Sat 7th/Sun 8th Jan: What small DFW things will you do this weekend?

josiebabie

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! :j

Can't believe the thread isn't started by nearly 10am on a Saturday! This isn't how I remember it?!
Anyway, I know I said I wasn't going to go back to regular posting just yet (for anyone that saw that last night) but I'm thinking maybe I will...

So this is my listy-pops:-

- Checked banking - scary but all in budget
- Breakfast from stores
- Stay in doing household things to stop me taking DD to Deli in town that does her special soya hot chocolates!
- Have HUGE declutter today and unearth a load of ebay stuff
- Get things together for friends clothes and gift swapping party on Monday
- Do a food inventory, freezer and store cupboard.
- Stretch the food in the house out to skip a weeks shop?
- Pre-prep some food for the freezer so DB3 can cook it easily
- Venture into loft to see if mouse/rat poison has been effective thus not calling pest control!
- Shower for me, hot water mostly off aside from timer
- See if I can convince DD to have a shower? She's 4...
- Minimal amount of washing up to preserve hot water
- Clean out rabbit
- Sparkle! :T

Have a lovely day all

Jx

pixiechick99

Hello Josie - nice to 'see' you back here...:T
Where is everybody then...enjoying a leisurely morning I hope:D
A lovely quiet weekend planned for me - I don't think I'll be leaving the house which is just fine. Shopping is coming to me soon, so no need to go out;)
Ok, here's my list:

• check banking - move money about if my payment in from yesterday is showing
• check for any surveys - am desperate to boost my Kindle fund:D
• meal from plan tonight - tacos
• mince out of freezer defrosting
• washing is on quickwash
• washing will go on the airer
• hoover upstairs
• go through all my college work and sort out what's needed, what's not and get my backside in gear;)
• do meter readings and submit online
• organise stuff to list on ebay
• enjoy a quiet evening with some tv, glass of wine and my girlies

Ok, that's all for me - have a fab day wherever you all are:A

WelshWoofer

Morning ! Thanks for starting us off Josie! And hi to Pixie!

I haven't posted all week - back to school and visitors - just been very busy and nothing much of interest to report. But I'll try to post over the weekends if not the week.

I was up at 5am to drop mum and dad off at the airport (off to Mexico for 2 weeks, lucky b*ggers!) and there was no point going back to bed by the time I got back at 7am so have just carried on - may have a teeny snooze later;)

I have already taken the dogs to the park (have their dog as well as mine now), popped to the village greengrocers and butchers and then to B&M to do the food shopping and an having a sit down before I start the jobs on the list....

• Hoover through house again (only did it yesterday, visitors:mad:)
• Change the bed
• Do one load of washing
• Walk dogs again later (both flat out at the moment)
• Spent £20.50 on the weeks shopping including dog treats (quite pleased with that)
• Stick to diet - have lost 5lbs so far:j (target of 10lbs initially, maybe a stone if I still feel like I need the extra few lbs to go)
• Stay in tonight and watch a movie my sister lent me
• Read library book
• Do a bit of preening - looking quite ragged after early start and dogwalking
• Look into changing gas/elec supplier - they've put my bill up again!
• Wait for payday on Friday:o

Hope everyone has a good day.

Spendaholic_Chick

Oh good, the thread is here - I've been waiting for it!

Today's list;

- try not to put heating on survived until it came on at 5pm...just!
- try to have a NSD done
- list ten things on evilbay
- check online banks done
- meals from stores
- dry washing on airer in progress
- list a few bigger things on gumtree done
- do pinecone survey in inbox done
- join spud shillings and do all games, surveys etc done
- look into swagbucks (joined a few days ago but not done anything yet) done
- go back to bingoport as they sent me an email for 1000 points if i complete a survey done
non-mse stuff:

- polish and hoover throughout done
- ironing done some...los more to do still!
- write a plan for college work - 3 x 2000 word essays due in in 3 weeks :eek:


first job though, need to surgically remove myself from sofa! :cool:

starnac

morning all.

Thanks Josie for starting the thread. I was expecting it to be quite long by now. My DD who's also 4 loves having a shower "like mammy and daddy do" She thinks she's so grown up when she does.

had a lie in this morning. didn't wake til 8am!! that's so late for DD normally plus DS (8 weeks) slept through last night so had quite a good night's sleep. not caught up on sleep completely though.

so this weekend i will

check banks
[STRIKE]put money in bank[/STRIKE] DH did it for me
[STRIKE]basics food shopping using vouchers[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]sort through food in fridge/freezer/cupboards[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]meal plan from fridge/freezer/cupboards[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]ironing[/STRIKE]
Christmas decs back in attic
finish sorting bedroom ready for painting
sort DS's room
[STRIKE]clean through kitchen[/STRIKE]
start on dining room
start listing on eb4y
daily clicks
check out indoor car boot (sunday) to see if it's worth going to sell things
[STRIKE]restart reward chart for DD[/STRIKE] starts tonight
[STRIKE]HC[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]airer dry[/STRIKE] drying now
all meals from stores
[STRIKE]give leftover veg to parents for sunday dinner to minimise waste[/STRIKE]

that's all for now. I may add later.

Happy Saturday everyone

CookieCrisp

Today I will be:

- walking the dog - Done VERY muddy out there haha!
- listing as much as humanly possible on feebay - Done, but also found out I can only list 10 items as a newbie, bah-humbug!
- checking out survey sites
- spending 90mins comping (here and there)
- doing a little jig on the wii
- cleaning the car
- tackling mount iron-pile - Yay me! All done and put away
- housework - House is now v sparkly sparkly happy happy joy joy!
- checking out elec/gas tariffs
- looking into switching banks
- chilling out tonight with kids, movies, hm pizzas and munchies! - all done!
- sort budgets inc realistic figures for once!
- put budgets into spreadsheet - learn how to use cell formula (at a complete loss here haha)

determined_new_ms

Morning guys :wave: thanks for starting us off josie & lovely to have you back on board - go on I know you really want to post regularly & be involved in the love fest! I saw your post yesterday and :T:j:T seems like its been a good couple of months to you! Power to ya treacle

Sorry I haven't been starting the thread, I have joined a couple of threads and they are captivating my interest at the moment. Really loving one call "no spending for a year?" I am TOTES loving it and it is close run to my feelings of this thread, but then nothing beats this thread when it comes to the community warm fuzzy feelings that comes with it! :A

starnac nice one for the whole nights sleep :T I remember that phase and it was soooooo hard being tired all of the time!

Ok so my plans for the weekend:

• checked banking x 2 & cc1
• updated spends spreadsheet
• will check through cupboards, fridge, freezer and do inventory/meal plan - should get away with just a few essentials this week
• get oh to make some bread
• have a quick showe instead of a bath
• do an hours work - work coming out of my ears as I'm leaving in

OMG just got distracted as my sewing machine has just arrived :T:j::T OMG soooooooooo excited. Now just need to learn how to use it! My home ecs teacher wrote in my report when I was 13 I was "good at sewing but painfully slow" :rotfl:

so list continues...

• list a few things on "evilbay" ha ha ha loving that! (need to start getting some "free money" to pay for the Thailand trip!)
• make a cake
• all meals from stores
• gonna go for a NSD even though I am going into town with my bestie. She has some vouchers to spend and I have a voucher for a few trial of some fancy comestics. I also have a maccy d card which is full so that's a latte & if all else fails I have £16 on my boots card
• go to the gym! I will do it this week!!!

ok think that's me for the weekend. Happy days y'all x

kjp

Morning all!

Thanks for starting the thread Josie!

Today/Tomorrow I will:
[STRIKE] Check banks[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] Check TCB[/STRIKE] Humph, how long is this £21.20 going to take to become payable?!
[STRIKE]Check CCs
Check Ebay[/STRIKE]
SB surveys!!!!
Keep up 'me' routine - moisturise, remember to remove makeup (!), prod at teeth with dental stick thingie (sorry if there are any dentists on here!) and...
[STRIKE] Day 3 of 30 day shred :O[/STRIKE]
Food from stores
[STRIKE] Update MS Money & reconcile with bank accounts[/STRIKE]
Update food tracker
Add a few things to shiny new 2012 diary
2lts free water
[STRIKE]Post Ebay item sold
Return couple of things at post office at the same time[/STRIKE]
Massive clearup of the bedroom - it's an absolute tip at the moment!
Vacuum
Find nice healthy low cal cheap lunch recipes that I can make in bulk
Take pics, write listings and weigh Ebay items to list tomorrow evening
Not spend all day on this forum/facebook!
Not going to be an NSD as buying OH a takeaway tonight - but he is fixing my car for me, saving me c. £150 in garage fees! But other than that, postage and stuff for lunches, spend nothing else
[STRIKE] Scan in professional photos of me and OH so I can get one printed and sent up to my Nan.[/STRIKE]

Think that's it for the day, giving myself 20 minutes to mess around on the internet as 'me' time, then must get cracking!

Have a great day all! Kxx

stitching_witch

Good morning evereyone and thanks for starting us off Jo! I thought about it at 7am then got involved in doing my Self-Assessment and only just finished :mad:

So far today:

• started WM on Economy 7 (at least the expensive water heating cycle will have been cheaper if nothing else)
• had last of Xmas goodies for breakfast
• fed and watered the chickens
• checked for surveys
• checked banking - scary but no surprise there
• submitted self-assessment and paid my tax bill - all £2.20 of it

I will also:

• hang HC on airer
• go to allotment to get veggies
• clean out chickens in exchange for some eggs
• batch cook some biscuits
• dry stale bread for breadcrumbs in the cooling-down oven
• all meals & snacks from stores
• have an NSD (I won't be counting the tax bill!!)
• do a couple of hours in the sewing room tonight

Hope you all have a great day and I'll do another list tomorrow.

stitchy x

hyperh

Hi all - have been a lurker for a while so wanted to share what I am doing today..

Taking back sales bargains which I really don't need or keep as gifts for the year.
Batch cooking for the next month as work is manic.
Regifting for an acquittance birthday today.
All xmas decs away - cant risk any bad luck if sticking to my plan.....
drive to the party tonight rather than drink.

Good luck making today a nsd!!:T

stitching_witch

determined_new_ms wrote: »

OMG just got distracted as my sewing machine has just arrived :T:j::T OMG soooooooooo excited. Now just need to learn how to use it!

Oooh, what did you get?? I'm sure you'll get along just fine, but if you need a pointer or two you know where I am :cool: