I can't believe I haven't posted this earlier! In
Melbourne there exists a "Garbage Christmas" also known as household waste day or something like that. On Garbage Christmas, you wake up and the streets are covered with free stuff that you can take! Stuff like clothes horses, printers, broken chairs, televisions, hangers etc. We got our TV from the curb and beside the odd time that it turns itself off, it is our best friend. We had another Garbage Christmas recently and Kurtis was so excited that he made me go to bed early because in his words, "If you don't go to sleep, Garbage Santa won't come!"
Kurtis has come such a long way since we got here. He used to be too snotty to use coupons, didn't immediately go to the grocery that costs the least, too good to participate in Garbage Christmas. But now, I didn't even know this Garbage Christmas was coming up but Kurtis spoke of Garbage Christmas many days before and even posted the notice of Garbage Christmas on our bulletin board! Unfortunately, we both had to work all day, so we didn't get any garbage this time....
Australian Word of the Day: "That's not on mate!" - Another thing Kurtis and I keep saying with an Australian accent. Just basically an Australian way of saying, "that is not cool, friend," usually indicating that something is not fair, not right or not nice. For example, when Kurtis found out that his pizza store job paid him less than minimum wage, he would say, "that's not on mate!"
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