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

curlygirl1971

About as ethical as me charging my personal iPad under the desk I won't tell if you don't


YouGov oracle

Mysupermarket.com shopping basket ready for tonight's shop in sainsburys with my last 'spend £30 and get £6 off'

Will be getting a free lunch from work today and freezer surprise tonight

That's all for now

curlygirl1971

Where do get your coupons Dipashah?

Enjoy all that wedding food - sounds wonderful but isn't it exhausting as well? Is it an all day thing or can you come and go? (within the realms of good manners of course).....I just know I'd need comfy pants and a siesta at somepoint :rotfl:

pink_poppy

Just in case anyone has missed it, the Daily Mirror are doing a £5 off a £35 shop at Aldi again today (45p for the paper), plus there's 30% vouchers for a few items.

ammonite

Hello all! Can I join in? This thread seems perfect for me.

Bit of background, I'm desperate to be MF, we had a splurge on renovating the house and a big holiday the last few years and now its time to knuckle down and stop paying so much darned interest on the mortgage (the annual statement makes me cry!).

However, I'm quite thrifty in general, use vouchers, do surveys, eBay etc. and generally don't waste money. The problem with overpaying I have is that my contract at work is only temporary. I know when it will end and if I get a job after that is anyones guess really. So we're batting down the hatches and saving hard so that we have provisions to see us through.

Although we have money saved in the "mortgage overpay" fund, really that is now the "future mortgage" fund in case I don't get a new job.

So really I feel I'm barely making any progress on the actual overpayment as we're provisioning for the future more than anything...(of course if I do get a job straight away....we'll have a lovely pot to overpay the mortgage!)

I like the idea of taxing yourself and plan to read back through the thread to get some ideas.

Just wanted to say hi to everyone!

P.S - Still got about 21 years on the mortgage

coldcazzie

Eating leftovers for lunch today, and making more stuff to go in the freezer with leftover from other meals

curlygirl1971

ammonite wrote: »

Hello all! Can I join in? This thread seems perfect for me.

You are very welcome here ammonite. You don't have to post daily (if you don't want to). I just like repeating myself alot Make sure you share with us any great little ideas you have even if they seem perfectly obvious to you

usa1

Redeemed £10.00 Sainburys voucher from VO
£2 Capital bonds for Food type survey
Used £2.50 Moc at Farm foods
Bulked cooked pasta dishes.

LavenderBees

curlygirl1971 wrote: »

Where do get your coupons Dipashah?

Enjoy all that wedding food - sounds wonderful but isn't it exhausting as well? Is it an all day thing or can you come and go? (within the realms of good manners of course).....I just know I'd need comfy pants and a siesta at somepoint :rotfl:

It's a good job you added the last bit, Curlygirl, or I'd have been thinking you meant can you come and go...around meal time...:rotfl:

I will update on here soon, I promise (poss next week), just very very very busy, and obviously too important to my company to be allowed any decent spare time :mad:

BFN

LB xx

curlygirl1971

coldcazzie wrote: »

Eating leftovers for lunch today, and making more stuff to go in the freezer with leftover from other meals

I've been reading your diary ColdCazzie - you are a bit of a food fiend! I do do some batch cooking but not a great deal - perhaps once a month I do a huge curry and bolgnese-thingy and freeze portions. But am only cooking for one most of the time so there's no huge requirement for a freezer full of food (although I have........which reminds me on my to-do list is a stock-take of my freezer)

ammonite

Thanks curly

My biggest saving this week was £10 cashback on Quidco, £10 off new shop on Tesco and £5.50 off with additional codes. £50 shop cost me £27.50 with delivery.

I guess I should put that saving into a separate pot as I would have spent £50 if I went to the shops...do you guys do that?

Also saved £18.80 by working at home this week (not always possible).

Also saved £3.75 by using a voucher code for a Debenhams order. I would have bought it without the voucher.

I think I'm going to set up a little savings pot for all of these things, not for when I buy bargains, only when I make a saving on something I would have paid full price for. Ooh I'm feeling addicted!

How much do you think you save by charging phone/iPad/laptop at work?