Flying gleefully into 2009 - One Fresians adventures in debt-busting

mooomin

Quick update from me before I go to bed, so will be short and sweet (For me, queen of the massive posts!) and smiley-free :rotfl:As much as possible.

Anyway, I have done all the things on the list I have posted this morning, and have also:

• Tidied cupboard under the sink. Now know that I don't have to buy cleaning products for a while!
• Cleared out tins and dry goods cupboard. I have inventoried this (I know! How sad am I?!) and will be marking off the goods as I use them, t'other half has also agreed to do this. Hopefully this will help us eke out the food until I get paid. In 20 flipping days
• Tidied out the cupboard I keep all my storage boxes in. It's shiny and organised now.
• Made dinner - reduced tuna steaks. Yummy.
• Stocked up on essentials at Asda - in total cost £11. They had 24 pouches of Whiskas for £4, so I had to buy that. With what we have in the kittie cupboard, that should keep the little b*ggers fed till payday too
• Have taken out mutton for dinner tomorrow - I will use it to make stock for soup and we can have soup for the next few days and put the mutton in sandwiches if there is any left.
• Found out who the new Dr Who is. I have no idea who this kid is. I looked at him and though "Emo-Who, what the heck is going on?!?!" but the more he spoke the more Whovian he seemed. I think this one might be a keeper. Now, the speculation on who the next assistant will be begins....:rotfl:

Sleep well DFWs

mooomin

Good mornng!

You know, one of these days I will get my full eight hours of sleep, I just don't know when this might be

Hope everyone is ok and having a lovely Sunday. I'm in denial about going back to work tomorrow I think. I have been meaning to have a really productive couple of days off, but haven't got half as much done as I wanted to. If you thought my lists on here were bad you should see the other one I have in a notebook at home

However, there are things that I have to do today, so time for another list of things to do!

• [strike]Check online banking[/strike]
• [strike]Make PAD[/strike]
• Clean kitchen
• Make soup - potato soup, yummy!
• Tidy living room
• [strike]Put Christmas tree in the loft [/strike] Remember that I have no sense of balance and make t'other half put Christmas tree in the loft
• Sort out Washing Mountain
• Go through drawers, accept that I have a bigger !!! than I did when I was still a smoker and put clothes in bags for charity shop
• Change bedclothes
• Hoover and mop laminated areas

tomtombeanie

flying_fresian wrote: »

Go through drawers, accept that I have a bigger !!! than I did when I was still a smoker and put clothes in bags for charity shop

hee hee! i think that must be my reason for a large !!! as well - i quit about 8 years ago

maybe just maybe if i do manage to shift my excess "baby" weight (he's nearly 4:eek:), my !!! will reduce in size. but knowing me, i will end up with twiglet arms and still look like i have a suitcase strapped to my behind

must be a bed stripping kind of day, i've done ours as well. xx

mooomin

flying_fresian wrote: »

• [strike]Check online banking[/strike]
• [strike]Make PAD[/strike]
• [strike]Clean kitchen[/strike] Of course, I have now made dinner as has my flatmate, so it looks like a bombs hit it again...
  
• [strike]Make soup - potato soup, yummy![/strike] Nom nom nom
  
• Tidy living room Not done, bad Fresian.
  
• [strike]Put Christmas tree in the loft [/strike] Remember that I have no sense of balance and make t'other half put Christmas tree in the loft Done! He's a very nice man
  
• [strike]Sort out Washing Mountain[/strike] Sort of. I have done half of it. I took a picture of it before I started which I will post in the morning
  
• Go through drawers, accept that I have a bigger !!! than I did when I was still a smoker and put clothes in bags for charity shop Not done. Maybe later/tomorrow
  
• [strike]Change bedclothes[/strike] Have stripped the bed, will be getting t'other half to change sheets soon.
  
• [strike]Hoover[/strike] and mop laminated areas. Didn't mop, but did hoover, so not bad really

Not bad.

I have also:

• Listed 5 more books on Amazon
• Sold three books, all of which are packaged and ready to go
• Cleaned out kitchen drawer which was manky and needed sterilising
• Done washing and hung up (Two more loads for washing mountain)
• Obsessively checked Ebay to see how my items are going (15 watchers on one, squee!!)
• Had a NSD

Also:

Would it be wrong to sign t'other half up to Audible to get the other two books in the Dark Materials Trilogy?? [STRIKE]Evil[/STRIKE] Enquiring minds want to know.

katie2407

sign up OH for the audible I would if I had an Ipod .
need to let son know up the free audible books- on my to do list now

mooomin

Good morning

Back at work today - meh. Still, I have plenty to be getting on with in terms of my 2009 DFW lifestyle, so here's my list for today! (Soon to be copied onto the What Small DFW Things thread:D)

Today I have done/will do:

• [strike]Check online banking[/strike] Done! On track to keep overdraft at the same level as last month - very proud
  
• [strike]Make PAD[/strike]
• Take flask of hot water into work so don't spend on coffee
• Take lunch to work
  
• Get t'other half to post my Amazon parcels
• Clean kitchen
• Make dinner at home
• Go to Asda and pick up essentials only
• Check OnePoll and do some Toluna opinions
• Sign t'other half up to free trial of Audible
• List at least one more item on Amazon, see what else I have that could be put on Ebay next weekend

And that's my list for today - not bad for a Monday!

bookadict

Hi Flying Fresian,

You sound really motivated to clear the detbs and I'm hoping it will rub off on me.

Music magpie - I will have to check that out. I currently list my books on greenmetropolis nad find that they are slow to shift, I might have to have to look at Amazon.

Good luck with clearing the debts.

Cx

glitterygirl

Well done FF you are doing really well.
I have to get more organised but am thinking of posting my own story later in the week.

Do books go better on Amazon than on Green Met?? I have a few listed on there at the momemt but they have not sold for months.

Going to list some stuff on MM later

M x

chevalier

flying_fresian wrote: »

Good mornng! no sense of balance and make t'other half put Christmas tree in the loft

• Go through drawers, accept that I have a bigger !!! than I did when I was still a smoker and put clothes in bags for charity shop

Hi I couldn't let this one pass. Well done on the smoking, so now you have another challenge. So can you park a few streets away from work, so that you are walking a bit every day? I bet you can get back into those clothes in a month of two.

good luck
chev

Silaqui

Hi FF you are doing so well, I love your enthusiasm! I wish I was like that, I'm sooooo lazy lol.

Well done on the overdraft as well, thats really good! I always think no matter how frugal you have been during the month it's really disheartening to see your account in negatives at the end of it all. But if you can see in not going any further down that must be brilliant!

Oh and I would well get OH to sign up for audible espesh if he has a quidco account!
xx