Monday 26th November - What small DFW things will you do today??!

Determined_diva

Hi all,
Mine are:

Pick up my package from post office - done! Was my love to shop Christmas savings vouchers

Post eBay sale (Nintendo ds) - done! Postage was £3.15 but I had charged £5 so made a bit on that as well :-)

Upload some more bits to eBay - done! 5 things uploaded now :-)

Tidy house up

Do the ironing

Call orange up and find out when I am out of contract - done. Out of contact August 2013 and will cost me £287.41 to get out of it now.

Finish off 2013 budget planning and make sure I am happy with it

Get nails done - I have bitten them all down due to stress so this will be done this once only the once they have grown I shall go back to doing them myself... PROMISE! - done! That's the last time I am spending £25 on them though! No more biting due to stress

Send off old phone to mazooma mobile - cant do! I have found the bag that I kept the charger and phone in... Without the phone! Now I am hoping that its just fallen out (even though it was nearly fully sealed) and not that a family member who has pawned stuff of mine in the past has taken it. Will keep you posted.

Hang washing out - done

sibles

Morning all.

DNMS - wow, you are a busy bunny and looks like I missed your birthday! Happy birthday lovely!:bdaycake:
Orange Fairy - congrats on the permanent job, now practise in the mirror saying "Thank you so much, how kind of you" - you deserve to be praised!

Nottoobad - :grouphug: - have a dodgy group hug (jonno7 is in there too!)

My love to all of you that need it, welcome to the thread lucy, a most wonderful bunch of people here, they won't judge, just support.

Today is the first day of my last week at work, tomorrow is payday, and in my head I see it as PAYDAY! because it is the big one.
today I'm just getting through the day, and having lunch with a friend.

Today I have/will:
- breakfast and tea from stores (lunch out as need to go shopping tonight)
- make list and stick to it for shopping
- clicks and searches
- try and get as many SB codes in the extravaganza as I can today
- buy cheap lunch
- clear my desk out at work a bit
- learn a bit more about SEO and apply to aunts website
- price up some christmas presents ready to buy tomorrow
- write down spends

That is me for now. Big day tomorrow! Will be totally debt free!
Have a great monday one and all
xxx

rising_from_the_ashes

sibles wrote: »

Big day tomorrow! Will be totally debt free!

Can't believe it's your last week ..... I know you'll probably know this but thought I'd mention - if you're using some of your redundancy money to pay off debts, have you checked that it doesn't affect your entitlement to benefits (as it can apparently do this)?

I think it may depend on amounts etc as I know you also wouldn't get these if your savings are above a certain amount, so it may be worth doing anyway.

La_escocesa

Hi there,

I hope we're all well. Sounds like everyone's got a lot going on - I'm skim reading in work but hope I can catch up properly soon…

Hope you had a good bday DNMS
Big hugs NTBY - have missed you
Yay OF - glad to hear about your job
Debt free Sibles - how amazing!!!
Welcome Lucy - hope you love it here
Big hellos to everyone else - will catch up soon xx

I've been getting a few bits and pieces sorted around the house this weekend. Wish I had enough leave to take a few days off to get organised - the weekends just aren't long enough…

Here's me:
Use overtime payment to buy new bedroom carpet :T
£11.99 blind for kitchen; fitted ourselves - looks great too even though it was cheap
£33.50 cheque to bank - mystery shopping payment - will pay for niece & nephew's Christmas pressies.
£20 in £2 coin pot - not much but will buy a little pressie for my ma and pa's Christmas.
Need to check Paypal - survey money goes directly there - will buy another Christmas pressie or two…
Buying lunch with a few coins I found in my jacket pocket - get a nice roll from bakers for my cupasoup
Buy cakepops kit I saw for £5 - make a bunch for Christmas pressies - Need to get organised…
Take refillable water bottle to yoga tonight
Check my Euromillions ticket - can't believe I still haven't done this and have spent the morning in work!!! What a waste that will be when I find out I'm a millionaire :rotfl:

Pernicious

Hi everyone,

Thanks for starting us off DNMS, I feel the same lately!
OF - Congratulations! Very happy for you :j
NTBY - Massive hugs coming your way :grouphug: It wasn't that long ago you were burgled before, what rotten luck! Hope you manage to get things in order today so you can relax a bit more.
RFTA - Hope wee cat is ok!
Lucy - Are your 7 rabbits all housed together?
Determined Diva - Fingers crossed you find the phone.

Today I have/will:-

• Made use of free water & milk at work
• Staying in for my lunchbreak to avoid spending
• Leftovers for lunch
• Food from stores
• Dinner from meal plan - HM Spag bol from the freezer
• Charge phone at work
• Heating off as long as possible, lots of layers are the way forward
• Daily clicks etc on Sw@gbucks
• Log calories using free app
• Check online banking
• Surveys
• Declutter & flylady
• Check for new mystery shopping opportunities
• Enter some comps
• Need to update grocery challenge still...I have completely lost track of it now, all I know is I am over budget by a lot!
• Sort out items to return to New L00k
• Make use of TKD membership this evening
• Look in local paper for job opportunities
• Make a list of everything I still need to buy for xmas, most of it is sorted now thanks to Clubcard vouchers & Black Friday sales!

Have a great, MSE day everyone x

sibles

RFTA - The only thing I am entitled too would be contributions based JSA, checked all that out, and still seems best thing to do. Thanks for the thoughts though - I'm sure I'm going to forget something.

Good news is there is potential of an interview, so fingers crossed!!

headoutthesand

Good evening everyone. Hope everyone has has a nice start to the week

Today I:
Checked banking (I curse using iTunes when drinking wine)
Moved money about to cover iTunes bill
Used birthday money to put petrol in the car rather than dip into savings
Sent email to national paper re broken oven
Sent email to watchdog re broken oven
LSD - only bought essentials (loo roll and juice for kids packed lunches)

Absolutely fuming about broken oven. I googled their name and it brought up that it is a recurring problem which cost £67 a time to replace.
Takeaway for kids tonight - I've caught their sickness bug and the thought of making food makes me heeve.
DS2 missed his prepaid swimming lessons too cos of my nasty bug


Well done to everyone in their money saving adventures today

rising_from_the_ashes

sibles wrote: »

Good news is there is potential of an interview, so fingers crossed!!

Crossed!:D

rising_from_the_ashes

Kind of in a bit of a mess again with my OD

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=57523015&postcount=977

Pants ........ knew I never should've gone back into it as this is what happened last time but I guess it's better than a loan or a huge c/card balance (and I have a newer car so don't need to worry about that for a while)

I just find the OD so hard to get rid of compared to things like c/cards - never been able to figure out why as it's still debt and I want it gone!:o

PurpleFairy26

My recipe for bacon, lentil and tomato soup - well, please bear with me recipe is probably a loose association but DH said it was nice :rotfl:

Sweat a chopped onion in a little olive oil
Add some chopped bacon (I used 4 rashers) and cook
Added 1 tin of chopped toms and 1 carton of passata but you could use an extra tin of chopped and a tablespoon of pur!e if easier.
Add a handful of red lentils about 75g ish and enough water to make it not too thick. I added salt, pepper to taste plus a teaspoon of sugar (as i used value tomatoes) and a glug of balsamic vinegar Bring to the boil, then simmer until the lentils are soft. Add some more water if too thick. Then blend if a smoother finish is required.

Enjoy