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hey guys and welcome to my nearly empty
apartment so as many of you guys know I
am making the big cross-country move
from LA to New York City baby this
literally like tomorrow I'm literally
like in the middle of it right now
this is so weird because for so long
I've been like oh I'm moving to New York
someday and it's literally like now now
is the booth earlier this morning the
movers already came to pick up all the
furniture and bring with me to New York
which unfortunately is not that much of
it because I'm assuming my place in New
York is gonna be much smaller so I
didn't want to over pack and even
earlier this morning I was still wide
awake editing my video for this week so
right now I have not slept for like 36
hours I'm coming off an all-nighter so
if my brain is a little bit absent at
times you know why anyways I have about
24 hours before I fly out to New York
tomorrow
basically if my college education taught
me anything it is that I can just barely
get away with doing things extremely
last-minute and thus I have been doing
things extremely last-minute pretty much
my entire life
including this move so yeah I packed up
everything in like two hours it's been a
bit chaotic right now I have about 24
hours before I fly out to New York which
means I have 24 hours to reset this
apartment to its original state so that
I don't lose my security deposit now a
lot of you guys were asking whether I
would be able to leave the wallpaper up
for the next tenant and unfortunately I
was not able to find another person to
take over this apartment who wanted the
wallpaper I actually have a goal
stopping by tonight who is a friend of
some guy I went to film school with but
she requested that I take down the
wallpaper because she doesn't like it so
hopefully she will take over the
apartment
once it's all reset to the original so
let's just get started tearing my baby
to shreds
not my human baby don't do cannibalism
kids
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this is so weird I literally feel like I
was putting up this wallpaper live last
month also please don't judge my choice
of athleisure right now this morning I
wanted to have the comfort of pajamas
but the illusion of productivity and I
recently discovered that athleisure is
specifically made for that purpose
anyways things the wallpaper is supposed
to be removable and this is all supposed
to be so we're gonna find out today if
it's not I'm literally [ __ ] because I
fly out tomorrow basically a special
type of wallpaper where you have to use
paste are my nipples visible maybe a
little bit it's makes me a special type
of wallpaper that you pasted to the wall
but you're supposed to be able to just
tear it off and strips so I guess let's
try it I am just like procrastinating
doing this because I don't want to take
it down I think it looks so good do it
for the deposit baby oh okay it really
does come off
the wall isn't even sticky behind it or
anything what is this wizardry I thought
this was gonna take me all day it's
gonna take me like ten minutes
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this is actually the ultimate form of
peel
I've decided simply illogical simply
wallpaper logical
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alright that was faster than expected
the only thing that I still have to
cover up is these two little pencil
lines I drew on the wall I basically had
used a level to make sure that the
wallpaper would be completely vertical
so I would just use like an eraser for
that okay nope
painters now normally when you're
peeping over the wall of a rented space
you want to actually take a chip off of
the wall about the size of a quarter and
bring it to Home Depot or your local
paint store and they have a machine that
will exactly match that color for you so
that when you patch over areas it looks
completely seamless I did make the
mistake last year with my old apartment
of trying to match the colors by eye and
fifty shades of gray more like 50
[ __ ] thousand shades of white there
are so many different shades of white so
I ended up caving and doing the good old
paint method and on my third can of
paint I finally got the right color but
for this apartment I don't really have
the time to get an exact paint match and
I have a lot less to cover around for my
last apartment so I think I can get away
with one of the three white paints that
I have I'm just gonna test out all of
them on the wall and see which one is
the best match tested number one Joey
the star quarterback of it calm down
he's now hitting home runs at him
accounting firm in New Jersey
our next contestant bill a recent
divorcee is looking for a second chance
at love will he find it on these walls
last we have seven thousand thirteen
I've finished
it's a [ __ ] can of paint Ashley I
know you're lonely but maybe if you
actually went outside instead of
spending three hours editing together a
montage of paint pans you actually have
friends those are our contestants which
one will be the perfect match
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most of you guys know this is actually
not a bedroom at all this is a closet
that I converted into a bedroom because
it perfectly just fits a full-size bed
so I have to convert it back into a
closet I have to take down all the
wallpaper and then put up the shelves
and the clothing rack that was
originally here let's take her down a
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lot of the rest of my apartment has
definitely felt like work it's felt like
a set for me to make out their videos in
and this has been the place that like a
movie felt like
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this is the last piece of wallpaper
goodbye forever
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it's timely it's timely fine it's
finally time to reinstall the shelf
I have been storing here behind the
refrigerator and then I've been keeping
the bar over here
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back in the closet once and for all hi
okay it is nighttime now as you can see
by this very ominous black window that
now has no curtains I am dressed a
little differently because I am going on
a date on literally my last night in LA
because now that my bed's going your
girls go to sleep somewhere and also
this guy is really cool anyways well I
wait my day to arrive I am going to
start taking down all the little screws
that were holding that p dings the hooks
that are holding up my plants to patch
over any small holes I'm using drywall
spec Jesus which is like a putty that
dries to look like a regular wall you
can use any bendy plastic service like
an old gift card or the back of a lotion
bottle like I'm using here to smoosh the
spackle into the hole don't worry if it
isn't perfectly smooth you could always
go back with a little bit of sandpaper
to get rid of any bumps finally grab a
recent divorcee and I mean a can of
paint that matches your walls so
everything blends together seamlessly
and your landlord will be none the wiser
I forgot to wash my brush earlier so
it's like rock hard when he takes Viagra
hey guys so today is the day of my
flight and more so it's about three
hours before my flight so I am wrapping
up everything in this apartment as fast
as possible
but first let's flashback to a couple
weeks ago when I remove the contact
paper from my kitchen counters wiggly
transition no in reality it was actually
around two and a half weeks before I
move out but I did want to get started
on the process of taking apart my
apartment just because I feel like I'm
in this weird limbo right now where I
still am like very attached to this
apartment here in LA because I worked so
hard on it but I also want to let myself
like be free and be ready to move to New
York and I feel like something that will
help me get out of my head is just
peeling this contact paper off and
starting to undo some of the changes I
did to this apartment and basically make
it feel less like home I think it'll be
easier to leave that way stuff like this
used to really upset me you know if I
worked really hard on something and then
I had to take it down or I didn't get to
keep it anymore but I realize now like
that's just kind of the process of being
a young adult you work on things and
then you move out you meet people and
then you move away like life is a little
bit transient and sometimes you have to
accept that otherwise you will just stay
stuck in the same place forever just a
word from philosopher Ashley whatever
I've been getting really reflective
lately because of the move and stuff
like that good bye Jamie
oh so to give you all some background
contact paper is basically you like a
giant plastic sticker that I layered
over my counters to make them look nicer
it's supposed to be removable but again
and facism was supposed to be I was
genuinely worried they might never come
off especially around the oven where
things got pretty toasty and like
potentially might have no put the
plastic on now luckily I was able to
peel it off although I real say it looks
a lot more satisfying in time-lapse than
it was in real life at one time speed
basically it would only peel off in
small sections before breaking and then
I would have to try to like lift up
another section with my fingernails and
sometimes the plastic would poke me
under my fingernails and like made them
bleed a little bit nevertheless around
three hours of peeling later it looks
like a small raccoon had broken into my
trashcan and the contact paper was
officially removed but oh ho ho our saga
does not end there and my friends even
though the actual plastic part was off
the counter still had a layer of sticker
residue so I had to buy this thing
called a dugong
spray it all over and let it set for
around 10 minutes then I also bought
this ague scraper for lack of a better
term online which is specially designed
to lift up sticker residue I'm deeply
sorry if you find this part disgusting
by the way I was also like super grossed
out but like simultaneously turned on by
how satisfying it was and yeah that did
the trick so overall I don't regret
doing the contact paper I think it
looked cute but if y'all want to do it
to your own apartment just set aside
like five hours to remove it to make
sure you don't lose your deposit in my
last couple hours in LA I took down my
final few decorations and passion of any
you can see just how many times I tried
to hang this picture ray
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ah [ __ ] hell I took down my entryway
mirror and decorations I uninstalled my
bathroom and even swapped out my hipster
lightbulbs for the exact ones my
apartment
and finally it was time to donate the
furniture that the next tenant didn't
want and that I couldn't bring with me a
lot of see this cart made me kind of sad
because the furnitures really beautiful
but I hope it has a good new home why
does it look like a serial killer notice
but handwriting has never looked so
honest now probably the number one ask
question on my channel of wait is what
am I doing with all of my plants when I
move I didn't really want to bring my
plants to New York with me but the
movers said that they would die on the
truck which makes sense because it's
like a two-week drive across the country
so I already gave away most of my plants
to my friends however I literally have
more plants than I have friends in LA
and even if each of my friends took like
10 plants there were just too many for
them to handle so I thought I would give
them away to you guys
I literally have a box here I'm gonna
pack all of my plants into them I'm
gonna leave them out on the street and
then post on my Instagram story where
you guys can go and get them
doesn't matter where we are colder wound
so far I have thrown a lot here and
thing this was my first that were
apartment by myself and I remember when
I first started like I was convinced
that this was going to be my apartment
for like maybe the rest of my life this
building is my control types like I
could be one of those ladies who still
pays that thousand five hundred dollars
a month for their huge apartment so I
might as well just settle down now
ladies I really thought that I could
like settle down but only just
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I have to come back to get my camera
I'll see you in New York