What small DFW things will you do this week - w/c 30th October?

arc2014

arc2014 wrote: »

Morning all!

Not so busy day for me today, half term!

- Shopping for the bits I forgot yesterday (lost my list! ) DONE
- Finish home made Halloween decorations DONE
- Carve pumpkin (2 for £1 at Mr M's!) DONE
- Enchiladas for tea with left over chicken from dinner yesterday DONE
- Quick wash & dry on the line (it did need 10 minutes in the dryer but) DONE
- Purge kids wardrobe and get rid of old clothes
- Declutter book case and pack another box

That will do today. Got DH upstairs off work with a tummy bug too - lovely!

Happy Monday everyone!

Oh well not bad to say both DH & the littles have been getting under my feet!

determined_new_ms

DawnW wrote: »

It was my birthday today, and not much got done because DD and little GD came over with a cake that they had made and a hilarious card drawn by little GD It shows the house, the dog, the flowers and the Christmas tree in the front garden, a butterfy .... and a cat flap, which we used to have (though at the back of the house) for our previous two little dogs, but current little dog too dense / timid to use it, and then DS's huge dog tried to get through it and broke it, so OH took it out and repaired the door. Fancy her remembering that :rotfl:Anyway, too much cake eaten AND I had a glass of wine, but I really think I should give up this birthday business now! :rotfl:
[/COLOR] Hope everyone has a good day

Happy birthday you! _party_:bdaycake: (sneaking that in on an update!) Hope you've had a great day, and many many happy returns to you.

Tis frightening what they remember isn't it??? :eek:

FatVonD

Happy birthday, Dawn

Foxgloves, I've had the heating on a couple of times of late but I've turned the thermostat down as a compromise. Which leads me to...

Must check my gas and electricity usage online as the meters were read recently.

This morning I topped up the petrol in my car to full again to check how much I've used since Sunday last and it took £16.62 (just over a quarter of a tank) but this weeks usage included a 9 mile round trip to buy my new Hoover which I wouldn't normally do. I'm fairly confident that if I fill the car each payday it will last me until the next payday (which is around £60 which is better than paying £300 for a train ticket each month) plus the petrol is social as well as travel to work.

I took some sliced meats over to my mum today and she repaid me by buying fish and chips for lunch. She needed to drop off her yearly subscription to the BL so while she was in there I scoured the shops for job ads, I managed to get a handful but it was quite disappointing. We then went to visit a friend of hers who is under the weather.

An eBay buyer has made a generous offer on a collection only item if I will post it which has restored my faith in eBay buyers!

I was taken out for dinner tonight but just paid for a couple of drinks so low spend and came home to find I'd had another Amazon sale while I was out (and four on Saturday!) it's taking a while to get my head round how it all works and the complicated fee system but I think this might actually be going to work!

La_escocesa

Hiya pals :wave:

Dawn - hope you had a lovely birthday!
DNMS - hope you got finished with the application and got some quiet time. Oooh, milk it as long as you can :rotfl:
CLF - oooh, I will hunt out this crochet blog...sounds ace :think:

Been up for 2 hours already with pooch face not feeling well. He's finally settled and looks like he's just gone back to bed until I come back from work to take him out on lunch. Alright for some - I need to get to work in the meantime..... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Pooch has had some rice this morning... I tried to stop buying packet/micro rice but I'm starting to think it's just not worth the hassle. Took far too long to make at 6am...

Anyway, it is payday. :T I sorted out some bits and pieces with my pay - upped my pension contributions, took off bupa cover as couldn't justify the £700+ benefit in kind, so everything has kinda worked out now so I know where I stand a bit more. :dance:

Want to sort YNAB this morning... :think:

Take brekkie to work - cheapo porridge with free milk from work :A
HM lunch - omelette with ham & cheese
Took fish out of the freezer for tonight - nice stir fry methinks
Not spending on lunch - walking dog instead
Taking clothes back for a refund - they're not 100% perfecto so they've gotta go!

Need to sort travel insurance soon - 3 trips abroad in next 2 months so kinda thinking a yearly one would work out better... :think:

Oooh, you'll never guess - I'm working away next week. Turns out my sister is on a training course in the v same area! We've booked into the same hotel for 2 nights! Awesome to think we're meeting up 200 miles away by coincidence!! Small world! Really looking forward to it now. It's her birthday soon so I can also sort out her pressie and won't need to post anything to her. I think I will get her one of our very own FVD's cards Happy Birthday tu-tu you :rotfl:

Happy Tuesday y'all!

carrielovesfanta

Morning all

Belated happy birthday to Dawn!

I hope everyone is ok. I've been racking my brains for ideas for trimming the grocery bill. Here's my current thoughts:

• Swap out some of my Quark for cottage cheese. Nearly as much protein and 10p/100g cheaper
• Check out the huge Aldi that opened near us recently to see if it's worth the time and effort splitting the shop. I can see that the trays of eggs are 11p cheaper so if there was an average of 10p saving per item, it would add up over the month.
• Try to find ys meat bargains and just use the meat I have instead of planning what meat to buy
• Found a reasonable organic bulk buy meat pack from Musclefoods. Works out at £1 per portion of meat, which is quite good for our current consumption.

More ideas very welcome!!!

Yesterday's round up:

carrielovesfanta wrote: »

• Enjoy the lovely crispy weather - nice walk to work
• Meals from plan - done
• Gym at lunchtime - done
• Epilate - done
• Charge phone in work - done
• Try not to obsessively check new facebook page
• OH working - done
• Work long day - done
• See if time to do m-I-l's scarf this evening. It's getting close to completion. Who knows, maybe I will post about it :rotfl: - done
• No drinks - done
• Ask my mum for food shopping mse ideas. Food bill is beyond all sense. - done. Nothing forthcoming

Today:

• Meals from plan
• Charge phone in work - done
• Car for the MOT - hope that saved money covers it - expensive but in true Foxgloves style, it is covered by the kitty
• Crochet m-I-l's scarf and post about it
• Add a "Quote" button to my facebook page - done
• No drinks
• Gym at lunchtime - done. Feel beat up.
• Big budget day after we know how much the car will cost
• Entered a radio competition online instead of by text, thus saving £1.50! - done

Have a good one all

clf x

carrielovesfanta

La_escocesa wrote: »

CLF - oooh, I will hunt out this crochet blog...sounds ace :think:

Your emoji doesn't look very convinced :rotfl:

Thanks for all the support guys - it means a lot to me!

DawnW

Morning all
Thanks for the birthday wishes - we don't really make a fuss about birthdays, as we have had so many.... although GD did think I was 25 yesterday (I was 64) :rotfl:She enjoyed singing happy birthday and blowing out the candles on the birthday cake (DD compromised at 4, as although the cake was large, it wasn't THAT large) :rotfl::rotfl:
So far today I have:
Walked dog
Picked up litter on verge outside
Pegged out washing, hope it dries, a bit dull and murky out today
Put machine on a hot wash to see if that cures the drain smell it sometimes emits :eek:
Sold a Radley handbag on ebay for a ridiculously low price, not sure why it got only one bid, it is a nice bag. Still, I didn't use it and didn't pay a lot for it (bought s/h) so hopefully the buyer will love it! Finding ebay very slow atm!

Still to do:
Cleaning that I didn't do yesterday
Sort out seed sprouter
Put excess cardboard boxes in garage instead of all over conservatory and dining room (don't want to throw them away/recycle as I use them to pack fragile ebay items)
Pesto pasta for dinner, I don't mind having it twice, and OH had something else last night
Freeze any leftover pesto
Go through fridge to see what needs using up / freezing
Put away sales stock I brought back from my unit yesterday
No plans to spend anything again today

carrielovesfanta

DawnW wrote: »

Morning all
Thanks for the birthday wishes - we don't really make a fuss about birthdays, as we have had so many.... although GD did think I was 25 yesterday (I was 64) :rotfl:She enjoyed singing happy birthday and blowing out the candles on the birthday cake (DD compromised at 4, as although the cake was large, it wasn't THAT large) :rotfl::rotfl:
So far today I have:
Walked dog
Picked up litter on verge outside
Pegged out washing, hope it dries, a bit dull and murky out today
Put machine on a hot wash to see if that cures the drain smell it sometimes emits :eek:
Sold a Radley handbag on ebay for a ridiculously low price, not sure why it got only one bid, it is a nice bag. Still, I didn't use it and didn't pay a lot for it (bought s/h) so hopefully the buyer will love it! Finding ebay very slow atm!

Still to do:
Cleaning that I didn't do yesterday
Sort out seed sprouter
Put excess cardboard boxes in garage instead of all over conservatory and dining room (don't want to throw them away/recycle as I use them to pack fragile ebay items)
Pesto pasta for dinner, I don't mind having it twice, and OH had something else last night
Freeze any leftover pesto
Go through fridge to see what needs using up / freezing
Put away sales stock I brought back from my unit yesterday
No plans to spend anything again today

not that you can tell a person's age from the interwebs but I would never have had you pegged for 64 - I would have taken 10 years off that

katy_ann

Afternoon everyone! Hope your all well Not much to report over here, went to Asda this morning to get a birthday present for OH nieces birthday at the weekend, OH gave me the money for that so nothing out of my weekly spends!

This afternoon I'm taking DS to a "Halloween party" with some baby friends, it costs £5 but I've already budgeted for that out of my spends

Other than that today I will try and:

- Check bank accounts
- Check Ebay sales
- Find things to list on FB selling page
- Check surveys (if I have time!)
- Meals from home
- General daily tidy up of the house

Have a lovely day all! x

foxgloves

Hi Hallowe'en Savers,
Busy day so far. A few bits of money saving stuff:
*Two baths from one lot of hot water (motivated by energy provider asking for pre-bill meter readings!)
*Baked bread rolls & a tin of biscuits to take away with us.
*L/o chilli from freezer for tonight's meal.
*Dropped my Ziffit box off for collection.
*Updated budgets, including a couple of swaps to keep different 'pots' straight
*Checked online banking to see if transferred sum from savings had arrived. Yes. Everything else looked normal.
*Paid in £140 cash from Car Piggy to cover yesterday's car service.
*Did a couple of surveys.
We're going out tonight to a cult movie screening. Before that, I need to achieve 2 hours of packing, so will say 'Bye' & crack on.
F xx