hello and good afternoon everyone from base camp here in illinois
hope you guys are doing well i can't believe i'm saying this
but i have outgrown my mickey collection room in here what am i gonna do
gotta make some changes today and i'll be honest with you i kind of saw this coming
i knew eventually it was gonna happen i mean the more you collect the more you're gonna fill and
i've run out of room here so uh making a change here with my mickey mouse collection at base camp
i will be uploading this video with some nomad internet there's a link below if you need some
mobile unlimited internet get a load of this i have filled all four of these monster custom
shelves ev nearly every single inch of every single shelf and i don't have any more room to
put any more of these i mean the room this is my laundry room now and there's there's no room for
even one more i've got all this stuff here on this shelf that i've collected and i have nowhere to
put and my last little haul is just sitting here on top of the washer and dryer so what am i gonna
do and i knew that this collection would have to move into the master bedroom the master bedroom
that i don't really use again this house is mostly just a storage unit for me i mean i'm still a rv
nomad full-time rver i spend some time here i'm thinking twice a year i'm gonna stop in drop
stuff off take a little break enjoy my arcade out there and drop off all my new mickey finds that
i find on the road so the bedroom next door is gonna be transferred into the new mickey room so
if you remember a few months back i think november of last year i custom painted all four of these
shelves knowing that that was going to happen on this trip and i was going to write a room
i ordered six more of these matching uh-huh sitting out here on the front porch
are six more boxes also went to lowe's and got four more yellows four more reds
it's not too windy outside today so i think it's a good day to assemble these shelving units and
paint them let them sit for a couple hours and then move everything into the master bedroom
there we go i have painted six more identical to the way i have done the other four prior the top
layer will be black so that's like mickey mouse's feet stomach and head you know yellow red black
so i'm going to let them dry for about an hour more and while that's going on i need
to start clearing out the bedroom that means the bed the bed frame
my exercise equipment and i think i got a couple other shelves in there so let's empty out the room
and prep it all right again there's old mickey room this is going to be the new mickey room you
know i don't even know why i moved the bed in here i've never used it once i thought i might
sleep in the house but i still prefer to sleep in the rv when i'm here for these short little stops
so i'm gonna bring the bed out and probably lay it lay it up against a wall out of the way and
fold up the frame for now i got my my rowing machine and my elliptical i got the bicycle in
the rv right now oh and my christmas tree also all that's got to come out and the closet stuff
has to be moved from this closet to the other closet because i am putting the shelf in here
you'll see i know it seems crazy we need to update the lighting in here also but
i'll start unpacking this room right here definitely a slow process here it's it's
gonna drag into the next day because i gotta take down all the stuff that was on the walls here
and then i have to carefully i mean i was gonna empty the shelves but i you know i don't know i'm
going to keep them mostly the way they are so for right now i'm just kind of dragging them in here
taking the stuff off the top shelf because it won't go through the doorway and then kind of
being careful with the glass and breakable stuff and just kind of lining them up putting up the
stuff on the wall that i have but i am going to need to get some more stuff for this wall
and for the side wall over here as well so i'm going to be back in the market for looking for big
comforter bed spreads towels and stuff like that later but i'm just working at it here i brought
in my extra little light to shed a little bit more light because that one little five watt fan light
is is uh not cutting it but i'm gonna keep working out of here all right new current progress all of
the old shelves and collection are in the room now so we're going to have let me step over here
maybe be bringing in one stack there another stack here another stack there that comes within about
two inches of the door opening so three more five shelves right there and then if we spin
around this way we also have three more over here one goes there one goes at an angle behind that
door i'm removing the door and i'm clearing out the entire closet and putting one in the closet
recessed back in there it is going to be awesome i am going to finish up bringing in all of the
new pieces that i painted i will show you what that looks like and then we're probably gonna
probably gonna quit for the night all right i am gonna go ahead and call it quits for tonight
and start back up on organizing in the morning i have every single shelf unit here in the new
mickey room in the master bedroom slowly paying around i've only got the four shelves full so far
got all three of these over here also going all the way to the door for right now i don't want
to empty the closet because i might actually do something different inside the closet like
like like a future mickey big something arcade game system something i don't know but something
that's not small something that's big may go in the recess closet so for right now this is outside
the closet and i've still got my coats jackets winter stuff in there uh but that could change
later for right now i don't want to leave it out in the weather it's supposed to rain so and lastly
you know you might be wondering eric why did you add so much i always do this with every little
fix i do i never just kind of do it half fix i always go crazy i mean the mickey collection
especially this is something that's meant to grow so you know why just add one shelf two shelves
here and there there's a reason why i added sixty percent capacity to my collection that's because
i'm expecting some growth over the next few years as i travel one of the things that always bugged
me about construction is you know like when i i5 was getting really busy through tacoma and
seattle well they would spend eight years to add one lane why would you just add one lane
why wouldn't you add like three or four lanes to it because by the time they finish construction
population growth and everything else has already made it so it's already obsolete by the time that
hits so i usually don't mess around when it comes to expanding changing correcting
or fixing things or in this case adding more growth to collection because i want to be
able to know i'm going to have the room later and this is a great use of this space i feel
like you still got the walkway right here i can still close the door to the collection here and
i'm going to work on the laundry room for right now i am just going to kind of use it for storage
and everything oh i got all this mickey stuff to bring into i got the bed frame and the bed back
there because i don't use it but it could be used in this room if i wanted to later i am just super
pleased with how this came out but let me do some organizing tomorrow and then i'll cut back in and
let you know how it's all going to go i will have a lot of work to do but and then we'll move on
from the mickey changes this is ridiculous good morning everyone lake nomadic fanatic is back
it is absolutely ridiculous how much it rains in illinois what a depressing disgusting state
i do not want to live here good thing i live on the road this lake nomadic fanatic behind me is
really getting old it has done nothing but rain ever since i've been back so my entire yard
is complete i mean that is scary flooded does it ever stop raining in illinois all right let's go
inside we've got a house indoor project what all you illinoisans do all year here in the state
if it's not just snowing non-stop all winter it's raining the rest of the year and flooding
constantly oh so over it guys yes anyway my storage unit here in illinois um i'm done with the
mickey room and i'm going to show it to you well for now i have even managed to start filling up uh
two other uh shelving units over here just to kind of space everything out but
i got my my cups up here i've got my glassware down here with my valuable watches
we got the hats up top for right now i'm going to do something more interesting i
think they'd be great like up on the wall tech where you can actually see what they look like
i've spaced out everything a little more i've got my radios over here
i told you i was going to put all my race car stuff in one spot here my vintage collection now
spreads across two different shelves so we got my vintage record player we got all my really
intricate older toys and everything and that now goes over into this section over here as well with
the vintage stuff mickey phones there's my mickey backpack phone there's that phone there's that
phone that phone that is also a phone and then two more phones all my phones are together in a line
i've got two shelves of plush toys they're kind of mixed yeah vintage and handmade stuff in here
and then it goes into the second shelf also where you got some other custom stuff and then
down here right now is kind of where i'm putting the the older vintage plastic style mickey toys
and this guy up here my mickey gumball machine that i got recently does not fit on
any of the top shelves so i'm kind of glad i had that gap right there there's clearly
lots of room to grow this in the future right now i'm okay with it there is room to add stuff later
moving on and saying the mickey collection is good for now at least is it possible that it might
stop raining in illinois in 2021 it's letting up finally you kidding me let's see how my culverts
work in here oh yeah this is a good sign you can definitely see if you look right there
under the cord how much water is moving that's how much water we are bringing from the backyard
so my my trench is definitely helping the situation here again if you look closely you can
still see the water is coming this way from the backyard it's doing the best it can it just can't
keep up because it has not stopped raining for two weeks and flooding in the mountains the snowmelt
oh my gosh okay let's just check over here under the house
okay water has finally ceased going underneath the house but we're right there at that crack
line you can see it's there and then we're still kind of draining over there this is just super
alarming in here a lot of water underneath my foundation right now underneath the actual house
again i feel like i always need to say this i was born and raised in olympia washington the rainiest
place in the country no this part of illinois gets twice the rain in in an inch volume and
it just can't keep up it's just just it's like i look like i live in a swamp i mean maybe it's
not raining in in the winter let's go out to the road here because when it stops raining i really
do need to work on this um see this pipe right here you can see there's a lot of water coming
out there and going to the road where that culvert is over here let's go check this out
see there is a lot of water draining from my property going across the road and downhill it
just can't seem to keep up also this pipe right here is draining the water that is currently
collecting underneath my house under there however i never understood how this is all higher than
this over here yet if you see there's the drain i was talking about that's meant to take the water
and bring it out to the front however we just can't seem it just wants to go under the house
that's all it wants to do all the water wants to go under the house under my porch and then
find its way later so i know i need a better solution to the flooding but we really can't
call it flooding anymore this is just an everyday occurrence in illinois this is no longer flooding
the local river here in my part of illinois trying to keep the area kind of secret but
most of you already know where i'm at anyway it has been a it has been above
flood flood stage for over two weeks here and i know it rains a lot this time of year but
holy cow i'm ready to go
i'm ready to go real soon i'll be back with you in a little bit thanks for watching guys bye
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