The Small Things thread - can't keep us down!

PurpleFairy26

Morning everyone, hope you feel better DNMS and enjoy the last of your hols. I’m not selectively thanking only certain posts, it appears the site will only let me do some, so bear with me list for today:

Fuelled by coffee as 2 nights with short sleep, but not as bad as some others on here
Plus it’s payday
Big money shuffle and spreadsheet update tonight with a brew. It’s so rock and roll :rotfl:
Meals from stores
Snacks and a hot drink to work
Work will buy lunch if i need it whilst out
Washing on radiators/airer
Wrap 2 presents to and cards from stash for parties tomorrow for smalls
OOD yogurt for breakfast with hm granola and cheap value frozen fruit stewed up on top
Check surveys
Check returns have gone back on my account

Must get on and do a few Pre School run jobs. Purps.

Happy_Kitties

DawnW- I only ever did clothes psychology at uni.......can only give information on this (what i remember........not trying to be insensitive just create a smile for you as it is a toughie that you are going through)
Foxgloves-luv, luv, luv molton Brown. Have found a little goes a long way, esp when using with a dougle (not the dog!) in the shower and the scent stays on ur skin all day. DD bought me a gift set of small bottles last year and they I still have half left. Certain ones also take me back to certain memories. Happy days

Well I got everything done yesterday except hoover upstairs. I'm going away this weekend aswell so will need to tighten belt for a couple of weeks. Will hoover upstairs today as I'm not leaving until later as I haven't a cat sitter to cover the evening shift, once this is done I will be leaving. Just about packed and ready so I can get on with some more planning during today ready for the weekend.
Looking forward to seeing DD at the event as I won't see her until Easter then
Washing all up to date which is handy as the first thing I always do when I get back from a weekend away is get the washing machine on. The rest then takes 5 minutes to unpack.
Need to pop to M@rrisons this morning to get cat bits and some extra snacks so not tempted to buy over the weekend.
Hoping all the poorlies feel better soon, hugs to everyone.
have a good Friday/weekend everyone x

DawnW

Morning all
Ally hope you have an easier day today
DNMS hope you are better today
HK I must confess, I have never heard of clothes psychology :rotfl:I would have assumed you would have done something more related to sport science?

Cold again here today :eek: I really don't like winter Can't wait for spring and getting out in the garden again!

Anyway, today's list:
Check banks and updage spreadsheet Done
Fold washing on airer and put away - dried overnight in residual heat from wood stove Done
Some cleaning Not much done
Take some items to sales unit Done
Cook a gammon hock to make soup - it is only a small one, and I want to make a chunky main course soup for dinner tonight, using some of the veg I bought yesterday Done, made a kind of inauthentic minestrone... very tasty though, and it used up lots of odds and ends from the fridge, plus a lot of fresh and frozen veg
Aiming for a NSD :T Done
Usual dog walks etc OH did these, as he is needing to walk to further his recovery from his back problem. I did walk in to town this morning though
Check for surveys A couple for onepoll
Turned out GD's craft drawer and got rid of rubbish / tidied Found one of my heart and the whole set of star biscuit cutters in there, too - wondered where they were! :rotfl:
Had a look in the greenhouse, and there is some useful rocket in there. Must incorporate that into meal plans for next week!

Better make a start!

allydowd

DawnW wrote: »

Morning all
Ally hope you have an easier day today

Thanks. Fridays can be a bit....challenging.

allydowd

Hi Friday February Fabulistas,

I got a good night's rest and was "Feet on Floor" two minutes before the alarm went off. Ready to grasp whatever today throws at me at work by the neck.

Yesterday I realised that if I can get to about 3pm my anxiety starts to reduce and eventually fades away altogether. This is a useful discovery.


Debt Free-Nillionaire Continuity Plan Year Three:

* Made a cheap but fancy packed lunch to take to work. Lots of wee things to eat.

* Good, homemade, sustaining breakfast before I leave the house.

* Charge phone at work.

* Froze some rapidly wilting kale for another day.

* Topped up Stardrops spray bottle.

Onwards and upwards.

foxgloves

Greetings Fabulous Friday Frugalistas,
Quite a useful day, though my grocery budget update turned into a saga......& yes, I do intend to bore you with that later. Anyway, today's list of money saving activity:
*Swerved buying lunch out by sternly telling myself I was but 15 miles from home & not likely actually to expire from starvation on route.
*Paid in a cheque.
*Paid in £6 of change bagged up from the shrapnel pot - now in our Loan Pay Down Fund.
*Cleaned whole house between us to share the work. Usual minimal products & washable microfibre cloths.
*Changed towels, tea towels, etc, all in washer waiting for an overnight wash on cheap tariff.
*Entered a prize draw.
*Did several surveys.
*Sowed chilli seeds. Must go & check my little propagator has heated up & is still working - a £15 YS purchase years ago - I wouldn't be without it, as lots of our food crops start off in there.
Grocery Budget Saga: Went to Sainsbo's feeling very organised - list, triple nectar points voucher, bags, the lot. Mr f bought a speaker he'd been after - should have been £60 but they had 3 left in the sale at £24, so he decided he'd buy one with the last of his Christmas money. As we had this triple nectar voucher, I didn't bother keeping different pots of money separate, just paid for it all in one trolley-load & when we got home, sat down to get all my different pots of money straight. (This is stultifying stuff!) So the amount we paid included money from 1. Grocery budget 2. My Personal Spends 3. mr f's personal spends/Christmas money 4. Some stuff my Mum asked us to get - refunds us when we next see her 5. the household 'pot' (for a lovely wooden handled spatula in the sale) Anyone actually fallen asleep yet? So there I was with my trusty calculator, receipt, etc, working out how to get all these different budgets re-imbursed/straightened out & I just couldn't get it right. Decided to go through the receipt line by line & finally spotted it.....mr f's speaker had been priced at £24 in the sale but had scanned at full price £60. That rather took the shine off his bargainaceous find, so he rang the store & they were fine about it. It was a sale item & it was their error. The only annoying thing now is that they will only refund him in person, which means him driving back to the next town tomorrow after work to do it. We did feel like proper trolleys for not spotting this in the shop, but as we had expenditure from so many different pots of money involved, we didn't query what with hindsight was a large bill. Bah to 30 miles worth of wasted diesel though.
Do you know, I've actually almost bored my own pants off typing that saga out!
Hope everyone else has had a very much more interesting day.
I think my knitting needles are coming out now.
Cheers all,
f xx

determined_new_ms

always a pleasure Mrs F and NEVER a bore

allydowd

foxgloves wrote: »

Grocery Budget Saga:

That is a Saga worthy of a Viking evening. :rotfl:

allydowd

Hi Friday February Fabulistas,

One more shift before the weekend. :beer:


Debt Free-Nillionaire Continuity Plan Year Three:

* Stayed away from canteen and vendys at work.

* Homemade cottage pie for dinner with 28p YS tiger bread.

* Agreed to go on a H&S course "abroad' at work. Hoping this is a good career move.



Onwards and upwards.

xironsongx

Hey um sorry if I butted in somewhere between you guys.

I just wanted to ask...how do I join this challenge or at least what's the purpose of it? It looks like it could be something useful to me ...