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

Charityworker

I'm going to try and keep up with posts every day as I think it's keeping me focussed.

Had a lie in this morning. Felt like deserved it as I've worked hard earning money all week.

Got up to find that someone has booked my caravan for 2 weeks in august. Whoo hoo.

Answered some other queries about my caravan.

EBay items ended today. Got nearly £100 for 7 pieces of clothing I never wear!

Did the surveys.

Signed up to a toothpaste trial - yey free toothpaste.

Made value fish fingers and home made savoury rice for tea.

little_pink_purse

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Pink Purse- sorry your weeked wasn't too good regarding your sis x

Thank OF ive just put a smile on it lol
xxx

brizzledfw

Hi all

Good to see you starting the thread again Josie and so sorry little pink purse about your sis..family can be so hurtful at times..

I have not been on this weekend as at my mums and she doesn't have wireless so no sneaky reading of MSE!!

I have been restrained this weekend as with my mum and dad but OH and kids did spend some money on books ( am never sure whether they count as purchases..generally as important to me as food and drink;)) and we paid for a takeaway last night and had a lunch today.

But we do now have a paper log maker ( will let you know how this goes, am planning to take a leaf out of Scrappie's book and top up our newspaper recycling pile by nabbing papers from the neighbours recycling bins) and a bag of wood for the stove..all nabbed from my parents, plus pot plants and cakes. A fair haul I'd say!:D

Washing now on at 30. Dryer is broken and won't be replaced we have decided. Think will get a second hand freezer instead so can bulk freeze lots of lovely produce from the allotment etc.

Have meal planned for the next 2 weeks. Plan to go to Aldi for some bits too. Had to ignore the lure of the Nectar money off vouchers for Sainers but I think on balance I will save money by going to Aldi. Fresh veg and meat coming straight from the farm so cutting out the middleman there. I do really think planning makes a difference and also it so takes the stress out of everything at that crazy everyone home from work, school and need to get kids to bed time..

Cheers all, hope everyone has a good week

Brizzle

elfina_2

I keep checking the site to see where this is for this next week. Has it been posted yet please?

niksyg

A fairly busy weekend in our house.

Yesterday we had a shoot to go to, OH shot a few pheasants so that's a few meals sorted

Last night we went to a friend's to eat and play cards, so a fun cheap night.

Checked online banking, low balance but within budget.

Trip to farm shop for veg this morning and then Mr M...got some reduced meat for the freezer and so now nicely stocked up.

£7.00 moved into £365 account so that's now at £14.

Meal planner done for the next week.

Can't believe how quickly it went but I'm only doing a 4 day week this week and it's nearly my birthday :j

NewlyFrugalMumof3

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Today I hope to:

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All food from stores, including Roast Chicken & veggies for tea, nom, nom, nom
[/STRIKE]Whizz through ironing
[STRIKE]Walk dog x 1[/STRIKE]
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Delegate other dog walk to OH
Parcel up Amazon video to return tomorrow & get refund
Make cake for pack lunch puddings for boys
Make pack lunches this aft. for tomorrow
New metre reading to NPower (changed from EDF) so hopefully will get £100 high street vouchers plus cashback (can't remember how much
[/STRIKE]:o)
[STRIKE]Calculate what's left to make cc payment, after mammoth AMEX bill from December/Xmas spends[/STRIKE]!
[STRIKE]Figure out how to set up a spreadsheet for virtual pots to organise my budget more efficiently![/STRIKE]
Browse through any remaining online sales for any gifts that i can squirrel away for birthdays, & xmas.
[STRIKE]
Apply for savings account with bank so can use as a virtual pot (as above)
[/STRIKE][STRIKE]Cut OH's hair (so he'll save on hairdresser costs) [/STRIKE]- he can make me a cappacino in his coffee machine and give me 30 min sit down whilst he sees to 3 boys!

Non MSE:

Fit in lots of 30 mins study slots for OU courses that (as usual) I am behind on! As have assignment due to Thursday and am waaaay behind!

Tidy desk (in dining room) so that I can have a 'study area' and a place for my OU books to 'live' when i don't have my head in them.

Watch 1 of about 15 episodes of Casualty that's on our V+ to clear room to tape more casualty episodes!!

Have a great day everyone.

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Managed to do most of MSE things, but NO ou study :eek: !!! Manana, manana, manana!!!

lika_86

Well, it's been a profitable weekend for me. It's the first weekend I've had off in ages after a bout of illness (and resulting lack of sleep) over Christmas so I spent most of it being lazy and barely getting out of bed.

So I haven't spent anything, all of my meals have been from my stores and I cashed out another £5 Amazon voucher on Swagbucks.

Trying to decide if I should use my Swagbucks Amazon vouchers to buy books/DVDs (currently refuse to allow myself to spend money on new ones until I've read/watched all the ones I already own) or whether I should save them all up in my Amazon account in the hope that eventually they'll add up to enough to buy a Dyson or a Magimix or something else. Thoughts?

niksyg

lika_86 wrote: »

Trying to decide if I should use my Swagbucks Amazon vouchers to buy books/DVDs (currently refuse to allow myself to spend money on new ones until I've read/watched all the ones I already own) or whether I should save them all up in my Amazon account in the hope that eventually they'll add up to enough to buy a Dyson or a Magimix or something else. Thoughts?

Save them!! Much more rewarding in the longrun! :money: