Five OS Pleasures in your day today

welsh_worrier

:j Kept the heating off till tea time
Made my own marzipan for my cake
Finished off 2 sock monkeys
made cheap corned beef stew
sorted all my kitchen cupboards so i know what i have in:j

Caterina

Hi all

welsh_worrier wrote: »

Finished off 2 sock monkeys

Welsh worrier, what are sock monkeys? I am intrigued!

Here are mine today:

1 - My dishwasher is broken (well it was due to happen sooner or later, it went perfectly for more than 10 years, so I am not begrudging too much) but I found a workman who will do repairs and parts for less than £80 (cheaper than buying a new one). Rediscovered the OS pleasure of washing dishes by hand, and think of the electricity saved! You can see that I am REALLY STRAINING to find the silver lining in the cloud! :rotfl:

2 - I got around to washing the shower curtain, long overdue, it was smelling mouldy and now it is all nice and fresh (at 30 degree, no detergent, only borax).

3 - The new Ecologist magazine for this month arrived today so I have some good reading for tonight in bed.

4 - I managed to do all my 12 hours of work and have plenty more to do next week (I get bored silly when work is too quiet).

5 - My friend invited me and DH to dinner at her place tonight - great company, lovely food and NO DISHES TO WASH YIPPEE!!! :T

Goodnight all

Caterina

newlywed

Here's mine:

1. HM leek and potato soup - one of my favourites
2. Finding a 1.4 kg bacon/gammon joint in Aldi for £5 - easy slow cooker tea with frozen veg
3. Buying butter to make shortbread at the weekend with stepson
4. Buying eggs from the market and saving money - 95p for 6 large free range
5. Train tickets arriving for MSE style day out in London later this month with my OH (£10 each instead of £14 on the day ) (will be a day with no kids either )

zarazara

1. Going for a walk
2.HM spicey parsnip soup for luncj
3.Making bread
4.Seeing a robin red-brest in the hedge
5.watching an old film on telly this afternoon.

MissB_2

Today's Blessings:

1. Walking home on a lovely winter's evening.
2. Looking forward to making my mince pies tomorrow.
3. Going home to my big £1 ebay Sony TV that the OH found for me last week when mine blew up.
4. Getting the bits ready to make myself and the OH a Christmas Stocking each(my sister filched the two I made last year as they were sparkly silver and purple and she loved them, these will be red and cream so I should be safe!)
5. Curling up on the sofa tonight to finish sewing the last of my close family cards and start making the paper ones for everyone else

Wonderful!
B
x x x

freebiequennie

hello heres mine

1. making homemade veggie soup using some carrots, onions, potatoes and then also some frozen mixed veg we didnt like but will be fine blended in the soup (i did manage to splatter the cooker whilst blending so had to clean it!!)

2. finding tesco had their bone in gammons now in so i brought one they are £3.32 a kilo (my husband has been pining for one for a few weeks now) - we will roast this and will do many meals and lunchboxes.

3. finally finishing the xmas shopping online.

4. abel and cole delivery waiting for me when i got home.

5. having family to visit this weekend and hopefully being able to feed them very cheaply. (soup and rolls for lunch tommorow)

Reverbe

1 Free festive bake form greggs for lunch and some cheap food storage containers from Woolies that I am gonna use to start freezing leftovers

2 a beautiful sunny almost warm day

3 visiting the first proper fishmonger I have seen in years and treating myself to a red snapper and a white pomfrit

4 Nick Knowles on Paul O Grady's show ( I still flashback to that day a few weeks ago where I tripped on the pavement and went flying and he picked me up )

5 a relaxing evening reading under the blankets

fedupandskint

1. HM pumpkin soup for lunch with old oatcakes (still ok tho!) with whoopsie brie

2. Took car for MOT to a coucil testing station as recommended on money saving email a few weeks ago, didn't even know they existed and there was one local to me! It passed The garage last year tried to do me for extra work which was not needed and no pressure from the council for this just a straight pass or fail. V.pleased and highly recommend this MOT station

3. Walked into town from MOT and had a free hot choccie with an old Nero full card which has been in my purse for ages

4. checked boots advantage card machine and found a voucher for extra points and bogof photo frame/album deal bought both for £11 for christmas pressies :T

5. Free DVD arrived from Lovefilm Sex in the City and will cancel trial after this, maybe? still if don't is not expensive. Looking forward to curling up on settee with glass of wine and blanket and choccie later!

Getting the hang of this DFW stuff, have to think about it and not be tempted in the shops but getting there.

Thanks to all posters on here as this helps me focus on small things to save money :T

Reverbe

LOl fed up I have has SATC on my Lovefilm list since July. It came out in September and I am on a 3 at a time plan sending them back the day after they arrive and I still havent been sent it... Hope you enjoy..:)

fedupandskint

Reverbe wrote: »

LOl fed up I have has SATC on my Lovefilm list since July. It came out in September and I am on a 3 at a time plan sending them back the day after they arrive and I still havent been sent it... Hope you enjoy..:)

Hi Reverbe,

I hope you get it after I send it back on monday - did you mark it as high priority on your list? Maybe they sent it to me as it was my first one and they want to keep me in the club? Well I don't think i will stay, might just try and move around and get a few ones sent out by different companies!:rotfl: