Sat 30th/Sun 31st July 2011 - What small DFW things will you be doing today?

stitching_witch

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!

Examples could be 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


Morning DFW folks. It's nice and early, DH is getting ready for work and I've got loads to do.


So far:

• ran DW overnight on Economy 7
• WM running on a quick wash and on Economy 7 (ours finishes at 7.30am)
• save used tea bag for another cup - I drink weak tea
• fed and watered the chickens
• fed and watered the bread sourdough starter. It's like having an extra pet sitting on the kitchen worktop :rotfl:
• checked banking
• checked for surveys

I will also:

• hang washing outside if fine, otherwise airer
• blitz the 'public' areas of the house before the new customer comes
• see to new customer
• blitz the rest of the house after she goes
• got to allotment and dig some lovely fresh potatoes
• make granola in the slow cooker
• left over HM chicken and ham pie for dinner - that's six days from a £4 chicken
• have an NSD (possibly )

Have fun everyone, it's the weekend!
stitchy x

missladyannie

Today I hung the washing outside, I am now at work 8am-1pm (£42)! I won't be doing anything else 'free' now (unless you count the cinema tonight as I pre-paid for the tickets earlier in the week!)

Have a good day everyone x

OrangeFairy

Morning all.

After 2 sunny days we had awful rain yesterday that caused a flood in the middle of the village. I may walk down to work today to check if everything is okay in there!

Today
[STRIKE]Declutter another area from my list -decluttered my underwear last night [/STRIKE] medicine cabinet decluttered
Meal with IN laws tonight - they are treating us!
[STRIKE]Read some more HP[/STRIKE] 2 chapters read
[STRIKE]Tidy the house[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Clean kitchen well.[/STRIKE]
work out what time to take off as hols over august. 2 weeks and 1 day to take off.
[STRIKE]Inventory[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Meal plan[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]NSD/LSD[/STRIKE] just butter and bread for lunch
[STRIKE]Check banking[/STRIKE]
Surveys
[STRIKE]Check last minute haven hols[/STRIKE] still expensive!

Misslady - i hope your working morning flies by quickly and you enjoy the rest of your saturday
Stitchy - I want to get a big chicken and try and stretch is over a few days meals. We never cook a whole chicken! Usually just chicken breasts. I hope the meeting with your customer goes well xx

kjp

Morning Stitchy, missladyannie and OrangeFairy and anyone who follows!

Thank you Stitchy for starting the thread!

Sun is finally trying to break through here, hopefully the cloud will have burnt off by later today.

Today I will:
[STRIKE] Check banking[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] Transfer money from friend to credit card[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] Transfer money from phone if it's come through to ISA[/STRIKE] Hasn't cleared yet
[STRIKE] List some things on Ebay (free listing weekend, woohoo!)[/STRIKE] Done 3 lots today, the final lot will go on tomorrow as I find Sunday evenings best for selling!
[STRIKE] Sort out posting return for the week[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] Chop and freeze some basil[/STRIKE]
Vacuum bedroom Vacuum's in several pieces so hoping to do this tomorrow!
Ironing :(
[STRIKE] Dust :(:([/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] 20 mins on cross trainer[/STRIKE] And chatted to my nan using free minutes - very pleased I managed to do 18 minutes without stopping whilst holding a conversation!
[STRIKE]Rejig budget after overspend last night - went over planned budget by £10.70, down to a very expensive bus ticket and the tempatation of dessert after dinner...[/STRIKE] Done, should be ok, have £23 a week to spend on miscelleneous stuff between now and 25th August - although do have family coming down for a fortnight so not sure how it'll work... possibly a no spend week!
[STRIKE]Complete OU reading and start essay plan[/STRIKE] Book read and essay question reviewed... Just need to work out the bare bones and start fleshing it out now!
NSD? Haven't spent anything yet - might pop to Tesco to see if they have the cheap compost listed on the Grabbit board earlier but we'll see - might stay in with Casualty instead!
Track down and update ipod... Where is it?!

Right, off to do dusting and vacuuming and hope that the cloud burns off so I can do OU reading outside in the sunshine! Cloud has indeed cleared so off in the garden with a glass of water and a textbook!:T

Have a great day all!
Kx

Aria`s_Tail

Morning everyone (sidles in quiety).
Sorry I've been awol for a few weeks, had a lot of carp stuff happened (a couple of good things to but mostly carp) so have kinda lost track of a few things a bit but I won`t bore everyone with the details.

Anyway, I`ve taken a weekend off and am staying with my brother for a couple of days for a break. Going into Brum to do a bit of shopping this afternoon (couple of things i really need like a belt to hold my pants up and a new hair dryer brush as mine keeps cutting out) Got £30 in Boots points so might use that for hot brush. I`ll have a good look around the shops but not go mad with stuff I don`t need or can't afford.
Gonnna stay in tonight and do some college work on laptop (how sad, i'm supposed to be on holiday). I'm on the last leg of this course and really want to get it finished now. Will prob sit in the garden to do it with a glass of wine!
Meals from fridge. (i'm meeting a friend in Brum so will probably have a couple of drinks somewhere)
Get bus there and back on day saver ticket (cheaper than car park and less hassel than driving!)

Tomorrows plan is to go for a walk in the morning around local park and maybe to the market.
Meals from stores.
Iron Maiden gig tomorrow night, ticket was a Xmas pressie. Will get the bus there and back again. and only have a couple of drinks.

Hope everyone has a good weekend, i`ll be back properly MSE next week!

cuttingbackisitfun?

Morning all,

Dishwasher finished
Online banking checked

Need to:
Strip bed
Wash bedding and get it on the line if nice enough
Buy my best friend lil ones bday presents so am off to 99p shop for some goodies!!!!

Hopefully feel better as I seem to have picked up a yuckie virus so not sure I will be making his party tomorrow as don't want to give it to all the kids.

If it brightens up a walk down the beach me thinks with my library book.

K x

ixia

Morning everyone

SW- thanks for starting us off

I am just back from Mr T's armed with £10 till spit from last week, £5 voucher printed from metro online last night and some vouchers from paper through the week.

I was nervous giving her theem all but she took them after querying the metro print out supervisor said it was fine :j

Upshot of it being I got £131.76 of shopping for £83.90 by the time they took of instore discounts and vouchers. i am delighted :T

Anyway today's list:

• check banking/e-mails etc
• washing out to line dry
• dinner and lunch from stores
• put tent up up DD2 and her friends want to camp out back tonight- i can see it being a long night :rotfl:

Can't think of much more just now will update later if I manage to do anything else.

Have a great Saturday everyone!!

Candy0107

Afternoon Folks,

Thanks for starting the thread today stitchy – would you mind putting on here how you got 6 days from one chicken?

Hello to my online friends and hello to new members

Today I have/will do:
• Meals from stores
• Need to do a mealplan for the next week
• NSD – paid for car tax and need to pay for mobile top-up but these are budgeted for, so I don’t class this as spending
• Read newspapers online
• Watched a couple of things on the sky box
• Checked online banking – a couple of dd’s have gone out
• Moved pennies into ISA
• Checked budget for the month – loads to pay out next month (but most can be re-claimed on expenses)
• Do online comps
• Done a couple of surveys
• Drink plenty of water
• Take meds to sort out hormones
• Off to a BBQ at in law’s tonight

Think that is about it – I am sure there will be things I have forgotten.

Have a fabby one!
Candy xxx

Wannabe01

Good afternoon, It’s another lovely day here today. Stitching Witch – Thanks for starting us off today.


My list for today:

• Catch up with emails DONE
• Catch up with freebies thread
• Do available surveys DONE There was not actually very many there today
• Quick shower DONE
• Bath dd DONE
• Complete ms work and look for more work DONE
• Check ebay DONE Only sold 1 item today out of 3:(
• List some items on ebay DONE
• Do some work on toy for dd
• Make a shopping list Work In Progress
• Catch up with washing DONE
• Look into the home learning course that I want to do. Has anyone studied through ICS?
• Look into available jobs DONE
• Clean and tidy the house Work In Progress
• Meals from stores DONE DH took me and the kids out for dinner as a sorry.
• Sort things with DH DONE
• Do some of the ironing pile DONE
• Complete work for this week DONE
• Do work on database DONE
• List books on GM Work In Progress

I think this is everything that I need to get done today.

stitching_witch

Candy0107 wrote: »

stitchy – would you mind putting on here how you got 6 days from one chicken?

Candy, the chicken was a 1.53kg bird which was £4.00. There are only two of us now so i can stretch it much further than when I had four hungry children living at home!

Monday - roast chicken (only used three slices of breast meat between us)
Tuesday - curry and rice
Wednesday - left over curry on jacket potatoes
Thursday - cold chicken with salad and new potatoes
Friday - chicken and ham pie, using left over gammon from Sunday's roast
Saturday - left over chicken and ham pie

I would normally use the tiny scraps for a stir fry and the carcass as a base for soup too, but I was rather generous with the chicken and ham pie as I was getting fed up with seeing it hanging around!!!

The chicken and ham pie was just cold left over chicken, gammon and some frozen leeks from the allotment put into a dish with a tin of condensed chicken soup then topped with potatoes mashed with parsnip. Simple, filling and very tasty.

I also remember the time I made one pork chop feed three of us, but that's another story..... :rotfl:

Candy0107

Thanks for the inspiration stitchy....will have to put some of those ideas into action.

Listing 2 swimming costumes on ebay as I have free listings - not expecting much for them but as people say, they are earning nothing sitting in a drawer.

Really getting into ebaying at the moment.

Candy xxx