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Feb 2nd
A R34 GTR MUR spec can demonstrate a lot things: taste, affluence, manhood, even the nature of your being(e.g. in the case of an environmentally-friendly automobile). This is all fine and good, but not all persons would be willing to spend their life savings into a track monster. And yet, real men spend hundreds, even thousands, of hard-earned dollars every year to keep their automobiles in immaculate condition, opting for services such as Sydney spray painting cars. Often, a huge portion of this money gets to preserving the external visual aspect of the car, not the least of which is the paint job.
Your surroundings are engaging a constant war on the outside of your car; even if you don’t see happening before your eyes, you can play your machine is taking a pounding from the factors, people, and creatures around you. The sun fades your paint, thrown stones crack your windshield, the person in the vehicle parked next to you at the dragstrip opens his door a little too wide and scratches your passenger side. Although some accidents just can’t be foreseen or prevented, there are ways to guard against unnecessary spend when it comes to your vehicle, especially your automobile spray paint job.
Car spray paint is insanely difficult to keep in the fresh shape it’s in when the automobile leaves the dealership, and its preservation can be very costly if you go through the wrong vendor. A volvo dealership will most likely charge you an extreme fee to apply a sealant to the automobile spray paint, but there’s no real reason for paint protection to be priced that much. At Rembrandt’s Auto Polish, prevents damage to your car’s paint is simple and affordable. Protect your paint job from the acid in bird droppings and tree sap, sun fading, and other damaging elements. The protective sealant applied by Rembrandt’s will significantly extend the life of your paint, saving you countless dollars.
Boxing Day Sales Ideas
Dec 11th
After the turkey is eaten, the presents are opened and the eggnog is gone, barely has the hangover gone before the frenzy of the next major event. Boxing Day Sales in Melbourne is an event on its own, perhaps not to the scale of Black Saturday shopping trips in America, but definitely an event one needs to be well and truly prepared for. It’s a day where shops slash prices down to 70 – 80% on most items, where shoppers, some excited, others reluctantly braving the onslaught of shopping – but all collectively agreeing that the bargains to be had is truly too good to miss up. For the uninitiated Boxing Day is the day after Christmas.
Where are these sales, you may ask. The biggest bargains to be had are, unfortunately, in the big shopping complexes. In Melbourne these places would be Myers – Chadstone, High Point, Doncaster Shopping Town, and of course, who could forget the hallowed cobblestones of the biggest shopping street in Melbourne – The Bourke Street Mall. For household items, don’t forget Kmart, Target and Big W – Boxing Day Sales often double up as their stocktake sales as well.
Beware, though – shopping in Melbourne on Boxing Day is not for the faint-hearted. One must be prepared for hour-long waits for fitting rooms, cashiers, discount clothing bins surrounded by salivating women, clothes strewn along the floor. Top tips for the day are:
1. Wear a tank top and tights where possible – in dire circumstances when fitting rooms are so crowded there’s a cue to the main entrance, you may need to try on clothing where you are, or miss the whole event just waiting for a room.
2. Get there EARLY – shops usually open earlier on Boxing Day, and it doesn’t take long for the best items to run out the door.
3. Carry cash – chances are you will already have been waiting 45 minutes to get to the cashier, and once you do all you want to do is get in, and get out. Credit cards will more likely just slow you down.
4. Save the Boxing Day sales for those purchases that are more expensive – that gorgeous dress that you’ve been lusting after for a long time or that pair of stilettos that calls your name every time you walk past the window – those are the purchases you want to look out for when you’re speed-walking from shop to shop trying to canvass all the shops in Melbourne in just under 7 hours.
5. Start hoarding Boxing Day flyers – have a plan for the shops that you definitely want to hit on the day.
6. Pack a sandwich and bring water – remember, the whole city of Melbourne will be bursting with shoppers and restaurants also cash in on the frenzy. Stay hydrated with your bottle of water – dehydration killed the Duracell bunny.
Boxing Days Sales – Shopping Online!
Dec 9th
Boxing Day Sales aren’t for everyone – people scurrying around, the frenzied traffic of drivers rushing to get that parking spot for the day, the crush of shoppers driven by the sole purpose of the bargain – for the claustrophobic and introverted, this is their worst nightmare.
No reason to despair though – the Boxing Day phenomenon extends to the internet. Online shopping websites also commonly post sales on the day after Christmas. Some key websites for bargain online shopping are:
1. www.oo.com.au
2. Deals Direct
3. Oz Bargain
4. Factory Fast
5. RY.com.au
Just a word of caution for first time online shoppers – check your shopping cart carefully before you check items on online shopping websites, verify that you have entered the correct shipping addresses and make sure you read each site’s Terms and Conditions so you don’t have any nasty surprises. Also, if the site looks dodgy, it probably is – follow your gut and do a quick search online about the site you’re shopping on, just to see if there have negative comments or feedback on the site.
Once you’ve got that covered, all you will need to complete your Christmas shopping for your loved ones is a credit or debit card and a comfy chair.