Saturday/Sunday 19th/20th September - What small DFW things will you do this weekend?

crazy_cat_lady

Good morning everyone
Thanks for the start DNMS - pleased that you managed to catch up with your DD yesterday.
Bob - hope your day is busy money wise but not so busy that you're rushed off your feet.
Twiggy - enjoy circuits, you have motivated me to add exercise to my list today. But legomum - you haven't managed to get me to add cleaning the fridge to my list :rotfl: I hate that job.
Best of luck for tomorrow Ally - and please don't stop with all of the helpful posts and links. You've shown me so much since I started posting here.

I've been awake on and off since four ish, when a couple of our cats decided it was play time indoors - so I got up to put them both outside then spent time dozing off on the sofa until about half seven. DS seems to be in a bit of a better mood today so I've let him go to play football with his dad this morning.

Bit of a busy, but hopefully fun weekend ahead - and I've already made a start.
washing done and dried on line (load 2 in at the moment)
check banking - done but no PAD.
DS to football
gym class for the kids, which has been cancelled as I'm typing this
all meals from stores
take DD to cinema for her birthday (tickets already booked and paid for)
I've decided to have a weekend off from housework other than the bare essentials
Get DH to mow the lawn (I love having a garden but I really hate gardening)
Do some exercise
Sort through Christmas shopping lists
meal plan and batch cook for next week

Think that is it for the moment.
Hello to anyone that has posted in the mammoth amount of time that it's taken me to finally finish writing this post... :o:o

YORKSHIRELASS

chocolatelover93 wrote: »

YorkshireLass - We're moving somewhere with oil heating, I've heard mixed opinions on it though. At our current house we have storage heaters which are expensive to run and you can't just turn them on when it's cold how have you got on with the oil heating?

Currently oil is a lot cheaper than it was a couple of years ago. Our spend on heating varies so much depending on the weather and the price goes up and down far more than gas. When we first moved here we got onto a payment plan with a local supplier where we paid a set amount a month and they topped our tank up as we needed it. We then found that prices vary a lot from supplier to supplier and we were stuck with this one company. I wouldnt do this again.

It pays to shop around every time you buy oil - and haggle a bit! Our tank holds 1100 litres and most companies have a minimum delivery of 500 litres. Prices are showing at about 38p a litre at the moment which is very good.

chocolatelover93

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

Currently oil is a lot cheaper than it was a couple of years ago. Our spend on heating varies so much depending on the weather and the price goes up and down far more than gas. When we first moved here we got onto a payment plan with a local supplier where we paid a set amount a month and they topped our tank up as we needed it. We then found that prices vary a lot from supplier to supplier and we were stuck with this one company. I wouldnt do this again.

It pays to shop around every time you buy oil - and haggle a bit! Our tank holds 1100 litres and most companies have a minimum delivery of 500 litres. Prices are showing at about 38p a litre at the moment which is very good.

Thank you
We were told about paying monthly but don't want to be stuck paying a high price!!
There's no outside access to the tank so we will have to bring canasters through the house (if that makes sense) I was told that a man down the road sells it cheap and does a loyalty card scheme (the more you buy the more you get off sort of thing) and that way we don't have to fill it up so much.

Olliegami

Hello everyone!

Today has been pretty productive.

I have:

- Sold a phone charger battery thing for $15.
- Put a DS game for sale on eB@y
- Advertised other items for sale on redd!t.
- Clicked through G!ftHulk, Cl!xsense, Ne0bux, buxvert!se, MoonBitcoin & CoinBrawl.
- Checked FPL & Luckyph0ne
- Checked 0nepoll, pureprof!le, 0pinionWorld.
- Printed out a voucher I earned on a survey site here in Australia (which is now for sale - I don't need anything from the place)

Hoping tomorrow will bring news about flights out of here!!!

Good luck with the rest of your weekends everyone.

allydowd

Quick update:

* Went for a walk with OH and we got some good photos of the local seal population. Took coffee. Free entertainment.

* Out of the blue a friend sent us a parcel full of useful gifts. Blown away by her generosity.

* Getting 25% back on Ancestry membership through Quidco. If you are thinking of doing this please contact me I have important info about the terms and conditions of this offer.

MinnieMousesMummy

Good evening everyone, DNMS– Thanks for starting the thread this weekend. It is a sunny and busy day here today.

So far today I have:
Cleaned holiday let for friends
Done 2 loads of washing
Had a quick shower

My plans for tonight:
Do 2 loads of washing
All meals from stores
Check benefit entitlement
Catch up with the thread
Make shopping list using meal plan
Check FPL
Sort out diary for next week
Do homework for Monday
Check luckyphone
Get rid of 50 emails
Read Martins email
Update cv, ready to apply for the type of work that I want
Look into clicksnap ( I am sure that I downloaded this but never actually used it)
Look into checkoutsmart (I have not used this for a while)
Swagbucks
Look for part time work
Check onepoll
Check cl*xsense
Do daily on JPJ whilst avoiding the temptation to spend
Look into topping up ds1’s lunch card
Look into setting up bounts, I tried to set the account up a few months back but couldn’t understand it.
Set up a blog

I think that is everything that I need to try and get done today. Hope everyone has a good weekend x

DawnW

Afternoon all
I was up early and worked for 4 hours non stop this morning (carting heavy boxes around, not office based / bossing about work like I used to do :rotfl:) and been to Sainsburys to do a shop this afternoon, so I am about ready for bed again now!

Glad to hear that you caught up with your DD and she is ok DNMS

Bob, hope you are having a good day

Ally, best of luck for tomorrow

Small list today due to work / shopping!
Used hot washing up water (still clean, only a couple of bits needed doing) to wash the kitchen floor
Washing dried on line
Finished up a small quantity of leftovers for my lunch
HM meals
Sorted out heating controller as it was coming on at strange times :mad: (though only in the bathroom and airing cupboard, it is turned off everywhere else). I do hate our heating controller - it is way too complicated!

Oh dear, that is a small list isn't it

Hope everyone is having a good day

Bobarella

Hey Guys

Today was quite busy on the art trail. The artist hasnt sold any works yet but hopefully some of the people from today will pop back tommorow looking for a bargain

Most of the trade was in the morning so the afternoon felt a bit of a drag. But I am grateful for the cash to pay the other half of my energy bill, so that is now done. Horray!

Dawn - You know what they say, its not the length that counts oh dear, lowering the tone, I will go and get in the bath

night

Bob

lego_mum

lego_mum wrote: »

Morning all,

Thanks for the start Dnms, 4am ouch!
Bob, Hope that it goes well today.
Twiggy, enjoy circuits, I've recently started doing circuits and love it.

Morning to all who follow.

Not sure what we're going to do today, the skies lovely and blue so we should do something!
Starting off with cuppa & EastEnders on catch up though.
Maybe get the tennis rackets out and get up to the park.

Today I will
:starmod: Check banks/update spreadsheet DONE
:starmod: Check Fpl DONE
:starmod: Check luckyphone DONE
:starmod: Delete junk from emails DONE
:starmod: All meals from stores DONE
:starmod: Swagbucks DONE
:starmod: Keep an eye out for surveys DONE
:starmod: Clean & tidy fridge (make sure we don’t waste anything)
:starmod: Walk at least 7000 steps to get bounts points
:starmod: Print off free pizza voucher
:starmod: Wash a load at 30 degrees
:starmod: Hang washing on the line if dry

Didn't do to well with my list today!
We didn't go to the park, me & ds2 took our bikes to the prom by the beach and ds1, dh & my parents played boule on the beach. Followed by lunch thanks to my dad, he made us a easy curry & rice, it was lovely. Picked up a couple of bits from co0p, nothing ys that we wanted but did use a 50p off £4 shop voucher.
Dinner tonight was out of the freezer as its close to bursting!
Entertainment tonight has been Danger Mouse (on Netflicks, thanks bob) now dh and I are watching House of Cards.
Not much planned for tomorrow other than ds'2's swimming lesson, will have to see what the weather does I think x
Ally, I hope that tomorrow goes well for you

Baileys_Babe

DNMS Thank you for getting us started. I'm pleased to hear you have managed to get in touch with your dd.

We have had a lovely day celebrating friends birthdays at a joint celebration, the weather was good and we all had a good time, we were out from midday until after 7 pm. Before we went we prepared dinner so we were able to put it on the table within 15 minutes of getting home and before the children went to bed we watched the latest Dr Who