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So good to see Matt relaxed and happy.... you're so blessed to have the sweet relationship that you do. ❤

Matt & Tipper, Tis the season to sit back relaxing by the wood stove telling your heartwarming Appalachian stories & drinking hot chocolate. Love & Appreciate You All.

Your channel is one of the very best things on KZfaq. ❤

Love watching your videos. You all are so much like me and my husband. We want simple things. My husband is like Matt on the truck. He doesn't want power locks and windows. Plain and simple. We love the older things also. Love your little family. Happy for you on becoming grandparents. We had our first grandchild in September and there is nothing like it.

I agree with Matt on liking the older vehicles with manual everything. Blessings to you all.

Good show. Matt was more engaged than usual, and the chemistry was good between you two. Bravo.

Just love your videos! Matt reminds me of my husband, old cars, a handyman able to fix anything. Even his pinky that is bent just like my husband's 🙂I am 71 and my husband just passed away this pass summer at 77. We liked the old days too. So much simpler. So glad I found your channel. Love your cooking videos too Tipper 🥰🥰🥰

I’m with Matt on the older cars. Give me a stick shift and roll down windows any day. Loved you two sharing memories.

I graduated in 1981 and my parents didn't have any extra money. I actually got a grant to go to college. So, that summer before college, me being from Eastern NC, I had to crop tobacco in order to buy a car. I found a Pontiac, Catalina, not the kool looking one either. But I only paid $250 and all my friends called it a boat but I was so proud because I earned the money to purchase it. That car would fly. I was embarrassed at first but I learned to hold my head up high. Those were the good ole days. Even barning tobacco. Every teen should have to spend a summer, barning tobacco!! Very hard, dirty work

Tipper, you made a funny…you ax-identally bought Matt his present. 😆 Love, hugs, and prayers to y’all!

Loved the trip down memory lane!! So agree, less "bells and whistles", fewer things to break! ❤

The way your dad fixed your car lights....that was genius !!! Lolol 😅

I feel the exact same way Matt does about automatic door locks.

Love when you all tell the stories of old ❤ wish your channel had a love button

Our favorite car was our 61 Chevy impala. Wish we still had her.Love the old 55 and 57 Chevy cars. Love listening to to your stories today. Have a great day😊.

It's so interesting how much I enjoy your channel considering that I live way up north in New England. But as I've told you before, your videos and your daughter's videos make me feel a part of your family. I enjoy learning about Appalachia, and I enjoy how much you share about your family. It made the holidays, which have always been difficult for me, much easier. Love you Tipper, Matt and all your family.

I was looking at the Winkler hunters axe and I nearly fell off my chair. That was a super nice gift but I know Matt will get great use of it. He better keep that axe close by. Love to you and the whole family.

Matt that was a good trade👍🏻 Tipper gets purdier and both yall look healthier each an every video. Yall keep on enjoying life!!!

You bothmake me laugh so often but Matt's reaction to the lump of marshmallow had me spewing my tea! 😂😂😂

Once when my husband and I were on our way to Canada for a fishing trip, we stopped at a rest area about 3am. The parking lot was packed with semis and lots of RV’s. We were parked in between two RV’s. My husband went to the bathroom and all of the sudden the stupid truck alarm went off! He said he knew it was our truck! 😂 I am quite sure it woke everyone up! I couldn’t get it to go off!😳

Loved the walk down memory lane!! I had 2 older brothers, and they both had camero's, and of course I had to get one too!! I feel the same way too, as far as the older cars being much more sturdy!! Those were the days!!!!

Love y’all’s old stories. God bless y’all! 😀❤️

In 1986 I paid 1200 dollars for a 1978 trans am. It was my first car. I put a 400 big block out of an Bonneville in it and 50 series racing slicks on the back and man that car would fly. I sold it for 1800 dollars and I've kicked myself ever since. I look at them online now and they are going for 20 grand. Life's crazy sometimes. Love this video.

Oh my dad drove the oldest clunkers and I remember being so embarrassed! I feel so thankful that I can afford a decent car.

Loved this video, so much. The older cars were so cool. We had a 65 chevy impala ss and a 72 cutlass 442. That was in the 1980s. I wish we had them now. I watched the video of the drag race, wow did that bring up the memories. Have a great week. God bless. Praying for Granny and for healthy mamas and babies.

Spent the day cleaning up 12” snowfall, funny to see ya’ll chipping at frozen ground😊 I sure wish they’d make options for stripped down basic vehicles, I’d love to roll down my windows again !! Stay cozy and warm folks. Sure love to give you some of this ❄️❄️💛

Well, we all love the car shows so we go to as many as we can in the summer. I dont drink marshmallows in my hot chocolate but my husband does sometimes and sometimes doesnt. I never know without asking. Great video and i love the chats by the woodstove. I love ours, no heat like it.

I so enjoy your wood stove chats! ☕❤

I love the old cars and trucks, I can’t even tell you how many Camaros I built 30 years ago. Now I have a 1971 Dodge Dart but every time I fix one thing something else needs fixing. Matt has the right idea of wanting an old car but not having the time to deal with one. My favorite cereal in the 80’s was Waffle o’s, I loved those. They had a strong maple syrup flavor, although I’m from Georgia my great grandfather was from Canada and I guess that’s where I got my love of maple flavor. God bless y’all.

Matt, You would buy it and give it back to her because you and Tipper are the best parents that any child could have. I wish I was there to just give you both a hug and kiss. You make tears of joy well up in my eyes.

I asked my grandparents about garden bugs and slugs because they always had a half acre of every veggie and pepper you could want and he said they sprinkled Epsom salt every fall till and cut the slug and bug problem in half.💒🙏💕😇

Great Sunday video sitting around the wood stove and drinking hot chocolate and listening to you and Matt just talking. 😊

The “basement puma” had me in stitches 🤣

Like Tipper, I grew up in a Cheerios and Corn Flakes home. When we had a pet raccoon in the 50s, my grandmother bought Sugar Pops for him, but I don't remember eating them. The absolute worst were Froot Loops on the market in the early 60s. Figuratively those cereals were air (little food value), but the reality is that they were sugar. Glad Matt gave up his boyhood sugar fix. Thanks for the memories.

Hey Matt, you can program it so that the automatic door lock doesn't do that. Check your owners manual on how to turn off that feature !!

You two are so pleasant… I truly believe GOD put me watchin yall all these many years ! I’m never disappointed.. need to hear from your brother soon his singing is so beautiful

We ate Apple Jacks! When I would ask the girls what kind of cereal they want they would say papaws kind! My girls names are Delalea 62 years old, Dara’Su 52 and Dannarae 50. Pronounced as two(2). They have great families, so proud of them.

❤ I love you guys. I learn many things. I feel like you guys are family. Thank you and God bless you all.

Heavy rains and high winds coming to Georgia tomorrow night, God keep us warm and safe and well in Jesus name

My mom use to turn over the garden during winter at least twice. When we started gardening I had my husband turn over the garden twice during winter. He, like my mom, would try to plow it up the day before we were going to have bad weather. If the ground was frozen we would wait till it warmed up a little, but we always managed to get it turn over. The year we didn’t do it, then that summer we had the worst bug problems. Just want till the weather warms up a little then plow. It will get cold again. Hearing all them cars stories reminded me of my dad and both my brother’s love of cars. Fond memories! Cool axe you got Matt for Christmas.

Matt's reaction to Tipper not having ever had Lucky Charms tickled me so much 😆

My first car was a 71 Toyota Corolla, no frills , 4 speed, mustard yellow ☺️ ... bought it new in 72, so I got a deal... I put over 200,000 miles on it before I traded in...it was the best car I ever had and got 40 mpg on the highway! Enjoyed the visit 👍👍❤️

Ah, the days when things were made to last as apposed to the throw away society we live in now.😢 Love the old things.

Great stories !! Matt gets excited about old cars , his leg gets to bouncing 😂❤ y’all are awesome!!

I enjoyed this video so much! Love the memories, my grandparents and parents had similar cars. We also had the Oldsmobile station wagon from the late 1960s. It was so pretty, blue with the wood panels on the sides. I miss those cars, our parents would put the seats down and make a “pallet” in the back of the station wagon for me and my little brother to sleep while my dad drove us during the night. Long trips to visit my grandparents in Alabama. Those were the best days of my youth!

I make hot chocolate the same way except i add 1/2 tsp. of vanilla 😊 Nothing better on a cold night 😊

I think Tipper needs to chill out and enjoy the winter months and leave the gardening for spring 🥺😳😅

You look so so cute today, Tipper.

I giggled a few times throughout this video. I learned to drive on a '69 Impala. I was embarrassed about our car too. Matt's story about the school pick up really made me laugh. I could see my dad being a goofball and acting like the other dad. ❤

I can relate to so much of the talk about old cars. We always had old cars too. Once I reached high school about to graduate my mama and daddy bought a new car. I was so proud of that car. I learned to drive and took my driving test in a 66 Mustang and the color was sort of a gold color. I hated that car, but now I would love to have it. We drove that car until it wouldn't go anymore. And I learned to drive straight shift in an old Ford truck that my daddy had and then a little pinto station wagon. Sweet memories. Then the first car I bought after I finished nursing school and worked a few months to save up a down payment was a Ford EXP. I loved that car. It was straight shift and I was only 19 but I was so proud that I could drive a straight shift. I would probably still have that car but after I got it paid for somebody t-boned me and tore it up.

Enjoyed this video very much. Especially the reminiscing about the vehicles. The first car I had was my parents old car, a 1976 Pontiac Bonneville. That thing was solid as a tank. It would go good in the snow. It was wide and super long, as Dad would say, "it was as long as a 3 week payday". Thanks letting us visit with y'all.

Married almost 30 years and still learning new, surprising things about each other. Tipper found out Matt doesn't like marshmallows in his cocoa. Matt learned that Tipper has never had Lucky Charms, and the expression of incredulity on his face when he did! 😂 You two will never run out of things to talk about, and that's such a blessing in a marriage. I'm a fan of old cars, too. I like going to old car shows are car museums. But evidently I need to update my idea of what's "old," lol. Suddenly I feel old myself. I've about gotten used to the idea that 1950 Chevy pickup I learned to drive a stick shift in is vintage. But I thought of the ones y'all were talking about as just cars. I'm with Matt about not liking automatic this and electronic that on cars, and my late husband was the same way. He had a basic, manual everything 1986 Toyota truck that sounds like what Matt was talking about. Though after a few summertime trips through the desert on dusty dirt roads, I did tell him that like it or not, his next truck was having A/C! But as it turned out, that Toyota lasted the rest of his life, though it had about 250,000 miles on it. And we took it on some roads where "road" was just a courtesy title.

Man, I could sit and talk to you guys for hours. I am older than ya'll. Love them old cars. Love listening......

You guys are the best. I love hearing those old stories. It brings back a lot of good memories.

This is a really fun video! I enjoy Matt showing his gear. That's a really nice hunting shirt too. Thanks so much for sharing this video with us!

Wow!! IMPRESSIVE fire starting with the Winkler, Mr. Matt!!!

My little heart just gushed up and run shivers through me when Matt said he'd give up his Special Horse for a woman and said it was a good trade!!!

That picture of you standing by the monte carlo, you looked just like Corie. Skinny young, and cute.❤

That was always my favorite recipe when my boys were growing up!❤

Dear Ms. Tipper I moved from the Ozarks of Missouri to Wyoming in the late 80’s. You remind me so much of my people. It’s like I’m listening to my folks again. Thanks from a homesick Hillbilly 15:19

I make this recipe often through winter for me and my husband. I make it by the quart as we drink off of it all week. If kids and grands are coming I will make a gallon. Keeps well in fridge to heat up in microwave. Only difference, I add a splash of vanilla. ❤glad y’all are enjoying each others company now that he’s retired. Blessing!

Great gift you got Matt. I'm with Matt like the older cars and trucks. These newer cars just don't have the character as the old ones. The hot chocolate looked great. Thank you for sharing. God bless hope you have a great week

Tipper, I just want you to know that I so enjoy listening to the to of you talk!!! I really do!!! Thank you so much for sharing apart of your day with us!!!! God Bless Us All!!!

Hope you all get some of this snow, Tipper. We have missed the first storm except seeing a few pretty flakes. Sadly, I think we’re going to miss this next storm too.

If you get Binx neutered he would calm down, be healthier and stick close to home.

👋❤️👋Y’all have the best conversations by the stove. I’ll take the marshmallows and hot chocolate Matt doesn’t want😄. Looks good to me. Love old classic cars. When I was just out of high school, bought my first car. “F88 Oldsmobile.” I had a plate on the front. It was two big old 👀 eyes. We lived in a very little town and I was called Moon Eyes, for a while anyway. Loved my car and put a lot of miles on it. When we got married, my new husband and I traded it in for A “1968” Candy Apple Red, 8 cylinder, Automatic, Ford Mustang. Loved ❤️ my car even more than the first. It was from the love of my life. We wish we still had that car. It would be about 57 years old. 😂 👋❤️👋Jennifer

Oh my, the stories I could tell about the cars in my family and that my friends had growing up in the 60s and 70's! Camaros, Chevelle's, Trans Ams, Jacked up Novas, Firebirds. I used to fly down our country roads! Once my son pointed out a car that was on TV that he thought was awesome. I told him my brother had one just like that that I used to drive. He said, you did not cause it was a stick shift. I said son, back then just about everyone knew how to drive a standard transmission. Loved all those great cars and Matt is right, my dad and brothers could fix all all of them!❤❤

Matt needs to wait on those grandsons to grow some and re-build an older truck with them. 😊

We live in Australia and my husband has a 1965 Mustang convertible. It is completely original in every way with not a speck of rust to be found. It is his pride and joy. He drives it whenever he can and l have got used to being a passenger in a car with a left hand drive. As you know , we drive on the left side of the road . We get a lot of admiring looks on the freeway. The car was recently used for our daughter’s wedding. Thankfully the weather was good and she was able to proceed to the church with the hood down.

Matt should say thank you for the cocoa with or without the marshmallows. And he should kiss your hand. ❤

Thanks for the laughs you guys make me smile listening to you have a conversation 😂😂😂

Thanks!

Fun listening to you and Matt talking about the old muscle cars. My husband still has his high school car. It’s a 68 Dodge Challenger 440 RT. All of his old friends see him the first thing they would ask is “ do you still have the RT”? It was the car to beat in the day. Lol I tease and say that he would give me up before he would his old car. 😃

turning over the iced dirt 😮 poor Matt

Tipper and Matt. my dad loved the old cars, and so did I! Most girls in our area didn't like the old cars, but I sure did. I drove a '69 Buick Grandsport California. My dad had it painted a really pretty red. It was so much fun to drive!

Another nice visit with y’all around the stove. Our ground is frozen too. It’s like walking on rocks. I see you have a high wind advisory. Stay warm. 😊❤😊

Tipper I really love when I get the gift just right for a loved one. Good for you! Thank you for sharing Tipper and Matt.

In the 80's and 90's my Dad's only car was a 1966 Chrysler Newport (felt like driving a limousine). He paid $500 for it used. Like Matt was saying, he bought cars like that because he could work on them if needed under the shade tree. Like you Tipper, I was sooo embarrassed to be seen in it.

I loved and still do,my 64 SS Impala.

The "basement puma" was a good one. LOL

I love utube. Its very educational. Me and my husband watch westerns together. Old ones on tv. I am like Matt. I like manual. I get paranoid when I get in remote doors and windows. This is our 50 anniversary

You're DEFINITELY one of the good things about you tube. I watch you tube exclusively. I'm mush younger than you and the 50 and 60 cars are the cars I love. Always enjoy your Sunday afternoon memories

I’m with Matt on these new vehicles. These key fobs are awful. I want to have an actual key. That push button start, hold the brake, drives me crazy sometimes ❤ Have a great day ❤

Watching the old car video reminded me of high school game nights. lol. Thanks for sharing that.

Matt I understand that's why I watch you tube. I can pick decent things to watch 😊

I have a 70 Challenger, 440-6 ,lemon twist , banana yellow.. I love the old classic cars. 😊

I wonder if Matt could show us how to sharpen our knives with a stone.... or however he does it. Happy new year to the Pressley family! I had a 1993 black monte carlo and it was so much fun to drive! I think at that time, back in the day, they were called "shade tree mechanics", able to fix cars back in the day before you had to have a computer to see what ails your car.

I made a cup of coffee and sat with you guys for a while. Thanks for the laughs. You don't know what these videos mean to people.

My husband loved the Barrett-Jackson Auctions. He would always tell me the history of the different muscle cars. Great memories, thank you!

After I graduated in 1968 I worked in gardens, babysat, helped with canning, just about anything I could get paid for. After that I bought a VW from my brother. It was a 1965 VW and I was almost 19 years old.

Evening, Miss Tipper, Matt. Looks like you are having fun.

Matt was talking about not liking the modern computerized cars. I agree. But I have to admit that I love my fuel injected Hemi in my Ram truck. When I fire that puppy up it just warms my heart.

I enjoy reminiscing! Guess that is what you do when you’re old! I enjoy those old shows too, we watched Columbo recently and enjoyed just seeing the style of clothes,home decorating and cars! As much as watching the show

My husband is like Matt! Loves the old muscle cars! A few years ago, he traded his ‘89 Chevy Scottsdale truck and some cash and for a ‘55 Chevy truck. He had it completely redone….everything on it was replaced! It was a metallic blue with all black interior when he got it. When it was finally finished, it was a two toned pearl gold and burgundy with camel colored suede seats. Our Granddaughter said it looked like peanut butter and jelly😂 I’m telling you, it was absolutely stunning! We had it long enough to enter four different car shows and this truck won first place every time! That was about four years ago when we lived in Ohio. We’re in Florida now but decided to sell it before the move. It sure was fun while we had it though!!😊

Great video, I sure agree with y'all on those older vehicles. Those are what you call "solid" vehicles. 💪

Love the older cars. Watched American Graffiti the other night. That was a trip. I remember when it came out. They ere built better lasted longer and not so complicated 😊

Walk down memory lane was fun! 😂. I loved being a teen in the 80’s and I still like the vehicles from the 60’s through the 80’s.

We love old cars. My Hubby has restored a 1953 Oldsmobile Super 88 Rag Top, a 1964 Cutless 442 Rag Top, and Numerous MG's. And the latest is a 1958 Cadillac Deville.

Y’all are silly farmin in January but I’m thankful for the video 😂 I used to order my benificial insects around this time of year (lady bugs, praying mantis egg cases etc.) they are great way to control bad bugs without using chemicals. I love Matt’s tips for starting fires and using his tools properly! Y’all stay safe, keep warm and always be awesome!!!