Five OS Pleasures in your day today

newlywed

Today...

1. Buying split peas for the first time and actually having a plan for them already (stock from the bacon joint will be ham and pea soup).

2. Planning a day out shopping at many charity shops with my sister (who wants to know where I buy all my stuff )

3. Finding the best deal on a sky gadget to change channels from our bedroom and finding out they take paypal and I have almost enough credit from lightspeed surveys in my paypal account to cover it

4. Realising I'd forgotten to get anything out of the freezer last night for tea tonight... and finding out I have plenty of storecupboard bits to make a meal anyway so need not worry.

5. Writing my meal plan for the month - will do this later on.



PS - Kiwiblue -how do you make kahlua??

OrkneyStar

Todays pleasures hmmmmm
1. making cheese and toast and taking it into bed to eat, with DS of course.
2. Lying under covers keeping warm while DS plays (with stacking cups that I got for 50p from charity shop) on the bed in his jammies.
3. Dustied and swept DS room (according to flylady list for today).
4. Changed our sheets and put an extra warm blanket and thermal half blanket on top, as well as duvet - nice and snug.
5. Thinking how I can eke out the broth from yesterday so we can have it for todays lunch- edited to say this involved 200ml water, half cup broad beans, third cup peas, two tiny frozen sauted leeks and a cheap chicken stock cube I found- looks fine and smells nice too .
:wave:

Hardup_Hester

1) found another lodger, the money will help make up for hubby's extra low wage
2) the lodger isn't Katy
3) making a casserole in the SC from stuff found when I defrosted the freezer
4) making mackerel pate from fish found ditto above
5) finding enough blackberries in the freezer to make 12 BB & Apple crumbles

balmaiden

1) Six jars of apple and chillie chutney made to add to the store cupboard.
2) Grandchildren playing happily all afternoon with toys that are 30 years old and belonged to their mum.
3) Beef curry made out of the Sunday joint 3rd meal out of a yellow stickerd piece of topside.
4) viewing online combined gas and leccy bill and finding we are £60 in credit...
5) Sitting by our open fire watching our foraged wood burn and knowing I am still keeping the gas bill down!

catznine

1) Making hm chicken soup (4th meal from 1 chicken)

2) Blanching and freezing down yet more runner beans from the garden (definately the last harvest)

3) Snuggling under hm lap quilt and writing out a Christmas list

4) Ironing to get warm (I actually love the smell of freshly ironed laundry):D

5) Finding 3 past their best bananas and making a large bowl of banana custard

Caterina

Ah well, not very OS today, splashed out on gas CH because it was so cold I just couldn't bother waiting anymore.

Anyway here are my 5:

1 - Listening to DS playing guitar

2 - Putting laundry to dry in the windy sunny day (got to remember to take it in!)

3 - Switching off CH a couple of hours after putting it on because the house is nice and toasty and we no longer need it on for the time being

4 - Cooking split peas for the first time (SNAP, Newlywed!) but soup won't be with bacon or ham as we are mostly veggies, but with vegetables

5 - Drinking tea which is still warm after ages in the pot because the pot is covered with the most beautiful knitted tea cozy that my friend knitted for me.

Number 6 is not particularly OS but I am delighted that I have received my savings back from the evil Icelandic banks!

Caterina

elisamoose

a combined yesterday and today list

1 Washing dried outside in the sun!
2 Leftover slow cooker casserole used for soup lunch
3 Cupboard prepared for painting for DS room (who needs Ikea!)
4 Very warm kitten on my knee
5 A day on the boat

Fruball

my OS pleasures today were...

Making one tray of HM cookies and then an apple crumble with the leftover HM cookie mix plus a couple of bruised apples that I would previously have binned. :eek:

Exchanging outgrown baby clothes with my friend who is going to give 3 of us haircuts in exchange :j :j :j

Organising a stall to sell HM wheatbags and HM tote bags at an event in Nov to make some extra cash.

Drying my towels on the line so they smell fab (just needed a few mins in the dryer to fluff them up and finish drying)

Wearing my lovely sheepskin slippers all day and keeping the heating off.

Giving the kids jacket potatoes that I cooked yesterday, whilst the oven was being used, and just blitzing them in microwave today

Reading all the messages on the OS board

Fruball

:rotfl: Oh I nearly forgot - my best OS pleasure of all time (atm) is keeping my heating off knowing that my evil nextdoor neighbour from h£ll is keeping my house warm as we are terraced :rotfl:

Once it gets quite cold in my house, it miraculously seems to warm up - I am guessing she is having to compensate by having to turn hers on more often or up higher - wish I had known that last year :rotfl:

Is it wrong to glean pleasure from that?

parsonswife8

Frugal wrote: »

:rotfl: Oh I nearly forgot - my best OS pleasure of all time (atm) is keeping my heating off knowing that my evil nextdoor neighbour from h£ll is keeping my house warm as we are terraced :rotfl:

Once it gets quite cold in my house, it miraculously seems to warm up - I am guessing she is having to compensate by having to turn hers on more often or up higher - wish I had known that last year :rotfl:

Is it wrong to glean pleasure from that?

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You wicked, wicked person!

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