Furniture and BBQ day

Today we went out again for a full day of shopping. We measured up the rental place and figured out what we needed. After having bought all our white goods yesterday ( a mix of Bosch / LG and Westinghouse ) at Harvey Norman's ( for a 15% discount ) we decided today was the day to buy the furniture and BBQ. We went into the furniture shops and selected the style we wanted and asked what the whole lot would cost us, which came back at 10.000 AUD, after which we decided we'd just do it in smaller chunks. So, we decided on the absolute minimum we'd need, and got the prices too :
- 1 Queen size mattress + wooden support slats = 1500 AUD
- Bedding + Cushions = 800 AUD
- a good BBQ + utensils and gas bottle and all the accessories = 1300 AUD
- Outside table + 6 chairs ( we calculated we'd need 6 chairs maximum ) = 700 AUD

That puts us back 4300 but then we can live in the rental for quite a while without missing out on the basic needs like sleeping / cooking and sitting. We decided to not buy a TV for a while because to be honest we haven't really missed it. We might go and buy a flat-screen later but we're so busy that there's no direct need for one.

We haven't bought any of the furniture yet, we'll give them a call on Monday and order the mattress and the other stuff, but we did buy a BBQ today. It's a very nice one indeed ! It's in the back of the car at the moment and will stay there until we get the keys of the rental on Monday. This is the BBQ we got : Weber Spirit E-320. In Europe people might think that a 1300 AUD BBQ ( about 700 Euro ) is expensive but we will be cooking on it almost every day , so it needed to be a good one. The weather is so nice here that there's no need to cook a lot on the inside kitchen. Perhaps we'll use the inside kitchen in the winter, but so far we've been using the barbie every day. On the side of the barbie there is a side-burner so you can fry an egg in a pan or steam your vegetables or make a sauce there. It comes with 7 year warranty on almost anything and lifetime on most other stuff, so we're set for at least 7 years. Kim's delighted with it, we'll try it out when we come back from Sydney in a week.