Friday 13 Nov - What small DFW things will you do today?!

allydowd

Morning all,

:coffee:

It's the 'weekend' here. And I have a very long list of stuff to do. Don't really know where to start TBH. Looked out of the window over to the mountains, there's snow on top, no wonder I don't want to remove my dressing gown.

I'm feeling really content this morning. I think my recent mental elf blip is over.

Debt-Free Nillionaire Month 6:

* Neeed to clean old fridge before putting it up for sale.

* It's PayDay. Rent has been paid.

* Ordered two new toilet seat buffers for £1.85 instead of a whole new seat.

* Signed up for some Nectar card offers. Extra points when we buy fuel at our usual petrol station. Win win.

* It is bucketing down. We're about to get the tail end of a hurricane. Hoping to still be able to go out for lunch in town.

* Register fridge for 12 month guarantee. Remembered to get serial number off back of it before siting it.

* Paid more into our Australia fund.

* Cleared out emails.

* Sell DVD on eBay.

* Called HMRC. I am due a £200 Income Tax rebate as I've been stuck on the wrong tax code for two months. This is because the Jobcentre didn't tell them how much JSA we'd had in the six weeks we'd claimed it. If they'd wrote and told me that was holdng up the payment I'd have followed it up! :mad: I told them just now and they say I'll get the money back next week. The lady on the phone said I'd have been waiting until April 2016 had I not called back today. They told me initially it was all in hand and they'd sort it. Liars!

* Look at Lakeland Catalogue but do not buy anything.

Have a good day everyone.

lego_mum

Morning all, Thanks for the start LE.

Hope everyone has a good day.

Health & Fitness plans (lose this weight once and for all, no fad diets ever again!)
:starmod: Walk the boys to & from the bus stop nope it was wet and wild this morning but then didn't drive back home, drove straight to the gym so saved 1/4 mile worth of fuel at least
:starmod: Gym class – aiming for 5 a week (works out to less then 80p/class!) Didn't do the LBT class as I have shoulder pain, but whilst that class was on I went on the spin bike and followed the same intervals.
:starmod: Fill water bottle at the gym done
:starmod: [STRIKE]Shower/dry hair at the gym, save my water & electricity! [/STRIKE]
:starmod: Walk at least 7000 steps to get bounts points done
:starmod: Eat for health
:starmod: Drink water through the day
:starmod: Monitor fitness goals etc using my fitbit daily & adjust when needed


Daily jobs:
:starmod: Wash a load at 30 degrees done
:starmod: Wet & wild today so washing on the radiators done
:starmod: Check banks/update spreadsheet done
:starmod: Delete junk from emails done
:starmod: Clean & tidy fridge (make sure we don’t waste anything) Chopped peppers and made a ratatouille, chopped sugar snap peas, will nibble on these this afternoon, radishes peppers sweetcorn & onions made into a veg sauce to go with pasta over the weekend.
:starmod: Use something out of the food use up box
:starmod: Plan today’s meals from stores kids having pizza topped with some veggies out of the fridge
:starmod: Minimise heating use timer on for 1/2 hr in a morning before dh gets up for work, rest of the day can be jumpers & blankets

Tidy home = Tidy mind
:starmod: Hoover carpets
:starmod: Clean the kitchen using minimal products
:starmod: Tidy at least one cupboard
:starmod: Gather together items for the cs

Money making schemes
:starmod: Inbox pounds 5 searches done
:starmod: Swagbucks
:starmod: Check Fpl done
:starmod: Check luckyphone done
:starmod: Check for surveys
:starmod: Rm survey done

Freebies/vouchers/offers
:starmod: Check 02 priorities done
:starmod: Check tcb/quidco
:starmod: Check cos/shopit

Extras
:starmod: Make a date cake
:starmod: Stew plums with ginger that my dad picked up ys for me done

Penniesinmyjar

Morning all, I'm a newbie so hello

- make washing up liquid rather than buying a bottle as it's a NSD (quite excited about this)
- going through what's left in the fridge and making some sort of magical dish out of the remains of veg so I don't waste
- Check bank account
- Get one survey done
- Go through cupboards and freezer and create meal plan, got one week left til pay day and i'd love to just need to buy a few fresh bits
- I'm working from home today and am going to layer up and keep the heating off
- Count out penny jar, dd is going to help me with this one tonight

Have a great day everyone

kayannie

Morning all!

It's a very wild & windy day here. It's also dustbin day, and the recycling bins have been rolling down the hill and tipping over - luckily ours didn't go far, and didn't spill much out either, but one of the neighbour's bins spilled all over the road. She was rushing out to work and to take the children to school so I did my good deed of the day and tidied it up for her. Only downside was that at that moment the heavens opened & I got very wet. Ah well, I soon warmed up in a nice hot bath.

Since then, I've done a few onepoll surveys (a nice lot on there today), then caught up on RM surveys too. I've got two to post today so need to go to the PO later.

I've spent the last 2 evenings knitting my OH a woolly hat as he seems to have lost his favourite. Last night I'd just started decreasing for the shaping when I realised that it wasn't working out right as I'd made a few adjustments to the pattern. I've spent the last few minutes undoing all my hard work by about 4 inches - just got to pick up the stitches now and re-do what I've undone - this time I will follow the pattern to the letter!

A good friend gave me some cooking apples yesterday and some home-grown kale.

The postie brought me 5 sachets of Head & Shoulders shampoo yesterday, which neither I or OH will use. If any of you would like them, please drop me a PM & I will post them to you. It won't cost me anything as I have free stamps from RM surveys.



Hope everyone has a good day - at least most of you that work have the weekend to look forward to.

Kx

La_escocesa

[FONT=&quot]Hi Penniesinmyjar – welcome to MSE and the small things We’re a new thread every day so make sure to look out for us tomorrow too [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I’ve been on the ball this morning...and getting embarrassed about how much I’ve let things slide recently [/FONT]

• [FONT=&quot]Logged into check when T’s vouchers expire – Feb 2016 so still time to use them – will convert to restaurant vouchers probably :cool: [/FONT]
• [FONT=&quot]Updated address with various peeps [/FONT]
• [FONT=&quot]Requested new Adv. card as have £36 of points saved and have lost it! [/FONT]
• [FONT=&quot]Cancelled insurance we don’t need – [FONT=&quot]d[/FONT]ue £47 refund :T[/FONT]
• [FONT=&quot]Going to go a little walk out at lunch – free exercise [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Also need to call mum as ask her for £££ to book the spa for sister’s bday :cool: :A :j :T :A :cool: [/FONT]

lego_mum

Hi and welcome Penniesinmyjar (love the name!) Its a great thread, keep posting

foxgloves

Laptop has just eaten my update post, the mean pig.

Bobarella

Hi Dudes

Carrie - that conversation was hilarious

My own mini update. I now only have 2 more payments to HMRC before I am clear of the money I owed them. Jan 15th for the win!
It's going to make a massive difference monthly of £306.

It's a good thing to focus on for the new year.

It's my son's 7th birthday today so he has some money from relatives to decide on how to use. Or save. Well encourage a 50/50 split but ultimately he's old enough to decide what to do. And it involves Lego

Bob

kayannie

Bob


Happy Birthday to your son. If he's anything like his mum, he'll know how to handle his money! And you must be counting down the days till Jan 15th - well done!
K x

Baileys_Babe

Bob that is over £10 per day :-D