Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

rtandon27

oooo Pips you have been productive this moring!:j:j:j

Horray to invoices done & money winging it's way in - you KNOW it would rather be with you than with anyone else!;):D

Both of us got payed on Weds so just adjusting the budget as I'm £20 under what was expected - grrrr! - some sort of tax adjustment thingy happened! - I don't get it but OH says it's a normal thing to happen over the course of the year! Oh well all the bills are covered - a bit has gone to savings - a bit will go to debts and :T:Twe are not robbing peter to pay paul which is a vast inprovement over this time last year!


so flyladyish things - pile of shoes was tidied this morning - mailpile sorted last night after OH realized his new debit card was missing (i.e had not arrived)!!! - no magazines in this house - I kicked the habit a few years ago! (unless they are free - then they get read & recycled!) - no school paperwork - my two courses are being done online & no kiddies to contribute to the mess! (oh yah - and we still don't have a dining room table!):rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

starnac

The fact that most of your furniture is still packed RT means you are flying through the flylady tasks :rotfl: can't work out if it's cheating or genius????

rtandon27

ha ha - that's one is not packed - we just don't have one!

in the old place (which was quite tiny) the table was attached to the wall and folded away after use - seated 3 (maybe 4) - we also had a little kitchen table which seated the two of us.

here at the new place, our large farmhouse kitchen is still housing a few boxes, so we've not bought a dining table - the little kitchen table doubles as my desk on work at home days so gets cleared off quite regularly!

eventually we will actually purchase one that sits 6-8 or maybe even get one off of fleebay/fr33cycle - that might be a few months yet!!!

in the meantime - flylady is a breeze!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

Hee hee Saturday is family day just moved my boy into new flat. He's not needed to buy anything very MSE!

Half way home. Have a great weekend folks

Pippilongstocking

£64 on food shopping (stores started for him, top up for me)

£32 on petrol

All in all it could have been sooooooooooo much more expensive.

Pippilongstocking

Currently looking at the vax sale martins newsletter has mentioned. Two mutts, one grubby gardener and a houseful of carpets.

ETA job done one bought £89 from £300 thank you martin.

TRG paying 2/3 of it he's not a bad sort.

Pippilongstocking

Slow start here today.....but I guess its needed been a crazy chick.

Washing done and air drying.
Hens and dugs fed.
Done a bit of a freezer exploration - should be lots for meals this week.
Shopping was mainly store top ups and some reduced mince.
Spag bog made for tea tomorrow.
DS bought a hoover in the sale too, investment.
Boxed up a parcel to send to one of his friends.
Offered computer chair to DD as we've a spare here now and a spare desk. Where does all this stuff come from (HA - Freecycle!)
Talked to both kids on skype.

Flylady mission today is to pamper yourself. Don't forget!!

Pippilongstocking

£19.46 on fish/seafood, chook (reduced), fruit and cold meats (reduced) for lunches etc in Mr L.

Nice walk on beach with mutts and himself = free.

Off to do some wood chopping and grass cutting, make some HM sauces with those courgettes and pick more veg.

MEAL PLAN later.

This week its just us. He's out Tues PM at band practice, I'm off Wed.

Thinking
'tea, tea' - ie potato waffles and sausage and egg or something like that.
fish (cod) with barely risotto (more of a 'dinner tea') lol
Fajhitas - cannae spell them but love them with reduced chook
Spag bog made with mainly courgettes shh don't tell.
Smoked polish sausage with mash and yorkshires, bit of cross culture there, yes they were reduced!
reduced chilli salmon with noodles, garden veg and maybe some dumplings.

4 lunches in freezer, one in fridge. So that's himself sorted.

My lunches - advocado (reduced), cup a soups (reduced), sushi rice and prawns (first reduced), porridge or eggs, Mr A ryvita things and fruit..... not ALL on the same day you understand.

Must get some more miso soup. Love it and its finished.

Decluttering fridge as we speak.

Pippilongstocking

Waves, early start today so didn't get on!

Hope you're good.

Fly lady today mission is in kitchen, sweep and mop floors (or Hoover) and wipe base boards around skirting.

Goodluck!

Pippilongstocking

Hey up me ducks, what a day of rainy weather already!!!

Now where did yesterday, nay where did the weekend go?

RT I'm loving that you're half way there with flylady before you even start! and good on you for those piles. I think your giant shoe pile has moved in here. I really do think they breed and take the odd socks with them when they start a new family.

So yesterday, I can polish my fly lady halo I did sweep and mop the floor and even cleaned out the cooker stove ashes. And cleaned under the stove. Ergh. I didn't have dust bunnies I had woolly mamoths.

Here's what I'm getting though, if you've got five. I'm getting that it doesn't have to be perfect. Ie I mopped and swept AROUND the giant shoes and the dog beds, I didn't move the benches from under the kitchen table (8ft swedish shop, bargain corner RT) nor did I wipe down the sides of the cupboards. I just did what was easy and what I could before flopping on the sofa. So its not perfect but its clean (ish) and mopped.

The 'reboot the laundry' thing is really working for me. I do a load every day the machine is full (I have now encouraged OH to put the dirty stuff straight in there) so looks like we do 4-5 loads a week (he's a giant with giant clothes) and if i do it through the week, there's nothing to do at weekends.

Whilst there is still clutter here, it is reducing.

I even made a mind map of cleaning the house, room by room, once its decluttered. But don't tell anyone, it was a rainy day and its just too sad to think about having done that.

So that's what I think I'm getting from fly lady - an excuse to half do things, but actually give them a go at least.

And, I'm amazed how quickly some of these things are done. Floor 15 minutes, swept and mopped.