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Monday 3rd August - What small DFW things have you done today?!

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  • Bagpuss741
    Bagpuss741 Posts: 2,291 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Today I have/will

    1. Checked online banking
    2. Played free scratchcards
    3. Low Spend day
    4. Bought fruit/veg in Aldi
    5. Store cupboard meals
    6. Written out paying in book ready to go to bank tomorrow
    Tesco: £1361.19, Vanquis: £2644.73, Very: £563.08, Next: £1636.95, M&S: £1049.92. As of 5th February 2024. Slava Ukraini
  • Today I have/ will do -
    1) free scratch card,
    2) take the boy for meal out, using NHS discount and get paid £15 (mystery shopping)
    3) took lunch to work,
    4) didn't buy anything at work to replace my crappy homemade sandwich!
    5) checked internet banking
    6) checked credit card balance (finally under £100) :D
  • Lurleene
    Lurleene Posts: 1,108 Forumite
    Hi all, welcome back Milly and great news Rachel.

    Had a good day today.
    1) SC x 10p

    2) Received Approved Food order, and put away in my already bulging cupboards.

    3) Went to Lidl for the rest of the weekly shop. Used £5 voucher from the paper and it came to £28! Lots of great offers in there at the moment e.g. red peppers for 20p each and mozzarella for 27p. :j

    4) Received £14.96 from Quidco and paid straight to CC.

    5) Took T to the gardens with a friend and her boys. There is a great new play park there and we also saw a free magic show. Ah, the joys of living in a tourist town - lots of free entertainment.

    6) All meals from stores and I'm just about to make smoothies with overripe fruit.

    7) Researched buying a spare part for my smoothie maker as we have lost an integral part. Cheapest is £6 so far :eek: inc postage, but much cheaper than buying a whole new machine.

    Have a good evening, see you tomorrow. L x
  • Lottebear
    Lottebear Posts: 794 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Today I have;

    - Daliy cards 10p
    - Used gift card to buy lunch M+S
    - Moved quidco money to savings
  • Marru
    Marru Posts: 4,126 Forumite
    Hello all,

    I haven't been here since Thursday as BF has been around. He has been a star and taken me and DD to Longleat to see Sportacus, taken us to evaluate a car booty where I could possibly get rid of my books and took us sightseeing as well in addition to buying us ice creams. :smileyhea (Oh and mowed my lawn, did my washing up and fixed the electricity socket in garage...)

    So last few days I have:
    - Scratchies (twice a fiver in a week meaning I have withdrawn a total of £33 in one week!!!)
    - Curly
    - Cash back bingo (won a tenner so now only 23p away from withdrawing £50.-)
    - All meals accroding to meal plan
    - Today lunch HM tuna salad
    - All of this week's suppers are going to be left overs from what I cooked over weekend (neatly in freezer ready to defrost and heat up every day :T)

    Still have fair amount of the big stuff to do but giving myself a break just for this one day. If I am trying to have another day off tomorrow just please SHOUT at me. Thanks.
    "Everything will be alright in the end. If it's not alright, it's not the end."

  • angelflower_2
    angelflower_2 Posts: 2,426 Forumite
    evening all

    quick catch up before I dive into bath and head to bed

    - got tax credits a day early so make some payments - Fay, they have randomly changed mine too and I cant make head nor tail of the paperwork they have sent. All the info looks right??!!
    - paid £15 to CC as my PAD
    - paid the deposit for my car insurance which should be sent via email so I can get the car tax tomorrow
    - got Blockbusters to give me a new filled reward card as dog ate the other one
    - updated sig to show NSD so far and the PAD
    - accepted time/date for interview for that job - next Thursday
    - used new independant bank account for first time today
    - paid back dd the £10 I borrowed at weekend to get her birthday cake
    - completed my tesco disinfectant survey
    - checked quidco, should get pay out next month

    Thats about all I have done today but lots planned for tomorrow so looking forward to updating then. Have a great night (whats left of it!)
    DFW 228 LONG H 68
    DFD 2017 :eek:
  • Hi folks :)

    Sorry for the late check-in tonight - where has the time gone?

    Today:
    • won 10p on free scratchcards
    • met with tutor who is providing me with a reference
    • used Cineworld card to see "Coco Avant Chanel"
    • tried using porridge oats and honey for breakfast instead of the ready-made sachets I would normally take. It didn't taste too bad but I seem to have gotten the milk/oats mixture a bit wrong :eek: Ah well, better luck tomorrow
    • did some surveys for OnePoll and GfK
    I picked up some great bargains while I was shopping earlier - body scrubs reduced to 40p, lovely apple-flavoured lip balm for 50p and grabbed some yellow-stickered items this evening at Tesco. Downside to this is I swore I wouldn't buy any new tolietries until I had used up all of the ones I still have. D'oh! :o
    £10 a day: March - August: £1653.54/£1840; September £92.86/£300
    NSD: April - August: 49 NSDs; September: 9/12
    101 in 1001 Project: 05/07/09 - 01/04/12 (8/101 completed)
  • Miss_Piggy wrote: »
    Fay, just cos I'm scared of you I've left the ironing for today! Now, if you could just explain to my oh.......................:rotfl::rotfl:

    Miss P
    xx

    Scared of moi?????:rolleyes: as if!!
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
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