24. Renting White Goods

Mundane I know, but it’s something new for me as I’ve always just bought the stuff I needed or it’s already been in the flat I’m renting. As I said earlier in Australia it’s very common to find that the place you want to rent is unfurnished and if you are lucky you might get a dryer but almost every place we looked at didn’t even have a washing machine or a fridge/freezer.

You options, therefore, are to either, buy them new, buy them second hand in a yard sale or rent them. We went for the 3rd option courtesy of Radio Rentals in Bondi Junction who supplied us with both for a wonderful $9 per week – fully guaranteed. Overall this might not be the most cost effective way to do it but it definitely removes the worry of “what happens if it breaks down”.

The manager of the store was a chap called Nathan and he was really eager to help us in our white good endeavours. He got a bit worried when we said that we stayed north of the bridge as apparently the Bondi Junction shop was not “our local” Radio Rentals.

“If you’ve got a problem with the machines then make sure you call our store and not the call centre or they’ll put you through to the Brookvale branch and they won’t know anything about you,” he said looking a bit worried. “Last time that happened the manager drove down here and wanted to give me a kicking!”