Wednesday 17th August 2011 What small DFW things will you do today????

Tebheag

Wednesday 17th August 2011 What small DFW things will you do today????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.

Good morning all I have a very short list today but I am hoping to get a lot of work in today as yippee kids are in nursery
So here goes
Check bank
Check surveys
Try and get 10 hours work in
Send of invoice to work
Get records ready as going into office tomorrow
Lunch and dinner from stores going to try for another meat free day
Oh and rest mt leg yippee its finally starting to feel better need to get DH to help me strap it up again. Not very DBF but could start costing me nursery fees if it goes on any longer or gets worse !!

Hope you all have a good day

josiebabie

Morning Tebheag, thanks for starting us off!
In work early as DD is at her dads so I don't have to drop her off
This is me:-
- Checked banking
- Sell 2x purges if poss?
- Lunch/snacks from home
- Check WIP for any uninvoiced labour
- Block hole in front door to stop vole getting in. I don't mind him but he got into bed with DB3 this morning. LOL
- Freezer dive for dinner
- Try to work hard today, work is slow as thus we all slow down to it
- Leccy meter reading tonight
- Turn HW off when I get home
- Drink lots
- Read free downloads on iBooks
- Surveys tonight

Jx

ixia

Morning everyone
Tebheag- thanks for starting us

Today I will:

• brekkie/lunch and dinner from stores
• check banking/e-mails/surveys
• 2 loads of washing-line dry
• give my friend £2 to put on my xmas saver card
• general tidy

nothing very moneysaving today, off to a course for work. have a good day everybody

Candy0107

Morning Gang,
Thanks to Tebhaeg for starting the thread.
Hope everyone else is good – hugs to those that need them
Today I have/will:
• Remember to smile to myself a lot today (this is going to be hard – I work with so many negative people)
• Checked online banking – only a small card payment has gone out
• Need to pop into town at lunchtime to check the balance on my ISA (didn’t do this yesterday)
• Read freebie paper on the train
• Read newspapers online
• Need to charge up mobile at work
• Need to pop into hometown after work to pick up prescription – paid for using prepay cert (I plan on getting my monies worth)....it wasn’t there yesterday
• Get hubby to pay for the parking as I have no spare this month
• Take vits and meds to control hormones
• Eat sensibly and update food diary
• Drink plenty of water
• Need to keep an eye out for MS jobs and surveys
• Need to book in for blood tests (nothing special, just the usual) – need to look at my diary as I will need a morning off as it is a fasting blood test – didn’t do this yesterday
• Meals from stores (eating breakfast at my desk)
Think that is about all, have a great day and sparkle!
Candy xxx

stitching_witch

josiebabie wrote: »

- Block hole in front door to stop vole getting in. I don't mind him but he got into bed with DB3 this morning. LOL

Thank you - best laugh I've had in weeks! :rotfl:

Okay my list for today so far:

• fed and watered the chickens and cleaned them out
• make packed lunches for DH and myself
• found snacks from stores
• made pastry ready for tonight's egg and bacon pie - glut of eggs currently
• checked banking
• checked for surveys

I will also:

• get a lift to and from work with a colleague saving on petrol
• just 2 oranges and root ginger to buy - making marrow wine out of the 5 overgrown courgettes from the allotment
• stitch at lunchtime to avoid spending further monies
• keep an eye on surveys during the day
• make a plan of action for my 4 days off next week - lots of DFW things to do
• look at August budget to see if I'm still on track to pay off my loan in September

That'll do for me today. Beginning to feel a bit brighter and should be raring to go by tomorrow.

stitchy x

WelshWoofer

Morning all!
Its a nice day so far today so in a good mood.



Nothing fabulous planned today...

• Blind for office/guest room is supposed to be installed between 8 and 10am (no sign yet!) done
• Clean whole house (mum coming tomorrow!) done
• All food from stores done so far
• Walk dog lots done two
• Do at least 2 hours school work nope!
• Sort out letters that came yesterday about mortgage done
• Buy ink from Cartridge World for printer done
• Fill holes!
• Maybe buy a plant for the hall
• Checked bank done

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

shezam

Good Morning!

Today
-Checked bank, no change
-Possibly nip into bank after work to see about setting up an ISA or Web Saver, its time to save some pennies!
-Charge mobile at work this pm
-Smile & have a productive day at work.
-Free drinks at work
-Get mince & garlic bread after work for tonights spag bol dinner. yumyum!
-Zumba tonight!

Thats all today folks, have a great day
Sx

madein1967

I'm still off work so here's my list for today:

- [STRIKE]checked banking - no change[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]check for any useful freebies[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]check Ebay - 12 items on and only 1 has a bid[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]meals from cupboards and freezer[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]do any surveys[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]shampoo carpet[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]add £1 to my pot[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]make docs appointment for DS[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]wash the remaining sofa covers on quick wash - 2 sofas take 3 wash loads, with 2 done so far[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]try again to get access to Payplan site - STILL NO SUCCESS, APPARENTLY THEY ARE HAVING A TECH PROBLEM[/STRIKE]
- finish stitching
- put football boots on Ebay
- sweep and pull out some more weeds from pig-sty garden
- [STRIKE]have an NSD[/STRIKE]

Enjoy the day, folks !

Wannabe01

Good morning everyone. It’s a lovely day here today.



My list for today

• [STRIKE]Quick shower[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Bath dd[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Take dd to baby group[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Catch up with email[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Complete available surveys[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Do work for customer 1[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Daily clicks[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Check one poll[/STRIKE] earned 35p
• [STRIKE]Check pure profile[/STRIKE] earned 10p
• [STRIKE]Complete work for client 2[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Collect ds from school[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Catch up with washing[/STRIKE] Got some done but there is still more to do
• Do some of the ironing pile Didn't get time to do this
• Do some blog work Didn't get time to do this today
• [STRIKE]NSD[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]All meals from stores[/STRIKE]

I think that is everything for today.

determined_new_ms

morning guys :wave: hope you are all well. Thank goodness its Wednesday & after today we're on the home stretch to the weekend, seems to be a long week this one...

Today - small list....

• checked banking & cc statement (just booked a holiday so it looked scary this morning! :shocked:
• brekkie, lunch & dinner from stores
• send off exchange forms
• take back buttons for a refund while in town today
• do quick search for the cheapest place to get moisturizer & grab while in town
• haircut tonight :j and cheap as chips at £10 :T
• go for a run
• sort out my house - I can't take the mess any longer! :eek:
• catch up with yesterday's eastenders on iplayer - I'm addicted!
• read martin's email
• signed up for the free £10 towards a train fare :T

that'll do me have a great day everyone. Oh by the way where's La E gone????

OrangeFairy

Hello everyone!!

I have been a bit quite on here of late! Just getting on with the holidays. I have spent 3 days sorting DD1's bedroom and it is now perfect DD's have a friend arund today so they are occupied - then OH's son is round for a sleepover tonight so they will have a great day.

Today for me

Check banking and reconcile
Surveys - getting back into these
Update diary
Update spends
Update 101 list
Lunch from stores
Dinner from stores - roast gammon
Sort through recent photos and delete bad ones
NSD
Decide what to do tomorrow
Start sorting out another declutter area
Order DD's birthday present for my Mum to give

Off to make lunch i think