A guy needs a bigger house for his Simpsons collection

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I'm Jenny Mack with five good news
stories. According to the Gallup National Health

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and Well Being Index, saying hello
to more than one neighbor was shown to

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correlate with greater self perception of well
being. Mister Rogers had this right,

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so the study was averaged across This
is Deep five dimensions that included career,

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communal, physical, financial, and
social wellbeing. The increase which grading a

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neighbor had led to a two point
increase on a scale of zero to one

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hundred. Are you ready? Up
until the sixth neighbor, you'd get two

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points for each neighbor you said hello
to. After six, you get no

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more impact. So just say hi
to your your first six neighbors and then

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that seventh guy. You can drive
right past them, don't bother Men were

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more likely to greet neighbors than women. That actually surprises me, as were

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people with children under the age of
eighteen. Yeah, that makes sense because

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you're walking around with the kids.
You go hi. Individuals aged forty to

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sixty five plus were the most common
greeters of neighbors, So your younger millennials

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and you gen Z's say hi man, Cassidy Beach, great name and it's

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relevant here. Cassidy Beach was on
the beach and saw a dark green bottle

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with a letter in it. This
one was found on the beach of the

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Turks and South Caicos Islands and the
Caribbean, dated September twenty, two thousand

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and four. The bottle was cast
adrift by mister Panelle Aimes, a commercial

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fisherman from nan Sucket between two thousand
and two thousand and six. Aims through

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hundreds of these bottles off his boat
into the Great South Channel. They've washed

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up and been found in Portugal,
Spain, France, Ireland, Great Britain,

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Florida, the Caribbean and the Canary
Islands. Eighty people have taken the

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time to remove the artificial quirks,
read the letter inside and write back.

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Aimes said, you get your mail
and you kind of know your bills and

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the familiar people who send stuff to
you. But then all of a sudden

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you get an envelope and you go, oh, I didn't know that person.

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That's a bottle letter. John and
carry Rickland are on a mission.

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They want to eat at every single
diner in New Jersey. They've been at

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this since twenty fifteen. They told
al Roker, we have more diners in

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New Jersey than any other state.
We just thought it'd be cool to drive

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around the state and sample and eat
at every one of them. They've calculated

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they're around four hundred and fifteen diners
in New Jersey as of early August.

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They've been to two hundred and twelve
now eight years and they're just more than

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halfway through. Wow. John says
going to the diners like a treat and

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for Carrie, being able to visit
different cities and try diners specialties is an

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adventure and feels like a vacation without
the suitcase. A Rhode Island couple went

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out to dinner and they ordered an
engagement ring. No, that wasn't the

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plan, you see, they ordered
clams. Sandy was eating a clam and

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then bit into something hard and round. Was like, what the heck?

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She spit it out. At first
they thought it was a tooth. Nope,

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it's not a tooth. Have you
figured this out yet? It was

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a pearl. She said. He
couldn't have ever swallowed it was too big.

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They went to the jeweler. He
put it in eighteen carried gold and

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made it beautiful. It just makes
a whole ring pop and then the diamonds

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were put down lower. It's beautiful
and the world's biggest Simpsons fan had to

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move to a bigger house because his
collection was so big. Mark Venema has

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a mass thousands of items relating to
the Simpsons, including clothing, newspaper clippings,

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homeware, claims as collections worth over
fifty thousand dollars. Mark said,

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I deliberately don't keep track of what
I've spent so I don't worry about it,

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and I think the number could be
significantly more than the fifty thousand dollars.

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The Simpsons collection would have cost me
upwards of twenty grand, but my

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wife thinks it's higher, and even
then she's being conservative. I will literally

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collect anything, including clothing that doesn't
fit me, newspaper clippings, and homewear.

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If I can afford it, it's
mine. I'm hoping to be buried

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with the collection Pharaoh style. We
were looking to move into a smaller house

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and downsizing now that the kids have
all left home, and I was hoping

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to generate some interest on Instagram.
However, once I started posting content,

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I fell in love with it again. So now we've decided to buy a

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bigger house to accommodate all the stuff. Growing up, all my kids thought

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the collection was normal, as they've
only known life with the collection when they

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were little. I was interested in
shelving and hung most of the pieces on

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the walls, but I did lose
a few items along the way. That's

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