Discussion Thread: Tuesday, 4 March 2025

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was feeling a bit down today but the man is here and he always makes me feel better. That and a trip to bunnings. ❤️

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    hugs 🙂

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks mate. I’m all good now 🙂

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A Bunnings date, as my OH would say (we don’t get out much, lol)

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I love that 😂

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hope there were sausages involved.

    Hope you feel better CEO!

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There was no sausages from bunnings

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Phoar. I held back so much when my Aunty called.

  I told her quite clearly over there phone that I don’t want to be used and manipulated into trying to influence everyone else into making a decision on the will and approving things.

  I told her quite clearly I would not get involved and if I needed the inheritance I would not intervene and get involved.

  All she wanted to do was try and use me to influence the outcome and kept talking negatively about everything.

  She tried manipulate me again and I told her not to.

  I didn’t really want to talk to her but I’ve had it with her.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    wtf

    if I was so blunt and assertive the manipulators in my fam would then ring up other people and tell them lies, saying I abused them

    I just ignore them now

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    • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Some of the family already don’t like her, I did lie and say I don’t speak to any of them and haven’t in months but she effectively pocketed money she wasn’t entitled to and she was caught out and now making it like she’s the victim which is why she’s being scrutinised so much by the family and all the paperwork is under a microscope now.

      I will be ignoring her now if she tries to call, I’ve been ignoring her texts already.

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    • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If I was that blunt and assertive I would have told her to fuck off and leave me alone.

      I don’t have anything to do with her except for her being the executor of the will.

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You did the right thing, some times people just want to complain and victimise themselves, and then rope in other family members to validate that.

    You shouldn’t be made into her flying monkey and I’m so happy you stood up for yourself!

    Sad about the fish, but there will be more fish in the future!

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    • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks, I’d actually been steeling myself for it because I’d had enough of it, I was pretty angry and had to hold my emotions in check and be mostly polite but I didn’t appreciate what she tried to do again and talking negatively about all her dealings with family, ironically as she’s about to jet off to London with her family, oh woe is me.

      Trying to rest at home and make dinner and play videogames and it probably pushed me over the edge, grrr!

      It’s ok about the fish, I have lots more where they came from thankfully!

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy you told her how you feel :) Sad about the fish :(

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    • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m sad for the fish too, first time trying out the battered fish from Aldi.

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• PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So the cola experiment was a success 💪🏼 The Minipeelers gave it double thumbs up, mixed with either straight soda water, lemonade or a sprite slushy, and Mr P mixed it with soda water and a dash of bourbon and said it was magnificent. However, next time I make it I will halve the amount of star anise (which I felt to be just a little too “there”), double the vanilla and add some extra of the browning syrup I made. All in all I am happy with the experiment and keen to make more!

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When is the DT bar opening? 🍹

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    • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Now that would be something!

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That is so cool 😎

    I’m happy when I get the ratios of cordial correct and here you are making syrup. Fantastic!

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    • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I bugger up cordial all the time lol

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yum, you have inspired me to try to make some. I have a soda maker and bottles so it shouldn’t be too hard. 🤞

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    • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s really worthwhile! The ingredients I originally used were:

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      But there are lots of cola recipes out there. The only odd part is the browning syrup; you have to get sugar and basically cook it until it’s melted and almost burnt, just a little burnt even, then add water a drop or two at a time (or it’ll spit and hiss everywhere lol) and mix it in until it cools sufficiently to add the rest in. Funny you mentioned a soda maker, it was this ingredients list which inspired me to make my own:

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      Horrific, if you ask me.

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I messaged a dude on marketplace to buy something and it turned out to be a guy I was in a band with 25 years ago 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  Holy shit lol

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  • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My first marketplace sale turned out to be the wife of someone I work with. It made delivery easy.

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What are the chances…

    Discount? Hehehe

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    small world

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks for paying for my 2nd playthrough of cyberpunk 2077

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do you have Phantom Liberty? That was a wild ride.

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I do! I’m starting from scratch because I want to try a netrunner build instead of sandevistan

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looks like QLD is going to cop it bad with that cyclone, apparently i’s not going to make landfall later in the week.

  Hope everyone is able to keep safe there.

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yeah bit worried about the folks up there. But its not all terrible news! my old man is up in north nsw and has spent the week sending me screenshots of all his weather apps so he is having a great time!

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    • mysticgreg@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My brother is near Caloundra and scored a free trampoline appearing in his yard in the last big storm. Could end up with a boat this time…

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    • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hopefully not near the coast, it’s expected to affect some of northern NSW as well.

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not that exciting in comparison to everyone else living their best life here I guess, but my dad’s old friend from his HS and early adult life msgd me today. She has photos of when I was a kid. She’s gonna send them to me. The gratitude I feel to her is immense, I couldn’t express it properly to her. I’m so happy to finally have some childhood photos.

  I’m gonna surprise dad with them, he doesn’t have any of me either so I hope he’ll be stoked too.

  This friend of dad’s has done me such a solid, I thanked her so so much. I don’t even care if dad doesn’t care, I’m just happy to have some photos of my childhood.

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s fucking awesome!

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s really nice. 🙂

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  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wholesome & compassionate > exciting.

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s incredibly kind! She was looking for her nieces photos and found mine! I’ll have to find something nice to send back as thanks!

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That is awesome!

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s really nice, I wonder if there’s a good way to preserve them so you don’t lose them.

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m gonna see about photocopying then, mostly so dad has them too (we both don’t have any), but also so I can preserve them!

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Another wave.

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  Was perfect out there tonight.

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dude these shots are unreal!

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To take my mind off dad not responding to me at all (I’m totally not teary, nope, not at all), I have applied for 5 jobs in the animal industry. An animal tech one, a customer service one at a shelter, and a few animal attendant ones. I edited up my cover letter and everything.

  I’m just waiting to be okay holy crap. Gonna listen to Montaigne to get all my feelings out in a totally healthy way, yep, mhm

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• TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Another benefit to WFH: taking a shit in peace. The bloke in the stall next to me before was going to a logie! Seriously, I’m quieter having sex than this dude was in the bathroom. if you gotta groan moan and grunt and gasp like that go to a bloody doctor bro.

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  • mysticgreg@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I only make heaps of noise in the bathroom when the person in the stall next to me is on the phone.

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  • tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ewwwww, this I do not miss about working in offices. My co-working has a separate unisex toilet, I use that. So do a few other people, and the ventilation is quite poor in there, so opening the door sometimes comes with a smelly surprise.

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There was a secret toilet in the building where the office is.

    I can’t do the whole side by side thing.

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    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      dont mind it for sitting down, not a massive fan of it for standing up though.

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “yeah nah sorry new manager, my cat has anxiety issues so I’ll need to work from home for the next few weeks”

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    your still working for them after they are withholding pay?

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They came to their senses when I mentioned fair work.

      3 weeks to go.

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have now tried pistachio spritz bubbly. I shall not do so again.

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hmm not sure you could convince me even if it was free.

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That sounds … interesting

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    • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same mob makes one of the lemoncellos that are all the rage right now. It’s not awful, just peculiar.

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Okay I said I wouldn’t care if dad didn’t care about these photos, but he’s seen my message and hasn’t responded.

  I just need to chill! It’s a workday! It’s gonna bring up a lot of feelings from the past for him! Not everything is about you Spud, gah!

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  eeek, the moving is getting all done

  while it’s a bit of a fuss it’s nothing compared to moving a household from Europe to the US or shipping a pet cat overseas. It was exciting moving from Europe, there was a sea shipping container on a flat bed truck!! It was cool, even if I say so myself.

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  • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Back in the 60s my parents moved the whole family from England to Australia - all the big furniture (including a piano) went in a shipping container made of wood (!!) which was just plonked by a crane onto the front lawn of the house we moved into in Ringwood. Once emptied, the timber was repurposed by Dad into the lining of the garage so he could put hooks & shelves anywhere not just into the structural supports. We moved out of there in 1988, and the lining timbers were just as good/bad as new. The timber was kinda hairy and shed splinters all the time, but was structurally strong. I wonder to this day just what that timber was and where it came from. I’ve never seen anything like it since. Nearest guess would be messmate, but this stuff didn’t warp like messmate does.

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    • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ringwood would have still been nearly rural at that time! They were probably there when they moved the clock tower! My family would have moved to the area not long before you moved out. Now every time I look at the older houses I’m going to wonder if it has a garage lined with shipping container!

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is an awesome story. 🙂

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  • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Having been in the same place nearly 20 years I find the thought of moving a bit terrifying. But at least I have a lot of decluttering done, it at least seems manageable.

    My last move was only three blocks. The one before that was technically only two houses, but I had a holiday for 6 weeks and put everything into storage during that time. Moving to another country is totally outside the scale of my expertise.

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seeing as you have lived in so many countries, I’m wondering what your accent sounds like.

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      refined Aussie with no friendly foes and few idioms

      I can understand other colloquialisms very well so most people don’t even notice I speak Aussie other than a mild accent

      I expect my accent is a bit more broad since I moved back

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• danwritesbooks@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  After an almost 2 month wait I got my final 2 assignment results back from last teaching period.

  I was pretty certain I nailed one and the other I was iffy about.

  The one I nailed, I “only” got an 82. Which is good and I am happy about but I thought I would have done better.

  The one I was iffy about, 90. Now that I am chuffed about.

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  • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That sounds like me. The last assignment I did I was still recovering from Covid and did a bit of a rush job on, and got 90%. They seemed to particularly like the section I had only done a rough outline of, intending to go back and add some detail and references later. I never went back and just assumed it would get me a few points but not a passing grade for that section, so I guess a rough outline was all they really wanted.

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• tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I made breakfast, lunch and dinner at home while WFH today. My usual approach is not to clean up after each meal and leave it to the end of the day. By the time I’ve finished making dinner and eating, my kitchen is a bomb site and takes a loooong time to clean up. It’s a real drainer. Trying to save money not buying food out as much but that means the kitchen mess multiplies. Thankfully no cooking at all tomorrow, I’ve got enough leftovers. I need a break!

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is exactly why I desperately miss having a dishwasher 😭

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• SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gripe of the day:

  People using their phones while driving. Especially when they have their kids in the car. Like are you kidding me?

  Positive of the day:

  Looks like it’ll be a beautiful day! Hoping to get the paddleboard out again (although my knee is still very bruised) or at the very least have a swim!

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is nice. It’s so lovely to cuddle with Melbcat while playing computer games in bed and stroke her soft fur.

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• dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  While on my fixing procrastination spree, replaced the busted fridge bulb, got a light in the fridge again.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  tonight I am paging thru “How to Make Yourself Miserable, a Vital Training Manual” to see if I have been doing it right. I think I have.

  😬🤣

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Back down the bellarine for the night, hopefully 2. All about watering :(

  But first chillies are turning!

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  I think the blood and bone gave it a bit of a kick.

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  And the flower patch is lurvly. So glad I got my way with that.

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Definitely worked up an appetite for tonight’s dinner thing. Another long hot sweaty day especially after going to bed at 1am with the random cleaning and shit. Need to hurry up and shower and hoof it over there soon though. Thankfully REA is coming between 10 and 12 tomorrow which gives me time to vacuum the joint and clean the stove.

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• TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  skin is crawling with excitement about this campervan. Cant pick it up till next week cause cant get the towpack fitted till next week which means we will miss the public holiday. Not the end of the world, cause we probably need to set it up first, clean it all out and get it all kitted out for us anyway. But still. Its exactly like buying a new car or ordering a new phone online. You spend all this money but then have to sit and wait and you cant play with your new toy.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have just bought more packing boxes. 25 for books and 25 big boxes should be enough. I have other boxes already. 🤞

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• dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Car door lock replaced post-attempted break in. Surprisingly easy to do. Should’ve done it sooner.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Boxes come tomorrow , that means I will start packing in earnest. Since I have already cleaned and sorted everything it shouldn’t take long. 🙂

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh man. I’m feeling so tired and unwell lately. I try to rest but still in pain.

  Lying in bed and doing extensive landscaping in Minecraft to stay occupied. 😔

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  wup, something on Cochrane’s road is on fire

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I found an opportunity to start an online store and I’d like to ask the DT brainstrust on some feedback. I’ll mark it all as spoilers because people may not want to read my full ramblings or some of the subject matter:

  Business talk

  So I’ve been looking at business where I work to try boost my other business offer, selling marketing software subscriptions, and I came across a lingerie wholesaler. They just had an open submission to sign up as a stockist so I thought I’d check it out. I have an ABN and a registered company so I could just do it, and there was very little vetting on their side. Once approved I had access to their entire catalogue and they do dropshipping, where you don’t need to stock the product yourself. Essentially someone buys the product from you, then you buy the product from the wholesaler and they ship it to the person for you. These guys have way more than lingerie. You can stock a whole sex shop with what they have. But I’ve decided to keep it simple, try focus on a few core products I think would move, and have picked more socially acceptable things that you could actually advertise on social media. Instead of uploading everything, I’m focusing on things that could target the rave, festival, club scene. So it can still be seen as fashion instead of getting labelled as a sex store and getting banned from every online platform. I’m offering a few best selling items in the hope they will have a broader appeal to try get some cut-through. I came up with an idea for a store name and a design, here’s the URL, the store is up and running: https://lxix.store/ LXIX is the number 69 in Roman Numerals so it looks fancy but is a sex joke over two thousand years in the making. Let me know what you think of the website. It’s a little rough in areas and doesn’t have everything, but I’m hoping it looks trustworthy enough someone might click through from a Facebook ad and trust it enough to convert and buy. It’s almost impossible to grow a social media following organically these days, so I’m expecting to put a bit of money into ads. My only problem is I have no assets aside from the so-so product images from the wholesaler and the brands themselves. I’m hoping the way I can make this work is I’m hooking up every tracking pixel to just about every social media account I can find. My plan is to eventually get to know my target audience enough I can create ads and remarket to them effectively enough I can build a mailing list, introduce new products as if it’s a ‘launch’ to capture previous customers again, and just grow the database of customers and like customers. But I need actual sales to keep this going and achieve any of that. I only took the ‘Coming Soon’ off the website last week so it’s still early days, but I want to make sure this website looks like it will work. The marketing software and business consulting was a slog because I don’t have a network or capacity to follow up with people effectively. If I get things right here I could just run an ad and get returns. I’m also considering reaching out to people and sending free product for content. But that’s also a case of choosing the right people, as it still costs me money when I have no cashflow at the moment. Also, I’ve searched for the most popular products on the wholesaler’s store to find other websites selling the same stock. A lot of them are basic and ugly websites that don’t look all that maintained. You can upload a CSV of the wholesaler’s catalogue to your store, and I think a lot of people just do that. So they have basic images and descriptions, and are hoping for more of a ‘build it and they will come’ approach. I also want to do a lot of SEO work and try be the top rank for a few keywords. That can supplement ad spend and helps with building a following long term. I don’t think anyone but the big stockists are doing the same. I’m just worried I could have a theoretically perfect online store, but can’t realise any actual sales because my ads aren’t good enough or I don’t have enough capital to spend on advertising to figure it out. Any feedback is recommended because I feel like I could make this work.

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can’t sleep. Got overexcited ordering wall decals online. Goodbye bland as fuck everything!

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