What small DFW things will you do this week? W/c 3rd April

foxgloves

Afternoon Campers,
A few ms things today:
*Home pedicure (free!) & painted toenails using supplies from my large collection of nail polishes. Some of them I actually bought when I lived in my previous house (we moved here in 2002!) If they get a bit thick, I add a couple of drops of nail polish remover. Think my collection of colours will outlive me!
*Treated ourselves to a coffee out but didn't buy a cake. Snuck in 2 home baked mini muffins instead.
*Pretty much stuck to grocery budget even tho we went to Sainso's instead of Aldi & included 3 items for the food bank.
*Cheapie overnight laundry blowing dry on the line for free.
*Baby veggie plants & seedlings watered.
*Knitted more of B-in- law's bday socks.
Still to do - making tomorrow's packed lunch, loading washer for another half price wash & aiming to get 2 baths from 1 lot of hot water.
As for this afternoon, reading in the garden before finding a useful twiggy tree branch for doing my Easter tree.
F x

foxgloves

Purplefairy - Yes, agree re loan pay-down fund. We need something reliable as mr f does a lot of work mileage & I have elderley parents who are going to need visiting more regularly because of health problems. But we'd been debt-free excl. mortgage since 2011 & despite having been big spenders/fritterers most of our adult lives, we are now extremely debt-averse. The only way I found myself able to contemplate a loan was to first put up as big a deposit as possible, which we did, as we saved £3000, then to have a Loan Pay-down Fund to get rid of it asap. I paid £2000 off the loan last month & seeing a 4 at the beginning of the outstanding balance instead of a 7 was a good feeling. Already got a good wodge building up in LPDF for next overpayment. I squirrel every little extra bit away in that - money from my knitting, the marmalade I made to sell, survey money, ebay sales, etc. It does all add up. We always knew, realistically, we'd have to borrow to sort the car out, but at least this is a much better way of going about it than our previous old pre-LBM ways.
F x

Lottebear

I have a had a good couple of days MSE wise.

- Took DD to the Zoo yesterday, used annual passes, as the weather was good, we took a pic nic, spent £7 on ice cream and face painting.
- Cooked Roast Chicken for dinner.
- Been to a lambing day today £3 to get in and £2 on other bits, again took a picnic so savings made. Met friends too and caught up.
- Dinner is left over roast chicken.

datlex

zippygeorgeandben wrote: »

1) I've sold 2 items on eBay overnight and for £23 and that's gone into my account.
2) Going for lunch with a friend and have downloaded a 50% off food voucher
3) Desperately need a new everyday bag for work (one which will get plenty of leaking biros in it) so intending to use vouchers I got last year for it.
4) Go to Boots, buy travel essentials (suntan lotions etc) but use my £47 of advantage points I have built up
5) Going to Manchester on Thursday and bought the cheapest return tickets instead of usual £20 extra each way going 1st class
6) Have persuaded my sister to get some pizzas in from Sainsburys instead of blowing out on a £30 plus takeaway.

Have you thought about a plastic makeup bag for your biros? Should stop them leaking. As for bags, I found Peacocks were good for what I wanted and not too expensive.

FatVonD wrote: »

DNMS, I found £8.31 change in the self service till yesterday but sadly the assistant spotted it too and asked for it so I looked right shifty :rotfl:

I have just put the butter tub in the microwave to melt the smears from the side to pour over my jacket potato

Makes you wonder how someone can forget their change like that. Though technically any money we find out is not ours so in effect stealing to take it. I'm probably being harsh here but I do think it is wrong to pocket money found in a self service till.

As for my own keep debt free this week. Nothing major. Only bought what needed.

determined_new_ms

datlex wrote: »

Have you thought about a plastic makeup bag for your biros? Should stop them leaking. As for bags, I found Peacocks were good for what I wanted and not too expensive.
Makes you wonder how someone can forget their change like that. Though technically any money we find out is not ours so in effect stealing to take it. I'm probably being harsh here but I do think it is wrong to pocket money found in a self service till.

As for my own keep debt free this week. Nothing major. Only bought what needed.

all 4 times I've found money over the last few days I've felt bad for the people who lost it. When I found the fiver yesterday I really did feel like I was doing something wrong when I picked it up!

YORKSHIRELASS

carrielovesfanta wrote: »

Oh my days!Was in the grand National sweepstake at work and my horsey won - assumed that it would be £10/£20...£50!!!

Yay, happy news.

2 mile dog walk then a fab cycle ride with the sun on my back. 28 miles felt easy and I felt really strong today so I am buzzing.

I buy decent foundation as I have pretty awful skin but everything else is cheap and cheerful. Cycling plays havoc with my skin though, the wind and sun just seems to irritate my dry, sensitive skin and make it even more blotchy.

Right, some spag bol for tea and some down time. One more load of washing to go out.

determined_new_ms

yay carrie! real pleased for you :j

crazy_cat_lady

Evening all :hello:
Well I have been a very busy bunny indeed today. I'm literally just stopping for the first time since 9am. And I still have more to do - I just need a rest and to either finish up later or tomorrow before we go.
So I did a good sort out and deep clean of the kitchen this morning - 2 whole bags of rubbish out. Then went out to do the little bit of shopping with dd that I had promised her. Bought a couple of groceries for the trip, the cat food, and dd exchanged her top.
Got home, changed the beds for washing, and hung the done load of washing out.
Went to my mam's - caught up for an hour then did 3 hours of marking.
Got home, hoovered right through and have washed up and mopped all floors that I can mop. Washing done and folded.
Still to do: packing, collect my medication (tomorrow) and go to the butcher (tomorrow). Rest of grocery shopping, shower and get an early night if possible. I'm only just over half way through my marking as well and I wanted it done before the hols, but I think I've done enough to not have to take it with me.
Congrats on the win CLF!

ziggy2407

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

Yay, happy news.

2 mile dog walk then a fab cycle ride with the sun on my back. 28 miles felt easy and I felt really strong today so I am buzzing.

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Wow, well done, I was feeling really pleased that I managed a 3.5 mile walk around Damflask :rotfl: I am totally celebrating the small victories

FatVonD

I've had a very spendy day today, I spent last night at my BFF's and got a little tipsy (I'm such a lightweight nowadays!) and have a bit of a hangover

On my way back I stopped off at my mum's for a cup of tea as it was on the way.

Then I stopped at the garden centre and that's when it all started to go a bit pear shaped :eek:

We have three garden centres near us, on is very reasonably priced and has great reductions whenever anything is looking less than perfect. The next is a chain which is sort of mid priced. The third is the most expensive but they are the only on that tends to do stuff by colour (they others always seem like Bly to have mixed trays of bedding plants whereas this one has trays of all one colour.)

Anyhow, I bought 5 trays of White antirhinums, not too much of a worry as they are my favourites and I buy them every year plus, my back garden isn't huge and I like to have lots of one thing and this, as last year, will be these and lime green nicotiana. But them I bought two lime green hellebores which, even after I'd negotiated 10% off, were nearly £10 each :eek:

It gets worse, I then drove home only to find I no longer had my purse (which also has my phone in it) as I'd left it in the trolley :eek: I drove back at breakneck speed and some lovely person had handed it in, still with phone in it :A

I then dropped DSGF to work and went and bought McJunk for DS and myself.

I have something ending on eBay later, let's hope it sells