Wednesday 4th September - What Small DFW Things Will You Be Doing Today??!

La_escocesa

Hello there everyone :wave:

Here’s me:

• Brekkie at home
• Packed lunch
• Teaching yoga :T
• Got refund paid for faulty item
• PAD to cc - Pay refunded amount as it’s extra money I wasn’t expecting :j
• Reading a book from stash and not buying another until payday
• Do a survey - £3
• Update money master ss with survey money
• Sent job ad to OH
• Decide about tonight’s tea and tomorrow’s packed lunch… Spend min amount poss!

Catch up soon everyone :grouphug:

Pip – that sounds like an awesome idea – love it!

Zig – you should come try my yoga class

Pernicious

Hi everyone,

Thanks for starting us off Karb, hope you manage to find a new job very soon.
DNMS - A massive congratulations to you! You've done so well.
Happytails - Would you mind sharing the recipe? Sounds lovely & very healthy!

I was very pleased with myself at Sainsbugs yesterday, I stuck to the list like glue & used the coupons perfectly so we actually came under budget :j I am sure we will use it next week or something but it's nice to know I CAN do this if I try hard enough.

Today's plan:-

• Making use of free water at work
• Staying in for my lunch break to avoid spending
• Food from stores
• Dinner from meal plan - Jambalaya! Trying something new tonight.
• Log calories & exercise on free apps
• Checked birthday bingo
• Check online banking
• Check for new mystery shopping opportunities
• Enter some comps
• Do some surveys
• Declutter & flylady
• Check emails for reply regarding refund

Have a great, MSE day everyone x

foxgloves

Afternoon all,
Really busy, productive morning here. Kitchen looks like bombsite.
So far today, I have:
*Picked peas & fresh herbs, pulled the last of the carrots, picked another 2kg tomatoes & rounded up all the windfall apples.
*Got a nice chunky beef stew going in the slow cooker. Will freeze it, take out of freezer on morning we set off for camping break & it can defrost on route to provide a hearty warming meal on our first night. (It may keep us out of the pub!)
*Skinned & whizzed up more of our home grown tomatoes in the food pro for freezing.
*Chopped up all the windfall apples & made apple & ginger chutney. That's just been bottled - recycled jars of course - I don't think I'd be physically capable these days of going in a shop & paying money for jars.
*Veggies all chopped for tonight's meal - chicken & veg curry, using the last of the rubber chicken & the curry sauce I batch-cooked the other week.
*Used the last of the chicken stock I made on Mon & another wodge of tomatoes to make lentil & tomato soup. That will be frozen for lunch next week when I have family coming over.
Still to do:
*Clear up kitchen or face becoming a missing person under all the rubble & detritus of this morning's efforts.
*Sewing job: See if I can successfully use a cream throw (which I don't use) to add an additional layer of insulation to a door curtain. I want to keep the curtain as it's a piece of shabby chic vintage loveliness, but it goes over a doorway where there is no actual door & is a wind tunnel for draughts. Think it might work - intend to put on free podcast & see what I can do.
*Tonight: Make list of pre-camping trip jobs. I don't want to find there is stuff we have to buy (expensively) while we're there, because we haven't planned properly.
That's me for today. Keep your mitts on your money, everyone.
foxgloves x

allydowd

The List:

:staradmin Tended back garden after doing front garden. Harvested all the broad beans.

:staradmin Went to secure the back on our tv unit with a couple of nails as it was coming off and found it covered in mildew. Cleaned it off. Unfortunately our last flat wasn't watertight and every so often another pocket of mildew springs up in our home from furniture we've kept.

:staradmin Adding blackberries to victoria sponge later to make polkadot sponge.

:staradmin Discovered source of wasps;neighbours eaves. Hopefully she'll take some action on this given that half the neighbourhood have been stung.

:staradmin Told neighbour about HMRC Uniform Tax Rebate. Read this link if you wear a uniform to work and haven't made a claim yet. (Link) Trying to "build bridges" with said neighbour. OH has at least decided to start talking to him again which is progress. I hate dis-harmony!

:staradmin Washing out on whirligig.

:staradmin Bleed radiators if radiator key arrives in the post. Yay! Fixed it.

:staradmin Got out wee steam cleaner to clean back door area.

:staradmin Using up trial size toothpaste tubes before opening up new one.

AlexLK

*Filled in my spreadsheet for income and expenditure.
*Began to draft a letter about settlements on my CC debt.
*Started eBaying.

MinnieMousesMummy

Good evening. Hope everyone is having a good Wednesday.

My list for today for today included:

Quick shower DONE
School & childminder runs DONE
College DONE
Make a start on homework for next week
Do some home study course work
Phone DM DONE
Check bank and move money around DONE
Catch up with emails DONE
Feed the animals and check chickens for eggs
Return product to home shopping agentDONE
Do a load of laundry
Make banana bread
Sort college paperwork
Update survey spreadsheet and redeem
Make hairdresser appointment (not ms but badly needing done)DONE
Sort a to do list for this week and see what I still need to get done

I think that is everything that I really need to try and get done today.

sam_in_leeds

Attended a training session on "Income in Retirement Options" at work.

Only for the free lunch mind! First no spend day in ages!

foxgloves

Ooooooh, the stew for freezing to take camping was sufficient to do a hefty extra portion too. Stew is very useful leverage for mr f, who is very good at doing jobs, but even better at doing them if the thought of a big bowl of stew can be planted in his mind before seeing if he might like to mow the lawn, dig the raised beds, turn the compost heaps, de-spider the house, etc.

HOK3Y

I did a few things:

Took lunch to work
Spent 0.00 all day!
Made a cobbler with blackberries picked for free
Checked my bank accounts
Transferred money from PayPal to the bank
Considered strangling hubby.....then realized he's not insured....okay, that might have been a joke.....at least half a joke.....!

ziggy2407

HOK3Y wrote: »

Considered strangling hubby.....then realized he's not insured....okay, that might have been a joke.....at least half a joke.....!

I am positive all of us have contemplated this at some time or other :rotfl: