Wednesday 23 January - What small DFW things will you do today?

nurse-money

Got two things to add!

- Checked Mr T's price checker, they owe me £2.85 from an old shop! Printed voucher

- Checked emails have been accepted for a 0% balance transfer credit card, so going to transfer money around when it arrives!

Things are looking up!

josiebabie

You're right mum, I am lovely

Anyways, back to it!
- Checked bank :eek: roll on payday Friday!
- OH looked at mums (soon to be new to her) car to mend a couple of bits
- Negotiated valet on above car...shhh it's a secret! :rotfl:
- Breakfast and dinner from stores, lunch I bought at the shop :eek:
- Popped to Mr T's for lunchbox stuff and sandwich bags to...
- ...bag up and freeze meat pack DB3 bought from catering butcher
- Lovely relaxing bath, much needed, feeling a bit stressed with things!
- E-mail CV to another job advert I've spotted and google some more
- Find cheap but classy necklace and earring set to wear on Friday
- Sparkled and didn't get too irritated by colleagues!!!

Jx

ziggy2407

ziggy2407 wrote: »

Good Morning my lovelies

Hi :wave:to all the regulars and lurkers and a BIG welcome to all the newbies, this is a really FAB thread with so many lovely, caring, considerate and supportive people - and I am proud to call them my friends.

Today's small things:

Check Banks - Done
Check swapits - Done
Check www.freepostcodelottery.co.uk - Done
OH & LO packed lunches - Done
General Tidy up - Done
Ironing (while watching The Pradise) -
Work (11.30-2.00) - Done
Exercise - Just lots of walking
Up to date on main email account - Done
Update Food Tracker - In progress
Meals from stores (last nights left overs made into pie) - Done & tasted FAB
Farmfoods - Tomorrow
Enter a few comps - Done a few

Hope you have all had a great day, love to you all

C xx

Welcome to all the newbies today, hope you'll stick around as this is a great place to be

Stitchy - Did you get your car?

Another good day but MUST really crack this ironing tomorrow.

Night all xx

stitching_witch

ziggy2407 wrote: »

Stitchy - Did you get your car?

Jo's just getting some bits sorted out for me (see above) but it shouldn't be long before I can collect it :j:j:j

carrielovesfanta

Ally - couldn't quote you about the bath but made me laugh because I haven't had a bath since June 2010 :rotfl:

Tia0101

Got home to realise that my pork chops hadn't defrosted! Humph! However ive managed to make the loveliest hot pot with what was sitting in my cupboards! Heres me thinking i've got nothing in at this rate im going to discover i can actually cook! Before discovering these boards i would have ordered a probably expensive take-away. Thank you everyone for the inspiration and motivation! :T

stacey2193

Evening all I am late today due to work but find myself unable to go to bed without logging on here to see all your useful tips and links !

My day was

Work 0900 - 1900 - VERY busy day, left home at 0745 didn't need fuel, had breakfast of weetabix, due to business no time for proper lunch managed to swallow some rice pudding heated in microwave, rushed home to collect DD, couldn't go to SM as left bank card at home ( on purpose )

Made dinner from food in stores - resisting urge to go buy things but will need bread and milk and eggs etc tomorrow but will stick to list.

Another NSD and still half a tank of diesel which should cover at least two shifts next week.

Days off tomorrow and Friday yay

Tia0101

Today I am going to call SKY and haggle my TV/ Broadband/ Phone package. I tried this the other day and they offered a bit less but nowhere near enough... Time to try a different team member :rotfl: Anyone got any tips? I need to get it down to £40 or less. Last bill was £72 :eek: I'm going to cancel the movie package but they say even the most basic of packages is £42.50 plus VAT .... anyone got it any cheaper than that? Of course I could just change telephone/ broadband supplier and go freeview...

foxgloves

Tia - We went Freeview a couple of years or so ago. We were paying about £40 a month for fairly basic Virgin media package - broadband, landline & tv channels (not mega film ones or any of the big sports ones). We decided we couldn't justify it, as one evening, partner (who I thought would want to keep it!) said 'Look, let's go through all the channels together & say whether we watch it or want to watch it or never watch it'. So we did that & can you believe there was ONE channel I thought I might possibly miss!! We dropped the tv package & started paying about £23 for just broadband & landline. So that meant we'd been paying £17 for one channel on which I watched one programme a week for the 8 or so weeks of the year it was actually on!! How mad was that? We love Freeview. Partner just starting to make noises about looking at different suppliers for phone & broadband as he reckons he's seen better deals around than Virgin now, but we won't be having those tv channels back! x

Tia0101

foxgloves wrote: »

Tia - We went Freeview a couple of years or so ago. We were paying about £40 a month for fairly basic Virgin media package - broadband, landline & tv channels (not mega film ones or any of the big sports ones). We decided we couldn't justify it, as one evening, partner (who I thought would want to keep it!) said 'Look, let's go through all the channels together & say whether we watch it or want to watch it or never watch it'. So we did that & can you believe there was ONE channel I thought I might possibly miss!! We dropped the tv package & started paying about £23 for just broadband & landline. So that meant we'd been paying £17 for one channel on which I watched one programme a week for the 8 or so weeks of the year it was actually on!! How mad was that? We love Freeview. Partner just starting to make noises about looking at different suppliers for phone & broadband as he reckons he's seen better deals around than Virgin now, but we won't be having those tv channels back! x

Thank you Foxgloves! I think I'm probably guilty of the same thing although I do like to be able to pause/ rewind live TV. Might just have to bite the bullet (or the remote!) and just stick with Freeview. I hardly watch any channels anyway x :undecided

After a somewhat lengthy conversation with SKY I got rid of the movies and theyve promised to send me a free new router and half my line rental for 12 months... Saving of £37.50 per month... I'm happy with that! WooHoo!