Weekend 26th/27th February - What small DFW things will you be doing this w/e?!

pixiechick99

When we start out on the DFW trail we do loads of "big stuff" that makes quite a difference to our situation. These include having our lightbulb moment, cutting up the credit cards and cancelling Sky and the gym.

But once we have done the bigger stuff, we often feel that we are not making the same amount of progress, when in fact the small steps are helping us form good financial habits and helping us get closer everyday to staying in control and becoming debt free, or staying debt free :money:

Examples could be charging your phone up at work instead of at home to save your electricity, hanging washing out instead of using the tumble dryer or leaving your purse/wallet at home to avoid the risk of spending.

So be proud of those small steps, they really are important.:T

Gooood morning you lovely lot, how are you?!:D
Thnk you kindly for all my birthday wishes...I had a nice, quiet, relaxing day with some fab presents. No late night - we're up early as my girlies off to a competition and leaving at 8.
So a whole day to myself - cue college work by the bucketload:rotfl:

So - hope you are all glad the wekeend is finally here....sadly for me it means my week off work is over and half term drawing to a close..booooo. But - on the good side - it's light in the morning now, so getting up for work will be easier:j





Ok - listy time:

• check banking
• check onepoll
• packed lunch for girls
• meal from stores tonight - pizza when girls get in, freezer treats for me:rotfl:
• college work
• hoover downstairs
• post ebay sales
• list old ipods on ebay
• read papers online
• sort Next returns
• Sparkle:):)

Have a super duper weekend:beer::beer:

DebtfreeBY40_2

Morning! Sorry that your week off is nearly over. I am working the weekend (thus up so awfully early). This week has dragged and continues to! I struggled to get up this morning but here I am in one of my favourite places!

1. Check bank (done)
2. Make lunch (I nearly didn't but thinking about all my hard work in the last month urged me on! And it only took two minutes!)
3. Drink Diet Coke from multi pack rather than vending machine
4. Not go to Tesco (where despite only wanting tea bags I still spend £20!)
5. Research where cat food is currently being sold cheapest
6. Print off voucher for Pizza Express (friend taking us out on Monday but I said I would take a voucher)
7. Drive work car to and from work (as on call)
8. Do on call (worth £12)
9. Enter some competitions (have not done any for two days which is annoying but am too tired and in the "I haven't won anything anyway" zone)

Anyway. My whole day continues to revolve around money saving and its great! So must get to work. Have a great MSE day everyone.

Lottebear

Good Morning,

- I need to pop into work today I have a few bits to finish from yesterday and one apprisal to write for Monday this in my mind is better than bring things home. I have a rail pass so it doesn't cost any more.

- Change the beds and wash the sheets I think I will do this before I leave the house
- Storecupboard meals
- Vist the Gym
- Need to call insurance company and arrange cover bank card has changed
- Checked online banking all OK - pay day on Monday


Got all of the above done also went to 99p shop and bought toothpaste 75P each last week in the supermarket it was £1.30! Gone up from 98P
Also Gift wrap for OH gift

secretshopper75

check banking
Do Comps
Cook dinner at home
Watch dvd

josiebabie

Morning all!
Pixie sorry I missed your birthday wishes yesterday! I started writing early then by the time I'd clicked "post" loads of people had got in there! But Happy Birthday for yesterday!

Yesterday was a bit odd for me as there was a nasty accident outside my work, where an old boy drifted onto the wrong side of the road and had a head-on with a lorry. Lots of drama/road closed, lost about two hours of working time as couldn't stop shaking. Not a very nice sight on one of the busiest days of the month for me, well, any day for that matter!

Anyway I am working this morning, though I use the term loosly. Not many jobs in today, which is OK because a Saturday is paid over time (£90, 8am - 2pm) plus any labour sales is extra towards target.

So here is my list:-
- [STRIKE]Checked banking[/STRIKE] Not too bad...
- Working over time
- Keep checking ebay, three things ending tomorrow, lots of watchers and few bids!
- [STRIKE]Breakfast from work stores as we've run out of milk at home[/STRIKE]
- Town with friend after work, spend only on essentials!!!!
- Wearing top and boots given to my by friend, so feel new to me
- [STRIKE]Try to sell a purge, have one opportunity. MUST get back into this.[/STRIKE] Sold a fuel purge only, guy didn't have air con. Still £1.25 to me!
- [STRIKE]Brought in some of my "emergency banoffee pie" that friend brought round as a surprise last night[/STRIKE] REALLY shouldn't have eaten this, equivalent of 2 slices = 680ish calories :eek: plus feel sick now
- [STRIKE]Locate purse and debit card, this is ACTUALLY lost. Don't want to have to keep using my CC!!!![/STRIKE] Decided to have a random declutter of desk drawer, found purse in scrunched up brown bag in bottom of bottom drawer:T
- Buy Rawl plugs
- Put Curtain pole back up in bedroom
- Put Shower Curtain wire back up in bathroom (I have been a disaster area recently)
- Do Wii fit tonight
- [STRIKE]Catch up with yesterdays work at work[/STRIKE] Done, feel so much better for this :T
- Wash bedding, hang on line??? Depending on weather
- DD at her dads all weekend
- Try and sparkle, didn't get round to this one yesterday.....

There we go!

stitching_witch

Good morning folks, and thanks to pixie for starting the thread. Sorry I missed your birthday when I wasn't here yesterday; I hope it was a good one :beer:

Well back from my two days galavanting and must knuckle down to the DFW stuff again as I spent FAR too much money!

So far today I have:

• started WM on Economy 7 electricity - it'll heat the water cheaply if nothing else!
• checked banking
• checked for surveys
• fed and watered the chickens

I will also:

• clean chickens out in exchange for some lovely eggies
• catch up with accounts after the last two days :eek::eek:
• hang washing on airer or outside but NOT in TD
• make bread
• do a couple of bits from my 101 things list
• all meals from stores
• have 2x NSD's - I need them!!!

I spent double my budget at sewing school yesterday, but that was for two corsets (one with a Swarovski zip ) so I feel that's acceptable. Will get them finished then post pics for you. stitchy x

Karb

Morning everyone. Its the weekend and I'm back at home after working away for the past few days. On the one hand I won't be bored out of my skull in a hotel room, but on the other I'll be constantly pestered by the kids!

Today I will:
Use the toiletries I "rescued" from the hotel
Check online banking. Not expecting any surprises, nice or nasty, but you never know
Check cupboards and freezer, then make meal plan and shopping lists
Go to Aldi for my main weekly shop, then top up at Sainsburys for anything I can't get at Aldi
Call Mint and tell them where to stick their increased interest rates (politely of course). I've no intention of using the card again so I'll just close the account and pay it off at the current rate. I'm still on 0% at the minute anyway.
Go swimming.
Check for surveys

Have a great weekend all.

WelshWoofer

Morning all!

Sorry to hear about your horrible day Josie. Hope you're feeling better today?

Today is a tidy up and get sorted kind of day - not exciting but must be done....

• Walk dogs in the rain - boo!
• Hoover and dust whole house
• Clean bathrooms
• 2 loads of washing and dry naturally
• Go to Mr T's armed with a list - hope to spend £40 but never really manage this!
• Maybe write 3 lessons for next week
• Watch the 2 rugby matches - come on Wales!
• Stay in tonight
• Get £30 out of the bank for the week
• Stick to diet

That's it for now - have a good day!

pixiechick99

Josie - what a horrible thing to happen yesterday, poor you:( Hope you feel better now.
Stitchy - how was Oxford? And did you buy yourself lovely things over the 2 days?:D

I've dropped the girls off, have come home and tidied their rooms....returning things to their homes, what a mess dd1 likes to live in:o
Going to have a productive day - i'm enjoying being up and ready so bright and early...usually on a Sat I'm still sleeping right now:o

ixia

Hi everyone not been on for a couple of weeks no internet pc died as did my son's laptop. Not been very moneysaving as didn't plan for these things so was £500 for laptop last night.

Anyway today I will:

Check online banking- have missed not being able to check it everyday
Check and clear all e-mails
tidy house
washings on quick wash- hopefully line dry
car tax today- I will buy the year saves a little
Now I have internet again I will look at buying a new tower for pc online should be cheaper than a whole package.

Hope everyone else has a good weekend.

fedupandskint

Morning everyone!

Tired and groggy this morning for some reason - better get out with the dog for a walk to wake up I think, then its a study day for me puntuated with some cleaning breaks and maybe a bit of baking

My list is
[STRIKE]Walk dog
Study 1 hour (9.30-10.30)
Break - clean LR (10.30 - 11)
Study 1 hour (11 - 12)
Break - clean bedroom (12 - 12.30)
Lunch break - dig something out of cupboard or freezer (12.30 - 1.30)[/STRIKE]
Study 1 hour (1.30 -2.30)
Break clean bathroom (2.30 - 3)
Study 1 hour (3 - 4)
[STRIKE] Take dog out for another long walk
Break sweep and mop floors [/STRIKE]

[STRIKE]Watch rugby and have a rest for a bit[/STRIKE]

No escape from this, needs to be done. Deadline looms. If I need a bigger break I'll bake a cake for the week [STRIKE]and must remember to put the BM on[/STRIKE]

Aiming for a NSD weekend

What else to do

Sunday
Clean kitchen
Do ironing
more studying and writing
make some lunches for work - baked potatoes and soup
[STRIKE]meal plan for next week
make something nice for tea[/STRIKE]