Sat/Sun 7th/8th Feb- What Small DFW-Style Things Will You Be Doing This Weekend?

allydowd

When we start out on the DFW trail we do loads of "big stuff" that makes quite a difference to our situation. These include having our lightbulb moment, cutting up the credit cards and cancelling Sky and the gym .

But once we have done the bigger stuff, we often feel that we are not making the same amount of progress, when in fact the small steps are helping us form good financial habits and helping us get closer everyday to staying in control and becoming debt free, or staying debt free.

Examples could be hanging washing out instead of using the tumble dryer or leaving your purse/wallet at home to avoid the risk of spending .

So be proud of those small steps, they really are important. :money:

allydowd

Morning DFW-Jedis,

Well, life goes on, as does the almost everlasting quest for solvency and sanity. Today will be spent at work.

The List


:starmod: Check online banking and reconcile monies

:starmod: Do i-Say surveys.

:starmod: Turn off electric alarm clock at the wall til tonight.

:starmod: Read news online instead of buying a paper.

:starmod: Watch DVD from the bottomless pit (aka the DVD cupboard).


Well that's me for today. Back later if time allows. Good luck on your quests, Jedis.

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• A Girl Called Jack, cheap recipes ( Link )
• Benefits check-up ( Link )
• Birthday Bingo, daily free game ( Link )
  
• eBid ( Link )
  
• Freecycle ( Link )
• Free Postcode Lottery (Link)
• FreeStuff ( Link )
• FreeUKStuff ( Link )
• i-Say Surveys (Link)
• List of online newspapers. At bottom of the linked page. ( Link )
• MSE Boost Your Income page. Gateway to lots of money-making links. ( Link )
• MSE Abbreviations Explained ( Link )
• MSE Deals and Vouchers ( Link )
• MSE Wow Offers ( Link )
• My Supermarket ( Link )
• OnePoll ( Link )
• Quidco ( Link )
• Reclaim PPI at no cost to yourself ( Link )
• SayNoTo0870 cheap phone number finder ( Link )
  
• Survey sites that pay for your opinions ( Link )
• Swagbucks ( Link )
• Swapit ( Link )
• Toluna ( Link )
  
• TopCashBack ( Link

P.S. My contract has been extended again and my hours increased again to 40.

Tidy_Up_Tash

Good Morning!

Thanks for the start Ally. Congrats on the contract!

Nothing at all planned for this weekend (until 4pm tomorrow, when I have to do that work thing), so I'm expecting it to be a frugal one. It's looking something like this....

• Take Away Night! - HM Kebab with Chips and salad. This will also do lunches until Thursday
• Lights Off
• Heating Off
• Work on the bedroom clutter.
• More washing on the airer
• Check I have everything for next weeks meals (have made plan up to the 21st Feb)
• Get OH up for 9am (not DFW, but a challenge none the less!)
• DS2 wants to spend his Xmas Money this weekend. Will encourage him to do it online rather than going to town.

Think that's about all. Hope all that were under the weather are feeling a little brighter today.

xJOJOx_2

Good morning everyone!!

The little ones let me sleep til 7.30 today! Yey!! So it's a busy weekend for me this week. house warming tonight, budget £2.50 worth off drinks :-D. Sunday is dd1 birthday party, she's really excited (her birthday Monday)

Weekend list
- full house tidy
- weeks washing done, on radiators where possible (DONE)
- check online banking (DONE)
- sis brought hm lasagne round last night, have for lunch (DONE)
- rest off meals from stock (DONE)
- mend ds1 onsie and strap on my pj top
- childrens party - just take enough for one coffee, very expensive their
- been quoted £100 to mend iPad screen, is that about right?
- check new budget that everything adds up etc (DONE)
- wax coffee table and TV stand
- pick up a bag off sweets for ds1 to give out a school on birthday (DONE)
- design shelf for airing cupboard and see if I have enough batons etc (DONE)
- sign up for new prescription service and post (DONE)
- register to vote (DONE)
- nip town for
monthly gas n electric (DONE)
£10 cash til last til weds (DONE)
Milk with voucher (get double amount in town) (DONE)
(Hopefully) treat myself to new top budget £5 (DONE but was £1 over budget,
there was one I found for £5 as well, in past I would of brought both but found
myself agrueing pros n cons off tops, happy with choice and over spend lol)
- read at least one chapter

That's it...for now xx

£100 paid off cc1 this morning. Debt busting as beguin! Need to really pull the strings now and clear asap

snowfox

Good morning!

On the list today:
- Wash and hang one load of clothes done
- Clean kitchen and bathroom done + hoovering everywhere!
- Check budget and bank account done
- Throw some ££ at the credit card based on the above done
- B/L/D from stores. Weekly delivery is coming today but I won't need to touch that until tomorrow. done
- Cook a big batch of veg & lentil spaghetti sauce and freeze what's not needed for today. doing now and it smells good!
- Start on the Wordpress install for new blog (my new moneymaking scheme!) moving this to tomorrow..

Tonight OH and me are going clubbing, and I'm trying to do it the MSE way. We've got free entry because we know the organisers :money: but still need to buy drinks of course. I'll be sticking to beers rather than the usual spirits & mixers. I also have £10 Uber credit so that will go towards getting us home. I'm too old now to get on the nightbus, I need my small comforts :rotfl:

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

MinnieMousesMummy

Good morning, Ally - Thanks for starting the thread.

My list for today:

• Sort through the pile at the side of the sofa Done
• Sort through work box Done
• Look into getting another box for course work ( I really need to get organised) I will need to go into town as they are too expensive online, I can get 2 in town for the price of 1 online
• Feed the animals and collect eggs Done
• Make sure everything is in diary for next week Done, Its looking like a very busy week
• All meals from stores Done
• Do 2 loads of washing Done
• Do some surveys Done
• Check online banking Done
• Get rid of 100 emails Done
• Mr T delivery due - check, scan and put away Done
• Write article for client Done
• Look for freelance work and apply for 3 jobs Done
• Do some course work Done
• Check superpoints, swagbucks Done
• Check freepostcodelottery Done
• Get an early night, as still feeling rather under the weather

I think that is everything that I need to achieve today, Hope everyone has a good Saturday x

DD265

Hi all

We went to see property no1 this morning. Definitely did not fall in love with it! Still liked the open kitchen/dining space but that was possibly the extent of it.

Apart from that a couple of sales went through yesterday so I need to go and post those parcels, my new debit card arrived (along with a PIN which I didn't ask for!) so I need to go sort that and I need to nip to Tesco. We're going out for a meal with OH's parents tonight so definitely not a low spend day!

milliemummy

Things to do over the weekend....

Charge phone & tablet at workdone
B/L/D from storesdone so far
Clean bunny housesone done, one to go
Change & clean kitty litter traysalldone
Get up to date with washing, should be OK with one load.done
Continue clutter clearing..have just popped a bag of books to the Blue Cross shop, work in progress
Get my bum shifted regarding putting things on eBay. work in progress
Hoover all through house done plus cleaned kitchen & bathroom floors
Pay off a small debt...only owing £20 on it, so shall clear it when I'm paid on Sunday and will be £40 a month better off:T
Sunday should be an NSD, fingers crossed.....success!

Hope you all have a good weekend:)

foxgloves

Afternoon all,
Not exactly been caning it with the money saving today, but have still kept the faith:
*This week's grocery shopping came in at just 25p over budget. It would have been more as mr f fancied cooking smoked haddock, which is quite expensive, but the fishmonger was not on the market this morning, so he thought again & decided on venison burgers.....which are 75p each. Ha!
*Visited our favourite local coffee shop. Had free coffee on loyalty card, so shared cost of the remaining one. I didn't spend any of my money on a cake......I sneaked the end of mr f's!
*Got a whole big bag for life size bag of veg from the market for under £4. It's always such good stuff too.
*Postie brought a free sample of cat biscuits for cat. Cat heard them making a biscuity noise & thought he was on for an extra breakfast, which he wasn't. They will be a free meal another day when he hasn't already been fed!
*We spent 2 hours in the veggie garden - mr f dismantled last year's bean frame, sorted compost bins, weeded & decided where to plant potatoes & shallots. I cleared the greenhouse bench ready for seed sowing which will be starting very soon. Also gave a bowl of veggie scraps & a flour bag to the worms in the worm composter. 2 trays of lovely rich compost ready to use. Topped up colony with more composting worms gathered from compost bins. I used to have to buy them!
*Did some surveys. One of them (IPSOS) was for 400 points, so as target for sending off for voucher is only 1380 points, this one is well worth doing.
*Watch something from Amazon Prime free trial which finishes on Monday.
So.........not a particularly pro-active day for money saving, but not a bad one either. Knitting time now, by the fire.
f x

DawnW

Hello :j
Late posting today as DD and DGD appeared early this morning.
List for today:
Done:
Waited in for a freecycler who didn't turn up She is apparently coming on Tuesday now
Made a quiche and some lemon curd shortbreads using ingredients I already had
Walked to Lidl with DD and baby, to buy herbs and salads
Ocado order done for delivery tomorrow
Jacket potatoes in oven to go with leftover bolognese for supper
Cooked and deboned gifted trout, to make fishcakes tomorrow. OH says they are not top quality fish (something to do with spawning) and fishcakes is the best use for them.
Two eggs from chickens again today At least they think that spring is coming!

Still to do:
A wash that can hopefully go out on the line to dry tomorrow morning
Check banks

Hope everyone has had a good day

little_pink_purse

Evening All


thanks for starting us Ally


Been a lazy day all housework done meals from stores
hope you are all warm and well sending u love xxxxlppxxx