What small moneysaving things will you be doing this week? W/C 08/01/18

allydowd

Hi January Joy-Seekers,

Morning all. It's a beautiful new morning (albeit it cold and wet) and I am full of enthusiasm for money-saving this morning.

It's lovely to be back. As some of you will know I work in a crazy-busy place. This is me just having a chance to get back to normal after crazy-busy season.

We've saved a bucket by living in a wee town centre. DW and I can walk everywhere and, since Oct, DW has mainly done all our shopping locally and on foot. This has been good for our health.


Debt Free-Nillionaire Continuity Plan Year Three:

* Checked online banking. We got through Decemberfest solvent! Not surprising really, I was too busy to spend much. Though I did buy a camera-ma-bob-doo-dah for beloved DW.

* Do the sums in readiness for doing DW's tax return. Her business returned a profit.

* Checked DW's online banking. I long ago gave up letting her do this herself. She's got a great DFW-style ethos, but maths isn't her strong point. Me controlling the online logins makes for fewer incidents.

* Withdrew £4.99 from TopCashback, earned when buying DW's
camera-ma-bob-doo-dah.

* Today begins my Bold Bicycle Bonanza 2018 challenge. I'm trying to use the car as little as possible and this year I want to use a bicycle for leisure. I've joined Bike & Go (Link). The idea is that I will occasionally rent a bike from a hub at the station round the corner and if it goes well I will consider buying one. At £3.80 per day that's affordable. The yearly subscription is £10. You can rent two bikes at a time on that subscription so DW can participate if she's feels inclined. I'm going to need to source a cheap helmet, though. We live on a long-distance cycle route which is also a bonus and there's a nice flat promenade too. Now don't be thinking I'm some kinda Lance Armstrong. I'm actually kinda hopeless at cycling. Think Wobbly Gnome on Wheels. But I enjoy a challenge. :rotfl: If I get good at it I could consider cycling to and from work, but I'm not good enough for that yet. It's a 20 mile round trip. And you can take bicycles on the local ferry for free.

* Bank card is expiring. Need to update new details in cyberspace.

* Clear out wallet. Full of Smurf.

* Checked credit card balance has remained at £0 and that nothing had crept in there unwanted.

* Checked loyalty card points.

* Cleared my emails. Also full of Smurf.

* Create a passport photo for DW online and send off for processing. Much cheaper than using a photo booth.



Onwards and upwards.

vickthestick

Morning all, this is the third time I have tried to post this morning,
My 'puter is playing silly beggars methinks.
Today:
- Church for me and the Smalls where they eat their body weight in juice and biscuits
- Dance for No 3 daughter and DH - costs a fortune in fees and diesel but she loves it
- Wee nip into L1dl and or A1di - they are right next door - to get milk and bread and chicken for tea
- Sunday afternoon baking I think whilst No 5 daughter does her cross stitch that she picked up at Hobbycraft yesterday
- No 5 daughter to Gangshow rehearsals 4-6pm
- Chicken for tea
- More YNAB messing about and fixing
- More ogling over bullet journals online

And then get everyone ready for school tomorrow before settling down to watch Mc!!!!! which I am loving!
Have a lovely lazy day everyone x

1SmallStep

AllyD. Welcome back! I missed your lists and reminders and will be wobbling along with you as I'm also trying to cycle more to work, and have a similarish distance 15m, but only once a week. For now, am interested in ability to do a pp photo online, can you explain? Thx x

fatrab

Well, end of week 2 and I'm pleased to report a food waste of £0.00! Not a single thing wasted.

Went shopping this morning and have bought just enough to get me through the next 4 days.

Looking forward to next week's small money saving thread.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

determined_new_ms

Morning Hi ally :wave: nice to see you back and glad things have settled down with you

We were supposed to be going roller skating this morning but both oh and are were feeling a little fragile - my girls night was super fun, lots of belly laughter going on :beer:

Today though - going to put my washing out on the line :T

think we'll probably take madam for a walk/to the park/continue baking/do art to keep her entertained

dinner is lo turkey in gravy from xmas, with hm veg and mash - will make enough for a couple more meals and freeze :money: :cool:

house is pretty spick and span so just a small wipe round to stay on top :T

plan out what I need to do next week - family/work/self and slot it in my diary

go through fridge and make sure nothing is going to expire - very full fridge and this is when it's a danger!

[STRIKE]portion up and freeze batch cooked spag yesterday [/STRIKE]:money: 4 meals stashed away :money: also froze chickpeas cooked yesterday as currently a lot of los to eat up!

get bags clothes lunches ready for tomorrow

Do a little on my tax return just need to do a couple of bits now. One I can't do until tomorrow

read my book/knit relax this evening :beer:

ok that'll do Have a great day guys

1SmallStep your day yesterday sounded blissful!

Happy_Kitties

Foxgloves and Smallstep- I loved hearing about your city centre trips and how you can keep the money saving faith while still having a good time:T.
Ally-great to see you posting again:)
FVD- I have a couple of bullet point journals, nothing fancy or anything, just some doodling and usually some extra notes around the bullet points........usually bec I am shocking at remembering stuff :rotfl:but there is a certain sense of satisfaction seeing it written down.
Bagpuss- ur cats def have expensive tastes. With my 6 furballs I would have been have been bankrupt by now. Have to have mine on kitekat otherwise it doesnt keep the ginger tom full and Ive been woken up at 4am several times before now when he has decided that the rest of the house needs to get up. Sounds like a baby but with kitekat he sleeps thru:):):)!!!!

DD is now back at uni.
managed to have a much needed lie in
Quiet day planned today. Aching abit as did a training session last night so will continue to clean and sort out the kitchen. Def a NSD
DD cat is still refusing to come out from underneath the bed:(. Need to pack some more things away underneath the bed so cat will have to see me:D.
Have a great day everyone x

1SmallStep

Morning all. Having a slow (and slouthy) start to the day as I had a really bad nights sleep, and lost quite a bit of momentum yesterday - though my relaxing day was probably good for me, it leaves me in need of running a tighter ship today! So enlisting a bit of help keeping me to the list today.

• Change the bedrooms - deep clean and bedding. WM is on already with first of 3? loads:)
• Ironing mountain - would be awesome if this ended the weekend downgraded to a hill
• Report 1 (Rsk)
• Report 2 (Rtn)
• Report 3 (Ltr)
• Prep for presentation on Tuesday
• Pack so this time I don't forget any essentials that I then have to buy at the station!
• Hair and manicure at home
• BLD from stores. Made DDs favourite last night when the oven was on anyway. Just about to freezer dive for lunch!
• Book travel for next few days
• Online banking - check login details work for account I don't use often
• Do expenses
• List house on holiday site
• Repair a couple of clothes
• Evening off with DD. Going to see if it will work for her to tag onto one of my work trips with me. I'd pay obviously, but its somewhere shes always wanted to visit and they want me to spend 2 days travelling for a halfday meeting, so it would be good to extend it by a day or so if I can!
• Walk - steps target
• Sort out dates with a few friends to make best use of petrol
• Have deep cleaned washing machine and dishwasher today with descaler patch
  [*}Do online tasks and load vouchers onto things
• About to deblock shower tray. yuk.
  

Good luck with all of your own lists folks!

FatVonD

Afternoon all!

First of two days off and then back to work, I really need to tell them that, while I'm happy to do one extra day to help out, two extra days is too much.

Today is going to be all about sorting the house out. I need to:

Remove whatever offending object stopped my recycling bin from being collected. It's been emptied, I think the last lot were just trying to finish their shift quicker as it was a non regular day on account of Christmas

Same for next doors bin which I have also been using while it was vacant but has now been let, oops Ditto

Take out some rubbish and swap bins round for this weeks collection. Ive got my weeks mixed up but not much rubbish anyway, mostly cat litter.

Load the dishwasher.Done

Laundry washing.First load in

Clean out the car and bring in cat food I couldn't carry the other day, they got a tin of tuna this morning #happycats Done

I will cook a roast today.To do

Attempt a no spend day. Failed, I bought tex me X dips to go on top of cheesy nachos

Decorate two batches of cards for sending off to Amazon. To do

20% water change on the fish tank Done

General cleaning/tidying/hoovering To do

FatVonD

Ally, I tried sending a home photo that I'd cropped to the correct size for DS's passport but it was rejected, somehow they *know*.

allydowd

1SmallStep wrote: »

For now, am interested in ability to do a pp photo online, can you explain? Thx x

Google "photobox passport photos". £3 a go.

Or read this (Link). You can generate your own photo and then just send it off for online processing at about 20p per print.