Wednesday 25th May - What small DFW things will you be doing today?!

Mowgli87

Hello!

Ive never done one these before so sorry if i get it wrong!
Today is pay day for me so I have done/Will do the following!

Withdraw £356 cash from account. £100 for my half of groceries, £200 spending for month, £56 for driving lessons
Pay £220 toward debts
Do weekly shop, try to get groceries (including toiletries and cleaning) below £20 (£19.74!!!)
Put £225 in Emergency fund
Put £100 in New car fund
Print of buy one get one free vouchers for london zoo on saturday
Find super cheap blow up bed for brother visiting at weekend (below £15?)
Plan picnic for 8 people on saturday!

I have an expensive weekend coming up as my Dad, his wife and little brother and sister (12 and 6), My not-so-little brother and his fiance (both 21) are coming to stay!! (dad, step mum and two kids in a hotel, grown up brother and fiance at mine!) Im really excited but we will be going out to dinner friday and saturday (i cant fit them all into my teeny flat for a cooked dinner!) and to London Zoo on Saturday so EEEEK!!!! MONEY!!!!

Ive been so Lax for years when it comes to my expenditure, I had my LBM a year ago, but im only now starting to get serious about cutting down!!

Wannabe01

Good afternoon everyone, It has been a rather hectic day so far.

Today I have:

Completed 12 ms assignments and looked for more work
Had a LSD as I got DH to get me a salad roll on his way home from work, at least I had a healthy lunch.
Spoke to client regarding a new contract:)
Caught up with surveys
Completed daily clicks
Caught up with emails
Caught up with freebies board
Signed up to Martin’s email
Dinner - Cold chicken and chips - all from stores
Looked into computer software - I will get this at the weekend as I have found a cheaper place to get it. :j
Wrote up 3 reports for client (5000 words)
Organised work list for tomorrow


Still to do today:

Complete content for client
Look into available contracts

Hope everyone is having a good Wednesday.

rdchick

Hello gorgeous people

Nearly hometime... well time to go to the other job last day of the week for second job so that's an extra £60 made

Nothing major to announce today other than I SPENT MONEY! with my eBay funds I have treated myself to a 'free' pair of specs with thanks from Martin His email link actually worked so I have a pair of Converse glasses coming for less than a tenner - AMAZING! Plus I could pay with paypal so didn't feel like spending at all! hahah

Hope everyone's having a lovely day... I am so so tired

Love you xxx

determined_new_ms

Ah so much going on & sooooo many to reply to - I can't do it all!

Snoop lovely to see you, really sorry to hear you had a fall but it true snoop styley you are briming with positivity - you're an inspiration!

La E how did the interview go? Come back and give us the skinny low down!

Welcom mowgli - love the name! - I am convince you will be very happy & motivated here

Ok hangover went & I was able to keep it together at my morning meeting - although I wasn't as productive as I should have been today. Feeling a little guilty now (promise myself to be more porductive tomorrow)

DFW things:

• [STRIKE]checked banking & shifted funds into new acc to cover a couple of dds[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]lunch from stores[/STRIKE]
• bought only the things I needed - new lock for ds' door, fruit
• read martin's email - I saw the glass too am going to get some for dd
• [STRIKE]dinner from store[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]gym with oh in a bit [/STRIKE]:j
• [STRIKE]call ex-mil after 7 so free call[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]check cc2, work out what's coming from what acc[/STRIKE] really pleased with myself this month. have reduced my monthly spending money allowance & came in on target on this cc (i pay them off in full each month & get cashback ) & my petrol cc I came in £35 less than I budgeted for :money: Perni are you finding you've been spending less since finding miss minimalism?
• made hm yogurt :T I hope it comes out ok!
• used free shampoo & conditioner sample from a mag (that I pilfered from a pub when I'd had one too many )

relax :beer:

La_escocesa

Googlewhacker wrote: »

can I just say, will you please put a bracket into this sentance and point out that people should ask their bosses about charging their phone, most will not object but if you don't ask then it is the same as stealing from the company.

Pixie - just thinking - if you start the thread tomorrow, what do you think about deleting that line at the beginning - it's just there as an example anyway and it's the only thing anyone ever says so maybe easier just to delete it???

Snoop! So nice to hear from you, your posts are inspiring.

OH's job interview seemed to go pretty well - they were talking about salary and bupa cover/flexitime, which I wouldn't have thought they would go into detail about if they weren't considering him... oh, fingers crossed. Their last interview is on Tuesday so he will find out shortly after then though. Hope so, so much! Job is at my work so I will be saying hello to the interviewer every time I walk past to gauge his reaction.

browneyedbazzi

Hello all!

I'm very late again today. I don't know what's up with me but I just can't cope with mornings this week and feel incredibly tired through the day...I think I must be fighting something off

I haven't been very MSE today. I had to go to court over council tax my former landlady didn't pay today - to my great relief the council accepted that I'm not liable because it was a HMO After court I ended up going to the pub for a celebratory drink and lunch with my former house-mate which was lovely but took a chunk out of my weekly spend target, eek!

Other than that, today I:
-had breakfast and dinner from stores
-checked online banking
-worked out budget for holiday next month
-looked for cheap self catering accommodation for october half term hols
-checked ebay (still no payment or communication from winning bidder on the weekend grrr, gentle nudge email will go tomorrow!)

Hope everyone has had a lovely day x

Pernicious

Knitty - Ouch! Hope you find yourself in a better position soon
Catmiaow - Have a lovely time in Brussels & London, sounds fab!
Compliments - Sorry you didn't get the job, hopefully it's for the best & something better will be along soon
Snoop - Welcome back! Glad to see you are as positive & inspirational as ever!
Mowgli - Welcome
DNMS - Glad the hangover has passed I am indeed spending less & really thinking before I buy something. For example I've seen a dress that's not too pricey (£15), similar enough that I don't need to go out & buy a whole new pair of shoes or a bag etc to go with it, & yet I am STILL (2 weeks later) debating whether or not I should buy it. I think I will as it will be a nice summery dress & I only really have occassion dresses, but we'll see how it goes. Plus I think if I do buy it, I should at least get rid of a pair of the millions of jeans/samey tops I own. I just wish I had more time at the moment to really have a good old clear out! Thank goodness it's a bank hol weekend.
La Escocesa - I agree, I'm getting tired of people who don't understand the thread commenting on that one...I like to think we all have a bit of common sense round here!
Browneyedbazzi - Congrats on the court hearing, must be such a relief!

elsiepac

Just wanted to pop my head in and say night all, I'm too tired to respond individually to everyone but I have read every post, snoop, you sound like an inspiration and yourpost made me smile!

Hope you've all had a lovely day...hump day over at last!

LC xxx