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How much Chrisco really costs

Justyn — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:22:13 +0000

So I guess you’ve already seen the ads on television or saw it in the paper, about Chrisco Christmas Hampers in which you pay a certain amount of money each week and at the end of the year everything gets delivered. The question is how much does it really cost?

I have gotten the prices from various supermarket catalogues and simply compared it with the Chrisco Hamper 2010 for this quick research so prices may vary.

Coca Cola Hamper

Chrisco: 2 x 24 packs of Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Cap, Coca-Cola beach towel and a frisbee. This costs $137.80 or $3.29 a week over 42 weeks.

Coles: 24 pack of Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta Or Lift Soft Drink Varieties cost $16 each, or a total of $32. So your paying $105.80 for a cap, towel, bag and frisbee.

Apple iMac

Chrisco: Apple 20″ (2.66GHz processor, 320GB drive with 2GB RAM) for $2,184.00 or $42.00 per week.

Apple Store: Apple 21.5″ (3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 500GB drive with 4GB RAM) for $1,599.00 or $52.13 per month.

TV’s

Chrisco: Panasonic 37″ Full HD LCD Television for $1,651.00 or $31.75 per week.

Harvey Norman: Panasonic 37″ Full HD LCD Television for $1499.

So just of these couple of examples, you can see you could potentially save hundreds of dollars if you put the same amount away each week and went to your local grocery store and electrical store.

End of Easter

Justyn — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:31:32 +0000

Well it’s coming to the end of the Easter holiday for me, and back to work tomorrow. So I thought I would write a post about what I got up to over easter, exciting right?

I really didn’t do all that much but still I enjoyed having time off. I went for a cruise with a few mates at night, I also spoke to Chell which was great hearing her voice. I’ve watched movies and TV shows and also updated my blog (some CSS, fixed the LightBox issue, added the social bookmarking & related posts).

I didn’t go out clubbing at all, I have planned a nice birthday surprise for Chell when she gets back from overseas; she said she’s never had a decent birthday, so I am going to make this one she will never forget.

Well that’s all for now, back to work tomorrow and then another day off, yay!

Another update

Justyn — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:02:23 +0000

It’s been awhile since I last updated the blog, so I thought I should get this thing updated with some new content.

Last week Chell and I got our lips pierced, well Chell’s piercing is technically called a “Madonna”, it’s like where a beauty spot is. Mine is on the bottom left of my lip.

I have just got 4 days off work, which is quite good as it’s been pretty busy lately. Chell and I are going to Airlie Beach tomorrow and spending two nights in a nice resort. It is quite a special occasion as it’s our one year anniversary, it must be fate as it’s when the 4 days off fell on the roster for me :-).

Airlie Beach is just near the Whitsundays, so hopefully we can go snorkeling or something like that in the awesome crystal clear blue ocean.

I’ve put some new photo’s of Chell and I in our gallery, you can see our new piercings :-).

Oh, I almost forgot, Chell bought me a cool Bathing Ape (BAPE) hoodie, which you can see here or also in the gallery.

Great day, romantic night

Justyn — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:14:39 +0000

We went shopping yesterday for something to do and walked past a florist filled with flowers and teddies as Valentine’s Day is coming up. We had a look inside and saw the biggest, cutest teddy! He is white with glitter, and has a heart with hugs and kisses on his feet, arms and ears, he’s just adorable. I wanted to buy him straight away but Rachelle said no because it’s not Valentine’s Day yet.

But Fluffy was just too cute, we couldn’t leave him in the shop so I bought him for Rachelle as an early Valentine’s Day present as she loved it so much, and I didn’t want someone else to buy it. He now sits on our bed with Dronkey, they make the cutest couple. We then went to Big W and got a big box of 60 dairy milk chocolates so we could go home and lay in the air conditioning watching movies whilst eating chocolates and having a romantic night, and Fluffy sat on the bottom of the bed with Dronkey, we didn’t share any chocolates with him

I will put a couple of photo’s of Fuffy up, trust me, you will love him (You can see him here)

Australia Day

Justyn — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:43:44 +0000

G’day people, well Australia Day is here. How is everyone celebrating it? Rachelle, the kids and I are going to go down the strand and have a Barbie, try do the whole Australian thing. We are going to take a cricket set and a frisbee, have a game, take some photo’s and have some fun.

I will update the gallery later once we get all the photo’s off the digital camera. I have to work on Monday, which is a public holiday so I should rake the cash in, should make at least $400 for the day

Well, comment on the blog and let me know what your doing for Australia Day, having a BBQ, or just a big piss-up?

Christmas and New Years

Justyn — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:16:40 +0000

Well, I hope everyone had a great Christmas, and an awesome New Years. I for one certainly did, I didn’t stay out too late on New Years though, ended up making it back home about 3:30am or something. The weather was just way too hot, and the club’s weren’t really packed at all (I have seen more people out on Friday/Saturday nights). I think a lot of people went over to Magnetic Island, since DJ Benny Benassi was doing a concert over there, but who knows.

Work is going great, I work 20 minutes less than what I did before, and get paid more, so I am happy. I still enjoy having days off though!

Well, that’s all for me, let me know what you got upto for Christmas / New Years.

Christmas

Justyn — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:59:09 +0000

Well, I hope everyone had a great Christmas. I had a pretty good time, Chell and I cooked a chicken on the webber, we also cooked some pork and ham the night before for a Christmas Eve dinner. On Christmas, we awoke and I got dressed up in a Santa suit to hand out all the kids pressies, they loved it! Emily and Tiana loved their Dora the Explorer toys, Matt loved his Nintendo Wii game, and Jacob loved his Nintendo DS game & pack.

We then went to their Aunty’s place for more pressies and breakfast, we got some photo’s and opened the presents, Rachelle’s mum got us a big hamper, it was great! After that we headed back home and waited for their Dad to pick them up. We were then bored so decided to watch the Harry Potter series.

Our puppy, Cassie is doing great too, she’s a little terror, but what pup isn’t?

Sickness

Justyn — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:49:18 +0000

As some of you may of known, I’ve been sick since Friday morning/afternoon. It all started with a sore throat, then got worse from there, was getting headaches, cold sweats and high temperatures. I don’t know what it is, but Rachelle got me some Anti-Biotics to hopefully fix it up.

I don’t like being sick, especially when your temperature is aroiund 38.5c, you feel frozen, but are sweating. The worst thing is that Christmas is just around the corner too, which I hope I feel a bit better. This also is my second day without a cigarette, since my throat is so sore, I can’t smoke, so hopefully I wont feel like one by the time I get better.

I’ve also spent some time setting up Gallery2, and am going to configure it into my blog so that I can have images too, so check back soon!

Update: I’ve got Gallery2 all uploaded now, and added some photos and albums, but still have more pictures to upload yet. You can view the gallery by clicking on “Photos” up the top, or clicking here.