Our stuff is arriving on Monday..a friend, met off this board (thanks Peebles16), has loaned us kitchen stuff (and we brought some plastic camping stuff with us), our landlords from the furnished flat we spent a month in loaned us a mattress (they offered us the bed..but we figured that for 3 weeks the mattress would do by itself!) and a deckchair. We picked up a "Poang style" chair and some basic cubes and towels, sheets and clothes airer from The Warehouse (not sure how long they will last) and OH is delighted with his Lazy Boy recliner from Smiths City Clearance! And we bought a new telly (but we had budgeted for that in our move!) We knew that we wanted to enlarge our freezer and found a really cheap one for clearance at Bond and Bond for about $250 for a 3 drawer freezer and then paid $99 for a bar fridge, which is big enough for milke, butter etc. We rented a washing machine from Mr Rentals for $120 for as long as it took the container to arrive!
We brought sleeping bags and some sleeping mats and microfibre towels with us with some light weight camping gear.
Camping out in a house with a log stove and heat pump is a breeze after some NW Scotland campsites in summer but must admit that I am looking forward to the furniture's arrival on Monday!
I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly,
I'll do what it takes until I touch the sky
Arrived Christchurch 27th June 2010
Start work 6th Sept 2010
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