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Sat & Sun 22nd and 23rd January 2011 What small DFW things will you do this w/e

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  • Gonna have a busy weekend today, working two jobs at the moment (Now doing Domino's in the evenings!):

    - Put in four hours tomorrow night (did four last night)
    - Pop into day job for three hours' overtime
    - Go into town and get coffee with my KGBDeals voucher
    - Go out with fiance tonight to cinema on 2 for 1 voucher
    - Head into Makro after work and pick up some reduced items (their red stickered stuff is sometimes 80% off!)
    - Order ferry tickets for trip in March via Seafrance sale
  • chanie
    chanie Posts: 3,335 Forumite
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    I have to vist my cousin in hospital today - but she is is hospital in Central London, so I have to pay to get there (I do work in Central London, but my big MSE thing, was to only pay up to ZOne 2 and then walk, as its not too far)

    I can still save money by:

    Having lunch at home before I go to the hospital
    Take a bottle of water with me
    Take a book/DS/ipod/knitting so I don't buy a magazine
    Bake some biscuits for my cousin as a little gift
  • ixia
    ixia Posts: 1,338 Forumite
    Good morning everyone

    Not been on the last couple of days busy with work.

    Today I have:
    Paid £50 to challenge
    done the ironing
    2 loads of washing
    Tidied up

    I will do:

    go to my niece's birthday party
    have lunch at party
    Dinner from stores
    write meal plan/shopping list for week

    Have a good weekend everyone will update later in a rush.
  • La_escocesa
    La_escocesa Posts: 3,119 Forumite
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    Well hello there my lovelies :wave:

    Nice to hear how everyone is getting on with the DFW lifestyle this weekend :D

    Here's what I'm planning:
    • Check banking & cc
    • Do a survey
    • Phone peeps with free wknd mins - saved £10 on phone bill this month :cool:
    • Clean bathroom and shower curtain! If I leave it longer I'll end up buying a new one :o
    • Pick wedding pics!!! Must do! :o
    • Knitting :cool:
    • TV night in
    • Wine from a box we got with shopping - ie not bottle from corner shop...
    • Watch spanish soap for free practice
    • Wash and sort clothes for work
    • Pennies in the jar - almost full!
    • Food from stores...easy when you don't have any £££ for take aways and can't be bothered going to the shops :p
    Take care everyone

    Catch up soon!

    xxx
  • This weekend is hopefully a quiet one so I am going to:

    Go and do my 2 hrs cleaning job
    do the washing
    do the drying
    put it away
    look for food hygiene certificate online
    :money:
  • LAM2011
    LAM2011 Posts: 1,432 Forumite
    PPI Party Pooper Debt-free and Proud!
    :DMorning everyone :D

    I live on a farm so have had my workout for the morning and collected the eggs from the chickydoodles :D

    Today I want to :
    • sot out my diet menu planning - starting on Monday - decided if I had a LBM for my finances last weekend then this weekend its time for phase II of the new me
    • going to go through cupboards and menu plan properly for the week
    • wont be a NSD today as need to go to Tesco
    • have transferred the £1,000 I have had stashed in savings (from sale of my car last year - had kept for emergencies) into my MBNA card so feel slightly sick and yet relieved at same time
    • got to check banking (before I go to Tessies)
    • got a survey just come through to do
    • will def be NSD tomorrow :D
    have a good one everyone x
  • catmiaow
    catmiaow Posts: 5,954 Forumite
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    edited 22 January 2011 at 4:24PM
    Morning all:

    Today:

    [STRIKE]Look at jobs
    Email people back
    Do comps
    Check my ebay item
    Check bank
    Do some tidying
    Tidy after cats
    Cleaned bathroom
    Put rubbish out
    Vacuum the house
    [/STRIKE]

    Spend the evening with OH

    Sundays list:

    Spend day with OH
    Do some tidying up
    Dinner from stores
    Prepare for job interview

    Hope everyone has a good day!
    No you're not a vegetarian if you eat any animal or fish, so do not insult genuine veggies by calling yourself one! :mad:

    Thanks to everyone who posts competitions. You are the stars of the board :T:j:T
  • La_escocesa
    La_escocesa Posts: 3,119 Forumite
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    catmiaow wrote: »


    Prepare for job interview

    Hope everyone has a good day!

    Good luck with the job interview catmiaow! Great news!
  • DawnW
    DawnW Posts: 7,805 Forumite
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    edited 22 January 2011 at 9:17PM
    Hello :j

    Thanks for starting the thread Candy!

    Today I have (so far)

    [STRIKE]Been to town and got hair cut (not expensive, just a trim[/STRIKE])

    [STRIKE]
    Picked up some bits from the pound shop and greengrocers that were cheaper than Mr S
    [/STRIKE]
    [STRIKE]
    Paid tenant's rent into bank - they have never been able to get it together to pay it THROUGH the bank, but at least they pay it I suppose!
    [/STRIKE]
    [STRIKE]
    Left over soup for lunch
    [/STRIKE]
    Still to do:

    [STRIKE]
    Clean out chooks
    [/STRIKE] Done house, will do run when the little horrors are locked up inside
    [STRIKE]
    Shopping in Mr S
    [/STRIKE]
    [STRIKE]
    Recycling
    [/STRIKE]
    [STRIKE]
    clean and tidy house
    [/STRIKE] Done some, some still to do.
    [STRIKE]
    Make spaghetti bolognese for tea
    [/STRIKE] Yum, had garlic bread too :D
    Give some thought to meal plans for next week Not done yet

    Have a good day everybody :D
  • Pernicious
    Pernicious Posts: 1,786 Forumite
    edited 22 January 2011 at 11:51PM
    Hey everyone!

    Thanks for starting us off Candy, I have a HTC Desire HD coming on Tuesday so I'm pretty excited about that, my first smartphone & I managed to get it for just £20 a month :j I guess it's because I've pumped so much money into them over the past 18months :rotfl:
    Nowpanicking - Aww congratulations! Have a great day.
    Lily - That crumble sounds delicious, congratulations on paying off the credit card!
    Snoop - Congrats on the 2lb weightloss!
    Chanie - Sorry to hear about your cousin, hope she is on the mend.

    Today I have/plan to:-

    • [STRIKE]Check for surveys[/STRIKE]
    • [STRIKE]Enter comps[/STRIKE]
    • [STRIKE]Check out freebies & comps board[/STRIKE]
    • [STRIKE]Dinner from meal plan[/STRIKE]
    • [STRIKE]Log calories on Foodfocus[/STRIKE] Weighed myself too & dropped 2lbs :j
    • Contact Next & ask where my jeans are!
    • Get OH to ring Npower as they didn't call him yesterday as promised - Didn't get round to this, will need to do on Monday
    • [STRIKE]Washing up[/STRIKE]
    • Hang up washing to dry
    • [STRIKE]More washing on eco setting[/STRIKE]
    • [STRIKE]Check online banking[/STRIKE]
    • [STRIKE]Pop to town with other half as he needs to get a fews bits, but I don't so aiming for a NSD![/STRIKE]
    • [STRIKE]Free parking where I work which is close enough to walk into the main shopping bit of town[/STRIKE]
    • [STRIKE]Look into selling OH's car & having just the one between us[/STRIKE] Worth around 3.5-4k...most of our debt gone at once, & would leave us one hell of a lot left over each month if we don't have to pay for his insurance, tax, petrol, etc considering how little he uses it these days. It means we could definitely get married in 2012 :j
    • Work out how to improve my life from DNMS's wheel of life tool, it says I need to work on money, career & contribution but how can I do that in a MSE way?
    • [STRIKE]Work a bit more on sorting out my friends hen night[/STRIKE]
    • [STRIKE]Check out flylady thread as I still haven't got round to it [/STRIKE]:o Wow I need to join this...not sure if I could stick to all that though!!
    • Finish up organising the accounts paperwork
    • Finish tidying study
    • Finish tidying bedroom
    • Spend at least 10mins going over my tkd terminology
    • Continue reading wedding tips thread
    Have a great, moneysaving day everyone x
    :idea:Debt at July 2012: £12,862.57 :eek:
    :dance:Current Debt: £0 :j
    100% paid off!
    :think: Savings Goal for November 2016: £5000 :cool:
    :D Current Savings: £1176.24 _party_
    23.52% Saved!
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