iamthecreaturefromuranus

That's 25k in Aus dollars, and if you think that's expensive then you obviously haven't looked !!. Get yourself down to your nearest Hardly Normal, assuming you are in Oz, and check out the price of cookers

quoll

You're not wrong, $25k is a budget kitchen - I hope that when I get mine done, I can keep it below that but I have budgeted for $30k and that is a gut the whole thing and replace everything reno.

Wendy

I spent less than $7k on mine Now that's what you call a budget kitchen

But I do have a hubby that installed it himself so I cheated a bit.

Got everything from Bunnings except the gas cooker which I got from Good Guys and a (laminate) worktop which I bought from a local supplier.

IvanM

Consumer confidence is measured and a key indicator on the economy. Some of it is due to people behaving like sheep but that is also part of the reason we get booms. In normal markets consumer confidence is cyclical and follows the other indicators. We are witnessing quite abnormal markets now. No amount of consumer confidence can make up for the amount of finance taken out of the system.

IvanM

http://business.smh.com.au/business/...1029-5b0f.html
This would explain house prices in Vic holding up better than Sydney or Brisbane.

IvanM

Mirvac (property company) in trading halt. 160 job losses in Sydney.
http://business.smh.com.au/business/...1030-5bs5.html

mrsridge

I lost my job yesterday. As did about 32 people out of 40 in the Developments section of our office (constructions side hasn't been done yet). I was working for a multi national developer in Brisbane. They have decided they will not be doing any developments for minimum two years. They even got rid of our State Manager. It was absolute carnage with tears and one guy even fainted.

king kong

i spent $350 on mine

king kong

We are laying off but we are in construction so thats to be expected plus the blokes money has gone down from 300 a day to 250 and is going to drop to 230 soon .Not pretty but there aint much we can do the builders are screwing us because no one is buying .

ozzieeagle

Very sorry to hear that. I realise it's early days, however are you confident or not about getting another job.

According to the news your not alone in this. It's a terrible feeling being retrenched. Hopefully something I never have to feel again.

sonlymewalter

This is so sad. It's the real people it effects behind the statistics

I hope you manage to find another job mrsridge and good luck

mrsridge

Currently I am feeling reasonably optimistic about a new job as I was a Legal PA so I can probably find another job reasonably easy in a law firm somewhere (even though that will suck). There were guys there that were transferred by the Sydney office, moved their families, sold their Sydney houses, got their kids into school here and now been told they are jobless - and there are no development jobs out there at the moment. One guy was saying he might try to get a job in a bank doing the mortgage repos. The man that fainteds wife is due to have a baby in three weeks. Generally everyone knew they wouldn't be getting a developments job again.

sonlymewalter

This is the human side to job losses. It has happened so quickly and like you say, some people have moved their families around and now have nothing. And the poor chap whose wife is due to have a baby, this should be a happy time for them, instead it sounds like it's turned into a nightmare

Fingers crossed you get another job soon which I'm sure you will - and all those others who have been made redundant.

The_Pom_From_Aus

250,000 on a nice kitchen on a new kitchen, i think she neds a good "Shagging"

ABCDiamond

I used to do the books for a Kitchen company some years ago, and they did charge like bulls. The director never drove to work in his Ferrari though....

At least I learned a few things, and got my kitchen for $4,000 (cost price)