The ultimate incentive worked! Now onto phase two

Tete_en_l'Air

Oh yes, I love a good list!

Cinny91

We're going to see two so we get to pick one each. So I think it'll be The Hangover for OH and either Last House on the Left or Looking for Eric for me! We've been getting sharer or combo meals everytime we go (about £8 a pop!) so we need to stop that. But when OH is constantly going 'Nacho Combo' in my ear like a chiming clock I end up giving in to shut him up :rolleyes:

Good idea with listing on Thursdays! I think it's best I do them on Sunday though or I'll just end up putting them off and off and off and.. I think you get the point

Oooh, Britains got Talent tomorrow night! Not a clue who's going, need to take non olbas oil tissues for my mum when Susan Boyle starts singing for her supper though.

Dinah93

There are usually jobs on RE Tete, have you joined the 'alerts' thread on up your income? RE jobs go insanely quick, but there are a lot of them as well!

Birdie85

Right, jobs for the weekend:
Move money from A&L to Halifax and close A&L
Pay off CC using money in HSBC
Set up standing order to pay back loan to Mum
Open up L&G ISA through Quidco for £50 bonus
Take photos for ebay
Clean bathroom
Sort out wardrobe
Sort out stuff to go in desk drawers etc
Make 2 Fathers Day cards and birthday card for MIL
Transfer itunes from old laptop to new one, clear everything else off old laptop to sell on
Good lord, it looks like a lot of stuff to do when it's written down!

Cinny91

I'm sure it won't take you too long Birdie. And when everything's ticked off, you'll feel super productive!

Thinking of starting a fund for a new laptop, I could put £10 aside each week for it while I'm paying my parents off, then up it to £30 at the end of July? (plus any money I make from amazon/ebay sales)
Plus when I've reached my July savings goal I'll be dropping payments to £20 a week, so £30 will be able to go into my holiday saver to boost that up. I think I'm properly turning into a Dinah-ette!

Dinah93

Ooooh I want to join in!

1. Package up Thomas Cook letter for NIM to post on Monday
2. NIM take kitty to vet/Dinah soothe kitty after she goes to the vet.
3. List 30 items on ebay (or turbolister, Tete's idea is awesome)
4. NIM to hang the little diary paintings up
5. NIM do 2 MS and reports
6. NIM go to dry cleaners
7. Create spreadsheet of outgoings ready for paydays so that I know what is happening
8. Get NIM to call Amazon
9. Check up on surveys on Sunday
10. Enter competitions for 15th and 16th.
11. Order cat insurance
12. Do MS phone call tonight and report
13. Revise the long term to do list and add on 'do free points offers: onepoll, quidco, piggy points, ipoints, etc'
14. Fill in Irish Rail 16-25 railcard applications and package up ready to post on Monday.
15. List some of the scraggly books on Amazon
16. Tidy room
17. Find laptop charger
18. Finish off painting the dress on the picture I'm working on while NIM goes to the dry cleaner.
19. Convince NIM he has a burning desire to wash and valet both cars.
20. Do the spreadsheet for house costings
21. Get NIM to help mum, and do my, GAP client tests.
22. Get NIM to re-read the MB stuff
23. Change bed sheets on Sunday
24. D to update wall chart of savings
25. D to set up Newcastle Building Society's online banking (to be used as presents account)
26. Send photos to RM
27. Send ID to TAB

List keeps growing....

wendz86

My Mum would love to be a nan I think. She absolutely loves kids. If we are ever at a party or wedding or something and have lost my Mum, I know she will be wherever there are babies haha.

Sounds like a busy weekend Birdie. We are off home for the weekend (to southampton ), OH is still ill off work but he reckons he is coming.

Birdie85

Cinny, your savings idea for the laptop sounds like a good one, you should be able to get a good laptop by September/October.
Oooh, I've just thought of something else I need to do- post 2 letters to the USA. They've been sat on the coffee table all week in the hope that OH will use some initiative and take them to the post office but no such luck! My Mum is a big fan of a show called 'Psych' so I found the fan addresses of the 2 main stars and sent them a nice letter in the hope that I'll get signed photos from them so I can give them to Mummy dearest for Christmas!

Dinah93

Thats a really sweet idea Birdie.

Tete_en_l'Air

That is a lovely idea Birdie, it'll be something different and well done for thinking about it in good time!

Busy weekends for Dinah and Birdie by the looks of it! I never get anything done on a weekend as it's Special Time with OH. I quite enjoy it when he has a night out with friends or is away for the weekend or something and I have some free time to myself just to potter.

Cinny. you're definitely a little Dinah-ette, I went a bit cross eyed reading that savings post!