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

wantabetterlife

Not much today........

• Had dinner in MIL which saved me cooking
• No Spend Day
• Have a bid on one of the 11 ebay items and watchers on about 4 of them...hopefully will make about £25 for the mortgage o/p
• Received more free range eggs from the family........now have about 25 eggs that need using.....think i can feel an omlette coming on
• Mortgage payment came out today and i am hoping the online balance will update tomorrow and we will be in the 142's :j

Have a few pounds in my purse and am going to try my best to make it last the week.

LilacPixie

slept slept slept.. NSD. sorted out utility switching, DH car insurance quotes and cracked on with survey stuff. I also piced up a mystery shop at an electrcal store 0.4 miles from my front door. Enquiry only so no purchase for later in the week. I think I might walk to do it if a nice day

[Deleted User]

Mornin all!
Am loving this thread for keeping me motivated (now just need a "what exercise have you done today" one and Ill be all set! )
ps mw yes I think the walking counts as exercise! :rotfl:

Well so far this week I have
1) been to work - this too is the biggest MF thing I do .... I am trying to see it as a means to an end rather than get wrapped up in it all...
2)sold my last amazon book- should net me about £20 must post today tho!!
3)packed/free lunches all week from stuff already in the fridge/cupboards, also made last nights dinner from store cupboards and definitely have enough in for the next couple of weeks dinners without any more takeaways/dinners out!

ummmm...thats about it I think! not bad for this week as its only tuesday morning I guess!! :rotfl:

Caroline73_2

Today I have

• done a meal plan for next week to involve 'decluttering' the freezer and spending as little as poss
• walked to 'little Tesco' and only bought what I needed to (Spent £5.58)
• put extra clothes on rather than switching on the heating
• Checked my bank balance to make sure it's as it should be
• withdrawn enough money until next Friday
• put aside the money I need for car parking/breakfast club so everything else can be spent (Or ideally saved)

Later I will

• make some banana cakes as I have some over ripe bananas, they won't waste then

mirry

I also love this thread , we just paid another £2000 off the mortgage yesturday and now only have £14000 left to go.
I AM SO EXCITED :j.

TOday woke up to find I have sold our trailer on ebay for £220
so thats going towards the mortgage.
I dont have anything else to sell, so it all down to surveys and careful living. I read that using a capfull of value shampoo in the washing machine, works out at 1p per wash , saving £50 a year!
So trying it today.

Baking lots of oat cakes today for kids pack lunches.

thats about it :T.

Caroline73_2

Wow! I cannot wait for £14000! Well done!

mirry

caroline , you will get there - just keep chipping away at it.
We looked at our old statements recently
and 6 years ago we owed £38,000. Just shows how things change.

yukkibear

Today I have

- requested £9 from TCB
- posted 3 ebay parcels
- will let MIL buy me lunch :rotfl:

gratefulforhelp_2

Narrowly avoided going over CC limit...eeek!

cha97michelle

So far today:

• Not used the car - no petrol and NSD
• just spotted an email i have sold a DVD on amazon for a fiver.
• 25p on onepoll up to now.
• 25 points for starting an Ipsos survey, so now only 30 points away from payout on there.
• had a power cut that lasted an hour, so saved a minimum of 2.5p for the basic house running cost, plus whatever else we would have used.
• checked banking/zopa etc, and worked out i owe the world about £19.5k which is over £4k less than one month ago. :j

And as for thinking back 6 years ago, we owed £70k on the mortgage then, and now it is £28k, so a few years does make a big difference.