Sat/Sun 24th/25th July - What small DFW things have you done today??!

nickynoo08

Afternoon all,

hope everyone is having a nice weekend. So far this weekend i've done.....

• daily clicks
• checked banking
• free scratchies
• oddles of washing
• checked we're on budget for the month - we're not we've overspent by £20 so think we'll be £35 over budget by end of the month. Not bad considering we've been on our hols and had a few birthdays this month.
• storecuppboard meals

still to do....

• hoovering
• put laundry away
• meal plan for next week
• daily steps target
• exercise dvd - i've decided i need to get my butt in gear to loose the rest of my baby weight for our next hol in 9weeks

PurpleFairy26

Just did a really long post, but the formatting screwed up, my mac doesn't like it for some reason! Oh well, long and short is have done most of my list, feel like I have achieved loads anyway!!!

Hope you're all having a great Sunday x

NewlyFrugalMumof3

Afternoon All,

I have posted for absoltely ages, but have been rather MSE lately, after having to fork for several big expenses.

This weekend I will/have:

Dug out sewing machine and mended some clothes
Checked online banking
Applied to swop banks fron A&L to First Direct
3 washing loads (2 on low temp) - line drying
Big ironing pile tonight
Made scrummy Sunday roast - enough meat left for tomorrow's dinner + sandwiches
Put fruit loaf on in BM for tea
sweep up downstairs
Take pooch for walk with children - free exercise for all
Downgrade Virgin Talk Unlimited to just talk weekends with Virgin & save £7/month
Get texting fixed on Virgin mobile
Totally cleared out conservatory/playroom. 1 bag of bits/broken/old beyond repair toys for recycling/bin. 1 bag for charity shop & 1 bag to sell/freecycle in autumn when children are back at school.
Have another NSD.
Think of how to cut down on huge amount of milk our family gets through ! ???
Comb through finances to find places to cut back and make savings
Package up book sold on Amazon and send off tomorrow.
Story time with 3 boys tonight all together.
Make packed lunch for OH worklunch tomorrow.

nomorespending

Hi All,
Hope youre all ok, not posted for ages - not even had chance to lurk!!
Fallen off the d FW wagon so need to be thinking about getting back on..going away in 2 weeks and am counting down the days. Work is still awful - workign millions of hours. Lots of redudancies happening at my work so very worrying times as both me and OH work for same place.
Great to see the thread so busy... will try and get on to at least lurk this week and going to think about meal planning for the first time in weeks tonight - thats my task for the day!

keep up the good work everyone. see you soon
Nms

DawnW

Done so far today:

HM meals (though I did lazily buy a cake at the car boot sale this morning instead of baking one - it was very nice though). Roast chicken and home grown potatoes, french beans, carrots and mangetout cooking at the moment.

Cleared rest of potatoes from veg plot (with OH) an sowed some more seeds in the space - radishes, swedes, spinach, spring onions and carrots. It is a bit late but hopefully some of it will grow ok.

Done a Pinecone survey

Washed doormat as dog had weed on it :eek:

Sorted out freezer so that I know what we have, instead of keep buying more and shoving it in on top :eek:

Still to do:

Water plants

Ironing :eek:

Clean kitchen floor

Clean floor and skirting board in downstairs loo (might have to wait till tomorrow)

Order sweatshirt that DGS 2 has chosen for his birthday

I won't put anything else down in the interests of being realistic

Hooray, off work tomorrow and Tuesday, using up leave :j:j:j

However, must finish tax return self assessment thingyjig while I am off - no excuses :eek:

Lottebear

Back from the wedding today, had a great time and caught up with so many friends and family. LSD bought some drinks but just soft ones.

- Early night tonight
- Washing on

Nitha

Talked DH out of buying a new XBox and fixed the one we have!!!

determined_new_ms

determined_new_ms wrote: »

Hi everyone :wave: thought someone should start us off on this gorious sunny Saturday

So I just received my companies structure chart and I am definately either the managert or asst manager. Thank god was really nervous because there is 1 manager from another team who is displaced and I was nervous that there was a chance I'd be competing for that. Like Jo said yesterday its a weird thing because I'm so relieved I'm not out of a job but feel a bit guilty for thinking that...







Anyway this weekend:

• [STRIKE]fridge/freezer/cupboards inventory[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]meal plan[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]go shopping[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]check banking & switch some money between accounts[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]PAD to loan [/STRIKE](£5 of the petrol money from colleague I give a lift to work . next week I will havde £5 from tobacco I sold :j. It seems to be going down very quickly have already overpaid by £40 in the last week!)
• [STRIKE]clean bathroom [/STRIKE](maybe lay flooring?) didn't lay floor as didn't have enough, need another pack, nd couldn't face B&Q in my last hours of freedom
• [STRIKE]banana bread[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]hm bread x 2 oh did one - will do another [/STRIKE]tomorrow
• [STRIKE]get chicken out of freezer this morning & put in the fridge to defrost for tomorrow[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]get chicken breasts & prawns out of freezer for signapore noodles for dinner tonight [/STRIKE]
• car maint- need a new front tire (:( that takes a chunk out of my spending money this month...), clean inside, check oil & water eeek needed 2 front tyres set me back £66 ouch! gonna do oil & water in the morning :eek:
• plant seeds - lettuce, basil, rocket, corriander not gonna do...
• feed toms
• [STRIKE]not spend too much when we go out today - there's a bungee jump thing at a loacl pub, me, oh & some friends are going to watch for a laugh![/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]update sig[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]clean spare bedroom ready for new student arriving tonight[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]strip chicken & make stock for soup[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]found 1p & 5p knocking around the house for the penny pot [/STRIKE]:D

not doing so bad - still think I can achieve everything hope ur all having a lovely weekend x

determined_new_ms

fayjmck wrote: »

cable
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Put the tray of frozen lemons into the frozen lemon slices bag - keep for lemonish icecubes saves chucking out the lemon when its going a bit manky

OK enough from me!!

Mogchops - any pasta sauce will do for pizza base - the kind of stuff I have saved in freezer - IE whizzed up HM pasta sauce will be great - I do add a spoon of sugar as well for the pizza as I think it goes best with the cheese that way.

Typical base, onion, garlic, herbs, tomatoes - cook - whizz up if you want or just chop it fine to begin with.

I usually make a big batch and freeze in yoghurt pot/small tub sizes 4-5 tablespoons worth of sauce - enough for a decent bowl pasta - I freeze it in bags inside the cups/bowls (IYSWIM) and then when frozen put all the 'little bags of sauce' in a bigger bag to keep them together - or when I've done it in tubs (decent yoghurt sized tubs/dip tubs) I just put all the tubs in one section of the freezer together (DD likes alot of pasta) so we normally have some on the go somewhere - if in tubs I don't bother with lids - as when frozen its fine, but you have to be careful when you are freezing it!

!!

Right I got to thinking after seeing ur post fay about all the ideas I steal from you! This is going to be another string to my bow. I make pizzas once a week - cheap, easy & goes down a storm with the boys, but why did I never think about increasing the quantities when I make the sauce and freezing it??? I get loads of ideas off of everyone, top tip I think has to go to Olive re defrosting meat in the fridge reduces energy costs. Since she told us that I haven't used the microwave once for a last minute scrammble! :T

determined_new_ms

also fay how on earth do you recycle the coffee grounds???