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

spandles

Today:

• Walked to the hairdressers for DD's hair cut instead of using car
• Baking afternoon with DD's- Brownies and Jam Thumb-Prints (tarts) using store-cupboard ingredients

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• Window cleaner - £8 (still I got a £2 coin in change:T)
• Supermarket shop still to do - £? (£50-£80 as I need to stock up and during the school hols the kids never stop eating)
• DD1 Gymnastic subs due - £25

summerday

Yesterday:
-Walked to Blockbuster to return rental DVD to avoid using petrol and give myself some free exercise (took 70 mins-15 mins more than it should because I took a 'short cut' and got lost but was too embarassed to ask for directions!!).
-Cleared our 2 raised beds of weeds and planted mixed salad leaves in one, spring onions in the other and started off courgettes and peppers in pots as well as basil and parsley in a little 'herb garden' windowsill box I already had. We already had the seeds- mostly been gathered up free with newspapers or given to us at garden centres.
-Food shop at Lidl to keep costs down.
-Dinner was cheese potato pie (to use up cheap spuds from yesterday).

Today:
-Booked 2 restaurants online for when we go to Paris on The Fork website- they are both well priced local neighbourhood ones and hopefully will honour the 40% off food discount that we've booked. Also booked a river boat trip saving 4 euros each.
-Went into town and parked for free at sister's house.
-Picked up show tickets from box office (saving 50p per ticket cost to post them).
-This last one's both a save and a splurge: I saw an offer for half price tooth whitening at £200. So went today for consultaion but dentist said my upper teeth are at least as light as the lightest colour on his colour chart for bleaching results using this method!! I have been using Crest whitening strips a few times on upper teeth and haven't noticed how well they'd been working. So the nice dentist recommended that I keep using them on my lower teeth as well. I had to pay a £35 consultation fee but still kind of saved £165 that I'd have spent if he had said his £200 treatment would work on me.
-Dinner was chicken stew in slow cooker using up green beans just about to turn, plus a few carrots I dug up from the raised bed yesterday while clearing it from the weeds!

Naughty spends:
-A top in Primark for £5- I could just see myself looking elegant wearing it while strolling on the left bank in Paris this weekend- no-one else need know it was a Primark cheapie lol!
-Stopped at Tesco Metro on way home and paid more than should have for peppers and salad as forgot them in Lidl. Even worse I succumbed to 2 cinnamon whirls at the extortionate price of 75p each- sure you can get 2 for not much more than that in larger shops AND I shouldn't be buying junk food either! Oh well, better luck tomorrow!

DawnW

Used up veg etc from bottom of fridge - made a huge pot of chilli and a pot of parsnip and carrot soup for work lunches - with an onion and an elderly yellow pepper thrown in - hope it tastes better than it sounds :eek:

Chilli was great though

wantabetterlife

Today.....

• Was just about to buy the annabel karmel weaning book online and then changed my mind and i will go to the library tomorrow and see if i can get it there and copy out any recipes or ideas i like
• Dinner in MIL as usual on monday
• The four pairs of boots i bought for DD1 and DD2 from ebay came today.....complete bargains and should see them throught the winter
• NSD except for posting the two ebay parcels
• Went for a walk this evening
• Best of all my mobile that DD1 soaked is now working....saving me the cost of buying a new one.

Iris_Blue

WABL - In case you don't know already, she has her own website too. There are lot of recipes on there. May save a trip to the library for you. Good news about the mobile.

spandles

Today:

DD1 has decided she no longer wants to go to said Gymnastics anymore so have had to phone to ask them not to bank the subs cheque I gave last night - she's going to have a few weeks off to think about it whilst they hold the chq

Meeting DH in his lunch hour for a home made picnic. He works out of town.

Food shopping came in at £56 last night!!! I will still need to buy my mince, bacon and sausages from our local butcher which is expensive but better quality than the supermarkets.

Have a good day!

PS, get yourselves over to the Debt Free Wanabee site and look up the 'Things You Never Thought You Could Sell' thread. It's an eye opener/hilarious for all you Ebayers. I think it has dropped to the second page but I couldn't stop reading last night.

curlygirl1971

*Free Lunch

*MPG-watch

*Ordered HP & Deathly Hallows DVD for my mum from Tesco via Quidco. CB tracked and CC points earned - It's only £7 free delivery if anyone is interested. I was VERY tempted to get it for myself (and the 1-6 Boxset for £14.99 - but I resisted. Feeling quite sulky and hard-done to now )

*Working at social club tonight - manager should give me £20 which will be used to OP

*Checked CC Statement and found that the BodyShop had charged me for items OOS and not delivered - rang them up and arranged refund

dipashah

bought in a packed lunch today (saved a minimum of £3.50 buying lunch!)
went to the library to get a book rather than go to buy one (saved at least £7)
signed up to the latest NHS Choices campaign to get a free 5 day Fitness First pass! (http://www.nhs.uk/summer/Pages/summer.aspx) (don't know how much i'm saving but I like the sound of free!)

mirry

sorry havent posted for a while.

today cut sons hair saving £8.59 hairdressers.
cut my own hair saving £26 hairdressers.
went to charity shop and got my daughter some lovely summer sandels for £3, which saved me £22 cos the ones she wanted cost £25.
Listed 8 items on ebay.
Ordered some items on BHS sale that would of cost me £78 but got for £21.

Hoping to make oat cakes today and making a roast dinner.

phew!

laurasavon

Had a good sort out today, cleared some junk and got a few things to put on ebay!