Lockdown/Covid Check In
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@chimoaus said in Lockdown Check In:
As I sit at home isolating it has me reflecting on my family, work and our relationship with debt and money.
Those who are working from home seem to be spending far more time with their kids, exercising together and many other productive things.
It makes me question if working 40 hours a week from 18 to 67 so you can “provide” for your family and buy the latest things is the best exchange of your finite time on this planet.
Will this crisis make some people re-evaluate how they spend their time and maybe alter some of their life choices?
Some will. It's an important decision for people, but one is rarely consciously thought through.
Mr Money Mustache is a lifestyle blog on high savings and low consumption to fund very early retirement. Not my cup of tea, and a lot of it is not really applicable to NZ, but it's another way of life worth considering.
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@taniwharugby said in Lockdown Check In:
@chimoaus I learned pretty early in my working life that its the people you work with that can make the job...I had a job in my 20s which was absolutely shit, yet the team was awesome, so was able to go to work and enjoy being there.
Given how much time we spend at work vs home, I'd take a shit job with great people over a great job with a bunch of shit fluffybunnys!
Toxic work environments take a toll on your mental and physical health. The money difference doesn't make eating shit everyday any easier
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@chimoaus said in Lockdown Check In:
As I sit at home isolating it has me reflecting on my family, work and our relationship with debt and money.
Those who are working from home seem to be spending far more time with their kids, exercising together and many other productive things.
It makes me question if working 40 hours a week from 18 to 67 so you can “provide” for your family and buy the latest things is the best exchange of your finite time on this planet.
Will this crisis make some people re-evaluate how they spend their time and maybe alter some of their life choices?
Briefly. Some might trigger a reassessment about what is important in life and how best to get it. I'm sure the majority of people will forget within 12 months and be firmly on the hamster wheel again
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@canefan said in Lockdown Check In:
@chimoaus said in Lockdown Check In:
As I sit at home isolating it has me reflecting on my family, work and our relationship with debt and money.
Those who are working from home seem to be spending far more time with their kids, exercising together and many other productive things.
It makes me question if working 40 hours a week from 18 to 67 so you can “provide” for your family and buy the latest things is the best exchange of your finite time on this planet.
Will this crisis make some people re-evaluate how they spend their time and maybe alter some of their life choices?
Briefly. Some might trigger a reassessment about what is important in life and how best to get it. I'm sure the majority of people will forget within 12 months and be firmly on the hamster wheel again
I will reassess how much beer I need to get through a four week binge! Ran out today. I only buy cans as we can burn them on the farm and I don't drink craft beer much so I had to resort to Double Brown.
Tough damn times! Like the blimmen Eastern Bloc!
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@Hooroo said in Lockdown Check In:
@canefan said in Lockdown Check In:
@chimoaus said in Lockdown Check In:
As I sit at home isolating it has me reflecting on my family, work and our relationship with debt and money.
Those who are working from home seem to be spending far more time with their kids, exercising together and many other productive things.
It makes me question if working 40 hours a week from 18 to 67 so you can “provide” for your family and buy the latest things is the best exchange of your finite time on this planet.
Will this crisis make some people re-evaluate how they spend their time and maybe alter some of their life choices?
Briefly. Some might trigger a reassessment about what is important in life and how best to get it. I'm sure the majority of people will forget within 12 months and be firmly on the hamster wheel again
I will reassess how much beer I need to get through a four week binge! Ran out today. I only buy cans as we can burn them on the farm and I don't drink craft beer much so I had to resort to Double Brown.
Tough damn times! Like the blimmen Eastern Bloc!
Double Brown! Not since poor uni days
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@canefan said in Lockdown Check In:
@Hooroo said in Lockdown Check In:
@canefan said in Lockdown Check In:
@chimoaus said in Lockdown Check In:
As I sit at home isolating it has me reflecting on my family, work and our relationship with debt and money.
Those who are working from home seem to be spending far more time with their kids, exercising together and many other productive things.
It makes me question if working 40 hours a week from 18 to 67 so you can “provide” for your family and buy the latest things is the best exchange of your finite time on this planet.
Will this crisis make some people re-evaluate how they spend their time and maybe alter some of their life choices?
Briefly. Some might trigger a reassessment about what is important in life and how best to get it. I'm sure the majority of people will forget within 12 months and be firmly on the hamster wheel again
I will reassess how much beer I need to get through a four week binge! Ran out today. I only buy cans as we can burn them on the farm and I don't drink craft beer much so I had to resort to Double Brown.
Tough damn times! Like the blimmen Eastern Bloc!
Double Brown! Not since poor uni days
Yet I would still drink that over Tui! Anyway, thoughts and prayers my way lads, as I try and get them ice cold
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I dont drink during the week...but today is Sunday, so yesterday and today are fine!
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not drinking every night is becoming a challenge i have so far failed. it's not a lot, but it's more than i used to.
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@Hooroo said in Lockdown Check In:
@canefan said in Lockdown Check In:
@Hooroo said in Lockdown Check In:
@canefan said in Lockdown Check In:
@chimoaus said in Lockdown Check In:
As I sit at home isolating it has me reflecting on my family, work and our relationship with debt and money.
Those who are working from home seem to be spending far more time with their kids, exercising together and many other productive things.
It makes me question if working 40 hours a week from 18 to 67 so you can “provide” for your family and buy the latest things is the best exchange of your finite time on this planet.
Will this crisis make some people re-evaluate how they spend their time and maybe alter some of their life choices?
Briefly. Some might trigger a reassessment about what is important in life and how best to get it. I'm sure the majority of people will forget within 12 months and be firmly on the hamster wheel again
I will reassess how much beer I need to get through a four week binge! Ran out today. I only buy cans as we can burn them on the farm and I don't drink craft beer much so I had to resort to Double Brown.
Tough damn times! Like the blimmen Eastern Bloc!
Double Brown! Not since poor uni days
Yet I would still drink that over Tui! Anyway, thoughts and prayers my way lads, as I try and get them ice cold
Absolutely nothing wrong with a cold can of Double Brown! Beer snobs be damned
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@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
not drinking every night is becoming a challenge i have so far failed. it's not a lot, but it's more than i used to.
So long as I avoid the Lunch time wines, I do OK.
Pretty big job working at a desk with beer fridge within 2 metres and not going for a beer.
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@Hooroo said in Lockdown Check In:
@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
not drinking every night is becoming a challenge i have so far failed. it's not a lot, but it's more than i used to.
So long as I avoid the Lunch time wines, I do OK.
Pretty big job working at a desk with beer fridge within 2 metres and not going for a beer.
I'm failing miserably. Being unemployed doesn't help. You can only hike/run for so many hours of the day, and then it's into lighting the fire, cooking, sitting on the deck, none of which can be done without a beer or wine in hand.
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I'm not dealing today, which is making my interpersonal interractions far more strained. This would be easier if i wasn't actually working.
Don't get me wrong, i am glad i am, but having two parents trying to work, and occupy the kids, and try and get them used to some form of home routine, is a fucking killer.
That's before you add in the mental burden of everything being stress and worry, and no form of release to be found.
This is going to be fucking tough to get through
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That’s why we are here mate, to keep the contact going to help with our sanity. There’s members here who are in families struggling to keep the peace and keep kids from killing each other. Also members here who are on their own, let’s keep looking out for each other, keep the memes and jokes rolling in.
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@Virgil said in Lockdown Check In:
That’s why we are here mate, to keep the contact going to help with our sanity. There’s members here who are in families struggling to keep the peace and keep kids from killing each other. Also members here who are on their own, let’s keep looking out for each other, keep the memes and jokes rolling in.
Well said mate!
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@voodoo said in Lockdown Check In:
@Hooroo said in Lockdown Check In:
@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
not drinking every night is becoming a challenge i have so far failed. it's not a lot, but it's more than i used to.
So long as I avoid the Lunch time wines, I do OK.
Pretty big job working at a desk with beer fridge within 2 metres and not going for a beer.
I'm failing miserably. Being unemployed doesn't help. You can only hike/run for so many hours of the day, and then it's into lighting the fire, cooking, sitting on the deck, none of which can be done without a beer or wine in hand.
I immediately felt a pang of jealousy at the thought of a fire and being in Queenstown. Is it an open fire? Are you mucking around trying to cook in it?
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@Machpants they part of the tweak to the rules to allow shops to sell online?
BUtchers up here have increased t/o ten fold since Aussie Butcher and Mad Butcher closed.
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@taniwharugby Their shop isn't open, but they are commercial suppliers, so are still running. Well I hope they are I just did an online order!
EDIT Nope they are open, obvisoulsy applied to MBIE and supplied their processes and got signed up
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Dear Valued CustomersOur preference is for people to shop on-line, however, we realise that this is not an option that suits everyone. As from Wednesday 1st April, our store in Kamo is open from 7:30am Monday to Friday and will close no later than 4pm on these days. Should it be quiet or we run out of meat, we will close earlier.
If coming to shop at our retail store, we will be allowing one only customer into the store at any given time. Please wait until you are advised that you can enter the shop, as we have to sanitize after each customer leaves, before the next customer can enter the store."