What Recession?
My fiancee and I recently moved into a new house. It’s a warehouse conversion and for some unfathomable reason, the previous owners chose the spectacular colour palette of light grey, pale blue, bottle/olive/army green, deep violet, egg yolk yellow and burnt orange. So, first point of order now that we’ve moved in is to paint. We’ve made a darn good start between us, but being a warehouse conversion it has extremely high walls in some places, and the roof needs painting. We’ve assessed this situation and come to the conclusion that we’re just not equipped to paint some of these spaces between us.
No problem, we thought – we’re in a recession. We’ll be doing our part by stimulating the economy and supporting local business. Surely we’d be fighting off potential painters with a stick!
How wrong we were. To date we’ve had two people come to quote and made a few more phonecalls. Getting a tradesperson in Melbourne is apparently like getting blood out of a stone. It doesn’t stop there either - we’re also trying to get a bookcase built. Just getting someone to return your calls at the moment seems to be an outrageous ask. If they do return your phonecall and come and quote, the prices they give are hilariously inflated. When was $7,000 ever a reasonable price for a bookcase?
Now I watch the news. I know what’s supposed to be going on. We’re supposed to be in the middle of the biggest recession in decades. So what’s the deal? Is the media simply overinflating the severity of the situation? Go to your local shopping centre on the weekend and tell me people are hard up for cash. There’s barely elbow room in a department store on a Saturday!
Recession? What recession? Clearly we haven’t got the memo.
PS – If you live in Melbourne and you’re a handyman, painter or similar and need work – feel free to get in touch.
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