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

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eeek on the mushy peas for brekkie!! that is true dedication-but you can blame it on bump!

Yesterday...
pack lunches into work
topped up grocery shop so a total of about £20 for the week - may need some meat to top that up at some point!
will cook up all the leftover/use by veggies and stuff in the fridge tonight or tomorrow for soup/bases for sauce/stew etc...only prob may be the freezer as there is NO space at all! doh!

Not so MF
we went out for dinner -but it was a lovely evening and havent been out for ages! so money well spent- and at £25 for 2 of us with drinks, main and shared desert wont break the bank either!

And its payday tomorrow! hurrah

misscousinitt

I love this thread...

Not much today though...

* Brought lunch to work, made pack up for DH too
* Going to resist having subway for lunch even though I have to walk past there to go and get DH's birthday present
* Shopping from mealplan & list later
* Fire has been off for the last two nights, going to adjust heating this weekend
* Looked at switching energy tariff - but waiting for latest bill to come in.
* No surveys offered - boo...

wow thats a bit more than I thought.

Got to put more petrol in courtesy car tonight, don't want to put too much in, but don't know when I'm going to get my car back - not planning to drive anywhere at the weekend if I can help it.

lincoln-potter

Little things we have done past day or two are:

- Made some mothers days cards with the kids (saves buying them)
- Quidco for March is £99 although I should have another £270 to be added anytime now.

Tabatha_Kitten

Im off to the hairdressers this afternoon as I finish work at 1pm.
In true MSE style Ive plucked up the courage to try somewhere new.
Instead of my usual £35, (already budgeted for) wash, cut & blow at a swanky stylist, this place is offering a wet cut for £12.50.
So £22.50 in the mortgage pig in return for a quick dash vack to the car with wet hair !
Hope it doesnt turn out to be a big mistake as I like the way my usual hairdresser cuts it.

curlygirl1971

Tabatha_Kitten wrote: »

Im off to the hairdressers this afternoon as I finish work at 1pm.
In true MSE style Ive plucked up the courage to try somewhere new.
Instead of my usual £35, (already budgeted for) wash, cut & blow at a swanky stylist, this place is offering a wet cut for £12.50.

I've gone completely the opposite way. I've always paid as little as possible for a cut and also come away with wet hair - even in winter. But earlier last year after having experienced a number of hairdresser incidents including one that I shall only refer to as 'Poodle Head'.....



....I just felt totally and disproportionately miserable about my hair all the time - a mass of frizzy curls that on a bad day looks like I live in a hedge



and on a good day looks like Brian May on a bad day.

(Admittedly I'm not wearing makeup here)

Not good. So I bit the bullet and went to someone who had been recommended. It's £43 (less 10% discount if I book 3 appts in advance) which is a HUGE expenditure. I feel dreadfully decadent. I almost feel guilty about it. Clearly it wasn't a cure and some would probably say they can't notice any difference, but you know what - I actually have some good hair days now and feel so much better. So whilst I can afford it....I will.

Good luck with your cut TK! (wasn't trying to put you off - if I could get away with paying £12.50 I flipping would)

Nothing much else doing today:-

• NSD (apart from paying plumber for boiler, which is coming out of savings)
• Had a combi-boiler installed (Means I no longer have to heat a whole tank of water, I don't have to have the heating on in summer to get hot water , more accurate timing control and should mean no call-out fees for a few years :T)
• When the plumbers removed the old hot water tank they found a corroded seam that in a few months would have been a hole and a huge pool o' water through the ceiling - repair bill saved :eek:
• Free Lunch at work
• Left-overs for dinner
• Bought some 1st Class stamps pre-price increase
• Online banking - got paid (my company always make the payment early!) for 1st April so moved the money into savings so it can earn 0.5% for a week

Anti-MFW:-

• Lost my MPG Mojo this morning - must try harder
• I'm having a bath tonight courtesy of my new boiler. Soz. But I am

misscousinitt

misscousinitt wrote: »

I love this thread...

Not much today though...

* Brought lunch to work, made pack up for DH too
* Going to resist having subway for lunch even though I have to walk past there to go and get DH's birthday present
* Shopping from mealplan & list later
* Fire has been off for the last two nights, going to adjust heating this weekend
* Looked at switching energy tariff - but waiting for latest bill to come in.
* No surveys offered - boo...

wow thats a bit more than I thought.

Got to put more petrol in courtesy car tonight, don't want to put too much in, but don't know when I'm going to get my car back - not planning to drive anywhere at the weekend if I can help it.

Gave in to subway craving as bread on my sandwich tasted mouldy! Must have been just on the turn cos it looked ok. Checked with DH and his were ok - typical!

Bambywamby

Afternoon all...nearly the weekend whoop whoop! :j

Another lovely day today here in East Yorks so I have made the most of it and got all the bedding washed and on the line. I love the smell of line dried bedding...anyways back to MFWing.

Today I have/aill -

- Checked Freecycle
- Done several polls on OnePoll
- Applied for a second job
- Shopped at Lidl (instead of Morrisons) saved about £5
- Only used half a small packet of mince in tonights spag bol, other half will make cornish pasties for tomorrow.
- Overpaid last remaining credit card by £120
- Refilled my water bottle before I walked to hopsital appointment.
- Walked to hospital, bus back.
- Two lots of washing on short cycles and dried in the sunshine.
- Free exercise walking the dogs in the sunshine.
- Free train travel pass arrived in post (works perks) yay!
- Updated self employed works file.

And that is it so far...however I may scrub the kitchen and back hallway floor later with stardrops...if I am feeling energetic.

Have a great day

Bams x x

Bambywamby

Just discovered stamps are going up by 5 pence each on April 4th, so like you savvy folk I shall buy 30 or so tomorrow. Thanks for the heads up Curly. x x

curlygirl1971

I was just giving todays reminder - I learned of the rise about a week ago on this very same thread. It's nice that we all look after each other's interests. Thanks ladys :beer: (Do we have any fellas on here?)

Tabatha_Kitten

The haircut went well (at least, I didnt come out looking like any of curlygirls pictures !)
I was a nice place, a bit tucked away down a side street, hence I think, the price.
The girl who did it was lovely too. I dont think she cut it quite as well as my usual but I think I will go again - if only for that "inbetween" haircut.
£22.50 to the op pot !!
Called in a the bank on the way and paid in my wages cheque. Im off work next week so I ran the payroll early for my own benefit !
Just need it to clear now then I can start to do the monthly juggle.