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

ammonite

Today I have written 3 reviews for DooU and Chow each. Earning a few pennies along the way. Usually cash out DooU for amazon vouchers at 20000 but thinking of trying to get to 50000 for the cash....obviously to overpay the mortgage with! Either way, the vouchers pay for things like ink cartridges so I'd squirrel that money away in savings.

Remembered we had planned to go away which would have cost us £150, can't go now so I've saved that money up. Almost at £300 to overpay this month. Might have to start a MFW diary so I stop taking over this thread

shala_moo

Anna_Glypta wrote: »

Just thought I should let you know in case anyone was worried, no forks were required and no mother was insulted with the mention of a diet - got plenty of chicken left over for a chicken pie and cajun chicken gumbo - guess I'm cooking again this week. Definitely have to look into getting a small extra freezer.

Hope everyone is enjoying the rain :j

Great news... :rotfl: Cajun chicken gumbo sounds interesting.. i'm off to google!

Anna_Glypta

shala_moo wrote: »

Great news... :rotfl: Cajun chicken gumbo sounds interesting.. i'm off to google!

Hi Shala-moo, I found the recipe on the bbc good food website - going to do a small gammon joint this week and use the leftover ham and chicken for the gumbo. Well that's the theory anyway.!

unhappy_shopper

Apart from the usual, I have

• Cashed out $10 from SP - will go towards May's grocery spend
• Slim pickings from fleabay - only £5 after P&P
• Transferred money in/out of Hfax Reward a/c, checked the Reward CC for adequate spend
• Remembered to go through TCB for home insurance
• Prior to that, used gocompare for free CB for home ins. comparison

I have also incorporated Cajun Chicken Gumbo into next week's mealplan (Thanks to Anna and shala_moo for widening my recipe horizon)
On Saturday, I saw starred packs of Dr.Oetker Pizza with the try-me-free offer. A weekday tea for FREE for my teenagers sorted. If anyone is interested, here is the link. Don't forget to keep the receipt.

http://www.pizzaristorante.co.uk/

shala_moo

Anna_Glypta wrote: »

Hi Shala-moo, I found the recipe on the bbc good food website - going to do a small gammon joint this week and use the leftover ham and chicken for the gumbo. Well that's the theory anyway.!

unhappy_shopper wrote: »

Apart from the usual, I have

• Cashed out $10 from SP - will go towards May's grocery spend
• Slim pickings from fleabay - only £5 after P&P
• Transferred money in/out of Hfax Reward a/c, checked the Reward CC for adequate spend
• Remembered to go through TCB for home insurance
• Prior to that, used gocompare for free CB for home ins. comparison

I have also incorporated Cajun Chicken Gumbo into next week's mealplan (Thanks to Anna and shala_moo for widening my recipe horizon)
On Saturday, I saw starred packs of Dr.Oetker Pizza with the try-me-free offer. A weekday tea for FREE for my teenagers sorted. If anyone is interested, here is the link. Don't forget to keep the receipt.

http://www.pizzaristorante.co.uk/

Oh let me know who tries it first.. i think we'll have it next week sometime..

It was the BBC Good food one i was looking at too..

small things today
- phone charged at work
- only spent £35 on weekly shop
- tea made with things out the freezer/cupboard
- need to still get the mccains baked potatos try me free and will add this pizza offer too!
- decided to use up all the food in the chest freezer in the garage and not use it again, we have a big american fridge/freezer and there's only two of us, it should be big enough, hoping this should save some electricity
- just redeemed £5 Dorothy Perkins voucher on mccains spud shilling thing

MoneyMission

Todays Small MFW things didn't happen. In fact, I had an inverse Small MFW day.

Ate lunch out with friend.
Was back later than usual so rushed the weekly food shop and I didn't check things as thoroughly as normal so it was a total budget buster shop.

Hey ho. Thats the way the cookie crumbles (or gets eaten and taxed in my world!).

Will be better tomorrow. :A

JimLad

Its the beginning of a new month so the adsense total for April is in!


I made £16.38 in April which takes me up to a total of £48.33.


Its 60 quid for a payout, so if it maintains the same rate I hopefully should be getting my first one next month!

MoneyMission wrote: »

Todays Small MFW things didn't happen. In fact, I had an inverse Small MFW day.

I quite often have days like that!!

curlygirl1971

Is the Gumbo freezeable? If so I may join in Gumbo-fest later in the month when I have some room in the freezer

*Home assembled salad & homemade dressing for lunch

*Was dead gud in Tescos last night and stuck to my little list.

*Charging mobile (and also did my ipad yesterday naughty naughty)

*Had to send a card to the US - used the works franking machine and reimbursed petty cash (cheaper than buying stamps)

*Gave the BF a good talking to after finding out he had savings earning 0.5%. Was nearly a sackable offence.

*End of month / Start of month - tied up my April Spreadsheet Accounts and moved some money around for the next week

*Recommenced using Halifax Clarity Card and Nectar Searches.

*Shopper Thoughts survey

*MPG not doing too bad - I also cleared some heavy items out of by boot last night

*Made a mortgage OP made up of various bits (A lot of taxes, fines & rewards:rotfl:), some Piggy Bank money banked on Saturday and also a 'Forward' payment from next months budgeted OP.

*Will probably do Halifax Jiggery Pokery next week as I also do my sisters but she's on hols this week so can't transfer it straight back - must remember - love those £5's!!

*Tonights Freezer Delight - Ancient Venison Burger with Brittle Burger Bun

unhappy_shopper

Today

• Charging mobile and laptop at work
• Home-made lunch and coffee
• Took out today's dinner (freezer surprise) and left it to defrost in fridge
• Used electric appliances (washing machine, rice cooker, iron, airpot - even the shower rated 10kW) before 7AM to take advantage of night rate
• Kept away from the Grabbit board - lead us not into temptation

dipashah

charged mobile everyday

£1.45 on onepoll in the last week

£10 redeemed on Valued opinions

been trying to keep up with swagbucks (only been on a few weeks) but missed all the codes last night!

listed a few things on ebay last wknd with free listings - lets see if anything comes of it

packed lunch

although not going to make a dent in the cost of the house renovations currently under way!

things still to do - accounts need re-assessing asap as many very poor paying now! halifax clarity card still to be started. tesco vouchers need to find and check as worried some may have expired!

not doing very well overall right now!