Sat/Sun, 28/29th September - What Small DFW Things Will You Be Doing This Week

Pernicious

Happy Saturday everyone :j

Thanks for starting us off Carrie. Glad to see your OH is at least trying, hope he sticks with it & becomes as MSE as you are. I'm afraid I'm not as crafty as that but if you won't get it finished in time, maybe buy her a supercheap gift just so she has something to open on the day (even something as little as a terrys choc orange maybe, mmm) & pop in a photo of what you've made so far with a little note on to apologise for it not being ready on time? If you go with the choc orange idea you can wrap it up to look like a reindeer, super cute! I've done it before & it's really easy.
Ally - Thanks for all your links! I've just printed the yoghurt coupon (it hasn't printed very well though as once again I am running out of black ink, hope they accept it!) & I received my free Baileys sample today too.
DNMS - I hope you get paid more than me to do all that then! Hope your relaxing day goes to plan despite the mass amount of batch cooking you'll be doing!

Today's plan:-

• Food from stores
• Dinner from meal plan - Thai green curry, mmm
  
• Log calories & exercise on free apps
• Checked birthday bingo
• Check online banking & move funds around
  
• Check for new mystery shopping opportunities
• Enter some comps
• Do some surveys
• Declutter & flylady
• Heating off, fleecey dressing gowns on instead
• Keep an eye on items listed on fleabay
• Go to second job this evening, walking there & back with DH so we can partake in a few bevvies :beer:
• Printed coupon for free yoghurt & received free sample of Baileys, thank you Ally
• Pay off CC H2 & close account :j
• Update signature!

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

KittyBoo_2

I've not been on here for ages so hence to say I've been spending. Not making an excuse but I have had my first Grandchild 6 months ago and been buying"bits" for him when he comes to stay. All got a bit out of hand even though I've bought second hand things.
Anyway I am now going to be doing my best to make extra mortgage payments and some off my energy bill of £350. I want to clear this before the next bill in December and I also pay £50 d/d every month towrds the next bill.
Whenever I get the urge to spend on non essentials, I log onto the energy company and pay what I was going to spend, off my balance.

So today
* paid an extra £10 off energy bill
*got a loaf baking in bread maker
* cleaned the car interior
*washed all whites and pegged them out
* used homemade cleaning products and cleaned kitchen floor
*fed cat on some leftover chicken bits that were lurking in the freezer from God knows when.
*taking Grandson for a walk to park.

Not much in the way of paying things but a start to getting back on track and staying off ebay etc.
Feels good to be back x

sam_in_leeds

I did 5 hours overtime for the princely sum of £84.28

Unfortunately semi-fell off the DFW wagon...

£9 on Arctic Monkeys CD (It's BRILLIANT)
£4.50 on Cod and Chips mmm
£5 on flowers for Mrs Sam_In_Leeds
£6 bottle of wine.

But at least still £59.78 in the right direction. very close to the first time in about 10 years I'll be less than £1000 in debt!

Tiggy10

Tiggy10 wrote: »

So my list:
- Pay huge phone bill from texting abroad done
- Pay CC off in full! they wont accept my payment will call when offices open using alternative number from sayno..
- hopefully pay off some OD when the bank opens
-Find out from bank why I am 10.67 overdrawn as of this morning on my bill account when I havent used it since 20/9

turns out i couldnt pay off my CC today as NW bank blocked my card due to believing I was a victim of fraud....
thats what happens when i start paying off all my debts! :rotfl:

All sorted and turns out the 10.67 was outstanding from when I canceled my platinum account.

Also thanks Ally my free Baileys came today!!

allydowd

carrielovesfanta wrote: »

Thanks ally. How thick was your stuff? I don't think that the standard 7mm stuff is going to be thick enough (says a lot about our door...). The stuff on ebay is 12mm.

The stuff we got from Tesco was 10mm.

allydowd

Hi again,

Had a lovely day today: Hiked to the next village to have a look at Craft Fair, Veg Show and Garden Centre. All free, spent nothing.

The List 2:

:starmod: Baked camembert and egg yolks from Tesco Goodie bag into a quiche for dinner.

:starmod: OH made 1kg of jam with the blackberries we foraged on the way home along the shore and sugar from Goodie bag.

:starmod: Baked egg whites and sugar from Goodie bag into meringues.

:starmod: Used eggs from Goodie bag to make four Scotch eggs.

xJOJOx_2

Hi all,

Weekend List

~ Filled up washing up liquid and cleaning spray from freebies from work
~ Free loo paper too (wrong size so I got too keep)
~ No money spent today
~ Researched best camera and price for d online (going to get half cash of partner as I normally pay for all presets, no longer though lol)
~ Checked banking
~ Quick tidy round
~ Found 35p for penny jar
~ All meals from stock (managed to stop myself getting a chippy!)
~ Watched borrowed dvd rather than buying

carrielovesfanta

Morning everyone!

Ally - thanks I will look into the tesco stuff asap

Tiggy - wouldn't it be awesome to be a fraud victim where they PAY your debts?! :rotfl:

DNMS - freezer nooooooooo.

Perni and DNMS - yup poor OH he is a pain in the bum but he's a good kind man, just a little messed up sometimes!

Perni - please share instructions on the reindeer choc orange thing. That sounds brilliant

Well we got a bit over excited yesterday and went out... not very mse because it costs a lot in taxis from ours to the nearest town but we took out an agreed amount from our personal spends and stuck to it. Even have some change left!

To continue from yesterday's list:

B/D from stores. Maybe L too, depends on OH. Still drinking my free coffee. More whoopsie croissants for brekkie.

Have not tried the bread yet. Made a 500g loaf but it's very lopsided. Seemed to be a lot of salt in the recipe. Might be too salty for my liking.

Drop broken electrical items in at recycling centre on way to place we are going for a walk.

Roasting tomatoes for soup. Hoping to tempt OH with this instead of lunching at pub on the walk,

OH has promised to consider the lunch money idea.

Find insulation tape - thanks again ally

Good start I think. Hopefully will do some more through the day.

allydowd

Morning DFW-Jedis, :wave:

I'm taking it easy as I'm fighting a migraine today.

The List:

:starmod: Look at Approved Food. (Link)

:starmod: Breakfast includes free eggs Tesco Goodie bag.

:starmod: Checked banking.

:starmod: Use tv24 instead of buying a RadioTimes. (Link)

:starmod: Nuked half a cup of coffee when it went cold. Must stop doing this!

:starmod: OH to take down plastic greenhouse before the wind propels it through Glencoe.

:starmod: Recharge batteries.

:starmod: Lunch is homemade Scotch eggs.

Freebies:

:starmod: In Sept 2013 Tesco magazine there's a coupon for 40p off any Alpro product. Alpro Chilled Alternative to Cream is currently 39p. At online checkout enter GRHJC3.

:starmod: In today's The Sun - 70p, Page 32 Coupon for Free 500ml Bottle Of Coke Zero. Valid at Martin's, Mccoll's and RS Mccoll's. Today only ([URL="http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.COLOR=DarkGreen]:starmod:[/url][/COLOR][/COLOR][/B][/U][/COLOR][/U][COLOR
[/U]:starmod: In Tesco magazine there's an ad for a free Graze box for new Graze customers. Enter code TGRZBOX. Cancel free trial before paid subscription kicks in.

:starmod: £5 Amazon voucher for some people in the NN postcode area. Act now to take the survey. Limited number left. (Link)

Offers:

:starmod: There's 15% off everything at Homebase online today using code DISCOUNT15 and also in store. (Link) And if you pay using the Halifax debit card Cashback Extra offer you could get 10% back on the purchase price. Max cashback £30. And get Nectar Points too.

:starmod: 98p off Total Greek yoghurt at Sainsbury's via Facebook, making it free or nearly free. (Link)

:starmod: £10 off Tassimo. (Link)

bt1

Morning! (I'm just making it on before 12!)

Bit of an unproductive day yesterday. Shopping was over budget, but i did bulk buy toilet and kitchen roll. I'm sure I have enough food for 2 weeks in atm...


List for today :

• Quick shower
• Updated app for food shop yesterday
• Heating off
• Redo meal plan
• Make lunch for tomorrow
• Do SOME studying!
• Might be going out for lunch with bf (I would prefer not to go tbh, even tho I won't be paying, think I'd rather grab a sandwich and crack on with my video lectures! - I'm solo behind)
• Dinner from updated meal plan
• NSD