What small DFW things will you do this week - w/c 23rd April?

allydowd

Hi April Awesomees,

Just checking in. I'm still alive.


Debt-Free-Nillionaire Continuity Plan Year Three:

* Work very hard on my own mental health issues. Do Holistrio App.

* Check online banking and broadband usage.

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

* Work, work, work.

* Pay day. No time to spend anything!


To live without risk is to risk not living.

foxgloves

Hi Friday Frugalistas,
From the soggy Midlands, here are today's money saving bits & bobs:
*Grocery shopping done at Aldi, Waitrose, local market & Wilko's. Subsidised stuff for a nice birthday meal by using some of last month's grocery underspend, which amazingly was £22.
*My Big Budget Day, so have been hard at it since lunchtime. Think I have dealt with some challenges well - think I'll save that for updating my DFW diary.
*Paid off a credit card we use only for planned spending (to maximise vouchers) in full.
*New grocery budget tracker sheet for May started in my bullet diary.
*Paid some gifted money from Mum & a little additional bit from the sale of some of my home made preserves over to the Loan Pay Down Fund.
*Read energy meters & uploaded to website.
*Had £5 leftover from last month's Personal Spends so added it to my secret tin.
*Did a Prolific survey for £5. It didn't take that long, so worth a look if any of you do their surveys.
*Entered 2 prize draws.
*Paid another 4 x 50ps into my sealed pot.
*Made contingency birthday plans for a wet weather option. My choice of outing involves a 170-mile round trip & it isn't a good use of fuel to go all the way up there to find that we can't do what we wanted because of rain. If we do manage to go, we will be taking a picnic.
*Big filing session.
mr f's cooking night, so I shall be able to put the calculator & my household accounts book firmly away & have some leisure time in a bit - hair wash first - wherever we go tomorrow, I don't want to look like a cave woman.
DawnW - Sorry you've been having a trying day. Hope things pick up.
F x

Happy_Kitties

Evening everyone
Been a productive day.
Chilli made and in the slow cooker.
Went out to do a few bits this morning-christening present bought, visited the docs to have bloods taken, not looking forward to next week as doc thinks I might have high cholesterol and that wasn't what he was originally testing for.
Shopping done, minimal spends
Spends book up to date
Some cleaning done and hoovered downstairs
RM survey items done and posted including the ones I was late on.
Couple of presents wrapped
DawnW I hope the day has gone smoothly and everything went okay with ur brother
Working Mum great amount paid off ur debt this year and a great saving on food too.
Think that's about it from me, have a great evening everyone x

PurpleFairy26

Very late post for me, so glad this week is over. Only silver lining is today is payday and I managed to see an old friend

Things for today:
Work paid for lunch
Friend provided mulitiple cuppas
Payday shuffle done, pots topped up
Made carcas for another bedroom unit, will finish tomorrow
Used a gifted spicy lentil packet for tea. Hmm, now know why it was gifted :rotfl:
Smalls has leftovers from earlier in week
Fridge very bare, happy with that those as we have limped along the week without doing a shop. Have an online code for a shop on Monday if I can work out how to redeem the bloody thing
Quick flylady of kitchen
DH working late, hoping he'll get some Ot
Not think about a rubbish thing at work that I have the joy of on monday

Dawn hope today was ok

DawnW

Afternoon all
Thanks for all your kind comments yesterday. I got through the day ok. Poor night's sleep again though, and I woke up with a headache that I can't seem to shake off. OH has gone to see my brother today, to take him the gas and electricity key card things that I topped up for him this morning, and return his bank card. DD and children came round earlier, so I need to get off my behind and tidy up in a minute. I have managed a few things other than running around after my brother and baby wrangling though

Cleaned out the filters in the dishwasher after the latest load came out almost as dirty as it went in Filled up the salt reservoir thing, and run a dishwasher cleaner through it at a high temp. Hopefully that will sort it out!
Washed up the items from the dishwasher in the sink
Walked into town to get stuff for my brother, instead of driving, to clear my head a bit. Felt better for the exercise
Made soup from one of the cauliflowers I got from the market the other day - made it like broccoli and stilton soup (as I had a small chunk of stilton to use) but with cauliflower instead. Worked fine, in fact DD thought it was one of the nicest soups she had tasted - not bad considering it was really just an experiment
Put some chicken in the SC to make a pie filling for tomorrow - the tarragon in the garden is coming up, and I wanted to use some. Chicken pie with tarragon sounds good
Managed a NSD - only spent my brother's money on stuff for him

OH is back now, apparently brother is a lot better and was cooking himself a meal in the SC, so with any luck I won't need to go round tomorrow

PurpleFairy26

Evening all. Where is everyone, hope you're all ok. Today:

Dyed my hair
Kneaded a sourdough
Made a shopping list and went to mr m, don't normally shop there but ours has recently been extended so thought I'd try. Was quite impressed. Had run out of lots of staples so wasn't the cheapest but probably cheaper than else where
Planted last two fruit trees
Drilled holes in other planter, will plant up tomorrow
DH made last of furniture. All clothes put away :j:j:j:j made me realise that DH really don't have many and we may need to put some money aside to get a few bits at some point. Nothing rash.
Walked with a friend. Got wet feet. Converse had gone through the sole :eek: I've had my monies worth but could do with not replacing this month. I now have my gym trainers or flip flops. Hmm. Let's hope the sunshine's :rotfl:
Looking to put a few bits on my wish list for when people ask about my birthday.
Set washing to do overnight
Made plan of what I need to batch cook tomorrow

redpantsandjam

OK, so a bit of a newbie to this board. -waves-

So, I've decided to try and get my debt under control. So, today.

*Downloaded my credit report from Noddle and totalled up my debt.
*Drawn up a Debt Clearance Tracker in my planner.
*Downloaded the Budget Boot Camp from The Busy Budgeter.
*Worked through a budget plan on the Money Advice Service.

Will be tracking all income and expenditure next week.

determined_new_ms

Morning Boo hoo I've got to go to work. I offered to do the shift for my colleague as she had messed up her holiday request and is going away today and not tomorrow. Regret it massively now! Anyhow...

* Have logged on & done banking
* received £10.41 in interest shuffled that over to xmas food savings pot
* my lunch is lo stroganoff, rice & veg. Will take fruit and yogurt for snacks
* hang up washing, put another load on & instruct oh to hang when dry
* seeds tonight
* NSD? Hope so!
* hope today is busy!
* going to continue with my shirt to peplum blouse refashion this evening

That's all I can think of right now! Better start getting ready

PurpleFairy26

Morning all :hello: today is about getting ahead for the week whilst getting some relaxing time in too so I will be:

Batch cooking;
Enchiladas
Cauli and brocolli bake
Quiche
Boleganse sauce

I’ll also make;
Bake sourdough loaf
Stuff for today’s roast dinner
Some kind of biscuit/cake

One load of washing on the line another in the machine
Get ready for school, check homework is done
DH and I to the gym
Quick tidy round
Try and order some shoes
Text friend see if she is around later for a catch up
Plant a few seeds
Work out what I need to fill 3 hanging baskets.

Right, off to research shoes. Have a good day folks. Hope work isn’t too bad determined

One-step-at-a-time

Morning all!
Small things this week:
Make tiny rounding down payments to all accounts
Tidy garden
Plant some chilli seeds
Cook sourdough loaf
Do some exercise every day even if it's just walking the length of a few extra bus stops
Do more fleabay listings