Things Midwesterners Are Obsessed With

[@zzapel22]

The Menard's 11% rebate 😂 infamous

[@coolblack1]

They’ve got it going in now I was just there a couple days ago. I picked up a “throw away” drill for like $16 before the rebate!

[@spddiesel]

Christmas time is here Great savings and good cheer At Menards, glad tidings to you Merry Christmas, merry merry Christmas!

[@Birdoboobill]

They reel you in with the rebate, knowing that you, and approx 75% of the rest of their customers, will forget to mail it in 🤦‍♀️

[@krr104]

I never get my rebate back

[@CamlynCotton-lo2zd]

I swear there’s always an 11% rebate like it literally never ends 😂

[@IRLTheGreatZarquon]

Former Minnesota resident/current North Dakota resident checking in, all of this is 100% accurate.

[@jodypierson3137]

As a life time North Dakotan I agree.

[@ahlmost]

Lifetime north dakota resident here as well. 100% on point!

[@BPB9973952]

you guys are in the north, not midwest.

[@IRLTheGreatZarquon]

@@BPB9973952 that's why they call this area the _Upper Midwest_

[@dtjrealmc]

Its Minnesomalia...

[@chads4556]

Bingo at the local legion or VFW. Friday night fish fry in WI is a year round thing, but Lent takes it to another level.

[@MrTechnicks]

That's gotta be everywhere, we have that here in Texas too, and had it when I was in Illinois too

[@colburnlehn9357]

Did anybody see that bird come out of the gutter outlet at 1:19!!?😂 Thanks for the awesome videos about our heritage!

[@jordankinsel6685]

Thought it was a squirrel! I’m sitting here replaying several times to make sure I wasn’t crazy.

[@kurtlarson2061]

I saw it for sure! didn't look like it flew too well...

[@Tisbeef]

It was a squirrel. They jump then spin their tail for stability

[@gabeb5161]

I was hoping it was a cat😂

[@dtjrealmc]

We all watching trying to figure out what it was.

[@BitsyBrooke-bi5tj]

The coupon thing is so true at our grocery store the receipts have coupons on the back, like a buck or two off stuff!

[@tevinmoss12]

When i first moved to Michigan, my buddy and his parents took me to see Traverse City. Ive never in my life seen a Lake Beach Before. First time seeing Ladder Ball too

[@loonypeat312]

Minnesota requires there to be 10 acres area before it’s called a lake. In Wisconsin, there is no requirements. I love both states so don’t go getting upset. Just stating the facts.

[@Cart-w8z]

Yea that is true! But, Minnesota is quite literally the only state in the country that qualifies lakes that way…. Wisconsin classifies them much more similarly to the rest of the country as a whole

[@chrisgunsandguitars1403]

We old school types played “Lawn Darts”! Whole different breed of dangerous there!

[@hd90dog]

And as kids, we were encouraged to go play lawn darts. Just go outside. Great camping activity as well.

[@madtownangler]

I never saw why it was dangerous but I also didn't stand where I threw them up in the air. My parents still have their set somewhere.

[@chrisgunsandguitars1403]

@@madtownangler Me neither, but the people who got hurt are the reason we have warning labels on everything now.

[@knittylane3016]

@@madtownanglerI was watching some boys play it and my cousin had one come down and spear his foot. Yow

[@ExtraQuispy]

When I was a kid in the 70's in WI everyone in my family had at least two sets of these. One to keep in the shed/garage and the other in the trunk of your car. They were the deadliest toy next to the orange plastic Hot Wheel trash. (Which made an excellent whip)

[@brendanleuthner4851]

I did not know it was called ladder golf... but from this day forward I will FOREVER call it TESTICLE TOSS!!! LMAO😂😂

[@Cart-w8z]

That’s always what we called it growing up 😂 We never knew the real name

[@chrisdee7511]

Only spent 4 years in Minnesota, but can't stop watching this guy. I learned a lot in those 4 years. you betcha!

[@sgtbuttersworth]

Hey me too! Yeah!

[@knittylane3016]

Perhaps at the U ?

[@ikaikakanalulu9972]

First sign of spring Midwesterns mow the lawn

[@brettgerber795]

😂 24 years ago a brand new Super Center WalMart opened in the town just south of us in NE Indiana and they had both high school’s band and cheerleaders at the “grand opening” and the one school even closed that day!

[@JS-mg1mk]

Was that Monticello?

[@Letsgoexplore2468]

We sure do love our sweet corn in the summers!!! Definitely a Midwestern thing!!!

[@cameronstudio9842]

“Testicle toss” got me dying laughing 🤣

[@lawra89]

Kansan here, I knew when I saw the title you were going to mention weather. I went to Subway on Sunday and used a paper coupon I got in the mail to get a discount on a foot long. The town I grew up in and where I live now how citywide clean-up, aka a day of numerous garage sales all around town. You can sign up to be a part of a corn hole tournament at the fair, lol. So relatable.

[@Doc_Tar]

The secret to finding a good yard sale is knowing your neighborhoods. What is yard sale material worth a buck or two for one house just might be your replacement toaster or bread machine that will save you tens of dollars not having to buy at Walmart. Also, don't be too quick to dismiss your townships solid waste site. Sure, sling your trash in the big dumpster then drop off the clean recycle in the proper bins, but don't pass up that big roll off box over to the side. They don't put steps on the side for you to fling your metal items in there, it is so you can lean over and get a good scope on what might still be worth taking. If you have an attendant that's worth his salt, he might just have a table or two of things the owner has dropped off but somebody might still want. And remember, "It ain't worth nothing unless it's free."

[@Akeirbuah]

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure”

[@madtownangler]

I live in a bigger city now and all I ever see is just used baby clothes. When we had our yard sale it was on the farm after my parents bought it and we were just trying to get rid of thirty years worth of stuff from the last person. We had pickup trucks, lawn mowers, garbage bags full of plastic silverware, and ten year old canning stuff just to name a few. Then ten years later my parents had one of their own with tractors and farming supplies when they sold the place and built a house.

[@Prairiepedaler84]

Its called “Tommy Turtle” in Bottineau and yes its legendary. Grew up climbing it as a kid. At one point Botno was a huge snowmobile destination as it sits at the base of the Turtle Mountains, hence the name. Still great trails up here when we get snow.

[@matthewmarek1467]

How did you forget bottle openers? Wall mounted, key chain, or improvised, we need to show off our ability to open that bottle for ya.

[@hyppievanman]

That should have been the opening to the video…

[@ann-mariemeyers9978]

I always take two swimming suits when I travel. I never use either one of them. But, I could.

[@michellehurst3797]

I live in Indiana and am having friends over tonight to watch the Olympic OPENING ceremonies!!!

[@jaredbridge122]

Anyone else see the squirrel fall off that roof? Bye Felicia

[@49lucky]

😅😅😅😅😅

[@fia9845]

I am swedish and I can tell ya we are equally as obsessed with yard games. Our favorites are "krocket" and "kubb" 😂 Probably for the same reason as well, the days are so short during winter that ppl are practically hibernating, but as soon as spring arrives it is KUBB TIME BABY!

[@BrianZajkowski]

I live in Eau Claire, Wisconsin (yes, in the midwest). We are the Kubb Capitol of North America. We host the U.S. Kubb National Championship and we have Swedes come over just for that!

[@Cart-w8z]

@@BrianZajkowskiI’m from Wisconsin and I never knew this. Learn something new every day

[@ohminsun]

Former IL resident also confirming this is correct 💯

[@BlueShadow-xs7cx]

Forest lake, MN. There was a feed store grand re opening and there were thousands of people there

[@nickmccallon8520]

Explaining this with a “mid size” truck behind you😂

[@stevesmith3556]

To add to the list. Hayward WI....largest musky. And, how did you forget all the Paul Bunyan statues!?🤔🤔

[@johnagen3688]

YES!!!!!!! I was thinking the same thing!!!!

[@JohnB-mo4kq]

Or the largest walleye statue. It's literally our state fish.

[@raneylee9617]

Cardinals baseball home openers EVERYONE takes off work here in STL. 😂❤

[@jpecorel1]

Amazing list. Spot on. Especially the bit about openers. I now live in GA, but I'm from Youngstown, OH. Whenever I talk to my parents they make sure to inform me about the new restaurants and hardware stores that are opening up in area.

[@matthewpawlikowski9935]

1:20 a bird (might be a duck) dives off the roof

[@MeetMikeMiller]

Southern Ohio here! High School was closed for Deer Season opening day! 😅

[@derrickallen8138]

Also Red's opening day

[@carinasmirnoff1780]

Back when I was in high school, our school district gave the whole week of rifle season off for "Thanksgiving Break"

[@madtownangler]

Our opening day was on a Saturday so I had to be in school on Friday. We usually got our deer within an hour of deer season opening so back to school on Monday I went.

[@DUCKDONKEY]

Saw the “turtle on snowmobile” during a cross country road trip!! It needs a paint job. 😂

[@patrickn8355]

Newark OH, largest basket. Shit is literally an office building shaped like a basket 😂

[@jonl2938]

This goes for those of us in Northern Ontario (Canada) too, with one exception: not trapped indoors for 6 months, I’m probably outside more blowing snow and riding sleds (snowmobiles)!

[@Leroys_Stuff]

We’re simple and like it that way

[@kjparlay]

World's largest-- Bull: Audobon, IA Wooden Nickel: Iowa City, IA Strawberry: Strawberry Point, IA Pocahontas: Pocahontas, IA Concrete Gnome: Ames, IA Popcorn Ball: Sac City, IA Cheeto: Algona, IA Golden Spike: Council Bluffs, IA Swedish Coffee Pot & Cup: Stanton, IA Truck Stop: Iowa 80

[@Rawmilkandzerchers]

World's Largest Frying Pan: Brandon, IA

[@BeaudoinEric]

I live in the Springfield, MO area and work in Springfield. So glad to hear a shout out!!

[@val_smiling]

"It's just a garage door, but it opens and we love that." 😂 Very true...mainly so we don't have to get out ofthe vehicle in the freezing cold winter...or the blazing hot summer...

[@sarahsvoboda8481]

Sums up my life. I live in Kansas and I live at the clearance section at Walmart where I do make small talk with people about current events, anything but politics. Also I might live nearby a lake 18 acres

[@Aaron_Jensen]

Oh how we sure enjoy a good game of washer toss.

[@jeffcurry8317]

My kids loved the ladder ball game when little. They are 29 and 24 now. There is still one of the blue pairs in a tree limb. Ha, "blue balls" stuck up for all these years. Yard Jarts. Greatest yard game ever. I never killed anyone with them. He forgot "washers". We went to that game after the blue balls stuck up in the tree. Washers were hard to get stuck up on a tree limb, but hey if they did, good reason to go to the hardware store for more.

[@bisket2003]

Oh, you betcha! All these are facts!! Even as an Ohioan, it all hits home.

[@49lucky]

Michigander here oh yes😅😅😅

[@maryconnealy]

Every time--EVERY TIME AND IT'S BEEN YEARS!!!!!!!!! when my garage door opens I hear the theme music to dynasty.

[@jeffweaver955]

Wow, now i have a bucket list of places to visit

[@jldavid47]

You forgot Glidden, WI. Largest stuffed black bear. 665 pounds. Nice little town, about 500 people.

[@bradynewbold3763]

Going with item #1 Casey IL the small town full of big things.

[@d.b.5070]

Shoutout to Kewaunee WI, largest grandfather clock

[@user-po5po6pn8o]

Corn palace in South Dakota, largest drug store in South Dakota.

[@xxx-il9dv]

Milwaukee, world's largest 4-sided clock.

[@JohnB-mo4kq]

You forgot about meat raffles. Ask anyone outside the Midwest and they'll think you're crazy.

[@mikezweber4433]

I believe the largest Muskie is in Hayward Wisconsin also a very fine collection of vintage outboard motors.

[@mirrorblue100]

Fish Fry Friday night at the VFW.

[@greatdane76]

Erskine, Minnesota. Never thought I'd hear that. Great video.

[@nmelkhunter1]

My wife is from the Midwest and this is spot on. Of course she got a kick out of me and my buddies taking a roping dummy to hunting camp. I just told her practice makes perfect. 🤠

[@jimsn9624]

Miles, your so accurate it kinda scares me 😂

[@jesse11111]

Our lakes are actually lakes, not just puddles in the corn field or on the curb.

[@davek5027]

Pizza ranch!!!! Great fried chicken at the buffet!

[@bethnesbitt3481]

Lawn darts 🎯

[@ChrisSchley]

Busch Latte should be on this list. Commentating before watching

[@hunter4954]

C'mon man! You missed Wisconsin! The world's, that's right, I said WORLD's Largest operating 6 Pack right in little ol' La Crosse Wisconsin. You should know that! 😉🍺🍺🍻🍺🍻 Look it up! 🕺🕺🕺💃💃🕺💃 "The World's Largest Six-Pack is a large collection of six beer storage tanks in La Crosse, Wisconsin. It is a well-known landmark and tourist attraction in the city. The cans can collectively hold about 688,200 US gal (2,605,000 L) of beer."

[@brennankubas]

I have family from bottineau and when he said largest soemthing in every small town…Tommy the title came exactly to mind. I use to climb up that thing every time we visited him. The fact he mentioned the turtle in the video deserves a like.

[@robertschwister3872]

Best yard game every..Lawn Jarts. No one actually played it. Adults would sit and drink, while unsupervised kids would see who could throw them up in the air the highest (usually after dark.). No one knew where they were going to land. You'd only hear, "look out!!" even though no one could see them. Solely the grace of God that no one was impaled through the brain. I'm certain whoever bought my parents' home found a set of them in the garage attic.

[@sully85]

This channel is gold. Short form content area was a misstep but myles is killin it. :)

[@madtownangler]

I used to live in the town with the hardest red granite in the world. We went to New York City and saw Grants tomb made from it. Montello, Wisconsin. We also depending upon the year had the widest tree in the state on the courthouse lawn.

[@martykoehler6512]

Michigan takes opening day of deer season off and if you live near Detroit, we take the Tigers Home Opener off. There's so many people in the City that you'd think they won the World Series

[@Antler_addict]

NEEDLES CA has the worlds largest thermometer, likely because the heat there & thats why it holds the record for heat in the U.S, which ties with death valley!

[@Someone-kg8qf]

I love loons and that loon is AWESOME.

[@madtownangler]

My mom has a loon painting on every single wall of their house even the bathrooms. One wall has got seven of them

[@traverfields3768]

Wisconsin would call the rain puddle in my driveway a “lake”

[@bobprock4960]

Then why do I see so many Minnesota license plates at my "rain puddle" in Wisconsin? :)

[@carinasmirnoff1780]

A lake is any body of water that is at least 2.2 acres. Wisconsin has 15,074 of them.

[@EliteAF1]

MN requires a lake to be 10+ acres not 2.2 acres. Under any same definition of a lake MN has more but we define the different that's where the rain puddle joke comes from. kzbin.info/www/bejne/garPn4d6lpKnm5Isi=KDowNE_zJybdlBFD

[@Cart-w8z]

@@EliteAF1Minnesota is the only state that classifies them that way… Wisconsin does it like the rest of the country 🤷‍♂️ You can’t just make up rules lol 😂 either way Wisconsin has more water area 🤷‍♂️

[@pizzamanbob088]

Heyo Traverse City, MI has the biggest pie pan over East of Boardmann Lake

[@jameshicks12]

Bro just called Springfield Mo a small town 🤣

[@madtownangler]

I grew up in a town with 800 something people and moved to a town of 1273 in sixth grade, worked a few years in other small places then lived in Denver for ten years. That was plenty big enough for me.

[@jeffpatterson969]

Did a bird just get shot down in the middle of your video at the 1:20 mark?! 😂 Look at the top right toward the roof!

[@IRLTheGreatZarquon]

Welcome to the Midwest

[@paulj9801]

if you stop pic it is a squirrel but didnt see a tree

[@dee_gee_bee6072]

Squirrel out there just squirreling doing squirrel things

[@ShermanMark1]

Hillsboro, Ohio, World's Biggest Horseshoe crab. Everything in this video is so true.

[@xandercrews4729]

Does Ohio count as the Midwest? Seems we always get left out, maybe we’re thought of as the Great Lakes?

[@robashley8216]

Dont forget the big muskie bucket

[@ShermanMark1]

@@xandercrews4729 Were Part of The Midwest, Great Lakes, and Rust Belt.

[@UserName-ts3sp]

the town i went to high school in… world’s largest basket

[@ShermanMark1]

@@UserName-ts3sp Oh I have Been there A Few times

[@Viewer92136]

You betcha! Plus you can send home left overs in a Cool Whip container.

[@fcruz43215]

It's funny because it's true...Love the Midwest!

[@Lukedriveitlikearental]

So true on the cheapskate we will wait to that one tool that you want to go on sale and we will wait months and if it’s not even good enough deal we will wait for the next sale which is months later

[@SymphoniasStories]

My husband is from the Midwest (Chicago suburbs) but he moved when he was in his early teens. He misses the Midwest. But he isn't really obsessed with most of the things on your list... :)

[@mikekristin7201]

Northern Illinois Dad checking in. I called three guys to tell him about the $ $6 clearance tool pouch I got at the local Ace hardware sale 😂

[@jpgranat]

2:15 Wisconsin claims that because the classify any puddle bigger than a house as a lake! Minnesota it has to be 10 acres or more!

[@Shadow_Wraith]

Brit here. This is so funny. The garage doors obsession is hilarious, it's just a garage door but it opens 😂

[@ProvoDrive]

1:16 the bird diving from the gutter was a " what was that moment " Is the biggest ball of twine still in Minnesota like "Weird" Al sings about?

[@ScottsTanks]

I haven't heard of Pizza Ranch since 2012. Big North Dakota flashbacks

[@joshchilds1473]

O love some ladder golf. Nobody here in East Tennessee wants to get on board. I grew up on horseshoe. Everything is Cornhole now.😂

[@cjcreates]

We do have more Lakes and TWO Great ones. 😊

[@Wshep86]

I can pee in my yard and wisconsinites would call it a lake.

[@fellowcrusader72]

15 degrees is warm for us in the winter, 22 degrees is tropical

[@bradasstv]

So true . You guys always talk about Kohls cash, but what about the 11% rebate on everything at Menards? I go there and find myself buying things I dont need just to get that $4 rebate in the mail. Have a stack of them. And unlike Kohls cash they dont expire. Got my eye on a leafblower and gonna pay for the whole thing in rebates. Could have I just bought it? Sure, but I like waiting for rebates to come in little bu little, then Im getting a deal 😁

[@nereshai565]

I carry mail. Easily 50% of all outgoing residential mail in my area is hardware mail in rebates.

[@Amy-u9g]

Water. This is a true obsession/APPRECIATION.

[@Schenevey2]

Dont forget the Jarts! Jarts are the pit bull of yard games.

[@sflagg0817]

Yard games we still have a set of the old school Jarts, now that’s a really good yard drinking game

[@scottgigot2593]

Really, what CAN'T be a good Midwestern drinking game - especially if it's outdoors during those six months of salvation.

[@sflagg0817]

@@scottgigot2593 we are in western NY so its close to what you experience in weather changes

[@daddydiesel5889]

Ohio here, 💯 on all that!

[@bfttreasurer]

From/livening in Minnesota so true

[@CrankyBubushka]

yes to everything

[@dinjomirko]

Ladder golf is called Polish Golf for us FIBs in Chicagoland

[@nickjanssen2275]

Us midwesterners are such simple creatures 😂

[@audraarndt1824]

So true

[@SmuggiNOLA]

Never been to the Midwest, maybe never will. But, I have to agree… Suck it, Texas.

[@connorkeeney741]

Love the Missouri shout out 🤘

[@ottoomen5076]

We call ladder golf "hillbilly horseshoes".

[@albreitenfeldt9328]

In Wisconsin we also have fish in our lakes

[@joelaichner3025]

My town , largest Ski Jump , we hold the U.S. record for longest jump , we also have the largest Cornish Pump in America , and many other things , my little town Rocks ! Skäl

[@WillyGoat54]

when I eventually get to building my record shelf cap N scale layout, it will have an ice cream shop contained within the worlds largest udder.

[@danielarizaga2776]

0:09 totally accurate. “Edgerton, WI. Home of the world’s largest Culver’s!” Bruh that shit just got an extra bathroom. It ain’t much bigger than any other Culver’s. 😂

[@Stacy1368]

Yeah for garage sales!