What small DFW things will you do this week? w/c 22/05

allydowd

Hi May Marvellousos,

Last day off. :heartpuls

<Hugs Manchester tightly. We have a distant connection to this, but all safe. >

Hard to concentrate today so am recording what I've done after I've done it.


Debt Free-Nillionaire Continuity Plan Year Three:

* Confronted DW with the amount of toilettries she has bought. We absolutely mustn't buy anymore. Five of everything! We could open a public bath.

* Wrapped some paintings in clingfilm to protect them while in strorage in the loft. The dust was getting through the loosely covered black bin bags we were using.

* Dusted walk-in storage cupboard now that it has been tidied and we can actually walk-in it!

* Greenhouse componants are all still in kitchen. Mountaineered over them to get to hoover. Haven't hoovered for a fortnight because we couldn't reach it. That's a saving on electricity, I suppose.


Onwards and upwards.

FatVonD

You have your work cut out for you with the missus, Ally :rotfl:

We had a fire drill this morning so breakfast ended up being from Pr@t, I seriously shouldn't be allowed to have real cash

Lunchtime I took a trip to Mr T and bought some YS scotch eggs and houmous for lunch. I don't actually like the egg bit so I'll chop them and feed them to the pigeons, which seems so wrong (even though they aren't pigeon eggs, but still.)

DSGF has added me on FB, I'm not sure if she's planning to ask me to pack for her or thank me for having her for the last 10 months or so. She has exams this week so I hope she still makes it to college for them.

Tonight I plan to pack up some stuff to be sent elsewhere via Hermes, will need to grab a box on my way past Mr T. It's not money making stuff but it will make me feel better getting it out of the way.

Have a good day all and hope nobody has loved ones effected by the events x

allydowd

FatVonD wrote: »

You have your work cut out for you with the missus, Ally :rotfl:

Sure have.

allydowd

Hi May Marvellousos,

Still at it:


Debt Free-Nillionaire Continuity Plan Year Three:

* Built the greenhouse, thereby liberating the kitchen. :j DW is going to put edibles in it (the greenhouse, not the kitchen, that's already full of edibles).

* Cleared emails.

* Washing dried outdoors.

* Did survey on Nectar Canvass.

* Activated a replacement card.

* Hoovered house top to bottom for first time in a fortnight.

* Checked online banking.

* Clear space on phone so a new App will fit on and I won't need a new memory card.

Onwards and upwards.

crazy_cat_lady

Evening all
I feel much more grateful for everything that I do have in my life today - rather than bleating on about being too busy and stressed at work. I have a job, I have my family and friends, and that's what I need around me.
Another non stop day for me. Work is really busy and I am tired. Still. But I'm home for the evening and will be relaxing as soon as I can.
I've finally bagged a nsd as well so :j

Julie67

Evening all,

Such a sad sad day for my home City. Spent the morning phoning my four children and checking all our loved ones were safe. It's been a difficult day. My thoughts are with all those caught up in this terrible event.

Sorry it's a late one for me. Today I've managed to
-post ebay parcels.
-pick up more items ready for listing
-Dinner was a salad of leftovers
-we have been looking for cushions for our garden chairs, the ones that fit the base and back. They are so expensive. OH managed to pick up 2 for £3 today in the charity shop. Just four more to go, but I don't care if they are all different colours
-Sorted out some paperwork.
-I need to check our budget. Cancel any unnecessary DD's

Have a good evening folks x

FatVonD

I won the sofa I wanted on flea bay for £50 (I nearly paid £100 for it last week before they put the price down!) I know I am going to be happy with this one, it's from the same range as my love seat and tonally the same, my armchair doesn't match either but I'm calling it 'eclectic' (that's one for the Frasier Crane fans!)

The YS fridge looked very uninspiring so I didn't bother going, we had value spinach and ricotta pasta with YS carbonara sauce from a previous foray.

DS went for a drive down to the river with his friends tonight so I took the opportunity to retrieve all my crockery and cutlery and fill TWO bin liners with rubbish.

A local farm is hosting a drive in cinema viewing at the weekend, I'm trying to persuade DS to go with his mates, the film is Pulp Fiction, they'd love it.

determined_new_ms

Morning I've been up for an hour! Sent a couple of emails I needed to so at least some of that time was used productively...

My tasks today are hopefully going to look like this:

* retrieve bleach bottle oh has put in the recycling bin (I bought a massive bottle of bleach to refill the smaller bottle which is now in the bin!)
* make madam's lunch & get her bag ready
* quick shower
* work from home 8.15-1.15
* pick up madam and take her to the school session 2-3, go to the park & library afterwards
* volunteering tonight
* water & feed plants that need it. Pick up canes so I can pot up tomatoes. Have seen online The Range do them so will call in there later. Really struggling to find where to get bird netting. Any ideas?
* all meals from stores
* make the cakes! Arrgghhhhhh probably won't have time for this! Time is ticking!

Ok already feeling overwhelmed so that is all for today! Happy hump day x

DawnW

Morning all
I've been up for an hour too DNMS, but all I have achieved so far is coffee drinking Looking after little GD today, so limited expectations of what will get done:

Use up a brown banana with my breakfast porridge
OH can do dog walks today (could be a nice thing to do with GD, but she always insists on holding his lead and tends to let go of it, so this is too dangerous as our road is quite busy Not worth the risk / tantrums!)
HM meals from stores, there is plenty of the lamb shanks dish I made yesterday left for dinner
GD can 'help' me paint a small piece of furniture outside if it stays dry - I will use water based chalk paint which easily washes off / out of things. I already have the paint, so no extra cost
We will make some cakes, as I have loads of eggs
Anything that needs doing in the garden -last night I got rid of some bolting rocket and mizuna plants and sowed more seed - but not so much this time :eek: Decided I would like a few more / different annual flowers to brighten up the plant stands on the patio. I will get these at one of the boot sales at the weekend, and don't envisage spending more than about £3
Put a load of Royal Worcester oven to table porcelain ready to take to local auction later this week. Some of this is business stock and some my own, but surplus to requirements - I have enough casserole dishes etc to feed an army It is too much of a pain to ebay (heavy and needs loads of packaging). Should get a decent price for it at auction though
A bit spendy this one :eek: but I ordered a lovely new mini greenhouse like Ally's DW's last night, to replace my collapsing old plastic one. I had looked at this one earlier this year and disregarded it due to price. It is now on sale at more than £100 less, so thanks to Ally for flagging that up Proceeds from auctioning my surplus casserole dishes can go towards it!

Twins

Good Morning all,

Hope all is well. Middle of the week and wishing it was June already so my holiday was closer... need a break away!

Looking like a lovely sunny day today. Yesterday was cloudy so I didn't get to go for my evening walk. Today's shaping up like this:

- Put on a couple of loads of washing and hang outside
- Check eBay sales, one ends today
- Take DS to his external exam. Got to wait for an hour whilst he finishes so will pop into Costco and pick up some Alioli which my DD is obsessed with and has been nagging to re-buy since it finished
- Make a sandwich and take it with me whilst waiting for DS to finish as last time I got hungry and ended up buying a sandwich from Tesco
- Run the hoover around
- Check Swags and complete some surveys
- Go for the evening walk that I missed yesterday
- Send off a I&E letter to one of my creditors that requested it

Thats all for now. Have a wonderful day everyone