Five OS Pleasures in your day today

Reverbe

1. 2 huge Tupperware boxes from Woolies only £1 each and more woolies bargains like cheap candles and some festive cookie cutters to make biscuits for Xmas presents
2 homemade biscuits with my coffee at work
3 big mac and medium fries from mac d's with a token for only £1.99
4 2 films from Lovefilm
5 coming home to 3 free samples and a Topshop dress I got for £2 on Ebay

bellaquidsin

I posted the other day but my post didn't go and got lost. I then read on the 'tough' thread about all the poor folk facing redundancy so top of my list has to be:-

1. Knowing that the mortgage is paid off and we have our home.

2. DH retiring next summer, so no more worries about job losses.

3. A smaller income yes, but plenty of OS nowse to help me to cope.

4. Lots of baking yesterday to help keep me warm and the freezer full.

5. A wonderful husband home for the weekend, yes we're all only human and he gets in my way at times but it would be far worse not to have him.

Bella.

Blairweech

I need to start doing this everyday.

1. Having time to sit in the library and browse - found some really good books

2. Cutting my washing powder with soda crystals and it making the washing really clean and soft, and no soap residue!

3. Lovely free range eggs from the chicken lady up the road

4. Sausage and bean caserole, with mash for tea - HM freezer ready meal

5. It's less than a month until Christmas

ashia_2

Mine are

1. Waking up in my own time coz I don't have to be at work
2. Wrapping the Christmas prezzie in preperation for dec's going up on monday
3. Wandering round town with massive amounts of people hurrying and me and oh just enjoying our time coz we're all sorted
4. Re-reading 'how I lived on a pound a day' and finding pages I missed (I do this all the time!)
5. A nice long shower which I'll be having later, using the BIG bottle of Snow Fairy shower gel oh bought me earlier in the week coz I was feeling really bad.

Purple_Sparkles

Baked some bread

Collected eggs from my lovely girls (chooks)

Design my planting schedule for next year

Snuggled up on the sofa under a blanket with my son watching a film

Mixed up some bath oil (rose & ylang ylang) for a lovely long soak in the bath later

Caterina

Thank you Beki for the link to the Snowman soup, unfortunately I won't be able to do it as there is gelatine in marshmallows (but might still treat myself to a nice cup of hot chocolate tonight after reading that!).

Here are mine today:

1 - Breakfast in bed, soft boiled eggs with chopped steamed rye bread and all mixed with the last of the mayonnaise in the bottle - Yummy!

2 - At the "make your own cosmetics" class I made an oatmeal and clay scrub and a rose and clay cleansing mask. Lovely smells of real essential oils, and 100% natural!

3 - Lovely meal at the Blackheath Age Exchange centre (HM leek and potato soup, cheese toastie with salad and HM apple chutney, fruit cake, cup of tea) for the princely sum of £5.55

4 - Finding three really nice bargain books in the Age Exchange sale

5 - Last but not least meeting the lovely LilacLillie at the first SE London OS meet (also at the Age Exchange centre)

Good night all!

Caterina

Purple_Sparkles

I love lazy Sundays, not that I really get one but it's nice to just take things a bit slower, anyway on this lovely day .....

I love the smell of home baking - got bread and fairy cakes on the go

Writing in my journal

Spending time catching up with old friends

Watching the birds going about their business in the garden, they always seem so happy.

The smell of freshly laundered sheets on my bed.

freebiequennie

1. husband hoovering the whole house (3 storeys and 4 bedrooms!!)

2. getting up at 11am for the first time in what seems like months.

3. baking some banana and orange muffins and freezing a dozen of them ready for the greedy guests we have next weekend!

4. sorting through the presents drawers and realising we have more than enough xmas pressies for all our family

5. husband and i both still in jobs although he doesnt like his much its paying the bills.

ppolly

Mine for today

1. Going for a family walk

2. Enjoying hot chocolate out instead of lunch out

3. Helping my daughter write to father christmas and going and posting it and looking at the Christmas lights

4. Baking scones with my daughter

5. Watching 'The Snowman' DVD from the library

Reverbe

Yesterdays
1 getting a free large milkshake,at a new Milkshake bar opening at my town and balloons, keyrings, badges, stickers, pencil sets, colouring books to use as stocking fillers

2 a lunch of leftover rice and onions (plus herbs and spice etc)cooked in veg stock topped with onions fried in lemon juicethe cheap dish I concocted which is dirt cheap and tasty as heck (gets better and different every time according to what I throw in with it

3 watching children ice skate at the outdoor rink outside my local council

4 an afternoon on the sofa with a good book, a blanket and lots of hot drinks

5 Reliving my childhood fave "Sesame Street" on dvd from the library - 1 week rental at £1.50 for over 7 hrs..