viewed 13 open homes over the weekend and then had to be up at 4am to fly to Welly. I’m exhausted and the days not even finished yet, let alone the week.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That sure is impressive! In my experience, getting to 4 or 5 in one day is hard work because they all tend to be on the same day around the same times.

Hopefully you found something of interest! For our first home we had over 100 information sheets in our pile before eventually putting in an offer. Our second home we went to three open homes in one day, put an offer in that day, unconditional a week later. Even though that was years later we still hadn't gotten over the trauma of all those open homes for the first house 😆

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Heh, yeah our first home we'd looked for months and then took a couple weeks to decide to buy it. Second one we got sick of driving from Wellington Hawkes Bay after the 3rd trip so just picked 2 houses we liked and rolled the dice on this one; had a verbal offer in by the time we'd hit Woodville on the way home :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Due to unfortunate circumstances, I am awake. Those circumstances being Monday.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I'm not entirely convinced I'm awake, to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Phew, busy weekend! Lawn mowing, weedwacking, and general maintenance. I spent a big chunk of the weekend hanging out with my 3yo, going to playgrounds, library, the zoo, eating pancakes.

Drove past a big green petrol station, "Can we go to the supermarket?". I explained that's not a supermarket, it's a petrol station. Eyes lit up, "Can we go to the petrol station and wash the windows?".

[–] Balthazar 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Interesting word choices: "weedwacking" is American, but "petrol" is British. Is Kiwi speak a mix of the two plus the indigenous language?

Love to Jacinda!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Definitely a lot of cultural influence historically from the British (as a colony), and more recently from the US (through TV/movies), as well as influence from the indigenous Māori language (especially in the last 30 years or so, where there's been a big push to revive the language and get words into use in NZ English).

But as for "weedwacker" specifically, I'm not sure whether this is normal terminology or not. I think the average person would know what I'm talking about, and if I was looking in an NZ shop I'd expect to see them called a "line trimmer", but I've never known anyone to actually say "line trimmer". But on the other hand, I don't remember ever having a conversation about them so I can't remember anyone saying "weedwacker" either 😆.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Weedeater is the one I usually hear.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What's the verb? "I'm going to do some weedeating today"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Usually, yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

On reading it back to myself just now, it did seem like a perfectly normal phrase.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I sell them for a living, and there's almost no consensus on what they're called. There are a few terms that are popular overseas that we seem to avoid for some reason (I don't think I've heard whipper snipper or string trimmer for example), but everything else is fair game.

[–] Balthazar 3 points 8 months ago

I believe "whipper snipper" is a West Island term.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I don't want to go to work, coming back from a holiday sucks.

On the bright side, my boss has finally bought a van, so I won't be working out of a station wagon any longer.