Hows does a preppy kiwi dress their home? in a distant version of how an American preppy dresses their house.
Every preppy Kiwi will have these things in the family (re parents') house:
- A Dick Frizzell print and/or Graham Sydney print
- Dad's old Swandri bushshirt
- Random fishing paraphenalia
- A 1975 NZ commonwealth games tea towel
- Ancient Tupperware from when mum and her friends had parties
- Clunky pottery from the 1970s
- Everything by the Finn brothers
- Any furnishings from Citta Design, Coast, Wallace Cotton, and Country Road.
- A poster that mum bought as a fundraiser for the hospice
- Happy Hens pottery
- Shelves that dad built that are slightly off
- Red banded gumboots (wellington boots) with cobwebs and possible spiders
- A pencil holder you made at intermediate (middle school) in the shape of a heart or dinosaur.
- Cecily tea towels that mum thinks are "fun" with jokes about calories or alcohol on them ("sometimes I even cook with it!").
- Horrible soap that was won in the school raffle but it "needs to be used up"
- A picture of the kids with a koala from a childhood trip to Australia- dad has a Hypercolor tee shirt on and you are wearing Zinc sunscreen in a culturally insensitive fashion
- Janet Frame, Owen Marshall, and Brian Turner books.
- Scottish stuff from a trip/ OE ("overseas experience," traditionally taken following high school or university) back to the "old country"
- The Yates gardening guide, 1991 edition with "Merry Xmas '91" written inside
- Christmas themed platter for mum's pavlova
- The best of Dave Dobbyn (pretty much our national songsmith)
- Rattan nesting tables
- One of those rag rugs
- Lots of stuff from Trade Aid

A Dick Frizzell design eco bag- this print hangs somewhere in every Kiwi prep's home
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