Monday 8th April - What small DFW things will you do today?

ziggy2407

Good Morning my lovelies

bt1 - Thanks for starting us off today
candy - Enjoy Liverpool and your break, never been so may add to my bucket list (lol)

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.

Not a great deal planned for today, just a quiet day for me (how boring am I?)

Check Banks - Done
Check swapits - Done
Check www.freepostcodelottery.com - Done
Packed lunch for OH - Done
General Tidy up - Done
Washing & line dry - Done
Watch Lovefilm DVD & return - Done
Look into when can cancel Lovefilm (& mark on calendar) - Done (& will deffo cancel as finding it hard to pick things to watch now)
Filing & Shredding -
Catch up on emails - Done
Meals from stores - Done
Update Food Tracker - In progress
Enter a few comps - Done a few
Knit or Read - Reading book from stash (rubbish but determined to finish)

Have a great day, love to you all.

C xx

allydowd

Morning DFW-Jedis, :j

I've got plague.

Today I shall:

:heart2: Do Nectar AdPoints. If you do AdPoints make sure you click on 'Collect more nectar points' under each video to get between one and four more points per video watched. (Link) Just received £5.41 to spend in Sainsbury's.

:heart2: Do Ipsos Surveys.

:heart2: Check Quidco and Topcashback to see if any cashback I've claimed is available. Yes! 40p!

:heart2: Stroll to local pharmacy later and aim to spend less than £2.


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Free two-hour AA Drive Confident Course, for people who already hold a licence. (Link)


OFFERS:

£10 off £50 Tesco Direct. Newbies only. (Link)

34p Kellogg's Cornflakes? (Link)

Amazon discount finder. (Link)

Help Oxfam and get 100 Nectar Points. (Link)

Wright's recipe book and 30p coupon by post. (Link)

determined_new_ms

Morning :wave: thanks for starting us off. I had a mini fall off the wagon on Saturday too. Never mind we only live once eh?

Things for the day:

* checked banking & shifted some funds
* move some cash out of savings and into main account
* all meals from stores - installment 2 of rubber chicken today (£4.50 chicken from lidl made roast dinner for 3 last night and now I have enough portions for 5 or 6 meals for 2 or 3 depending on who is around I work that out at around 30p per meal per person :T)
* 2 free biscuits from work as boss bought some in on Friday :T
* No spends from my personal account but some out of the house decorating fund
* check onepoll
* go for a run tonight
* stripping wallpaper/plaster & sanding spare room tonight

Ok that'll do me. Have a lovely day x

ooooo thanks ally think I will go and get a latte & I have also signed up for the mags :A

foxgloves

Morning Penny-savers,
A good start this morning. So far today, I have:
*Managed to do 2 loads of laundry & charge phone on Economy 7. (Laundry @30 degrees & my usual tightwad egg cup of powder).
*All laundry blowing on line outside, so spare room heating now turned off (Hopefully till next Autumn).
*Rubber chicken duties. (Roast chicken yesterday, will be enough to do chicken & chips tonight with salad, Chinese chicken stir-fry tomorrow, Mexican chicken pizza on Weds when I'll also put all the last bits & pieces & leftover gravy & veg in the slow cooker to make a stew to go on top of a jacket potato for Thurs.....also 1 chicken salad sandwich & 1 coronation chicken roll for Mr f's packed lunches....am pleased with that amount of s-t-r-e-t-ch from 1 medium chicken).
*Got all the chicken bones, odds & sods in the Slow cooker to make stock.
*Breadmaker on for dough to make bread rolls for the week.
*Cut up lots of saved spread/marge tubs to make plant labels as am getting through them like anything now that I'm trying to catch up in the garden.
*Checked for surveys - none today - always find Monday is a slack day for them.
*Made mature, sensible money-saving decision: Yesterday, Mr f received 10% off offer on holiday cottages for end/April Spring break. This would co-incide with my birthday so we all but decided to book one. Luckily we slept on it & decided this morning that tho' we can afford it without it going on credit, we have 2 car tyres & another minor car job to pay for (from the service last week), still need to buy 2 or 3 biggish camping items plus Mr f needs new DMs & there are other bits & pieces too, so we made a joint decision to start putting a bit of money aside each month & if it's been too wet to get away in our lovely tent by Autumn, we'll treat ourselves to a mini-break. The old me & the old Mr f?? Let's just say we'd have booked it instantly, & while we were at it would have booked a week (with no discount!) later in the year too. How people can change! If we can, I truly believe anyone can.
Still to do:
*Pot on baby aubergines, start pricking out flower seedlings as I don't want to lose them. Got a lot of gaps in my borders I want to fill with free plants, not go back to the silly amount of spending I used to do on a weekly basis in garden centres! (Then there would be the coffee & cake which they all sell.......Oh dear, I was a baddie....)
Anyway, feeling positive, so hope everyone else having a good day.
Cheers,
foxgloves x

Trajal

Today will be a full NSD for me.

*Made breakfast rather than bought it.

*Made lunch to carry in.

*Made coffee in the office rather than ran to starbucks.

*Walked to the station, got train, walked to the office.

*Checked banking - everything as planned.

*Checked cost of Visa for wife - sadly as expensive as expected.

*Checked budgetting. If I'm pretty austere with myself for 3 months I can move a whole month early - end of June/early July rather than wait for July's payday - will update figures in my sig shortly, it might be a bridge too far but I'll be doing my best, with your help for these low cost weeks and NSDs!

LocalAngel

Hello everyone,

So far today I have:

• Cycled all the way to the uni where I'm a part-time student
• Brought packed lunch and snacks from home
• Got a free Starbucks latte
• Completed surveys on Toluna and Valued Opinions
• Signed up with Fresh Thinkers market research

Still to do:

• Contact prospective lodger
• Cycle home (hopefully with the wind behind me!)
• Continue tidying up flat for prospective lodger
• Dinner from stores
• NSD

That's it for today I think

La_escocesa

Hi everyone :hello:

So, back to work, back to usual…

Here’s me:
J Renew library books -- avoiding fees
J Cheapo can of soup for lunch with 30p roll
J Emailing friends rather than calling/texting
J Finished marking papers – £5 per paper so think it’s £35 due
J Put cheque in bank
J Buy mascara with bday gift card
J Yoga tonight to keep me motivated!
J Posting vouchers for rail travel for delayed train – they make it so difficult to use to put you off I’m sure!!

Happy Monday everyone

Debtbusterintraining

Never posted on this thread but need to keep the focus and like the idea of this.
So today I .....
Hung my washing out to dry instead of using tumble dryer.
Put on a cardie instead of the heating,it's still chilly here.
Will post eBay parcels later.
Will walk to post office to post said parcels instead of using the car.
Make a cheap home made dinner of macaroni cheese later.
Have a NSD(not counting postage costs,as I will recoup these)

Quite pleased with that lot now I've written it down!

WelshWoofer

Afternoon all!
I'm still on holiday this week so have plenty of time to get on with my lists.

So today's teeny list is.....

• Painted skirtings and windowsill in spare room using a half tin of gloss found in the shed
• Bought new paint but rescued the receipt from the bin to take it back
• Succumbed to a vanilla slice from Greggs but it could have been so much worse:o
• Walked the dog twice - the second walk being an hour long along a freezing river bank in a nasty wind - hopefully have burned off the cake!
• Tea from stores
• Taken up carpet ready for new carpet on Thursday
• Taken library books back and got 5 new ones
• Bought curtain hooks from B&M for 99p
• Will put up the new lightshade and curtains later
• New mobile should be arriving this evening according to the courier's text can then recycle old mobile for cash
• Thinking about deal on Groupon for 10 sessions at LA Fitness for £19

That's about all for today.

madmary_2

New to NSD concept but although I'm slightly depressed (lost my lovely pen today and worried for my future) I thought I'd do some NSD type things. Apologies if I haven't got this right yet.

1 Took day off work to sort my head out and compensate for working Saturday.
2 contacted Credit card company who hadn't made balance transfer and sorted it.
3 contacted my fuel company and got a slight reduction in my Direct Debits for gas and electricity (every little helps).
4 Set up a proper household budget for the next 12 months and a plan to reduce my overdraft and credit card debts
5 kept the heating off for most of the day
6 Only smoked one cigarette so far (a major achievement for me). I have three left and then that's the last packet ever.
7 NSD.

Mary