Hi Matthew, Merry Christmas 🎄 I am your neighbor to the east, I am in Saskatchewan. We have a Nut Man who comes into our office once a month with a cart full of goodies to purchase. I know in the past teams in my office have ordered nut trays from him at Christmas time for their clients. In conversation with him I learned that he gets all his product from a warehouse in Calgary. There has been a nut man coming around to the offices in Saskatoon since the mid-80s. I never knew there was a sticks and bricks. But I sure am happy that he still comes around hawking his wares to us!
Brooklyn is lucky to have you for her dad..you live your life around her. Giving her a blessed childhood. Keep up the good work and have a Merry Christmas 🎄🎄🎁❤
I see where your diesel smell is coming from to the inside. It's that rust hole right behind where you exhaust from the diesel heater exits, and some must be coming into van through that rust hole in the body siding. Hope you have a working CO detector inside the van.
In Michigan-northern Detroit suburb and not many malls left. There are a few outdoor malls but not like the ones many of us spent hanging out in our teenage years or Christmas shopping with the masses. It is sad to see them go. Merry Christmas Matthew.
Ohhhhh, both Allen boi’s posting the same day makes for exciting entertainment 😍 Wishing you Matthew, Brooklyn and Miss P, a very Merry Christmas 🎅🏻🎄🎉🎊🎁 I can imagine that Brooklyn is soooooo excited waiting for Santa’s arrival ❤ Cheers 🍻
My new diesel heater never started until after many tries. I put heavier wire between the battery and contol. Helped somewhat. Went into the settings to compare what they were supposed to be. They were way off. I reset them to what factory was supposed to be according to UA-cam video's and bingo...it's worked for 3 years now, flawlessly.
St Louis Mo area and they just tore down ours. Chesterfield Mall is no more and it broke my heart. So many memories in that mall. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU, PENNY & BROOKLYN! ❤️💚❤️💚
That’s a good girl Penny….stay there! (Right in camera frame!) She is such a well trained actress! Northern New Jersey in the U.S. still has quite a few malls ..although many south I understand have closed…. Merry Christmas Matthew…have a fabulous holiday.
Maybe one day you could sit and have an interview with your parents. Watching small snippets of you and your brother live your lives, I'd love to hear their point of view of your upbringings.
You inspired me to fix my shoe this morning. The heel separated and it was on my to-do list. I use Shoe Goo both for fixing shoes and other general repairs. It adheres well and is very durable.
Hi Matthew, I’m in Massachusetts and we still have malls near by but, seems that the “new” plan is to convert them to store fronts with their own entrances- turning them really into just groups of stores with no inside connection. Merry Christmas- love your blogs! :)
Florida still has shopping malls however a town close to me shut theirs down but I believe it was due to lack of business and when C hit the world employees became scarce. We have a lot of places that have closed due to same reason. 😢 Hey when you had the close up of Penny having treats my cat Prissy looked up and looked over at me as if to say hey that’s one of my kind and she watched ever so cutely. ❤😂
Hei man. Glad I saw this video. Had forgotten the code when I installed my heater, my sanity is restored. Thank you! But I wanted to mention that you are probably getting gassed out through small holes in your vans body. The area around your exhaust looks kinda deteriorated and any minute holes will draw exhaust fumes into your quarters. The times you didn't smell it was likely due to exhaust position relative to wind direction. Stay classy.
@VanlifePLUS, Matthew, did you check: 1. The seal of the hole around the heater where it sits on the floor? 2. The exhaust tube where it connects to the heater to assure it is properly seated and tightly clamped? If it's not it may be allowing exhaust to flow under the van and get in through some unseen crevice. Just maybe there is a leak around one of those areas and allowing exhaust fumes to waft into the van. Malls are closing left and right. The mall by my Mom which opened March 2, 1976, and my 6th grade class won an essay contest and we were one of the first 100 people to enter the mall, closed June 30, 2024. It was THE state-of-the-art mall at the time, and a model for many other malls that followed around the country.
Im in Michigan. My mall that was built in 70-71 is barely open. You go in there and most stores are closed. The food court is booming tho. Even JC Pennys went out. I haven't been in a mall in many years. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
🎄🎅Merry Christmas to You and Your Family 🙋🏼♀️ A VanLife Tip…in Florida if we have anything in the passenger seat that is higher than where the window starts we get an obstructed driving view ticket😮 anything on our dashboard Hass to be lower than the steering wheel, and nothing should be in the passenger seat that obstruct your view of your Sideview mirror. They do let this one go during Easter Thanksgiving and Christmas.😂 don’t know if they’re that cranky up in Canada like they are down here about stuff in the passenger seat but the seat being turned around the block a lot of your window and would’ve got me a ticket down here. Just something we forgot about, and didn’t know if anybody knew that was actually a ticket worthy OFFENSE?😏 #vanlife🙋🏼♀️ 🌴🚐💕
I live in Oregon and there’s a large mall .5 miles away from me. It’s definitely been busy these past couple of weeks but not in the way they used to be in the 80’s. We could spend the entire day into the evening at the mall with only $10.
The closest town to me is 85 miles away. I think Vegas still has malls, about 4 hours away. I don't go the other way to Phoenix 3 hours, they have them I think.
Merry Christmas everyone! ❤️🇨🇦 P.S Yeah I noticed the nut man was closed in Edmonton too. They are from Regina and you can order online (🤷🏻♀️). Next time maybe.
Merry Christmas Matthew, Brooklyn and Miss Penny! I am in the Los Angeles California area and we still have shopping Malls here but you’ll find 1 or 2 of the big stores closed down on either end of these malls. So, it’s looking as if malls will become obsolete soon.
Hey Matthew the bracelet looks great on you!! hey i was wondering how your cousin liked her anklet and crib pegs? good luck on getting a sticks and bricks!!
Hi Matthew, I'm watching you from Kazakhstan, Almaty, you might not know about this country 😅 I love your videos, pet Penny for me, Merry Christmas to all of you and your family ❤😊
Hi Matthew. Where I live in Missouri pretty much if not all the malls have shut down. There's one that I went to all the time with my grandma from the time I was born in 1962 that closed almost 20+ years ago and another one that I was at on the day it opened back in the mid 70's that has been closed for years. It's sad that they didn't last. Where I live now the ones around me have closed in the last few years or have just a few shops still open in them. Anyways.. lol.. Merry Christmas. Hope you have a wonderful rest of your week and weekend. Much love to you.. Brooklyn.. Penny and the whole Allen family from this old Missouri grandma. Don't drink to much tomorrow night or you might see flying pink reindeer behind an elephant with big floppy ears flapping in the wind pulling a jolly old man in red laughing as he comes close to running you over.
In PA suburbs of Philadelphia we have a few malls still opened. A couple smaller ones were made into Outside malls. And a bunch of outside malls are now the thing. I.e. Providence town center, Philadelphia Premium outlets located outside of Philadelphia…
Wondering if the heater fumes issue might just be when the breeze is in the right direction, the exhaust is finding a small gap somewhere to re-enter from outside? In which case the new heater won't solve it but, at least then you'll know you're looking for a hole somewhere.
I'm in New Mexico USA and a lot of large and strip malls are vacant...so sign of the times with internet shopping sticks and bricks go the way of the wind.
Matthew, do you think any of the fumes or odors are affecting Penny? The reason I ask is that cats are hyper sensative to smells. Example, Oil diffusers are bad for any pets.
Hi Matthew, Merry Christmas 🎄
I am your neighbor to the east, I am in Saskatchewan.
We have a Nut Man who comes into our office once a month with a cart full of goodies to purchase. I know in the past teams in my office have ordered nut trays from him at Christmas time for their clients.
In conversation with him I learned that he gets all his product from a warehouse in Calgary. There has been a nut man coming around to the offices in Saskatoon since the mid-80s. I never knew there was a sticks and bricks. But I sure am happy that he still comes around hawking his wares to us!
Penny isn't spoiled...she is extra loved! 😂❤
Merry Christmas from Japan!
It’s Christmas Eve Here!
Brooklyn is lucky to have you for her dad..you live your life around her. Giving her a blessed childhood. Keep up the good work and have a Merry Christmas 🎄🎄🎁❤
Merry Christmas Angelita!
Merry Christmas!!! Have a great time with your family. Ms. Penny, you sweetheart are adorable. Stay safe and see ya in the next one.
Come on children, let's enjoy the content Matthew give us, which is quite a lot. I am enjoying watching Ms. Penny
“My goal everyday…..Live without dying”. Perfectly said Matthew. 😂😂😂
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Hello Matthew and PRETTY Penny!👋☺️ ...PRAYERS and blessings for you and your family throughout this year 2024 and into the NEW YEAR 2025!👍🤗💖🎉.
I see where your diesel smell is coming from to the inside. It's that rust hole right behind where you exhaust from the diesel heater exits, and some must be coming into van through that rust hole in the body siding. Hope you have a working CO detector inside the van.
Merry Christmas to you Mathew, Penny, Brooklyn and all of your family 🎄🧑🎄❤️🙏
Have a great Christmas with Brooklyn tomorrow ☘️🎄🎄☘️
In Michigan-northern Detroit suburb and not many malls left. There are a few outdoor malls but not like the ones many of us spent hanging out in our teenage years or Christmas shopping with the masses. It is sad to see them go. Merry Christmas Matthew.
Ohhhhh, both Allen boi’s posting the same day makes for exciting entertainment 😍 Wishing you Matthew, Brooklyn and Miss P, a very Merry Christmas 🎅🏻🎄🎉🎊🎁 I can imagine that Brooklyn is soooooo excited waiting for Santa’s arrival ❤ Cheers 🍻
I worked for JPMorgan for 15 years and my favorite laptop was a Lenovo! Great choice to the generous gift giver! 🎉❤
To Allen brothers videos on the same day!!! 😃 Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Eve Eve, Matthew darlin’. Have a great time with your sweet B💞
My new diesel heater never started until after many tries. I put heavier wire between the battery and contol. Helped somewhat. Went into the settings to compare what they were supposed to be. They were way off. I reset them to what factory was supposed to be according to UA-cam video's and bingo...it's worked for 3 years now, flawlessly.
Merry Christmas Matthew! From my family to yours!
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Wishing you a wonderful Christmas with the pirate princess and first mates Lindsey and Sadie!!!!
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St Louis Mo area and they just tore down ours. Chesterfield Mall is no more and it broke my heart. So many memories in that mall. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU, PENNY & BROOKLYN! ❤️💚❤️💚
Hi Matt and Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family 🤗
Merry Christmas Matthew
Merry Christmas Alan
All the best Matthew and family and have a happy healthy New year
God Bless
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That’s a good girl Penny….stay there! (Right in camera frame!) She is such a well trained actress! Northern New Jersey in the U.S. still has quite a few malls ..although many south I understand have closed…. Merry Christmas Matthew…have a fabulous holiday.
Maybe one day you could sit and have an interview with your parents. Watching small snippets of you and your brother live your lives, I'd love to hear their point of view of your upbringings.
Minnesota...which has the biggest mall in US...The Mall of America!!
I think Penny thought the chirping ball was catnip 😂😂😂
You inspired me to fix my shoe this morning. The heel separated and it was on my to-do list. I use Shoe Goo both for fixing shoes and other general repairs. It adheres well and is very durable.
Hi Matthew, I’m in Massachusetts and we still have malls near by but, seems that the “new” plan is to convert them to store fronts with their own entrances- turning them really into just groups of stores with no inside connection. Merry Christmas- love your blogs! :)
Florida still has shopping malls however a town close to me shut theirs down but I believe it was due to lack of business and when C hit the world employees became scarce. We have a lot of places that have closed due to same reason. 😢 Hey when you had the close up of Penny having treats my cat Prissy looked up and looked over at me as if to say hey that’s one of my kind and she watched ever so cutely. ❤😂
thanks.. Merry Christmas..
Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones 🎅🎄😊🚐
Merry Christmas Matthew and Penny ❤❤❤❤thanks for sharing Matthew ❤❤
If the Goop fails, get some 2 part 5 minute epoxy. Warm it up, apply, clamp a while then boom it’s fixed. Cheers from Vancouver 😊
Merry Christmas Eve, Eve to one and all aboard the Good Ship Lucky!!! May these be memories you cherish forever.
Merry Christmas to you and your family. Have a great day
Hei man.
Glad I saw this video.
Had forgotten the code when I installed my heater, my sanity is restored. Thank you!
But I wanted to mention that you are probably getting gassed out through small holes in your vans body. The area around your exhaust looks kinda deteriorated and any minute holes will draw exhaust fumes into your quarters.
The times you didn't smell it was likely due to exhaust position relative to wind direction.
Stay classy.
seasons greetings to all thanks for the great content
Merry Christmas Matthew and penny also all your family have a great time.❤❤❤❤
I'm in Oklahoma City and we still have a couple malls here still open. Have a Merry Christmas!!
We still have malls in Atlanta, Ga, but not as popular as they used to be.
Awesome video buddy merry Christmas to you and your family
@VanlifePLUS, Matthew, did you check:
1. The seal of the hole around the heater where it sits on the floor?
2. The exhaust tube where it connects to the heater to assure it is properly seated and tightly clamped? If it's not it may be allowing exhaust to flow under the van and get in through some unseen crevice.
Just maybe there is a leak around one of those areas and allowing exhaust fumes to waft into the van.
Malls are closing left and right. The mall by my Mom which opened March 2, 1976, and my 6th grade class won an essay contest and we were one of the first 100 people to enter the mall, closed June 30, 2024. It was THE state-of-the-art mall at the time, and a model for many other malls that followed around the country.
Indiana here. We have seen a decline in mails this year. Merry Christmas, Matthew and Penny, also family! 💝
Merry Christmas!!
Im in Michigan. My mall that was built in 70-71 is barely open. You go in there and most stores are closed. The food court is booming tho. Even JC Pennys went out. I haven't been in a mall in many years. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎅 🎄 ❤️ and a happy New Year.
🎄🎅Merry Christmas to You and Your Family 🙋🏼♀️ A VanLife Tip…in Florida if we have anything in the passenger seat that is higher than where the window starts we get an obstructed driving view ticket😮 anything on our dashboard Hass to be lower than the steering wheel, and nothing should be in the passenger seat that obstruct your view of your Sideview mirror. They do let this one go during Easter Thanksgiving and Christmas.😂 don’t know if they’re that cranky up in Canada like they are down here about stuff in the passenger seat but the seat being turned around the block a lot of your window and would’ve got me a ticket down here. Just something we forgot about, and didn’t know if anybody knew that was actually a ticket worthy OFFENSE?😏 #vanlife🙋🏼♀️ 🌴🚐💕
a blessed Christmas from South Africa❤
Southern California. We still have shopping malls. Some are very big.
MerryChristmas
I live in Oregon and there’s a large mall .5 miles away from me. It’s definitely been busy these past couple of weeks but not in the way they used to be in the 80’s. We could spend the entire day into the evening at the mall with only $10.
Hey Captain Matthew and Penny...Happy Holidays...
Merry Christmas 👋😃🎅😃🇨🇦
Merry Christmas Barb!
Good Evening Matthew and Penny.wishing you a very Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas 🎄✨🎅🏽🥰
The closest town to me is 85 miles away. I think Vegas still has malls, about 4 hours away. I don't go the other way to Phoenix 3 hours, they have them I think.
Merry Christmas! 🌲 🎅 🎁 🍾 🥃 🥂 ⛄️ May your holiday and every day be blessed.
Merry Christmas everyone!
❤️🇨🇦
P.S
Yeah I noticed the nut man was closed in Edmonton too. They are from Regina and you can order online (🤷🏻♀️). Next time maybe.
And also to you 👍
Well hello there Matt and Penny hope you're day is going well always amazing video
In Minnesota there are a couple left like the mall of America but they are dying quickly
Yeah we have ‘malls’ all over the place in Australia
Good evening Matthew. Hug Penny for us.
Merry Christmas Matthew, Brooklyn and Miss Penny!
I am in the Los Angeles California area and we still have shopping Malls here but you’ll find 1 or 2 of the big stores closed down on either end of these malls. So, it’s looking as if malls will become obsolete soon.
Charleston SC yes we still have malls
Houston & the surrounding area has quite a few malls still in operation.
Hey Matthew the bracelet looks great on you!! hey i was wondering how your cousin liked her anklet and crib pegs? good luck on getting a sticks and bricks!!
❤ 🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉
How are we supposed to watch you n Byron at the same time????
To be fair, I came in late for his, so my question is irrelevant 🤷🏼♀️ happy Christmas eve eve ❤
Yeah I was gonna say - show up on time! 😂
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I live in Kansas. We have malls but they are drying up rapidly. Movie theaters too.
30:48. I'm in Michigan Indiana area, both states have large malls and way too many people in them all day, every day! You are hilarious...😂
Hi Matthew 👋
My BOY..HUGE HUG. 😢❤. BLESSINGS.
Weather station says we will have a mild Christmas in Calgary. Merry Christmas and happy holidays.
I'm in NY n we still have shopping malls. Merry Christmas to you n your family .
Erie, PA has a huge shopping mall called the Milcreek Mall.
Im in Pittsburgh PA, and we have like 6 malls. But a few are going under.
Hi Matthew, I'm watching you from Kazakhstan, Almaty, you might not know about this country 😅
I love your videos, pet Penny for me, Merry Christmas to all of you and your family ❤😊
Merry Christmas to you Brooklyn and Penny from Ky
Love watching you. Hilarious shenanigans
Merry Christmas to the Allen family. Iowa the mall where I’m at is a dead horse 😢
Tim Waller from Valdosta ga. We still have shopping malls down here 😊
Wf. Texas still has a Mall but its been slowly dying for a few years now.
NW Alabama, Malls are a thing of the past. One of the smaller ones, was just torn down last week.
In Dallas, Tx we still have malls
Minnesota, malls exist (mall of America) but many have closed
I’ve been to that one! Loved it
Hi Matthew. Where I live in Missouri pretty much if not all the malls have shut down. There's one that I went to all the time with my grandma from the time I was born in 1962 that closed almost 20+ years ago and another one that I was at on the day it opened back in the mid 70's that has been closed for years. It's sad that they didn't last. Where I live now the ones around me have closed in the last few years or have just a few shops still open in them. Anyways.. lol.. Merry Christmas. Hope you have a wonderful rest of your week and weekend. Much love to you.. Brooklyn.. Penny and the whole Allen family from this old Missouri grandma. Don't drink to much tomorrow night or you might see flying pink reindeer behind an elephant with big floppy ears flapping in the wind pulling a jolly old man in red laughing as he comes close to running you over.
In PA suburbs of Philadelphia we have a few malls still opened. A couple smaller ones were made into Outside malls. And a bunch of outside malls are now the thing. I.e. Providence town center, Philadelphia Premium outlets located outside of Philadelphia…
Kansas City suburbs used to have like 5-8 malls ( several outdoor strip malls) now there is pretty much 1!!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE Mustard Pretzels ❤️❤️❤️❤️👍🇨🇦
Wondering if the heater fumes issue might just be when the breeze is in the right direction, the exhaust is finding a small gap somewhere to re-enter from outside? In which case the new heater won't solve it but, at least then you'll know you're looking for a hole somewhere.
Mustard Pretzels from the Nut Man are awesome..I need to get some also!!! 🤤
I'm in New Mexico USA and a lot of large and strip malls are vacant...so sign of the times with internet shopping sticks and bricks go the way of the wind.
I have a Lenovo laptop on a TV tray that I'm using right now as I sit on my couch.
Merry Christmas from Roanoke, Virginia -- located in the valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains. There are malls here in Virginia.
Evening Matthew l think there's a Nut Man in South Center Mall 2nd. Floor or you can phone and place an order for delivery.
Hey Sandy! It was there a few years ago but left a while back unfortunately
It's a great night on youtube!!! VanlifePlus and Tales from Sanctuary !! 🎉❤🎉❤🎉
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Merry Christmas Matthew🥂🎅
Happy Holidays ❤
Matthew, do you think any of the fumes or odors are affecting Penny? The reason I ask is that cats are hyper sensative to smells. Example, Oil diffusers are bad for any pets.
Thanks for all the shenanigans Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Kim! Thank you very very much