• just_kitten@aussie.zone
    16·
    1 month ago

    ✅ Final clean

    ✅ Photos taken and sent

    ✅ Keys returned

    ✅ LL emailed

    ✅ Bond return initiated

    ✅ Picked up a week’s worth of food from Fairfeed

    Goodbye old house and old life!!! Onto the transitory period before the next big thing… interestingly just yesterday I hear from my cousin in regional Vic that they’re seriously considering moving (back) to WA…

    E: I also wish to mention that my fingerprints aren’t working so well on my phones. Must’ve been cleaning too hard lol.

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      6·
      1 month ago

      I loath going back to an empty place for the final clean. It’s an emotional kick especially when you got the place in a worse condition.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        8·
        1 month ago

        I can totally see why people just get bond cleaners to do the job. By that stage of the move you’re already exhausted and cranky. If you had to leave because you didn’t want to it’s easy to feel resentful when cleaning. I’m so glad it’s over. I never want to think about that place again now

        • Catfish@aussie.zone
          6·
          1 month ago

          I do too, but I want my own photographs. Not trusting any company cleaner to match to intake ones properly.

          • just_kitten@aussie.zone
            2·
            1 month ago

            Oh wait so these bond cleaners do the photos as well? I figured I’d still take my own photos anyway after they’re done.

            I’ll keep that in mind from when I move out of my current place…

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        2·
        1 month ago

        Have moved to a tiny musty old bachelor pad of depression in Richmond. It’s just a short term lease, hoping to gtfo as soon as uni is done. Possibly out of Melbourne or even Victoria. Definitely not inner city

        • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          Ooh, any ideas where you’re headed? Kinda can’t wait to join you, although I’m thinking more Europe than another state 😅

    • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
      8·
      1 month ago

      (Because I’ve been out of the loop/thread for much of the week and didn’t realise you were back…)

      BAKKKKKUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!! Welcome back!! 🎉🎉🎉

      Also trains are awesome, but that’s just common knowledge :)

  • Tofu@aussie.zone
    14·
    1 month ago

    i think i am in a long distance situationship and that is exactly right at this point of my life

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
    12·
    1 month ago

    Can’t claim sewing course is going well. Nobody is horrid, but I’m highly dubious my result will fit, and can really do without the graphic prego stories!

    Opposite result of hoped for really.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
    10·
    1 month ago

    said it before and I’m sure I will say it again: Boys highschool sex ed should be bringing in a new dad whos got a kid in daycare and ask them “how many times you been sick this year?”. You’d scare the crap out of them.

    • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
      9·
      1 month ago

      The real problem imo is that the rich and shameless and/or powerful are stuck in an exploitative 19th century mindset, while the real world has moved on. Have you read Jared Diamond’s masterful depiction in Collapse - How Societies Choose to Survive or Choose to Fail? I found that book mindblowing. Also Tim Flannery’s The Future Eaters, which I regard as essential reading for anyone living in Australia rn. Some of the science is dated, but imo still valid in essence. And both authors are right on the money when it comes to how humans react to social stressors.

      • Nath@aussie.zone
        4·
        1 month ago

        I hung out with Tim and his wife for a week in the far north of WA many years ago. They’re really cool and smart people. Bit of a secret: Tim is the famous one, but Alex is probably the smarter and cooler of the two. Shh! 😃

        • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
          3·
          1 month ago

          Jelly! That would have been fabulous! Tim has been one of my heroes for some time - glad to know Alex is up to his weight and then some.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      4·
      1 month ago

      It’s not just money, there are too people who don’t care so much about getting money as making other people suffer.

      I don’t know what we can do about that other than have safety nets.

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zoneOP
    10·
    1 month ago

    Two members of my household tested positive for COVID today and I have symptoms but tested negative. Time to sit and watch some movies for the rest of the week maybe.

    Movie recommendations please!

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    9·
    1 month ago

    I’d like to be one of those people who feels compelled to buy a book every time they go into a book store, but they’re like $20 for even a basic paperback. I don’t want to drop that much every time I go look at books

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
        2·
        1 month ago

        I get them there when I can but I’m too slow a reader at the moment to not need a couple of renewals to get through a book

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
        2·
        1 month ago

        And I can read them in the dark easier. The kids still sleep in our room so I can’t really use a light for regular books

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
      4·
      1 month ago

      I used to do that but the cost of books now are pretty high so I’ve stopped buying them.

    • Nath@aussie.zone
      3·
      1 month ago

      Depending on how voracious a reader you are, Kindle Unlimited may be worth investigating. I go through about 4 books a week, so the service ($14/mo) must have saved me about $1,000 by now.

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
        4·
        1 month ago

        Unfortunately I don’t read as much as I’d like, which is part of it. I get my ebooks from ‘other’ parts of the internet and that’s what I went to check.

        I’m reading The Crying Lot of 49 and my version has some weird formatting. I wanted to check if it was just an eBook thing or a deliberate stylistic choice. Turns out it was just a weird eBook formatting thing

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
        3·
        1 month ago

        I used to work at a big w and when they have a book it’s always cheap. Especially kid’s books. I feel bad for independent toy stores because it’s so hard to compete with the big department stores there

  • tone212_@aussie.zone
    8·
    1 month ago

    So I saw one of the friends in the group that excluded me from their catch up last week. He was saying how we should plan another pot luck dinner with the group (that’s what we did the last time I saw them all) and have it at person X’s place. So maybe they felt bad I wasn’t with them last week? Who knows. I just acted dumb, said sure etc, no confrontation about why I wasn’t invited last week. Let’s see if it happens. I’ll forgive but I won’t forget!