Saturday 19/07/08 What small dfw things have you done today???

claireabelle_2

morning all! hoping for some sunshine for my green tommys today!
So far I have

• had reduced raspberries from yesterday for breakfast
• not spent anything as i've only been up 10 mins!

And I will

• get OH to call orange - anyone know anything about defaults? I've never had one http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1041939
• use up stuff from the freezer to eat today as landlady is selling the flat (short notice!)
• register with agencies for flats... we didn't want to pay any more than we're paying now so we'll have to move a couple of miles, anything decent in clapham is 300pw for a one bed, but they're quite cheap to buy, v strange maybe because so many new grads move here because they've heard of it? Also by moving into a different borough our cTax will halve!
• Line dry a load from 30deg
• watch some cricket sky sports earns its money in this flat!

Have a good day all
Claire

Pooky

Morning all

Today I will/have done

• 1 load of washing on eco7, whites just doing now but all to be dried on airers as the weather is pants.
• Post 15 ebay parcels (everyone paid as soon as the auction ended - minor miracle)
• Do 2 hours tutoring with DD2 on her maths and 1 hours confidence building (think that may involve cooking of some sort)
• Lazy afternoon indoors
• Chinese takeaway for tea tonight - a treat as both DD's got such good school reports and much cheaper than going out for dinner. (Won't go for the supermarket alternative as I'm bound to spend more than needed if I walk in there) Paying from ebay profits as one person collected their items last night and paid cash.
• Have a bottle of our home made elderflower champagne with dinner (free booze!!)
• Transfer £185 from paypal :j
• Check bank accounts
• Start getting some car insurance quotes and see who works out best via quidco.

Hope you all have a great Saturday :beer:

jenjade

washed clothes and hung on line
post 2 e bay itmes
had one items collect so recieved £5
i have arranged for another item to be collect so waiting for that to go
my house looks so clear now!!! lol
do daily clicks
look at next sale
eat from store cupboard
aim for no spend day
do any surveys

sans_2

Good morning all,

Not like me to be on here so early but going out soon(ish).

My dfw things for today:

• washed clothes and hung on line (which I have just taken in due to the rain :mad: now it has stopped - no doubt it will be back on again - one of those days)
• received payment for 1 ebay item sold
• will go dutch for our late anniversary dinner - not very money saving for me but DH is low on cash (he normally pays as he's never been thoughtful enough to buy me a present or card for that matter)
• will go to Homebase as it is 10% off day as we need a few things

That's all so far. Have quite alot of stuff I could probbaly Ebay but can't seem to motivate myself when I'm tired after doing the usual housework and this dreadful Summer is really quite depressing.

andan

Nice to see you back Sans, was wondering where you had been.

Alphie, have a great break, hope you come back refreshed and revitalised.

Sophiesmum, i get all my motivational tips from this great site, i happen to think its amazing:o
http://www.lifehack.org/

Well went out to my old work's do, it finished fairly early and i was in one of those moods where your feeling slightly down as i realised how much i miss all my colleagues, so i persuaded the boyf to come the pub with me. Flash forward to this morning with me getting up at 10.30 feeling a bit worse for wear and deciding to put off an emergency dentist appointment till monday:o

Anyways! Things i must do today:
-Have emailed person back to confirm job
-Have phoned tesco as was an unhappy bunny bout the fact that they have charged me twice for my online groceries,:eek: meant to be getting the money refunded asap.
-Have been given a higher credit amount on my 0% card so am going to transfer some of the money that runs out from my other 0% card. No one else will give me a credit card, despite the fact i have a bit of money in the bank and have a good credit rating
-Vista print have sent me an email due to my order from yesterday, it contains lots of free things that i wanted to order anyway, so am going to work on stuff i want from them so that later in the week i can place another order, especially as i still haven't received my parcel from parcel force which should have been delivered over a month ago.
-Email parcel force regarding my parcel.
-Work on mystery shopping work for emystery shopper
-Fill in invoices

Things i would like to get done
-Change bedding
-Send id to other bookie
-Look on website for business advice
-Start writing business plan
-Look at business info i have already and decide on next step
-Buy insurance for business
-Work through emails
-Do some surveys
-Look on doit.org website for anymore volunteering opportunities
-Look for mystery shops
-Cook meals from store cupboard
-Write mystery shops in diary
-Check online banking
-Sort out finances
-List stamps and vouchers on ebay
-Sort through some more clothes to get rid of

Have a great day everyone

GreenManG0

Hello everybody,

Im new to these boards! Heres my dfw things for today:

* A loaf a light wholemeal bread is in the oven

* Making some summer dresses and skirts from old quilts ready for holidays (if the weather ever brightens!) My challenge this summer is not to buy and new clothes, to make them and reuse previous years

* tomato mince base from yesterdays lasagne is in a foil tray ready to be made into cottage pie for dinner, also a portion for tommorrow aswel

* Walking to the supermarket later for some milk, saves petrol & i get some excersize, especially with these welsh hills!

* Making some savory muffins & hobnobs ready for next weeks lunches

* Using up veg by making soup for the weeks lunches

Fingers crossed i manage it all!
Hope you all enjoy the weekend.
Everybody seems to be posting about CLICKS? what is this?

Bagpuss741

Today I have/will

1. Check online banking.
2. Check credit card statement online.
3. Piggy Clicks.
4. NSD.
5. Start anatomy course module 2 (I got an A in my first assignment, I'm sooo pleased:j )
6. Will win lottery:D .
7. Will walk dog locally to save petrol.
8. Making loaf of bread in bread maker.

Bagpuss741

GreenManGO this thread explains the piggy clicks:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1034153

bunzee

Hi Greenman I'm fairly new here too. you can find out about clicks here: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=609037&highlight=daily+clicks

Anyway, today so far I haven't achieved very much, I blame my friend who came over last night with wine. I have/will:

• Been to B&Q for the scotia trim for my flooring I laid last week. The shelf ticket said £4.99 but at the till it was only £2.99 :j
• Was tempted by the burger van at B&Q but resisted and had bacon roll at home
• Slice the pie
• Do clicks
• Clean with Stardrops and microfibres
• Put washing on line now as the sun just came out :T
• Make storecupboard cottage pie and freeze in portions
• Get some more ebay listing done
• Relax

Hope everyone's having a good day

Nicki_Sue

So far today-

Checked online banking
Bought Stardrops AND 20 microfibre cloths for £1.89
Bagful of veg and fruit for £2.66 (including the free Banana my lo had while we were in there!) Gotta love your local grocery shop!
Made lunch for LO and DH from storecupboard and stirfried myself the leftover veg from last night to have with a quorn fillet.
Picked up my eggs from my Mum (who gets eggs from a retired veg-van man - 30 eggs for £1.30, better for 15 @ £1.50 which is tescos value).
Had a lovely long refreshing walk out with the buggy (no petrol for shopping)
Sinfully bought Lo a Fimbles books and myself an address book for a combined..............75p from a charity market stall.
Updated spending diary.