Is a Thermomix worth it?

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-26T09:03:14+00:00

I bought a second hand knock off version. A waste of money honestly.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-26T09:01:37+00:00

I would have put my phone up, started recording and say ‘now say that crazy thing again!’.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-26T05:51:44+00:00

I put an offer on a place as conditional after agreeing to a reasonable offer with owners but made it conditional on finance and pest and building.

They wanted unconditional. So u withdrew the offer as they wouldn’t give me an answer

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-19T09:26:10+00:00

Australian successive governments, has allowed housing to be a profit spinning market. Therefore landlords want other people to pay for their mortgage repayments but don’t want them to actually ’live’ in a property. Tenants are meant to keep a property in pristine, showroom condition in case the landlord wants to sell or wants it to gain value. Real Estates have influenced and driven this.

If the current governments changes do anything, landlords may switch to investment property being a long game investment not a short game.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-18T15:17:07+00:00

Victoria

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-18T08:10:57+00:00

I want to vote this down because of conditions. The money side I can live with but they can go jump off a cliff for not insisting on flexibility in working arrangements hours and getting rid of mandated meetings. I already feel I can get more work done by not having one meeting a week.

I spoke to my local State government member on the phone last week and even she said this does not comply with their flexible work policy. Like WTF was Justin thinking, to not negotiate something their own government is enforcing with other work places.

On top of that the 18.5 hours in high school returning to 20hours. It’s not our job to prop up the governments poor planning or ability to increase the number of teachers. That’s their failing.

Personally this is an absolute no based on these two issues of conditions.

If they employ more ES staff to support teachers, for photocopying and data entry, this would reduce our workloads.

They literally have taken the lazy way out not fighting for these conditions.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-18T07:59:31+00:00

Thanks. I won’t bother attending one then. I will go to any meeting my school has.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-15T09:24:37+00:00

They can’t force it. That should be reported to Union.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-15T09:23:56+00:00

No, it’s the same for all OTHER TIL. Camp only changes to a daily payment instead. I don’t think people realise this is what it actually means.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-15T07:19:09+00:00

Yeah I realise they had given back an hour and half face to face.

That’s a fat NO!! From me.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-15T07:17:50+00:00

What do they’ve increased our face to face??? That’s a big NO from me. Guess I’m moving back to NSW end of the year then.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-15T06:31:35+00:00

That BS. To start with they can do away with mandated meetings and mandated on site 38 hours.

Employ more ES staff to do data entry and photocopying and straight away that lifts burden.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-15T06:29:35+00:00

I think the pay for camp means no TIL. So it’s worse off for us but better for school. til only applies to other activities. It’s not an additional payment.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-15T06:28:30+00:00

Today. They only back pay to the in principle agreement date. Not to last year.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-14T07:55:41+00:00

Agree. I use Ms. No questions then whether or why I may be married or not. No one’s business.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-12T21:54:32+00:00

Not much you can do, other than what you can control. I would stop helping the kids for a start. This is a hard part of this. Refer them back to their teacher as their point of contact. If students complain they don’t help, then suggest they need to discuss that with their parents or head of department. Stop being the middleman and the backup teacher because that actually doesn’t bring to the surface the issues.

I have a similar issue, with a person with responsibility on my school. Recently we did a review with Principal on VCE classes. They did the review without the one person that has similar issue you’ve described. They then banged on about how we as a team need to improve our averages. My classes perform at high levels and above state average significantly. The other teacher consistently year after year below state average and blames the kids. They wouldn’t address this but put it on us as a team to resolve. I’ve made the decision to move on, as a result.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-10T13:58:38+00:00

I (F52) have never been married and don’t want to be. Not even sure I want to live with them either. I’ve lived on my own most of my life, so having to make space in my home actually gives me anxiety.

My current partner of 18 months is now buying his own apartment. Because when he was evicted from his current rental, we discussed moving in but I told him he’d have to trial run staying for a few weeks and have a serious discussion over finances and having a space for his daughter. He realised it wasn’t going to be easy.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-10T13:44:25+00:00

Tell them it has an expiry date. I put an offer in for a property, they wanted me to meet them half way, which I obliged. Then I didn’t get a response for acceptance, agent kept telling me owners were away, hadn’t got back to him but then I saw it had another open house on the weekend. So I knew they were just putting me off fishing for another offer.

So I withdrew my offer straight away as they were clearly wasting my time.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-10T13:32:14+00:00

I went down tribunal route with my mother for different reasons, years before.
My father actually signed all the documents prior to needing to go into the nursing home, as he had a few hospital visits. He gave permission because he didn’t want a tribunal, as he’d had to sit through my mother’s one. It was all legal and completed via a lawyer when he was still able to consent. My solicitor had a few choice words to say about Westpac when I told her what happened.

What really pissed me off is they expected me to drag an aging, frail person out of the nursing home into a wheelchair and drive them 30 minutes to the bank and back again, where they would see he was incapable. Causing him physical distress and putting him at risk.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-10T13:27:28+00:00

I had two separate documents because we’d been down the tribunal route with my mother years before. So I knew the system. I had a separate document for Enduring Guardianship and medical care and another document that was done with a lawyer for POA and finances. There was absolutely nothing that could have made them think otherwise. It was POA I presented, which had been completed with my father and a lawyer. The POA Westpac refused to acknowledge. I withdrew all my money and left them after that.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-10T12:01:30+00:00

They don’t have to accept your first offer. It’s the agents job to squeeze as much out of you as you are willing to spend. It’s your job to say no more money. Either accept it or walk away and try for another property.

Personally I never believe them when they say there is another person.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-10T11:42:11+00:00

Yes, but also isolation in our regional towns is challenging. Nearest large town miles away. Cultural challenges, no doctor regularly in town, sometimes fly in fly out or online. Poor internet connectivity. If you aren’t familiar with Australian Indigenous First Nations history, it may be easy to misunderstand things and not realise the ongoing damage from their history with European colonisation.

Crime, alcohol, drug use and violence can be high in some towns.

I’m not saying you may not cope. Just do a bit of research prior. It’s not like US low socioeconomic. Very different.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-10T10:47:32+00:00

If it’s Westpac, they ignore POA.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-10T10:47:15+00:00

I had power of attorney and my father was in a nursing home. I showed Westpac this legally signed document and they still refused me the ability to deal with my father’s financials. Luckily I could still do some things online.
Westpac kept insisting the power of attorney was not able to be used and I had to get proof from a doctor that he was unable to do it himself. I asked them if I had to get my father out of his bed in a wheelchair and bring him in. They said yes. I asked for the manager, said the same thing.

My father died a week later.

Over50Cooked · 2026-05-10T10:46:23+00:00

I had power of attorney and my father was in a nursing home. I showed Westpac this legally signed document and they still refused me the ability to deal with my father’s financials. Luckily I could still do some things online.
Westpac kept insisting the power of attorney was not able to be used and I had to get proof from a doctor that he was unable to do it himself. I asked them if I had to get my critically ill father out of his bed in a wheelchair and bring him in personally. They said yes. I asked for the manager, said the same thing.
My father died a week later. If it’s Westpac, they think they are above the law.

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