Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Ok so I'm in Tauranga, when I unpacked my bag last night I discovered I had left my deodorant at home!
I want the ecostore deo which is $12.90, twice the price of supermarket, foreign made deo but it is made here and it's aluminum and paraben free. However, no-one in Tauranga sells it and it's going to cost me $12 for postage from Auckland (or Palmy) which I think is ridiculous...and I only have $15.
So my options are to wait a week till I'm back in Auckland and visit their shop there but go without in the meantime or run down to the supermarket and grab whatever is on special there.
I'm sposed to be climbing a mountain today and have a couple of parties to go to over the next couple of days...and the friends I'm staying with are somewhat opposed to me going without deo so it looks at though I might just have to buy it...or maybe reassess the situation at the end of today.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

So I've had this awful flu/cold for a few days but can't buy panadol or other medicines to help get rid of it! Luckily I had a wee stash of panadol but I'm now down to 4, maybe 6 which won't last long. I've been making lemon drinks with honey which are good for the throat but do nothing for the head. So what should I do?...Just buy the panadol anyway? Last time I was at the docs I asked him to look up what medicines are made here. There were only about 6, one of which is ibuprofen or some form of. I can't find it anywhere though so assume it's a prescription only deal, only I can't afford to go to the doc.  So, either I suck it up and try the mind-over-matter thing or fail and buy it...

I can't even put ginger in my drinks, it's all imported (whole ginger). We do have wild ginger growing here but I've never heard of any outside Waikato and it's the wrong time of year to stick some in the garden...but it's so delicious!

Greggs, which I'm sure you'll find in any New Zealanders pantry, sell ginger. It's not made here, but it is packaged here. I've been assuming this is ok, it's just like Coke being made here except Greggs is a New Zealand company.

Photo: ms.tea

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Check out Felt, it's a website full of amazing handmade things. From what I can see everything is made here, the rules for selling on the site are that you make the items yourself and each time you click on an item it shows the sellers details, where they are based etc. Everything is priced really well too, well within my budget!
Thanks for the tip Christine...I had been to it before but maybe didn't have any money at the time!

Monday, June 7, 2010

I recently got my hands on some Feel at Home soaps and lip balm. They’re hand-made with natural and organic ingredients, mainly sourced from New Zealand companies. They also sell bath and massage products and soap mats made from recycled wood.