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

I agree you sound so upbeat about it HK, very humbling.

DS1 must be in love. Normally he can beat me for being frugal but has bought his gf a little tub of icecream because its her favourite - it was £5!!!

Lots of washing dried outside, meal from stores, feel quite on track - although we have put the heating on a bit as its been so cold. Lots of paid stuff tomorrow and a Pilates class, free on my gym membership.

And Maria lambs in coats - just awwww.

I still haven't found time to catch up on the thread hope to do that before I go to sleep tonight.

DFW list:
Turn off lights and appliances not in use.
RMS, correctly delivered
Ongoing ipsos survey
Lots of surveys
Didn't light the fire
Minimal heating
Made birthday cards
Stuck to meal plan
B/L/D from stores
Made bread, doesn't look as good as OH's, tastes as good
Checked bank accounts
Free education and entertainment
Did not wash my hair

I'm feeling back to my normal self now, bizarrely my dentist called today to check how I was?? I don't know if that is part of their normal service or whether the extraction wasn't strictly run of the mill and that's why I've been feeling so shell shocked.

I did a bit more garden tidying, cooked a proper dinner and actually tackled some ironing for once :eek:

I've listed a couple of furniture items on the bay of e and one has 7 watchers already, I'm taking this as a good sign :T

I did the final reductions YS run and was quite restrained, I just got three spicy sweet potato and bean tortillas for all our lunches tomorrow and a pack of tomatoes. I passed on some pulled beef ready meals as I knew the Eastern European girl wanted them and ditto two deconstructed beef burrito salad thingys that Mr Grabby had his eye on. It's all quite civilised now with people offering to share but I don't want one of everything, I'd rather have several of the same thing so I felt better about taking three of the tortillas if they got what they wanted also (plus I don't have a lot of space in the freezer anyway.)

Time for some shut eye now, goodnight all!

Morning all, pretty miserable day here, wish I could be spending it cosy at home but oh well!

Thanks CLF, glad to be back! Wow, BB that’s amazing news. Always so bittersweet when it’s inheritance money though. How very kind of your grandmother she must have been a wonderful woman. Hope you’re ok after the funeral ClottiesMum. Thank you to ziggy2407 for mentioning Ashleigh, number plate lotto and lucky phone yesterday. I have now signed up to these too.

Today I’m planning on spending much of the day at the library working on my essay. Then afterwards I can tackle my ever growing list of things to do. On top of my full time job I have an 8,000 word essay and 20 minute presentation to do before 7th of April and I’m moving into a flatshare the following day so trying to pack up and throw out as I go along…..stressful! Anyway……today’s plans are:

• [STRIKE]Check bank account[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Check FPL / Ashleigh / Number plate lotto / lucky phone[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Enter competitions[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]PAD[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]B & D from cupboard, make packed lunch[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Pack / Bin / Bag for charity shop/Ebay 100 things for moving[/STRIKE] Yay! feel like I'm starting to make a very small dent in all the junk I own!
• [STRIKE]Charge phone / tablet / laptop at library[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Go to uni early to get a free parking space[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Put gammon in slow cooker for tomorrow’s dinner [/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Take bag of things to charity shop[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Walk to Asda to get tomatoes [/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Take car to garage and try to get some money back that I don’t think I should have had to pay (£15)[/STRIKE] can't/won't help :mad:
• [STRIKE]Walk into town and take clothes back – DO NOT buy anything else [/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Take library book back[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Buy brown paper to wrap up things for moving[/STRIKE] Home Bargains didn't have any so I'll pop to B&M over the weekend and get some there
• Iron clothes and take photos for Ebay
• [STRIKE]Phone Sky and give them notice I’m moving/leaving[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Try on some clothes I found in a cupboard yesterday[/STRIKE] nothing fits....as predicted!
• [STRIKE]Washing on airer[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Tidy out fridge[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Update signature[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Update spending diary[/STRIKE]

Hope everyone has a wonderful Wednesday!

Lx

Morning all
Hope you are ok after the funeral Clootiesmum
Happykitties, I agree, you are amazing to cope with all that!

I have little GD again today, and she is on the sofa with my phone watching paw patrol again - not ideal, but I am recovering from a migraine which wiped me out from Monday afternoon, so I will let her be for a while. I have baking and Mothers Day card making planned for later though! We made (and ate) pancakes, built a flying train with the stickle bricks and painted a rainbow for Mummy's day Though paw patrol did feature prominently as well :rotfl: Poor little thing is ill with yet another cough and cold, and went off to sleep on the sofa after lunch - I only let her sleep for half an hour though! She hasn't lost her appetite at least, she ate loads today :rotfl:

Moneysaving things will be fairly minimal - I have even put the heating on, as it is freezing cold and pouring with rain

Ebay parcel taken to corner shop for courier to collect Done
Another one to wrap and post (posting might have to wait till tomorrow, but I can get it ready) All wrapped and ready for the post office tomorrow morning
DD brought round some nice fresh eggs from her hens and ducks
HM meals - I have sausages out for lunch as they are GD's favourite, and OH made a shepherds pie to pop in the oven for tonight :A Done
Must start a shopping list as I am running out of things again Done
Check for surveys later, I am getting close to payout on onepoll :T Only managed to find one for yougov today However, I am getting near payout for this one as well

If I achieve anything else I will be very pleased!

I discovered we had run out of marmalade (which is a big thing for OH!), so made some using some nasty sour little tangerines that I had frozen for this purpose, some lemon halves also frozen, a whole lemon from the fridge and a big orange from the fruit bowl, about 600g of fruit in total. Made 3 and a half jars which should keep him going for a week or two! It tastes lovely and fresh and tangy too I used a bag of preserving sugar from the larder, so no extra spends


Definitely feeling better, and hoping to get more done tomorrow :T