Monday 15th March - What small DFW things have you done today?!

brizzledfw

Hello all

Back after a lovely week away with sister and our families.. back to the real world but not a bad MSE start..

Today I:

• made bread in the breadmaker (did half chapatti flour/half strong bread flour though (running out of regular stuff) and it went a strange shape..:rotfl:yummy though!)
• washing at 30 degrees
• stashed a £2 coin from the bus driver..I love those chunky 'chocolate' coins
• checked online bank
• me and OH did our ISAs - we got a good rate from Santander thanks for lovely MSErs advice
• booked hotel to go to friends wedding on Quidco so 5% saving - every little helps
• AND...a NSD..yippee..these are rare in my house..:j

Have a good evening all. See you tomorrow

Brizzle

NewlyFrugalMumof3

NewlyFrugalMumof3 wrote: »

Hello everyone

Had a very good MSE weekend. Instead of paying for car to be valeted - seriously disgustingly dirty - I set aside a couple hours on Fri and cleaned it myself inside and out, and also did OH's car on outside. So saved myself £25 in valeting fees plus found 20p! Cleaned out handbag and found 30p. Every bit helps.

Also bought M&S Mother's Day Meal Deal x 2, 2 half legs of lamb, 2 veg dishes, 2 puddings, 2 wines + 3 wines for £10 and 1 extra to make up to 6 bottles to get 10% off. So full bill would have been £72.64 but with discounts I paid £47.47 - :T. Very pleased. So have frozen one meal deal and cooked delicious roast lamb for my lovely Mum yesterday with rest of family and had lovely day.

Used Boots No7 £5 voucher for £7 eyeshadow so only paid £2 for it. Looked v. nice on too.

Benefitted from Waterstones 3 for 2 on books: 1 for Mum, 1 for OH birthday in June and freebie was an Orchard Toy's puzzle/game for DS3's birthday in April.

I am starting to enjoy this MSE saving money & getting organised in the process. :j

What a beautiful day here in Devon. My boys are all better after all being poorly last week, so the 2 eldest are at school and little one is at grandparents for the day. So on my peaceful day I have:

Made all beds and tidied all bedrooms
Aired all rooms - lovely fresh day
Hung 4 loads washing on line
Re-washed few items to get rid of kid's chocolate & food stains!
Cleaned up kitchen, put some things away that don't get used much and rearranged so looks much clearer and nicer
Done dog poo run
Tried to contact Uni re course info - will have to try later
Our dinner is scrummy leftovers from yesterday - roast lamb & gravy a la James Martin recipe - mmmm, and mash and spinach & fennel gratin + leftover M&S cheesecake.

I also need to:

Clean out fridge - DONE
Have lunch before 1.45 - WELL, 2.45 RUSHED
Read 30 mins of library book - anatomy (so I get into practice of putting time aside to study for when I start studies in Oct with OU) - ONLY 5 MINS!
Walk dog down fields on way to pick up boys from school - YEP, BUT NO FIELDS!
Drive economically to Mum's - boys have tea there - YES
Make packed lunches. - NEARLY
Have NSD - WOOHOO
Check online banking - DONE
Ironing tonight -
Put couple baby items on ebay - TUESDAY
Read Saturday's paper tonight - MAYBE
Watch one of many taped Casualty episodes tonight - TUES
Find country-ish round breakfast table & chairs for conservatory, either Tesco direct/Argos or even better, Freecycle. - TUES

There, must go. Times a ticking!

Done most things on list. Also made bread in BM. Found £2 whenemptying out another bag, but red light has come on petrol, so will have to put £10 in tomorrow and see if it'll last til end of month:o

Too tired for any more things. Night all.

uphillstruggler

Sorry to hear that, Cleosmum.