Saturday 3/1/09 What smll dfw things have you done today???

Piquant_2

Oh dear I'm late and frozen solid....just waiting for the water to heat up then I can melt my fingers and toes...needless to say I have been out with the horse....

Sophiesmum! how many sprouts! bubble and squeak is lovely, not sure how lovely after two or three weeks though :rotfl:

Carry on with the star jumps Pips mum, at the very least you'll be warm :rotfl:

I heard a discussion on the radio about the goofy guy originally in My Family and Love Actually for the part of Doctor Who!!

List for what's left of today

• 77.65 coming from Quidco, but I think I've forgotten to update my bank details and it will go to my other bank account, in which case it will go against my other credit card balance. As long as it comes off the overall total, I'm not too worried
• Spreadsheet update
• Store cupboard tea, I actually made it to Sunday without buying anything! nothing since 23 December!
• Have one fun thing - that was horse. Yesterday's was a flirtation with a very attractive man
• Recycle an old file and shred it's contents, now on compost
• Sparkle

bookadict

lilian1977 wrote: »

Thanks for the library prompt bookadict, just checked my reservations online to see if anything needs to be returned and found that the new Stephenie Meyer book (she wrote Twilight) is available for me to collect!

Will collect on Monday though as owe 12p and today is a NSD!

Also, will read newspaper in cafe of PT job rather than buying one.

No problem at all. :T

I love the library and I spend a good half an hour in there on a Saturday morning making my selections, therefore keeping my money out of Waterstones etc tills!!:rotfl:

mbaz

sophiesmum wrote: »

Went to market for some veggies this morning and bought a 20lb net of sprouts and a 20lb net of carrots for £1 each:D , now just need lots of recipes to use them up, and also prep some for freezer.

Carrot and lentil soup anyone???:rotfl: :rotfl:
sprout surprise??:p

Is "Sprout surprise" sprouts with carrots in the middle??!! :rotfl:

mbaz

Hey all

Not a lot from me today

- NSD (unless u count the extra heating and hot drinks as it has been freeeeezing here too and I am such a wuss)
- working tonight

That's it!

Bagpuss741

Ok so the new doctor is some bloke I've never heard of, so do I cry into my tea or not:D Anyone know who matt smith is??

princess_loki

Bagpuss741 wrote: »

Ok so the new doctor is some bloke I've never heard of, so do I cry into my tea or not:D Anyone know who matt smith is??

he is from northampton like me!!! http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/He39s-done-it-Former-NSB.4841560.jp

Pips_Mum

And like me Princess loki!!
First Allen Carr now Doctor Who, Northampton is on a roll Baby!!!

:j :rotfl: :j :rotfl:

Head-Out-Of-Sand

Today I have...

1. Done my shopping between Netto, Home Bargains, Aldi & Asda, my aim was to spend £30 on non-perishables (including washing powder, washing up liquid, fab softener, toiletroll etc, tins for the month, meat) and one weeks fruit & veg, I got everything I wanted for £20.89 woohoo!!! And I didn't use ANY plastic bags either. Go me!
2. Did a fridge and cupboard audit, made a list of what I have and taped it up inside the cupboard door...I intend to keep this updated so I can check what I have left in before I go shopping again!
3. Found a 5% acyclovir cream (Zovirax) in Home Bargains for 99p! That's £5 saved! (And that is included in my £20 as well yay!)
4. Made a yummy batch of chilli con carne (from scratch with smartprice ingredients), had one portion for tea and froze 4
5. Spoke to lodgers and explained that I cannot afford current energy bills (they pay an all inclusive rent) so rather than look at putting their rent up I want their help in reducing energy bills i.e. not putting heating on cause you're cold wearing t-shirt in december with the window open, turning stuff off rather than standby etc. Have promised them a pint at the end of 3 months if my usage goes down
6. Not spent on anything other than groceries
7. Done my daily free bingo, 20p so far but it'll build up!

A considerably more successful day than yesterday! :T

sans_2

Evening all,

My dfw things for today;

• Breakfast – had Asda’s ‘frosties’ instead of opening a new box of cereal I much preferred/ porriage. Will do this for next few days until I’m back at work.
• Lunch – didn’t have any as we were out at Sainsbury/Tesco
• Washing done at 50 deg and hanging indoors
• Had to put a separate bath towel in wash at 30 deg as DH just puked up his dinner
• Ebay – 1 more watcher
• Carried on using another sachet of moisturiser
• Tesco – used £3 off £30 spend till spit
• Tesco – used 3 large carrier bags (6 points)
• Tesco – got a few reduced items including 3 x uht milk at 10p each, a duvet at half price and a special pillow for either my mum or dads birthday which was also ½ price (to bump up spend to over £30 to use till spit)
• Went through stack of papers, more in recycle bin giving me a tiny bit more space
• Sainsbury – reused carrier bags (got 3 points)
• Put boots advantage coupons in purse.
• Emptied 3 sample bottles of Ecover washing up liquid into large washing up liquid bottle

That’s all I can think of.

princess_loki

princess_loki wrote: »

morning all :wave:

todays plans are:
- have really BIG breakfast in a minute - done!
- walk into town to meet friend (and not buy a bacon sarnie!!) - done but went to pub for lunch (cheap deal though)
- buy some sandpaper in town (still fixing some of lodgers NYE destruction of house) - done and got shower curtain from £1 shop (other one was manky!)
- post blockbuster dvd's back - forgot :eek:
- pop into oriental cash and carry on way home - done and got big bag of cheap rice
- dinner tonight will be from stores - oh had leftovers and i am not hungry!
- make kitchen shelves - not doing as oh's back is really bad
- tidy kitchen afterwards - started on this
- get excited about greenhouse and shoes being delivered :j :j

extras if i get time:
- scrub bathroom - did loo and sink will do bath tomorrow before putting new shower curtain up
- treat myself to lodgers lager in fridge (some reason he doesn't want it now!!) - and i have had his peppers that he will not use!!!
- locate passport for interview on monday

cassey1 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY for tomorrow :beer:

hope everyone has a good day!
Loki x

making some hot and sour soup now (from g ramseys cookalong programme) if i can master this then it will be a HUGE saving as it is £1.60 for a small pot from takeaway and i am addicted to it!!!