What small DFW things will you do this week? w/c 23/01

carrielovesfanta

Hi all


Sorry for being AWOL. Just RL in the way. all is good and will catch up on the thread asap.


Hope everyone is ok


clf x

La_escocesa

Hi everyone :wave:

Angelpye - I only do P1necone - £3 a survey but usually only get 1 or 2 a month. I'll send you an invite the next time they come round, if you'd like?

I am drinking my first coffee in over a week! So...that is the caffeine-free lifestyle experiment finished :rotfl:

Listypopadoodle....
- Design new kitchen
- Order new door :cool:
- List dining table and sideboard for sale
- List wallpaper for sale - thanks for the reminder Ziggy! :A
- Dinner from stores if poss... :think:
- Trip to @ldi if ^ not poss...
- Talk through new YNAB plan with OH :dance:
- Tonight is more of the usual - read free kindle book, watch tv/netflix, knit/crochet :A
- No booze as still feeling a bit dodgy

So ladies.... (where is Karb these days?! ) I can get 4.5% discount at mr Ts with a prepay card thing through work. Instinct tells me this is still more expensive than @ldis....? But we do use club card vouchers for eating out etc so maybe Ts is the way to go...???

determined_new_ms

I've been shopping at Ts for ys items since Jan La E and there's always good reductions in there

FatVonD

La_escocesa wrote: »

That's EXACTLY my job for the day and the very kitchen we've been talking about! I'm still not 100% sure it won't look too dark in my small kitchen though... I designed my flat's kitchen from scratch and it was perfect - loved it! Then I moved into a house with a lovely kitchen (albeit not my design ) but it just wasn't the same. Now I have a new kitchen to design! I was very excited but I just can't get this one to work so I need to have more of a play. The issue is that it's just a tiny bit too small (just a couple of bl00dy centimetres!) but I really don't want to have to move a wall... :think: I've been stalking all of the nearby identical-layout houses that go up for sale just to see what they do.

I love your idea of painting for the same overall theme! :T I saw that you can mod podge/decoupage glass with coloured something or other rather than having to paint the glass... Quite fancied trying that.

I had the same problem with a run in my last kitchen, it became a mathematical problem to work out how many cupboards at X width and how many at y width I needed to make z. It's usually possible off the peg if you slot in a wine rack or spice drawers or summat but if it's a run of appliances then you're in troubleI

carrielovesfanta

Bobarella wrote: »

I can hear the A-team theme tune from here:rotfl: *quick lock Ally in the garage with; a hairdryer, tin of baked beans, monkey wrench, blow torch, large cigar & voila, a trolley on wheels* I LOVE it when a plan comes together:rotfl::rotfl:

hahahahaha dying

angelpye

Hi all,

Yes, let me know when invites possible.

Still pleased with myself for going to gym...little things!

Today
*Housework upstairs
*Reconcile budget
*Do a shopping list for food for the week
*Do some more work to stay on target
*May go meet friend tonight but will only allow £10 from my emergency tin - not really an emergency but feeling isolated
*Had cereal for breakfast. Lunch and dinner will be whatever I can scavenge in the cupboards.
*Do some washing

I came down this morning to the tidy space I had sorted yesterday and the feeling was lovely. Its been a bit up in the air all week and its amazing how this just lifts a weight and makes me feel more capable.

Have a good day all!

FatVonD

My plan for the day is to do the weekly shop, the teens want to go to the pet store so I will drop them on the way and pick them up on the way back. I may need to move some stuff out of the back of the car to make room for us all and the shopping.

I need to upload the pics I took last weekend onto eBay, I'll get there in the end! I also have a small bundle to send to WBB, I'll look out for a suitably sized box at Mr T.

I've already mentioned that I've got a vegetarian cookbook to take as a gift for the friends we are seeing tonight and we have a bottle of wine left over from our last gathering to take with it. Just need to buy a couple of bottles of fruity cider for me and then we're done, DS is driving :T

I've not even looked at my bank account since being paid on Wednesday and I need to bite the bullet and look at my Mr T CC :eek: I will pay every spare penny off it again and then run it up again through the month to avoid interest. It's one I plan to pay off when I cash in my tiny pension and then I think I will get rid of it. I like the idea of extra clubcard points but it's too much of a temptation and one point every 4 pounds isn't such a great deal, I can get more than that just wombling receipts.

Have a good day everyone

carrielovesfanta

Phew - I had to go all the way back to page 2!

Been a reasonable few days. Tuesday was our first meal out for a month as we were meeting a friend. Meal was lovely, but didn't feel like we'd missed out on a great amount by not going out, so that was def a win.

Still very tired on and off. The dizzy virus rears its head a bit every so often, but seems par for the course with this bug. Lots of people at work have it.

Other news, low spends over the last couple of days, apart from having to put the heating on all day on Thursday. It was absolutely FREEZING here (highs of 1 degree!! :eek: )
Also popped into fairly local freezer supermarket to have a nose round. Some things cheaper, other not. Good to remember for fancy seafood though.

Today will be a fun day. I'm going to an afternoon tea birthday party today (with very reasonably priced gift from home and bargain!), then my friend has a gig tonight.

The mission:

• B/D from stores
• L - afternoon tea WITHOUT prosecco (thus saving a fiver)
• Gig tonight - already paid for. See if we can find the free parking and walk up. Minimal spends as OH driving and I will only have a couple of drinks.
• Charge phone in work
• Crochet if have time between afternoon tea and gig (likely)

eeerm? Gotta be more than that surely?

Have a good one all

clf x

determined_new_ms

FatVonD wrote: »

I've already mentioned that I've got a vegetarian cookbook to take as a gift for the friends we are seeing tonight and we have a bottle of wine left over from our last gathering to take with it. Just need to buy a couple of bottles of fruity cider for me and then we're done, DS is driving :T

Have a good day everyone

:j:beer::j to frugal fun :money: love it when a planned event works out like this. NYE we spent £7.50 for the 3 of us as it was a party at a friends and we bought a bottle of fizz and a little outfit for madam and everything else we had in

Have fun!

allydowd

Hi January Jubilants,

Bit of a change of plan at Dowd Towers:


Debt Free-Nillionaire Continuity Plan Year Two:

* Opportunity to go to a concert came up last night....so we're taking it. £15 a ticket for the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow tonight...quite reasonable, especially as we're off to see our favourite folk group.

* DW expressed a desire to stay in the city tonight so we are giving Airbnb a first shot. At this late stage the only accommodation we could get online was £160 for one night in a double room with no breakfast at a centrally located hotel. :eek: Erm, no. Hence us trying out Airbnb for half that and we're getting half an apartment with catering facilities. So we're talking food with us for breakfast.

* Just discovered that the plug-in keyboard I bought DW to use with her Kindle also works with our mobile phones. This is an epic discovery as I often have to send lengthy text messages.



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