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

Peonie

curlygirl1971 wrote: »

* Saturday night we were boring and decided not to go to the Cinema as we'd planned but stay in and eat Asda popcorn and watch DVD we'd got for Xmas. Trouble is we fell asleep half way through

At least you did not fall asleep after paying to watch a film at the cinema.

kellbobs

Hi, I've been reading this thread for a while now and i've taken so many tips from everyone so just wanted to say a big thanks.
So far i've taken food to work with me everyday since 1st Jan
Kept a tight reign over the grocery budget
Lined my kitchen curtains with a piece of fabric for £1 from cs
Rumaged through my mum's collection of cross stitch charts instead of buying online
I think this is a good start for me and I hope to keep it up x

curlygirl1971

Today.........

I am charging my phone at work of course

Instead of the £2.50 salad I was lusting after, I am eating soup bought on offer, working out at 0.80p and a Wholemeal roll for 0.10p (I know there are cheaper soups and I know I should make soup but as single person I rarely have anything in kitchen appropriate and after several soup disasters including the infamous Lime Flavoured, Orange Colored Butternut Mash incident of Xmas Day 2009, I decided that I don't do home-made soup )

Dinner tonight out of freezer

Last night instead of going to exercise class I did an hour pratting around in front of the Kinect (Kinect Adventures and Dance Central)......mainly cause I'd got home late but it happened to save £ as well and due to being v unfit it did a good job

Pay day today so have moved money around to make sure I meet interest thresholds on a current account and the rest in instant access savings until the start of the new budget month

Checked Halifax Clarity Card - have met threshold for next £5 but the statement date hasn't flipped over yet so shall continue with my Tesco Credit Card (and therefore earning Clubcard points) a few days more.

linz

A good MSE day today;

Packed lunch to work,

Stopped at Spar on walk home from work to mooch their whoopsy shelf and got a loaf for 28p which went in freezer and a beef & onion pie for 15p which I had for my tea

made tomorrow's lunch to take in,

Received £7.51 from Getpoundsback daily clicks,

Received 3 x £5 amazon vouchers from Swagbucks; Amazon account now at £100.50 woohoo

katsu

* drove the short way home - even though it takes longer (50% less miles yet 10-15mins longer!).
* got a reduced sandwich and ate that for lunch
* made dinner instead of getting takeaway even though I was in late

MuffinTops

curlygirl1971 wrote: »

Today.........

Last night instead of going to exercise class I did an hour pratting around in front of the Kinect (Kinect Adventures and Dance Central)......mainly cause I'd got home late but it happened to save £ as well and due to being v unfit it did a good job

I've been trying to get the hang of Dance Central on Kinect! Ha ha! That's a long way off I think as I have no co ordination!

curlygirl1971

Despite my age, I absolutely love it. I'm useless and god knows what I must look like but it's great fun. Curtains closed of course.

I believe there is a Strictly Come Dancing one due to come out sometime this year so I may consider that one. I usually preview them on You Tube before I buy. Since I bought the Kinect summer of last year I've only bought Dance Central but yesterday I ordered Kinect Sports so that I can vary what I do. I was surprised at the prices differences - the highest was £35 and I got it from Amazon (earning Nectar points of course) for £17.99


Anyway.......today I've charged mobile, free fruit at work, watched my MPG, reprogrammed the heating so it's on less, not put it on this evening and tonight's meal is something from freezer plus some left over veg from last night

pink_poppy

curlygirl, can I ask how the Amazon/Nectar thing works, please?? I've just joined Nectar via British Gas (probably should have done it when it first came out ) & didn't know there was an Amazon connection ~ I buy loads of stuff from there so good news if I can accrue points.

Small things ~

• Joined Nectar via British Gas & got 300 free points
• Watered down handwash 50:50
• Got a Tesco £5 off a £40 spend voucher for next week ~ I only buy a bit there now but will be doing my Dad's shopping so that will get it up to £40
• Intend buying The Mirror newspaper tomorrow to get the £5 off a £30 spend voucher for Aldi
• £10 voucher from VO requested
• OP surveys (& competitions!!) completed

curlygirl1971

Hi pink poppy

Can't remember how I did it exactly but I think I went on the nectar website, registered my card and created an 'account'. Now every time I want to buy something from Amazon I go to the Nectar website and follow the link. It confirms it's is tracking me and takes me to Amazon. It's only 1 point for every £1 spent so £10 = 5p

There are other retailers also but Amazon is the main one I use. EBay is another but I go to EBay via Quidco as I think cash back is better than nectar points

When you go to the nectar website you can also download the nectar search bar - then instead of searching in google, search using nectar and earn 50 points (25p) for every 100 searches per month.



Tonight.....
I have also used a showgel that I got as a present and can't abide the smell of

curlygirl1971

Anyone with a smart phone? Then don't forget that if You shop in Sainsburys then there is an app that allows you to activate Instore offers for extra points. There is also a Quidco app that gives you check-in offers at certain retailers eg Car Phone Warehouse - quite often you don't even need to go Instore.