All the small things - tell me what you have done to be MF today

mummyofonechild

craftingmad wrote: »

Hi everyone, thanks fopr a brilliant thread. I'm loving the little things I can do to become MF - its a great inspiration and motivation reading all of them.

Can I join in too? Hope so 'cos here goes (if not just ignore this post and I'll go and sulk in a corner! - only joking)

Today so far I have:-

1/ Done a mystery shop and completed survey (£9.00 ready to be paid to me)
2/Gone through my fridges and freezers and made a list for meal plans to save spending on more food plus frozen things getting close to date
3/ PLANNING to make some cards to (hopefully) sell at toddler group tomorrow later tonight

Hello Again.

Welcome back and Good Luck.

LilB_3

Some recent things:

• Listed 8 items on ebay taking advantage of the free listing day - all have watchers, 5 have bids and all should hopefully sell
• Booked a ferry trip through TCB and received £3.15 cashback
• Made poached eggs on toast using the cling film method which worked really well! The eggs were from SIL's rescued battery hens and were yummy
• OnePoll'd my bum off today

linz

Not so much today, but last few days I have -

* Cashed out a load of New Vista survey cashback on TCB
* Redeemed 2nd £40 on OP :j
* Up to 70p already on next attempt
* Sold some stuff on ebay, incl some used perfume I thought i'd be lucky to get a tenner for - sold for £21
* Had omelette and salad for tea last night and a sausage cassoulet with some hot dog sausages from the cupboard tonight, enough for tomorrow too so really trying to use up the contents of my food cupboard and dragging out going to the supermarket next.
* looking for what else I can sell on ebay, having got back into it. Need to get hold of some small boxes/jiffy bags before more listings though I think. :cool:

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Mornin all
welcome back too craftingmad
The past few days I have.....
Sold another cd on amazon, one more to go then thats officially everything sellable (that I dont want to keep!) gone
TCB payments requested so should be about £25 within the next week or so
registered for a £20 off £40 ocado spend/delivery- its on the MSE email if anyone interested!- not sure how expensive ocado is compared to others but £40 of food for £20 seems pretty good!
recieved a £5 off online tesco shop which would mean free delivery if nothing else! am going to become an online shopper methinks! :rotfl:
packed lunches and dinners from freezer/fridge - freezer now bursting with home cooked meals ready to just be defrosted - reckon we can last till next payday (july) on pretty much what we have in (tho may take advantage of the ocado offer!)
will also have some expenses to claim back from work next month which shall go towards holiday

dipashah

Made pizza on bread for lunch to use up last few slices which were beginning to go dry
sold a dehumidifier on ebay that was bought in 2008 and never used for a fiver more than I paid for it (although with fees I probabl made a loss but rather cash then clutter in the house)
asked forum members for cravendale milk label codes they dont need to avoid having to go and buy gallons and gallons fo the stuff to get the last few I need (If any of you are cravendale drinkers and don't collect please please PM me the code on the inside of the label!) please!
went through cashback site to buy few things online

going away this wknd so moneysaving may go out the window for a few days but will have to work double as hard next week to make up for it!

atush

Took my freecycle stuff to new owner on my way home (on my way). checked my ebay listings (3 watchers) listed books for sale on amazon, eating left overs and salad from the garden for lunch, family dinner as husband will be home early for a change so cooking from the freezer, salad from garden.

Will take pics of new stuff to list tonight, for listing at 99p on thrusday.

cherylypop

Good ideas on here:

In the last few days (including weekend)
-used money off vouchers for work dinner
-made massive pan of chilli-partially using stuff we already had-beans, chopped tomoatoes, garlic herbs etc-will last for a few dinners and will freeze a bit
-got dog balls from pound shop instead of pets at home like we usually would
-sent cv off for a week of work which should give me take home of a couple of hundred-now debating whether i want to use (precious) annual leave from proper job to actually do it if it were offered?!
-got some free kindle books to use on kindle
decided-along with OH that we are going to be alcohol free for a little while-the aim is 2 months-partially for money and also will help shift weight before wedding

linz

My short list for today -

* Picked up £64 in winnings from Royal Ascot at Ladbrokes & paid into bank conveniently located accross the road
* Leftover sausage cassoulet for tea, made last night
* Walked to the local Spar to see what they had in the reduced section. Got 2 x loaves (28p each) and 2 x packs of wafer thin chicken (33p each) which I have portioned ready for pack ups for work and frozen with the bread. All for the grand total of £1.22
* Listed a couple of 99p items on ebay

wantabetterlife

over the past few days i have:

• Used a voucher for £4 off £20 spend in MrS
• Have been keeping grocery spends to about £20 per week by using up loads of freezer stuff
• No alcohol on saturday night so have saved about a fiver
• MIL bought me a handbag for my birthday but it wasnt me so i brought it back and got a few things i really needed and was going to buy anyway

craftingmad

Thanks everyone for all your warm welcomes back. This thread is great 'cos its re-energised and motivated me to get going again.

OK I'll finish what I done on 21st June first:-

3/ Made 5 cards
4/ Two 10 piggypoint pigsback clickthroughs and 2 comps entered
5/ Wrote 2 Dooyoo 300 point reviews
6/ Booked craft fairs for Sat and Sun

OK now for yesterday:-

1/ Entered 1 pigsback competition
2/ Wrote 2 300 point dooyoo reviews
3/ Used £2 voucher in SAinsburys
4/ Used extra 100 nectar points voucher
5/ Signed up for Iceland Bonus Card
6/ Took cards to toddlewr group (and sold £3.50)
7/ Quidco High Street Web search - 4p (every little helps!)
8/ Turned off microwave and ovens at point to save electric
9/ Printed off Free can of Spam voucher from facebook (found on MSE - of course)
10/ Printed off 50p BP car wash voucher for both me and hubby (MSE again!)
11/ Used Quidco to purchase from Boots - £1.08 tracked
12/ Made own garlic bread from almost stale bread to accompany dinner

Feeling good again - I'm back on track. Thanks MFW's.