Sat/Sun 5th/6th Oct What Small DFW Things Will You Be Doing This Weekend?

allydowd

Had a lovely hike along the coast. Came home and felt in a culinary mood so...

The List 2:

:staradmin Made 12 mini home-made naan bread, one curry and four bhajis. Used half meat, half broad bean in the curry. Cheap meat tenderised by twonking with a rolling pin. Used up two elderly onions. Flavoured with wild, pickled garlic foraged Spring 2013.

:staradmin Froze 10 naan breads.

:staradmin Foraged 500g brambles/blackberries. Made a third into bramble cake and froze the rest.

:staradmin OH thinly sliced up pastrami with meat slicer machine and froze half to stop us munching it all at the one time.

:staradmin Quick shower.

:staradmin Received two small gifts for OH's Christmas in the post. Checked they worked before wrapping.

ziggy2407

Good Evening My Lovelies

ally - Thanks for starting us off :A

Hi 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.

Today's little listy :

Check Banks - Done
Check swapits - Done
Packed lunch for OH - Done
Check www.freepostcodelottery.com - Done
General Tidy up - Done
Declutter - few bits taken to charity shop
List more bits for sale - keep re-listing on FB
Meals from stores - mainly
Track all food - In progress
Finish tidying and re-arranging attic - in progress
Catch up on emails -
Surveys -
Nectar Adpoints -
Cokezone Codes - Done
Walkers Codes - Done
Confirm voter registration - Done
Enter a few comps - Done a few
Knit - in progress
Read Book (from stash) - in progress

Hope you have all had a good day, love to you all.

C xx

DawnW

Hello :j weekend again :j:j
Today:
Sorted out online banking for new account

Sold an item on ebay, very low price, but it needed to go

Did some work for small business (my escape plan )

Washing on line to dry

Picked some elderberries from the tree at the bottom of the garden, and cooked with the crabapples gave me last weekend. This mixture is currently being strained through the jelly bag for hedgerow jelly tomorrow

Finished HM soup for lunch

Did shopping mostly in A*dis, but topped up in Mr S for the bits that they didn't have, and used a voucher

Cooked down sad looking apples left in the fruit bowl, froze as stewed apple

Planted out some lettuces - not sure if they will grow now, but at least they will have a chance

Picked some late strawberries

Shattered, so bed soon - sad, I know

Pippilongstocking

Hey there Dawn

I'm heading to bed soon too - doglets to walk first then an early one for me too!

Hello all - and thanks for the thread ally!

Today
Ate from cupboards for meals
Checked banks - no sign of wages
Work expensed petrol
Got organised for car boot sale tomorrow (work)
Texted OH about a breadmaker destined for the skip - so we've now got one and he's made a wee donation for it to my work
Made frugal chowder (tatties and corn/dollop of cream cheese) - fab - so nice infact we didnt' eat our actual roasting tea. (will have tomorrow)
OH over Skype - he's on his stag do this weekend
Spoke to my sil about catering (she's doing it) and getting a list together later.
Bath (relaxing entertainment)

TO do

More wedding prep (2 wks tomorrow)
Bit cleaning
Bit packing
Bit cooking for the week ahead.
Must pay some wedding money in the post today into the online tree funds at the wholesalers so it doesn't get spent on something else!


Hope you're all good - i'm really tired so with Dawn I might hit the sack son!

Welcome to new folks it so works here - changed my life and keeps doing it!

Halifax81

Cleaning day tomorrow won't cost anything other than the electric bill

determined_new_ms

allydowd wrote: »

DNM,

Is there an echo in here, or have you upgraded to stereo?

I'm not getting the recognition I feel I deserve. I will keep repeating myself till someone comments :rotfl:

determined_new_ms

determined_new_ms wrote: »

My dfw/things for today are:

* [STRIKE]checked banking [/STRIKE]
*[STRIKE] pay off cc & store card (opened to get 15% off of purchase & paying off in full & have been given a £5 voucher )[/STRIKE] done this morning
* get pork out of freezer for dinner tomorrow opps forgot to do this! So have got the meat out for quesadillas and jig around the meal plan instead
* [STRIKE]going to visit ex-mil with dgd - walking rather than driving[/STRIKE]
* low spends - Might take dgd swimming for the first time £4.40 but she is being quite grizzly so not sure didn't go as dgd was grizzly and I didn't want to take her own my own
* [STRIKE]massive clean up tonight when db has finished the bathroom[/STRIKE] - phase 1. Operational toilet & bath but still a shell
* do car checks while in town if we go swimming
* [STRIKE]all meals from stores - last of the lo pulled pork[/STRIKE]
* [STRIKE]film in tonight with oh & a bottle of wine [/STRIKE]
* [STRIKE]wash blanket rather than dry cleaning - we'll see how it turns out! [/STRIKE] came out fine

Have a great day everyone x

so checked my list yesterday as thought I didn't get anything done and pleasantly surprised!

Things for today:

* checked banking & paid off cc - very happy managed to raise an additional £300+ this month to recued my massive overspend on cc! Some of it was from savings as some spends were for birthday's & Christmas and some was from expenses as I get very generous mileage. Very happy with this :T
* B/D from stores
* going out with friend for the day - will stick to budget
* take fruit for snacks and water
* check water, oil, tyre pressure
* Do an hours overtime
* vacuum whole house
* load of washing in machine & will hang out before I go
* drop dgd off at 4

Ok gotta get ready to go! see you all soon x

allydowd

Afternoon all, :wave:

DNM: You're doing very well. Recognising...recognising.

Happy Sunday!

The List:

:staradmin Watching laptop internet usage carefully getting close to the limit. Use mobile internet instead. #fiddly

:staradmin Washing out on line.

:staradmin Watch extra features on DVDs.

:staradmin Check online accounts.

:staradmin Electric alarm clock off during the day.

:staradmin No Spend Day

:staradmin Burn some music to CD for OH's Christmas.

:staradmin Make some more Christmas wrapping paper.

:staradmin Finish up homemade blackberry cake.

:staradmin Breakfast was defrosted giant pretzel from Tesco goodie bag and sausage.

:staradmin No roast today. Homemade beef stew and dumplings instead. Am teaching OH to make veggie dumplings instead of keep buying pricey dumpling mix in Tesco, especially as we already have the ingredients.

:staradmin Clean mildew off leather bag instead of buying a new one.

:staradmin Encourage OH to get self and car ready for tomorrow's job interview in next county/Timbucktoo.

[Deleted User]

Hello again!

Not doing too badly this weekend so far:

• Have bought a couple more xmas gifts for family and used points, gained points, used 3 for 2s and got ideas off the grabbit board!
• Am selling a couple of bundles and larger items on ebay and have a couple of offers already, so am really pleased. Am running out of things to sell though lol!
• Done some more baking with the kids, using up ingredients and chocolate that no-one likes to eat unless it's in something else
• Washed all the pots and cleaned out the fridge.
• Got the kids to tidy their rooms and they found a few coppers to add to my copper jar downstairs!
• Potty training going well - determined to stop buying nappies!
• Made an effort and made dinner out of stuff we had in last night, instead of letting hubby order takeout coz he couldn't be bothered. And then he actually said he preferred what I made, yay!
• Enjoying using freesat recorder box, instead of paying sky subscriptions!

Busy week this next week, lots of work, appointments and things to do, but hopefully a lot of NSDs - packed lunches, car full of petrol already and lots to keep me occupied!
Hope everyone has a good weekend and a good week ahead! :):)

foxgloves

Hi,
Not many small things today, just a few:
*Shoved a laundry load in the washer last night as weather forecast looked like it might be a good drying day today, so an Economy 7 tariff wash, & it's all blowing dry outside in the sunshine.
*No heating on yet.
*Labelled all the pear chutney I made yesterday from our home grown pears. All packed away into the larder, which is so full of jars now because I turn into a sort of weird squirrel at this time of year.
*Went to expensive (but lovely) local garden centre this morning. Had smallest cheapest coffee & cheapest cakeypoo (from monthly 'personal spends' so budgeted for & doesn't involve a raid on the bank account). Bought some tulip bulbs, but only 10, rather than the 30, plus a heap of autumn container plants that the old me would have bought. Remembered to take small amount of 'Household Piggy' cash for this, so again, did not raid bank account.
*Ordered £2-50 mascara from Avon catalogue.
*Did a survey.
*Now heading off into garden to knit Christmas present in the sunshine.
Hope everyone having a good day,
f x