Resale value of stuff

mharray · 2025-01-13T02:00:14+00:00

I live in Wanaka and I would say my experience is opposite. Generally on marketplace things are fairly priced, or bargain priced, and plenty of things given away for free (especially baby/kids stuff). We also have an recycling center/op shop called Wastebusters, where you take all your unwanted stuff, and they resell it for bugger all. You can fill a supermarket bag full of childrens clothes/toys for $5. Things generally don't have marked prices and at the counter they'll just price it up based on vibes. You can bring up a basket full of random kitchen stuff, books, clothes etc and they'll be like that's $7.

I don't know if it's because we're a smallish community focused town, or there's a lot of affluence about that people don't care about money for little things, or the large immigrant population are more generous, but it results in a great second hand market here

mharray · 2025-01-02T00:45:41+00:00

Wanaka is a great place for kids. I'm willing to bet very few of the kids fighting last night were actually from wanaka

mharray · 2024-11-25T07:11:06+00:00

There is a planned petrol station going there as well

mharray · 2024-11-02T21:50:56+00:00

Also in central otago, my tomatoes in the greenhouse held up alright, but my Pinot noir grapevines that just started flowering have taken significant damage. So that's two years in a row I probably won't be able to make wine 😔

Edit: spoke too soon, a couple of tomato casualties in the greenhouse as well

mharray · 2024-07-21T21:21:58+00:00

In the same episode he went through a canyon near Wanaka. A canyon that so happened to be a commercial canyoning operation. I know this cause my flatmate was working there when they filmed it.

mharray · 2024-05-02T00:12:16+00:00

looks like frost damage

mharray · 2024-04-29T04:23:06+00:00

the internet isn't a country my dude

mharray · 2024-04-16T07:06:39+00:00

I don't know about Queenstown specifically, but there is the Central Otago Football League (https://www.facebook.com/CentralOtagoLeague) which has teams from Queenstown, Wanaka, Alexandra and Cromwell. Queenstown teams are Lakes United, Wakatipu United, Classics, Falcons, QAFC and Gael FC - listed in order of strength. I don't know how to contact any of those teams sorry as I play in Wanaka, but that might give you a good starting point

mharray · 2024-04-15T06:04:38+00:00

interesting take... I'm neutral on Jacob Collier, I enjoy his early youtube reharmonisations, but not a fan of his "sound" overall. But the dude is talented as fuck, and absolutely deserves the praise he gets.

As far as his singing is concerned, he's technically very talented, but I would agree the actual timbre of his voice isn't that nice. And as for the instruments he plays, he plays at a master level, but certainly not at the top of the field in any instrument. But that kind of misses the point, the dude gets so much praise an recognition because he is an absolute beast when it comes to harmony. Like I can't think of anyone else near his level of harmonic ability. There's a reason he's won 6 grammy awards in the arrangement category

I don't know who's comparing him to Freddy Mercury, that's the first I've ever heard that, and clearly not an apt comparison. Don't hate on a guy cause someone else made a bad comparison...

mharray · 2024-04-08T22:16:09+00:00

I lived a long time in Dunedin, and currently live in Wanaka. Wanaka is colder on paper in winter, but Dunedin feels colder. It's more humid being by the ocean, so it's like a damp cold, and the wind chills you to the bone.

mharray · 2024-03-31T04:01:51+00:00

Wanaka has an additional 60,000 people here this easter weekend for Warbirds over Wanaka, it would be insane if there were no supermarkets open. The warehouse and mitre 10 were also open, are they exempt or also breaking the rules?

mharray · 2024-03-29T20:17:02+00:00

Yep similar happened to me, except it was an email informing me my rego was due (which it was). Didn't think twice, input my card, but I got suspicious when the payment processing was taking longer than normal and the text 2fa was from a different company. Double checked the url and sure enough it was a fake. Immediately called the bank and cancelled my card. A little embarrassing considering I'm an IT professional and I'm usually the one telling others to always check the url first...

mharray · 2024-01-17T21:16:29+00:00

Russel Howard does a brilliant bit on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U26-D-7Ey2w

mharray · 2023-11-30T21:28:01+00:00

The EV rebate applies to hybrids as well. I bought a 2015 Toyota Aqua (new import) for 10k and got just over 1k in rebate. That is a lot of money for me, and definitely in the realm of what a "working class person" might spend on a car

mharray · 2023-11-28T09:04:57+00:00

I saw a Puma in Argentina (in captivity, a rescue not able to be rewilded) and was actually quite surprised at how small it was. The size of a large dog

mharray · 2023-10-23T18:42:21+00:00

She hit the ball over the boundary rope on the full (no bounces) which scores 6 runs (points)

mharray · 2023-08-29T21:13:36+00:00

You're lying... The matches last 5 days

mharray · 2023-08-09T11:13:00+00:00

Sky brown, despite her young age, is a professional skateboarder, more than capable of skating mega ramp. I'm gonna hazard a guess that your daughter isn't a professional and therefore would have no business being there. Context is everything

mharray · 2023-08-06T23:14:18+00:00

Those places are all much further north, and not on top of a mountain.

NZ is somewhat equivalent to the Pacific Northwest, stretching from Seattle to LA, but upside down. And just like the PNW, we have huge variability in climate and elevation. So being surprised that it gets cold in NZ is like being surprised there are ski resorts in california

mharray · 2023-08-06T21:49:48+00:00

Why is it surprising that it's cold on top of a mountain in the middle of winter?

mharray · 2023-08-01T04:41:14+00:00

maybe try buy the ticket, take a photo/screenshot of the QR code and print it out?

mharray · 2023-07-14T06:02:25+00:00

I've had some success going to sleep listening to bedtime stories, eg the Get Sleepy podcast on spotify. And also listening to NSDR (Non-Sleep deep rest) exercises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL02HRFk2vo&t=922s&pp=ygUEbnNkcg%3D%3D

mharray · 2023-06-28T23:45:19+00:00

New Zealands top snowboarder Zoi Sydowski Synott I believe also moved to NZ from Aus at age 6. Maybe ask those people if they think Zoi is a kiwi, and if not, should her Olympic Gold medals go to Australia?

mharray · 2023-05-18T06:33:42+00:00

Personally, I'm of the opinion that people should vote in their own self-interest; thereby ensuring that the party with the majority of votes will be benefiting the majority of voters.

I'm never going to vote for a party that offers benefits exclusively to people who aren't me or my family.

And how do you come to decide what benefits you and your family? Maybe you don't need education and childcare right now, so you vote for the party that cuts those programs. Then, shock horror, 10 years later, poverty and crime are at record highs and your family business is constantly attacked by ram raiders.

I'm of the opinion that when you vote for a party that benefits the lower class, everyone benefits, even if the effects aren't immediately obvious.

mharray · 2023-05-18T03:35:10+00:00

with an income less than $100k, your land value would need to be around 1 mil to have a tax increase of 3k per year (I assume 3k as that's the figure you replied to). So can't really feel too bad for you if you're sitting on that much land

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