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#3490681 14-May-2026 01:04

I’m literally selling/giving away half my of worldly goods at the moment.

The whole process is painful. Nobody reads the listings, they all ask the same stupid questions and they all want to trade 3 shekels and a goat instead of paying cash.

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#3490697 14-May-2026 07:34

Handle9:

I’m literally selling/giving away half my of worldly goods at the moment.

The whole process is painful. Nobody reads the listings, they all ask the same stupid questions and they all want to trade 3 shekels and a goat instead of paying cash.

How much for the goats? 🤣

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#3490754 14-May-2026 08:34

Handle9:

I’m literally selling/giving away half my of worldly goods at the moment.

The whole process is painful. Nobody reads the listings, they all ask the same stupid questions and they all want to trade 3 shekels and a goat instead of paying cash.

Link your sale here, could be some interest.

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#3490755 14-May-2026 08:37

I suspect the shipping will be a dealbreaker!

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#3490781 14-May-2026 09:27

Handle9:

I’m literally selling/giving away half my of worldly goods at the moment.

The whole process is painful. Nobody reads the listings, they all ask the same stupid questions and they all want to trade 3 shekels and a goat instead of paying cash.

Just wait until you start arranging people to pick things up and they just don't turn up and never reply again.

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#3490785 14-May-2026 09:37

I hired a car last weekend - an R reg Mitzi Outlander. The driver monitoring was very annoying. It beeped constantly. The most common one announced on the main display (hiding actual useful info) that it could not detect my face. That one was about once a minute. If I turned my head to one side it would, despite previous point, admonish me for not looking ahead. If I got out of the centre of the lane (as you should if driving properly around bends) it would simulate a rumble strip by shaking the wheel.

Just a total pain in the arse and makes me less likely to upgrade my 2013 Touareg.

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#3490793 14-May-2026 09:55

johno1234:

Yes, firmly.

Tom Gibley, on his wine channel on YouTube, ran an experiment on opened champagne bottles. He put three in the fridge for four days. One with a stopper, one with a spoon and one with nothing. After four days they were all the same.

Easy solution: Don't put half-empty champagne bottles back in the fridge. Drink it all. 😃

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3490796 14-May-2026 10:08

eracode:

johno1234:

Yes, firmly.

Tom Gibley, on his wine channel on YouTube, ran an experiment on opened champagne bottles. He put three in the fridge for four days. One with a stopper, one with a spoon and one with nothing. After four days they were all the same.

Easy solution: Don't put half-empty champagne bottles back in the fridge. Drink it all. 😃

I am known to open a bottle of champagne now and then. My wife doesn't drink alcohol and my daughter has a sip. A bottle will last four days for me, with a stopper.

For the original question, regarding soda bottles, a 1.25 l bottle of Coca-Cola or Pepsi usually lasts a couple of days without gas loss.

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#3490798 14-May-2026 10:11

invisibleman18:

Just wait until you start arranging people to pick things up and they just don't turn up and never reply again.

I dont give the full address till they are near the pickup timeframe and will often arrange to meet at the park down the road.

Had one that claims they came all the way to the area and then they couldn't call or text me and were angry like its my fault. Thankfully it was facebook marketplace and not a trademe sale.

But in general the communication of trademe people is just as worse because they will just email you with the subject "trademe" and "when can I pick it up?" and no mention of what it is or who they are.

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#3490802 14-May-2026 10:29

Spam email from Microsoft about AI. No unsubscribe link. Apparently I gave implied consent by logging into "Foundry", whatever that is. I have a suspicion that my work-provided account now has access to Foundry and that MS took this as an opportunity to send spam about it.

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#3490870 14-May-2026 12:08

We are hiring a Mitsi Outlander from APEX in Aussie next week. Pretty sure their cars are not the latest models, so hopefully doesn't have too much of the new safety gizmos.

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#3490874 14-May-2026 12:48

richms:

invisibleman18:

Just wait until you start arranging people to pick things up and they just don't turn up and never reply again.

I dont give the full address till they are near the pickup timeframe and will often arrange to meet at the park down the road.

Had one that claims they came all the way to the area and then they couldn't call or text me and were angry like its my fault. Thankfully it was facebook marketplace and not a trademe sale.

But in general the communication of trademe people is just as worse because they will just email you with the subject "trademe" and "when can I pick it up?" and no mention of what it is or who they are.

Yeah I've stopped giving out the address until they confirm they are actually on the way. Had too many times sitting at home looking out the window for them to not turn up at the arranged time and contact ceased.

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#3490896 14-May-2026 14:23

Not wishing to be rude, but I often think that the general public and two short planks have quite a bit in common.

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#3490904 14-May-2026 14:33

Updated list of unsolicited numbers I've received in the last several months alone (links to reverse lookups where available):

03-563-8400 (donations)
03-567-4317
04-886-0148 via Symbio
04-886-6130 (via Symbio) now added to the list. Again, does anyone else know who the callers are?
04-887-8867
04-889-4715
04-901-6966 (Welly Free Ambulance donations)
06-241-8398 (Palmerston North, unknown)
06-920-3951 (New Plymouth, unknown)
07-245-7177 (Clever Contacts: telemarketer from New Plymouth)
09-304-1513
09-886-7059 via Symbio
09-967-8781 (One NZ telemarketer; I'm a former TelstraClear/Vodafone customer and they're probably asking me to come back)
09-886-7405 (Red Cross fundraiser)

The charities mentioned above are very good causes, but cold-calling for donations must be a sign of desperate times. If only our nation's rich-listers did some actual philanthropy, instead of buying politicians.

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#3490908 14-May-2026 14:54

Teabags with non-compostable or resistant to compost components. Coincidentally none of that stuff goes down a waste disposer.

Surely there is some simple way to keep the tag convenience without making it non-compostable. The teabag material itself is relatively robust. Make the string and tag out of the same stuff why don't you..

I can think of reasons why not. I don't think it would be terribly hard to engineer something from that similar material. Anyway, I will change my brand if I ever get through this box of 100..

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