Tuesday 12th July - what small DFW things will you do today?

allydowd

determined_new_ms wrote: »

* investigate ally's solution to my keyboard problems :A

Let me know if it doesn't work. There are other possible solutions.

allydowd

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• Income Tax Calculator (Link)
  
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• Marriage Tax Allowance (Link)
  
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• NHS Minor Ailment Service article (Link)
  
• My Supermarket ( Link )
• OnePoll ( Link )
• Quidco ( Link )
• Reclaim PPI at no cost to yourself ( Link )
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• TopCashBack ( Link )
• Wombling Guide (Link)
  
• You Need A Budget site and App (Link)

Checked 28 June 2016.

allydowd

Hi July Joculants,

Thanks for the starter PF.

Lazy day here. Don't know if I can be bothered to do much today yesterday's work flattened me out. :rotfl: I'll add to my list if I can be bothered to move.:p

Debt Free-Nillionaire Continuity Plan Year Two:

* Did RM Surveys.

* Checked online banking.

* Alarm clock off at the wall til tonight.

* Played about with Pixton online cartoon maker. Free entertainment, juvenile but free. (Link)

* Listened to some FM BBC radio.

* Checked mobile bill. Roaming internet in Mallorca was actually £1.50 cheaper than originally quoted. Happy days.

* Checked Co-op Dividend. £14 potentially might be paid to go towards our energy bill.

* Had a look at Quidco I have loads of transactions not paid from May.

* Backed up Finances Spreadsheet to protect against loss.

* Checked on eBay item I'm selling, revise price downwards.

* Listened to You And Yours about money lending on Radio 4. (Link)

* Cleared In-Tray, Out-Tray and Shake-It-All-About Tray.

* Sort out own eyebrows.

* Lunch was half a jacket potato with some rubber chicken dressed in piri piri sauce, onion and garlic.

* Wrote two reviews on Tesco Orchard for 50 Tesco Clubcard points.

How about you folks?

PurpleFairy26

PurpleFairy26 wrote: »

Morning all - armed with a :coffee: I thought I'd start us off. Already up 45 minutes although on the bright side I've managed to squeeze a second load on cheap leccy and first load on the line :rotfl:

Hope everyone is ok. Cat lovely to see you back. Agree with Bob you just need to work out what is not 'worth' doing and you can get 'best bang for your buck' i.e. If you've got a massive pile of ironing that will take you all day and you can pay someone £30 to do it, that's probably worth it.

My list for today:

Turn the ys parsnips, shallots and curry powder that's been in sc overnight in to soup
All meals from stores, lunch to work. Something easy and not in need of reheating as I'll likely need to eat on the go
Hot drink for commute
Respond to a qu on fleabay
Bump selling pages post maybe list on fleabay too
Get some chocolate to make teacher gift for tomorrow. Forgot one of them only works until Wednesday :eek: at least it'll be fresh :rotfl:
Check banking, TT to savings split 3 ways
Fly lady bathroom

What about you lovely lot?

Done everything on list except bathroom and now cba. Really long day. Forgot DH working double hours on OT. Means he also gets additional unsociable hours premium. Will be lovely in his next paycheck :T does mean we won't see him that much until Sunday though.

Got choc for teacher gifts using DH discount, was already on offer so 85p each in total :T
One already reset, one chilling and the 3rd to do.

I'll make a tag tonight and DD can write it in the morning.

Quiet hour pootling on t'interweb and watching a bit of telly when I've got smalls to bed.

DawnW

Hello :wave:
Thanks for the start PF
CCL, lovely to see you back

Today I have:
Not spent anything :T
Walked dog for free exercise
Dried a load of washing on the line, including a sofa cushion cover which the dog was sick on overnight :eek:
HM meals from stores, sandwich for dinner as OH has gone to a thing at the golf club and will get fed there
Picked the last of the cherries from our little tree
Planted living salad plants bought from Mr S yesterday into a trough, after giving them a good haircut. They will spring up again and give us more salad :T
Got rid of 2 'old' pots of salad leaves that have gone all tough and bitter
Packed an ebay parcel, not taken it to the post office yet though, must do this tomorrow!
Froze the broad beans that OH picked yesterday, as we didn't want to eat them today
Put rhubarb picked yesterday into slow cooker, should be ready soon
Picked a couple more courgettes

Still to do:
Tidy ebay stuff away to keep out of reach of little GD who will be here tomorrow (come to think of it she was here today as well...)
Check banks, as my new regular saver /money recycling account should be open now

Time for a coffee now I think!

PurpleFairy26

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5493089

£6 off £20 spend today only at Smyths toys of anyone is buying for littlies. Plus if you spend £15 on Lego it's free delivery.
Plus 3% cashback at quidc0

PurpleFairy26

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crazy_cat_lady

Hi everyone - I really am back this time look
Thanks again for the advice all of you. I've been desperately trying to find a gardener for years now. I hate doing the garden with a passion. I think I'll be ok eventually with the house once I get back on top of it. So difficult to get the rest of the family involved. DH has his pot off now legomum, but he's not been allowed to drive so is still off work. Fingers crossed he should be going back on Monday though... It's been a long couple of months, and financially tough.

crazy_cat_lady wrote: »

[STRIKE]:coffee: check banking and PAD[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]:coffee: 4 lesson teach day[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]:coffee: prep for tomorrow's lessons[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]:coffee: mark at least 1 set of books (hopefully 2)[/STRIKE] just 1
[STRIKE]:coffee: get on with claiming my expenses from London trip last month[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]:coffee: be in bed before 10pm tonight[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]:coffee: tiny bit of housework[/STRIKE] dishes, hoover, bit of washing

I've also been organising a couple of summer holiday things for me and the kids. Hopefully a couple of days in London - I've booked the train tickets to use up my rail vouchers that are about to expire and hoping for a bargain mystery hotel or something...