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I can't imagine uncle Nick is fighting the masses for dunny paper at 7 in the morning.
One benefit of being, shall we say, not 'poor'.
Mind you, he wouldn't be the only one...many people of much much less wealth are paying others to buy and deliver for them.
Jackie O revealed one morning what is going on.
People are putting ads online as 'buyers and deliverers' basically.
Or course, you have to pay them.
You can pay them to do anything, within reason.
In your shop cutting hair? no time to go get some cigarettes from across the road? no worries, just phone a 'buyer and deliverer'...give them the addresses and they'll do it for you for an agreed price.
Pay people to shop for you...it's very common apparently.
Jackie O said she paid the 'buyer and deliverers' to buy and deliver to her packets of her favourite snacks if she ran out, which was often.
In normal times, you just order online from the major supermarkets and they deliver it to your door.
That's been suspended now.
Ordering online...all good.
A tip though, watch the quantities...or you might finish up receiving just one mandarin.
One benefit of being, shall we say, not 'poor'.
Mind you, he wouldn't be the only one...many people of much much less wealth are paying others to fetch and carry for them.
Jackie O revealed one morning what is going on.
People are putting ads online as 'fetchers and carriers', basically.
Or course, you have to pay them.
You can pay them to do anything, within reason.
In your shop cutting hair? no time to go get some cigarettes from across the road? no worries, just phone a fetcher and carrier...give them the addresses and they'll do it for you for an agreed price.
Pay people to shop for you...it's very common apparently.
Jackie O said she paid the fetchers and carriers to buy and deliver to her packets of her favourite snacks if she ran out, which was often.
In normal times, you just order online from the major supermarkets and they deliver it to your door.
That's been suspended now.
Ordering online...all good.
A tip though, watch the quantities...or you might finish up receiving just one mandarin. [/I]
An advantage of me being poor is that my local shops have a little independent supermarket, a butcher and a bakery that are all fully stocked with gear.
People criticise my part of Canberra (used to live in the 'fancy' part and disliked the low-grade food being sold for $$$ + general 'not in my neighbourhood' sorta bubble vibe... e.g. being told by some idiot wannabe toff that it's dangerous + illegal to do my own frigging oil change). However, I find the masses aren't hoarding stuff or going mad. We're living in our own super casual locality where people only buy what they need (partly because that's all they can afford) and there's enough to go around.
Fortunately the wannabe toffs don't know of this locality and will all sniff at how you'll probably get bashed if you go there. I walk to my local shops every night wearing a suit and stop at every corner to say g'day + share a drink with my neighbours (or shoot a few hoops / hit a few cricket balls with their kids). Given the amount of people who are out and about (rather than swilling $20 beers at the local hipster pub), I find it highly unlikely that anybody would try to bash me and if they did... I'd have a bunch of solid tradies lining up to defend me.
An advantage of me being poor is that my local shops have a little independent supermarket, a butcher and a bakery that are all fully stocked with gear.
People criticise my part of Canberra (used to live in the 'fancy' part and disliked the low-grade food being sold for $$$ + general 'not in my neighbourhood' sorta bubble vibe... e.g. being told by some idiot wannabe toff that it's dangerous + illegal to do my own frigging oil change). However, I find the masses aren't hoarding stuff or going mad. We're living in our own super casual locality where people only buy what they need (partly because that's all they can afford) and there's enough to go around.
Fortunately the wannabe toffs don't know of this locality and will all sniff at how you'll probably get bashed if you go there. I walk to my local shops every night wearing a suit and stop at every corner to say g'day + share a drink with my neighbours (or shoot a few hoops / hit a few cricket balls with their kids). Given the amount of people who are out and about (rather than swilling $20 beers at the local hipster pub), I find it highly unlikely that anybody would try to bash me and if they did... I'd have a bunch of solid tradies lining up to defend me.
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