GoManDo Everyday Moments Podcast
Marketplace Strikes Again 2.0: Slicers, Slow Travel, and the Great Caretaker Hunt
Mike and Nelson are back for another easy, roundabout conversation that starts with the small logistics of caring for Mike's mom and ends somewhere on a beach with a coconut tree. First up: the ongoing CVS pharmacy app saga, where Mike can log in on his laptop but keeps getting stopped on his phone, a common enough complaint that it might just be the app itself. The good news is the bigger system is finally clicking. When his mom runs low on a prescription, Mike calls the doctor, the refill gets sent over, and one more piece of the daily worry falls away.From there the guys get into the stuff that eats everyone's budget lately: groceries. Six items for thirty-seven bucks will do that to a person. Nelson talks through buying in bulk, cooking big batches like Mike's ground pork Picadillo that stretches into four or five dinners, and eyeing a Costco membership plus a used standing freezer. Mike floats his next kitchen project, a meat slicer so he can roast a pork loin and keep his sandwich-obsessed mom in fresh lunch meat without the sodium bomb of store-bought.Then comes the heart of the episode: Facebook Marketplace, part two. Mike finally figured out the radius map, sold his mower for fifty bucks to a young woman in a car far too small for it, and workshopped with Nelson how to write a listing that saves you the headache of a hundred "is this still available?" messages. That rolls straight into a bigger, more stressful search after Mike's caretaker bailed on a prepaid Indiana trip. A single community post left him inundated with responses, and now he is sorting the individuals from the big care companies, because for showers and overnight access to the house, he wants one person he trusts, not a rotating cast.Key Takeaways● A caregiving system finally clicking looks small from the outside: knowing who to call for a refill so you can stop worrying about it.● Cooking in big batches, ground pork Picadillo, pork loin roasts, buying in bulk, is Mike and Nelson's answer to grocery sticker shock.● A good Marketplace listing does the work up front: "first come first serve," a general location instead of your full address, and a note when you have enough responses.● Guard your personal info online. Nelson's rule: the older you get, the less of yourself you want out there in public.● When hiring a caretaker, favor a single trusted individual over a corporate agency that sends a different person every week.● "Slow travel" means picking one region, staying weeks at a time, and even negotiating a monthly hotel rate instead of gambling on Airbnb photos.Timestamps00:00 The CVS pharmacy app fight and getting the prescription system down02:04 Nelson's new work-from-home editing job and the aging car dilemma03:45 Grocery sticker shock, batch cooking, and Picadillo two ways04:53 The meat slicer plan and mom, queen of the sandwich08:13 Marketplace strikes again: selling the mower for fifty bucks13:32 The caretaker bails and the flood of responses to a community ad18:47 How to shut off the messages without burning the post22:03 Weeds taking over the garden and dreaming of a beach somewhere24:20 Slow travel, Da Nang, and living in a hotel for 90 days30:57 The upcoming heart scan, name change paperwork, and signing offConnect● Website: https://www.gomando.com● Hosts: Mike and Nelson#GoManDo #PodcastLife #TravelPrep #LifeUpdates #EntrepreneurLife #FacebookMarketplace #SlowTravel #DaNang #Caregiving #BatchCooking
