Sat/Sun 13/14 December 2014 What small DFW will you do this weekend?

stiltoncheese

We were really busy in the cheese household yesterday so didn't manage to post on here. Just as well as it ended up being a very spendy day!

Bought 2 cheap nighties for labour/hospital, bought a new coat and some bigger winter clothes for DS as he's in bewteen sizes at the mo with a lot of autumn clothes but no decent winter ones. We also went out for lunch as a family as it's probably the last proper chance we'll get before baby arrives. Filled the car up with petrol too, so another £58 odd quid. Thankfully, hubby paid for lunch and petrol so I just bought the clothes. I also had a 12p off per litre on Mr T fuelsaver so that saved us over £6 on the petrol we put in.

Anyway, today's plan is...

*B/L/D from stores (have 1 meal covered on next weeks planner due to last minute lunch plans yesterday)
*Check online bank account & update YNAB/spreadsheet
*Load of washing and dry on airer
*Put all clean washing away
*Hubby doing a run to the local tip to dump some rubbish
*Relisted some more stuff to sell yesterday but no interest so will relist today
*Sort out rest of stuff to sell that's on top shelf of my wardrobe
*Check free postcode lottery
*Definitely a NSD!
*General housework and tidying up (will be washing all the bedding tomorrow)
*Start the Christmas present wrapping

Think that's it for now. Usual boring Sunday list to be honest.

Have a lovely day everyone
SC xx

carrielovesfanta

Morning all

Happy Sunday!

twiggy - that's some excellent couponing! Are these apps worthwhile? I may have to look into this

stiltoncheese - I'm guessing that the new lo is not far off now?

Rachiedabbler70 - welcome to the thread

GettingOrganised - thank you and hope you had a nice evening with your DH

Dawn - hope the cough is better and you had more sleep

GainingControl - hope you got through your list! It looked busy!

Bobarella - hope your long days pay off

maria - not up yet? A well deserved lie in I hope?

So yesterday was a difficult one. OH very down, but sometimes a bit up I did manage to get him out for a walk to get the mistletoe, which was a good job as it was higher up in the tree than I expected and I couldn't reach! Slightly non-mse though as we stopped in the pub for lunch on the way home. Oops! (But had to persuade him to leave the house some how!)

Yesterday's mse things achieved:

• Bits of deep cleaning - will try to enlist OH with this. I've already cleaned 3 panels in the dining room doors (hate this job so do a few at a time). Also deep cleaned some of the woodwork in the kitchen - house looking a little better
• Crochet bunting for friend's wedding (and weave in ends ) - not woven in yet...
• Crochet gloves for OH (chunky wool so shouldn't take long) - discovered that there was not quite enough wool and had to pull apart. Will try again today with a different colour cuff to make the wool go further (or use different wool!)
• Wrap Christmas presents - all done! Woohoo!
• Weekend washing. Put towels in at 90' as it service washes the machine at the same time! - done
• Towels outside to dry for what it's worth - done
• Try to get OH to come for a walk in nice crispy winter weather. Visit tree with mistletoe on it. - collected mistletoe and free exercise in the sunshine
  
• Make bed with lovely cosy brushed cotton duvet cover - toasty warm
• B/L/D from stores - B and D was (or more like second lunch and D by the time OH got up )
• Extra thing - OH has put weather strip on kitchen door after I noticed that a huge draught was blowing though. Weather strip free from f-i-l
  
• Mulled some cider using spices already in house. Bought paper chains (£1) but "accidentally" picked up two stockings for £3 each. They are gorgeous though and look great hung in our fireplace (it's an original feature of the house )
  

Today's list:

• Make Christmas biscuits NOW (or after posting... )
• Stitch n b!tch with friend
• Put some blimming bread on!
• Possibly a supermarket shop. OH wants more food for next week (specific stuff to get back on his diet)
• Bit of tidying. Cannot understand how two adults make so much mess?
• Devise a way to cover the keyhole on the kitchen door. Tip about fridge magnet doesn't work as handle not magnetic.

Better set to! These biccies won't make themselves.


Have a lovely day all


clf x

twiggy86

Carrielovesfanta - I've only started using them this week so I'm not sure how quickly it will rack up. But this week I've made £2.45 on shopitize, £1.15 on checkout smart and £1.25 on click snap. It is very little effort though so I guess it's worth it!

foxgloves

Hi all, Just had a huge cup of coffee & read everyone's posts. Been busy doing festive jobs this weekend & socialising, so not a huge amount of money saving activity to report. One definite saving is that I got up this morning with every intention of visiting the village farm shop to buy a Christmas wreath for our front door. Then I thought I'd rather save the money in our Household Piggy towards a new rug so I put my coat on & went round the garden with my secateurs. Brought bundle of twiggy branches, conifer, holly & ivy back indoors, & found my stash of pine cones & 99pShop ribbon & red baubles. Made a big trailing bouquet, wired it together & hung it on front door. It looks surprisingly impressive for a Tightwad Throw Together, but I'd got the Christmas Cake in the oven & Slade on the iPod, so perhaps I was channelling festivity. Anyway, must get the tree decorated now - Mr f just bringing it in.
Have a good day, all.
CLF - sorry your partner not feeling too good. Is it depression or has he been poorly? Hope your lergy is on its way out.
F x

DawnW

Well, I got a bit more sleep last night, only up for 2 hours due to coughing instead of 4 :mad:

So, I got up really late for me, 9.30 :eek: Still some jobs to do from yesterday, but so far I have:

Heating is on only in the bathroom, airing cupboard and loft conversion bedroom thingy which is freezing if I leave it unheated. As it includes an ensuite and hence water, I am always wary of it freezing up there :eek: Must investigate better insulation in the new year. There is some, but it is not absolutely clear where to put any more iyswim. If anyone has a loft conversion and can tell me what they have done I would be pleased to hear about it.

Put washing back on line as it didn't dry at all yesterday and I forgot to put it on the airer last night The wind is blowing so hopefully it will dry a bit before it rains and I need to bring it in!

Breadmaker is on, which will avoid having to go to the supermarket and the risk of unnecessary spending. How often do I come out with just the one thing I went in for? Not often

Put stewing steak, together with a random kidney I found in the freezer, an onion and a few leftover mushrooms in the SC for a pie filling for later in the week (or to freeze)

To do later:
Cook breast of lamb that OH de-boned and stuffed for me this morning, with veg from the fridge Done, had it with roasted carrots, potatoes and parsnips, boiled sprouts and gravy. Very nice

Possibly do a bit in the garden if it stays dry. I have some raspberry canes to plant in the back garden and some tulip bulbs at the front. See what I feel like later. I planted the bulbs in the front garden. This meant emptying the dead plants out of the tubs, taking them round the back to the composter, and carrying new compost round to the front to refill them (I live in a mid-terrace and to get to the front without going through the house I need to go out of the back gate onto the access lane, up an alleyway and along the pavement for a short distance, so not quite as simple a task as it sounds). Did it though - two large tubs of mixed tulips and two more with some purple and white iris bulbs I had forgotten I had All now covered with bits of netting etc to stop the local cats using them as loos :eek:

Still have presents to wrap and cards to write, distinct lack of Christmas cheer going on here Still not been motivated to do this

maria3104

Hi Everyone,

Just had a lovely read.I have been stewing apples and batch cooking bol sauce and other stuff for the freezer as no children home this weekend.
Have caught up on washing, mostly full rate elec but do have the last load on kitchen airer. Am about to stop everything and watch a film I recorded last night.
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Happy sunday everyone. Another NSD for me. Hope everyone gets well.

stiltoncheese

CLF....I'm 35 weeks, but DS was 3weeks early so she could be here any time in the next 2-5 weeks really. Seems so close all of a sudden!

twiggy86

Afternoon all! Hope you've all had a nice weekend.

Didn't complete everything on my list yesterday so brought over to today.

So today I have/will:
* post on here DONE
* check banks DONE
* check elec/gas statement DONE (spent more than I'd have liked last month but still under DD)
* fill up petrol - DONE worked out I made £74.78 for picking friends up from the airport!
* do big shop so don't have to go again before Xmas other than milk etc DONE
* buy meat frp xmas day DONE but OH wants a ham joint too
* prepare sprouts for Xmas day and pop in freezer DONE - also peeled and chopped a bag of carrots that were looking rather questionavle so they're in the freezer too
* put chicken portions in bags and freeze DONE
* take cushions off sofa and hoover DONE
* hoover out shoe cupboard DONE
* make Thai curry x2 and freeze one (pray it actually fits in the freezer!) DONE although a biy of a snall portion next time as OH was particularly hungry!
* buy alcohol for xmas period - going to do tomorrow night
* do one load of washing DONE

Think that's everything for today!

DD265

Hi all

Hope you're having a great weekend

I have pretty much run out of money. Well, I have run out of money. What happened was I made a substantial payment off a credit card (having finished my xmas shopping, not anticipating any big bills etc) but then my direct debit - also a substantial amount - was still taken. My own fault for not checking properly and lesson learnt, so I've been caught a bit short.

I have a physio appointment tomorrow (third one in as many weeks but then having a 3 week break) which I should just manage to pay cash for hopefully.

However I had to refill my car (I go through a tank of fuel a week) to drive to the further-away office tomorrow as I was cutting it too fine with only 20miles to spare on a 130mile round trip. So I had to use my credit card which I'm gutted about. However I can claim the trip on expenses and it will cover the full tank, I just won't see the money back straight away.

Next step; listing a few things on eBay again not necessarily an instant win but going in the right direction.

I'm telling myself that at least I had room on the credit card to put the fuel. Still feels like a fairly major setback though. I also know that I won't meet the target of paying it off by the 1st January but I should be pretty close.

maria3104

Hi Stilton Cheese,

How exciting, very big lots of luck to you.

Am exhausted from doing nothing and not spending, so am going to bed. See you around dawn everyone.

Maria