my brother built this house on the south coast of nsw for this cattle baron, who send a covered semi-trailer from one of his properties in outback queensland to the house to deliver.... two cane chairs.... so he could sit on the verandah and watch the sunset (the house faced east in a valley halfway up a mountain, the sun was gone by 3pm)

this dudes missus flew all over the world looking for things to fill this house with... found some ancient (not antique) 400yr old french cathederal doors massive heavy flipping things totally irreplacable.... she wanted them cut up to make kitchen cupboard doors.
one of the chippies working for my brother quit rather than be responsible for the sacrilege of destroying 400yr old timber doors.
but it ended up being done, and the kitchen installed, only for her to turn up in a chopper one day and proclaim that it didn't turn out like she'd hoped and she didn't like it and to tear out the whole kitchen and start again.

the house was never going to be their 'home', it was just something for her to do to keep her occupied..

meanwhile, some families have two incomes and still have to live off vinnies vouchers to make ends meet

I also have dealt with customers like that spend millions on the house & furniture then let the dogs destroy everything . Did my head in .I did a job at St Ives were they moved the pool over 6ft so they could fit in a bigger table & chairs they bought more land from the golf course to do that & as it was a 45deg day the customer asked if i would like a drink & I said yes & he said there's the tap . How I never kicked him in the balls is still a mystery to me they treated everybody like slaves. Yet my parents are well off & some of there friends are really really rich One of them has over 300 car collection all in special temperature & humidity controlled sheds & with some of the rarest cars in the world & employs two mechanics to restore and look after them an yet the wife does her own shopping & cooking & they are heaps more down to earth than some of the would be if they could be that i have to deal with so i suppose it shows that stupidity is not defined by financial status

When you see people like this, keep this in mind.
Eventually, everybody dies. So when they are there, laying on their death beds, do you think they will be spending those final moments thinking about the ancient handcrafted kitchen they had, the cool chopper they once owned or their multi million dollar car collection? I highly doubt it.
Its the memories you make in your life, and the people that shared them. Its not something money can buy.

But yeah, i hate them fookers too. And if i had heaps of money, i would probably buy a whole heap of stupid crap as well.

welcome to the goldcoast the more one has, the more stupidly and selfishly one behaves (with the occasional exception)

I'm guessing the council that this friend's brother works for is Nedlands council, I remember reading some years ago that they were doing this because all councils are liable if someones bin causes an accident.

There are probably too many lawyers on that council, but at least they are providing employment.

My mate lives next door to Frank Lowy's pilot who owns a holiday home(was his late mother's place) here in Barmera, he flew the daughter in law to New York to pick up a menu from a restraunt, cost cool $300,000, he was telling us you got no idea how the super rich live

How did he keep it burning??

I find they keep going out, the 50s burn a bit better