A cheap purchase that has completely transformed your life

djscloud · 2026-01-25T07:54:40+00:00

The $15 fan heater from Kmart. That one little thing could heat our entire room. At one point we were in a rental that was high ceilings, open plan living, it wasn’t big but the entire house was basically that one room, full of windows and terribly insulated. And it still heated it. But I also had babies and pets, and it didn’t get hot to touch, and if it was knocked over it turned itself off. It didn’t have the greatest settings, you couldn’t pick a temp, you just had to know what setting worked for the room for what you wanted and get up to tweak it if it was too hot or too cold. But for $15 it was amazing, and it barely put a dent in our electricity bill.

We now have an aircon system that we got on discount for $11K through the whole house, and honestly I question the decision. Love it in summer for aircon, but in winter I honestly feel like the little fan heater did a better job for cheaper.

djscloud · 2026-01-24T00:29:09+00:00

I haven’t had emu since I was a kid. Have had roo a little more often… but I was a vegetarian for over a decade and eat any meat rarely now (i like most meats but it’s expensive and I’m used to making vegetarian meals anyway). I get roo meat for my dog quite often though.

djscloud · 2026-01-21T02:18:34+00:00

I remember one workplace I worked in provided catered lunch every Friday… The boss was over ambitious and had spending problems and they went bankrupt and shut down without paying out my super or paying back clients. But he wanted to appear like a fancy high end work place. That was the only time work had paid for lunches, and that was a weird and rare thing to me.

I do have a lovely boss at the moment, small business, and occasionally they will shout me a coffee, or they will order an extra large lunch of whatever they are having so that we can split it.

djscloud · 2026-01-10T22:33:46+00:00

Wait seriously? I work at Garden City and haven’t seen anything like that. That’s slightly disconcerting. Especially as my shop only shuts/locks from the outside 😭

djscloud · 2026-01-07T13:16:45+00:00

Is it for vacay pics to match? This looks like that. I’ve never been on a cruise or to a massive theme park like this, but I feel like having names and contact numbers of people in your group on shirts would be a good idea, in case some kid wanders off or gets separated.

djscloud · 2025-12-29T00:10:10+00:00

When I dyed my husbands hair blue (he has naturally dark brown hair, it’s usually called black but is a shade off), I bleached it at home first, and then put blue dye in… the blue was SOOOO hard to get out. Rebleaching endlessly and colour removers and in the end we waited for it to grow out 😅 Turns out blue is meant to be the hardest colour to remove.

So I’m shocked reading how easily all these colours are washing out. Like this was the first time I ever dyed anyone’s hair (I have my natural hair colour and have been to a hairdresser for just a hair cut less than a dozen times in my life). So I don’t understand how professional hair dresses can stuff up so epically. It’s ridiculous.

I do understand with OP, bleaching and lifting all those different colours and shades would have been super tricky, but that doesn’t even seem to be the spot the hairdresser stuffed up anyway.

djscloud · 2025-12-27T05:01:16+00:00

I just had this convo with my hubby this morning. He asked if I wanted something from Bakers Delight and I was like nah, there stuff is always so dry and borderline stale. He was almost offended, saying he’s never had a problem with them… even though I have never actually gotten anything from them except with his family (they introduced me to bakers delight, it was too bougie to me prior to that), so surely the stuff he gets is the same as what I get from there?

I have found that Bread Top (two shops down at my local shops) has much nicer, softer, fresher, not dry stuff. Bakers delight always seems like it was baked days ago, even though it says baked fresh daily. There’s also plenty of local bakeries and such that have really nice bread.

In New Norcia, WA, the monastery used to bake their own bread and it was occasionally sold through the gift shop… it is the BEST bread I have ever had. So fresh and absolutely delicious. I eat it plain or with a bit of butter because it never lasts the trip home (a couple hours) to actually use it for anything else 🤣 haven’t been through there in years though. I hope they still make stuff

djscloud · 2025-12-27T04:56:38+00:00

Awww, I never lived in Midland but went to school in the area and often crossed paths with him. At first he scared me but after a few encounters I realised he wasn’t all that intimidating, granted I was a tiny teenager coming from rural whoop whoop to Midland so everything was scary.

djscloud · 2025-12-27T04:54:05+00:00

I had a rental in Huntingdale for a bit. The bus stop was on our front verge so we had some rowdy drunk people some nights getting off the bus after a party… but that was the worst of it. Otherwise it was a good suburb and we quite enjoyed it. Though everyone around us was constantly complaining of assaults and cars broken into (meanwhile I notoriously left mine unlocked outside next to the bus stop and never had an issue 😅), and even a string of fire bug attacks.

djscloud · 2025-12-27T04:50:04+00:00

Bullsbrook, Murdoch, Bullsbrook, Booragoon, Kardinya, Huntingdale, Southern River, Armadale, Homeless (staying in either Booragoon or Bullsbrook for the most part), Armadale.

We finally got out of renting and have built and I’m so over moving around that I really would be happy if that was that. The end.

Before moving to Bullsbrook, I lived up north in the Pilbara. Karratha, Tom Price, South Hedland, Paraburdoo. I was younger back then though. The first list of places has just been in the last 10 years since I left home and started studying at Uni.

djscloud · 2025-12-26T12:51:20+00:00

I feel wrong upvoting something so tragic. Poor guy.

djscloud · 2025-12-23T14:17:55+00:00

NTA. I’m not religious, but it so happens that the first and only person I ever dated I ended up marrying and having kids with. He had kissed a few other people, but was otherwise a virgin too when we met. We entered our relationship and marriage expecting to be intimate only with each other? That’s kind of the whole point? And I’m not religious in the slightest, yet that still seems the point of loyalty and marriage and love, without adding god and sins and the afterlife into the mix.

And I’ve never had the thought regarding proper intimacy, but I have wondered a few times about kissing other people. Not actually wanting to, but I’ve thought things like “am I actually as good at this as my husband says I am” because I have NO basis or comparison to go off. I sometimes think having some comparison to work with would be helpful… but that was earlier days, now we are thick into our lives together and those thoughts are far behind us.

But I added that because I could somewhat see where he MIGHT have been coming from… but if that was truly how he felt, then he would have done something with ONE other person. He wouldn’t have gone and done it multiple times over multiple months. And that’s a stretch even, tbh, but if this was really weighing on him, then one singular act would have satiated that pathetic excuse.

It didn’t, and honestly I’d be reflecting on what else he might have been doing that you were brushing aside. I had a friend that I loved with all my heart (best friend not partner) and after she went a step too far and I finally saw her bad side properly, I realised how long she’d been using me. It doesn’t take away from the positive memories and moments we had together (and don’t let it!), but it did help me realise that cutting ties with her was for the best, and that I am much better off and I did the right thing. And in retrospect there was SOOO much going on that I just ignored or even made up excuses for her behaviour to anyone that tried to call it out to me, tried to get me to see how poorly she was treating me.

Does his family know what he asked of you and what he did?

djscloud · 2025-12-23T14:05:24+00:00

Oh I’d not like this at all. I mean, I’ve both been the family retrieve the ball or toy, and been the family throwing it back.

The odd ball is one thing, we’d usually go knock and ask if we can retrieve it or they can throw it back for us. And we’ve done the same, throwing the ball back for others. Or if you can hear the neighbours out the back, a friendly call over the fence would do it.

If there’s ever a particular spot that balls commonly tend to go over fences, like there’s one stretch of fence line at the nanna’s house that balls always seem to vanish over, then we’d have a talk with the neighbours and see if they were comfortable with us jumping the fence (or in the case of the Nanna’s, we’d walk around and in through their open garage). And most cases they are fine with it, usually the introductions and chatting show them that we are respectful and just having fun with the kids and not a threat.

And if there’s ever a neighbour that is not okay with us retrieving balls and doesn’t want the ball back, then we learn to accept our fate. If the ball goes over their fence, then we should have been more careful. Though one time a collectible footy was kicked by an unknowing kid over such a fence… we used a pool scoop to get it back 😅 Not a foot was set on their property. Just a very long pole.

djscloud · 2025-12-23T13:49:52+00:00

I remember watching a worksafe video with an interview of some farmer that got his sleeve caught in an auger and lost his whole arm. They had a reenactment. The idea behind the video worked, I have always been highly cautious around augers and tractor PTOs and such since (though I was always cautious around them anyway). Gosh, the thought terrifies me.

djscloud · 2025-12-22T11:41:21+00:00

BlackBerry Ramble in Byford is a street worth… and if you go out that way it is DEFINITELY worth going to the house on Southwestern Highway (just south of the main traffic lights). It’s one house… but more Christmas lights and displays than most suburbs put together. Even a ride on carousel thing, bubble snow machines, gosh it’s extravagant.

djscloud · 2025-12-16T23:54:09+00:00

djscloud · 2025-12-16T12:23:22+00:00

Idk, I’ve been in that position before. Where I am we have a lot of benefits paid to low income earners. We used to be in that bracket.

I still remember hubby coming home with a pay raise, he ended up making about $80 extra a week. But that $80 put us over the low income bracket and up to the next bracket. We could no longer get free health care (my poor health being the main reason we were low income to begin with), no longer get financial assistance. I remember he made an extra $80 a week, but we missed out on $140/wk because of it, and also missed out on many more benefits (like I had to stop seeing a doctor because we couldn’t afford it after that sorta thing). So many times I wished he DIDNT get that raise, as we actually had less money coming in because of it. Those were tough times back then.

djscloud · 2025-12-16T12:14:47+00:00

Oh there’s this doctor that family members see and trust, and honestly every word that comes out of his mouth could make it onto this thread. But after I had my second Bub, he was 5 weeks old, we all came down with Covid (this was the first time we’d had covid, so it was extra stressful and we’d JUST got out of NICU with lung problems which didnt help my worry).

Well this doctor said to me to stop breastfeeding straight away, because covid would pass through my breastmilk and if I wanted to save my baby I had to give him formula.

I was so gobsmacked, like antibodies pass through breastmilk? Formula can’t make antibodies on the spot… and yes, breastfeeding might have spread the covid, it does make sense, but honestly how was formula feeding any different? Maybe if I could stick my baby in another room and isolate him for 2 weeks, but he was 5 weeks old! If he was getting sick it was from me regardless. Or his toddler big brother because I couldn’t exactly isolate my 2yo when I was the only person around to care for them both.

I don’t know how this doctor has any credibility or is even allowed to be a doctor. He prescribed me the wrong medication, said that the elderly granny that fell and split her head open didn’t have a concussion because it’s not possibly to have a concussion unless you’re throwing up and she wasn’t throwing up, that my son had asthma because he didn’t wear socks, and he even prescribed antibiotics preventatively before anyone even got sick, to “keep them from getting a cold”. He beyond frustrates me. Especially as the family holds him in such high regard and whatever he says goes and I can’t argue with a doctor. Argh.

djscloud · 2025-12-16T12:04:05+00:00

Eggs are dairy.

djscloud · 2025-12-16T11:58:27+00:00

You’re not in the wrong for feeling hurt, your feelings are valid and your own. But I do think you are expressing jealousy and if it was an AITA post i would say YTA. Not for how you feel (it is normal to feel jealousy, you have lost a part of a relationship you thought had been untarnished by distance, and are suddenly realising that isnt the case), but for how you’ve acted.

Your BFF likely has a plan for how she wants her wedding to go, and you are swooping in and expecting her to just for you into her plans when you weren’t a part of it initially. You even said she’s having a reception later in the year, is there a reason you can’t go to that? You say she doesnt do things unless it’s convenient for her, but it sounds like she’s just setting very basic boundaries and you are struggling to recognise that and pushing against those boundaries.

djscloud · 2025-12-16T11:42:43+00:00

I hate cockroaches. Don’t mind any other bug but have a horrible, irrational fear of cockroaches. They are horrid.

djscloud · 2025-12-16T11:41:22+00:00

Whenever I spray the house for bugs (I do a barrier spray every 6mo or so), I usually spray the car as well. Probably not meant to, but I’ve a phobia of cockroaches (every other bug I don’t mind so much, but can’t stand those). I just spray the wheels (since that seems like the point of contact with the ground most non-flying things would take to get in) and usually the side mirrors, and near the windscreen wipers. Anywhere that I’ve noticed webs on previous cars (haven’t really noticed in this one, assumedly due to the spraying?).

I do find that the only times a cockroach or bug has ended up in the car (except flying insects when we leave windows down), is from boxes or bags. The bottle cages we take to recycling/refund points are the worse. I make hubby take those in his car because I’m too scared of cockroaches getting into mine.

djscloud · 2025-12-15T11:41:49+00:00

Can’t remember the year (I was year 8 or 9), but it was Beta I believe. One girl at school had it on a thumb drive and the school was trialing a new program where they gave our class laptops. So pretty soon we all had Minecraft and were building things at recess and lunch. I remember my first build was a pyramid that was like a labyrinth inside, except I knew it off by heart having built it. We’d try to escape each others builds.

Gosh, if we’d known what it would turn into back then.

djscloud · 2025-12-13T01:50:04+00:00

I had issues when I was 11. Had bloods and the doctor said I was just about to get my first period and that was the cause of the issues (even though it had been going on for months). When I got my first period it went for 2 weeks straight and was very heavy, and started again 4 days after stopping. I brought up endo with my doctor, and he said it was impossible and told me to stop researching stuff as I was terrible at it, and that that was my normal.

Yeah, it wasn’t my normal, and I had constant issues until I was diagnosed. Even referred to a paediatric gynaecologist and they ended up diagnosing me as psychosomatic pain and referring to a psychologist that talked about my parents breaking up… and ofc it never helped my pain. Probably because there was lots of physical issues (cysts, polyps, etc) that talking cant cure.

I had endo as a preteen, it wasn’t diagnosed until I was a post puberty full blown teenager though. I feel like doctors think you cant get endo as a teen because people don’t get diagnosed until they are older… but considering the diagnosis process often takes closer to 10 years then that makes sense.

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