The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: The Box Apocalypse

Episode Date: November 13, 2024

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No purchase necessary. 21 plus ends November 15th, 2024. See rules at website for participating area and other important details. Sponsored by Diageo Americas, Inc., New York, New York. All right guys, as you know, I'm gonna become a father very soon. Jenny's at 33 weeks of pregnancy

We got seven weeks left the baby shower is done But I've got an issue Okay, and as you guys know when you do your baby registry on an Amazon or something like that Everybody sends stuff to your house instead of sending to their house or bringing it over on a baby Shower, whatever. I've got a bit of a box apocalypse at my house right now. So we had the entire family over, Jenny side, my side. We were all fixing stuff up for the baby's room, doing this, constructing that, moving this over here, this over there. And when I got into my garage, I looked over and I've got, you know, regular-foot ceiling or whatever

the garage would be I have cardboard boxes from the floor to the ceiling of my garage just one half of it is absolutely packed with boxes and I don't know what to do with it these are made boxes not broken down boxes there's some broken down some some still kind of intact some cut in half some like ripped apart but it's just I have so many boxes I don't know what to do with them I started cutting them with like a box cutter and stuffing them in the garbage the problem is Recycling well in the recycling bin, you know the blue and you have the green whatever

Yeah, the problem is the blue one is always smaller than the green one. Yeah, once every two weeks Yeah, nobody recycle so many so I don't know what to do with all of the boxes. Have you considered telling David that they're from movies and maybe he'll buy them off of you? Ooh. That's actually a good idea. I lied to him. Go ahead and do that.

Tell him. So what do I do with all these boxes? When you guys were getting stuff for the baby, did you have a box apocalypse at your house? What did you do with it? Yeah, and the holidays, it comes back. So this is not your last box apocalypse. Wow. Have you seen the videos? Because people have sent them to me, at your house, what does it do with it? Yeah, and the holidays it comes back, so this is not your last box apocalypse.

Have you seen the videos, because people have sent them to me, and I'm not particularly interested in doing it, where they hose down the boxes. Yeah, somebody told that to me today. Yeah, it's... Like you basically wet the boxes, they become mush, and then you pick up the mush,

and then you put it in the garbage bin. Yeah, people do that, I not it be they become very like malleable or whatever right fold them into anything right but then they also become like stinky and heavy and it's gross That's the thing you put in a bag They're heavy as hell and I'm like over my shoulder like Santa Claus like trying to be just gonna start cutting It's a pain But you just got to start cutting them with your box cutters and like cut them into like small pieces Yeah, that fit into like your dude. I so I did that when we had the first round of box apocalypse now

This is the second round. Where's your registry? I can't find it. I'll send it to you. Okay Something yeah, but I can't find it on here public don't send anything. I don't I actually have no idea I have to ask Jenny should I just give you something out of a box? Yeah, give me whatever it is just take it out of the box and just hand it to you and it to me Oh my box apocalypse was when I moved I didn't really experience this with the baby Yeah, I remember having after we moved just I didn't know what to do with all these boxes Yeah, just packing up the entire house and going to the next one. Yeah, that seems like a I just feel like it's never-ending Right because more and more things start showing up at my house

And then that means more and more cardboard boxes are in my garage for this wall of cardboard. What kind of diapers are you getting? See. Like size-wise. I've gotten newborn. Ooh, you wanna avoid those. Don't get any more of those.

Well, I didn't buy them. But don't get any more. If people give you, don't get any more newborn. But what I heard. If you have a big baby. I'm probably gonna have a big baby. Okay, I'll pay someone. Grow into it on what you have so far your information so far information Well, wait, are we by?

They said that she's a week ahead. Oh, I don't know what that means. I mean either but It's a big throw it around in percentiles like her head is in the 84th percentile That's all nonsense. They'll tell you like oh this baby weighs You know like whatever like give or take 12 ounces and it's like that's almost a whole pound like You're giving yourself a lot of room for error Yeah, but that's what that's a lot of medicine a lot of room for error and that's a story for another day friend I feel like I don't want to go down that path the doctors made me feel like my daughter was gonna be like six feet Tall yeah when she was she was she she is tall big girl. She is tall for her age

Yeah, and I swear as well at girl. She is tall for her age. Yeah, Claire as well. She's not six feet at birth. That would have been problematic for your wife. Could you imagine like your wife's body just gets stretched out and like her skin becomes like, all like, because there's like a six foot baby inside of you and then all of a sudden like there seems to be like a head

coming out of her arm because like just that's the way the baby grew. You look like a snake that just ate something. Exactly right, it's your baby? I don't like that baby I don't like How do they digest that thing what the end is in their stomach like actually yeah turns into acid yeah What were you asking you were asking a good question? boxes or

Registry not the register diapers diapers. I heard mm-hmm that if you have whisper. Yeah, no cuz this is true I don't know I'm asking Billy cuz I feel like he he knows and you've had I gotta send you something I send you a I'm gonna send you a Pampers So I heard if you have you can scan the barcodes and $2 for you joining if you have unopened Diapers, you can take them to like a target. Yeah, and then they'll give you store credit. Is that true? I have no idea. I know this, one time I went to a Target and I bought diapers and someone pulled the old switcheroo

and when I opened the box of diapers, it was something different inside. There was diapers, it was a different type of diaper. Someone just opened a box of the diapers, more expensive diapers, put cheaper diapers in it, then returned the box of Pampers, got I guess a store credit for cheaper diapers. And then I went back and I was like,

these are not the diapers that I purchased. What are you guys doing? Dude, if you need something returned at Target, my wife can get it done for you. Really? She's got an ability to return things at Target that you didn't even buy at Target. She'll bring it back to Target.

I think that's part of the problem here, I think. So the issue is that we have a lot of newborn ones, right? But as people told me that they grow out of them so fast that you kind of don't use the newborns for as long as you would for other things. Dude, baby clothes, giant racket. I feel like, look, I'm gonna try to give you this piece of advice that you're not gonna listen to me on

because I know you're not gonna listen to me on it. Baby clothes, they go through like that. They grow, it's ridiculous. And all the clothes that you're probably getting, especially for like little babies, they'll wear it one time if even that. You're gonna have clothes. They grow, it's ridiculous. And all the clothes that you're probably getting, especially for little babies, they'll wear it one time, if even that. You're gonna have clothes. No, you're just gonna have so many outfits

that they're never gonna wear the clothes again. Because I imagine you have a lot of friends and family giving you a bunch of stuff. You may have things that even you never take the tags off of because it's like, this is ridiculous, we put it over here, we forgot about it, whatever. Here's where they're gonna get you, and you're not gonna listen to me on this. And you, and you're not gonna listen to me on this.

And I understand that you're not gonna listen to me on this. Shoes, once your baby is of shoe wearing age, baby shoes are a giant waste of money, right? Because they grow out of them super quick, and then if you start going into the realm of like, I'm gonna get my baby some dunks, or I'm gonna get my baby, like I want my baby to wear Nike.

He's like, no dude, like go to like TJ Maxx or Ross for one of those if you wanna get like name brand shoes and get it there, if even that. Or just go get whatever shoes because they're- I got bad news. I knew it, I knew it. I got bad news. I already bought-

I bought like some fancy jeans. Already bought, dude. I bought her a pair of dunks. Those are her first shoes. But they're tiny ones, so she can wear them. For six minutes if they're tiny. For six minutes. Not even that, and maybe her first shoes. But they're tiny ones, so she can wear them. For six minutes if they're tiny. Not even that, and maybe her feet'll be too big

when she's born. Possibly. Yeah. And then I bought her another pair of Jordan 1 lows. But those I bought bigger. Don't buy anymore. I bought those bigger though. Just stick with those, don't buy anymore.

I'm telling you. Just take hand-me-downs. Yeah, dude, hand-me-downs. We did, we did. If you have a second kid, don't get rid of any of your stuff in case you have a second kid. So the good thing is that my Jenny sister sister Jenny sister gave us a lot of shoes a lot Of little sandals and little things like that that we have his hand me downs

But then like I went out and bought a couple of things So maybe they can be multi-use as maybe one kid wears them for a little bit Then maybe the next kid would wear them for a little bit And then the next kid just don't go crazy cuz you're like $70 on a pair of shoes that this kid can't even walk. I'm absolutely I have to I've already spent more. Yeah, how much? 140 what 60 bucks each that's ridiculous man with tax Under for taxes always get you. Let's get you should have bought it on on tax free weekend taxes It's the final night