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10 positive steps a day challenge - 2012
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I think ive remembered what ive been up to

Thursday
Had a good day at work, my friend absolutely loved the present, i was soooo excited to give it to her as I knew she would love it
Lunch from home
One load of washing
Long chat with friend on phone
Friday
Went for haircut
Had a good chat with sister
So thats 6 more smilies for me to add
:D:D:D:D:D
Todays list is:
Go for a nice walk
Go to the art gallery
Do lots of cleaning
Hopefully a little bit of decoration in the big front bedroom
Friend may be coming for drinks later
Ring round for more car insurance quotes
Have a fab Saturday everyone xxx0 -
Good Morning Everyone :wave:
Well i can quite believe it is Saturday already, most of the week seemed to vanish on me this week :eek:
Thought i might have had a clearer head this morning, but still rather fuzzy and i feel like i have lots to catch up on but not sure where to start
hate that feeling!!
Will give myself a couple of wee things to do to get me moving this morning and hope it helps:
1. wash dishes
2. put recycling out
3. put a wash on
4. tidy kitchen
shouldn't take too long to get those bits done as OH has been on top of most of it this week - :A
Will pop in later to plan a bit more hopefully
Happy Saturday Positeers
xx Debt at Aug 2010 (LBM) £21,908.86, Debt Freeeeee Date 4th Nov 2013 :j:j:j Massive Thanks to the £10 per day thread :A Next goals:Savings £1203.16/£10,000******Mortgage to Zero: £52,579.46 to go
Feb Earnings: £711.20/£500 March: £434.41/£500Currently compiling an A-Z of earning sites and happy to share it
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Good morning all :wave:
Well it's the start of half term so I am REALLY looking forward to spending some quality time with my gorgeous family
7 smilies for me yesterday
:D:D:D:D:D:D
and :jSig Updated to 142 smilies :j :dance:
Today I would like to......- Put a £1 a day into my 'stash the cash tin' Done
- Compile medical file
- Price books up for DD3's book sale Done
- Write Day 4 of my blog Done
- Take photograph and attach to important e-mail - then send!
- Empty another 'cube' Done
- Post important letter
- List ebay -- free listing today and I could really do with some extra pennies for holiday spending money Done
- Write and post birthday cards
- Return Child Benefit form
- Update diary Done
- Upload my favourite artists onto my you tube channel Done
"One hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much was in my bank account, nor what my clothes looked like but the world may be a little bit better because I was important in the life of a child."0 -
Thanks princesst84 and fairyclicks, I hate being useless and couldn't stomach the thought of doing nothing all day. Was sick again last night but glad I have the weekend to recover from whatever this is! Think I will do some less strenuous tasks today.
1. Superpoints DONE
2. Washing up
3. Reply to e-mails
4. Swagbucks to 550 DONE
5. Do at least 3 hours databasing work DONE + 2
6. Put some content on new website
7. Create new blog
8. Put something on eBay, free listing weekend
9. Transfer £5 T vouchers to £20 Pizza Exp vouchers
DONE
10. Maximiles Daily Polls/VideosDebt Free by Christmas 2012 #205 DONE!£2012 in 2012 #128 £1900/£2012£2 Saver 2012 #78 £0/MOT0 -
fairyclicks wrote: »
Will give myself a couple of wee things to do to get me moving this morning and hope it helps:
1. wash dishes - done
2. put recycling out - done
3. put a wash on - done
4. tidy kitchen - done
shouldn't take too long to get those bits done as OH has been on top of most of it this week - :A
Will pop in later to plan a bit more hopefully
Happy Saturday Positeers
xx
Few more to add to the list:
5. superpoints clicks done
another few days i should be able to cash out again 
6. swaggers - am on 831 so should be able to claim voucher today done
7. do a survey for my survey challenge done
8. List at least 5 things on ebay as its free listing weekend done
9. stop avoiding going on to fb cos i know there are messages there i need to respond to. done
10. See if i can reduce the amount of emails in my inbox to 100 (at 190 atm) done
ohhhhhhh heart racing at the thoughts of some of these today - slow and steady should get me there though
Debt at Aug 2010 (LBM) £21,908.86, Debt Freeeeee Date 4th Nov 2013 :j:j:j Massive Thanks to the £10 per day thread :A Next goals:Savings £1203.16/£10,000******Mortgage to Zero: £52,579.46 to go
Feb Earnings: £711.20/£500 March: £434.41/£500Currently compiling an A-Z of earning sites and happy to share it
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and :jSig Updated to 142 smilies :j :dance:
Wow a HUGEEEEEEEEEE well done for that TM6
:T:T:D
I have to do some counting too - have lost count completely :rotfl::rotfl:Debt at Aug 2010 (LBM) £21,908.86, Debt Freeeeee Date 4th Nov 2013 :j:j:j Massive Thanks to the £10 per day thread :A Next goals:Savings £1203.16/£10,000******Mortgage to Zero: £52,579.46 to go
Feb Earnings: £711.20/£500 March: £434.41/£500Currently compiling an A-Z of earning sites and happy to share it
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fairyclicks wrote: »Wow a HUGEEEEEEEEEE well done for that TM6
:T:T:D
I have to do some counting too - have lost count completely :rotfl::rotfl:
One of your positive steps for tomorrow could be counting all your smilies :rotfl:"One hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much was in my bank account, nor what my clothes looked like but the world may be a little bit better because I was important in the life of a child."0 -
Great to hear everyone on such good form today! Hopefully we all have some fab weekends planned - I plan to stay in watching naff tv in the warm with Little Man which is my idea of bliss!
Gained another 5 smiles for yesterday - must do sig! Hubs took the laptop to work with him last night so only just got my mitts on it, so here is my weekend plan!- Lots of ebay for free listing weekend
- Clean Oven
- Clean Hob and sideboards
- Go and visit MIL
- Finish Cross stitch for Little Mans room
- Food shopping (hopefully under £75 again!)
- SB over 100
- 2 surveys
- DY review
- Colour my hair - roots are awful!!
Make £10 a day June 103.04/300
Declutter 2018 in 2018 3/2018
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Didnt quite stick to the original list

Maximiles daily polls and videos
Lovey walk round a local lake
Folded all dry clothes
One load of washing on
Washed up and wiped all kitchen tops down
Tidied round living room
Night everyone x0 -
princesst84 wrote: »Maximiles daily polls and videos

Thank you! Had completely forgotten about the Maximiles daily polls!
Debt Free by Christmas 2012 #205 DONE!£2012 in 2012 #128 £1900/£2012£2 Saver 2012 #78 £0/MOT0
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