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coldcazzie

icontinuetodream wrote: »

I sell stuff on amazon

I've never managed to sell anything on amazon. I did try a couple of books once but they didn't sell so I didn't follow it up. Do you manage to shift a lot of stuff?

Last night I went to a Vie party at a friends' - they've an offer on at the moment of bogof create your own fragrance. Had lots of fun helping the others create theirs but abstained myself. If they repeat the offer I might get one for me and the man-wife for our ten year anniversary in September. The organiser did have some surplus stock that she was selling, so I got two big bottles of body moisturiser for £2.50 each - they'll make good MSE gifts I've stashed them away in my cupboard. This is another step forward for me, I've rarely had the money to be able to buy presents to stash so I've a load which I can draw upon later in the year. I'm looking forward to building the stash up further :j

Almost forgot, I won the Transformers bedding for the boy, this, along with some Spiderman bedding from a friend will be birthday present #1 :T Present #2 I think will be a Lightning McQueen dressing gown. And we're going to repaint his bedroom too

coldcazzie

Today is going to be fun. Not. I've a to do list as long as my arm and my head feels like it's stuffed with cotton wool. Ugghh.

coldcazzie

Losing track and starting to flag, so posting to keep motivated. Got the boy at home too cuz he's been poorly all weekend.

[Strike]HHE & shower
Ring Drs
Ring pharmacy[/Strike]
Wash up - [strike]twice[/strike] once by me and [STRIKE]once by him[/STRIKE]
[Strike]Meal planning & shopping list
Chop mushrooms & peppers on the turn & freeze
Iron school/work clothing
Dry nappies
Put away clean washing
Sort out wet washing & possibly rewash (J'raff put a disposable nappy in the wm :eek:) now back in washer on quick wash, just need to sort and dry now
Bag & tag eBay items[/Strike] 3 left to do who haven't paid yet
[Strike]Bag & tag plants[/Strike]
240L: wc (didn't manage it yesterday)
[Strike]70L: sort out crypts,[/Strike] clean filter, [strike]top up water/wc
Water plants with tank water[/strike]
Fall down dead

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

No falling down dead, you have to cook the dinner, do the ironing, sweep the floors etc etc - your name is Cinderella isn't it? You seem to have made huge progress on your jobs, so permission to make a cuppa and sit down......Tilly x:beer:

coldcazzie

I am doing just that Tilly! :rotfl:

Sometimes I feel quite Cinderella-ish, but I guess most mums do at some point. I'm amassing a list almost as long for tomorrow too :eek:

Dinner will be largely effort free tonight - burgers and chips. Going to roast a turkey crown I had in the freezer at the same time (came in our hamper) - half the meat will go back in the freezer and the other half in a curry tomorrow. Not overly keen on turkey breast (but love curry!) so this is really the best use of the meat.

coldcazzie

You know what makes a water change pretty much impossible on a large fishtank? When a certain man-wife who shall remain nameless hasn't emptied the hose of water after the last time he used it and then the temperature drops so that the entire hose is frozen solid. :mad: :mad:

Guess that's going on the list for tomorrow. Have brought the hose inside to thaw out.

coldcazzie

So today's gotten off to a great start. NOT. Don't feel full of cotton wool, but am coughing up crap every 5 minutes (lovely!), thought I'd done really well having already done my exercise and washed my hair, made the beds, taken the dry clothes out of the dryer and folded them, and just sat down to check my to do list and make sure the shopping list is really complete (in that way that you always forget something on your first draft!). Suddenly something comes to me a flash.... I go over to the oven, open the door and lo and behold... the !!!!ing turkey I put in there last night is still there! :mad: :mad: :mad: what an idiot. I could literally kick myself. Now I'll have to get something else and throw that out. Not very MSE is it? *facepalm emoticon*

Today's to do list:
[strike]HHE & shower (wash hair)
Post plants & eBay items
Grocery shop
Look at glasses frames while I'm there
Put shopping away
Wash up
Msg eBay buyers[/strike]
Clean hob & grill pan
Tax return
240l wc, 70l filter clean, wash crypts more
[strike]Start cutting out fish shapes for bday party[/strike]

Not as long as yesterday but they'll each take longer than yesterday's things.

coldcazzie

Felt weird today, not much on my list.

£45.07 (budget £60)

There will have to be a small shop on Friday for fresh lettuce and some mushrooms, plus the fajitah mix we like cuz Morrisons were out of stock. But otherwise it's good shall add it to my grocery challenge total in a bit.

I will admit to falling for the "last minute impulse purchase of things next to the till" by buying 4 creme eggs... my excuse is that J'raff had wailed at me all the way round the supermarket and I was ready for committing some kind of crime...! Before you ask, no I didn't eat all of them right then and there! :rotfl:

coldcazzie

While shopping today I got some bits: 2 packs of sea life creature sweets, a pack of gummy bears, a pack of googly eyes and 3 packs of craft card. While doing my quackulations for the groceries just now I realised she only charged me for one pack of card not three... oops! So my total spend was £5.43. With the wrapping paper at 50p and stickers which were £2.65, I'm currently at less than a tenner. Still need some plastic sea life creatures, plus another couple of games I reckon...

The card will be cut into sea life shapes, and obviously googly eyes will be stuck on.

The gummy bears... well... I was talking to my dad the other day, he said they were doing Jonah and the whale next week at church so the kids were going to be making banana boats and pushing a jelly baby into the "boat" for Jonah... I thought this was a great idea, so have stolen it and combined it with Peonie's idea about making boats. Plan is: melon slices, cheese slices cut in half to be triangles and then put on cocktail sticks for the sail, then dig a small hole out with my potato peeler and put in a couple of gummy bears each for sailors. the kids will make these after the hats and take them home I think.

coldcazzie

Lumpy is still not right, so another day off school tomorrow. He is improving though, so hopefully he can go back on Thursday. He'd better, I need the study time!

Tomorrow's to do list (largely made up of the things I failed to do so far this week!)
[Strike]Clean hob & grill pan[/Strike]
Bag & tag remaining eBay items [STRIKE]x3[/STRIKE] x2
[STRIKE]Fish tanks! (seems to be a frog this week!)[/strike] done
Tax return (in bold as it's a huge giant bullfrog that blocks the road)
[Strike]Change & wash bedding: us[/Strike] shall do girls another week
More card cutting & another batch of chocolates
[STRIKE]Buy sea life creatures (found a pack of 24 animals for about £8 posted)[/STRIKE] £7.28
[Strike]Delete photos of sold eBay items
Hoover girls' room after cat ragged a bag of gerbil food off the shelf and spread it all over the carpet[/Strike] (who'd've thought gerbil food could be so alluring to an obligate carnivore...!)

Ongoing
[STRIKE]Daily HHE
Update spreadsheets, check cc & online banking
Move things into the "to eBay" bag/box for next free listing weekend
Never ending mountain of washing up[/strike]

Have been looking ahead at our spreadsheet and am feeling rather despondent about these OPs. I know we're paying more each month now, but the budget is so tight... and with the extras like our first ever proper family holiday and saving each month and doing things like swimming lessons etc, I'm struggling to see how we can manage it.