Bunnings Dad

(Australian) A parent who will spend weekends making one or more trips to the local big box hardware store in large part to avoid other family obligations, often inventing projects that need a specific type or screw, tool or other item in order to justify getting away. Will go into the local Hammerbarn with a list of items and come out with a range of unnecessary extras, and then realize that there were one or two items on the list that were somehow missed - thereby requiring another trip back to get it (and so the cycle continues).

"Honestly, he's just in full Bunnings dad mode at the moment, I mean the other day he said he needed to duck out to get mortar screws even though he's just adding a pegboard to a drywall - and he came back with all sorts of random crap. Heaven forbid he should take one of the kids to soccer in the morning or help out with the laundry."

Bunnings Dad by SeamusMcPhee January 16, 2026