Melbourne

I've been playing the Marketplace tango all day today myself! Gosh, what I would do for a naturestrip outside my place so I could just unload stuff that won't move.

Yeah, ugh.

True. I felt really uncomfortable watching it. The Barrios v Ramos fight was awesome though, I really enjoyed that one. To me it was the fight of the day.

Agreed. It was pretty disappointing.

Woohooooo!!! Freedom!!! Especially out where you live right now it'll make such a difference. You should definitely take it for a nice long spin

You got the insurance organised?

So cool. 🙂

A wise man once said to me, "you can only do what you can do when you can do it." You did what you could, when you could. And you will continue to, that's the legendary achiever you are. That is enough. Even the wind can chip away at a mountain, the sea at a cliff. You've done awesomely for the time and financial constraints you have. It's not your forever story.

so many hugs

And let this new place be a home, just a little home, get to know your new neighbourhood and some local people. Try to keep some of your old habits. It will be fine. 😘

I’m really sorry. I know how it is to live somewhere you hate.

Re the fridge, I used to live somewhere the kitchen was so small it didn’t account for a fridge (literally no place for even a bar fridge - not built to accommodate one) so I kept my fridge nearby in the lounge. If it turns out that the fridge just doesn’t fit you can get creative or you could use a buy nothing/swap site to get a smaller one just to last you for the 6 months.

(If you have the money you can be a little lenient on convenience/tinned/fast foods just until you get out of there, or cook one pot food. Snacks help greatly.)

I’m sure Givit would take the big fridge, and perhaps the drawers(?). You might get a tax discount for the donations too.

This might not be legal in Australia bc food safety but in Slav countries the washing machine is in the kitchen with hot plates sitting on top because of space and also that’s where the plumbing allows it to be.

And this is hypocritical because I am a packrat/clutterbug when space allows - but I definitely did have ways of storing things/things I would cook or ways of doing things that helped me manage in a small place. Hit me up if you want some tips.

Just focus on survival for now, you’re in a great position to move in with family and save up for a strong return. It’s a lot easier to tolerate a bad situation if there’s an end date in sight.

Edit: I also know that Diabetes Victoria does pickups of clothes and other stuff, and there was a thing I used where you could download a prepaid postage label and mail donations to the Iconic.

However if it’s too much hassle or you don’t have time just do whatever you have to do. I should have thought to tell you this stuff earlier

mangos are getting cheap enough so I can make some chutney 🥭

Got it on.

The stream was really struggling during the women’s match.

The internet has become very easy to use, very. Except the ease is all in being fed answers, not in doing what we want for ourselves.

At the same time it has never been so unsafe tho it was always a bit unsafe. Stormfront has had a presence since the mid 1990s. The mormons put net nannies on member's computers so people couldn't search for independent information. etc

Search engines were pretty accurate and useful tho.

Newspapers and tv didn't have a presence yet.

It was easy to set up a chat board, you could just get ubuntu skins and go with a provider.

I miss when I scrolled I saw memes and not 4-year-old reposts. But I guess it’s good I don’t spend much time scrolling now.