Wednesday 17th February- what small DFW things will you do today? :)

nkkingston

@maria
Homemade custard is surprisingly easy to make, and doesn't take long (if you like ti runny, you can also get away with single cream). Just keep whisking! And you can make a light chocolate mousse or meringues out of the whites.

PaceThePixie

Afternoon All, :hello:

A day off work for me today and thoroughly enjoying the rest. Currently wrapped up on the sofa watching films. It is rather moist outside

My list of the day:
Had to spend some ££ today.
Checked my banking and savings (moved a small amount into savings)
Had appointment with potential new bank. It maybe a good financial move.
Did some flat hunting, this one could take some time but well worth it in the end
Filled up the charity bag of clothes a bit more too. I love having a good declutter
Spoke to Virgin Media about the current monthly payment. They agreed to an £8 per month decrease :T:T Well done me it all adds up in the end.

Hope everyone has had a nice day. Stay safe.

Pace.

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allydowd

Hi February Folk,

Just diving in for a couple of minutes.

Debt Free-Nillionaire Continuity Plan Month Nine:

* Went to work for 5 hours.

* Saw Consultant at hospital. NHS so "free" if you ignore the NICs paid out. Still awaiting a diagnosis...yawn...Did spent £2 in the hospital tea bar though.

* Started to look for a replacement car. More news on this tomorrow.

* Put two old mobiles on eBay.

That's about it. How's your day been?

Bobarella

Ziggy - I don't blame you getting another workman to quote. From past bad experience I will only work with people who I have had personal recommendations for. I'm glad your son is better too.

LegoMum - your day out sounds a bit of a mixed bag then. Did they have no porch to queue in?
Also thank you for asking after me yesterday I only just saw that you'd asked. I am feeling much better generally. My energy levels are still off for me and I get aching pains across my tum by the afternoon purely from being up and about but nothing scary. Someone told me today they had to have their appendix out when they were pregnant. So given the proximity to DDS birth I feel very lucky indeed.

La E - I'm glad you feel hopeful of getting a new tenant. Such a worry having a property sat empty.

Nice to see Little Pink Purse posting yesterday too.

Xx

make_the_change

Hi All,

Hope you are all ok. Not been on for a while as enjoying the half term with the kiddies. This has involved visiting grandparents (free lunch and dinner!!) and long walks in the park with wellies and enjoying fresh air. Tomorrow maybe swimming.

Hope you're all having a lovely week :j

ziggy2407

foxgloves wrote: »

Hello Frugal Friends,
And here is today's list of money saving efforts......albeit not overly impressive today. Have had to do some prep for a meeting tonight & it took up more time than I'd hoped :-/
*Last of this week's laundry dried overnight on heated airer, which needless to say was switched off this morning as soon as the cheap tariff ended.
*Nipped out to village garden centre to buy seed potatoes. Way cheaper than buying them mail order or via TV shopping (which a year or two ago featured the most expensive seed potatoes I have ever seen......10 tubers for £15.99 plus p&p!!!! We've spent half of that & have got a 6kg sack. Don't be lured by the presenters' claims that 'these are so easy that even a beginner can grow them'. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced grower, you chit your tatoe, put it in a container of compost or the ground & it grows. End of!
*Caught up with Onepoll surveys, which was frustrating as although there were quite a few, the site seemed ridiculously slow today.
*Postman brought latest £15 Sainsbury's giftcard from Toluna surveys (updated signature).
*Checked online banking for our mythical goodwill gesture payment. Nope! I will give it to the end of the 4 weeks they said it could take, then it will be a written letter Assertiveness Level 3.
*Rounded bank account down by PAD-ing £3.45 into the Car Fund (updated signature - Car Fund total does not include the sum I intend to add in from our WTSHTF fund, as we are obviously hoping to minimise eroding that too far, but we will have to use some of it)
*Checked ebay listings - a couple of watchers - not that hopeful as most of these items have been listed multiple times already, but past experience has shown that they do often find a buyer in the end, & we do only list when it's free to do so.
*Knit 2 more cats.
*mr f is giving me a lift to & from my meeting tonight, which will save me paying car park fees.
OK, that's my lot. I'd better have a good day tomorrow, I'm not exactly impressing myself today, let alone you lot! Would have liked to have spent some time in the veggie garden but it hasn't stopped raining yet today, & I don't want to go to my meeting looking like Crystal Tipps (with crazy frizzled hair for all the scarily young people on here who can't remember her!)
Bye for now,
f x

You always impress me What are your plans for the cats?

I loved Crystal Tipps and Alistair

allydowd

Woo hoo! Two mobiles sold in fifteen minutes! That's £40 profit.

DawnW

DawnW wrote: »

Afternoon all
Horrible wet day here again today
I'm with you on the seed potatoes Foxgloves - mine came from the local pound / cheap shop (as I only need a few) and I got 16 for £1.78
And onepoll is really slow today, and the surveys really boring - who on earth writes this stuff, and what can they possibly get out of it (sorry, research methods bore here :rotfl:)
Not done much today - DD came round with her LO this morning, and I have been fruitlessly waiting for a freecycler again this afternoon. Now it appears she isn't coming till tomorrow :mad: Why do I do this, and not just take the stuff to the charity shop? From now on I will! Much as I admire the idea behind freecycle and its ilk, it is too much bother!

However, my list, such as it is:
Minimal heating on, though I will be lighting the wood burner soon as it is really miserable, cold and wet Wood burner alight, toasty now
Managed one dog walk so far,early on before it started raining. I need to go to the post office, so hoping to coincide this with a second one, depending on the weather - free exercise at least Well, it carried on raining this afternoon, but he was looking to go out, so I took him as far as the post box down the road, carrying him most of the way once he realised it was raining, posted my letter and then he ran all the way back home :rotfl:
HM meals Had for dinner a strange concoction of meatballs from the freezer, an out of date cream sauce mix from Ikea, some roasted peppers and onion, some HG 'sun dried' tomatoes and couscous. Much nicer than it sounds!
Surveys, FPL etc, just onepoll today, which was dire More this afternoon, just as bad but I am over £35 now, so less than a fiver to go before payout :T
Look for a new suit for OH as we have a wedding to go to in April and he has 'outgrown' his current one. Anybody got any ideas where you can buy suits for shortish, fat men? He is absolutely hopeless at any kind of shopping that does not interest him :mad: Not done, I will have to drag him shopping :eek::eek:
Take chickens to DD's this evening - two of them were / are hers, and I have decided that all 3 can go back to her. They are causing a few problems at the moment, and she can give them more space than I can. A bit sad, as I have had chickens for ever, but it will give me more space for plants, and I will not have to worry if we want to go away, so not all bad We will dismantle their house and also take that to her, but on a dry day! Chickens delivered, I am sure they will like their new home
Must also put boxes of sales items away in the loft cupboard - I have already got them up to the top floor, so not too much of an effort Not done yet, but will do when I go up to bed

Well, a most unsatisfactory list today - must do better tomorrow!

Hoping for a more productive day tomorrow!

PurpleFairy26

foxgloves wrote: »

*Rounded bank account down by PAD-ing £3.45 into the Car Fund (updated signature - Car Fund total does not include the sum I intend to add in from our WTSHTF fund, as we are obviously hoping to minimise eroding that too far, but we will have to use some of it)
f x

A what, what, what fund?!?! :rotfl:

Glad you're feeling better Bob. Hope everyone is dry. Rubbish drive home in dark and bad rain

Today I have:
Meals from stores, used left over spag Bol for another spag Bol tonight, soup from freezer for lunch.
Check banking, pad to CC little other movement
Check surveys, FPL
Washing done overnight
Just in bed, early night as DD up in night.

Will try and check in tomorrow but am off with smalls, so will see.