What small DFW things will you do this week? w/c 12/06

foxgloves

FVD _ Re sink unblocker. I bought one from Wilko's. Can't remember the exact name of the product without going to look, but it was their own label & a 'Basics' sort of level. I think it was £1. It's a white box & consists of a product to put down the plughole plus a tool for fetching out the blockage. This is a bright orange flexible plastic jobber with diagonal sort of teeth on it. Anyway, this orange thing was so good just on its own - it fetched out loads of gunk - that I didn't need to use the accompanying product at all! Despite instructions saying to throw the plastic thing away after one use, I washed it & have used it successfully on repeat occasions.
Just flagging this cheapo solution up in case its helpful.
F x

foxgloves

Hi Sunday Savers,
Boiling hot day - not much money-saving activity as have travelled to & from my parents' house to spend Father's Day with Dad. Baked a cake for his gift & our only contribution to a lovely lunch was a crumble made from our own home-grown fruit. The only little bits of money saving are:
*Used a voucher to get an 'Observer' for half price.
*Re-listed unsold ebay items.
*Sorted laundry ready for an overnight wash on cheap tariff.
*Put diesel in the car at this end, instead of further south, where as predicted by me, it was 8p a litre more expensive.
*Turned the heel on sock (for Presents Box) - still knitting up my yarn stash. So many nice projects still to do without spending any cash....found another 2 kits I'd forgotten about yesterday, too!
*Watered veggies.
*YS success. Quite unplanned. Called in our local Co-op on our way home to buy some squash, which I forgot to put on our online order this week. There seemed to be a bit of a scrum in the corner & I realised that we had actually timed our visit with the YS reductions going out. Heaven forfend!! Not interested in buying ready-made stuff as I always cook from scratch & I hate corned beef (there was absolutely loads of it at 20p a pack, much to the delight of one of the obvious regulars) but I bought 2 x 500g packs of lean minced beef for £1 a pack & 2 sweetheart cabbages (which were perfect & not wilting in any way) for 10p each. I'll blanch & freeze those tomorrow. You see.....1LuckyLady & FVD, I have obviously been taking in all your YS info & have been taught by the best, lol!
OK, that's my money saving for today. I need a bloomin' good week, so intend to hit the ground running tomorrow morning.
Cheers all,
F xx

determined_new_ms

Hi guys - jeez it's been a scorcher! Was energy-less in the garden for most of the day! Added cold water to the hot tub and spent some time in there with oh and madam cooling off :-)

Went to the lottie first thing but it was too hot so didn't get much done. Picked some more broad beans, calabrese leaves (to cook as cabbage), radishes, lettuce, and a few strabs & raspberries. Was hoping to get back there this evening but we had friends come round and had an impromptu BBQ so hope to get up early and go tomorrow to plant up leeks, sweetcorn and sow runner beans finally.

Oh's father popped round for a few hours and I had asked him to grab me some oil and potatoes on his way here and he got us loads of bits a bottle of wine, a 4 pack of bear, chocolate for madam and some raspberries

just getting the house straight and getting madam's clothes & lunch ready for tomorrow and then I think I'll lay down and read a book

It's been a really lovely weekend, spending lots of time with friends and family Hope it has been as nice for all of you x

FatVonD

Thanks Foxgloves, I didn't get any in the end today so I'll try to hold out for next weekend and Wilco.

You have done better on the YS front than me today! I popped in earlyish and there was a mountain of sandwiches and not much worth hanging around for so I bought a salmon in watercress sauce for DS's dinner at £1.99 (not sure how much it is full price but not a lot more) as I didn't have the energy to fight for it half an hour later and some pomegranate down to 85p from £1.10. I'm too hot to eat much. I went back later to pick up some sandwiches for lunches tomorrow (there were so many I knew there would be plenty left!)

Today I talked my mum into buying an iMac :eek: She had a chrome book which was a piece of poo (I would never recommend getting one to anyone.) She had no idea how to use it, I'm not familiar with them, you can't download software, we had to access the new printer via the cloud but the printer wasn't cloud ready. Even the bloke at P C world spent about half an hour trying to fathom it out with no more success than me so I feel like less of a Neanderthal. I don't know why I didn't talk her into getting a Mac in the first place as they are so simple to use and I am familiar with them but it's done now so it's no longer the blind leading the blind.

I finally managed to drop DSXGF's stuff to her tonight so my car is a lot lighter and so is my mood! I feel like my whole life/house is getting bogged down with 'stuff' at the moment and the less of it the better!

I too have a small mountain range of washing waiting to be ironed/put away HappyKitties but I guess it's not going anywhere (least of all the wardrobe!) so it can wait!