Sat/Sun 25th/26th June - What small things will you do this weekend??!

tigermoon

Morning everyone,

Greetings from cloudy Scotland! Hope you are having better weather down south than we are here. I'm still riding high from the triumph of paying off my credit cards, still not quite sure I believe it. Am looking forward to ringing up this week and closing the Santander account and lowering my NW credit limit (want to keep this for travelling for work - will be in the freezer otherwise though:p).

So, my list for today:

[STRIKE]Apply for Halifax Reward Account (with NO overdraft:D)
Breakfast and lunch at parent's house[/STRIKE]
Do preparation for chartership meeting this week
[STRIKE]Dinner from food I batch cooked yesterday (chilli or lasagne, see what OH fancies).[/STRIKE] Veggie lasagne & chips, nom nom nom.
[STRIKE]Get light bulbs for security lights from B&Q.
Go for a walk for free exercise
Ironing and washing put away[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]PAD to Overdraft
Register with fonebank to sell old ipod touch[/STRIKE]

Was going to be a NSD but I forgot about the bulbs so I will settle for a LSD instead.

Hope everyone has a lovely Sunday. Holland sounds lovely, am v jealous. Although, it is breakfast time in Scotland too.

T xx

La_escocesa wrote: »

Sunday Breakfast time in Scotland is so much better though! I could go a nice roll and square sausage and tattie scone!

Ooh, flat sausage roll sounds lush - I went for the bacon and egg roll instead though. Started out with great intentions of being healthy but as soon as I smelled it it was too yummy to resist.

Thanks for the good wishes on the credit card front everyone. Made my first ever mid-month PAD to my overdraft tonight, felt a bit odd (and really good) not to be paying it to a card!

elsiepac

elsiepac wrote: »

[strike]1. Check OnePoll morning[/strike]
[strike]2. Check surveys morning[/strike]
[strike]3. Dark wash on 30[/strike]
[strike]4. Hang dark wash to dry[/strike]
[strike]5. White wash on 40 ECO[/strike]
6. Hang white wash to dry
[strike]7. Breakfast from stores - toast butter and Marmite....yuuuuuuuuuuuuum[/strike]
[strike]8. Plan meals for next few days[/strike]
[strike]9. Write list based on above[/strike]
[strike]10. Do small shop accordingly[/strike]
[strike]11. Check One Poll afternoon[/strike]
[strike]12. Check surveys afternoon[/strike]
13. OU work - Do section 4 of Unit 8
14. OU work - Do section 5 of Unit 8
15. OU work - Do section 6 of Unit 8
16. OU work - finish Q4 on assignment
17. OU work - post more in discussion on forums
18. Bedding in wash - 60 but ECO
19. Hang bedding to dry if doesn't hammer it down!
[strike]20. Check OnePoll evening[/strike]
[strike]21. Check surveys evening[/strike]
[strike]22. Stay in today as probably going out tomorrow, so only local trips out[/strike]
[strike]23. Check bank a/c[/strike]
[strike]24. Check budgets again after yesterday's complete revisions![/strike]
25. Think of ways to make money I'm blankity blank! Already do all the little things and don't have time for part time job due to OU work on weekends and demanding job in week! Hey ho, budgets just about work out though, so it's not completely bleak!

Good morning all!

Aria's Tail that is so funny about your OH...make his life a misery today...hehehehehe , also tigermoon I don't think I have realised before about your cards, so a massive WELL DONE from me, that's fantastic! dnms I hope the hangover goes soon but that the night was worth it!

Well, I didn't get a load done yesterday, chores yes, OU work no. I hope I knuckle down today as my best friend suggested her the husband and the baby may be going to Blaise Castle (lovely big green place with walks and a teeny castle) that isn't too far away, so I'd really like to go along but can't if I don't do enough work etc. Also we thought it was going to be lovely today, but looking out my windows, one side is lovely blue sky and the other is that wierd artificial brightness reflecting off clouds that looks like it might hammer it down! So we'll see what the day brings!

Yesterday went embarassingly hideous in the middle when I went for my shop - I went through the self-service checkouts and had finished and paid and was putting my bags one at a time onto my trolley and the man who was next started trying to get all his stuff on there before I was gone, he could see I was still using it! That is a MASSIVE pet peev of mine, and I was so annoyed, so as I stormed off saying very loudly "well that was F-ing rude", unfortunately I swung around too quick and my sticky toffee pudding went FLYING out of the little trolley so I had to scrabble around on the floor for it whilst this man was staring at me, and amusingly while I was doing this got tangled up with the man at the next checkout who the checkout lady was trying to accost as she said he hadn't paid and he was trying to walk away, and I'd managed to inadvertently block him with my trolley!!! All very embarassing - moral of the story is don't get on your high horse unless you're sure you won't be embarassed minutes later and look like an idiot! Then to top it off when I was unloading stuff at home I turned round for a min, heard a smash, turned back and saw the tikka masala paste I'd bought specially to batch cook chicken (and veg!) tikkia masala had rolled out of the bag and smashed on the floor. Bye bye £1.79 :mad: I was going to try and retrieve some of it, but there was glass everywhere and in the end I decided it wasn't worth the risk... some things I find acceptable, some not and eating glass I don't!!! :rotfl:

Here's the lists for today:

[strike]1. Check OnePoll morning[/strike]
[strike]2. Check surveys morning[/strike]
[strike]3. Strip bed[/strike]
[strike]4. Hang white wash to dry[/strike]
[strike]. Breakfast from stores - toast and coffee [/strike]:D
[strike]6. Bedding in wash on 60 ECO[/strike]
[strike]7. Start the Weekly Spend Challenge[/strike]
[strike]8. Work out my spends for above![/strike]
9. Put away all clean washing from yesterday
10. Hang bedding to dry if doesn't hammer it down!
[strike]11. Check survey[/strike][strike]s afternoon[/strike]
[strike]12. Check OnePoll afternoon[/strike]
13. Lunch from stores - god knows what!
14. Freeze all the reduced bread rolls I bought yesterday
15. Tesco for more F-ing Tikka Masala paste after I dropped the other one yesterday and also milk for work
[strike]16. OU work - Do section 4 of Unit 8[/strike]
17. OU work - Do section 5 of Unit 8
18. OU work - Do section 6 of Unit 8
[strike]19. OU work - finish Q4 on assignment[/strike]
[strike]20. OU work - post more in discussion on forums[/strike]
[strike]21. OU work - finish Q1 on assignment[/strike]
22. Batch cook chicken tikka masala and freeze most
23. Make feta salads for lunches for the week
24. Re-make bed
25. Check OnePoll evening
26. Check surveys evening
27. LSD
[strike]28. SUBMIT OU ASSIGNMENT!!![/strike]

Have a great Sunday all! LC xxx

OrangeFairy

Woohoo making the most of the sun!!

Off to a National trust site to make use of our membership!

Picnic packed and ready to go

Dinner at MIL's or OH's friends tonight so a MSE day! :D

Have a great day everyone xx

La_escocesa

tigermoon wrote: »

Although, it is breakfast time in Scotland too.

T xx

Sunday Breakfast time in Scotland is so much better though! I could go a nice roll and square sausage and tattie scone!

La_escocesa

Hello there :hello:

Not really decided what I'm doing today. Might pop down to SIL's.

Went to the inlaws last night - lots of lovely food OH cooked, got 2 dresses that MIL didn't want (result!) and MIL took all our laundry off us to hang outside so we didn't have to use our TD. Good times.

Updated spending diary - £10 taxi and £12 I've had to pay temporarily for my sis - seeing her in July.

Reading Emma - free download.

Putting any pennies in the jar.

Clearing up and (still) clearing out...

Keeping it simple today.

Cleosmum

Sorry I didnt post yesterfday, no time or energy! My laptop cable has gone kapput so I am sharing DD cable with her, or jumping on OH laptop (there now) and mse doesnt load from my android pad or phone

Anyway, yesterday I:

• Walked to work
• Worked 4 hrs
• OH worked 8 hrs
• Mum provided free childcare for the half hour overlap
• Took lunch to mums
• STUCK TO MY DIET :j
• Checked banking
• Did a bit of tidying up
• Washed 1 load on quick
• Sat in casualty for ages with DS (all fine, nothing broken)
• Made curry for OH and I but cheated with the kids and got pizzas from Sainsburys
• Early night as was pooped!

Today I have:

• Checked banking
• Breakfast from stores
• Done a shopping list for tomorrow, using mysupermarket, will use a £4 MOC too
• Washed 1 load on quickwash
• Put yesterday and todays washes out on line in blazing sun....not a cloud in the sky :T:j:beer:

And still to do:

• Go to town and buy ds birthday card and a few birthday bits
• Use free parking
• Sort dry washing, fold and distributed for filing
• Get sorted for school and shopping tomorrow
• Need to sit and work out my own flylady week, really not working at mo as I never know until I wake up which area it is and I hate not knowing I am a girl that needs a plan and a list and a bit of notice!
• Check pigsback
• Update sig with last few days grocery spends
• STICK TO MY DIET!

Right, off to get ready, will try and update later :cool:

Pernicious

Hey everyone,

Sorry for not posting yesterday, I wasn't feeling very DFW as I has a disasterous night out on Friday! Really wondering who my real friends are & how I can sort out the toxic cow from hell :mad: & apparently, my ex, still not sure what's going on there...usually we always say hi, how's it going, etc, & this time when I went to say hi to him he walked straight past me!
General jist is we were all out for a mutual friend's birthday, but hardly anyone came over to speak to me, my OH & our friend who I shall call Emma....who hasn't been out for a proper night out for over a year as she had a baby. We tried to join in & it was ok in the first pub we went to, but the second one was so cramped in this little room downstairs that it was hard to go over to people. The 3 of us went to the loo, leaving our jackets over our chairs & we came back down to find my OH's coat was shoved in the corner, Emma's chair had been moved, & my coat was on the f****** floor! The table we were sat at had been moved as well, & other people had joined toxic cow from hell, ex & co & there was actually nowhere for us to go except stand in the corner by ourselves, so we left...
Really annoyed at that, don't know what's going on as I thought the only one who hated me was toxic cow from hell...& even then, the last time we were out she actually gave me a compliment & said my new hair colour was nice. Confused.com

Anyway sorry for the rant, needed to get that off my chest I think, it's still bugging me & has really ruined my weekend

Anyway on with my list, must stay focussed & not let it bother me anymore:-

• [STRIKE]Heating off [/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Food from stores[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Dinner from meal plan[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Charge phone via pc[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Check online banking[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Check for surveys[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Enter comps[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Washing on eco setting[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Hang up to dry[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Continue with the declutter[/STRIKE] - managed to fill a whole bin bag yesterday I was slightly DFW at least...
• [STRIKE]Look at musicmagpie[/STRIKE] - never used it before but have finally gone through the duplicate CD's & DVD's we have since moving in officially together, hoping to make a few pounds at least!
• Go over wedding budget & see where I can get an extra £200 from for flowers...I'm not going to get the basics for less then that let alone what we'd really like!
• [STRIKE]Check out flylady thread, not done very much this week but need to pop on & say hi at least![/STRIKE]

Have a great, moneysaving day everyone x

Wannabe01

Good afternoon everyone, Hope everyone is having a good Sunday. I am feeling a bit fragile today therefore will be taking it easy today.



My list for today:

1. Catch up with emails done
2. Post on here done
3. Schedule work Got some of this done, will do the rest tomorrow
4. Complete surveys and polls done
5. Complete daily clicks done
6. Look into available work Got some of this done will do some more tomorrow
7. Look on ebay for girlie clothes (most of the baby clothes that I currently have are for a little boy) done. Bidding on some items.
8. Raise invoices that are due done
9. Check one poll and check cash back offers done
10. Catch up with the freebies board Will do this tomorrow
11. Catch up with the comps board Will do this tomorrow
12. List some items on ebay Decided against this at the moment as will have to get DH to help at the moment.
13. Organise a list of things to do tomorrow done
14. All meals from stores done
15. Get DH to do some of the laundry (as I'm not allowed to lift anything at the moment) done
16. Get some rest done
17. Get some fresh air if it stays nice done
18. Sort out budgets for July and August Made a start on this will do some more work on it tomorrow.

I think that is probably more than enough for me to get done today.

Pernicious

DNMS - Thanks for starting us off, 3 weeks in Brazil wow! That sounds fab, hope the saving is going well, sounds like it is Hope you enjoyed your lunch at pizza express & also hope your flashbacks aren't too embarrassing I hate it when that happens!
Pixie - Glad you enjoyed your Chinese & cider! I think I may treat myself to a cider today considering the heatwave!
Arctic Sky - Great news on the cheque!
La Escocesa- Hope the yoga went well & you enjoyed the BBQ, it's tempting to get it out tonight but we haven't got any meat out of the freezer as we have pie on our meal plan! I wish I could join Pinecone, I got the referral from Picasso too but they wouldn't let me sign up
Ziggy - What museum are you going to? Have a lovely time
OrangeFairy - Hope you have a lovely time too
Sans - How on earth did you only spend £7 on all that?!
Rdchick - Glad you're having a great time over there, despite the weather! Ooh that theme park sounds great!
Aria - You really made me LOL there! :rotfl: Bet your OH is suffering today
Tigermoon - Well done on the credit cards! That's fab you must be so chuffed
Elsie - Hehe bless you, it does sound funny though sorry! Hope today is productive with all that OU work to do

Hugs to everyone that needs one, I think I do lol

Pernicious

Can anyone tell me if it's worth entering the competitions on music magpie? They look like the kind that send you TONNES of spam afterwards...can anyone confirm this?

Also, is it worth signing up to Toluna? How often do you get surveys & how often have you claimed vouchers?