Sat 30th April/Sun 1/Mon 2 May What Small DFW things will you do this weekend?

Bobarella

La_escocesa wrote: »

Happy bank holiday guys!

foxgloves - can I come to yours for tea? Sounds awesome!
DNMS - please come to sort my garden and bring your weather with you!! It's grim up north today!
Big hellos to all who follow :wave:

Gosh I'm feeling a bit hungover today - only had a glass of wine and one brandy. Goes to show how little I drink these days!

Our dog is looking desperate for a little walk so we'll need to take him out soon and then I'm going to tackle the clutter in this house. I didn't quite finish KonMari last year as I had to move house before I got through 'komono' - that totally set me back so I'm going back to basics and starting with clothes again today. I re-read the book so I am good to go!

I hit a bit of funk with everything last night - had a few cancellations for my class, one no-show and then two other newbies who stayed until the end and then said 'do you have a card machine? I don't have any money on me'...I gave them my details so they can do a bank transfer, which is fine but usually people ask me that and pay before they turn up. Now I feel like I'm chasing for payments, which just feels pitiful... Ho hum... I need to have a long think about my biz - I'm finding that I'm so busy actually going and teaching that I've got no time for advertising etc these days so it's just trundling along rather than growing. Anyway, hopefully today will be a better day...

Here's me - short and sweet!

• Cheapo porridge brekkie
• Think about lunch and dinner before the shops shut and we get a takeaway
• Clear out!!!
• Think about everything I've got to be grateful for and stop having a mini-pity party!

xx

I can recommend PayPal machines as a useful cheap option. You can get them from around £60 then use that with your phone to take payment. After the initial period you can transfer the money out in 2 hours.

Bobarella

allydowd wrote: »

We actually use "missus" a lot up here, when you greet another woman, regardless of marital status, as in "Hi missus, how you doing?"

Sorry, I totally diverted the topic of conversation there, yesterday.

I find it so weird after almost 20 years living in London that male Londoners will address me as 'mate' to my mind mate is a men only term.

crazy_cat_lady

Evening all :wave:
Hope everyone has had a nice bank holiday. I have, and I am in no way ready to go into work tomorrow morning. The weather cleared up beautifully after lunch and all four of us went for a walk. On top of my training session this morning I have seriously sore and aching knees now... I am definitely getting old.

crazy_cat_lady wrote: »

[STRIKE] PAD[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] Get dh to transfer some money to my account[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] Done my training session[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] Boys are at a football tournament[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] TV time with dd[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] Crochet[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] School work I can't keep ignoring[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] Load of washing[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] Bit of meal prep[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] Aim for NSD[/STRIKE]

allydowd

News:

This article suggests that if you start an online order, and then abandon it, the retailer might send you a discount code to entice you back. (Link) I have seen some evidence that this is true sometimes, from Graze.

allydowd

Freebies:

Free Cheerios if you shop online at Sainsbury's. (Link)

Free Cheese if you shop online at Sainsbury's. (Link)

Free Milk if you shop online at Sainsbury's. (Link)

Free Burt's Bees Lipbalm. (Link)

Free emollient cream. (Link)

Free Bracelet Maker Kit. (Link)

More Freebies and offers. (Link)

LuckyPenny

Had an expensive weekend of sorts but tried to minimise the spend as much as poss. Went to a wedding, booked into a Premier Inn as I find they are reasonably priced and you know what you will get (£75), used a dress I already had (£0), bought a reduced price card and bottle bag (50 pence), re-gifted a bottle of champagne (£0), DH drove so no taxis (£0), free bar a the venue (£0), didn't think to bring hangover nibbles or bottled water in the supermarket so spent on the hotel vending machine (£2).


Tried to fill in the Nationwide Junior ISA transfer (from a CTF) form, can't figure it out so will ask my DH or will have to go into branch later on in the week.


Logged on to my new TSB account and set up a £500 transfer each month. You get 5% cashback on contactless spends up to the value of £100 - so £5 earning potential each month.


Bumped and relisted some items on eBay and Facebook. Sold 4 items on Friday - must be because it was pay day for some people!


Entered a few competitions.


Took back a curling wand that didn't curl and got £5 extra back!


Bought a round of drinks at Costa with my loyalty points (earned and wombled)

Read https://www.happier.com/blog/5-life-changing-lessons-the-konmari-decluttering-method-taught-me trying to use this to clear, sell, donate the stuff in my house

PurpleFairy26

PurpleFairy26 wrote: »

Morning all :hello: loving the list ally :rotfl:

Yesterday we had a lovely few hours at a local landmark we'd not been too before. Y had to pay to park but rest was free. There were some 'entertainment' a bird of prey and a teepee where a lady was making up stories

Despite it spitting for much of the day washing still mainly dried outside, so have just hung another lot out.

DH claimed vacuum was on blink, I changed bag and one filter and it's fine did find another filter that I didn't know about, couple of minutes research on line shows we should replace every year :eek: vacuum about 8 years old about £12 online so will order one if it is going to prolong life. Was talking to a friend saying I was going to buy a second hand vac as we're doing lots of decorating so that I can use that for all the dusty stuff and prolong life of our old one. She'd just bought a new dys0n and gifted me her old upright :T

Anyway, I'll stop waffling. List for today:
Package up 3 items that sold last night, walk to PO if I have time, will likely be open as its all part of our local shop and is open 7 days normally.
Buy filter for vacuum - move money from house fund
Hand out second load of washing when done, managed to get it on cheap rate
Sort out drawers - didn't do this yesterday
Make some muffins from a girl called jack blog - spent ages reading it yesterday, not spent anytime on it before. Thanks for whoever it was who mentioned it
Check FPL, banking and surveys (just in case). Move fleabay money to cc
Go to gym later, been ready how I can improve my running and I think I need to mix it up with some other things
Go out for breakfast, use the gift card I was given from work last month

Think that's all, will check back later. Enjoy your day everyone. PF.

All done, except gym. Did run instead though got rid of big pile of clothes and donated some things to DM when she popped by. 'Muffins' were different but nice. Cost less than £1 will definitely try some more recipes. Enjoy the rest of your evening folks.