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

curlygirl1971

chickadee wrote: »

Today I have:

Updated my finance spreadsheet and forecasts;

LavenderBees wrote: »

Em...have you thought about getting help? :eek:

You mean like going on an Advanced Excel course?

Anyway - I'm not the only one - see Chickadee does it teeewww.

Chickadee - You North American by any chance. Or a fan of Nell?

curlygirl1971

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/52523789#Comment_52523789

Hope Tilly doesn't mind but i spotted this rather impressive list over on her diary and thought it may help some of us here

The only other MSE thing I did today was read the weekly email to see if anything was relevant to me

LavenderBees

curlygirl1971 wrote: »

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/52523789#Comment_52523789

Hope Tilly doesn't mind but i spotted this rather impressive list over on her diary and thought it may help some of us here

The only other MSE thing I did today was read the weekly email to see if anything was relevant to me

Thanks, Curlygirl. It's looks an interesting diary so I might pop by when I have a bit of time. I'd like to read them all, but life has a naughty habit of interrupting my MSE reading

More of the usual MSE for me today, though I have already completed a short survey this morning. Another thruppence in the "bank".

LB xx

coldcazzie

I did a superpoints survey last night (and remembered just how much I hate surveys :mad:) but despite completing it I've not got the points for it will have to contact them. I did get 15 points via email and lucky button though.

I fiddled with my new spreadsheet (again!) last night - I've set up a new one which is separate from the one that does all our different accounts. It has 13 spending categories for things we usually buy, with if formulae for if I'm under or over budget, plus conditional formatting to turn the total cells red or green :rotfl: I set up a line graph that shows month by month expenditure for each category.

I also found out how to make it scan for the cheapest item in a list and report the name of the shop from which it's from! (I was really chuffed with myself about that!) So now, if I put the regular prices of the things we buy in, it will report to me where they're cheaper. I can't remember all the individual prices as I'm going round each shop, and I do find myself staring at a multipack of tissues or whatever and thinking "I can't remember the other shop prices so I don't know if that's the best deal or not!" Well no more!! :rotfl:

Today I'm using leftover roast chicken from the weekend to make curry for dinner tonight. Will also be prepping and freezing the cats raw meals for the next 2 weeks.

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Morning, I always charge my phone at work, plus when in the office, I tend to have tins of soup for lunch with crispbreads. Soup from BM so low cost and, in the wnter, was great. I take salads in the spring and use any left overs from the previous evening dinner to bulk it out. It's interesting as far more people take their own food in now.

Tilly x

curlygirl1971

coldcazzie wrote: »

I fiddled with my new spreadsheet (again!) last night - I've set up a new one which is separate from the one that does all our different accounts. It has 13 spending categories for things we usually buy, with if formulae for if I'm under or over budget, plus conditional formatting to turn the total cells red or green :rotfl: I set up a line graph that shows month by month expenditure for each category.

I also found out how to make it scan for the cheapest item in a list and report the name of the shop from which it's from! (I was really chuffed with myself about that!) So now, if I put the regular prices of the things we buy in, it will report to me where they're cheaper. I can't remember all the individual prices as I'm going round each shop, and I do find myself staring at a multipack of tissues or whatever and thinking "I can't remember the other shop prices so I don't know if that's the best deal or not!" Well no more!! :rotfl:

I use conditional formatting to see if any of my accounts are forecast to go OD or if any of them that earn threshold interest are going to go over the threshold. Love excel.

Not sure if it would be of use to you but I do a comparison shopping basket on mysupermarket.com to get an idea of prices and check if any of the products I want are on offer anywhere. Also whilst I'm in the shop I use the mysupermarket.com smart phone app to scan the product barcode and that also tells me how the item's price compares. I do look a bit freaky though

coldcazzie

LOL, I'd not thought of that. Tbh though, in terms of supermarkets I'm a bit limited as to where I can feasibly get to on the bus. There's a Morrison's bus that comes round the estate, and there's a Morrison's in town as well, so I can do them fairly easily; Tesco or Asda are a bit further away, still just about doable, but the saving would have to be huge to justify the extra bus fare; Lidl, Aldi and Sainsbury's are really impractical. There's a new store opened in town called DiscountUK - had a mosey round there the other day, but as yet haven't seriously looked at various products.

MoneyMission

:wave:Hello. Not been in here before but have just signed up on the Curlygirl Chocolate Tax thang and was wandering around and found you all.

My own little bit of small MFW doings was to put JellyButt (don't let her know I call her that) cat on a wee bit of a slimming regime at the beginning of the week. With her exclusive tastes she can cost a bit to run so I thought it would be a win win situation. Everything going well until today when I got home from work and her food bowl was empty. Gave her a normal portion of biscuits that usually lasts 12 hours but she wolfed them down in one go. Can you see where this is going yet? Yep. Not more than 30 seconds passed between last biscuit going in and then reappearing with all the others. _pale_

That'll learn me for calling her JellyButt behind her back.

curlygirl1971

:rotfl::rotfl:
Welcome MoneyMission - great to see you here.

Today I'm:-
*Having a free but unhealthy lunch at work
*Charging my mobile at work
*Last night did a shop at Sainsburys after compiling a basket on mysupermarket.com. I had a 'Spend £30 and get £6 off voucher'. It's gutting though how little you now get for £30 worth - even though I bought offers it didn't 'look' like £30 worth
*Checked my receipt and found something I thought was on offer, wasn't on offer :mad: (wrong flava) so took it back for a refund
*Also before I went shopping I checked the latest Nectar offers and activated a couple on my smart phone
*Went to bed early because I was cold and didn't want to put the heating on
*Checked how I'm going on with my Halifax Clarity Card in terms of £300 threshold spend. It's going to be a near thing this month!
*Arranged a small OP of various little amounts.
*Free dinner at my mum's tonight

unhappy_shopper

curlygirl1971 wrote: »

*Checked how I'm going on with my Halifax Clarity Card in terms of £300 threshold spend. It's going to be a near thing this month!

Hi Curlygirl,

To reach the target spend-amount on any particular month, what I do is buy Sains*/Tes* giftcard and use the GC for the later months when you have already exceeded your CC threshold. HTH.