Friday 22nd May - What small DFW things will you do today?

milliemummy

Foxgloves, it's strange how things work out. I'm a big believer in fate. A similar thing happened when DS1 was living in London. One day, he just felt compelled to pull a sickie at work....that was the day of the terrorist underground and bus bombings and he always caught that Kings Cross tube train.....

Wise words to Purple as well. This too shall pass is one of my favourite mantras and I love that quote from Mother Julian.

Today's list:

B/L from stores, D...who knows??
Walk to work and back
Hoover
Plan shopping
Plan next window display
Check bank
Check one poll, etc
Water plants
Start tidying shop back room...this could take a while!
Take bag to charity shop.

Have a good day:-)

princess_pea

Afternoon Moneysavers


Another hectic day at work for me...


NSD
All meals from stores (I remembered to do a packed lunch today!)
Surveys and FPL still to check
One load of washing to do when I get home tonight
Homemade lasagne for tea
STILL no payment from Music Magpie (it's been a month since I sent my stuff off!) - I feel an email coming on


Have a lovely day everyone

Shortie

La_escocesa wrote: »

What about: http://www.marthastewart.com/337688/cocoa-popcorn

Put some unpopped corn in a casserole dish (no oil required) and put it in the microwave until you hear the pop-pop-pop. Then sprinkle some sugar and cocoa and even some melted butter if you want to be really naughty then toss it all together. Simples. :T I usually just eat it plain or with some salt. If you don't have a microwave then you can do the same in a pan but then you need oil...

I can't actually believe people buy popcorn making machines or bags of microwave popcorn - seems crazy to me! This is by far the cheapest snack there is IMHO and it's relatively good for you/not bad for you

Happy Friday everyone :beer:

Oohh thanks La escocesa. Interested to hear that you eat it with salt as I never manage to get the granuals to stick - I don't know if this will sound daft but how do you make non-oil popped pop corn salty?

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A massive thank you to everyone with your kind words, and thank you foxgloves for reminding me that everything will be alright.
All will be well and this too shall pass. I am feeling more positive today.
Just reading back what I put last night and I really was having abit of a panic, but as you have all pointed out, it will get sorted one day and I shouldn't spend my time stressing over things I cannot control. I am making cutbacks and getting by and this will only help now and in the future too, so I need to focus on that for now.
I've not been sleeping well recently so I am going to try and shut my eyes for the next hour before a busy afternoon / evening, but thank you for listening to me and giving me your support xxx

Daveo1983

I didn't have TWO bacon sandwiches.... :-(
Binge day. Sad Dave....

1HANNAH

1HANNAH wrote: »

Morning all & thanks for the start Ally.

Bob, sorry to hear you had a bad night.

Shortie, I get where you are coming from, I seem to go great guns at the beginning of the week but come thur/fri I run out of steam, maybe need to think about letting a few things slide whilst feeling like this.

Daily
Switched mobile off over night done
Heating off (get fleece blankets out if needed) done
Kids to school breakfast club not done, can't face the gym today so they had breakfast at home
Fill water bottle at gym nope
Shower at the gym (make use of their hot water, electricity to wash/dry hair) nope
Check FPL done
Use nectar search done
Check Banking/update spreadsheets nope
Unsubscribe from junk emails nope


Food & Health - got to start looking after myself (need to lose about 6st)
At least 1/2hr exercise at the gym can't face it today
Apply make up/perfume
Drink warm water rather than tea/coffee save the cost & less calories too coffee first then water I promise
All meals from stores - plan & prep -

Old school, make do & mend & use up
Try to use something out of the use up food box used two more porridge sachets for kids breakfast, I've just finished a bag of peanut m& m's for mine
Use up pamper box started with 18 nail polishes 4 handcreams 1 footcream & 3 perfumes - so far uu - 1np 2hc used handcream
Use up household box started with 5 shower sprays - so far uu - 3/5 done

Entertainment
Read a few pages of a book done
Check Sun perks done
Check o2 done
Remind my sister to pick up the freebie lego with newspaper for me. done but I forgot she's not at work so I need to get this
I went after school with ds2 to get the paper & lego

Home and decluttering
Wash a load at 30 degrees done
Hang washing on the line if it brightens up later done
Check out flylady email and complete todays task done
Clean & tidy fridge - if I keep on top of this daily, we don't seem to waste any food.
Clean & tidy freezer (RE-WRITE freezer list as I haven't found it)
Add items to charity bag nothing to add today
Check on contract end dates for both sky & talktalk not done but I think the dates are in sept/oct so no rush, will wait until the kids go back to school now
Tidy kitchen cupboards again, see if anything can be put in the use up box as its looking quite bare. added a couple of bits but didn't sort cupboards properly, again will get back to this after the kids go back

Earning chances
Do some Swagbucks running sbtv apps now
Check email survey oppurtunities 2 available, will try them at lunchtime. Transferred £5 agc over to amazon
Check checkoutsmart done
Check shopitize done
Check TCB/Snap Save - done
Check Quidco/clicksnap done


Hope everyone has a good day, I'm going to get off here now and make a start.

Still not feeling 100 % but again pleased with what I have achieved.
Also had an email about R0yal mail surveys asking me to join the panel, its ages ago that I applied, I'd forgotten I'd done it!
Bit of a spendy afternoon, as I've signed ds2 up for a 4 day intensive swimming course next week (£16) his usual lesson there has about 10-14 kids in the class and I don't feel that ds is coming on very quickly (he's so laid back, happy just to be in the water, I feel he needs pushing a bit), so far there's only 1 other person booked in with him on this intensive course so as I was considering putting him in 1 to 1 sessions for a while at a cost of about £18 a session, I def think this is an mse spend Also booked DS1 in but to do kayacking (sp?) £3.75/45mins x 2 days.
Booking them in for these will also give me a bit of structure to the day, as if it wasn't for getting them up for school the last couple of days I could easily have stayed in my Pj's all day.

No big plans for the bank holiday weekend, other then the library tomorrow

Have a good weekend all :T

1HANNAH

purpleposting4 wrote: »

A massive thank you to everyone with your kind words, and thank you foxgloves for reminding me that everything will be alright.
All will be well and this too shall pass. I am feeling more positive today.
Just reading back what I put last night and I really was having abit of a panic, but as you have all pointed out, it will get sorted one day and I shouldn't spend my time stressing over things I cannot control. I am making cutbacks and getting by and this will only help now and in the future too, so I need to focus on that for now.
I've not been sleeping well recently so I am going to try and shut my eyes for the next hour before a busy afternoon / evening, but thank you for listening to me and giving me your support xxx

Hope you managed a bit of a kip, I know when I arent sleeping well, everything gets on top of me. Hope you're doing ok.

JHiggins91

Had a NSD again today! Third one so far this week and not planning to spend anything this weekend either, having a quiet weekend, so chuffed about that.

Did however have to contact capital one. Got an email during work advising that my payment for my credit card was late, besides the fact that I had checked it online a week ago to make sure that my direct debit was set up properly. Phoned through and was immediately put through to a manager without me having to cause any fuss, this immediately got me worried! However manager was very helpful and apologetic and waived the £12.00 late payment fee as it was a system error their end which was all fair and well, understandable I suppose - I work in a contact centre for a certain company company and sometimes we have problems with processing payments too!

Many frantic phonecalls to the rest of my DD accounts later I'm satisfied that all is in order with accounts lol.

Quiet night in, going to persuade my Father to give me a few cans of beer out of his birthday stash to save me buying some for tonight - if he refuses then I suppose no harm done!

Another night in watching the tele aswell, granted that there's something decent on. If my Father doesn't gift me the beer I suppose I should really go out for a run!

Take care

dizzyblnd

It's so true to hear u all talking about not worrying and feeling anxious. Life is short n everyone needs to enjoy every second that we get.

Baileys_Babe

Ally Thanks for getting us started.

Today I have/will:
LSD
Post on this thread for motivation and inspiration
Open curtains fully
Close curtains before it gets dark
Turn off lights and appliances not in use
B/L from stores
Set DW to run overnight
Set WM to run overnight
Unpack bags - from yesterday
Freezer inventory - keep up to date
Fridge inventory - keep up to date
Check FPL
Educate children for free, ds has started to learn German as of today with Duolingo
Entertain children and us for free
Read Martin’s email - wip
HWB for children’s beds instead of heating - if it's cold

Ongoing projects:
10 minutes shredding
10 minutes sorting old filing cabinet
Cull 100 emails

Maintainence:
Clean dehumidifier filter
Hob