Friday 12th March - What small DFW things have you done today?

Pippilongstocking

Whoops I've just remembered I dumped my washing on the back hall floor - and forgot about it - oh well.

Today
[STRIKE]Post another dvd to amazon person - posting it quick with a second class stamp so that will still be OK[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Recheck CC for lovefilm refund[/STRIKE]:cool:
[STRIKE]CHeck banks[/STRIKE]:p ok ish
[STRIKE]Charge phone (have both phone and cable today!)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Sorted out a pile of frozen grub and bread/milk to take to our new house sleepover today[/STRIKE] we're going over for the weekend
No internet at new house - no phone - [STRIKE]so much take stuff to do (crochet and also cards, games etc)[/STRIKE]:j
[STRIKE]hunt out some nails to put up my windbreak fencing[/STRIKE]:j
[STRIKE]Hunt out the rabbit netting[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Feed chookie lots before we go and ask my brother to pop in[/STRIKE]
Take more plants - I took my monkey puzzle tree yesterday
Storecupboard meals all weekend
Teach DS to shave (the joys of single parenting!):D
[STRIKE]Make sure we've enough bedding etc[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Make a list of things we need to take over and fill the car to bursting![/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Make arrangement to have DD pal dropped off via new house by them[/STRIKE]
Take camera
Do ebay listings:rotfl: Ok next week maybe :rotfl:
[STRIKE]Call man about cost of putting in a woodburner[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Text old tenants about airer which isnt there anymore[/STRIKE]
Do lots of work
[STRIKE]Move some money[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Walk doggie at lunchtime - might go out in field not sure yet[/STRIKE]:j
[STRIKE]See about taking a sofa over there today if I can at lunch?[/STRIKE]:rotfl:another job for next week:rotfl:
[STRIKE]Text brother for a hand![/STRIKE]


Hope folks are OK - xx

ETA sold 2 big musical dvd packs to my mrs mop (£20) and then also worked out that she's away, then I'm away, so we won't be having her about until Mid April - saving 3x£30 (ITS PAID FOR BY LODGER MONEY )- after that she's in for another job so she's going to tell us when she's letting us go - rather than me pay her off when we move or before - when it suits her

La_escocesa

Hi everyone :wave:

Happy Friday! I am really looking forward to the weekend and the spring clean I've got scheduled in. In preparation my list today looks like this:

- visit TJH's to find some cheap but pretty bedding none, I'll have a look online. Got £8 off Mr A.
- buy some paint for the wood in the bathroom will do tomorrow
- went easy on the make up & using old/almost run out stuff - holding out for bday money!
- smile that my nail polish has no chips yet. Phew, base and top coat was a good buy. woohoo
- do any available surveys will do tomorrow
- yoga tonight, which I've already paid for so feels like it's free just back
- NSD @ work - sandwich for lunch and free tea to drink check
- more fish we got for free for tea OH is on the job
- really need to do something with that bag of apples! Have some frozen pastry so it should be easy...right?!
- devise some sort of meal plan to see what we need in the food shop this weekend
- devise some sort of laundry plan to see what I can wash/dry at home and what would be best drying at the launderette - a bit more hassle but it can take days to dry in the flat and there's not enough space to wash everything as we've only got 2 airers and no radiators and the tumble dryer probably costs a fortune to run and doesn't even work very well. Boo. Hoping for a house with a garden in 2011!! I guess if I stayed on top of it I could wash and dry one load at a time (which wouldn't take up more space than 1 airer) but that would probably mean doing a load every day (depending on whether the clothes dried before the next load was done) and constantly having wet clothes in the middle of the living room floor and the dehumidifier working overtime and I really can't face that either. I even bought a JML 'dry buddy' but that just ends up filling the place with damp air. :mad: Trip to wilkos is in order!

Fay - sounds like you've got a busy day! It all sounds so exciting.

Josie - what is a purge and can I be selling them???

Almost the weekend!

xx

Pippilongstocking

La escocesa - hello - wonder if you want to hear my very silly widow twankies solution to drying clothes in a very very wet climate where venturing outside only happens sometimes during the summer!! It prob won't suit anyone else but here's what we do

I don't use airers often - (mainly cos I gave them to my lodgers doh!) I think they take ages to dry things - we just hang things up on coat hangers which work well as also the get a good shape (no ironing). I hang them on tops of doors on those over the door plastic things for coats if I have them or just on the doors tbh - curtain rails - and anywhere a hanger will hang - higher is better guess cos of hot air rising.

My other essentials have been 3 of those £1 hang your socks/smalls on airers (got mine south in a £1 shop) - do you know the ones I mean? Circular and have pegs hanging from them with a big hook to hang them up. We've all one each - so all the socks etc goes on our own one. I hang mine in my wardrobe or over my door and its dry by morning.

We don't have a tumble drier (not had one for 15 years) and I do at least one load every day - with hanging them on coat hangers somehow we just kinda lose the stuff.

ETA although it does look a bit like a laundry sometimes! I do live in a drafty house though - so not been bothered with damp etc.

Taking the bigger bits to laundry sounds like a good idea -

looking forward to my busy day - ta for saying!

uphillstruggler

Hello everyone and hope you're having a good day. Lots of great DFW things happening up there. Congratulations on the move, Positive. I've just finished a huge work project and have that hunched-over-the-computer-bleurgh-but-yay-it's-the-weekend kind of feeling. Looking forward to a chilled afternoon.

Yesterday wasn't exactly a stirling DFW effort on my part, although it was a NSD.
Today's small DFW plans include:
[strike]meals from larder[/strike] sorted
[strike]return library books[/strike]
[strike]go to post office to get mobile phone recycling envelope proof of posting[/strike] looking forward to receiving the cashback
[strike]stick the laundry on 30[/strike]
[strike]batch cooking extravaganza[/strike] great therapy! And lots of tasty stuff in batches in the freezer now
check online banking

Have a nice afternoon all x

La_escocesa

uphillstruggler wrote: »

go to post office to get mobile phone recycling envelope proof of posting

Oooh must remember to do that too, uphillstruggler - was just going to put mine in the post box but I guess it's prime candidate to go missing...

Thanks Fay - might get myself a couple of those little hanger circular things. I reckon they can definitely go on the shower rail. Think the main problem is that air doesn't circulate round. If I'm in all day tomorrow though I can get everything hanging everywhere and keep the front door and both windows open. Just means I can really only get washing on at the weekend and by that time it's all piled up again. Boo.

Cleosmum

Hello! Afternoon! List first, will read everyones in a mo!

Riiiiiiiight......

I have:

• Checked banking
• Got 10/11 CT bill - not too bad really but need to get them to check 09/10 is right as it doesnt seem to be
• HC and up on airers
• Done shopping in M, used MOC and 10% discount card, will update sig later
• Got £2 stamps for xmas food, will update sig later
• Got DH to switch from £2 a bottle fave shower gel to an M one that is exactly the same but £1 :T (he has put it in the fave bottle though :rotfl:)
• Meals from stores
• Heating off

And I will:

• Do more HC and airer dry Done
• Try and find DS some cheap trainers in the charity shop, he needs 2 pairs he can wreck next week :eek: Done, Adams closing down sale, 2 pairs for £8.98, cant believe the charity shops had no kids shoes whatsoever!
• Update sig with totals Done
• Open a nice bottle of wine, which was less than half price in M - but to redeem myself I am at least having it with my SW friendly meal :rotfl: Done
• Watch a DVD we already own rather than buy another Done
• Put £2 coin in piggy bank Done
• Redo budget to list new commitments and try and build in an emergency fund each month

Cant think of anything else right now, will be back!

Also I have:
Picked up bits in Tesco which were cheaper there and used 4 x MOC and an extra points till spit and saved £9.46 in multisaves.

Got OH to snip the corner off the above shower gel and drain it dry lol! And he did bless him, asking if it made him tight lol.

Used free parking in town.

Cleosmum

fayjmck wrote: »

La escocesa - hello - wonder if you want to hear my very silly widow twankies solution to drying clothes in a very very wet climate where venturing outside only happens sometimes during the summer!! It prob won't suit anyone else but here's what we do

I don't use airers often - (mainly cos I gave them to my lodgers doh!) I think they take ages to dry things - we just hang things up on coat hangers which work well as also the get a good shape (no ironing). I hang them on tops of doors on those over the door plastic things for coats if I have them or just on the doors tbh - curtain rails - and anywhere a hanger will hang - higher is better guess cos of hot air rising.

My other essentials have been 3 of those £1 hang your socks/smalls on airers (got mine south in a £1 shop) - do you know the ones I mean? Circular and have pegs hanging from them with a big hook to hang them up. We've all one each - so all the socks etc goes on our own one. I hang mine in my wardrobe or over my door and its dry by morning.

We don't have a tumble drier (not had one for 15 years) and I do at least one load every day - with hanging them on coat hangers somehow we just kinda lose the stuff.

ETA although it does look a bit like a laundry sometimes! I do live in a drafty house though - so not been bothered with damp etc.

Taking the bigger bits to laundry sounds like a good idea -

looking forward to my busy day - ta for saying!

Ive got 2 large concertina airers from Wilkos and I can dry about 4 loads on there at once and it dries within 24 hrs, often less. I also have one of those little hanging airers and I can hang the socks up (attached to the velux window handle lol) and I have often hung the socks up at 11pm and they are bone dry by 7am the next day, and thats with no heating in that room. I also have three 4 bar radiator airers which I hang towels on as they take forever to dry. HTH

Pippilongstocking

Thanks for that cleosmum - i think i need newer airers - i've only ones i foudn in a charity shop (which now the lodgers have in their room) i love the little sock ones though - i just use to think oh what's the point - but they are great!!

WelshWoofer

Evening all! It's FFFFRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDAAAAAAAAAAY!
Hurrah!

Not much to report today really...

• Took unappetising cheese sandwich to work for lunch
• Having freezer tea of fish and chips
• Walke ddog for free exercise
• Writing shopping list for tomorrow with meal plan to go with it
• Will use £4 off voucher for Mr S
• Staying in and watching soaps
• Resisted bottle of wine from shop whilst walking dog
• Will check banks
• Do at least 1 wash and dry on airer and radiators

That's it for today - not very exciting is it?

OrangeFairy

Today i saved myself £4.10 in parking fees. DD2 had to have day surgery today to have a bead taken out of her ear!!! Costs £4.10 for over 4 hours stay so as it was 7.45 am and very quiet i got DF to park in a neighbouring street where a family member lives and we walked the 7 mins to the hospital and saved parking fees!

Been a good week-ish DFW-wise. Lots of worry over DD and taking extra time off work as holiday but other than that it has been good. My mum managed to get my DD's into the swimming that my little sis and bro attend. As i will go with her it will save me £6.80 a week in bus fares!!!!! Thats £27.20 a month!!!! So pretty pleased

Also did a couple of work bits for a couple of hours at home today while DD2 was resting...this allows me to finish early from work on a day that i need it!!

Plus DD1 is playing up at her extra exam ballet lessons i finally agreed to do - she finds them boring! So after the next 2 finish i will not sign her up or put her in for the exam! This will save me £4.50 a week that i would have had to pay until July! Plus the £35 exam fee

Also DD1 didn't want to have school dinners today so i kept the £2 in my purse and she has a lunch from home stock!!

So some good DFW small things in there this week!