Friday 19th February - What Small DFW-Style Things Will You Be Doing Today?

LPMS

Pay day today :T:T

I've already topped the gas and electric meters up for the next 4 weeks (yay for smart meters).
Then it's go to the cashpoint with mine and DH's bank card, empty the account and fill my pencil cases up.
And then work 4.30-11pm Day 10 of 10! :eek:

JHiggins91

Good morning everyone, not been on in a while.

We are now officially into our first home Have been for a couple of weeks now so have been rather busy, hence the reason I've not been posting.

However this morning has been fairly productive.

Day off so got up with DD and made breakfast
Tidied the house (still on-going)
Phoned up Barclaycard and activated my new card and made the balance transfer away from the high interest rate card that has been the bane of my life for the past 2 years.
Will go up to the sales office (new build estate so they're round the corner) to ask the colour and make of the paint on all our walls - we have a 2-and-a-bit year old, need I say any more?
Go down to post office to collect parcels
Go and pick up OH from work as she finishes early today
Tonight I'm going to the pub with family as my cousin has had a baby so an obligatory wetting of the babies head
Have put in for 22 hours overtime over the next week and a bit so have that to look forward to...

Hope you all have a great day, away to continue purging this house

midnitegremlin

I like to buy a few essentials, a personal numberplate for my dog, a second SKY subscription for the TV in the bathroom, and scented candles. I also like to save a little bit of money by re-using tea bags (Aldis own brand of course!)

La_escocesa

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[FONT=&quot]I was sorry to hear about your mum and your brother Ziggy –thinking about you all :grouphug: [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Hope everyone else is getting on ok. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Gosh – a bit of troll action on the thread – it’s not often we get that sort of action. They always make me laugh :rotfl: [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]In seriousness though – when trolls post it reminds me how public this forum is. Sometimes I only think it’s you lovely lot reading! (That was the idea behind the FB group...) [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Here’s me: [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Reconciled cash balances [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Get OH to reconcile his cash before he goes out tomorrow! [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Healthy breakfast smoothie using up cheapo fruit and veg :cool: [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Fake away fish and chips tonight :A [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Going to get my eyebrows done – first time since before Christmas rather than every 3 weeks as I used to do :cool: [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Netflix night in tonight [/FONT]
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twiggy86

Morning all (just!)

Thinking about you and your family Ziggy.

Today I have/will:-
* Check banks
* Load of washing on 30 degree ecowash
* Make smoothies for breakfast
* Reuse sandwich bag to freeze banana for tomorrows smoothies
* Take lunch to work (got a strange tummy ache and cant work out if I'm starving or shouldnt eat anything!) EDIT - Apparently I was starving as I felt fine once I demolished a sandwich, although confession I did buy it from the shop as it was what my tummy told me I wanted/needed rather than fruit!
* Charge phone in work
* Check FPL
* Earn more on OnePoll
* Upload receipt
* Empty purse into piggy bank and replenish with money from OH
* Wrap present for friend I'm seeing tomorrow (and her new baby!)
* Sort out laundry!
* Housework as per flylady thread
* Clean on top of fridge which I noticed this morning was not looking too nice! (Washable cloths and elbow grease of course!)

Think that's everything for today. Hope you all have a good day.

allydowd

midnitegremlin wrote: »

I like to buy a few essentials, a personal numberplate for my dog, a second SKY subscription for the TV in the bathroom, and scented candles. I also like to save a little bit of money by re-using tea bags (Aldis own brand of course!)

May I also recommend a banana slicer. (Link) It has a range of uses.

foxgloves

Hello Friday Frugalistas (plus troll, I see...now there's a novelty, & it's always nice for these types to have a hobby)
Bright but chilly day here this morning. Icy cars, but none of the snow that was promised, so a bit disappointed about that. A bit of money-saving stuff, but not a huge list of achievements in all honesty:
*Cleaned whole house using minimal products & washable microfibre cloths (I walk down the supermarket cleaning products aisle & simply cannot comprehend WHO would waste money on so much of this unnecessary chemical rubbish.....& all those plastic bottles too. We are such a pathetic species!)
*Planted up front patio tubs for a bit of spring colour. Did involve a modest spend, but not as much as anticipated as I was able to re-use a few of my autumn plants once they'd had a short back & sides.
*Watered baby strawberry runners. So easy to pot up for free plants.
*Did some surveys.
*Packed big bag of surplus craft stuff & magazines for visiting parents tomorrow, so a good declutter, plus I'll swap my mags for some of Mum's so will get plenty of 'new' ones to read. Also packed pear cake from freezer & will wrap & take Mothering Sunday gift as I reckon it'll cost around £12 to post.
*Do next week's meal plans. Almost finished. Just got to finalise what we're going to eat on our 'light' days. We're following one of those weight loss plans where there are 2 days a week on much lower calorie intake (though not as low as the 5:2, which wouldn't suit me, as I get the wobbles if my blood sugar drops too low). We are planning to have a really good use-it-up week as there is plenty in the freezer.
*Write shopping list & find vouchers. Aiming to go to Co-op as have £50 of vouchers from taking out new insurance policy last November.
*Use-it-up lunch. Have put lonely sweet potato in the oven to bake & will have that with a selection of odds & ends from the freezer.
*Wash hair & let it dry naturally.
*Sew up some of my knitted kitties (Knittens?) I need to do this before my basket of bodies & tails gets too out of control! I like knitting them waaaayyyyyy more than I like sewing them up, but I've tweaked how I'm doing the faces & whiskers now, & I think they will look cute.
OK, that's me, must go & see how that sweet potato is doing. Cat downed his breakfast in one first thing & the awful truth has just dawned on him that there will now be only biscuits until dinner time. This is not going down well.
Love to all,
f x

foxgloves

Ziggy - Sad, difficult news from you yesterday. There is nothing you can do apart from be there & be kind to your brother, which will help make the situation just that little bit easier for him, & also on yourself after his passing, because you'll know that you were there for him. Hope your Mum is holding up ok, too.
Love from foxy & fur friend xx

Baileys_Babe

Ally Thank you for the start today.

Ziggy My thoughts are with you and your family.

Frustrating lesson with ds earlier he was finishing off a lesson which he was supposed to do yesterday, 40 minutes all in, he managed half yesterday and he took about an hour to do the the rest today. He was so distracted, first the postman came so he needed to get the post instantly, then he wanted to know what I had got in my post etc any thing and everything was a distraction, but he has finally finished that lesson . We are off out to our monthly ski lesson shortly, hopefully fresh air and exercise will sort him out and when we return he can do his Maths and German, hopefully without wasting time :rotfl::rotfl:

Post on this thread for support, motivation and inspiration
Open curtains fully
Close curtains before it gets dark
Turn off lights and appliances not in use
Post letter today so it can go 2nd class
reusable sanitary ware
Stick to meal plan
B/L/D from stores
Renew library books, different library from yesterday
Check and reconcile bank accounts
PAD into saving £3.66 -1p
Cancel subscription
Soak porridge overnight
Set DW to run overnight
Set WM to run overnight
Pack snacks
Check FPL
Educate children for free
Do not wash hair
Dry washing on airier
Keep heating to a minimum, we have jumpers and blankets
Light the stove, burning free wood
put kettle on stove for free hot water, put water in flasks if boiled before ready to use and refill kettle, water used for making hot drinks (we drink plenty of these, cooking rice, pasta etc, washing up etc)
Cull 100 emails
Shredding

Fizzy11

Hello to you all. I'm a relative newbie & not posted on here before so I hope you don't mind. Recently found myself with no job, OH off work with health issues, D had started new job but let go under suspicious circumstances but was paid extra two months salary. Though we were financially secure it suddenly hit me how quickly it could all change. OH & D back working but those scary thoughts don't change. So today after reading various posts on here

I've been to local shops for a paper rather supermarket where I would have spent too much.
Put washing machine on last night so washing on the line early.
Made a list of what's in the freezer so no more supermarkets till next Friday
Going to find recipe for banana smoothie as I was going to use old ones in a cake no one will eat.
Thanks.