It is with great sadness that I visited Wade House today for what will be one of the last times, as most of you will know we were all  informed last weekend on www.stuff.co.nz that Wade House is now in receivership.  For us Wellingtonians we really aren’t spoilt for choice when it comes to furniture and accessories for your home, so this is a big blow for us in Wellington.

Wade House closing down not only comes as a big shock to us all, it’s also mixed with sadness that one of our great stores will no longer be there. 

Wade House is located along Thorndon Quay and really is in the heart of all the furniture retailers for Wellington, interestingly enough it is now the second store to not survive in that location.

All this aside,  they now have a SALE on which is worth visiting for one last time.

There is 20-30% off everything in the store, there are some great accessories worth checking out and also 40% off all linen.  All furniture has between 20-30% off and 50% off Christmas decorations.

So go check it out, you might get lucky and pick up a couple of bargains. 

Farewell Wade House and I wish the owners some rest and all the best for their next adventure in life.

                                                                                                                    

   I was in the supermarket yesterday and picked up a new magazine aptly named “Mind Food” It has just been launched on the NZ market complete with web site. It is supposed to be a “multi-media” publication with both printed and online content. It claims to cover all of the things in our everyday life.

It has a section on wellness, the environment, society, culture, food and travel, just to name a few. On the surface it appears to be very retro and cool, a new way of delivering product and other information to us. But all it has succeeded in doing is frustrate me.

When I buy a magazine I buy it for specific reasons. I buy a fashion magazine to see the latest trends in fashion for the winter. When I buy House & Garden it is for ideas for my home. Mind Food appears as if it is trying to be all things to all people. In doing so it just does not hit the mark on anything. I guess this is only issue one but it’s hard to see how it will ever develop a personality. It just has too much disconnected content.

Maybe there are really sophisticated readers out there who have such a diverse range of interests that they desperately want to read about biodynamic wines , whaling and Sandra Slater’s Pilgrimage to Santiago. I’m guessing the same person will be really interested in the article on obsessive compulsive disorder. What they need is an article on schizophrenia as I can’t help feel like I need multiple personalities just to be able to enjoy the magazine.

Frankly it drives me nuts and makes me wonder why you ever buy the magazine when you can go to the website.   As a near forty something woman who isn’t concerned about how much she pays for magazines, if I’m not interested in this who on earth is their target audience, clearly it’s not me.

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