Sat 13/Sun 14 June - What small DFW things have you done today?

Pips_Mum

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

about to try and find an outlet for a load of videos

Ooooooh if you find one will you post it as we have literally hundreds lurking behind our sofa as we feel its a dreadful waste to throw them out but dont own a VCR to play them on!!! :rotfl:

Urg - Thats probably all the excitement about a venue you can expect from a man! OH was the same with the venue for Pips Naming Ceremony. He came and viewed it and said " Hmmmm its Ok" despite the fact that it was here!!

And the meal was in here:




OK indeed!!!

I managed to do it all relatively cheaply ( All in, including new outfits for the 3 of us, its cost us £2000 for 40 people to have a 4 course sit down meal, drinks after ceremony and with their meal and for the room to be decorated nicely) so if you want any tips PM me x x x

urg123

WOW Pip's mum - how beautiful! There are some beautiful parts of the site that I have chosen. It's just the hall which looks like a School hall. The hall can be decorated - I just need to work out what our budget is.

40 people sounds like bliss - we'll have over 100 to the ceremony and possibly about 500 to the reception! That's only the first day! We will have another reception on day 2! OH's sorting that one though!

urg x x

Pips_Mum

The craziest thing I encountered with the decorations was that if I ordered 3 balloons tied together in a tier it was £8 something but if you ordered 3 seperate balloons and tied them together yourself it cost £3? Madness!!!

Wow 500!! Eeeeek!!

urg123

That's the sort of the thing that the guy at the venue was talking about.

I think I need to organise a family meeting next week about what we need to do/want to do and what the budget is.

At the moment I am thinking about the way things look - but I really want it to be how things 'feel'. I want it to be a fun and enjoyable couple of days (even if it will be exhausting!).

Better get on with the list. I am meeting OH for dinner tonight. It's a nice night so it'll be nice to go out.

Have a great evening.

urg x x

London_Welshcake

London_Welshcake wrote: »

This is a great idea!


Tomorrow I intend to

[*[STRIKE]]plan meals for the week [/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]go to Aldi/Lidl...[/STRIKE] have not yet been (there is a Tesco 100m from my front door) but determined to explore the nearest discounter to see how much I can save I have discovered that my nearest discounter is a NETTO'S
• [STRIKE]explore bigwardrobe* [/STRIKE] you're right - it is addictive! Will keep exploring some more...
• make lunch for Monday last thing left to do... think I'll re-heat some soup and take it in a flask in the morning...

Have also made some flapjacks today (there is enough to last all week, I'm v impressed with myself), also made some soup ready for the week and tried making my first home made pizza. OH v impressed!

Feeling v pleased with my frugal activities.

You lovely people are an inspiration.

Now treating myself to some telly

:rotfl:

sans_2

Evening all,

My dfw things for today:

photographed some items for sale on ebay and get them listed shortly
Used coupons expiring today
Got free paper from Lidl

That's all I can think of.

mogchops

Good evening all!!

Better late than never!! :rotfl: Where has the weekend gone?!!

Over the last 2 days I have......

- checked online banking
- clicked and scratched
- done Mr T with list & MOCs
- Huge amounts of hokey cokey as weather been so lovely
- all ironing cleared - can see bottom of bowl!!! :j:j
- bathroom cleaned, lounge hoovered and tidied and dusted
- Sorted drawers in our bedroom - got rid of stuff for recycling
- Done some online surveys
- uploaded clicker & receipts for shop&scan
- Harvested and ate lettuce from garden :j:j(delicious!)
- Harvested and ate one strawberry from garden :rotfl:
- Been to birthday party for DDs friend - outdoors BBQ, lovely
- Tea with leftover chicken - yummy
- Back on track with diet/healthy eating - 5 weeks to lose 7lbs before holiday!! I CAN DO IT!!!!

Wow, didnt realise I had got through so much!!! Been a productive weekend!

Will also make tomorrows packed lunches tonight to save time in the morning. Just going to get younger DD to bed now!

Good evening all!!

Lurleene

Hi all - I'm absolutely pooped. The last few days have been packed but great fun. We've had loads of family birthdays this week so this weekend was one big celebration and best of all my sister came to visit with my 7 week old nephew who I hadn't met yet. He is lovely. :smileyhea

1) Friday was T's 4th birthday, so we had a quiet day then a little party in the garden at tea time. When he blew out his candles he said ' this has been the most lovely party, hasn't it?' . Bless him.
2) Friday was also a NSD!
3) Yesterday was spent at Wimborne Folk Festival. B does folk dancing and performs there every year, and it a great, cheap fun day out. But blimmin knackering!
4) Today was a LSD for me, just bought some water.
5) The whole family went to a local farm and had a picnic in the sun, walked by the river and played ball etc. It was an idyllic day.
6) This evening I am going to watch a newspaper freebie DVD that I got from a charity shop for cheap entertainment.

Hope this thread is so quiet because everyone else is having fun too!

Catch you tomorrow. L x

Cleosmum

Today I have:

• Meals from stores
• 7 loads of washing on quick wash
• Line dried washing
• Stripped and remade beds
• Sorted out last of seed trays, will soon have my lounge back!
• Checked banking
• Stuck to diet
• School clothes sorted and ready to go
• SW cannelloni out of freezer for tomorrows dinner
• Some housework and vacuuming done
• Watered planters, trays etc - all happy
• Horrendous hayfever - not responding to meds - and got badly burned by the sun so I look like a sneezing lobster

Need to do packed lunches for tomorrow, fill out a job application to hand in tomorrow, must sort recycling for tomorrow before it takes over, job search....

DawnW

Had a productive weekend :j

Done tax returns :eek: Hope I have done them ok!

Weeded veg garden

Cleaned house (OH helped)

Did shopping

HM meals

Made a cake

Still have loads of eggs to use though - pesky cake only used 1 :eek:

Back to work tomorrow, but feeling more positive about it than I have for the last few weeks.