 Hi everyone, this is Chih-chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another video. What we're gonna do today is we're gonna put some gifts together. Today is December 23rd and tomorrow we're going for a family dinner and there's gonna be a fair bit of family there. So what I want to do is put gift packages together for each household. We sort of don't or I don't anyway give gifts on an individual basis during Christmas or the holidays or new years. However way you end up celebrating it, right? But what I do share during this time of year is basically some of the food, some of the preserves that we've made over the year, right? And if you've seen some of the previous videos that we've made, these are some of the gems that we ended up making. We got like two different, three different types of gems here actually, got our crab apple, okay crab apple butter that we made and we put out a playlist for this, right? And this is basically some of those crab apple preserves, crab apple gem that we ended up making during that live stream and during the videos that we put together. This one is our plum, those little plum gems that we live streamed cooking these with, right? These were, I think it took five and a half hours or so to cook these up. So we got a fair bit of these and these are really tart, okay? And I know one family collective that really likes tart, I've got a bigger jar of this, so I'm going to give them a bigger jar, a bigger version of this one, okay? And the third thing, or the third thing, yeah, third thing, we're good, there's only, let's check it out, yeah, there's only three types of preserves that I've brought out here that I want to give away because those were the ones that we had a fair bit of, right? We did end up making blackberry jam as well that we don't have enough to pass around because we've already passed around a fair bit of it, right? There's only, I think, like three or four jars left for us for the rest of the year. But the other thing I want to give to the family members is also honey. And these are the jars of honey, right? If you recall, we put out, I think we put out two videos or three videos of honey, but all the jars of honey that you see here that you're going to see is the jars of honey that we made when we took a few buckets of honey, and I think we took six buckets of honey, five pounds buckets of honey, and jarred up a whole bunch of honey. And these are the ones, some of the ones, the honey has crystallized, okay? And there's a couple of these that haven't crystallized. I'm not sure why that is because they came from the same batch, but the honey might have been, you know, gathering their pollen from different types of flowers for each individual, one of these. These were, both of these were sitting in the same location, so it can't be temperature because they weren't stored in any different part of the house, right? So if anyone knows why from the same batch, which could be, it was basically end of summer honey, I believe, or it might have been, yeah, I believe it was end of summer honey. So one crystallized, one hasn't. I'm not sure why that is the case, okay? I found it interesting pulling these out because we jarred all these and put them aside, right, in our storage area. And it was interesting to see that there's a couple of the ones, and this one is partially crystallizing, take a look, it's just starting to crystallize, right? You can see it in the reflection or in the light shining through it, right? It's pretty cool. Magic liquid, right? Magic liquid. As to how I'm going to try to put these packages together, basically, I have some comic book magazine bags, like they're bigger than comic book size, magazine format, right? And I've got some of my, you know, end up re-boarding comic books, right? I got out and some of the comic books that we sold online, I've taken out the old boards and I've put new boards in their new bags and boards, right? So I have a handful, a fair bit of these comic book boards hanging around and I do keep these on the side because we end up using, for some reason they come in really handy, okay? Sometimes we cut these up and in a pot, we put them under a pot if we're, there's a lot of liquid in there and stuff like this, and there's different places we end up using these, believe it or not, it's very weird how handy just a sheet of cardboard comes in, right? So I got the bags, I got the cardboards, so what I want to do is basically give one jar of honey per family, one crab apple butter and one of the tart ones, so I want to give them a selection of one a pop and what I just want to do right now is just label them and put them together and then we might spend a little bit of time jazzing them up, we might not. I got some ribbons here but these aren't the good ribbons, I haven't found the good ribbons, we end up keeping our ribbons somewhere in a jar but I haven't been able to find them, so the odds are we're just going to put them in the bags, close them up with these things you get from the grocery store, the metal paper things that you wrap things with, close them up and then what we end up doing is I might wait until I can find that box of ribbons and do it that way, let's check this out. So each one of these is about this big right, so I'm just going to cut enough cardboard so the cardboard is sitting under the back so the thing is sitting straight, okay usually I just end up in the past what we've done we've given them you know one or two jars this time because it's three of them we need to have to sort of put it together in a bag, tighten it up, let's check this out, so this should be this should be good, that should work, that fits like one and I'll put one more beside it, I could even cut this a little shorter but let's see what it's going to look like, which is pretty good, it's just flat on the bottom, now these bags are really sturdy but because the ends of the cardboard are sharp because these guys are sharp what I want to do is I want to bend the edges of the cardboard so they don't puncture in the back, the bags should hold but the jam and honey you know three jars one 500 mil and a couple of 250s and there's going to be a couple that are going to be two fifths 500 mils right so let's take a look, yeah that's better so the thing bends up so it's not going to puncture the bag so let's see how this is going to sit and I do have, I did bring a whole bunch of from the comic book halls we've gotten in the past I got a bag of like this bubble stuff right so anytime you know some of the comic books that we sold we've put I put them in bubble wraps some of them I haven't because they were bigger boxes or they were had enough protection and we end up using the bubble wraps for a fair bit of stuff different types of gifts and whatnot so let me cut this because what I want to do is I want to put the jars in bubble wrap a little bit anyway between each one so they don't bang against each other so as you can tell I haven't figured out how I'm going to do this yet right but it should be fairly straightforward let's see this thing is nice is it cutting okay it's cutting okay so let's take a honey let's put that in there and just put it like that and I do want to put the labels on these too I still haven't got around the labeling everything right I don't think I ever will tell you the truth it's just the way it is because one thing that I found with labeling jars is when they sit around for a while it's a sort of song and dance to take the labels off the sticky stuff gets on there and I don't like it and there's nothing like you know like a clean glass without any labels right if you know what you're preserving is fantastic but giving them as gifts pretty important to to label things right so let's just let me do a few of these by the way just painters painters tape I found painters tape to be fantastic for for for using in multiple places right okay so we're just going to go honey honey plum plum jam and crab apple butter crab apple so let's put honey on here honey there's our labels I mean fantastic simple and you know if you give people a gift like this when they see it they'll know who's from if they are used to getting it right I go oh yeah that's that's what chicho gives us everything or something like this right and all I'm doing is this should work because I'm just going to close this up so I shouldn't move around I'm not wrapping all of the jars in bubble wrap I'm just going to put a little bit on the side of it so the next jar that goes in is touching the bubble crab apple butter and I'm making the labels face out that way when they look into the thing right there it looks so far honey grab apple butter we need plum and the plum I'm just going to put a little bit of bubble under it yes too big let's cut it let's see if this system works the rest of this should be relatively quick yeah we should put the plum jam here we've given some family some of these already and they love it so now fortunately the bags are a little tight right take a look I wish there were a little bit bigger but I don't have any bigger bags just putting two in would look pretty I think we should just do two what do you think we'll do two and we put this one on the side and anyone that likes the sour the tart because this is extremely tart and it's got the seeds in it too take a look and it's got the seeds in there as well right some people I found they don't like jam with seeds in them I don't know why okay you know what I'm going to do this so it closes up tightly and we're going to take the plum jams as well with us so that's good that's like a little care package thing in the G pretty well I don't know pretty is the right word functional functional I'm what I'm going to do I just got bag here so I'm just going to or a box here so I'm just going to put these things in the box and put the plum ones on the side and because we're putting the plum ones on the side you know what I'm going to do I'm going to wrap the plum ones in a larger bubble thing and these are fantastic right crazy the things we take pleasure from right it's great I do have an exacto knife here too so that might be better for bubble wrap just feed it feed assembly line stuff okay that's in there yeah I think that's what we're going to do it was just going to be too tight for and we won't include the names of the companies in the back of the some of the places oh this one now in the box check this out check this out this is this this board is from now and then books I'll show you this because this company this store is no longer around now and then books okay in kitchener Ontario and Harry was the owner of the place and I put out a video talking about the one time that I almost got my hands an amazing spider-man number one and I share a little bit of a little story from this bookstore and from Harry the owner of the place and for the longest period now and then books was considered to be the oldest comic book open comic is closed now because Harry died I think in 2005 or something like this or 2000s I believe anyway and it was the longest comic bookstore the oldest comic bookstore in Canada in the United States I believe North America that would include Mexico as well right and Harry was well known in the comic book community and he also has an award named that after him and Eisner award I believe and he was a really nice guy he loved comic books and that store was my first real introduction to a comic book store where I had a comic book box pull this and I would pick up every week and stuff learn a lot there learn a lot there honey and let's do crab apple crab apple butter so each one of these double things we're going to put honey and crab apple butter because the honey we know that everybody loves and the crab apple butter you know what let's make one a big one because we're going to give one family a big crab apple butter okay one household a big crab apple butter and these are amazing amazing amazing right so let's put the crab apple butter we've got to put bubble on it let's put bubble on it so it doesn't bang around right got to love the bubble and we got honey and here's the honey we'll give them a crystallized honey and two big jars going there nice look fantastic great gift great gift right there's a lot of honey bees that made the honey and we picked and made the crab apple lots of love in this one let's close this up perfect and we'll find the ribbon box and put nice ribbons on these and I'm going to put a little this is okay we got lots of bubble we'll put oh yeah I should put the label on here plum jam plum jam the plum jam on there and then we'll wrap it up with the bubble all right put it in the box this is absolutely amazing for pastries making pastries if you use jams for pastries for top of pastries and stuff this is it amazing let's do actually we don't need to do whole thing we'll cut this guy in half as well yes so that's two families taking care of we got six six households we're going to give this a six I hope so maybe should we cut up the now and then books I have a lot of these so now and then books you're going as a present to somebody's house you know what I'm going to include the now and then books as well who knows who's going to get this one I know who I'm going to give this one to there's I have cousins that I've a few years ago each family members there's two households cousins the ones that we played monopoly with the ones that we did a live stream monopoly session with the ones that the full sessions that we've loaded on to bit shoot the monopoly we did 18 monopoly games over a weekend and I'm actually going to be I've already uploaded by the way if you're on youtube watching this on youtube I've already uploaded the full live stream sessions of the monopoly games on to youtube there's 17 or 18 videos I just haven't made them public yet and at some point I'm going to be taking a bill Hicks break and what I'm going to do is release I believe one or two videos a day while we sort of a take a break do some backhand work and still have content coming up and those live stream games are absolutely amazing I tried to get them to come over this summer for us to play monopoly do another marathon monopoly weekend but it didn't happen people were out of town and busy and whatnot right so this one's definitely going to go to them here's a honey here's a crystallized I pushed it in that's why it'll pop out again I think that's a fun game right crystallized honey so let's do this let's put honey on there and we're going to give them crab apple butter honey crab they might be able to read my writing who knows here's our honey honey is easy to read crab apple butter more difficult especially with my scribble honey we need that little bit of bubble that there now we're going to give them crab apple butter let's give them crab apple butter the top of it because it's exposed to a little bit of oxygen in the jar it's gotten dark right apple if you leave it out it gets darker right so sucked in all the oxygen on it it should be fine should I give them one that's not as there's a fair bit of space on this one it might have been towards the end of the jar pots that we're putting together less space on this one so I might give them this one well somebody's got to get this one not somebody's got to get this one they're the ones let's do this together there we go they got honey they got crab apple butter and we're going to give them the plum as well right so here's number three and we need a bubble wrap bubble wrap no these are too small let's do this this was from these bubble raspberries from huge huge buy we did off this one seller for a few months I think in the end we ended up getting like a thousand books from the guy for like less than a dollar us a pop right which was fantastic we need the the bottom part of it let's do another bottom at some point we're going to go through and do a little ASMR math on those buys by the way once I get a little bit more stuff completed from my end hopefully we'll get to it in 2020 so here's another bag let's just put that so I gotta fold on the other way let's put that there right now so we want honey and crab apple butter the honey for this year by the way we weren't able to get our hands in any buckets there was a limited supply so we're getting some jars of honey so this year we won't be able to jar any honey unfortunately the there's certain things happening in the world where some of the bee colonies are collapsing right it's called colony collapse disorder and back in 2009 8 or something I put out a video talking about colony collapse disorder and at the time it was controversial to a certain degree to our people were looking into it it was sort of new and some people were blaming pesticides some were blaming em field some were blaming monoculture or whatever it is but we just talked about it a little bit that was at the beginning stages me putting out content not mathematics specifically related just trying things out it was fun to do I would highly recommend looking into it if you're interested in the environment and stuff here is crab apple butter I appreciate that's from a earlier period where I was a little raw on creating videos nice here's another one so excellent so that's four oh we got uh there's a couple empty spots for the plums I almost forgot to include plums let's cut these and put the plums on there plum jam so plum jam number one the one big plum jam that I'm gonna put in a package and one of the families we're gonna give a here's a big plum jam because they really love tart sour we're gonna give them this big one on the next one but we need it oh we don't have more plums one two three oh no that's right here's two here's the other big plum jam right wanted to do this as well so we got this let's check it out so these are all crab apples we got one two three four oh it might be there's only one more yeah we're gonna make one more package so i'm just gonna wrap up the plum jam two big plum jams I just basically put out enough to make sure we got all the families covered and this should do it we might uh actually we're gonna take a couple of extra there's a couple other family members that uh there's four here oh yeah that's right so we're gonna put one more package together there's a couple of family members that uh we don't know if they're gonna show so i'm gonna take some extra jars to do this for this so i need honey plum and but i'm gonna switch up no no that's fine that's good we'll know what's what's but this one goes in much easier than going to the mall much better than going to the mall a lot more love here than there right so let's do this oh that's not honey that's plum jam our honey is over here oh that's the crab apple here's our honey here's the honey nice yeah we need a little bigger because it's going to be two big jars going in here that's that's we don't need it to be that big so let's just do this that's that that's that and we can just put it on this and slip it in so here's the plum like this okay let's make sure we got because i have a little list here to make sure we got everybody covered let's check it out this one is you know what i'm gonna switch up this one i'm gonna do i'm bringing out the crab apple butter and actually no we'll do the same i did this twice now okay so we got that's let's do this okay so we got that we got that we got that this one is yeah plum okay let's say that's that we got one two three four five one two three four five and we got the extra cool done yeah there's a couple more i'm gonna put together but i think that's going to include something a little different so this one let's put here as well now we need one more gotta make sure it goes even so these people with the one with another big plum jam they don't have the crab apple butter right so we're gonna label this crab apple butter so they get three jars as well and there's gonna make that one as well so this is crab apple butter there's one more we're gonna make crab apple so that's that let's put this guy here here's a crab apple butter there's one family that's not getting the plums because we know they don't like i will double check with them let's just put this one here like this let's put a little tape on it close it off that way this one is going somewhere else and we got one more that's gonna have a honey honey and a big crab apple i think they're the only ones that get a big crab apple no there's two people that get big crab apples honey as well oh no that is honey as well nice that is honey as well so it was i was right everything was accounted for right let's check it out one two three four five one two three four five and the one extra okay cool so that's it that's our 2019 Christmas gift packaging for family right and we're doing this on December 23rd nothing nothing that we had to buy we just had to use of some of the packaging material that we've gotten over the years and some of the preserves that we may ended up making this year right which is which is fantastic i think everyone will appreciate these and i enjoyed them for at least a few months at least a few months i know one of a couple of the families that go through honey like mad the way we do wow which is a good thing to do actually get lots of minerals and stuff out of it right aside from that you're probably going to be watching this video after we've already given the gifts to the people and that means you're going to be watching this video after the holidays most likely so i hope you guys you all had an amazing holiday an amazing break an amazing time with friends and family and played lots of board and card games i sent out some notes this morning right i hope you played some amazing games with family enjoyed lots of food and drink and i wish everyone an amazing amazing new year to come okay bye for now