Thursday 15th October - What small dfw things will you do today?

allydowd

News:

* Marks and Spencer launches Sparks loyalty/events card. (Link)

determined_new_ms

Morning guys :wave: thanks for starting us off ccl

Slow start to the day for me as I have had a stomach ache. Have taken some painkillers and it's eased off. So instead of getting on with what I need to I've been sitting down watching My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Should really get on!

Things to do:

* checked banking Done
* reviewed joint account & if we don't spend anything else from here we will get to payday with £5.90 still in the bank Done
* job search Done found 4 that seem interesting... 1 closes tomorrow so have asked them to email application pack. If it looks interesting I will ask cm to have dgd tomorrow morning
* sausages out of freezer for dinner done
* ms assignment
* do an hour listing items on fleabay tonight
* post ebay item
* tidy up the greenhouse
* pay FU & reinstate dd

Ok that's all I need to do today. Have a great day everyone x

carrielovesfanta

Morning folks!


Thanks to ccl for starting us off. I hope your day isn't too stressful.


I had a lot of fun at the WI meeting last night. The speaker didn't turn up so we did some cake decorating instead and I learned to make a rose, a skull and a witch's hat


My efforts must have looked tasty as OH ate two of the cakes when I got in and my friend declined to believe that I had actually made them and thought they were bought! (slightly cheeky I thought considering I've made guitar cakes and boat cakes before!)


Today's things:

• Crossfit - done
• B/L/D from stores
• Decluttering/tidying
• Charge phone in work
• Check online banking and reconcile spreadsheet - done
• Ask OH to put his clothes away so I can make the spare bed up (not mse but could probably find a tenuous link?) - done
• Read Martin's email (forgot yesterday)
• Work on crochet afghan
• Found 4 batteries in stash, needed 3 for new alarm and 1 for wall clock that stopped last night. Must keep an eye out for new batteries at a good price - done
• Reprint groupon voucher

Hmmm, not sure what else


Have a good one all


clf x

FatVonD

Morning all

It's payday for me today and I'm still resisting the Anthropologie sale where extortionately expensive things are reduced to ridiculously expensive but I do love their octopus plates :A

I have bookings now until the end of the year barring one week which I am leaving free hopefully for the house move. Last night I applied for three bookings for the New Year, one casual freelance and two maternity leave covers. One is way out of my comfort zone on account of having an element of client facing stuff though I have all the right experience otherwise but what's the worst that can happen? They give me the job, I suck at it and they sack me and I just go back to freelancing again.

One of my bookings is on a weekly where they are likely to have a pre-Christmas sale so I have my fingers crossed I will be there at the right time for it to stock up on Christmas presents. I usually have quite a stash built up throughout the year but that hasn't been possible this year as nobody here is allowed to accept freebies of any kind.

Lunch today is pizza and jacket potato leftover from yesterday lunchtime and dinner last night was fish and chips from the freezer which always gets eaten last because nobody fancies it and then it ends up being really nice. I have mushrooms, a couple of rashers of bacon and half a pack of baby plum tomatoes in the fridge so may buy some chicken breasts to make hunters chicken for tonight.

I did splash out on a game for my son this morning but bought it on ebay where it was £15 cheaper than in the shops :eek:

Have a good day all!

PurpleFairy26

Hello everyone :hello:

Thanks for the start CCL. Hope the world is being kind:)

My list for today:
try and get 2 loads of washing dry that were done on 30. mixture of outside and airer without heating
Cancel 2 subscriptions
Print some vouchers for when were away next week in preparation for eating out if we feel the need. Will also have my work discount, however, don't always want to eat in our businesses - feels like a bus-man's holiday otherwise :rotfl:
Will start to put some staples on a box to take away
Plan what small amount of food we need between now and Monday
Check banking - payday tomorrow :j am currently in credit will move to CC as a big PAD
Got roast lamb out of freezer for tea
DH painting door frame today
Pop brochure to customer on way to collect DD later
Text 2 other customers about their orders.

Think that's about all, have a good day everyone:D

allydowd

List cont.

* Oh sorted out surplus clothes. Three t-shirts converted into rags. One jumper given to me. Four donated to charity shop.

* Bought OH some foamy bathstuff she likes for Decemberfest. Usually cost £2, got it for £1.45 and put it in the Decemberfest box.

* Home-made fancy coffee. Ground coffee through the cafetiere topped with condensed milk.

* Went into charity shop. Bought a £2 DVD for tonight but put back two ornamental dishes which we didn't really need.

* Lunch is left over jacket potatoes and a wee bit of left over canned meat.

* Decided to have a night in tonight. Bought a bottle of Scotch which'll last me ages and will be cheaper than the Yacht Club bar. OH just wanted a bottle of cherryade, so that was cheap. Contemplated a meal out but decided on a Chinese Ready Meal. We have convenience food about once a week which is better than the Old Days when it was every night!

* Found a decorative dish to put lavender in in the Study.

* Put an old TV and broken computer on Freecycle. No energy for eBay.

* Stored away dried Nigella seeds for next year.

* Cleaned upstairs and half of downstairs with Stardrops and washable cloths.

foxgloves

Hello Money Savers,
Quite a productive morning on the money saving front, but am not feeling very lively. Woke up with a headache which has lingered on all morning & is now deciding it might step it up a gear to make me feel actually poorly, instead of just lethargic. Hmmm. I'm thinking a cafetiere & some codiene if it doesn't settle. Anyway, here's the list of small achievements:
*Jumped in mr f's bath water as soon as he jumped out! Only wanted a quick dip & couldn't see the point in wasting all that water we'd paid to heat.
*My car day today - car park machine accepted a very odd looking pound coin.
*Paid cheque in at bank. It was an unexpected cheque presented to mr f to cover some professional travel expenses. We weren't expecting it, so I used it to buy M-i-L's Christmas present, and........
*There was £9-44 leftover, so I PAD'd it across to the Car Fund. These small regular amounts are starting to make a difference.
*Posted ebay package (made 19p profit on the postage) & updated ebay account.
*Refused to give Cat 2 breakfasts.
*Did next week's meal plans.
*Wrote shopping list. mr f has a short day tomorrow & reckons he's up for doing the weekly shop on the way home.
*Pulled home grown baby turnips & leeks
*Beef stew in slow cooker for tonight's dinner. Plenty of veg to go both in it & with it, which I usefully rounded up, so as not to waste anything.
*Collect up today's pears. I can see that there are lots more on the lawn, which have fallen from the top of the tree. Will bag some up for visiting my parents this weekend.
*Did some surveys.
*Upstairs storage heaters switched on low last night to check they are in working order. This morning, only one was warm. Horrible expensive moment when we thought we might have to replace them..........then mr f realised he hadn't switched them on at the wall in the other 2 rooms! They will just be on very low now until it gets colder. Towel radiator on overnight to dry towels while on low tariff. Until it get colder, I shall keep switching it off in the daytime. We don't sit & freeze, but we're not wasting expensive gas & electricity when we can still put another layer on, another blanket over the top of the bed, etc.
*Make tomorrow's packed lunch,
*Free leisure time. Am intending to re-watch the end of a TV prog (fell asleep at crucial moment, grrr!), knit more present (finished the back last night & cast on the front) & write up a family history project I've been working on to share with the rest of my online family history group.
Have a good day, all.
f x

foxgloves

Oh, & another thing I'm doing is racking my brains about cryptic message from postman. Got back from town to find he'd popped a Red Peril through the door - 'We tried to deliver an item today while you were out', etc, etc. It was apparently too big to go through the letterbox. He has handwritten next to the 'too big for letterbox' tick box, the words 'Brown pig'. Eh? 'Brown what?' Went to fetch my specs. Nope, defo says 'Brown pig'. Am utterly mystified. I'm not expecting a parcel or package of any kind, let alone anything of a porcine nature. Can't collect the item from sorting office until tomorrow. Can't help but be intrigued.
f x

determined_new_ms

How funny foxgloves! I'm intrigued too....

allydowd

foxgloves wrote: »

'Brown pig'. Eh? 'Brown what?'
f x

Has he put it in your brown recycling bin?