General -- Expirations and Items that Expire

In order to foster the potential of growth and expansion within beYou as both an RP living system and also as a working system for its users' creations, items must go through life cycles. At the end of those life cycles, items need to expire so that new items can be created and in turn, used.

## Expiration

beYou expiration exists to create an element of realism and keep our markets from getting flooded.

### beYou Item Life Cycle

Most items that come from an animal; are being crafted or processed; or would naturally rot/go bad in a real-world environment are given a life cycle of 30 days from the day the item is loaded into one's assets, rezzed inworld or at worse case scenario, inadvertently attached it to their avatar.

### Expiration Notification

Once an item is 10 days from expiration, beYou users will receive a notification either by inworld notification or upon logging into their beYou profile via the website, depending on their set account preferences. This information will ALWAYS show in the 'My Expirations' section of their profile, regardless of notification preferences that have been set.

**IMPORTANT**: If you have items that are rezzed for sale (using older vendors), these items will not show up in your soon to be expired notifications as they are not in your assets. So make sure you keep track of where you sell your items so that you can get them prior to expiration.

**VERY IMPORTANT**: As of 11/06/2021, most assets available for sale or trade are located in your assets. Because of this, items being sold using the new market vendors will show in your soon to be expired list when there are 10 days remaining in those items' life cycle.

### Expired Item Options

When items expire, you can still make two byproducts from them as a last ditch effort to put them to use. Expired items can be converted into:

#### Fodder

Animal Fodder (Fodder) is food given to domesticated animals to eat. In beYou we use Fodder as a key ingredient to make animal feed using the beYou Pellet Grinder. At this time, the only animal feed we have is chicken feed. But as husbandry expands, so will the types of feed we have for our animals. You can convert your expired items into Fodder through your composter or kitchen compost bin. You will need the Orchard Shed to use or sell/give away fodder to other users.

#### Fertilizer

Fertilizer is used to hasten the growth process of our crops. You can convert your expired items into Fertilizer through a composter (also known as compost manager) or kitchen bin. Fertilizer can be used in farming to speed up plant growth and fodder will be used to create animal feed. You will need the Orchard Shed to use or sell/give away fertilizer to other users.

**\*\*Expired items delete after 15 days of not being composted!!**

## Items & Expiration Date

At present, these types of items expire. beYou reserves the right to change these as more crafting or processing opportunities are added in the future.

**NOTE**: Most Crafting supplies or tools do not expire.

Items that can expire that you buy from other users will have the timer displayed so you know how many days they have left. Watch the timers when you buy the items.

**VERY IMPORTANT**: When you purchase an item that has an expiration timer, the timer will not reset until **after** you have added it to your assets. For example: If you purchase a handheld snack that has 3 days left before it expires, that snack will expire in 3 days unless you add it to your assets before then. Once you add it, then the timer will reset to 30 days and you will have 30 days to use it.

### Drinks

These items expire 30 days from when the uses are loaded into your assets. To retrieve individual servings of these items, you may use your refrigerator and they will be sent to you. This includes bY Coconut Water which is a prepared drink.

### Prep Dish Recipe Items

Prep Dish Recipe items that have been created will begin to expire as soon as the items have finished being created giving them a life cycle of 30 days. To get a vendor in order to sell or trade your items, you will need to use the Prepped Food Packager (it looks like a deep freezer).

### Candy

These items expire 30 days from when the uses are loaded thru a refiller, or Boxed Candy Item Server/Giver.

### Cauldron Potions

Anything prepared from a beYou Crafting Cauldron will expire in 30 days from when the uses are added to your assets or loaded from items that you have purchased from someone else or packaged from your beYou Cauldron Stool. You can also package these from your beYou Potion Punch Cauldron or Skully Cauldron Potion Tray. This includes items items gifted from these Potions as well.

### Medications & Drugs

Anything prepared from a Pharmacist Crafting Table will expire in 30 days from when the uses are added to your assets or loaded from items that you have packaged from your Pharmacist Cabinet. Any of these that you have not loaded the uses for can be stored in your inventory without expiring. Remember that medications cannot be transferred, they must remain in your assets to be delivered to the person you are filling a prescription for.

### Fresh, Cut, Dried & Other Processed Herbs

Fresh Herbs will be loaded into your assets as soon as they are harvested. Dried Herbs (Processed Herbs) are loaded to assets after processing Fresh Herbs from the beYou Herb Dehydrator. Cut Herbs are loaded to assets from cutting Fresh Herbs on a crafted or Basic Herb table. All of these can be sold through the new market vendors and will expire 30 days from when the uses are added to your assets.

### Dairy & Processed Dairy Items

Currently, all milk and butter items are the only dairy items that expire. This includes all flavored, reduced fat and Almond Milks.

**NOTE**: Milk can only be retrieved as single serving glasses using your refrigerator when close to expiring (or if you've lost your table carton/jug).

### Harvests

Harvests expire 30 days from being added to assets (harvested). You can use your Composter or Farmers Scale to remove from your assets and deliver either a vendor to sell your harvests or a crate for you to store the harvests for cooking/consumption. Regardless of of the intended use, the expiration countdown begins immediately.

### Meats & Eggs

Meats provided by beYou that are purchased through beYou Affiliate Grocers or Co-Ops will expire 30 days from when the uses are loaded into assets. Chicken parts and eggs are sold by beYou users, but also fall under the rule that once loaded into assets, they will expire within 30 days.

Chicken parts send vendors through the beYou Butcher Stations and those butcher stations will deliver pre-priced vendors (meaning, the prices cannot be changed) for these items.

Eggs send vendors using the egg packager. Once labeled for sale, the user will be given a pre-priced vendor for these items to set out for sale.

Both chicken and eggs fall under the same expiration rules as any other meats available through beYou. More information on this will be available on the Chickens or Animal Husbandry pages.

### Grains, Processed Grains & Oils

Assets for unprocessed grains loaded from harvests or processed grains from the Thresher, Rice Huller, Milling Station, Brown Sugar or Bleached Flour Barrels, Oil Press or packaged versions of these items purchased will expire 30 days from being loaded to assets.

### Honey

beYou Honey is harvested from the beYou Bee Hive and is used in recipes and crafting. These expire after 30 days in order to facilitate your being able to sell things as part of your professions. You may use the beYou Honey Packager to receive vendors in order to sell them.

### Single Fruits & Vegetables

Single fruits and vegetables are stored by purchasing a set amount of the item from a harvest vendor. To eat or grab single servings of either a fruit or vegetable, you may use refrigerator to take them out of assets as single food items. These expire 30 days from the day stored. Example - beYou Tomato Harvest when stored to assets becomes beYou Tomato. This also includes Coconuts, Coconut Meat and Dried Coconut Meat.

### Cooked & Prepackaged Foods

Prepackaged or prepared/cooked wearable foods that come in platters or boxes to be loaded and served. Cooked Platters, Lilb Prepared Treats, Prepackaged Cakes & Pies, Cereals, Oatmeals all will expire 30 days from being loaded to assets. Any of these that you have purchased or packaged but not loaded the uses for can be stored in your inventory without expiring.

## Reminders

1. When you purchase, grow or craft a consumable grocery item (like pepper or meats, except chicken), you do not need to load it into assets right away. For any harvests you have in your inventory after the system conversion in Nov/Dec 2021, non-updated harvests will remain fresh in your SL inventory until it hits SL air.
2. The minute you load something into your assets, the 30-day countdown to expiration begins.
3. Harvests need to be converted to vendors (or to cooking crates) within 30 days not only to become usable for cooking but also for selling. Visit the beYou Vendors page and scroll down to the area on storing/purchasing your harvests to learn how to convert harvests to consumable uses.
4. Items being sold using the old vendors will not show up in your soon to expire notifications.
5. Items that are expiring already must be added to assets before they will reset to another 30 days.
6. You can not repackage either groceries (like meats) or converted harvests once added to assets.
7. Items bought from beYou (like groceries) or its co-ops that delivered a packaged item will not expire until they are loaded into your assets.
8. **Most important**: do not rezz a consumable asset unless you plan to use the asset right away.