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Bunnings or Bust: The Deeply Unhinged Reason Australians Treat the Hardware Store Like a Second Home
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Bunnings or Bust: The Deeply Unhinged Reason Australians Treat the Hardware Store Like a Second Home

There is no logical reason a grown adult should spend three hours and $400 at a place they entered to buy a single rawlplug. And yet, here we all are. Daggy.name investigates the strange, sacred, and slightly unwell relationship Australians have with their favourite big orange shed.

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