Hall-o-wiener

So here we are on the last day of October. And you know what that means, don’t you? That’s right—someone you know will be bragging about how they’ve already finished their Christmas shopping.

Yep, despite the fact it’s still eight weeks away, they managed to find the perfect gift for everyone they know. 

So how did they do it? Well, I have a few ideas:

A. They don’t actually have any friends (which, considering how they’re behaving right now, isn’t surprising).

B. Their friends and family have such poor taste they’ll gladly accept anything they’re given—including Instant Lottery tickets.

C. They‘re one of those annoying people who can actually figure out what everyone wants.

If the answer turns out to be option C, then you’ll be glad to know it’s Halloween and you have an excuse to plunge a knife into something.

Trivial fact: This is actually the reason we have Jack-O-Lanterns at Halloween. (They were originally called Jerk-O-Lanterns.)

Mind you, they may be just as clever and thoughtful with their trick-or-treating. So it’s worth dressing up as your favourite horror character (zombie, grim reaper, telemarketer) to see what you can get out of them. 

And if you don’t get what you want, just get into character and slash/stomp/bore their garden to death on the way out.

Fortunately you don’t have to worry about choosing the perfect gift for your friends and family. Simply rent a TV, home theatre system and gaming console from Home Appliance Rentals and your problems will be solved. They still won’t like the gifts you gave them, but you should be able to drown out the noise of them banging on your door and sending abusive text messages.

But you should probably call them as soon as you can. After all, those pumpkins are going to run out long before the bragging does.

Fitness Freak

Summer’s here at last (in fact I think it got here a few weeks early), and it’s time to go to the beach, ride a bike and whatever else people do in Coca-Cola commercials.
Unfortunately, when you start peeling off the layers that kept you warm all winter you may find you’ve developed a few layers yourself.

Of course, the obvious solution (other than hiding in the bathroom and eating nothing but low-fat Colgate for three months) is to head to the nearest gym and work them off. But the last thing you want to deal with is a bunch of sweaty people moaning and groaning for an hour. (And that’s just the staff at the front counter.)

Luckily you don’t have to. Thanks to Home Appliance Rentals you can have fitness equipment delivered and set up in your own home that you can use whenever you want. No driving across town, no waiting around for equipment, and no mirrors!

And forget about the machine where you put the belt around your waist and get shaken so violently you throw up. Home Appliance Rentals can deliver equipment that’s far more effective, such as:

the Treadmill. Step onto the conveyer belt, set the speed, and start running. Pretend you’re competing in a marathon (by throwing bottles of water over your head), or just run to the rhythm of your favourite music. Just make sure you don’t add any slow songs to your playlist, or you could find yourself suddenly being catapulted across the room.


the Cross Trainer. Grab onto the handles, step onto the pedals, and before you know it you’ll be stuck. But if you stick at it, you’ll soon be burning off all those calories in no time. (It’s also a great way to perfect your impression of a robot.)


the Exercise Bike. Remember the thrill of riding a bike when you were a kid—wind in your hair, bugs in your teeth and the neighbour’s dog chasing you? Well, you won’t get any of that with an exercise bike (unless you crank up the air-conditioner). But you can ride for an hour without looking like a human bug zapper and lose weight.


the Rower. If you’ve always wanted to row but couldn’t afford to go to a private school, then this is the one for you. Feel ever muscle in your body screaming out in pain without having to worry about accidentally drowning (except possibly in your own sweat).


Before you know it you’ll be burning off those extra layers, not to mention the clothes you’ve been wearing while you do it. (Washing powders are good, but they can’t perform miracles.)
Now you can stroll along the beach with confidence, walk up to the hottest girl/guy there, and whisper the words you’ve wanted to say for the past month.
“Got any toothpaste?”

Keeping the family close to your chest

It’s winter, and every television commercial seems to consist of a family sitting at the dining table eating a hearty meal together. Of course you have no idea what’s on television because the kids have commandeered it to play their video games.

What the commercials don’t tell you is that after the fifth hearty meal the family starves to death because no-one wants to go outside to get more food.

Let’s face it: no-one likes grocery shopping at the best of times (yet another myth perpetuated by television). But when you also have to battle driving rain, foggy windscreens and people driving 20km/h over the limit so they can “get out of the rain sooner”, it’s downright depressing.

And what’s even more depressing is you’ll have to do it all again next week because that’s roughly how long the food will last.

The obvious solution is to get your food in bulk. Grab your credit cards, jump in the car, and see if you can hijack a Woolworths truck somewhere up the road.

(I’m kidding, of course. There’s no way you’d catch up to them.)

But where do you put it all when you get home? You should be able to fit the cold stuff in the fridge (shielded with a bag of Brussels sprouts to ward off teenagers like garlic wards off vampires). And what doesn’t fit in the pantry can always be put in cupboards, wardrobes and kids’ bedrooms. (They practically live in front of the television these days, so they won’t even notice.)

But you’ll be battling to fit all the frozen stuff in the freezer compartment, partly because it’s so small but mostly because it hasn’t been defrosted since the day you bought it.

Fortunately there’s a simple solution. Just rent a chest freezer from Home Appliance Rentals and you’ll have room not only for your frozen goods, but also the kids if they get too hyperactive.

(We’re kidding. But don’t tell them that.) 

Home Appliance Rentals will deliver and install your chest freezer for you, and then come and take it away when you no longer need it.

Which is just as well, because the kids won’t life a finger.

Go large for your next event

It’s the moment everyone’s been waiting for. They’re leaning forward in their seats, partly from excitement, and partly because they’re too polite to move any of the cushions.

The lights go out, and then quickly come back on when you realise you can’t see the remote control in the dark. Then they go out again, you hit ‘Play’, and the slideshow/presentation/piracy warning fills the room.

Well, it would if the room was the size of a linen cupboard. Unfortunately your lounge room/function area/venue is a lot bigger, and so people can barely see it. They start shuffling closer, and pretty soon there’s a gridlock of chairs in front of the screen.

And when you turn the volume up loud enough for everyone to hear, it sounds like the speaker that almost ripped out your car window when you left the drive-in.

It’s time to “go large” and hire some event equipment from Home Appliance Rentals.

With a data projector and screen they’ll be able to see everything clearly from across the room, and quite possibly across town. No more squinting, no more cries of “What’s that supposed to be?” and no more spending an hour after your presentation trying to untangle the chairs.

And with these speakers your audience won’t just hear your presentation, they’ll feel it. No need to ask people to switch off their mobile phones. They won’t hear it even if it does ring. And even if they do, they’ll definitely have to leave the room to take this call.

But the best thing is Home Appliance Rentals will take care of everything. They’ll deliver the equipment, and set everything up for you. (That’s right: No more decipher a badly-translated manual that reads “Never to be holding the same plug twice”.)

And when your presentation/movie/slideshow is over, they can pack it all up and take it away again. Which means the only time you have to lift a finger is to hit the ‘Stop’ button.

Wherever that is.

Chest Freezers

If you are considering a chest freezer then you more than likely do a lot of hunting, fishing or entertaining. Maybe you have a large family or don’t get to the shops as often as you’d like.

Important things to consider are:

·       Where will you place your freezer?

 You will want to avoid storing your freezer too close to a heat source, such as an oven or near a window with direct sunlight, as this can force the unit to work harder, reducing efficiency.

·       What size will you need?

Bigger may not be better. Freezers less than 2/3 full use more energy, so having a large under-stocked freezer will cost you more money in the long run. Select one that meets your capacity requirements or, if you find you're not utilising 2/3 of the available space, consider adding jugs of water to fill up the empty space to improve efficiency.

·       Interior organisation

 Shelves and baskets make it easier to organise food, helping you to sort new from old so you can prioritise consumption more easily. Movable shelves are generally only available in frost-free freezers.

Renting an Energy Star freezer is the best way to know that it meets certain energy efficiency targets. When it comes to energy efficiency, chest models use less electricity because most are manual defrost and there's less cold air loss when the door is open. There's also less tendency to browse at the contents compared to an upright model.

View our chest freezer models here and talk to us to discuss your requirements.

Switching to Digital TV

You can’t stop the signal

Television has certainly come a long way.

In the beginning, all the TV shows were black and white (or as they’re called now, “classics”). This made shows such as “Pot Black” very hard to watch because the balls all seemed to be the same colour.

Of course, we had to “tune” our televisions first. This involved someone standing on the roof moving the antenna while another person stood in front of the TV yelling out “No, still snow”.

Later on we got colour television, where everyone turned the colour up to “sunburn”. Every TV show, including the news, became “Invasion of the orange people”.

(We also learned the real reason Pot Black was so hard to watch: it was dead boring.)

After that came video recorders, which let us record one TV show while watching another. And then later, after waiting ten minutes for it to rewind, we’d all swear and curse because we forgot to change the channel on the VCR.

Since then everything has become digital. (“Digital” is a Latin word meaning “impossible for parents to understand”.) These days we can buy movies on DVD or get our kids to download them from the Internet. We can record TV shows on recorders with hard drives that let us quickly delete a show we’ve been looking forward to for weeks by mistake.

And this summer we say goodbye to the signal that had so many of us standing on those rooftops.

On the 3rd of December, those of you in this purple area will suddenly be without your old analogue TV signal. (We don’t know why your suburb is purple, and quite frankly we don’t want to know.)

Most of you won’t notice the difference because your television will be able to pick up the digital TV signal that’s replacing it. In fact, you might be using it already. If your TV can get ABC 2, ABC 3 and ABC supplementary number 36, you’re already on the digital TV network and your kids have been making you get up on the roof for nothing.

But if your TV can’t pick up the digital signal, then you’ll be left staring at a blank screen.

Now, considering ratings season will probably be over by then it may not be such a bad thing. But if you want to make sure you don’t miss a minute of the cricket, the tennis or all those “encore performances” (also known as “repeats”), you need to get in touch with Home Appliance Rentals.

Home Appliance Rentals has a range of LCD and plasma televisions to suit your needs and your budget. And they all have built-in tuners that can pick up the digital signals. Not that you’ll need to worry about that, because Home Appliance Rentals will not only deliver your television, they’ll set it up for you as well.

That’s right! You won’t have to climb onto the roof ever again.

So contact Home Appliance Rentals now and switch to the digital signal. Then when they switch the analogue signal off, visit your neighbours and ask how they’re all faring.

But you may have to yell, because they’ll probably be on the roof.









Maybe something about switching to digital, I believe Sydney is the last to switch which will go ahead Dec 2013! For more info: http://www.digitalready.gov.au/

On 3 December 2013, Sydney and surrounding areas highlighted in purple will switch off their analog TV signals and switch to digital-only TV.

Happy New Financial Year!

Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, does it? Sure the accountants may well be flinging their pocket protectors into the air, but for everyone else it’s just another day.

The good news is you don’t have to worry about having a hangover or waking up naked tied to a pole. The bad news is you have a major headache to contend with, courtesy of the tax department (motto: “What’s yours is ours—eventually”.)

At first you thought it was your tax file number. But then you realised tax file numbers don’t have dollar signs or decimal points.

Unfortunately, all your appliances and whitegoods your electrical appliances found out as well.

Your dryer suddenly became nothing more than an amusement ride for your clothes. Your television started fulfilling your dream of seeing snow in winter. And to insult to injury, the beer you grabbed from the fridge was warm.

There’s not much point getting them fixed—another few years and they’d probably be classed as “antiques”. But there’s no way you can afford to buy new ones, either.

Fortunately, you don’t have to.

With Home Appliance Rentals you can rent a dryer, television, fridge or just about any other major appliance. Not only will they deliver them to your house, they’ll install them for you as well. (That’s right: you don’t have to bribe your son to tune the television like last time.)

And the best part? If something goes wrong with any of them, Home Appliance Rentals will either get someone around to fix it or they’ll replace it.

So what are you waiting for? Call Home Appliance Rentals now so you can get your clothes warm and your beer cold.

And then tell your other appliances they’ll be replaced as well if they don’t start behaving themselves.