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Things You Shouldn't Store In Your Basement · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: If I'm Guvey and Christine producer Christen, and apparently there's
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  Speaker 1: a list out there of things you should not store
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  Speaker 1: in your basement. And I'm afraid I'm gonna hear this, Christine, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and think I have.
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  Speaker 2: All these every single thing we have, and.
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  Speaker 1: The main reason it's kind to be for what flooding purpose?
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  Speaker 2: Let me just put that out there. It's like everything
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  Speaker 2: we have in our basements. We like the basements out
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  Speaker 2: of sight, out of mind, protected space, extra space, right storage.
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  Speaker 1: We have a lot of valuables down there.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, yes, but according to the home experts, it's the
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  Speaker 2: perfect storm of high humidity levels and flip flopping temperatures,
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  Speaker 2: and that's not good for a lot of stuff that
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  Speaker 2: we like to keep in the basement, especially in the winter.
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  Speaker 1: And I was not even thinking that. I'm just thinking
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  Speaker 1: about the whole like water heater blowing up down there.
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  Speaker 2: Wepecially, yeah, I went through that right now.
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  Speaker 3: Learn the hard way too. Unfortunately, their water heater broken,
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  Speaker 3: flooded the basement and a lot of valuables, my my
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  Speaker 3: grandmother's china was down there.
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  Speaker 1: It's yeah, that's that's such badly, but it's not just
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  Speaker 1: a out a disaster which that could happen. But like
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  Speaker 1: I never thought about, the temperature does change quite drastically
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  Speaker 1: down there. Yes, it's really cold down.
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  Speaker 2: So things are not faring well down there, unfortunately. Tech
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  Speaker 2: tundra is one of the things the experts are saying.
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  Speaker 2: Are using your basement to store up a bunch of electronics,
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  Speaker 2: do not. They can corrode, they can short out.
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  Speaker 1: I have an old Mac down there that I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: will work if I plug it in. Yes, I just
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  Speaker 1: forgot about it. I bet you that thing might be shot.
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  Speaker 2: Now do we have a graveyard of old computers computers, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because we're afraid to get rid of them and not
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  Speaker 2: quite sure how to. So I understand fashion fails. Clothing, linens,
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  Speaker 2: things that you thought I don't need this right now,
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  Speaker 2: and you put in the basement. No, they can get musty, smells, mildew,
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  Speaker 2: they might stink, they might become as shapen mattresses, betting,
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  Speaker 2: And there we go with linens again. Never store in
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  Speaker 2: a basement, says, it picks up a lot of mildew
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  Speaker 2: and musty, and then you can't get that out right.
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  Speaker 2: You have to stash these items indoors, and they have
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  Speaker 2: to be sealed up tight, spoiled snacks. Basements are basically
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  Speaker 2: winter resorts for bugs and mice. So if you've got
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  Speaker 2: dry goods down there, a flower, rice, pasta, they could
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  Speaker 2: get into it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we have a well, we found a mouse in
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  Speaker 1: our garage. Never found the actual mouse, but we found
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  Speaker 1: evidence of a mouse where we left a blanket of
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  Speaker 1: some sort that was in the back of a car,
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  Speaker 1: but we put in the garage. Yeah, and we forgot
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  Speaker 1: about it and we saw it kind of eaten through
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  Speaker 1: and some droppings. So that could probably happen in the
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  Speaker 1: basement too. If it's happening in.
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  Speaker 2: The garage made it a home for a while, there
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  Speaker 2: would Furniture you have to be careful with because of
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  Speaker 2: the humidity swings, It can swell, it can split, it
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  Speaker 2: can even pick up mold.
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  Speaker 1: Oh see, mold scares everybody, all of us.
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  Speaker 2: They said, try and run a dehumidifier if you can.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I have the airflow going down there.
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  Speaker 2: That's what my dad always did. Pictures, photo albums, scrap books,
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  Speaker 2: you know, old school photographs. Yep, they don't do well
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  Speaker 2: again in the humidity and the changing temperatures. Important paperwork
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  Speaker 2: great damp basements can make a chaotic duo. Paper based
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  Speaker 2: products are vulnerable to damp conditions. You got to file
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  Speaker 2: them and put them in a bin or something that
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  Speaker 2: is sort of climate controlled. Man, I know it's.
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  Speaker 1: A lot like I want to go home right now.
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  Speaker 2: And clean everything, cleaning, lift it all up, Kristin, I
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  Speaker 2: know you're discovering this firsthand. Instruments.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I told Christine earlier this morning. I played
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  Speaker 3: the flute back in the day and I still had it.
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  Speaker 3: It was stored in my parents' basement and that's gone,
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  Speaker 3: it's thrown out. Yeah we had Yeah, I have a
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  Speaker 3: few guitars based guitars have Accustom made one too that
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  Speaker 3: got some water damage as well. So yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because yeah, even again without the flood. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: so sorry, but string and when musical instruments don't fare well,
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  Speaker 2: and again it's the humidity. It's the changing humidity. I
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  Speaker 2: know that with the guitars and stuff, any art that
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  Speaker 2: you have, a lot of us are doing that as well.
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  Speaker 2: Your artwork deserves gallery conditions, not garage vibes. They don't
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  Speaker 2: do well in the cold temperatures. And change it.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody, you know, just keep the basement empty guys. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: don't do anything. Just keep it cobwebs and nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Don't go down there. Yeah, and uh, paints, flammable and
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  Speaker 2: fussy paints and glues don't belong in the basement. Summer
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  Speaker 2: and winter. Flammable items in the basement are a no no.
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  Speaker 2: Store them in a temperate spot or recycle them safely instead, just.
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  Speaker 1: Put guests down there.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, everything right, everything, everything, everything, all right, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you're welcome at.
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  Speaker 3: Least non finished basements though, like what if you have
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  Speaker 3: a finished basement. I have all of that stuff down there.
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  Speaker 3: I'm all right, yeah, and the whole podcast set up.
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  Speaker 1: But everything Christine is saying is so true. Our basements finished. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I go down there and it's cold.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's dampness.
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  Speaker 1: There's dampness.
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  Speaker 2: It seems to be dampness that gets.
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  Speaker 1: But just now yeah, no, I'm seriously humidifier de humidified
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  Speaker 1: it up, all right
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