of comments! 

But I have left a lot of comments, uh, so I'll just call it 4GB and then we'll click on “Create Export”.

Here's a summary of the request that we have made, and it's saying Google is creating a copy of files from YouTube... And it says the process can take a long time but we're not downloading that much data, so I'm hoping this won't take too long. 

Let’s do a time Jump!

Well we're now one minute later! It took one minute to create the file and send me the confirmation email. “Download your files”. And then it takes us to “manage your exports”.

And you can see that my YouTube export is ready for download, so I'll hit “download”.

It's an HTM file which means that if I double click on it, it opens the file in a regular internet browser... and here it is! 

This is every comment I've ever made on this channel! 

Look at it go! And it now means that if I click command F, or control F on a PC... and bring up “RPM”... you can see that there are actually 80 times where I've referred to RPM in one of my comments.

It's a topic I love talking about, clearly, so if I click the “down” button, I can now skim through every single time I mention the word “RPM”. 

And I've done that 80 times in my entire history here on YouTube! 

So this is it! Look how far it goes back! This is amazing... Don't forget that to find the very latest YouTube advice for searching comments, there's a link down in the description below. 

I hope this helps and right here are some other YouTube hacks that I have just for you. 

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How to get a McDonalds discount voucher

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How to get a McDonalds discount voucher

Can you get a McDonalds discount voucher for just filling in a survey from the receipt? 

Yes you can! And here's how we did it to get a big mac and fries for £1.99.

Here's how we get a MCDONALDS VOUCHER



TRANSCRIPT: (CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE)

THIS IS THE TRANSCRIPT - CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE!

[Music] 

So I've always wanted to make this video 

where you know on a receipt - maybe you don't have this in your country - but in my country on the receipt they give you a code... not that you can see it... they give you a code 

and if you type this in and do a survey they used to give you a Big Mac and fries 

and it doesn't say what you get now 

It says wait... I can't read what it says... I think it says it says a delicious deal: So what delicious deal do you get for filling in their customer survey? 

This is the dad delivers Vlog where I try something new every day to help your family and be happy... and today I'm going to... the new thing that I'm going to try is to try out this survey to see what you get from McDonald's for filling it in

By the way sorry for the... the noise in the background 

That's um some bikers... weekend bikers are right next to us 

[Music] 

We're now back at home here in the Happy Hut. 

It's three days later. I think McDonald's gives you seven days to do this survey so let's do this and get ourselves a free McDonald's! 

But it's not free is it? Because I've got to do this blimmin’ survey 

I'm practically working for the man! 

I really want one of those McDonald's caps, and I've completely gone into a rabbit hole for about an hour just now looking on eBay for employee caps. 

Do you want fries with that?! 

But that's not the site we want. We want this site which is MCDfoodforthoughts.com and I've already hit the first problem which is this the ink on the receipt! 

It disappears in about a day. 

It's like Marty McFly's picture in “Back to the Future” 

It means I can't go back to the past to do this survey! 

We've got to do this now before it disappears you can see what I can see on screen now: Welcome to McDonald's Food For Thoughts! 

Will I get some free McDonald's? 

Let's find out! Do you have your receipt available? 

Well there's no “kind of” box... but yeah I've kind of got the receipt here and then it tells you to put in the 12 digit code 

I can just about see the code... don't tell me I didn't get that McDonald's! I've got the documentation right here! Or maybe not - look at it! 

I mean it's just disappearing... and it wants the amount spent which in my case was four pounds 19. Oh and it says down here you will receive a voucher. 

It's a bit of a spoiler. You'll receive a voucher for one Big Mac back or fillet of fish or vegetable Deluxe and one medium fries or side salad. 

Yeah, “side salad”, for one pound 99. That's alright isn't it? It's a Big Mac, so let's see if we can get this Big Mac - and salad. 

What was your visit type?

I'm going to say “collect at the counter” but obviously I stayed outside with Casper the dog - Casper the cocker spaniel. 

Please rate your overall satisfaction with your experience at this Mac... McDonalds 

I'm going to say highly satisfied because I think the staff there get a hard time. 

We've got a good... we've got a good Mackie D's near us 

Where did you place your order? 

I think I had to send my son in to do it with my money when I sat outside with the dog freezing with the... the hairy middle-aged midlife crisis bikers. 

But I can't put any of that into the survey box. 

Did you use my McDonald's rewards on this visit? 

I did - no I didn't use rewards but I gave my son the app to get the points so I'm gonna hit “no”. 

Please rate your satisfaction with the temperature of your food or drink, the quality of your food and drink, the appearance of your food and drink. 

Let's just pause for a moment and look at the appearance of the burger I can't even remember what it was. 

Joe remind me, what... what did we get there? 

I forgot. 

Was it... it's a breakfast thing isn't it? 

Yeah it's a sausage... double sausage egg McMuffin 

No I added another pattie 

Alright so it's a sausage egg McMuffin with extra Patty...

Bacon.

Extra bacon? 

No just bacon 

Oh extra cheese? 

Yeah and ketchup okay, and on a scale of um one to ten what would you rate it? 

10. 

Do I get any?

Aww dude, I was too slow!

Alright, so I'm gonna... I'm gonna dock a point for the appearance 

It's a little unfair... no, no I'm... I'm so indecisive 

I'm gonna say I was “highly satisfied” with it. 

It looks like a dog's dinner - quite literally a dog's dinner - Casper was pleased to see... but I'm gonna give it highly satisfied because I wanted it to look like a mess. 

I wanted it to look like a McDonalds. 

Cleanliness of the toilet, accuracy of your order... well it was only one Burger but they managed to do it, and speed of service was fine. 

Was your order accurate? 

Yes it was because it was just one Burger. 

Did you experience a problem? 

No. I have had problems before. I'm very high maintenance when it comes to McDonald's. Please tell us why it was... 

You've got to write an essay?! 

Please tell us why you were highly satisfied with your experience at this McDonald's. Be as specific as you would like. Okay um it was a good visit because I've had very poor visits to other branches... branches or restaurants? Restaurants. I can't call them... it's not a restaurant! They put the order up on the screen when it was ready not like other branches who put up the food is ready when it isn't for a long time before it's not ready. 

Yeah I'll make the syntax sound like I eat in McDonalds a lot. 

Are the other restaurants on a timer or something, there. 

Would you like to recognize the staff member for providing great service. 

No because I was sat outside with the dog. So unfortunately I can't do that on this... I could... should I just make up a name?! Who served us? 

Would you like to recognize the staff member? 

Yes! 

Please tell us the name or description of the staff member who provided great service. I don’t know. 

Charlie... in a uniform. 

I hope there's a Charlie who works there now! So they’ll get some kind of weird survey love! 

Would you like to answer a few more questions about your experience? 

Sure it's all right... it's only... you're only wasting mine and my subscribers time. 

Did you customize your order? Yes. 

Yes well my son did. 

Was your order customized correctly? 

Yes. Based on this experience what is the likelihood that you will recommend this McDonald's to others?

I'm... I'm not sure I'll go around recommending it... Oh you must go... you must happen upon the McDonalds in our town! 

Yeah I'll just say it's likely. Visit McDonald's MORE often? 

Well I think that is likely anyway isn't it - uh - dog needs walking. 

Return to this McDonald's in the next 30 days? 

It's inevitable: we don't want to but it is inevitable that it's highly likely that we're going to go back to that McDonalds. 

It's... always works the same... you know it's not like the advert at the moment with the eyebrows and they go like that - it's just it's more of a bored, can't think of anything else to do, okay, kind of trip. Next. 

At what points during your visit did you interact with any members of the staff? 

And again I'm answering on behalf of my son, but I'm gonna do it um, when placing... placing or receiving my order.

Final questions for classification, so gender oh should I self-describe myself? 

I would self-describe myself as male um... 

You don't need to know my age do you? 

What are they going to do, send me a birthday card? 

Who was in your party on this visit to McDonald's. 

Well it was my dog and my son in that order - um - alright I put child... children and I'll put other family members because Casper... Casper's a family member. 

How would you like to receive your validation code to redeem your offer? 

Now if I get them to send it by email, I'm just gonna... I don't want them to have my email address... yeah okay “by email” 

Then you put in your name and your fake email address - your dirty email address -  and then thank you. You will receive an email shortly with your voucher. 

We care about what you have to say. Well give my regards to Charlie. 

I want this voucher. Where is the voucher? So let's now put my phone up on screen here: “Thank you for your feedback! Here is your McDonald’s voucher” Big Mac and medium fries and side salad for £1.99. To redeem the voucher simply choose an option below and that's valid for about a month, five weeks from now. so I've got five weeks to get my 1.99 Big Mac but I'm pleased with that. I think that's a good use of my time. How long did that take? 

Thanks for coming along with us on this journey to McD’s - it was a very special trip. It was lovely to have you here with us and right here is what YouTube thinks you'd like to see next! Can you please help my daddy get 10000 subscribers, just click on his face thanks bye! Alright this is gonna be the proper one right?

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Pay ULEZ fee on mobile phone

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Pay ULEZ fee on mobile phone

After driving into London this week, I pay my TFL London ULEZ (but not Congestion Charge) online using just my mobile phone. In this video, I walk you through step-by-step how to pay your ULEZ fee along with me.

How to pay your ULEZ by mobile!



TRANSCRIPT: (CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE)

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Hello, welcome back to the hut. This is the Dad Delivers Vlog where I try new things to make your family happy and it's... It's a bit of a stormy day out there, outside the happy hut so I'm fairly warm in here. 

I... I went to London this week, and if you're searching for this video you too probably have gone through and you're going to have to pay the ULEZ charge. 

The dreaded ULEZ charge. Worse than that, Mayor Sadiq Khan is going to expand it so you're watching this in the future... I'm recording this before the ULEZ Zone was expanded in London. 

There's a link in the description below that is the link that I'm using. I'll put it on the screen here so you can follow along. 

This video is just so you can follow me paying my ULEZ charge using just my mobile phone. 

I parked outside my friend’s during a train strike and here's some footage of me making my way through town. I think this is the point where I'm in the ULEZ zone.

I drove all the way down to Croydon.

I know you're going to have a hundred questions about the ULEZ Zone and charge. 

Honestly the... the link in the description: I'll always keep that up to date. Let's get started!

I'm... I'm on the page now and... and there's a lovely advert for Nando's at the bottom. Stay classy Sadiq Khan! 

The first thing at the top of the page is to uh sign in, or create an account. 

We're not going to do that. I have no intention of doing this on a regular basis, so I'm going to do this as a guest. But if you do this more regularly you might want a London Road user charging account. 

I will scroll down so that you can see all of this information. You can pause the video if you like, but it might update by the time you see this video. 

But there’s a very reassuring button here “pay the ULEZ charge”. 

I didn't go so far into Central London to hit the “Congestion charge Zone”. 

They don't make this easy for Out of Towners like us so that we get to fund London who's clearly struggling for money! 

They keep it as oblique as possible to... to rake in the money from the fines which is my personal experience, so well done for being ahead of the curve in paying ULEZ if you do this. 

And I'm going to scroll down, so I don't need the congestion charge and ULEZ charge. You might need to do that: again Link in the description. 

The low Emission Zone charge I think is for special vehicles. 

I've just got a regular car so I'm just gonna go for ULEZ, and I'm going to hit the “pay” button. 

The first thing we need to do is to type in our vehicle registration number and the country of registration. 

I'm in the UK: It's a UK car. And we will scroll down more adverts on the bottom there. I'm going to hit “confirm vehicle”. 

Where are you driving? 

And this is where you get to select whether you want to pay for the congestion charge or the ULEZ charge. What I find really disgusting and frustrating is that I've given them my registration. 

They should tell me what I owe them. They've got the technology. They've got the power, but they rely on you reporting it so you can't use this site to check if you do owe the ULEZ charge. Which again is deliberate isn't it?

It's deliberate to increase the number of fines. 

Sorry, we'll get through this as quickly as possible, but I also noticed the administration department for congestion charge is based in Stockport! 

So... because I guess it costs too much to run it in London? 

I'm going to click ULEZ Zone... but here you can check the streets that you were in just to see which charging zones you will need to pay for. It's either “congestion charge AND ULEZ” or ULEZ by itself.

I'm just ULEZ, so I'm going to hit “Continue”.

Sorry this is so confusing. 

I'm trying to make this as straightforward as possible and I've done it twice and even I can't explain it.

Now the website invites you to type in the date that you were in the ULEZ charge Zone.

I was there on Friday so I'm just going to hit that big Friday button. 

At the moment at time of recording but please check, you have three days after you entered the zone. 

So that's three days after the day that you were in the ULEZ zone. 

And it's up to midnight on the third day that you have to pay. 

This might change after I've recorded this video. I'll put a note in the description to keep you up to date. 

So I don't want congestion charge but I DO want ULEZ charge so that's ticked. Congestion charge isn’t ticked and that gives me - at time of recording - 12 pounds 50 - so I'll “add to basket”. 

So here's a summary: ULEZ charge Friday. You can add other charges, pay for different Vehicles...

I'm going to get an email receipt for this because I do want a receipt that I actually paid for the right day and the right amount. 

And there’s a disclaimer. I expect... I expect? I accept responsibility. Yeah I see that TfL don't accept responsibility for giving me the right information but there we go.

And then I'll hit the “confirm and pay” button. 

Next the London mayor wants our card details, so we'll just put in our card details here. 

And that then takes us to the payment confirmation page. 

We've got the confirmation here, “thanks for paying”. 

Well thanks for providing us some clean air to dirty up with our car. Sorry London, 

and underneath it invites us to set up auto pay: So if you do this regularly you can set up an account too.

I think it makes it simpler, but this is just for a one-off guest payment. Good luck with paying your ULEZ charge. 

I hope this helps. If this has helped thanks for being awesome by hitting the Thumbs Up Button, and subscribe to the channel. We do all kinds of fun like this! 

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How NOT to fix my garage flat roof again

Fixing my flat garage roof again... 2 more leaks appeared in the garage since the last video. So it's back up the ladder on the roofing felt with more tar. Plus the bitumen is much thicker this time thanks to me tipping the liquid out on the last garage video. My wood store (aka box of planks) is ruined by rain water so I try to recover that, all while trying to make this video in the style of the ace YouTuber Emma Chamberlain. It's fun.

How NOT to fix my garage flat roof again



TRANSCRIPT: (CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE)

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Do you want to go out?

Okay, I'm trying out this little microphone 

I don't know if it's any better than... 

This is Sunday and I don't want to Vlog 

I want to just fix the things in the house 

I want to get the camera out. It slows it down... 

But then if I don't film it, I don't do the jobs.

This is a video about how our garage roof isn't fixed despite the video where I think I said I fixed the garage roof.

I did. I fixed it. On the other side.

And then I noticed all these other leaks 

I don't know if I should be showing you our security 

I got that leak fixed which is wonderful and then another leak appeared and I didn't film me fixing that 

But I poured the rest of the tar that I had on the roof and I don't know if you can see the mould there... but I think I've got a tub full of tools 

I have a feeling that that tub is full of water 

I don't want to look 

oh no it's dry! okay 

same is not true over on this side 

water comes in there which I could cope with except... tragically it's gone into my precious wood pile 

If you identify as a man and you have kids... I don't know if you have your own pile of wood 

I don't know if it's a male thing or if it's just a me thing 

But this is really terrible because the leak is captured by my... is captured by my pile of wood holder 

look can you see the water! 

so it's now ruining all my wood 

anyway I'll deal with that later 

The most pressing thing is I've got to somehow fix this leak on the roof 

This is the weather for the next few days 

Can you see that? minus six and minus four! 

If I can get the tar into the hole... Oh no, I’m stuck.

I’ve locked myself in! 

Casper! 

Send help 

send for help 

Hello 

What? 

I've... I've locked myself in the garage 

Have you actually?

Yeah I don't know how... this door never works!

You’re so lucky, I didn’t decline.

Yeah. Can you let me out? 

Casper go get help!

Can you just turn the handle clockwise? No no no... just turn it clockwise? 

There you go 

Ah thank you 

I was gonna decline as well! 

I thought I'd make my videos more like Emma Chamberlain for once what do you think? 

What do I need to do to make it more like an Emma Chamberlain video?

Wear heels.

Or....

I’ll even use...

Tell you what, on this one I'll even use some Emma Chamberlain music 

I need to get a ladder.

[Music] 

[Music] 

I really don't like this ladder 

When you're taking it down it's... it's like it's going to take your fingers off 

Emma Chamberlain at this point would probably do a little bit of a fashion check? 

So I've got my painting gear on 

It's basically all the stuff that I don't want to throw out but I've got quite a lot of it! 

And this... this I got this at my old infant school party 

It's in Camden in North London 

Because the school's moving out because they're going to demolish the Infant School in Camden Town to build a new underground station 

Except it's still lying derelict 

I've got this six years ago now and it's still lying empty and derelict 

But I suppose I got a t-shirt out of it 

Casper is absolutely useless at playing fetch 

[Music]

[Music]

Someone left a comment on the garage roof video to say “did you stir the tar?” 

Did you stir it? 

And I don't know why, but I lied and I said yes and... well I did a little bit 

I did sort of stir it a bit but I clearly didn't stir it enough because look... that's what tar should look like, not the liquid that I was pouring before 

so at least it's thicker but because I've poured out all the liquid it is now super tough 

BUT the advantage with this... I can pour it really easily and it will just stay in place instead of just running off the roof. 

[Music] 

I have no idea where this leak is.

[Music]

The liquid, the actual water that's running in... I don't want to fall off the edge 

It's there 

There's um oh that seems sealed, so it could be there or there 

I’d better answer that.  Hey it's Dad, hi Dad!

[DAD: Fallen down a hole or somehthing?]

Who me? 

Yes 

Well, ironic you should say that - I'm on top of the garage roof 

Oh right okay, I’ll phone you back later.

Okay - I'll see you in a bit [Music] 

Before it was actually easier because I could just pour the tar on like it was with rain water, and it would just run where it runs and it would run into the gaps. 

But it's a bit more sticky now so I've got to spread it around with this old paintbrush that's solid from the last time I did the uh the tarring. 

The last time's over here and that's set really, really well and that... that works really well.

It's a bit like spreading peanut butter at this stage because all the liquid's gone out uh you know the peanut butter that you haven't stirred in a while. 

I don't know whether to speed this up, or to just let you enjoy me spreading the tar on the roof. What do you reckon? I think I'll leave it real time 

[Music] 

The stones are getting mixed up in it.

[Music]

I think that's it. 

It looks like something that a six-year-old has done.

I think that um all the bits that need to be sealed are sealed. Just give that a try. 

Okay so I've done that, now it's time to assess the damage to the wood pile. 

I think maybe I'll put some sad music on this. I definitely will speed it up. 

This was part of the happy hut. I wanted to turn this into something and I don't know what 

I don't know why I'm hoarding this 

I think it's because whenever anyone wants a piece of wood then then I've got...

Let's clean this up. 

[Music] 

So um this is... that's how much water is in here and it stinks. 

It really stinks... oh man 

[Music] 

Throw those away, oh geez, oh my God. And my two saws! 

[Music]

Maybe if I leave the wood out while it's minus six maybe that will kill off the mold?

What do you think? 

I don’t know why I’m keeping this. 

I think... it’s to build some kind of model Railway system that's hidden in the happy hut... and I could just sit there in my 60s and just watch a little train go round and round. I think that's all that's all I want in life. It'll happen one day.

But I’d better use that energy and that Ingenuity to, you know, stop the house from falling down and then... then I could build my little model Railway.

What I should do now is show you what happened next but um... I don't think it's going to rain for... for a week now and I want to get this video out.

I'm... I'm not sure that was very much like an Emma Chamberlain video? 

[Music]

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How to make a LINK to subscribe to your YouTube channel

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How to make a LINK to subscribe to your YouTube channel

How do you make a link to subscribe to your channel?

A link you can put in the description so that when the viewer clicks it, the link directly takes the viewer to a subscribe dialogue button where they can become a subscriber?

It's all in this video, plus the subscribe link is just below

How to make a LINK to subscribe to your YouTube channel



TRANSCRIPT: (CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE)

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Hello welcome back to the Happy Hut 

It's not the warmest day in the world today 

I'm Neil and I help high achieving creators and performers just like you high five to get ideas out of your head and out onto here on YouTube to make the world happy. 

But the hardest thing that I find here on YouTube is gaining subscribers and I'm taking a wild and crazy guess that THAT might be a problem for you too. 

I'm going to share with you a little something that might just might get you one or two extra subscribers and it's this! 

It's this little link that you can put in the description for your videos where you can say “click here to subscribe”. 

When you click on the link, it takes you directly to a subscribe button for your YouTube channel. 

I don't know why YouTube still places a great weight on subscribers. 

Years ago you had to actually subscribe to a YouTube channel to be able to be offered their videos. 

Now YouTube offers us videos from channels that we watch with without us needing to subscribe to them BUT as you know, YouTube doesn't release features without say, 500 subscribers to get community posts... 1000 subscribers for the precious monetization - that might be something that you're aiming for right now. 

You need 10000 subscribers to get YouTube stories, and 100000 to get a play button. 

I've uh... I've got a play button, but it was made by my son for a 1000 subscribers. 

That's the Brown play button. But just think, one day we might even be able to get to hold one of these! 

It was all a dream! 

But back to our massively successful YouTube channels... and back to this magical link where you can put it in your description right now and when a viewer clicks on the link, it magically takes them to this window where they can subscribe to your Channel with just one click. 

Hopefully it might get us some more subscribers. 

Would you like one of these links? 

Excellent choice! 

It's very simple: just copy the text that's on screen now, or funnily enough it's down in the description for this video. 

And it's youtube.com - you don't need to type in the https:// youtube.com/@neilmossey?sub_confirmation=1

And obviously where it says your handle, don't type in the words your handle - that's where you put in your actual YouTube handle. 

It's a new thing that YouTube has introduced where everyone gets their own unique YouTube name and if you want to change your handle, or your YouTube name before doing this... I've made a video all about it right here. 

Let me know if you get one of these for your channel down in the comments below and thank you if you hit the thumbs up button or the Subscribe button and maybe one day we will all get that diamond play button! 

[Music]

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