Sat 5th/Sun 6th December - what small DFW things will you be doing this weekend?

allydowd

Hi,

*House be-decked in pine cones and greenery from last year, so no spend there.

foxgloves

Blu-tack certainly does rock! I can remember when it first appeared when I was a child. I'd have been in about Year 6 at primary school. We were completely fascinated by it. Teachers would use it to stick posters to the school walls & we'd all be sneaking up & surreptitiously lifting the corners & nicking a bit, trying to see who could amass the biggest ball. The trick was to leave just enough so that the poster would remain stuck to the wall so the crime remained undetected. Some kids were either not bright enough to suss this, or their lust for obtaining blu-tak wiped out any vestige of common sense, as I distinctly recall being in assembly one morning on a cold, damp winter day when just as a hymn finished, there was a weird rumbling sound & all the posters fell off the wall at the same time, as by then, there was so little blu-tak, they were practically held up by vapour! Lectures about theft of school property ensued. Did it stop us? No! We just got sneakier. We realised the safest time to acquire more blu-tak was to ask for permission to go to the loo during lesson time & move our attentions to the posters in the corridors. The bravest kids had blu-tak balls in their school bags the size of cricket balls. I made a 'Morph' with mine as Tony Hart's programme was popular at the time. Funny how my use of blu-tak is positively parsimonious now that I have to buy it myself!
f x

crazy_cat_lady

Hi everyone
Busy morning so far, and just time for a quick check in before we head off to gymnastics... It is wild out there this morning. I've given up trying to put the bins back because they're just not heavy enough to stay standing at the moment. I'm making it my mission to get 2 bags of rubbish before the end of the day to weigh them down a bit.
Today I have already:
Been into town to the market for a couple of bits
Checked banking
Paid in the penny pot - even though it wasn't very full
Opened a new basic bank account so I can have a separate everyday spending account, away from my bills and direct debits.
Tried to take ds to football but way too windy
Cleaned the bathroom
Changed the cat litter
And I still need to:
Take both kids to gymnastics
Mark the last set of exam papers I need to do (then back to books)
Get the kids to do their jobs
Make a PAD somewhere
Hoover through
Perhaps knit another Christmas ornament
Perhaps try and start some present wrapping
definitely need to sort the sofa cushions out - if I write it here then I'll make sure I do it.
Right - time to get off to gymnastics then. Back later.

YORKSHIRELASS

Great story Foxgloves. I am old enough to remember when blu-tac was an amazing new invention too! My parents wouldnt allow us to put posters up on our bedroom walls because it would damage the wallpaper but relented when blu-tac came out. Of course it still marked the walls eventually.

Day at home today. Have been sorting through our medicine box and have ripped up some catalogues for recycling. Need to wrap some pressies later.

This wind is awful, hope everyone is OK. I gave up trying to hang the washing out because I didnt think it would stay on the line.

Oh and I have just discovered that DS2 has made a hole in the knee of his school trousers. Sigh.

chocolatelover93

Hello everyone Thank you Jonno for starting, had time to catch up with yesterday's thread now

Ally It's nice that you're always there to help us all, thank you

CLF - Hope you're ok xx

Glitzer - Pay for the massages, it will be good for you after the weekend draw a line under it and start again afresh

LaE - Do you find it easy to do your own gel nails? I've never tried but I would love to but don't know how I would get on, especially considering the eyebrow horror haha

Work till 6 for me today, hubby wants to go out tonight with his friend for a couple of drinks and asked if I want to come, I don't really know if I want to not my sort of thing, loud music, drunk people, I would rather bin indoors snuggled up with my cats!!
I would also like to add I NOW HAVE MY DEPOSIT BACK :j:j:j:j haha took long enough!!

Today's list:
- FPL
- Luckyphone
- B/L/D from stores
- Check for MS's
- Survey/s
- Thank you notes
- Christmas cards
- Sort out presents
- Put Christmas Deccys up
- NSD

Think that is about it
xx

chocolatelover93

Thank you LaE
I will show this to hubby as he's not yet got my present and will save him money in the long run (he pays for my nails now and then) :P

allydowd

foxgloves wrote: »

*Pay £45 into CC account to cover my new top which I bought with my sealed pot money. Am doing a lot of this to maximise points for John Lewis vouchers. Our humax box is apparently preparing to die & the new piece of kit is £190. Mr f (who is in love with kit) says he's expecting price to drop in the new year. Have about £45 in voucher so far, another £20 on the way & whatever I receive in next CC payout so will see if the Exchequer (i.e Me!) sanctions it.

Our Humax box was playing up. We replaced the SCART cable and it came back to life. Cables have a habit of bending downwards under their own weight breaking the wires inside. Maybe borrow one from a neighbour and see if that fixes it first?

foxgloves

Thanks Ally. I'm sure he's tried the cables. He seriously loves cables, scart leads & all associated techie detritus. He has 3 drawers full of the stuff. He did tell me what the problem is likely to be but I'm sorry to say I lost the will to live after approx 4 seconds. Our box no longer supports iplayer, etc, either, which is another nail in its coffin for mr f!

carrielovesfanta

Hey guys,

Have you seen how many of us made the debt free in 2015 announcement at the top of the forum?

Foxgloves - cannot believe that blu-tack was that epic
Chocolatelover - hooray on the deposit!
Ally - a colleague of mine accused me of having an eidetic memory once but I definitely don't! I'm just good at remembering films and songs.

I'm fine thanks. The sore legs is from the crossfit/run and the tiredness... well I think it's that cold. It's been trying to break out all week and I'm just about fighting it.

I haven't really done anything mse today. I had high hopes of making the house clean and tidy but actually spent it sewing instead

I did finish my advent calender though
Here is a close up of a bit of it



Tonight I will continue to sit on my bum and MAYBE finish the main body of the blanky

Have a lovely evening folks

clf x

Bagpuss741

Today I have/will:

1. Checked online banking
2. Bought cat food in B&M for £3.49 instead of the usual £4.80 I pay in other shops. She will only eat gourmet perle (fussy cat)
3. Made vet appt. for cat as she has what looks like thick cradle cap down her spine. We have a practice plan with the vet which entitles her to two free health checks a year so am hoping to use one up for this appt.
4. Ordered christmas present for brother and remembered to use quidco.
5. Changed bed linen, vacummed and dusted bedroom.
6. Meals from stores.
7. Scanned laptop with free antivirus, updated programs that needed it.
8. Surveys
9. Free Postcode Lottery
10. Taught my mother how to use internet banking. God give me strength:)