BOXING DAY SALE

 We went to Noel Leeming this morning to buy a couple of fridges in the Boxing Day* sale.

The weather was and is atrocious with teeming rain which necessitated getting the car out to drive to Tory Street. It's the first time out for the car for a few weeks. We got drenched just going from a close carpark to the shop and, appropriately, the store had The Rolling stones Gimme Shelter playing!

Lovely.

We've been 'living out of' the small fridge in this apartment which is very limiting - trying to keep fresh vegetables, meats, dairy products, wines etc. in a manner that it's easy to find stuff to use. In Whangarei we kept a larger, 'spill-over 'fridge in the second kitchen to store wines and larger items and have been missing that.

With the very big discounts on offer today we decided to buy a large Fisher and Paykel fridge/freezer for the kitchen ...

... and a side by side Samsung upright freezer and fridge for the garage.

It will be great being able to select frozen meat, fish and vegetable items from the freezer without having to kneel down and fossick through the bottom drawer and to have wines and other drinks easily accessible in the fridge side.

Thanks Mr Leeming.

These will be delivered after we take possession of the townhouse in a couple of weeks.

* Boxing Day sales are major post-Christmas (December 26th) retail events with huge discounts on tech, home goods, fashion, toys, and more, happening both in-store and online, with deals often extending through January, though some sources suggest Black Friday might offer better tech deals. Major retailers like Noel Leeming, Farmers, Harvey Norman, and PB Tech in NZ, plus global stores, participate heavily, marking one of the year's biggest shopping opportunities for quality outerwear, kitchen gadgets, and home essentials. 

Boxing Day, also known as Offering Day, is a holiday celebrated on 26 December, the day after Christmas Day.  Boxing Day was once a day to donate gifts to those in need, but it has evolved to become a part of Christmas festivities. It originated in the United Kingdom and is celebrated in several Commonwealth nations. 

- Thanks Aunty Google.

Boxing Day has nothing to do with the 'sport' of boxing and has no connection with the Chineses Boxer movement as made famous in the Boxer Revolution. Some old bloggers with failing mental faculties have referred to Boxing Day as 'Bok Sing Dai', inferring that it is some sort of Chinese holiday. We wish them a speedy recovery but fear that their affliction is permanent.