Living in New Zealand comes with its ups, downs and old-boy broccoli prices. This week we share a typical New Zealand week and discover if New Zealand really is as expensive as people say and if so, what you can do to save on a few things!
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Aussies and Kiwis should not winge..
Passing through Europe which is becoming the museum of the world. The rich live very well. Middle and poorer classes are in despair. Little prospects…at least you have wonderful lands flora and fauna..and a future!
Be well. Warmest best wishes
I love your guys channel your absolute legends
Old wizand hag 😂😂🤣the things you come out with! I needed cheering up, thanks for making me laugh! 😊💕💕💕 I left a huge chicken in my boot once and didn't realise till the next day when I went to cook it. I felt so guilty taking it back and even worse when they gave me the money back and a free chicken!
I think all the crops being wiped out in two major weather events might have something to do with it.
Go Brian….let it all out lol
I watched this doco and you immediately came to mind.
https://youtu.be/95DSO1cxr0Y
From down Under????
Growing up in Northland, the four big costs that always had my parents stressed, were: rent, food, water, electricity.
After Hale and Gabrielle, and the resulting ruined crops and drowned infrastructure (and animals), food is about to get a lot more expensive in NZ.
12:30 What you're describing sounds like Canada's Scanning Code Of Practice (SCOP), or the Scanner Price Accuracy Voluntary Code, which is managed by the Retail Council of Canada on behalf of participating Canadian retailers. Under the code, when the scanned price of an item without a price tag is higher than the displayed price, the customer is entitled to receive the item free of charge when it is worth less than $10, or receive a $10 reduction if the correct price is worth more than $10. It's voluntary to participate in, but my local discount grocer's participates, AND they make a lot of mistakes so I've managed to get free cat food, free ice cream syrup, and some free canned pears in the last couple of years. It pays to have sharp eyes on the receipt, and it's not just wizened hags who review the receipt once they get it.
Flies down on the Kapiti Coast are very bad this year. We have fly traps, which in a normal year we empty once a summer. This year we are emptying them every second week. BTW, listen to yourselves on half speed, it's hysterical, you both sound a few sheets to the wind.
Your story about the flyspray is both funny and a bit horrifying. Flyspray is poison (don't breathe it in!), and it regularly going off at intervals like that, needed or not, is a bit concerning.
Edit: I know NZ is kind of repelled by window and door screens, but I think it's preferable to have an attractive screen on your windows and doors to having flies in the house. In Canada it's just assumed there will be screens, and I've never noticed flies inside as a result (except for the one that sneaked in yesterday when I had to prop the door open for several minutes).
A Thousand Words? She stopped posting videos about a year ago, to take some time for herself. Great videos. I wish her all the best.
Bri, at the end you always say "Kia kaha, kia u", or at least I think you do. I know Kia kaha, but am unfamiliar with "u" (oo?) for 'true'. The closest I get is Kia tūturu, which is to stay committed, faithful, true. Is what you say a contraction of that?
One reason why everything costs so much in NZ is because apart from tourism ,primary industry and downstream production,forestry and a handful of mega startup factories,we don’t produce much.A lot of the Kiwi firms we were once proud of are now in the paws of foreigners,who repatriate the profits accrued to their head offices.Contemplate the energy providers that have quietly been declared unclean and shut down,making us price takers for the basics of life.Everything rolls on the back of trucks in our little country,and yet I don’t see us using our indigenous(propane,butane),gas fuels to power the diesels of tomorrow.Once upon a time our tyre manufacturers shod most cars,trucks and tractors with product made here.The die has been cast,we are told we are so inefficient we cannot assemble anything here.All good you say,but the upwardly mobile operators in Asia also want a decent wage and thus we are paying more and more for every item we put on our table.
Mount Taranaki is not the mountains offical name it is mount Egmont/Taranaki. in the taranaki national park so both should be used. Broccoli in Dunedin at Countdown Dunedin south is $4.80 a head.
Countdown is way more expensive than PNS.I work in Kaitaia PNS. The weather has made prices of vegetables really expensive. Also, always check you receipt. With everything you buy, anywhere. Everybody makes mistakes. I love your videos. It's always such a giggle. A 'feel good video'
Jeez Its a drama team, you covered a lot of ground this time! And I guess the other 103 comments cover everything you have have said – but I will bravely carry, even if just to reenforce to the great unwashed that your words are true. On prices – well look where you are!! Standing in an idyllic setting with a mountain at your back in lush paddocks – in a country that is free from war and strife (although not recently natural disaster). What would you pay for that? As crusty old kiwis say that if you are paying extra for your food but live in a peaceful, stable picture postcard setting, its worth it. Of course we also grow veggies and have fruit trees, and not to be able to grow veggies in New Plymouth is a special talent as the soil is so fertile being volcanic loams. (For those visiting New Plymouth – if you want value pop down to the Iona Ice Cream shop – but be prepared to queue up!). On flies – well you only have to go to places that have sand flies in large numbers, and I mean in the thousands per square inch and you will welcome flies!! Sandflies and the most evil and mean suckers of blood around. When I was in Aust we had flies landing near your eyes for moisture – which is bad – but sandflies – nasty buggers! Take care now! Mr G
I eat mostly meat. I find if I find whatever butcher has steak on special I buy a whole piece of rump, porterhouse or scotch fillet and the butcher will slice it for free. There is no waste with meat and it works out economical for me with not eating processed foods.
Back in the late 80's early 90's a supermarket called Big Fresh used to refund your entire shopping bill if there was a discrepancy. They overcharged us 1 item and refunded our whole $290 shop. Most of our dairy, lamb, beef, fruit n veg and seafood products gets sent overseas.
Ohh what really makes me so mad lately is our first trip to Costco up here in Auckland, all the meat is Australian. Selling steak, mince etc here in NZ, isn't even Kiwi products.
can't be bothered…sorry
it like everyone turning into scammers everywhere
Again you are absolutely right.its bad enough when the price is incorrect but equally worse when they charge you twice for the same item-human error.
Locally here in Canada, Broccoli is $3.99 a bunch, Spuds are $3.99 for 10lb bag
Well for decades producers of food have always been screwed over. New Zealand could undercut the meat producers in the uk, but it meant they screwed the sheep and beef family farms over. You only get paid on the empty carcass weight, yet those works make money on everything. (Poor animals btw.)
It costs you to take the wool off- The Chinese pay nothing for it. Everybody's running around in rubbish synthetics of which are horrible.
The biggest problem that closes down diversity of industry, manufacturing, nz owned and operated is neo liberal economics that's made everything corporate and this affects food as it is all for mergers/ takeovers/ and the foreign ownership. They dictate. It destroys the true owner operated. The dumbing down of media, manufacturing and the importation of the complex items. This has occurred in all countries that adopted it by coercion or philosophy by the powerful.
An example:- The government closed down the only oil refinery, but it was made corporate after from the 1984 era, like all public organisations- all become costly btw- it's all for the two percent. (Australia kept theirs,) It provided money making high quality roading tar for nz conditions. The Sulphur product as it's removed from the crude- for fuels to eliminate the acid rain from pollutants. Co2 for industry. The tar coming in is of poor quality; but you import the refined; value added, but to make the country vulnerable. More energy use (shipping etc,) to get the same amount of product. They took ten years to destroy it the vested interests for other things; by those politicians appointing board members, making their mad decisions. They closed the tar making part firstly, that destabilised the whole operation.
Random question, have you done any video's on your thoughts about all things Maori? It's influence in NZ etc?
The flies are linked to the weather and temperatures. So they were more or less predicted. Unfortunately.
You two are SO CUTE! Couple goals 🙂 Watching you two vibe of each other made me smile !
Moaners
Countdown has been pointed out for not placing right prices on products,
Countdown also have online shopping specials now so we need to watch that.
SUCH NICE LIFE IN nz. MY FRIEND LIVE IN DUNDINE