Sat/Sun 31 jan and 1 Feb 2015. What small DFW stuff will you do today?

Morning all,
A lazy day today, starting with a lie-in (a v rare thing for me!) but cat decided to start clawing the bedroom door & yowling at 4.10am, kept it up for half an hour & I couldn't get back to sleep. Grrrrr. Dawn- I see you had similar with your dog!
Today I will do the following:
*Wash hair & let it dry naturally to save electricity.
*Keep downstairs heating off as long as possible.
*Read meters & update energy spreadsheet.
*Make tomorrow's packed lunch.
*Save 30 miles of petrol as we decided to have a lazy day instead of going out.
*NSD.
*Will read Observer online instead buying one.
*Commence big decluttering challenge - Feb 1st, so I need to declutter one item today, which I will list on eBay.
*Enjoy free leisure: Start watching another series while we still have 30 days free Amazon Prime, knit, read, update my blog & have a little walk around garden to look for signs of Spring.
Bob & DNMS- Interesting about the house prices. My sister's London house was recently valued at half a million. It's a small semi in a terrace of similar little old houses with a miniscule garden & no driveway. If they relocated up here, they could buy a detached rural period property with a big garden, drive, garage & still have money left over, but their lives are in London, so it's not even a consideration. DNMS - You have worked hard on your house, so hope it all comes right for you re valuation.
Have a good day, all,
F x

Yesterday's no spend day ended in a spectacular fail for me as I had to pay my tax bill (no getting out of that) and I bought my son a suit for a themed 18th birthday party he's going to next weekend. I have ordered in 2 sizes so the spend looks even worse at present :eek: He really is my downfall as he's only going to be young once and I want him to enjoy it as much as he can and he's going to look so good in the suit. Considering he's quite shy he has his own style and is not afraid to not conform to the norm and I'm quite proud of his swag (as I believe it's called nowadays )

We went out last night and I made one drink last all night (there's only so much diet Coke a girl can drink) but then ended up going to the kebab shop on the way home (proving that you don't need to be drunk to eat one, it just needs to be past midnight) :rotfl: I did however share one to save money.

Today I'm cooking a roast, most of it we had already (huge cauliflower cheese from when it was on offer, the last portion of a bag of frozen parsnips, stuffing mix, frozen veg, potatoes.) Skinless sausages were on offer this week (for the stuffing), I've halved the pack and frozen some for next time and I bought Mr T value sliced chicken for DH and DS instead of a joint or whole bird as I'm not fussed about meat with a roast. I do eat meat but was vegetarian for 13 years and I've got used to eating a roast without the meat, as long as there's cauliflower cheese I'm happy. I'll cook some extra sweetcorn and I'll have that and leftover cauliflower cheese for lunch on Monday.

Tonight I will take my mum to bingo, it's only at an old people's type of place so it doesn't cost a lot and so few go that we usually win our money back anyway :rotfl:

Hi all

OH and I stayed in bed until lunchtime - I needed it though and am starting to feel a whole lot better!

We want to go to the cinema later as we've missed loads but really fancy a couple that are out at the moment. Apart from that it should be a NSD.

Afternoon all

I'm late on the go today! Been quite a productive Sunday - too cold to go out so been doing plenty in the house.

So today I've done/will do:

Make soup for today and tomorrow's lunch
Dinner from freezer - using chicken breast and stock to make a casserole
Got mac code so will switch Broadband and save £211.08 a year :T
Package up ebay parcels
Check Onepoll and Swagbucks
£50 each for me and OH from my Mum (she'd saved over £1000 in her £2 coin jar :eek: so gave us something from it)
10 minute housework - bathroom today
Clean out rat cage


Then will spend the rest of the day doing as little as possible as back to work tomorrow.

Have a good day x

Afternoon everyone

-Went on a unplanned night out last night. Friends don't go out much anymore so don't mind to much. However, free lifts so no taxi fares and instead off take away on way home, I went home and cooked a pizza (50p) so my moneysaving beginning to kick in even when I have a drink

- brought a brand new TV unit and table last week, saved up for ages as quite expensive. The little one drew all over with pen (nearly cried) :-| however brother in law came up with his is ways and removed it. Need some wax polish just to get the colour back but looks 100 times better

- it's my oldest daughters birthday next week. Birthday party booked, good deal as local companies in competition which each other. Ex paid half as well so even better. Need to sort out bits of presents I've bought now and budget in anything else I need. Cake to buy and birthday outfit. However this is my last big expense from the Christmas period.

So today's list
- clean living room and kitchen
-finish weeks washing and drying, school uniform ready for morning
- check banking and dds
- start reading a book (at least a chapter)
- check budgets etc for month as beginning to hit debt from this month
- find a friend to watch panto with me during week (£7) much cheaper than going pub
- meals from stock (leftover stew from yesterday so not using much supplies)
- have everything setup ready for morning so can go straight docs to put repeat in and try playgroup up that way

Xx