Saturday/Sunday 12th/13th November - What small DFW things will you be doing today?!

La_escocesa

determined_new_ms wrote: »

oh my gawd! Just poodled on to the DFW board to work out my plans for the day & the thread hasn't been started!??! What is going on with our dwindling small things community??? Guys we need to take action to make sure we don't fall off the grid :eek: I'd be so sad to loose the thread such a source of support & encouragement to me!

Why my beautiful, I was already up and out - 8am train for me

Was off training to be a yoga teacher

Did a few small things:

• Pre-booked train tickets
• Hubby bought my lunch :T
• Didn't go to the shops at lunch
• Trained for a new career :T

Not so dfw stuff is that we're getting a take away Hey ho - 'tis Saturday and not going out boozing all night £10 each for our night in :cool:

BTW - I'll be back posting with vengeance when I finally move house and can sort my 'regular' payments - money is up in the air just now because every month we have different stuff to pay out and are just trying to keep as much cash as poss (rather than concentrating on paying off debt as usual). Bit unsettling all of this. Yoga helped today. :cool:

La_escocesa

NewlyFrugalMumof3 wrote: »

I too am like you. I have some lovely baby items that I should list on ebay (taking advantage of free listing) BUT it's really hard to part with them emotionally. I guess I just will have to 'get over it' and perhaps keep one or two items and list the rest.

Hiya - You could take photos of some of the stuff with fond memories and do something creative with it - create a pinboard frame/collage etc. And remember you'll still have the memories even if you don't have the physical items.:)

determined_new_ms

La_escocesa wrote: »

Hiya - You could take photos of some of the stuff with fond memories and do something creative with it - create a pinboard frame/collage etc. And remember you'll still have the memories even if you don't have the physical items.:)

aw oh wise la E - Miss Minimalism would be proud

determined_new_ms

determined_new_ms wrote: »

• [STRIKE]go through cupboards & fridge/freezer and make meal plan for over the weekend.[/STRIKE] Using nothing but what we have

• [STRIKE]making big batch of chilli today using 500gms mince, quorn, veg, lentils & any beans in the cupboard[/STRIKE]. Freeze some for meals during the week
  
• [STRIKE]freeze leftover mash for a meal in the week[/STRIKE]
• go for a run - no karb I wasn't planning on doing 2 runs yesterday :rotfl:in fact didn't even manage 1
• [STRIKE]make banana bread[/STRIKE] tis in the oven now with the jacket spuds
  
• [STRIKE]work out which cake I am going to make for work thing on Monday [/STRIKE] gonna be carrot as I have some that need using up
  
• flylady bathroom kinda
  
• call Bg must do this today! nope
  

tonight I am going to a comedy night with oh & a friend & her dh. She had 2 spare tickets last minute so we are going. She is giving me mine as a birthday present in a couple of week :T

Hope you all have qa lovely weekend x

meal plan done:
Sat: B: weetabix & sugar
L: cauiflower soup & bread/tuna pitta
chilli & jacket pots (using up veg & 1/2 tin of toms that needs eating) & Banana cake

Sun: B: sausage sandwiches
L: gammon steaks, stuffing, potatoes & LO veg
T: egg on toast & pinapple cake & custard

I need to buy eggs & gravy. Will look out for reduced foods

ok have done a meal plan & shopping list for a week. Using what I have & mysupermarket.co.uk & have worked it out for £41- I have put on extras that are on offer that we would buy throughout the month and the meat I will eek out for some meals for next week as well.

Also have bought some muslin clothes to strain hm yogurt off of ebay via boots treat store to use my voucher bought via the news letter a few weeks ago which will mean I will get £15 boots points in a month. will be a chrissie present for someone

done quite well. Am pleased with my efforts also managed a NSD decided I can leave my boots in the menders until 22nd when cc statement gets issued

Have also shown my ds that dispite his wails of there's no food in the house" I have created a meal & desert with the ingredients we do have!

Didn't manage the comedy night. Friend managed to sell tickets at the box office so its not costing me anything (really glad cos money is so tight at a week before payday and we're going away on Monday) so its X & a film instead :beer:

La_escocesa

determined_new_ms wrote: »

aw oh wise la E - Miss Minimalism would be proud

Ooh, indeed I'm thinking about doing something creative with all the bits and pieces from honeymoon that I have lying around...when I've moved house, of course

Florenceem

Callisto wrote: »

Hi everyone, I thought I would join in as I added up my credit card totals and I now owe £2849 (at highest it was over £5500), so I am happy it's going down and want to keep it going that way!

Today I have:

Checked online banking
Completed a survey
Spent the afternoon trying to catch up with my OU work
Washing on airer as weather rubbish (although yesterday's load hasn't all dried on airer yet, so have had to hang coathangers off all available doorhandles/surfaces!)

I will watch a DVD tonight or play a pc game.

Tomorrow:

More studying
Ebay listings
Go for a walk
Perhaps start on the pantry tidy up and inventory? This depends on how long it takes me to catch up with 28 pages of study!

I thought it was free listing on Ebay this week but - when I went to relist some stuff - it was coming up with a fee - I have relisted lots of times on EB when it was FL weekend. Help please.

allym464

I think you can list for free on ebay if you start at £0.99?

Pernicious

Florenceem wrote: »

I thought it was free listing on Ebay this week but - when I went to relist some stuff - it was coming up with a fee - I have relisted lots of times on EB when it was FL weekend. Help please.

Hiya,

You have to manually relist it for it to come up as free, using their ever so handy relist function is excluded unfortunately But hey it only takes a couple of minutes to copy & paste everything over! Good luck x

kjp

kjp wrote: »

Today I will:
[STRIKE]Check banks
Check Paypal
Check CC
Check TCB
Food from house
NSD
NPD - boyfriend's gone away for weekend so hopefully will be a bit of a hermit all weekend - yay![/STRIKE]
Dig out toiletries box and find out some moisturiser to take to OH's and shower gel!
List a couple of things on Ebay maybe?[STRIKE]
Wrap up Christmas presents bought already - will definitely keep me distracted and away from thoughts of spending![/STRIKE]

Hi all

Just checking in before I switch off and go to bed - nearly all Christmas presents now wrapped (apart from three!), will try and write cards tomorrow then I can sit back and enjoy the season!

Have also curbed my shopping cravings by buying a few free ebooks from Amazon, and have used the Nectar toolbar for any searches!

Right, off to bed, back tomorrow with a new day, new list!

Night all!

Florenceem

Pernicious wrote: »

Hiya,

You have to manually relist it for it to come up as free, using their ever so handy relist function is excluded unfortunately But hey it only takes a couple of minutes to copy & paste everything over! Good luck x

Thanks for the info.