Sat 22/Sun 23 August - What small DFW things will you do this weekend?

determined_new_ms

foxgloves wrote: »

DNMS - IS he indeed?? Then it's time to dust off my dodgy hormones & enjoy a bit of eye-candy. Should I be enjoying Viking loveliness at my age? Who cares? There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle..........
f x

Oh yes you are at the perfect age to enjoy the delight of Radnor! I checked him out and the actor is 35 so it's perfectly decent to drool over him! Or as we say in this house "I like his style"!

PurpleFairy26

Hi everyone

My list for today:
Leg of lamb slow cooking in oven Moroccan style
Taken some free plums mum gave me out of freezer to make crumble for afters
Washing on line
Nearly finished a tube of moisturiser - trying to liberate as many bottles as possible. Not buying any new until they've all gone. I've survived for about 3 years buy only using samples/gifts but it's strangely satisfying when they are empty and go :rotfl:
Help DD1 with last bits of homework before school starts this week
Sorted all her uniform out, she's at a new school so it'll need labelling - will do tonight
Vacuumed downstairs, cleaned kitchen
Upload some receipts to new app (thanks for all your replies yesterday) it kept getting stuck at 32% last night, so will try again today
Chase quid o payout, they seem intent on making it difficult for the last year or so to get your money :mad:
Meal plan for week so DH can do a quick ald1 shop tomorrow, planning on eating main meal at lunchtime so we can do other things in evening like use our gym membership.

Enjoy your day folks :j

determined_new_ms

Morning everyone :wave: am having a coffee and poodle on the laptop as I have a rare treat of missey being asleep! Should get on and do things but so nice to get a mid day reprieve :j

Have been up and to the bootfair. Not much today but wasn't really up for buying anything as have so much to sell at the moment. Spent £6.50 and got a childs bike seat so me and missey can go for bike rides, a skirt for me, jeans, skirt, gloves and hat for missey and a photo frame (bff gave me a photo of dgd and my godson so have been looking for one). Pleased with this. Bootfair was a bit like taking your life in your hands today, went a bit later as had missey, really is better to get there about 7...

Also have been to Aldi and got shopping for the week. Declaring my gc for the week as £26.60 and probably will spend £5-7 on milk and fruit top up later in the week :T

small plans for the rest of the day:

* freeze blackberries
* clean out fridge and put food away - make sure I use anything up that looks like it's on it's way out
* will bake some flapjacks in a bit & use up cherries in the fridge
* all meals from stores
* meeting bff and godson to go swimming this afternoon. Will take flapjacks and drinks for snacks afterwards
* list another 4 things on ebay
* make dgd's bag & pack lunch for tomorrow
* might mow the lawn if it doesn't rain...
* read book for entertainment this evening
* tidy round the house and vacuum. Tidiness took a bit of a hit yesterday

Ok think that's my lot for today!

Maria your posts make me laugh! :rotfl:

determined_new_ms

Foxgloves I also nearly got a takeaway last night what was I thinking? I am broker than broke but in my mind as I have some cash here from facebay sales I was coming up with lots of justifications why I could afford £10 on a Chinese. But in a moment of clarity (aka reality! I am broke!) I pushed the idea out of my head and made pizza (free pizza techically as it was the one I purchased from twiggy's voucher) and salad free from the garden. Was really glad I made a wise decision after the fog of the hunger went :beer:

Bobarella

Hi All

Legomum- you must have needed the rest. Probably your bad night catching up to you. Annoying if the computer does conk out.

Determined - sounds like the boot sale was worth enduring. I know what you mean about about take aways. The appeal is always there when you are tired. But honestly I can't remember the last nice one I had. I don't think I have had one in 2 months or so. Other than physically going out to McD for lunch but that's £6 vs £20+ well done on your reserve.

Jono 'Use it up, wear it out' is such a great project. I am literally just at the end of a bottle of Tresseme after 3 years plus! 2 boys in the house and I gave up using conventional hair washing for 6 months too. So not much usage required. I do wash now again as I never got to the glory land of self cleaning hair. Mine is just too thick and long. But I now wash once a week max (my hair) & that is plenty. Compared to daily or every other day before the big experiment. And at least I know I tried.

Well. We got caught in the torrential rain that hit at 1pm. It was pretty dire squelching our way home with a laden bike with all our shopping. It reminds me once again that my 7 year old North Face shower proof coat, isn't. All 3 of us had to strip the moment we walked in and all of our shoes will probably take a day to dry.

Son hit the roadkill jackpot again at the supermarket looking under the coin star. He came back clutching a shiny pound coin and 6p. So not all bad

OH has one more errand to run this afternoon but I think me and the boy are in for the duration now.

Oh and Ally, I loaded up 4 reciepts that I'd already loaded to COS on quidco and it works. Credited 20p. Thanks for the tip off

Bob

allydowd

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

Gutted. One of the Amazon gift certificates has been used and the other one has expired, it seems the plastic gift cards only last for a year. Ah well.

With the expired one email Amazon about it. Tell them you're a loyal customer and ask them to reactivate it as a "one-off gesture of goodwill". You may get lucky. Amazon hates dissatisfied customers.

Sign in to Amazon > Click Help > Type Contact Amazon in the search panel > Click Support Options > At the bottom click If you want to talk to a person Contact Us > Click send us an email.

allydowd

Bobarella wrote: »

I took a tip from Ally I think and scrubbed the tops of my kitchen cupboard units with degreaser, then laid paper over them so next time I will just have to throw those away and not deal with dirty surfaces....

I'm after a new academic calendar as ours (wall planner) runs out on the 31st so I can't plan anything! Best prices to get a new one?

Bob,

Yup that sounds like me. We blitzed the Kitchen of Doom not long ago.

How about making and printing your own planner? There are some really simple sites online where you really just say when you want it to start and end and choose the style and how many months you want and then click print. Takes about ten minutes. Like these:

* http://www.calendarpedia.co.uk/calendar-2015-pdf-templates.html

* http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/create.html

* http://www.calendarlabs.com/photo-calendar.php

* https://www.printed.com/templates/wall-planner-calendar

If you want comb- or spiral-bound you could get a local printer to bind it for you for a couple of pounds if you haven't got a binding machine.

allydowd

Bobarella wrote: »

Jono 'Use it up, wear it out' is such a great project. I am literally just at the end of a bottle of Tresseme after 3 years plus! 2 boys in the house and I gave up using conventional hair washing for 6 months too. So not much usage required. I do wash now again as I never got to the glory land of self cleaning hair. Mine is just too thick and long. But I now wash once a week max (my hair) & that is plenty. Compared to daily or every other day before the big experiment. And at least I know I tried.

I've been washing my hair differently for almost a year now. Despite many folk thinking I'm crazy this has worked for me. For the first month I just washed my hair in warm water and essential oils or home-made mint infusion. Then for nine months I just used a tablet of ordinary soap every few days. Now I have settled back into using shampoo and soap alternately washing it most days and my thinning hair has thickened up again and when I wash it it feels clean. I don't use conditioner.

DawnW

Afternoon all
Little accomplished today
DD wanted to do a boot sale this morning (selling) so I agreed to go along with her. It absolutely bucketed down, and both me and my sales items got drenched Still, DD made £30 and due to the weather the organisers did not collect pitch fees from sellers.

So, I now have lots of stuff to dry out - but it can blimmin well wait till tomorrow! No more car boot selling for me this year!! I will have a sale shelf at my unit instead, what doesn't go that way can go to the charity shop, and DD can do her next one with one of her friends

On the more positive side, I haven't spent anything - and made the grand total of £1.50 at the boot sale :rotfl: Did also sell some rubbishy old tools that OH had thrown out, and a part roll of TV aerial cable He had the money for those, but at least they aren't in the garage any more

Decided to put off shopping till tomorrow, partly through laziness, partly because of the rain, but also because I wanted to bag another NSD - and there isn't anything we totally can't do without today!
HM meals from stores (beef in red wine tonight )
Used up salad stuff for lunch, and the fish that OH smoked yesterday
Made a couple of cakes (tea loaf things which keep for ages - if they get the chance)
Got to freeze the apple and blackberry pie filling stuff I made yesterday Done, ad miraculously, it fitted in the freezer! Saved a small portion to go with my breakfast yogurt tomorrow morning
Nothing will need watering as it rained so hard earlier
Spent loads of time looking at adverts for puppies for sale

Nothing very ambitious planned for the rest of the day - must do better tomorrow :eek:

Well, the sun came out this afternoon, so I made a start on drying out all the stuff that got wet this morning. The car blankets at least are now finishing off on the airer, and I will be able to put them away tomorrow morning Plenty more to do though :eek:

Also chopped and froze a few mushrooms that had been left over and were lurking in the fridge

Picked a courgette, a cucumber, a few radishes, a vase full of sweet peas, and some tomatoes (which are looking a bit blighty now :eek: I can foresee large vats of chutney coming on!

Didn't pick the dreaded French beans - OH can do those tomorrow :eek: We did eat some for dinner though.... they are really nice

allydowd

Afternoon,

This weekend I'm trying to break the habit of a lifetime and rest for the good of my health. Not easy, I'm naturally turbo-charged.

So today I've done not a lot!

* Finished re-reading a book from the book-shelf. A real page turner.

* Watching some tv recorded on the Freeview box overnight.

* Re-watching a boxed set of Waking The Dead DVDs.

* Lunch from stores.

* Stayed off the grid til 2pm.

* Made a list of what needs doing tomorrow.

* Home-made apple crumble this evening.

Freebies:

* Free bicycle puncture repair kit through O2 Priority. (Link)

* Free chocolate from Bargain Booze high street shop. (Link)

* Free Lego magazines. (Link)

Offer:

* Long-winded way of saving money on Morrison's petrol. (Link) (Link2) Sounds complicated please read all the Ts and Cs before trying this.