What small DFW things will you do this week? W/C 15 May

katy_ann

Morning everyone I'm taking LO to a ryhme time session at the library this morning then popping to the shops to get some essentials Other than that today:

- Check bank accounts - I might just make it until payday Tuesday!
- Get LO food, batteries and a few other essentials
- Eat healthily and all meals from home
- Hoover & dust living room
- Load of washing on and to be tumbled dry

Have a lovely Friday everyone! X

Julie67

Morning all, hope you are well,

I'm getting us organised for our weekend away at my daughters wedding this morning so feeling excited.:j
I've got to get my card wrote and presents wrapped.
Todays list include
-pop into Card Warehouse(i've heard they have a reduced section)
-I also want to have a quick look in Lidl (Christmas pressies)
--We need bread again!
-Check bank account
-Have a look at Quidco, I really must start using this
-Dinner tonight will be duck breast bought in the reduced section

Have a good Friday all x

foxgloves

Morning Friday Frugal People,
A whole day at home today. No political stuff to do, no meetings, no training courses, no funerals, just a day of me trying to get my head around various difficult bits of stuff while catching up with all the tasks that have been mounting up. On the money saving front, I've already:
*Cleaned whole house using my diluted Stardrops spray bottle & washable cloths. Bins cleaned out, tidying done, bed linen changed, just need to hoover downstairs.
*Changed towels & loaded washer to fit these in on a cheap overnight wash when we look to be expecting a non-rainy day when I can actually peg out.
*Wrapped 3 ebay parcels to post tomorrow, using recycled materials. I only buy sticky labels (on a roll from Wilko's which last ages) & brown parcel tape.
*Did 2 surveys.
*Checked CC bill & straightened out budgets.
*Discussed next week's meal plan with mr f.
*Put cash ready to pay the Grimsby fish man when he arrives this afternoon.....also sharpened knife for cutting the fish into portions for freezing. Fish is never cheap - it shouldn't be, as people risk their lives to catch it - & I like to get as many portions/meals as possible from my order, which is every 2 months.
Still to do:
*Soup from freezer for lunch, plus whatever needs using up from fridge.
*Write 2 letters.....then I can get them weighed & posted tomorrow while I'm doing the ebay posting, instead of needing a 2nd trip........even little parking fees add up over a month.
*Check greenhouse veggies.
*Write shopping list.
*Find Co-op vouchers as there's about £3-50 of dividend on items that will defo be on our shopping list.
*Make a use-it-up salad to go with my jacket potato tonight - freezer dive night tonight, so will each be deciding what we want to use up for toppings. Very good way of using up single portions of stuff from the freezer.
*Knit more of current socks for friend to go in Presents Box. The frilly cast-on (which I was making up as I went along) has worked......looks nice, I think she'll love them. Sock yarn £1 a ball from 'Tiger'. (2 balls required for a pair of socks) Fibre content the same as brands I usually use, so I stocked up. Have also been gifted lots of sock yarn, so if I keep my needles clicking, I will have lots of Christmas presents made by the end of summer.
*Free entertainment - listening to Chris Packham's autobiography 'Fingers in the sparkle jar' on audiobook. Both touching, interesting & amusing for those who like wildlife (& the 1970s!)
OK, I must get the kettle on now, & crack on with these letters, neither of which will be easy to write, so must get my caffiene levels topped up.
Love to all,
F xx

crazy_cat_lady

Morning all :coffee:
Gosh you lot are lovely. I know this time of year is manic when things are good, and things aren't great at the moment to be honest. As is now the norm I am busy and also tired. One more week and today to survive until half term. I slept ok last night but still feel quite tired this morning and I'm finding it really tough to get motivated. At the moment with work I'm seeing lots of problems and very few solutions... maybe time for me to sit down with the Head again at some point soon and try to talk it out.
Didn't want to have to spend money today but there is a big family meal tonight. My cousin got married abroad a few weeks ago and is now having celebrations back in the uk. Tonight is a big family meal which me and the kids are going to, and tomorrow is the wedding celebration which I'm meant to be going to but it will entirely depend on how I'm feeling...

FatVonD

Morning all, it's a slow day here today so it's probably going to drag and I'm definitely looking forward to the weekend!

I remembered to bring in lunch today and my last pack of frozen YS raspberries. Since I prefer them still slightly frozen I will check out the pre frozen ones at the big SM at the weekend for when YS ones are thin on the ground.

I have arranged to go to view an M&S ebay sofa tomorrow before bidding, I'm not going to make the same mistake as last time, I need to get the other two up on ebay and FB this weekend

Tonight will be my night for completing trades and wrapping packages so I need to pick up some suitably-sized boxes when I do the YS run.

No dirty protests from the cats anywhere last night, in the litter tray or otherwise.

I'm in two minds whether to do a boot sale on Sunday or wait another week or so, the weather forecast is okay for Sunday but I would need to arrange to borrow a paste table (unless I turned all my boxes upside down once I'd unpacked?)

Dinner tonight is going to be cheese and mushroom omelette, I just need to buy some eggs. It crossed my mind if there's YS med veg again that I could maybe use one of those for frittata, what is frittata? It's just a big, fat, sliced omelette, isn't it?

Uhtred_Ragnarsson

Afternoon all

I've continued my good week by : -

• Cashing out survey money from Prolific - I love them and I get around £20 a month or more this way
• Switched gas and electricity via MSE - £6 a month cheaper than now, £30 cash back and a fix that now takes me to June 2018, well beyond the winter . I almost didn't do it as it seemed so little - then I kicked myself up the proverbial and got on with it!

It's all the little things that help I imagine


Fate is everything

Lottebear

Well it has been an interesting week.

I started my new job, and I have had a annoying cough for the last 2 weeks, I felt dreadful the night before but went in, I managed to get a Drs appointment for the evening, I managed the day but it transpires I have pneumonia :eek:

So I had to call in sick for the next days until the antibiotics kicked in, I offered to go in for 2 half days but they said to take the rest of the week off, I don't know if I will get SSP or not.

- So I have managed a Chest X ray
- Lots of TV
- A friend bought over a lovely bag of healthy foods.
- Contacted tax credits via internet to update them.
- Budget updated
- Dinner is from the freezer tonight - Curry
- Frozen bits we won't eat in time
- Done some house work
- Contacted ebay about non payer :mad:
- Made a small payment to savings

This weekend I have got to complete some freelance work, which overdue.

FatVonD

Blimey, Lotte, what bad timing but it happens! At least they will have seen how ill you were.

I worked with someone once who was jilted 2 weeks before her wedding the day before starting the job, she didn't come in for the first two weeks!

DawnW

Hope you are better soon Lottebear

DawnW

Evening all
Not a great deal accomplished today except for a killer macaroni /cauliflower cheese for dinner, with a cauli from the market and bits from the fridge

Apart from that:
Took more bits to sales unit
Posted 2 ebay parcels
Load of washing, dried on line outside
Watered seedlings that somehow missed the heavy rain we have had this week
Some onepoll surveys
Not spent anything

Still, the night is young, and I aim to do a few more things this evening