Saturday/Sunday 26-27th weekend - What small DFW things have you done today?

Pippilongstocking

ironing....Yes Fay, I know it's illegal, but has to be done

OK - some of you clearly have those permits that make ironing not illegal

Loving your post very lovely and reminded me very much of SM - make sure you rest today maybe don't eat the grapes if it upsets your chronns.........it was the only resting smilie I could find - and try not to tear your hair out with the girls

DD is on sleepover - DS is crashed out on sofa - amazing how 'calm' the house will be until there are two of them here

Mince here as well for tea - shepherds pie me thinks - Waves to Milly xx

gilligansyle

So far today I've

put the breadmaker on
took stuff out of freezer for dinner
started to sort out craft stuff to make Christmas cards and start off Christmas presents
checked bank

And the big one.. fixed the washing machine! Took some doing but got there in the end so probably 'saved' a fortune.

found_a_bargin

Afternoon, all,

Well it was worth going to the library yesterday as we had loads of odds and sods in the fridge like cheese and eggs to use up, We got a kids cooking book and Today Little one (with help from Daddy) have made cheese scones and Chocolate cakes, with nutella aswell as cocoa powder and they smell yum!!

Watch out Gordon Ramsey.... LOL!!

NSD for us aswell and lots of lovely food.

pixiechick99

fayjmck wrote: »

ironing....Yes Fay, I know it's illegal, but has to be done

OK - some of you clearly have those permits that make ironing not illegal

Loving your post very lovely and reminded me very much of SM - make sure you rest today maybe don't eat the grapes if it upsets your chronns.........it was the only resting smilie I could find - and try not to tear your hair out with the girls

DD is on sleepover - DS is crashed out on sofa - amazing how 'calm' the house will be until there are two of them here

Mince here as well for tea - shepherds pie me thinks - Waves to Milly xx

Can you tell I had more time this morning while writing my post?:rotfl::rotfl:
Ironing (nasty job) is all done and hung away...girls had cooked brekkie and they're happy now, arguing all forgotten:rolleyes:

Think it's time for me to go and rest my weary backside with the book....lovely:p

my_mess

Yesterday :
- checked banking - rubbish !
- tidied the garden and moved some more stones/pebbles
- laid down weed mat in garden
- no heating on
- 3 loads of washing on low temp and line or airer dried
- spent £14 on food and £1 on swapping a pair of school trousers for a bigger pair for DS (grrr .. at the extra £1 for 1 inch on the waist!)
- used free texts
- checked for freebies
- ironing (I have a permit)
- cleaned bathroom
- hoovered downstairs
- used up some toiletries
- curry in slow cooker for tea

Today :
- checked banking - still poo
- scratchies and clicks done
- no heating (no way, no way)
- meals from stores (pies, spuds and veg, I think)
- make up Fleabay sales for posting
- sorted rent and council tax cheques for posting
- need to do some work at some point today (brought home some stuff that I can get done at home)
- installed new Office suite (mine was 2000!) - thanks Paul
- will use more of toiletry stash
- a lil bit more ironing
- make packed lunches for tomorrow
- another No Spend Day


Have a good day peeps

PasturesNew

crawley_girl wrote: »

sauce was too thick and tasted floury

When you use flour in cooking, it needs to be what they call "cooked off" or it will taste floury. Next time, be aware of that and as you're mixing the flour with the fat/butter just make sure you're heating them up long enough for the flour to do that (just a couple of minutes max).

mandragora_2

Not really moneysaving, I suppose, but money-wising, if there's such a phrase - we're off on holiday in a couple of weeks, so have scoured the net to find the basics & add-ons we want at the best possible price:

Flight £500 (includes accommodation, but not where we want to be, so we won't be using it - flight only was £600!)
Overnight stay & parking £67 (just parking was £62; hotel on its own would be £65, hotel with parking normally £100 - so I'm delighted with that deal!)
Car hire on arrival £114 - not the cheapest, but the best price by £30 that I could get for a company name that I recognised and was happy to deal with!! I think car hire can be a minefield, especially where we're going, so the cheapest deal can be a false economy, I think.

So, for £680 I'm happy with what we've got - especially bearing in mind that the travel agent in town gave us the best possible deal she could to get us out there, and it came in at £630 - without any car hire, hotel or parking!!

Katy83

Afternoon everybody,

Can't believe it is Sunday afternoon already! Where does time go to these days?

Had a good night out last night, was exhausted and didn't get in till 4am but it was still good fun. Spent about £40 for dinner, drinks and taxi which wasn't too bad I don't think. Had a few yummy G&Ts too, ah I miss those!

Milly/Fay - loving the smilies! The washing and ironing ones are brilliant!

After my 4am antics though, doubt today is going to be all that productive, in fact the idea of Milly's sitting on backside afternoon sounds lovely. Do have a few things for the list though:

• Update spending spreadsheet with totals from yesterday :eek:
• Check banking
• Meal plan for next couple of days and buy a few bits for it (only have £7 for shopping till payday on Wednesday but I reckon I can make it).
• Breakfast and lunch from stores
• Ironing (yes Fay, I have a permit too!)
• Bake some scones and banana bread to use up stuff
• Find something DFW for OH's friends who are coming over for dinner (chilli maybe?)

That's it I think - hope everyone has a good Sunday xx

Pippilongstocking

I am glad folks accept us gardening types to be rumpled or maybe its our weather on the islands - it doesnt matter how you start off looking you end up looking like this - I am beginning to feel a bit left out on the ironing stakes (where are you all getting your permits from for Sundays ......??)


I spoke to DD about the lack of ironing (ie did she WANT me to iron some thing for her?) - she said 'Nah.....we just aren't ironing kind of people....' - I am clearly a bad mum....hangs head in shame.

Therefore I have decided to do some 'virtual ironing'

Dont shoot me - runs off and hides

Hugs to all - its wet and windy outside - bleurgh......xx

pixiechick99

Aaaah Fay - sorry, tis sunny and mild here, sat in a tshirt:o

Back off to the sofa where I'm taking a pair of DD's school trousers up, we bought long length yesterday but I thought much more MSE to take them up instead of buying shorter ones:D