What small DFW things will you do this week? w/c 20/03

Hello Wednesday Pennywranglers,
Was awake at Stupid o'Clock with quite bad stress symptoms. Felt much better once I'd got up & while it hasn't been the most fabulous day of achievements, there was at least some bits of money saving:
*Had my long hair cut back to a lovely dipped bob - Dry trim only - £8. I was actually embarrassed to be paying so little for such a nice cut.
*My hair colour preferred brand was £4.33 in Superdrug instead of the crazy £7 it was last time I went in, so bought one. May go back & buy another one too.
*Big carrier bag of oranges from the market for £3.
*Posted ebay parcel. Another item has sold today.
*Did next week's meal plans
*Wrote shopping list.
*Collected a small sum of money owed to me for some jars of my preserves.
*Checked cucumber, pepper, tomato & aubergine seedlings. Even our house is too cold for them at the moment. It's dropped so cold here today that the fire will be back on tonight for certain sure.
*Sorted laundry & ironed only what really needed it, which was quite a lot as I'd a few garments from my spring/summer stash to do. Pressed a 'Monsoon' skirt for listing on ebay, hung it up, then decided I may possibly like it after all. I think it makes me look dumpy, but tried it on with a sexier top to get a bit of shape to the outfit. Hmmmm. Better, but still not sure. Have hung it in wardrobe for now. Don't want to list it, end up getting about £3 for it, then wish I'd still got it to wear myself.
*Did a few surveys. Only need £1 to reach cash-in on Onepoll. Very close on Ugov as well.
*Sorted through vouchers for tomorrow ready for our weekly grocery shopping.
*Pulled this year's forced spring rhubarb - only a small crop this year as I have probably over-forced it over the last few years, but very nice nevertheless & it's now been made into bright pink compote & some of it frozen.
*Make a quick packed lunch for tomorrow - just a couple of bags of crisps & filled rolls, as we will be grocery shopping at lunch time & don't want to find we've spent £15 on a pleasant but very average supermarket cafe lunch.
*Order a birthday gift for my Dad using some of my Amazon voucher stash (from a survey project I've been doing for a few weeks now)
*Decided on cake to bake for Mum for Mothering Sunday, as we will be visiting. Chose a recipe for which I only need to buy 1 ingredient. She never bakes, so will love it anyway.
I think that's it for today. NOT so good is mr f's discovery that his expenses claim was not signed in time to get what he is owed paid this month, so £200 down on what I was expecting for my next big budget day. Some chunky bills too, so will probably be boring you all with our tight April budget next week.
OK, must go & progress tonight's dinner (which is 2 spare portions of something I made a couple of weeks ago........the freezer is definitely a key money saving tool).
Bye,
F x

Hello all

I've been quiet over the last few days. At work, taking packed lunch every day, 3 NSDs, FPL and comps. Free lunch paid by work today.

Aside from that I cashed out £25 from iPoll - finally!

Cashed out £8.46 and got £32.50 in total off some shorts and a skirt in the sales.

Sold my DD's old bike today for £40.

I can't think of anything else to report.

Hope your all okay, LP x

Annoyed I forgot to take a bottle of water with me yesterday so ended up having to buy one. Found some bottles of water in the cupboard (no idea how long they’ve been there though!) which are now sitting at the front door and can stay in the car I always seem to forgot to take one out the fridge when leaving in the morning. I managed to smash a bottle of wine all over the kitchen yesterday. Ended up cleaning out all the cupboards, packed a few things that I won’t be needing and chucked a few things out so every cloud and all that. I didn’t really get much done yesterday as I spent the afternoon glued to the news watching the horrific events unfold in London. What a truly awful world we live in.
determined new ms – just a little at a time and I’ll get there. Wish I had started this essay ages ago then I could have applied the 10 minute rule to that!
DawnW – hope you’re feeling better, migraines usually mean I’m tucked up in bed as the light hurts my eyes and seems to make it worse.
Ziggy2407 and happy kitties – thank you glad to be back
Foxgloves – I do that too with Ebay things! I usually think I’ll never wear that again, post it on Ebay for a couple of pounds and a few weeks later totally regret doing so.
Crazy_cat_lady hope you’re ok and taking some time out to look after yourself.
LuckyPenny – sounds like you’re doing great, well done!

I don’t think I’ll get much done today as I’m at uni all day then off to my mums to spend the night which is about 1.5 hours away (although last week it took 3 hours as I got stuck in rush hour traffic, must remember to leave early to avoid that. Today I plan to:
• Check bank account
• Check FPL / Ashleigh / Number plate lotto / lucky phone
• Enter some competitions
• PAD
• B and D from cupboard
• Charge phone / tablet / laptop at uni
• Go to uni early to get a free parking space
• Take dog to vets – poor wee thing seems to have hurt her leg and now has a wee limp
• Text the lady I’m going to be moving in with to see if we can catch up this week and get everything set in stone
• Update signature
• Update spending diary

Hope everyone has a Tremendous Thursday!

Lx

Good Morning All

So tired and achey, today's little list:

Packed lunch for DH & DS - Done
Check Bank - Done
Washing - All done (including mums)
Ironing - All done (including mums)
DS to footie training -
Wait for freeglers -
Continue purge on emails -
Enter a few comps -
All meals from cupboards/fridge/freezer -
Check: Lucky Phone, Ashleigh, Numberplatelotto, FPL -
Read -

Have a great day all!

C x

Morning all,

You have all been so busy. Touched by the life stories shared on here - its amazing how strong the human spirit is to keep going.

Feeling positive today even though the weather is damp and dreary here.

In the spirit of full disclosure:
I am so pleased with the outfit DD chose - my scouting around trip first really helped to keep costs down and away from the truly awful offerings in the shops. I maxed out my budget due to buying a few things on my own whilst scouting - but, they are truly needed as she has grown again and a couple were not suitable so they will go back. Outfit was £31 - skirt, tights (sale), top, Cardigan (sale) and handbag (not a necessity but she talked a lot about needing one and was so excited I didn't have the heart to say no). I had that high from buying which scares me as its so addictive but I am aware of it so won't buy anything else - the high isn't worth the debt. She looks beautiful in her outfit and is very excited about wearing it. The shortfall is covered by survey money so all good.

I treated her to mcdonalds as she was hungry - she has never been keen on fast food so I was surprised when she asked but as a one off I don't mind. I didn't buy myself anything. Plus got the half price voucher for legoland on happy meal box (which I had already thought about) so will have that as a target for survey money once next target done. Was a lovely trip out and she insisted on trying the outfit on again in front of my bedroom mirror - twirling DD was highlight of the day.

Today:
*House work - this has slipped a little but won't take much to right it.
*Washing mountain.
*Breakfast and lunch from home
*Work, Work, Work
*Gym - use it or loose it
*Dinner at a friends tonight
*YNAB and banking app reconcile
*Surveys - done. £5 towards new target.

Must fit in some work on the new raspberry bed too.

I hope you all have a good day.