WHERE'S BEST TO LIVE IN NZ AND WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW: PART 5!

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Look at us Chatty Cathy's!
Justa oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Oh Piha. I still have nightmares about Piha. Epic "scenic route" to get there, no shade, burning hot sand, baby and me getting overheated. Not one of our finest days - I think we hadn't got used to NZ beaches at that stage. I suspect if/when we go again it will be significantly more pleasant.

Justa - to be fair, all my visitors have been great & really helpful. But it's draining having to be on the go so much & having to consider different tastes for dinners etc (instead of "this is what I've cooked, eat it or go hungry ). Latest visitor wanted to go to the beach 4 out of the 5 days she was with us. Lovely for her but not always v relaxing for me with my 2 crazies.

Off on holiday on Tuesday though. Should be lovely

Anyone know any good CHEAP places to get furniture?

Looks like we might have this house and if we do, we'll be moving with just beds and mattresses for the dc and that's it.

Looks like we'll be camping for a while but if we can get a couple cheap bits, that'll be great.

Love Piha best on a nice autumn, winter or spring day. Like it in summer too but we take a pop up tent.

We went up to Orewa today, on five hours sleep after I got in at 12 and dh got up to go fishing at 5.30 am.

Cheap furniture, yeah, Trade Me. The Warehouse has some cheap shelves, stuff like that, it's not that pretty but it would do. I have some of their shelves like these

www.thewarehouse.co.nz/red/catalog/product/Hampton-Bookcase-4-Tier-White-4141S?SKU=1426461

for storing kids toys. And they have cheap kitchen stuff. Are you shipping any stuff over?

Been looking at Trade Me.

We definitely have the house

Our stuff that we shipped Is here.

We didn't ship any furniture though as we couldn't afford the costs at the time. It was selling the tv/cabinets/sofas that got us out here in the first place. Dp had been made redundant and this job was the first he was offered so we literally scraped together every penny to get here.

Still camping is fun right. LOL.

Yes please justa

Don't mind 2nd hand furniture at all.

Thank-you

Congrats on the house xminerva :-)

LOL at the dog being better than the kids, she is, she really is! I said to DH the other day that she has ruined us for ever owning another dog because she really is that well behaved and lovely.

DD on the other hand has ruined us for having any other kids as we are too scared!!

Friend has found us a house that is in the right area, good price, near good school WILL TAKE DOG, and guess what? I hate it. It's about everything I don't want in a house. What am I going to do? We arrive in 3 bloody weeks!!!

Frik - what's the rental term? Would it be worth taking the house so that you can move in somewhere, get settled & established, and then when the term is up, you might be in a position to find somewhere that suits better?

Or do you really hate it that much?

It's quite hard out there at the moment frik with rentals, can you look at it as a temporary thing or is it really that bad?

The only good thing about the house we're in now is the pool. I don't like living here really but it was always going to be a temporary situation which has made it easier to handle,

frik do you have a link to the house?

xminerva. If you do get some new furniture, always check out the Salefinder website as it seems like one or more of the big shops always have a sale on.

Xminerva - We started with very little- moved into an empty rental with suitcases and had a bed delivered that day. We've bought quite a lot of furniture from this shop- they have a showroom but also sell on trademe.

www.trademe.co.nz/home-living/lounge-dining-hall/cabinets-bookshelves/wall-display-units/auction-551181662.htm

He assures me is it sustainably harvested. Gulp. We recently got some other stuff from another 'teak wholesaler' sort of place. I don't think it is teak. At least I hope not!

Also got a sofa set from Target which has been fine.

We have those shelves wss! They are very handy for ds2's little books.

Another thought for second hand. The Sally Army? We drove past one and saw a pine computer desk. It was in perfect condition (looked brand new actually) and it cost $30!
Thanks for the tips re Piha, if we ever go I will buy a pop up tent!

frik What is up with the house? Is it minging?! I think you're best bet is too move in and then look for somewhere else asap. I know that might be a depressing prospect if it's really yuk, but there's not much time.
Or, do the motel thing (they gave us a reduced rate for long term stay) and then look for a better place?

justa so jealous of the pool...one day

You can get little boxes that fit into those shelves too e.g. we have all the My Little Pony shite stuff in one box.

Oh god. They're coming back 2 hours early, to go to the beach. because Waiheke doesn't have beaches

So much for my afternoon of pottering about at home getting stuff ready for packing

WhatSheSaid-where do you go to the Dr that you pay $17, that is sooo cheap?

Anytime you want to order books always check on booko.com.au, it's a comparison site and you'll find the cheapest wordwide prices there.

I'm in Green Bay in west Auckland, Hermione. My dr is really great with kids too.

Ah no good to me I'm on the Shore, but thanks