Sat/Sun 19th/20th June - What small DFW things have you done today?

picasso2

Hi everyone , its the weekend woohoo !!!! And its another weekend that i'm not working , double woohoo. Am feeling much more cheerful and optimistic than I have been doing this past week. My finances seem to be in better shape but with all the moving around it will be a few months before I know exactly where I am.

Good start to day as I checked the lottery and I have won a whopping £9.50 on euromillions

Today I will :

• get up and dressed
• checked banks -ok , Paypal money will go in soon and will cover cost of new shoes bought yesterday so i don't feel remotely guilty.
• HC x 1
• clean and tidy lounge, kitchen , bathroom
• sort out charity pile and contact charity to arrange collection
• Sort out DDs birthday pressie pile , its huge and mostly free or low spend stuff (bought her a phone a few weeks ago, on an offer of course)
• Ring Dad , forgot it was fathers day tommorow did buy some thorntons at beginning of month and I have a card from last year.
• List stuff on ebay / ebid
• meals from stores
• try for NSD
• competitions
• surveys
• check freebies & grabbit threads

wow I'm gonna be busy ! Better get moving :rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

Why thanks littlekel - she's a cellist - so she's going to be playing along side a professional cellist from the Scottish Symphony Orchestra - all the kids are getting the opportunity to have some 'one to one time' - great stuff.

Exciting indeed - she's practised hard - so I'm sure they will all enjoy it.

WHen I said I had to 'wrap my amazon sale' I've just discovered I have to 'find' it first - lol

Picasso I'm still in my jimjams

Beencounting

Afternoon all

Glad to see I'm not the only one who's still in jammies :rotfl:. I see saturday morning as a real treat since I'm up at 6am for work each day and am definately not a morning person!

Well done on starting the thread Stitchy/Jo - team effort eh .

Fay - great stuff for you DD, hope you all enjoy it. You must let us know when it's on the TV .

Here's some bits for me today:

• Check bank & update spreadsheet
• HC lots & line dry
• Surveys (haven’t done any for ages)
• Quick shower
• Cleaning to do (will use Flylady thread as inspiration)
• Browse Tesco rewards site – wow, very impressed! Thanks Lurleene – have a great weekend!
• Sort a charity bag – thanks La Escocesa for the reminder
• Mow lawn…b/f from earlier in the week
• Email friend who’s abroad at the moment
• Count up pennies in jar to make any extra little payment off my target CC
• Update weekly spend challenge – have managed to stay within budget
• Buy Father’s Day cards – forgot to do this earlier in the week
• Check Freebies/Low spend boards for useful offers
• All meals from stores
• Should be a LSD – just the cards

Have a great day all...back later to update and catch up.

Been

Lurleene

Thanks for the good wishes for the trip - still haven't left yet though as OH has hit a deer on the way back from Cornwall. Poor thing ran off so he doesn't know what happened to it.:( We had hired a car as ours wouldn't make the journey so he was towed to the nearest branch, given a new car, filled that one up too, drove off and realised that the new car had a major fault! He is now stuck bach there waiting for them to source him yet another car!

Hopefully we will still make it up there but poor OH has had a horrible morning so I doubt he will enjoy it much. And goodness knows how much the deer damage will cost, as even if it is covered by the car hire insurance the excess is huge.:eek: Sorry for the rant. I guess the weekend might be spoilt for us but it is probably worse for the deer!

Best wishes for your daughter Fay, you must be so proud x

La_escocesa

Hi Lurleene,

Gosh that sounds like a stressful morning Hope things get better over the weekend.

I know this won't do you any use this time but I hire cars quite a lot and never take their excess cover. Always get it online separately and it reimburses you if your car hire Co charges you IYSWIM. I use www.dailyexcess.com

I've not got v far with my list today! Just back from taxiing OH ...which led to me having a bit of a strop because I KNEW WHERE I WAS GOING and he thought I was wrong and then we went the wrong way! Arghhh! No idea why this annoyed me so much as it only added an extra 2 or 3 minutes onto the journey but that's not the point!! :rotfl:

Right, lunch break over, think I'll start with washing the dishes before the water gets cold.

Happy Saturday everybody!

xx

PS - I would most certainly be in my jammies if it wasn't for my taxi duties! In fact, come to think of it, I'm going to get changed back into them now...Quick, before he calls me back to ask if I can pick him up tonight...Might also have a quick glass of wine just so 'I can't'

Erme

Guys I am loving this thread. Is so helpful for me....

I want a DFW treat today so after much deliberation it's going to be a ironing board cover fae PL...It was going to be a mop head but still a little run down so don't think I'm up for the bike ride...(and the mop head is maybe more expensive? Will check when do weekly grocery shop).

No coffee out...but that's life....

Have too much work to do...just need a wee bit of fresh air and a wee treat. Yesterday's treat was a 30p cake slice from the corner shop...

The only reason I'm running out of £ each week right now is due to not getting organised/being sick and not getting the grocery shop done on time :eek: which means I find myself with nothing for lunch. Next week stuff that...it'll be porridge and banana...will have to be..I need to eat CHEAPLY....and get a grip...

Going down is not the crime but staying down

And I got another column of my afghan (barn raising) sewn on this am so am chuffed and encouraged to crochet (been working on it for 6 months cos it's double sized. Normal afghan pattern only takes 3!). It's for my £5 sofa (3 seater) gotten last year from charity shop...

Blessings and thanks for the encouragement re HW guys

Hugs

E

katsu

Afternoon all.

Today I:
* was up bright and early to pack and post ebay sales (had one that needed a huge box and tonnes of bubble wrap). I took some bubble wrap from a parcel that came to work (would only have gone in the bin) and used a box from years ago (I kept them after we moved and have been using them for my ebay stash).
* got FIL's next year's birthday card in the post office (only 10 months early but it was perfect).
*posted RM survey return
* got two books for my pressie stash from a charity shop

picasso2

picasso2 wrote: »

Hi everyone , its the weekend woohoo !!!! And its another weekend that i'm not working , double woohoo. Am feeling much more cheerful and optimistic than I have been doing this past week. My finances seem to be in better shape but with all the moving around it will be a few months before I know exactly where I am.

Good start to day as I checked the lottery and I have won a whopping £9.50 on euromillions

Today I will :

• get up and dressed done
• checked banks -ok , Paypal money will go in soon and will cover cost of new shoes bought yesterday so i don't feel remotely guilty.
• HC x 1 done , dry on line just needs bringing in and folding (more to to tommorow))
• clean and tidy lounge, kitchen , bathroom Sparkling - good job , had unexpected company
• sort out charity pile and contact charity to arrange collection 3 sacks for elderly action , just waiting for them to ring and tell me when
• Sort out DDs birthday pressie pile , its huge and mostly free or low spend stuff (bought her a phone a few weeks ago, on an offer of course) Gosh got a lot , it will be like xmas
• Ring Dad , forgot it was fathers day tommorow did buy some thorntons at beginning of month and I have a card from last year.done
• List stuff on ebay / ebid oh god ive done loads , i will be busy if it all sells
• meals from stores meatball bolognase for tea
• try for NSD looking good
• competitions later
• surveys later
• check freebies & grabbit threads still to do

wow I'm gonna be busy ! Better get moving :rotfl:

I don't recognise myself ive done so much :A
I've even had a quick potter in the garden ! Need to go looking for a DVD my neice wants for her birthday so won't buy this weekend, just look.
If I keep this up I can attack a bit more in the kitchen as i need to clean fridge, defrost freezer and clean oven - not jobs i enjoy but get satisfaction from :A

La_escocesa

• Taxi OH with car we borrowed and 'free' petrol - they told me not to bother filling it up!
• Sort laundry - to the launderette I must go! Hope to do it myself and take my book to read. [STRIKE]No service wash today...[/STRIKE] did half myself and gave them a big bag of sheets and towels - couldn't quite face it all...
• Clean kitchen and wash dishes when water is still hot
• Quick shower and won't wash my hair
• Sort a charity bag
• Check if there is owt I can ebay nowt really
  
• Clean bathroom
• Sort bedroom
• See if whole chicken I bought fits in the slow cooker
• Keep my NSDs in check
• Signed up for Co-op card!

xx

WelshWoofer

Evening all !
Had a busy day and not had a chance to post until now.
Not a very good DFW day but an enjoyable one all the same - after all the jobs had been done I took OH out for lunch at a lovely country pub in Cheshire - cost me £30:eek: but we both enjoyed it and I think we needed some "us" time.



My list....

• Walked dog for free exercise
• Took dog for haircut - he's now officially almost bald but much cooler
• Done weekly shop and stuck to budget again ( 3rd week in a row!)
• Picked up library book
• Out for lunch but no tea needed as we're both still stuffed
• Bought some treats with weekly shop from Sainsburys basics range that came to £2 rather than going to cinema and shelling out a fortune - just need to find a film to watch now:p
• Done a load of washing and airdried
• Will do another load to dry overnight
• Had a snooze on sofa this afternoon - can't remember the last time I did that!

That's about it for today - will have a more productive day tomorow!