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redofromstart

How is the wooden floor sealed? I used to use a 'soapy wood cleaner' on mine. Brush it first, or hoover with the beater bar off.

XSpender

redofromstart wrote: »

How is the wooden floor sealed? I used to use a 'soapy wood cleaner' on mine. Brush it first, or hoover with the beater bar off.

It's oiled engineered wood and clipped together when they laid it. I have hovered up the dust bunnies every few days but thought it should have a 'wash' of some sort. I will add wooden floor cleaner to the shopping list.

apple_muncher

I too am giving hyacinths this year as I found some on the street market on the way to work. £2 for a pot of 3. Used one as my up-to-£10 secret santa and blinged it up with cellophane and ribbons. The presents for dd's teacher, TA, Head and Dep Head will come to a grand total of...about £9.

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Stuff to do before Santa Comes

1. [STRIKE]Piece of work 1[/STRIKE] :j
2. [STRIKE]Piece of work 2[/STRIKE] :j:j
3. Piece of work 3
4. All other little bits of work/calls etc.
5. Wrap the rest of DS presents
6. Wrap teacher present & make tag with DS
7. DS to make teacher card
8. DS to take cards into school
9. Last bits of food shop for Christmas
10. Buy sealed tins for next year
11. Buy sweets for Christmas party
12. Dye hair
13. Sanding and filling in bedroom :eek:
14. Sanding and filing on landing :eek:
15. Clear bedroom and take down curtains :eek:
16. Post Christmas cards
17. [STRIKE]See if I can order a personalised wooden north pole crate (now 1/2 price) from the local woodshop in time for Christmas[/STRIKE] Bought one that isn't personalised, still half price
18. Think of a little gift for DS no 24 advent calendar as he found the mini chocolate Santa I hadn't hidden very well
19. Pay change into bank
20. Tidy up
21. Dust and hoover everywhere
22. Clean wooden floors
23. Clear pile of clean laundry
24. Check if kids go to school in party clothes on Wednesday or take to change in to

Really pleased with how much work I have got done today, getting up at 6.10am really got me off to a good start.

DH DW repair has held up for its first load :T

DH and I have attempted to prep the bedroom tonight but it is in much worse condition than we thought and we are going to ask the decorator's advice on how to proceed. It may need to have lining paper put up which may mean another day for the decorator in the new year.

Tomorrow I need to make good progress on the 3rd piece of work, buy the sweets for DS school Christmas party, post a parcel and the Christmas cards and pay the coins into the bank.

DH is at a Christmas dinner event with the DPIL tomorrow night, his first of four Christmas dinners this week!

I'm planning another early start tomorrow and as DS wont need picking up until late I should get the majority of my work done

apple_muncher

Well done on getting those two lots of work completed :T:T

XSpender

Stuff to do before Santa Comes

1. [STRIKE]Piece of work 1[/STRIKE] :j
2. [STRIKE]Piece of work 2[/STRIKE] :j:j
3. Piece of work 3 - made good progress and should complete tomorrow
4. All other little bits of work/calls etc.
5. Wrap the rest of DS presents
6. Wrap teacher present & make tag with DS
7. DS to make teacher card
8. [STRIKE]DS to take cards into school[/STRIKE]
9. Last bits of food shop for Christmas - Mr T order due Friday
10. Buy sealed tins for next year - can't find any :eek:
11. [STRIKE]Buy sweets for Christmas party[/STRIKE]
12. Dye hair
13. [STRIKE]Sanding and filling in bedroom[/STRIKE]
14. [STRIKE]Sanding and filing on landing [/STRIKE]
15. [STRIKE]Clear bedroom and take down curtains [/STRIKE]
16. [STRIKE]Post Christmas cards[/STRIKE]
17. [STRIKE]See if I can order a personalised wooden north pole crate (now 1/2 price) from the local woodshop in time for Christmas[/STRIKE] Bought one that isn't personalised, still half price
18. [STRIKE]Think of a little gift for DS no 24 advent calendar as he found the mini chocolate Santa I hadn't hidden very well[/STRIKE]
19. Pay change into bank
20. Tidy up
21. Dust and hoover everywhere
22. Clean wooden floors
23. Clear pile of clean laundry
24. [STRIKE]Check if kids go to school in party clothes on Wednesday or take to change in to[/STRIKE]

Shattered today after being awake half the night worrying about the state of the bedroom walls and how we were going to fix them in time for the painter coming today. Somewhere in the middle of the night I thought 'lining paper!' and after discussion with the P&D this morning I ran to B&Q to buy some (and more gloss) and the room is looking fantastic and he hasn't started painting yet.

Few Christmassy food bits bought today and removed from Friday's Mr T order. Christmas cards posted and some cheap birthday cards bought for the 3 birthdays we have in January. DS just needs to make one for a grandparent and all sorted.

I have made my first TT today in a long while and have moved this and the TCB that has been paid into an easy saver and will add to it over the rest of January and December and then transfer to DH V1rgin Part 1 CC.

I've also put a £2 coin in the pot along with my loose change. I can't find any of the £1 sealed tins in p0undland or B&M so if any one spots them anywhere give me a shout otherwise I will have to improvise. I do like the sealed tins though as there is no way of opening them and wrapping them back up again I've also put aside £15 for the first few weeks of the 52 week challenge which will be my Christmas budget and December food budget next year.

I'm about £60 over budgeted on YNAB (the tin of gloss paint) but as we are both paid on Friday I will wait to see how we get on in our Uber Frugal January before I pinch anything from the pots or emergency fund.

DH is still at work and DS is at a Christmas event with DPIL so I am going to watch a bit of my new guilty pleasure, Teen Wolf :rotfl:

WannabeFree

Homebargains, Toys r us (but not £1) and there is somewhere else but I can't remember where :cool: Ebay? for the tin.

Glad you got the decorating sorted, hope you have a better nights sleep tonight x

pennywisepoundstupid

Amazon and ebay have the sealed tins.

XSpender

Thanks both. I've had a look on ebay and can get 4 for £6.29 with free P&P which should last me a couple of years as I already have a giant piggy bank and a small camper van piggy bank. I'm wondering now if I can get away with just using these 2 if I can put the big pig downstairs somewhere out of sight as he is a hideous patchwork design (originally belonged to DH). The big pig can hold all the loose change and the camper the £2 coins.

Plans for today are to work, work, work and get the big piece of work finished and some of the calls done. I have a nails/brows appointment (personal spends) at 3.30pm so this is the deadline.

After that I will be making a teacher card and gift tag with DS and wrapping her gift.

DH still hasn't broached Christmas Day with his parents yet :mad: I have told him he needs to do it today as it is likely to turn into a falling out with them if he doesn't put it to bed. He is going to suggest we visit in the morning to exchange gifts or that they come to us for tea (as usual and what we wanted to avoid this year). If they opt for tea I am not buying in anything extra than I have already planned as his mother never eats anything anyway. They only ever stay a couple of hours. I sound a right Grinch but I find his mother very difficult and ungrateful.

XSpender

Well, the DPIL are coming for Christmas tea at 4pm and I actually feel OK about it I will just do the same amount of food as I was going to cook for the three of us with a couple of veggie sandwiches for DMIL and a bigger ham as the leftovers will be useful. Better get another pud as well as I only have a small GF chocolate gateau in for us.

DH rang them to ask them about Christmas Day and they asked him before he got the words out of his mouth!

Neither of them drink and will only stay a couple of hours no doubt.