Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 22/8/2023
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 22/8/2023
Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
We paid off the mortgage yesterday! I don't mean to gloat (especially when the cost of living and interest rates are making things so tough for many at the moment) - we're not telling anyone in real life though, so I just wanted to let some of my excitement out, even if anonymously.
I'm 38, and the only family help was a $5000 loan from the in-laws which we paid back within a year. We bought really young (didn't feel like it at the time, but it was - early/mid 20s), so benefited from much lower prices and interest rates (though the first rate we had was 7.5%, that's also the highest one we had). That first place got earthquaked though and we had to start again from scratch, so it wasn't all smooth sailing.
The house is old and tired, and there's a lot of deferred maintenance (no curtains match anywhere, the carpet is shit, and we still have single glazing), so that'll take up the savings for a good long while. But man, it feels like a weight has been lifted.
Congrats! That's an amazing achievement!
no curtains match anywhere
When we moved to our current place I learnt so much about styles of curtains and blinds. We've got rolling blinds and pull string blinds and curtains big and small. I remember saying it felt like a curtain shop with all the different curtains.
Thankyou :)
I've never really been too bothered about the curtains as long as they were functional, but now I think I might have to look into it a bit more. It's nice to have the choice. We'll probably stick with curtains (blackout ones of some kind probably) - I remember blinds looking nice, but being a pain in the ass to clean once they got dusty.
Epic.
Nice work! I know the shit carpet, single glazing world well.
Thanks :) Yeah, it'll take a long while to get all that sorted now, but at least it's closer in the pipeline now.
🏚️->🏡🎆
Well done, what a relief 👍👍
thanks :)
Congrats!
We have shit carpet and single glazing too. It was on our list of to-do's 5 years ago, still on it today :)
Not gloating but definitely worth shouting into the local void, congrats! We're a long ways off being able to say that but I'm genuinely happy for anyone managing to get there.
thanks :)
Ayyyy, I'm never here at the right time for one of these because I'm in Europe. Kia ora all! It's 34° right now at 9.20PM and we're all melting. I could do with a little bit of winter to balance it out. How is lambing season kicking off?
Had that overnight heat thing the last time we visited the UK. 32C during the day then 31.75C at night!! Luckily it was for only for a few days, then back to 18C in mid-summer and needed a sweater!!
It's always the right time! Conversations still happen on posts from previous days, and if it's into the next day in NZ then you can start the post!
It’s 8c where I am right now, not the coldest but I could do with a bit of summer now :)
Can’t help with the lambing question sorry!
Minimum 1C last night and currently 2 going on 3C. Plenty of lambies around, some a bit muddy though.
Light frost last night meant a bit of cover for some plants that I've put out a bit early.
What children’s bedrooms look like around the world
Link from The Bulletin (Spinnoff) this morning gives an intriguing look into the world through the state of kids bedrooms. Those who have young kids might see their rooms a little differently after seeing these?
That'd really cool (even if it's a thinly disguised ad for the book linked at the bottom). So many bedrooms look so tidy, even when covered with toys. They should have taken photos before the parents tidied up.
I'd love to see an NZ focused one of these.
I've flatted in some places that horrified my parents, but I bet there are worse places that kids are growing up in NZ.
@sylverstream@lemmy.nz (or anyone else that can help), I finally got around to playing with the home assistant stuff. I got one of these, plugged it in, and it didn't come up as a device to add. I can't seem to find instructions on adding it manually. Any tips?
Home assistant is great isn't it? I started with it a couple years ago, it can be as complex or as simple as you like. I haven't added anything new to it for quite awhile though
What device have you installed it on? I've got it on a Raspberry Pi4; I had to reboot it before it showed up. It should show up automatically in Home Assistant, otherwise something is not right.
I'm also using a Raspberry Pi 4. I've rebooted and still nothing. I'm running the linuxserver.io docker container, if that helps.
Has anyone here sold a car to Turner’s before? I’m wondering how badly they lowball you.
I guess I shouldn’t expect much as it’s an older car with minor panel damage, but I just can’t be bothered dealing with selling it privately.
A few years back (5?) I tried to sell them a 1994 corona. Got offered $250. Turned them down and ended up selling on trademe, got $800.
That was with their cash offer service. You can also go to auction and get whatever the highest bidder offers.
Thanks, yup looking at their cash now service. It’s not that old, a 2008 bluebird, but still 15 years old. I guess I’ll book an appraisal and see what they say.
I had a 2015 Corolla, very popular. $12k according to TM value my car. Went to Turners, started at $7k which became $8k quickly. I walked away and he quickly came back with $9. He tried to seem he didn't care but I got very suspicious that he added $2k so easily.
He didn't want to put it for auction, "as it's a very popular car so there's a lot of supply and people are looking for a deal"??? When I tried to put up a less popular car, the answer was "it's not a very popular car, so not worth putting up for auction". Very strange.
Sold it privately on TM for a bit more than $12k within 3 days.
Sold another car privately for a bit more than $2k as $1 reserve as premium listing, via Turners auction the highest bid was $1k.
I'm not expecting much, I get that they have to onsell the car afterwards so I won't get top dollar. Looking on TM many are listed for only around 5-6K and ours has a bit more cosmetic damage here and there. I think if it was a more modern or popular car like a corolla in better condition I would think twice. I do want it gone sooner rather than later too.
Anyway I have to bring it in for them to have a look first.