What small DFW things will you do this week - 26th Septemeber

SpekySquarehead

Morning chums,

Thank you all for your well done messages. Indeed it is a huge weight off my shoulders and I don't intent to take the burden on again. Your daily tips and tricks on your list has provided me with constant inspiration, so thank you.

My list for today;

- Check banks and YNAB
- Drink plenty water
- Exercise (doubtful)
- Have a Low Spend Day
- Iron and put on fresh bed linen

Short one from me as I'll no doubt be relaxing with the GF tonight and taking it easy.

Have a good day everyone.

PurpleFairy26

Afternoon Frugal Pals

It's Friday :j:j

Hope everyone is well, great news Speky, hope you're feeling better Bob & Lucky Penny

List for today:
checked banking, updated sheet, checked surveys and FPL
Met friend for breakfast, she paid as she owed me for something I had bought
Working this afternoon, meeting a friend from work for a work meeting but good way to spend Friday afternoon
Tea from stores, probably leftovers
2 loads of washing on line, hopefully will dry as its blowy here
DH cleaned bathroom
Paid lady for holiday from holiday piggy for first time
Must, must list some items on fleabay
Frozen jackets out for DH and DD lunch

Right off to do half an hours work before I go out

determined_new_ms

Hi guys whoop it is officially the weekend for me, finished work at 12.30 however I was up at 3.30 to be out of the house for 4.30 as was shadowing a rough sleep outreach worker. Very humbling experience, not sure I could take the emotional impact of seeing how difficult things are for these people every day take my hat off to the people doing this work and the worker looks like he can fund a deposit for someone who has found a room :A

Anyway KNACKERED! Considering whether it's worth having a nap or to just power through??

Lucky penny sorry to hear you are feeling down this week x

What have I done today?

* got paid at 2nd job means car & bike repairs can be covered without dipping into my savings
* all meals from stores
* took breakfast and lo lamb stew & foraged apples for lunch
* got given 4 delicious apples by a colleague who is an allotmenteer
* took travel mug for coffee on way
* did treat us to a bottle of wine for tonight - thought it was about time I returned the favour to oh!
* checked banking
* washing out online

Think this evening it will be games and sticker book with madam, few glasses of wine and maybe scrabble with oh and a fairly early night

determined_new_ms

double whoop! Have just been playing with some figures in my mind and I think we can pay off the last £1500 we owe oh's ma in March

PurpleFairy26

Morning all :hello: amazing work on the student loan la e remember that feeling (just :rotfl:)

Achievements will be limited today due to smallest small being up in the night and waking other small, they're obviously right as rain now and I'm hanging :coffee: it is then

Check banks, surveys and FPL
Make Greek lamb with roast lamb I've taken out of freezer
Make list for Monday for supermarket based on planner
Girls dancing
Eldest swimming
Run later
Watch something for free tonight

Back later. PF.

determined_new_ms

Morning PF & legomum! Happy birthday weekend legoson sounds like a lovely weekend you've got planned! I'm all about the apples today as well legomum oh is out on some micro pub crawl around kent today....

Yay to the weekend :j been to the allotment today and picked 500grms runner beans which I will chop and freeze (I don't blanch as we will eat them before xmas) and nearly 3 kilos of apples. Some were windfall so will be making cider vinegar with them , some are for eating & some will be made into a apple crumble

Contact with dd today at the local soft play. She is getting dgd lunch so I'll just have soup when we get back.

Have checked banking & paid my part of the cc bill. Updated s/s so it's all in line received £8 interest yesterday

All meals from stores - chicken breasts and 1/2 jar of pesto (frozen last time we had it ) out for pesto pasta tonight. will use all home grown veg with this :money: raspberry muffin out of freezer for madam later. Gammon joint out of freezer for tomorrow

usual weekend clean through - super speedy hour!

Washing in machine at moment & will put out before going out

sharing bath water with madam 2 baths out of 1 lot of water

games, books & toys with madam this afternoon. Might even throw in a painting session if I can face it!

Tonight I am either going to get the sewing machine out - I want to make a tote bag for my work things & have some lo fabric or I will make another attempt at knitting socks...

Think that's it. Need to be really careful over the coming weeks with just frittering cash away. Before my next payday I have arranged to go out for a meal with 2 friend's (think I will have a bowl of soup before I go out so I only have a light meal ), go to the spa with my bff, drinks one evening with another friend & hoping to meet my sil on Monday for a glass of wine and a catch up so really that all leaves me about £12 left of my spending money before the 25th! :eek:

Ok gonna go and get on with the day! x

determined_new_ms

PurpleFairy26 wrote: »

Achievements will be limited today due to smallest small being up in the night and waking other small, they're obviously right as rain now and I'm hanging :coffee: it is then

Back later. PF.

yesterday getting up at 3.30am destroyed me! I had a nap 4-5 but really from about 3pm I was no good to anybody! Luckily oh went out for drinks with friends so I just laid on the sofa drifting in and out of consciousness

ziggy2407

Good Morning All

Quiet day planned:

Packed lunch for DH - Done
Check Bank - Done
Measure replacement runners for DS's chest of drawers -
RM Survey - Done
Re-arrange DS's room -
Remove bath panel & skirting board in bathroom -
Wait for people to collect order & FB sale -
Craft -
Declutter -
Bump Sale Posts on FB -
Walk at least 7000 step for Bounts points -
Continue purge on emails -
Surveys -
Enter a few comps -
All meals from cupboards/fridge/freezer -
Check: Lucky Phone, Ashleigh, Numberplatelotto, FPL -
Read -

Have a great day!

C x

DawnW

Afternoon all
It was pouring with rain when I got up, and has rained all morning, stopped just over an hour ago. Still, the garden needed it! Not sure it needs any more though

So far today:
Pup's first walk of the day, delayed till rain stopped, walked to the post office to post some RM surveys stuff that could have gone in the post box across the road, but it is a really small one, and the jiffy bag wouldn't fit in
Rearranged / decluttered the kitchen a bit to free up some space
Cleaned the top of the fridge freezer :eek:
Made sauce from a batch of tomatoes that needed dealing with - we will have this tonight with pasta
Cooked some not very nice eating apples gifted by a neighbour with some of our HG raspberries to make a filling for a pie or crumble - I will probably freeze this, will see! Haven't frozen it, it made a quite nice compote, so it will do for my breakfasts for the week, with yogurt and porrdge
Courgette and stilton soup from freezer for lunch, with the last of the oldest bread, toasted
Sold an ebay item, the first for October
Listed several more things

Still to do:
Bit of shopping CBA, so will do tomorrow - means I have scored a NSD
Pick up some free cardboard boxes for ebay packing while at Mr S
Go through fridge and see what needs using up or freezing Done
Bit of paperwork for business Oops must do this!
If the rain holds off, apply nematode stuff to my garden pots (I have quite a lot of these!) to kill any vine weevils :mad: Done, during gaps in rain / only slight rain. My neighbours now have confirmed their suspicion that I am bonkers, from the sight of me standing out in the rain wielding a watering can :rotfl:
Pick French beans, courgettes and raspberries, see if last 2 cucumbers are ready, possibly pick some more rhubarb as well - in theory you shouldn't pick it this late, but mine goes absolutely mad if I don't keep it under control. Only managed beans and courgettes due to rain!
Harvest rest of chillis, the red and yellow conical ones Not done
Made a strange but tasty concoction for dinner, consisting of vaguely bendy veg from the fridge, carrots, a bit of broccoli, a courgette, the tomato sauce I made this morning, 2 leftover sausages and some pasta
Had this with French beans on the side, so definitely had our 5 a day today :rotfl:
Got a pork joint out for tomorrow, as DD and GD are coming for dinner. There will be plenty left over for other days for OH and I
That should keep me busy!

La_escocesa

Hi everyone :wave:

Sounds like you are having good weekends so far.

Thanks PurpleFairy - alas I called the student loans peeps and they said next month's payment may still come out so I will then need to call back and start the refund process. Nothing is ever easy but I guess it's one of the nicer problems to have

Legomum - your DS will have a cracking bday :T

I need to do the usual Saturday tasks for me - cleaning, tidying, laundry... but I'm just chilling out for a while first with you lot, YNAB and then my free kindle book - that is the life!

Got a whole chicken I will slow cook to have with potatoes and veg and then it will do tomorrow too. It's just a small one - says serves 2-3 but it can easily do 4 meals or maybe even 6. We've got baked figs for dessert. mmmm

Night in tonight - bought a bottle of wine from HBargains - was a total bargain - good one at £3.99 so happy with that as that is the price of one drink out. :cool:

OH is working today so happy about that too...

Need to decide whether to take the dog out with friends tomorrow. Stressing me out. They are a bit obsessed about us meeting up with them and their new dog (sounds good in principle) but I can just imagine it being more hassle than it's worth if the dogs don't get on etc. And they always keep their dog on a lead but mine is much better off lead... I have been honest with her so maybe we should just go somewhere close to home and if it doesn't work out then we can just turn back...