Friday 29th April - what small DFW things will you do today?

DawnW

Evening all
Late post today, and not much done as I am not feeling great. Tried to get a Drs appointment online and there weren't any up till 28 May and no option to book later than that :eek: Phoned the surgery, and managed to get a cancellation, for 9 May, which is about what I had expected (it isn't an emergency, an ongoing thing). The receptionist confirmed that they really do not have any non-emergency appointments for the next month, unless someone cancels Not good - I may look to change - we have been with them for years, but there have been so many new houses built here that the town has almost doubled in size, but with the same services as before, so I am not sure that would be the answer If I were younger I would definitely move away from the overcrowded South of England though!

Anyway, enough moaning, today's less than impressive list
Nothing spent
HM meals from stores
A bit of gardening, between hailstorms :eek:
Decent dog walk during one of the sunny spells (as opposed to rain, cold wind and hail that we have also had today ) for free exercise
Listed 3 items on ebay, two for business, and one for me Must try to keep this up!
A few surveys for onepoll
Checked FPL

May look for more ebay items after dinner!

Bobarella

Dawn and Foxgloves get well soon. Dawn that is very bad news about your surgery. I have heard similar in my husbands families home town. They have built loads of New houses but no new schools or dental surgeries or GPs. Considering in their area it is a lot of OAP's to and the nearest hospital is 10 miles away it is a reciepe for disaster long term.

Zig hope you enjoyed your swim.

MTC don't be embarassed here. You are among friends.

So today I joined a company that source people for focus groups. I have applied for one that is in London next week on guess what topic? Yep debt. Hopefully I will qualify as that is £50 cash for 2 hours work.

I have also signed up to do a boot camp online from that lady blogger I was talking about at the weekend. She seems full of ace tips for things I haven't heard of before so I'm really looking forward to it. It's over the next 6 weeks.

Right on that note I'm off YSing now OH is on duty with the kids. Wish me luck

Bob

LuckyPenny

Main site recommends the top 3 junior ISA's I've got with Nat1pnw1de because they are already my bank. Just received the transfer form. Will do this over the weekend.

Also received a new TSB bank account info. They give you 5% cash back on contactless spend. The limit is £100 per month, but that's £5 free cash each month.

I've been away with work for 2 days, 1 night so I had free meals and fuel. I stayed near a shopping outlet so got a jacket my DD wanted that had £30 off.
I've sold 2 things on eBay must parcel them up tomorrow as went to watch the Tour de Yorkshire for free today! Had a flask of coffee in the car to warm up afterwards!
Lego mum what is number plate lotto? Can you tell me the website please?

Oh and received any Angry Birds neck scarf that I won from the Pepperami packets.

allydowd

make_the_change wrote: »

Was wondering if any of you :money:friends could offer some advice. I am looking at opening ISA's for the children and doing research. My eldest has a CTF when they were around which was with Tesco and I believe is now with Nat-pest! Now, I believe he cant have an ISA as well, am I right? Would we need to transfer his CTF to an ISA? I believe his CTF is a shares one (please bear with me, I am not very knowledgeable about these things!) and I am wondering if I should just stick with the CTF or move to an ISA? I just want a standard ISA for the kiddies, nothing complicated, just something for me to build a pot for their future. If anyone could offer advice, it would be greatly appreciated.x

A child may have a CTF or a Junior ISA. A child can't have both.

La_escocesa

Hiya pals :wave:

Well I wasn't around yesterday because I had a day from hell at work - deleted a file by mistake that I was trying to fix...Then, in the process of fixing it I spotted loads of other stuff wrong that some guy did last year so I then had to fix his mistakes too!!! This meant it took me from 9-1 to do an hour's job! Also meant I didn't get any lunch (although they brought me free sandwiches from a client meeting so it wasn't all bad ) and that just set the tone for the full day... Then I was out teaching last night so I didn't get a proper break and was working 9am - 9pm. TFI Friday...and the bank holiday weekend...and pay day :T

Nice to see you posting Ziggy - take care of yourself - lots of rest!

Night in for us tonight - got a £10 meal deal thingy - such great value with the vino :cool:

Tonight we're on HM veggie curry though - v cheap, healthy and delicious - my favourite combo

I need to sort May's budget and YNAB but can't face it tonight - it's a tomorrow morning job if ever there was one...

Night all :beer:

PurpleFairy26

PurpleFairy26 wrote: »

Morning all. Lovely to see you back Ziggy do hope you're feeling better. Hope you had a fab birthday foxgloves and you too are feeling better. So today is payday and I've just checked my bank to do the big money shuffle and it's not there :eek: it's showing in pending but that's a bit useless. Will check again in half an hour. Shuffle may have to wait until tonight.

Other things today:
Check surveys, FPL and banking (again!)
Hm soup and ys bread surprise from freezer to work
Something else from freezer for tea, may make yellow bean pork as my new recipe for the week
Really early night am v tired
Washing on airers
Use more of testing product
Think about what we are going to do Sunday and Monday, cheap and family orientated
Hot drink for commute

Think that's about all check back later.

Hope you're money arrived cat mine did about 30 minutes later, so can't really complain. Never had an issue with them before. Normally there about 2am. Not that I'm obsessed I've done the big money shuffle, looks tight for some reason, not sure why. Think it might be because I've added som extra pots, therefore I still actually have more money than I think, it's just spread out a bit and I need to get used to it. I have cancelled a subscription for something anyway that I as thinking about. Also made a big pad to cc had lovely new recipe for tea all from store cupboard/ freezer apart from some yellow bean paste, which I bought a couple of weeks ago. Lovely

Ordered some birthday presents for May and a (shhh Christmas present) as it was from same store and saved postage costs. Have yo after my spreadsheet

Off for a quick mooch on diaries and then off to bed. Night all.

Baileys_Babe

PurpleFairy Thank you for starting us off today.

Hope everybody who was expecting to be paid today has been.

Woke up to snow this morning :eek:

We went to a Home Ed workshop today so a small cost, good fun was had by all, the children complained when it was time to go home.

Today's list is only short:
Open curtains fully
Close curtains before dark
Turn off lights and appliances when not in use
All meals from stores, including our lunch contribution
Cancel subscription
Deal with a couple of frogs, they didn't take long once I started and it feels good to know they are done
Read Martin's email, I can't believe it is Friday and I haven't it read it yet
PAD £3.66 -1p
Check FPL
Keep heating to a minimum, nothing downstairs, upstairs thermostats turned down low, 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)