What small DFW things will you do w/c19th March?

allydowd

1LuckyLady wrote: »

... but i'm still learning as I go, even today as I've switched the socket off for my son's alarm clock as he's away and Ally does this every day as it auto resets, well my son's is the same so I will be switching it off every day now

Great stuff! :T

We also never leave the microwave plugged in. A microwave will use 2 to 7 watts of power while in standby mode. This energy is used to display the clock and to wait for a user command.

And we turn the Wifi "box" off at night too as it uses energy to power the lights on the display.

allydowd

I've been reflecting...
:idea:

Wee things that have saved us lots of money over the last year:

* When we go out we take coffee out with us. I have calculated that if every Thermos flask-full we take out with us saves us £3 we save at least £150 per year. We have two genuine Thermos flasks. I like Thermos because you can buy spares for them online making them pretty much everlasting. :coffee:

* Packed lunches are taken to work almost every day.

* Saving leftovers. Whatever if leftover gets either frozen or Tupperware'd even if it is only half an onion. We throw virtually no food in the bin.

* Buying a set of hair clippers. A £20 set of hair clippers gets used regularly on DW's hair. We save at least £50 a year on haircuts by trimming at home.

* Bread is frozen in 4-slice batches and defrosted as required. Zero bread wastage this year.

* We walk a lot even in bad weather. The car is only used for unwalkably-long journeys.

* One-in-one-out. When DW asks for a new techno-gizmo an old techno-gizmo has to be eBayed to part-fund the new toy.

* We try to buy CDs, DVDs and books secondhand and we use the library a lot.

* If something breaks we try to repair it before replacing it. Crazy things we've fixed include: washing up gloves, carrier bags and soap dispensers. YouTube is a mine of information on repairs.

* Using Stardrops and washable cloths for almost all cleaning jobs.

Happy_Kitties

Hi everyone

Have been trying to follow but have had another technology fail. Ended up doing a 1 1/2 hour round trip to the s@msung shop on monday only to find out from them that I could have just sent it thru to the main repair centre:mad: so decided to have an afternoon out and have food out-all budgeted for with my food treat budget that hasn't really been tapped into for awhile.

Still doing the regular banking checks everyday-everything good

Trying to sort out my RM survey items. My time on the panel is coming to a end. I'm quite relieved this time. I was one of the ones affected with the new portal where I didn't receive the new log in stuff. It has caused a real back up of items to send.

While looking for something else I found 2 items to eBay. Will pop them on tomorrow evening.

Spends book updated,doing really well this month but next month will be hit as DD is home next week for 3 weeks, can't wait to see her seems ages since she has been home

Welcome elvis69 we are a great bunch. They keep me on the straight and narrow
1LL I bet DS2 is having a great time and I know with my time of team managing things like medication is ultra important so im sure he will be very well looked after and having a great time
foxgloves the adventures of the cat-has he accepted his 'gruel' yet??:rotfl::rotfl: cats are so picky!

dawnW I hope the x ray sheds some light on ur hip and everything is okay.

Well that's about it from me. Trying to do this on my phone......it's not going well:rotfl:

allydowd

1LuckyLady wrote: »

Ally - hope you and your dw had a lovely night away

We did, thanks. Two days of brilliant sunshine, wildlife watching and photogra-faffing.

determined_new_ms

Morning yippee I am now off of work for the next 4 days :j Am determined I'm going to make the most of the next couple of days by doing things I enjoy and not wasting all my time cleaning/tidying!

oh Dawn that sounds horrid! Hope you're not in too much pain :A

1LL enjoy the peace with 1 ds around!

Hi & welcome elvis69 :hello: that's an awful lot to find each month! Can you get a second job or take in foreign students as a medium term fix?

Today:

[STRIKE]* check banking, update spending money and work out month's budget[/STRIKE] - I get paid tomorrow :j
[STRIKE]* B/L from stores[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]* madam having a 5p ys wrap for lunch with heavily reduced/ys cheese :money:[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]* make individual salted caramel cheese cakes for bff's birthday -[/STRIKE] we are going there tonight to celebrate with a takeaway
* think I will make a batch of wheatabix brownies as well decided to put this off till tomorrow when the oven will be on cooking dinner anyway :money:
[STRIKE]* super quick tidy/flylady[/STRIKE]
* make a couple of sanitary pads (material arrived yesterday :j) couldn't do this today as needed to wash the fabric first to prevent shrinkage. Is drying now so will do this tomorrow
[STRIKE]* write ppi appeal letter & go through ppi correspondence and work out next steps [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]* listen to free audio book[/STRIKE]
* I want to nip to the garden centre and pick up some soil and plant some seeds :j
* go through seeds and make a plan of when to plant :j
[STRIKE]* load of washing & hang up[/STRIKE] hung outside :j
* [STRIKE]onepoll [/STRIKE]slow for me at the moment!
* had 2 batch cooked & frozen tuna fishcakes for lunch with a few free tomatoes (from trial veg box) and a few spoonfuls of chilli jam made last year. It was very nice too!
* did life insurance quote. coming in at circa £50. Need to discuss with oh before finalising

Ok that's all have a great day!

ziggy2407

Good Morning All

Didn't get a chance to pop on yesterday as had an early start with a blood test at Dr's and then made the most of the nice weather and got washing done and on line, also went through coat cupboard and washed all coats and dried outside, now have 2 coats to go to homeless shelter. Decluttered a few more items and managed every bit of ironing in the basket - yesterday felt like a great day, hoping for another one today.

Although it's cold it's looking good again, so today we will

Check Bank & made PAD - Done
Gym (rehab/physio) -
Return library books -
List a couple of bits on Ebay/FB -
Read -
Purge a few emails -
Enter a few comps -
Surveys -
Swagbucks -
All meals from cupboards/fridge/freezer -
Check: Tombola Stars, Lucky Bob, Luckyphone, FPL -

Have a great day all.

C x

onedaysomeday

I have swapped my sachets of porridge I buy for breakfast for a bag of porridge oats instead. 1 bag should see me through the whole month vs 3 packs of sachets

PurpleFairy26

Morning all :hello:

Hope you've all got some sunshine. I have washing out :j

I have already:
Packed lunch for dd and DH
Made granola
One through fridge to check nothing needs freezing
Got something out of freezer for dd lunch tomorrow

I will:
Peg another load on line when it's done
Eat some granola for breakfast
Use gym facilities, fill water bottle there
Work from Home, no commute
Go and buy raw milk locally, take glass bottles to reuse
Quick vacuum and tidy round
Make up Easter gifts with various bits I've bought so I can give out tomorrow as I'm seeing people
Call architect

Think that's about all, have a good day peeps.

allydowd

Hi March Money Magicians,

Trying to swallow a few frogs this morning and do some jobs I've been ignoring. Sometimes I get "stuck" and can't do things that would only take 5 mins if I put my mind to it. I'll add them as I do them.


Debt-Free-Nillionaire Continuity Plan Year Three:

* Work very hard on my own mental health issues. Do Holistrio App. Need to decide whether I want to continue subscribing to this App.

* Check online banking and broadband usage.

* Turned off alarm clock until tonight, it resets itself automatically.

* Defrosted some homemade soup for lunch.

* Over the weeks we've frozen five scraps of leftover chilli. These will make a dinner for later.

:undecided Frog Job 1: Clear out letter rack. Done

:undecided Frog Job 2: Send Gas Safety Certificate to landlady. Done

:undecided Frog Job 3: Parcel up gift to send to the US. Done

:undecided Frog Job 4: Read meters and calculate gas and electricity usage. Done

:undecided Frog Job 5: Book blood test. Done

:undecided Frog Job 4:Reset a password. Done

To live without risk is to risk not living.

determined_new_ms

pot & leek soup freezes fine. It does separate when defrosted but once heated through it's fine