Trying not to die in my apartment

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[@suparnosaha5607]

the moment he said home design i thought he was gonna illegally expand his apartment with galvanized square steel, eco friendly wood veneers and screws borrowed from his aunt

[@storytimewithjeff]

🔊 GALVANIZED▪️SQUARE 🏗️ STEEL

[@chrisbui9488]

The fact that i understand this really shows the brain rot I have

[@MartinLeong25]

little jimmy's many issues

[@polina.558]

@@chrisbui9488 same help I understood it INSTANTLY T_T

[@mashburnedead7566]

Where did that come from/what does that even mean? Also Galvanized steel square

[@jayglenn837]

Ever consider a tenant's union?

[@syndipirate2598]

Solidarity Forever!

[@theterribleanimator1793]

Get outta here commie! - The landlady probably

[@TheFakeGooberGoblin]

Tenants union? What’s next Lanlords Garlic? Be real bro, be better.

[@zpydd_]

​@@TheFakeGooberGoblin people deserve actual housing

[@TheFakeGooberGoblin]

@@zpydd_ If you are dumb enough to think me pretending to be confusing union and onion was a serious comment that people don’t deserve housing, you certainly aren’t smart enough to be invested in this issue.

[@tigeroats913]

The front desk lady had a mission impossible villain arc.

[@GoAway-vj4vj]

*To Storytime With Jeff* I live in northern Ontario, Canada and we get winters that are -10 to -40 celsius on average and one tip to keeping your place warm during cold weather is to seal your windows with plastic. I bought a roll of 1 mm thick plastic sheeting for $25 about 5 years ago and just finished it last winter. It makes all of the diffeence and if your not sure where your losing heat from just light a lighter and hold it close to windows, gaps, vents, cracks ect., when the flame flickers you found your air leak. Also never rely on landlords to fix anything, as long as its not costing them money and you are the one suffering they don't give a shyte so you need to learn to do it yourself, just don't spend a ton of money.

[@BattyBest]

He did say his land lady is attentive and listened, but the corpo behind the land lady are absolute dicks.

[@BurnerJones]

Great advice, that's how we did it too. Last year thermal cameras got cheap enough that I bought one and found a ton of areas we were losing heat from. Even found a squirrel nest in the attic that showed up as a big hotspot through the drywall from the inside of my room.

[@Mehiall1]

Though, if you fix any issue in an apartment you could be considered in breach of your lease most of the time, as the vast majority consider any kind of non-approved modifications an immediate void of the lease. So I understand many people's hesitancy to do such things.

[@GoAway-vj4vj]

@@Mehiall1 If any landlord was dumb enough to try and go after a tenant that had to modify their home is a non harmful way to make it comfortable and within the framework of the law and health and safety then that landlord is going to have a very, very bad day in court because the judge will look at said landlord and ask "Why is the tenant who is paying several hundreds to several thousands of dollars of rent every month having to do the repairs and work that you, the landlord should be doing to ensure their home is comfortable to live in?"

[@Pharozos]

I spent my life complaining about -6c in the UK. The perspective helps. Keep on keeping on.

[@Goose____]

9:30 you can hear the emotions of the picture

[@kryptonprimus]

My old apartment’s washer machine flooded the place one time due to a faulty part. I got my full deposit back except for the stove cleaning charge lol

[@BlueJay-ip5yk]

"Santa Clause's Gulag" is crazy XD

[@pistol0grip0pump]

People really underestimate the cold, I remember being homeless during "The beast from the east" in the UK years back and it got to 7F for a few days, I'm still amazed I and those around me made it through, though I only did because I found a closed down shop with a shed around the back with lots of rolls of carpet underlay I shored up around the walls, the door, above me, essentially making a pillow fort of underlay. I would absolutely start a tenants union, and hopefully you have pictures/recordings of the temperature to report them to whatever ombudsman or whoever you can/should report them to. You sound like you're very bunged up & congested. Feel better bud.

[@jakanz]

The gulags Jeff has endured these past years is astonishing

[@keshavaratikatla467]

I found your channel like a week ago and have been really enjoying your vids. Keep up the good work ❤️

[@storytimewithjeff]

Ty boss 🫡

[@carsonyoder7320]

I usually hate sponsors but for you Jeff I will thank skillshare for supporting you

[@Sebastian_Mejia]

The astigmatism lore was interesting and the story of getting it out too funny fr🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@thebigbonk]

Jeff i am so happy you have started uploading in 1440p, it really makes a huge difference to your detailed drawings!

[@sadnessofwildgoats]

While it would have been a bit less efficient than just keeping them on you, you might have been able to put up some blankets over the windows to keep some more heat in. I'm not sure, but I think some Inuit peoples use furs as doors. At least that's what Avatar: The Last Airbender taught me lol

[@storytimewithjeff]

I forgot to mention in the video that I taped my windows up with aluminum foil and unused carpeting lmao

[@dawsonparker1685]

@@storytimewithjeff My dad did something similar one time but with insulation and foil We left the blinds on the window and sealed the frame, when we took it down in the winter the blinds were melted, but it kept the hot air out 😂

[@samtheman1868]

last time I was this early she left

[@lazarussevy2777]

Golden! 🤣

[@MihajloZivanovic-jz5zw]

Just as I was looking for a break, thanks jeff

[@ladyalicent705]

In my experience, the answer to “Why does an apartment complex have so much bureaucracy?” Question is quite simple: *It probably doesn’t.* Some people let even a little bit of power go to their head, and that front desk lady is one of them, I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s making most, if not all of it up, ESPECIALLY with that whole elevator thing. I wouldn’t be surprised if that whole ‘appointment’ thing was just a way for front desk lady to make some extra cash, happens all the time, especially in ‘hood’ areas.

[@whisper3856]

I’m convinced he lives in hell. Truly.

[@ameliamay5246]

these videos about his apartment are scarier than any horror movie I've ever watched

[@Razeiel]

This is the first skill-share suggestion I've considered signing up to try. And it almost goes without saying, great video. :3

[@duxm8446]

W video , been here since the astrophys video and im glad to see you getting traction

[@yakumine]

love your videos jeff, said it on twitter now i’m doing it on youtube

[@MyName-tb9oz]

Why do people, and I'm using this word very loosely, "live," in NYC? Why would you do that to yourself? How? So weird.

[@jordanprado4798]

Congrats man, you now experience what we experience in less cold countries when the temperature drops. Here where I live, it can get to 0°C sometimes and my windows have cracks in it when it's closed. The first layer of the window has holes in it for ventilation (can get to 38°C here in the summer).

[@joaohenriquefontes8633]

When you think Jeff’s hit the bottom, he shows you the hole is much deeper. Respect for tovarich Jeff.

[@ultimate8125]

Jeff, i swear to god if it isn't in the video

[@ultimate8125]

One day you will face the repercussions of your actions Jeff

[@storytimewithjeff]

Please leave me alone 🥲🥲🥲

[@jackmuehlheuser5789]

you should extend the apartment with galvanized steel and wood venire

[@icensalt]

I'm glad I dodged the bullet- no the rocket propelled nuclear warhead that is higher education. I'll gladly self teach, I do not give a rat's tush if it makes the job market harder on me.

[@itss.mfkntori]

the best program in my field offers students 40k a year... in san fransisco. This is a nine year program. You best belive I am avoiding that at all costs.

[@bbarbiter]

I still think the majority of people going into higher education are wasting their time.

[@picklesoda879]

Dam same my astigmatism is stuuuuupid

[@VayporWayve]

i heard your NPR interview a while back, was really surprised to hear your voice out of nowhere

[@storytimewithjeff]

I wish I was on npr lol

[@VayporWayve]

@@storytimewithjeff maybe i’m wrong but i swear it sounded just like you. i’ll see if i can find the episode of their Up First podcast. It was in reference to FAFSA i think.

[@lastrabbit6139]

Earliest, I have found one of your videos. Sweet.

[@Ashinle]

That elevator scene was a billion IQ move lol

[@Hyper_TheOne]

Gambling with your eyes like that is crazy 😭

[@LittleBean007]

JEFF DROPPED LETS FUCKING GO

[@sam_wilds]

Just watched all your videos so the IRS has more monetary incentive to come after you. Love your content btw! I'm glad to see you're not dead due to dealing with the incompetence naturally found when living around other people.

[@nologin5375]

Oh, I have an astigmatism too, and yes those things are expensive, though mine are even more obscene because THEY’RE THE DISPOSABLE TYPE

[@Cmen2]

Babe wake up storytime with Jeff just dropped

[@WillTheWizlock]

STORYTIME WITH JEFF VIDEOOOOOOO

[@galacticVAL]

Ive watched like ten vids of urs bro, and all I can say is are you okay. Like seriously Jeff are you okay?

[@zhabiboss]

I relate with the lens thing so fucking much. I have nearsightedness so wear normal lens and they are fucking invisible. When i drop one it takes me around 8 business days to find it

[@notabyzantophile]

I have now decided to not rent an apartment for university

[@flavourruling2162]

I work as a volunteer in a transitional housing facility - which is a step above an emergency homeless shelter, but a step below an apartment - it’s maybe just below a ‘Halfway-House’ because we are not under the tenancy and landlords act here - we are not tenants( even though we pay rent - or many of us residents are gov’t subsidized and don’t pay a nickel, or we pay half and the gov’t pays half). We signed lease agreements, but our zoning laws classify this building as a motel because the town does not want this to be under the tenancy act and be an apartment complex - even though everyone here has lived here for a year…what motel or hotel has had EVERY ROOM booked by a single person for a year straight?! Anyway, I’m in a tight spot being I started as a resident and was offered free room and board to be a Night Auditor/Caretaker/Security detail for the place, 5 on, 5 off - another resident has the same deal. Myself, the management and board of directors always shirk off meeting me to sign the lease agreement I was supposed to sign when I moved in here. Staff were on holiday the week I was moved in, and it has been a year, I’ve been moved to a new room that ISN’T a cinder block prison cell, now I have 3 walls that are plaster, and one remaining cinder block wall…no power to the A/Cs… It is near impossible to get out of this as I am a fucking zombie during days and nights, I fail to report any records of income or lack thereof within the deadline just from being mentally or physically fried and failing to be awake to do so - my sleep is dictated by when 30+ mentally handicapped folks aren’t banging on my door to reboot the internet or get them Kraft dinner or coffee or whatever…I’m borderline a slave, and the only other option is find a way to power through and manage to pull up my bootstraps like Papa Bezos and Elon Musk say we should do - or go and live on the streets and be homeless. I haven’t worked a paying job in over a year - I also haven’t been able to sign a contract stating I work here, I’m not paid…so it’s debatable whether I can count this as employment or if it’s just a volunteer thing - which still leaves the massive one and a half year gap of unemployment time - this gap is what I believe contributes to my lack of being hired elsewhere, being visibly in poverty doesn’t help either - I’m not a Raggy Crackhead lookalike, I’m “well put together” but I’m right at that level of looking like I make enough to stay barely afloat and be a normal citizen - but with super dirty or lazy living habits - another contributing factor. I am the asshole that will be put in the penalty box for giving you your stuff if you ask for it when “actual staff” (whom are also unpaid volunteers - I have keys to the place too…) are not around. Only, I won’t just have to find another job and have had valid documentable work experience to at least transition me steadily into another job or a house to go to - I will be put on the fucking streets. I consider myself 100% a slave - whips exchanged for threats of death in the cold, or an indentured servant at best. 2024 and Slavery still exists, but I’m young, maybe I just “don’t get it”, maybe you all think I’m over-exaggerating by calling it Slavery…but if I look for a job elsewhere I’m on the streets, if I do not I’m stuck eating a single stale hamburger bun per day…I’m 6’0” 120lbs…I have recently been stealing food from this place just to stay alive and they’re catching on…I might snap and murder these “fine compassionate and morally righteous Pentecostal Catholics” just to have a warm prison cell to sleep in and some bunghole to keep my dick warm - in this place we have a no visitation policy. I haven’t had a weekend off in two months, I haven’t had a day off in two months - to these people our “day off” means shit. This isn’t volunteer work anymore, not by my account of Canadian work law. I might kill these fucks for pushing me to legitimately consider suicide…attempts caused by depression were unjustified - THIS is a reason one would almost be justified to kill themselves or another…fucking LITERAL modern day slavery. Regardless, I’m sorry I’m not allowed to give you a blanket to prevent you from freezing - I’ll freeze to death on the streets of Canada if I do…at least if we wait till staff get here to help you, we both have four walls to protect us from the wind. …fucksakes I’m going insane here…a non-livable minimum wage would be a better deal that no wage or food at all. Slavery never left, Whites didn’t enslave solely Blacks, they also sold Whites as well - Jews sold Jews into Slavery…Blacks sold Blacks…every culture did this shit- not my point…point is, Bureaucratic Policy, Laws, and Bylaws enable Slavery - not the legalization of slavery itself. A rose by any other name…

[@sakaguchiume8982]

This is like that one time jesus came back

[@syndipirate2598]

At what point is living out on the street on vent/building heat a safer bet…? If the shelter isn’t sheltering what is the point???

[@void-highlighter]

storytime with jeff!!!

[@volcanicashes1996]

for the summer can't you get those reflective window covers you use for cars to cover your windows?

[@ERROR-pn5qw]

the audio quality really out here going on a whole-ass character arc

[@nicolasmarin7289]

Yeah, windermere tough

[@kotorybeusz7246]

what about galvanized square steel?

[@TrolldaMeir]

could you not get a heater from like... home Depot?

[@SwirlyCurlyy]

Dude, do you live in the 10th circle of hell??? Why must you be subjected to these man made horrors beyond comprehension???

[@aze4308]

nice!

[@ImpossibleEvan]

You commented first!

[@miguel_calcetin]

congrats on the sponsor

[@DSSagent]

New vid les goooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

[@GigsVT]

Filling it with gout, eh. Impressive.

[@CrystalCoding-oy6qh]

wait 41 degrees Fahrenheit is cold? that's only like 5 degrees Celsius. I was walking around in shorts with that

[@XplosivDS]

Maybe it's the humidity but I was thinking the same

[@walkingguy6409]

Yeah it’s fine to walk around in 5 °C, but to live with it that cold in your house is different. Especially if you’re sedentary in your house or sleeping

[@CrystalCoding-oy6qh]

@walkingguy6409 I get where you're coming from, but clearly, you've never been in the Netherlands during winter times

[@series1054]

Sound like your apartment is a nice place to render some 4K blend projects in a laptop.

[@akir4979]

The quality of this video has me in shock

[@Jetstream__]

I think I finally understand what bureaucracy is.

[@PsiensGate]

people in nyc are homeless not cus of economics, but because it is genuinely more pleasant to sleep outside with the rats than in one of these chambers of horror

[@audery7780]

crawfish reference 🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞

[@dokchampa9324]

9:54 Let's just hope she doesn't find this video then

[@dimmyjean]

There's that beautiful voice again!

[@kazi1]

Damn

[@icantthinkofagoodnameso69f89]

Near

[@JEFF-we9cx]

I’m moving into an apartment with others in August as a broke college student, should I be worried?

[@randomguy9202]

5:30 how did you learn that the fire exit doesn't work? did an incident happen?

[@mihaleben6051]

NO YOU CANT MAKE A UNION THATS TOO HARD.

[@shyrenix]

house plants sound so nice to have but they tend to attract insects. Any advice on how to prevent this?

[@JoseRodriguez-pi8cx]

Not santa claus’s goo lag ☠️

[@alt8620]

Why do you need to pay 300 dollars to get something more than 2 screwdrivers worth of repair equipment on the elevator when the desk 'lady' that wheights the equivalent of a neutron star for free?

[@alextalker5979]

Congrats on living in a friedge! ( I believe 7C is upper limit for the temperature it tries to keep up) 😂

[@uhigldasdtyuiosagjk]

Did this guy just upload?

[@flipshod]

These are all funny, but advice: If this is what's bothering you, make sure you stick with your life plans. You would really hate being poor. The conditions that have you at death's door in your apartment (and the brush with bureaucracy) are mild and normal.

[@Ng8htmere]

He lives in literal hell😭

[@someguyontheinternet5727]

lmfao get ready to be sweating balls this summer, more rants more content

[@ern1353]

Gonna be honest, I don’t think anything less than lichen could survive in your apartment for a year

[@Ebdu-gt1oe]

You can sue them

[@brodown64]

everything is going wrong for bro 😭

[@billlongjohnsonmillano6268]

Ever heard of a blanket?

[@illuminaticake4528]

new video ayoooo

[@shortsandwich5573]

Woooooo. Jeff is back. Hopefully this comment feeds the algorithm.

[@MariaAntona279]

You could plant some nice herbs

[@josephrupsis4623]

Ain't nobody got time to do heat transfer calculations man, that stuff will get you a 52% on your exam lol. Fr though I love these stories, sucks about the housing situation. I'm still living at home thankfully, trying to stack money while rent is cheap haha

[@macadaverine]

Bro, what are these places you end up staying at😂😂😂

[@RealPersistences]

I hope i wont suffer as much next semester, bc ik who my suitemate is but have no idea of knowing if the same b!tchy girls from the first semester will b near me

[@uhigldasdtyuiosagjk]

It was fucking 58 degrees in my room all winter. 😭😭

[@zescoot2590]

When was the last time you lived in a good house?

[@bbarbiter]

Isn’t your entire channel “trying to not die in x situation?”

[@creppercupcake]

I live edging to your voice

[@whettysphagetti]

Bro those temperature measurements should’ve been in centigrade… then you would melt and not solidify

[@votecthulhu9378]

the pure unadulterated hatred in your videos keeps me going

[@mariagalleriaxi8632]

What the fuck was up with the front desk lady

[@susfishoushumanbean]

he did not live the apartments

[@Sebastian_Mejia]

OMG i was so early i was able to get the skillshare trial!!! 2 times speed watchers rejoice!!🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@alanflores5753]

Ever consider dropping out?

[@DanielleFreeman-im1yj]

Jeff, I would give you a million views if I could!

[@yyunko7764]

is you astigmatism so bad that you cannot fix it any other way? I have quite bad astigmatism and my glasses fix it perfectly, they'll do 50 bucks glasses near me which include astigmatism correction, probably up to -4 or so. more expensive if it is intense though

[@MyVanir]

He outright said, in plain English, that glasses never fixed his problem.

[@realGBx64]

Neolithic age? Here in Korea even the 90s they built apartments with single plane windows. No one wants to pay for insulation upfront when Quatari gas is cheap I guess

[@bingwen469]

Korea has a lot worse going on than some window panes I feel like. Such as the gross corruption that continues on. I do hope the situation improves, especially on the front of Confucianism because Jesus man the honorifics are insane.

[@Lung_juice376]

I hope u add photos that relate to ur story nothing to exposing as I respect ur privacy but as idea of how ridiculous insane ur story sounds and add to the humor of it😊