Dancing in the Rain

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  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 8,719 Forumite
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    The key word of my day is productive :)

    The Karch3r steamer was a positive decision. It has given me new energy to improve my surroundings. It’s surprising how effective a thorough clean can be to the overall appearance of my home.

    Steam cleaned the following:

    A large rug (discarded and out of use for a year and now cleaned and in my bedroom looking gorgeous) ;)

    An air vent that was disgusting and now isn’t.

    The top of a sticky, greasy cupboard, now lovely

    I’ve been working from home day and already I can feel things winding down for Christmas so it was an easy day

    Decluttering, glass jars, a steel bucket

    Cleared rubbish strewn dining room table, now a lovely clear, clean surface :)

    Hoovered bedroom

    Repurposed a 1970s coffee jug into a utensil holder and the lid into a tea-light holder :)

    Packaged a return to do when I am next in the office

    HMRC cheque clipped to bu-jo for paying in when I am next in the office

    Happy hump days everyone
    DIA x
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  • beanielou
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    A very fruitful day for you :)
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    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.     ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
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  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 8,719 Forumite
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    edited 7 December 2016 at 8:52PM
    After a whole day WFH I needed a walk. I walked 3 miles in total and that is good, but I got tempted by some bargains and spoiled my NSD with the following…

    smoked salmon £3.50 to 90p X2
    venison sausages £4.00 to £1.05
    organic carrots £1.00 to 40p
    brussel sprouts £1.00 to 10p X4
    green beans £1.00 to 10p X3
    diced butternut squash £2.00 to 25p X3
    olives £4.00 to £1.15 X2

    =£33 for £7

    So, lentil and pumpkin curry, lemon millet and garlic green beans for my supper tomorrow :)

    I was also tempted by absolute junk (crisps AND chocolate brazils)

    =£2.80 :o
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  • moneyonmymindsam
    moneyonmymindsam Posts: 2,243 Forumite
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    Junk = Treat for all that steam cleaning :-)


    Sam xx
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  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 8,719 Forumite
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    moneyonmymindsam wrote: »
    Junk = Treat for all that steam cleaning :-)
    Thanks Sam. I like your thinking :)
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  • doingitanyway
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    I made a pumpkin and lentil curry but without a rich chicken stock or some miso it lacks something. I have run out of AnC organic chicken carcasses and now they are on ‘limited availability’ so others are on to what terrific value they are. I need to buy some miso but it costs £5 a jar, so it can stay in the fridge and I’ll get some miso tomorrow

    3 doors steam cleaned :)
    Bath steamed clean (behind the taps was yuck) :)
    Toilet steam cleaned (So white! So clean!) :)

    All toiletries now stored in a basket on the windowsill. I don’t have a bathroom cabinet. I’d really like one.

    All bathroom bits and pieces now stored in a basket on the toilet windowsill. I’d really like an additional shelf for behind the toilet

    Today I am feeling lack as one of my goals was to have an oven and I do not have one so another year will have passed oven-less. :( I could have bought a cheap one maybe, just about, but I feel a very cheap oven is a false economy and I want the oven to last.

    I’m not sure I will have the means for a new oven in 2017 either as I am already short of my DF date and that is the bigger priority.:(

    I’m going to buy a slow cooker for Christmas, a glass one. I don’t want to buy a mini oven either…I don't want to spend on substitutes that I then have to house...I might start a new oven savings pot but there are so many savings pots required arrgh!! :eek:

    Sigh, going to find something else to steam clean…

    DIA x
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  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 90,118 Ambassador
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    Hallogen ovens are the bees and eees.
    Never ever use my oven now.
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    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.     ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
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  • RosaBernicia
    RosaBernicia Posts: 4,874 Forumite
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    I picked up a halogen oven from Ald1 for £15. It doesn't get used much at present though as I found the temperature is very uneven top to bottom and it's too small to really do more than one thing at once, whereas if I put the main oven on I can make good use of it. I should probably declutter it when I move.


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  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 8,719 Forumite
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    edited 9 December 2016 at 11:00PM
    Work went great today and I was commended following a meeting. I realise I have to put myself forward for more interesting and involved activities instead of moaning about the job not stretching me.

    I still feel restricted at work but I choose to focus on the freedoms and use them well…

    A terrible eating day today. Just not real food all day. If I don’t take food with me for lunch and eat breakfast it seems to be game over and I have a whole day of eating rubbish :o

    MnS is my new go to place for YS food. I’ve been there twice this week so I probably need to knock it on the head…

    Lamb chops £8.95 to £2.95

    Sausages £3.35 to £1.15 X2

    Gammon joint £8.80 to £2.80 X2

    Yoghurt 50p to 20p X2

    Ham £3.35 to £1.15 X2

    Blue Clawson cheese £2.30 to 70p

    Can’t be bothered to total how much I’ve saved but I’ve done well. I’m going to grill all the sausages and bag them ready cooked in the freezer so I can take a few to work with carrot sticks. I must stop these poor eating days!

    I hope you ate well and worked well and played well today.

    Happy weekend :)
    If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

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  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 8,719 Forumite
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    A working from home Saturday. Grey, overcast…

    Drudge jobs done: washing clothes and dishes...

    Eating still not settled, so structures imposed. No eating before 11 or after 7 (intermittent fasting) I still ate loads of cheese. Not buying it anymore. It is the devils food :mad:

    I threw away some pad Thai noodles and some port as these foods play havoc with my blood sugar and induce cravings for more food. A waste I know…:o

    I am addicted to frozen sardine fillets grilled from frozen and eaten with crushed salt and fresh lemon juice. Having with lentils and spinach this evening. All very healthy :)

    The good news is I did not spend anything today

    I am doing nothing this evening, just pottering and I might steam clean a door...

    I recently saw this quote: ‘I’m not saying no because I am busy, I am saying no because I don’t want to be busy’

    It kind of sums up the situation :)
    If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

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