Who cares about getting an award for not winning? No child I've ever met. Whose idea was it to give them out? Not ours.
Just the other day I had a conversation with a man insisting that people my age can't afford a house because we're too fussy. Us 20 and 30-somethings are too precious to buy second-hand furniture and buy a doer-upper for our first home.
As if. The only piece of furniture I own that is not second hand is my bed.
I would gladly buy a doer-upper - if I could find one I could afford.
QV's latest figures had the average house price in Tauranga at $678,643.
The cheapest house I could find listed on Trade Me on Wednesday was a two-bedroom bungalow with an asking price of $359,000, which requires a deposit of $71,800.
By saving $200 a week, it would take me close to seven years to save that deposit, and that's providing house prices stay the same for the next seven years - laughable when house prices rose 17.5 per cent in the last year.
At this point, I'm about ready to give up even trying for a house. Maybe I'll go play on my smartphone and eat some avocado on toast instead.