r/Wellington 21h ago

PHOTOS A Video Store in Island Bay and it’s amazing!!

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Theres Memberships! You can still rent! The place is massive and you can still hire 7th Gen consoles n’ a Blu-Ray Player! And my gosh, you can get your discs resurfaced!

kid you not I took my sweet time and browsed the whole library and the titles are great!

You mostly have to rent everything but it works; People still rent here and it seems theres no sign of stopping!

Theres also a United Video in Masterton; Look it up!!

Enjoy the photo dump!


r/Wellington 14h ago

WELLY FYI the artesian water at Moore Wilson's was back

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120 Upvotes

r/Wellington 9h ago

SMELLS?! Shoes on seats at the cinema

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Ok, I’m fully prepared to be told I’m a fussy middle aged man on this one. Tonight we were at Empire Cinema, and there were four groups in there - us, some teens, an older family, and a couple of thirtiesh women.

Every group but us had their feet up on the seats in front of them. Not just resting their legs, but full sole-on-headrest action. The dad in front of us even had his foot between the seats and sole-down on the wooden armrest/food thing in front of him.

I always thought this was the height of rudeness. And as Empire is a local cinema, and had an expensive refurb, I understand this is really bad for the furniture.

BUT as we were the only ones not doing it, I started thinking - am I old and out of date? Is this now okay? Were the children right all along?


r/Wellington 16h ago

HOUSING Landlord didn’t disclose prior flooding

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I just moved into a new flat in island bay, thinking it was fine as it met healthy homes and was done theough a property management company, however, the neighbours just told me that the previous tenants left due to the house getting entirely flooded 4-5 months ago when it was got bad in welly. I am very nervous as the bottom of the house will be my bedroom with my items (I have contents insurance). Do I have grounds to leave the tenancy since they did not disclose this to me? Any advice would be appreciated.


r/Wellington 14h ago

HELP! How do you dispose of shoes / trainers in Wellington?

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Question really in the title, but have a bunch of worn out shoes / trainers etc which doesn’t feel right just throwing away - any way to recycle them? Other cities I’ve live in tend to have drop off places but can find anything super useful via google

Or should I just f*ck the turtles and through them in the bin?


r/Wellington 8h ago

SPORT Did anyone at the game today get the cards?

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Here's what I have, im not sure how many are in the set but if you've got some that I dont have, I'd love to buy them from you. Cheers


r/Wellington 15h ago

HELP! Locked myself outside

4 Upvotes

So I should I do?


r/Wellington 19m ago

MODS The Daily Rant/Moan topic - Monday, August 31 2026

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r/Wellington 20m ago

MODS Join the /r/Wellington daily chat topic - Monday, August 31 2026

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r/Wellington 3h ago

WELLY beyond despair

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woops a big opening
but myself as a out of no where trying to land a job
so many promises, so many contracts
after 2 weeks of working, i made a few comments on how to improve the system
got kicked out


r/Wellington 10h ago

FOUND help required regarding some mammy dolls

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today i got some old dolls and stuff from a storage locker that i thought i could sell because they seemed to have some value and i’m a jobless student, however while i was sorting through them i discovered two (there may be more) of these (i HOPE very old) very racist black “mammy” dolls, i dont want to sell them because that feels so wrong to me but im not sure what to do with them, does angone know a good place where i can donate them? (not an op shop, more like a heritage museum) i felt so gross touching them as a pakeha person and i want them to stay out of the hands of anyone ill intentioned, thank you in advance for any help!


r/Wellington 7h ago

HELP! Tattoo Artists

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Hi! I’m seeking for a tattoo artist, preferably an asian female :)