Friday 18th Feb - What small DFW things will you be doing today?!!?

cleggie

Today i have:

bought a week shopping for £22.08!!!!!!! £22.08!!!!!! (sorry, had to say it twice!)..i am in shock !

Included in that was 12 bananas for 40p!

angelflower_2

loving that lots of you are finding 'lost' money today!

so bored at work - have an incomprehensible amount to do but the computers are down so instead I am twidlying thumbs and eating biscuits lol

• check banking and change a Standing order amount
• use bus pass and legs for excercise and cheaper travel
• free lunch drinks and snacks at work
• turkey out freezer to do some batch cooking tonight
• investigate further the bonus application at work
• check for freebies and cinema tix
• plan a nice relaxing and cheap weekend (no option £4 till Mon)

Have a great day

La_escocesa

CravingSaving wrote: »

Good morning, I am at rock bottom financially (and emotionally) but tring to look on the bright side so today I shall be......

• Taking gold jewellery around town to see who gives me the best price. I have 26g. The current market value is approx £27 per gram or £850 per troyounce (31.10 grams), but if I can even get a third of this I will be relieved. Failing that I shall offer them to Lois Jewellery or Hatton Garden Metals online traders.

• Taking 10 Xbox games back to Game to trade for cash. I theoretically could make more if I Ebayed, but it is such a faff to do one at a time on there and not guaranteed to get any bids.

• Popping into work to get boss to sign off on Housing/Council Tax benefit claim.

• Trying to organise a bring n buy sale in the local hall where I can try to sell all the bits n bobs that aren't Ebayable!

• Cancel DVD service. Another £7 p/month saved.

• Cancel subscription to Which? magazine. Shame, as this has proven to be a valuable money saving tool, but at £10 p/month, it has to go.

• Ebaying old mobile phone and all my perfume.

I had better come home with some cash in hand, or I am stuffed

Sounds like great progress CravingSaving :T

All those subscriptions and stuff add up so you'll see the difference in no time I'm sure

bexs.ua

Hi all, never posted on this thread but read it frequently and has inspired me to post!

Today I will/have do/done:

[STRIKE]Paid some money into the bank to pay for a camera for a friend (and earn cashback on it )
pick up some whoopsied bits from c00p [/STRIKE] [STRIKE]£6.90[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]ironing[/STRIKE] not as much as I thought but why is there ALWAYS a sock left over???
washing
[STRIKE]batch cooking tomato sauce & veggie lasagne (thanks te$co for tomatoes bogof lol) made one for tonight and 5 in the freezer :T
go to work and pay some wages later this afternoon
[/STRIKE]
thats it for now I think, off to do the ironing whilst enjoying Bargainhunt

La_escocesa

La_escocesa wrote: »

• [STRIKE]Cheapo porridge for brekkie :cool:[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Free tea in work[/STRIKE]
• Charge mobile
• [STRIKE]Charge kindle [STRIKE]on the train?[/STRIKE][/STRIKE] charging at home... didn't want to risk the boredom of not having it and not being able to charge it
• Walking
• Pre-booked train tickets
• Arranged to get picked up at station
• [STRIKE]VSP[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Check banking[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Need to do voluntary work - just got to write and post a letter - should really have time - on lunch if not before!![/STRIKE]

Got my voluntary work done so that's off my mind for a bit.

Also revised my ebay listings - lowered a couple of items that don't have bids yet. Got £35 will sell so not a bad start. :T

Going to go out in a bit for a wander round. Catch up later/tomorrow everyone :beer:

WelshWoofer

Have been really good and taken some clothes back - that's £52 back in my account :A

But I did succumb to lunch in the food court:(
A fiver invested in my waistline!

CravingSaving

Progress report from earlier.....

• [STRIKE]Taking gold jewellery around town to see who gives me the best price.[/STRIKE] Decided not to trade engagement ring as scrap value is just £25 and its a lovely diamond ring, so more ebaying later! I got just £175 for my gold. Not what I had hoped for, as they had to take any stones out to get proper weight, but hey it's £175 I didn't have this morning!

• [STRIKE]Taking 10 Xbox games back to Game to trade for cash. [/STRIKE] I got £45.

• [STRIKE]Popping into work to get boss to sign off on Housing/Council Tax benefit claim.[/STRIKE] I told boss how embarassed I was having to ask for this, and she told me that she was claiming it too!!!

• Trying to organise a bring n buy sale in the local hall where I can try to sell all the bits n bobs that aren't Ebayable!

• Cancel DVD service. Another £7 p/month saved.

• Cancel subscription to Which? magazine. Shame, as this has proven to be a valuable money saving tool, but at £10 p/month, it has to go.

• Ebaying old mobile phone and all my perfume.

I have come home with some cash in hand!! Time for coffee and home made drop scones!

Erme

Sorry have not been on - been in hosp...and no net access (or very limited) so just been posting on frugal board


Monday - stupid nurses - was not in a good place- way too much drama - however having the clinical nurse manager's email addy had the ward manager eating out of my hand tuesday LOL....

But if there's no keys to my locker by Tuesday (if I'm still on there) they'll be another email to EB ...cos I'm sweet...c'mon I even make snickerdoodles (google it and get addicted) for the junior medics as part of their 'training'...

Ward has been interesting. One manic student complaining about his meds went he spent over£3k of his pa's dosh in about 2 days....- hmmm....

Another patient at war with Shetland health board and calling every other nurse dog face...

The usual crowd of course

Still poor L with her dodgy leg she got from a failed su attempt last summer but at least she's got the metal frame off and she always does her hair SOOO nice and wears the nicest frocks to look at her you would think there's nothing wrong with her...:(

And H can go take a jump - fruitloop....she was creeping round the nightstaff last summer and believed an NA's lies about me...last thing I need . Surprise surprise she's still on the ward - she'll lose her house soon if not already

But at least x is finally on the mend :T. She has just gotten a new flat and is waiting for repairs...she's so ready to get out and yet she was so sick last summer. Fab to see her looking so well...

So yeah that's me...DIETING...and having Mr Frugal on my case as a result..Just caught up to P.18...:).....I kid my medics not this site beats facebook by a mile again...but I can now have a bath again at night since meds got upped (lovely :P) the other day...

And has anyone else seen the Mental Health and Debt preview on here....can't recall where it is but will try and hunt it out if anyone wants it...It looks very good

Also last Saturday's eBay paid my ebay bill but the last of it didn't get posted till yesterday...and yesterday I got 4 more shoulder/handbags to sell from charity shop for £2..:) and I made a hat the other day

Blessings

E

WelshWoofer

CravingSaving wrote: »

Progress report from earlier.....

• [STRIKE]Taking gold jewellery around town to see who gives me the best price.[/STRIKE] Decided not to trade engagement ring as scrap value is just £25 and its a lovely diamond ring, so more ebaying later! I got just £175 for my gold. Not what I had hoped for, as they had to take any stones out to get proper weight, but hey it's £175 I didn't have this morning!

• [STRIKE]Taking 10 Xbox games back to Game to trade for cash. [/STRIKE] I got £45.

• [STRIKE]Popping into work to get boss to sign off on Housing/Council Tax benefit claim.[/STRIKE] I told boss how embarassed I was having to ask for this, and she told me that she was claiming it too!!!

I have come home with some cash in hand!! Time for coffee and home made drop scones!

There you go!
Things aren't as bad as they could be?
Well done on your efforts this morning. Must be a little weight off your mind at least?

Hope you enjoy your scone!

CravingSaving

WelshWoofer wrote: »

Hope you enjoy your scone!

Scones...... plural!!! And NO, I wont tell you how many I had!!

Now time to photograph all the stuff to Ebay this evening.

maybe just one more scone first???