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What small DFW things will you do this week? w/c 19/12

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  • LuckyPenny
    LuckyPenny Posts: 1,301 Forumite
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    Sooo exhausted, sorry I haven't posted for a while very busy at work and have been doing market research on a weekend.
    - sent my last three Christmas cards today
    - regifted two gifts today and got some cheap yankee candles from an outlet store for the girls at work.
    - have bought as many presents as possible with cashback sites, vouchers etc.
    - I'm really pleased that I did the £1 a day for Christmas challenge as it means that I won't have added anything to my debt.
    - I was really chuffed that I got a small Christmas bonus last week, however realised that I had missed the MOT on my car, so the whole bonus went on that. Serves me right for gloating about it. I suppose I should be thankful that I did get the bonus and didn't have to eat into the Christmas money I had saved.
    - Got the day off tomorrow and may do some chocolate chip cookies with the free Betty Crocker packet that I got.
    - Off out of bed and my PJ's to pick up my DH from the station save him getting a taxi.
    - Only one more day of work to get through...
    Bye for now, LPx
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  • Hi guys I've been up a ridiculously long time! Woke up at 4.30! :eek: hope I don't flag later as we have a birthday party to go to...

    Lots to do today. Going to see a children's play - hansel & gretal - this morning with dd for her birthday and then going to coffee and a cake.

    Need to pick up 2 gifts for oh. One I'm ordering g to pick up and the other is just an idea I had....

    Get oh to pick up spa entrance gift vouchers for cm. Need to make cards with lo for them as

    Might try to go to aldi to pick up shopping today. Will see how we're doing for time after the play...

    Read martins email

    Pork mince out of freezer for tea

    Going to party tonight but won't drink or stay too late because of work tomorrow. Will get all bags and lunches done for tomorrow.

    Ok that'll do x
    DF as at 30/12/16
    Wombling 2025: £87.12
    NSD March: YTD: 35
    Grocery spend challenge March £253.38/£285 £20/£70 Eating out
    GC annual £449.80/£4500
    Eating out budget: £55/£420
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  • Hey DNMS hope you last the day and get some down time later. Managed to get on for the first time in ages to post but have been reading. Spends have been low, but the account still looks bleaker than I would like, although DH gets paid Friday. Today will look like:

    Snacks and drink to work, tea from stores. Going out for a small lunch, but will either a) be able to expense it or b) use my generous discount so it won't be too high.
    Check banking, surveys and FPL
    Check £co, would really like them to pay me some of my money now please :o
    Post a present, may not get there before Christmas but it will be appreciated when it does
    Go to mr t to use my moc and nothing else ;)
    Make foxgloves fudge (wrestle will my conscience (sp?!) not to eat it all and wrap for a gift:rotfl:)
    Not get vexed that I've had to google spelling of ^^word and it still doesn't look right, in my defence, I haven't drank my coffee yet ;)
    Be grateful it's hump day and only 2 days left at work after today
    Washing done overnight on rads/airer
    Sneaked another load on cheap leccy

    Enjoy your day everyone :D
  • carrielovesfanta
    carrielovesfanta Posts: 2,997 Forumite
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    edited 21 December 2016 at 3:27PM
    Morning all

    Very successful baking session. OH made dinner while I sorted the sausage rolls, then we did the mince pies together. teamwork!

    Although, asked OH to buy cooking apples. Small Tesco didn't have them so told him to buy apple pies incase people don't like mince pies. He only thought I meant big pudding-type apple pies and because they didn't have any brought home two pre-made apple crumbles :rotfl:

    Yesterday's results:
    Today's mission:
    • Send OH for baking ingredients - done
    • B/L/D from stores - done
    • Car in for service - use money from saved funds - grrr needs brake pads too. Not impressed as only MOT'd 7 weeks ago?! Either MOT carp or they are scamming me.
    • Sort spreadsheet with OH - done
    • Frantic baking and crochet - done
    • Charge phone in work - done
    • Crossfit at lunchtime - done


    Today:
    • Enjoy the neighbourly mulled wine
    • Practise my "merry Christmas" in sign language so that I can at least wish my deaf neighbour a festive time :)
    • B/D from stores - done
    • LAST DAY IN WORK!!!! woooohoooooooo
    • Crochet? Depends what time the neighbours leave
    • Charge phone in work - done
    • Couple of errands at lunch time. Cheque to go into the bank from great auntie - little bonus tenner :) - done
    Have a good one all


    clf x
    LBM 11/06/2010: DFD 30/04/2013
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  • Morning all :coffee:
    Well it's absolutely bucketing with rain today so I suspect it will be an indoors kind of day today. The big jobs are done but the little dailies still need doing
    :xmassmile - check banking and move my pay into a separate account until real payday so I'm not in real trouble at the end of January
    :xmassmile - clean the bathroom
    :xmassmile - maybe go to the butcher for meat (I can leave this until tomorrow though)
    :xmassmile - dd has a hairdressers appointment this afternoon
    :xmassmile - watch lots of Christmas films for free with the kids (watching Nativity 2 at the moment)
    :xmassmile - continue with present wrapping
    :xmassmile - continue with my dad's Christmas blanket - almost finished.
    :xmassmile - daily jobs; washing up, load of washing, hoover.
    That's it for the time being - I'd best make a start...
  • foxgloves
    foxgloves Posts: 12,553 Forumite
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    Morning Festive Frugalistas,
    Just popped on while I drink my coffee. Am in the middle of decorating the Christmas cake, which has an '80' theme for my Mum's December 80th birthday. I bought about £10 of decorations as it's a special occasion but I'd really like to do a sugar course to learn how to make my own sugar flowers, etc, for future cakes. Will check with local shop as they may run them.
    Other stuff:
    *Laundry all nicely dried on heated airer overnight. Cba to iron it though so moved that job to tomorrow.
    *mr f on half day so we're popping to Waitrose later for a free coffee.
    *No downstairs heating on till much later.
    *Frozen homegrown tomatoes defrosting for making tonight's meal. Haven't had to use a tin of bought ones for ages.
    *Finish knitting my sock so I can wear them.over Christmas & I must cast on one of my recent orders. The longer I take to fulfil the order, the longer it is till I see the cashola.
    *Make tomorrow's packed lunch.
    *Use leftover wraps for my lunch before they metamorphize into cardboard.
    So not too much to get done today but I must get this cake finished. Just ribbon & diamante to do now.
    F xx
    2025's challenges: 1) To fill our 10 Savings Pots to their healthiest level ever
    2) To read 100 books (36/100) 3) The Shrinking of Foxgloves 5.9kg/30kg

    "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards" (Soren Kirkegaard 1813-55)
  • 1LuckyLady
    1LuckyLady Posts: 1,206 Forumite
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    edited 21 December 2016 at 7:42PM
    1LuckyLady wrote: »
    This is what I still need to do from yesterdays list
    :rudolf: Do some swag$'s as not far off a payout if I knuckle down!
    :rudolf: Finish off the unpacking and get the suitcase put away as its in the spare room and we've got family staying over at the end of the week
    :rudolf: Clear and give the spare room a clean, also change the bedding ready for Xmas Eve



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    Morning all,
    Quiet morning for me as dh & the kids have gone off to an early showing at the cinema to see Rogue 1 - This is part of MIL's family xmas present to us so no affect on the bank balance, the kids have taken a peanut butter fairy cake I made yesterday, taken a drink from home and shared a small pack of skittles between them.
    I was staying home as not into Starwars and had arranged a musc1efood delivery for today and wasn't sure on delivery time. (its coming between 12-1 now according to a text from them :) ) As I was wrapping some pajama trousers for dh I've realised that they were on the wrong size hanger so have popped out to Mr T's to change them - didn't buy anything else whilst in there :)
    Called into the nearby £shop too and got some crackers which are much cheaper then getting them from MrT's :)
    My niece was with me and even though she twice looked longingly into Costalots I didn't take her in, I brought her home for hot chocolate and a peanut butter fairy cake instead :)
    Wrapped dh's pj's reusing gift bags, that we've reused countless times already :)

    Still need to
    *check banking :)
    *Clean kitchen
    *Tidy everywhere
    *Prep some food for today :)
    *Add musc1efood items onto my freezer list
    *Find some films to watch with the kids :) Watched Alvin & the chipmonks, RoadTrip and even my 13yr old niece laughed all the way through :)

    That's enough for now, I'm off to finish yesterdays list first then get cracking before the kids are back :) Have a good day all.
    Sticking with the "Small things" thread to keep up us on the straight and narrow.
  • foxgloves
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    PurpleFairy - Now, there's no need for fudge guilt. That recipe makes a flat slab & once you've turned it out & peeled the baking parchment off, you'll need to trim the edges with a sharp knife. It's that nice crumbly fudge which sets hard. Once the irregular untidy edges are off, it's easy to cut the slab up into neat squares. BUT we like a zero-waste approach here, don't we? So the irregular untidy edges need a home. In this house, that helpful waste-avoiding home is mine & mr f's greedy gobs, so if you choose to adopt a similar zero-waste 'Keep fudge trimmings out of landfill' policy, you too can eat some of it while also being able to present the majority of it as a thoughtful gift!
    Seriously, the recipe looks like nothing, does it? But everyone I make it for loves it. I've only had one early batch fail & that was due to taking it off the boil too early.
    Good luck. Nom slurp.
    F xx
    2025's challenges: 1) To fill our 10 Savings Pots to their healthiest level ever
    2) To read 100 books (36/100) 3) The Shrinking of Foxgloves 5.9kg/30kg

    "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards" (Soren Kirkegaard 1813-55)
  • Can someone point me in the direction of the fudge recipe? Was it on last week's thread foxgloves? X
    DF as at 30/12/16
    Wombling 2025: £87.12
    NSD March: YTD: 35
    Grocery spend challenge March £253.38/£285 £20/£70 Eating out
    GC annual £449.80/£4500
    Eating out budget: £55/£420
    Extra cash earned 2025: £195
  • Hi all

    I have just been to the shops. I have a friend who always spends more on me at Christmas than is necessary (and she won't scale it down) so I get into that trap of feeling that I have to buy her something nice. I also needed Christmas cards and a few other odds and ends so £20 spent.

    More paid stuff now. Not feeling very enthusiastic but needs must! Will do a chicken and chorizo pasta thing for tea to use up the chorizo that is lurking in the fridge and the peppers that are looking a bit squidgy.

    Right - work.
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