Monday 23rd September 2013 - What small DFW things will you be doing today?

foxgloves

Morning Monday money-savers,
Today's positive small MSE things:
*Laundry done overnight on Economy 7 tariff, 30 deg, half powder. Done.
*Bucket of handwashing & spun it, rather than running whole cycle again. Done.
*Everything line-drying minus rain at the moment. Ongoing.
*Rubber chicken. All divvied up, 4 days worth of dinners plus 2 packed lunches. Done.
*Everything for chicken stock prepared ready to put in slow cooker overnight on Economy 7. Done.
*Golden lentil soup bubbling away in the slow cooker (using forgotten about ham stock from depths of freezer) Done.
*Make tomorrow's packed lunch.
*Sort out all the apples picked yesterday. Wrap best ones individually in newspaper to store. Done.
*Use the good parts of the mankiest ones for making apple & mint jelly.
*Use the good parts of the next mankiest ones for making apple sauce for the freezer.
*Enter 6 competitions. Half-done.
*Keep checking to see if Debenhams customer services have responded to my complaint. (Not yet, will look later)
*Go through today's post & remove anything recyclable.....a clean blank envelope, 2 plastic bags to use as freezer bags & some clean-on-one-side A4 paper which I cut up to make phone/kitchen notepads, etc. Done.
*Carry on knitting Christmas present.
Had intended to pack away my summer clothes too, but as I'm still armpit-deep in apples, I'll be quite pleased if I just finish this list.
Have a good start to the week, everyone.
foxgloves x

166million

Hello
I love this thread, but I'm not on the site that often.

Today I will/ have:

- Transferred some money from a basic savings account to my ISA.
- Got packed lunch so not buying any food nsd unless i am close to starving
- Go to gym - use membership
- Cook proper dinner - no buying extra food
- Put some money in my piggy banks tonight.

ShootForTheMoon

Morning Gang...

Thanks for starting us bt1! Nice to see the thread so busy today!!

Had a fantastic weekend despite work getting in the way of the social life - night shifts now for the rest of my week, so having a relatively chilled day!

My little list goes something like this:

Check online banking and start my FD regular saver!! Exciting!!

Transfer Birthday money into Holiday Fund and Savings.

Get OH set up with FD - that's £250 they're GIVING us just for opening accounts with them - winner!! :beer:

Washing on quick wash - dry outside in the sunshine

Put ironing away that OH did last night :A

30-day Shred workout and abs challenge - not sure how successful this will be as my biddy is in bits after rugby yesterday!!

Nectar Adpoints - have been rubbish on this lately - need to catch up!!

Swagbucks

Put £15 diesel in the car to last until payday on Friday as it's my turn driving to work

Working night shift - take grub and drinks to prevent unhealthy and un-MSE snacking!!

Clean and wax car at work later if it is relatively quiet - although going by the last week or so doubt I'll get chance!!

Cheapo pizza tea with rocket from the allotment


Think that's about it - hope everyone has a productive Monday!! Keep smiling!!!

xxx

Thrifty_Fashionista

Hello

I'm off work for the week so think I can make some progress!

• No need to buy lunch!
• Popped out this morning and didn't buy any milk or wine for tonight - saved £6.19
• Going to list bits on ebay

Thank you everyone for your ideas.
TF x

Pernicious

:wave:

Thanks for starting us off bt1.
It's great to see the thread so busy today, hello & welcome to all the newbies!


Today's plan:-

• Making use of free water at work
• Food from stores, leftovers for lunch
• Dinner from meal plan - Can't remember what it is we're having now!
• Staying in for my lunch break to avoid spending
• Log calories & exercise on free apps
• Checked birthday bingo
• Check online banking & enquire why our 0% overdraft is ending next month, I am sure we had longer on it...Must do this tonight!
• Check for new mystery shopping opportunities
• Enter some comps
• Do some surveys
• Declutter & flylady
• DH hopefully doing some overtime today
• Heating off, fleecey dressing gowns on instead
• Hoping to hear back about temp promotion, fingers crossed!
• Today is day 8 of the 30 days challenge - free exercise using DVD
• Create a meal plan using up everything from stores. We have about £3 left of our budget until the 28th :eek: - Still haven't done this, must do tonight!
• Keep an eye on items listed on fleabay

Hope you're all ok & have a great MSE day x

xJOJOx_2

I'm late today, baby had me awake all night, just coming out of zombie mode now!

Todays List :

• Check on line banking Done
• Wrap and print return labels for amazon order[COLOR="rgb(153, 50, 204)"] Done[/COLOR]
• Finish filling child benefit form [COLOR="rgb(153, 50, 204)"]Done[/COLOR]
• Place all items for post office in bag so dont forget them in the morning!
• Lunch from stock [COLOR="rgb(153, 50, 204)"]Done [/COLOR]
• Tea from stock [COLOR="rgb(153, 50, 204)"]Done[/COLOR]
• NSD [COLOR="rgb(153, 50, 204)"]Done[/COLOR]
• Quick tidy up
• Ironing away and all washing done [COLOR="rgb(153, 50, 204)"]Done[/COLOR]
• Search online for cheapest place to buy curtains for babys room
• Write list of few bits needed and get oh to buy
• Start writing christmas list for me of things I need ;-)

stewby

a bit late to today but oh well...

i haven't really achieved anything as i have been sleeping off a nightshift. which is actually really good as it means we are having a nsd.

plan for today:
* read at least two diaries on here for inspiration - done.
* spend nothing (well i have, my oh went flying today) - failed but only because i bought OH a reward for putting in his CVs.
* convince oh to put his bloody cv into an airline - not only succeeded but he put it into four different companies, and a very kind soul from here has offered us help as well.


not many today but seeing as i have been sleeping all day, there isn't much to achieve.

looking forward to the october step up challenge. i think i am going to go for that. then i will have a whole list of things to achieve everyday.

MrsGSR

It's NSD 8 for me yay!
Today I have-
-taken meter readings and uploaded them to the site.
-switched energy suppliers which will mean a saving of £14 a month. We will be paying an early get out fee of £50 but if it means we willsave in the long run I'm not too fussed.
- put the towels on to wash for hanging out tomorrow as will be a nice day.
- made tea for me and kids from leftover pork and have some leftover to take to work.
-rewrote the shopping lists for the month.
-meal planned
-took DS to a new toddler group which he loved and first session was free!

All in all a good day

DawnW

Hello :j
Better late than never I suppose

I commute and work long hours and don't often get on here till about now

So not a very impressive list I am afraid

Washing on line before work (though it didn't dry much, so it is now on the airer indoors)

Read news free online and free paper on train

Packed lunch to work, made own coffee to avoid buying any

Continued to dry courgettes in the dehydrator when I am here to keep an eye on it (it is an old and cheap one, but works ok). Put some chillis in as well now

OH cooked supper, as he was at home. Roast chicken and trimmings

Rest of chicken in fridge for other meals, left over gravy in freezer.

Registered for online banking for new account

Checked ebay items for sale

Off to bed soon!

xJOJOx_2

Haha looks like a lot of us were running late today x