What small DFW things will you do w/c 30th July?

determined_new_ms

Morning gonna be another hot one here! Trying to get my chores done before it really heats up!

Foxgloves really happy to hear your ma is on the mend. What a worry for you all. Thinking of you hun x

* Have tidied downstairs - [STRIKE]need to vacuum and wash floors[/STRIKE]
* make big batch of cucumber salad (for bbq we are going to later)
* have defrosted 2 burgers & 2 sausages from last bbq we had
* picked up a load of ys items while at coop yesterday - got our buns for today 15p for 6 :money:
* haul at coop was £1.48 for a carrier bag full of items. Due to heat (and laziness if I'm honest!) we have so far spent a grand sum of £8 on groceries this week
* madam had ys pancakes picked up yesterday = 10p for 4 :money:
[STRIKE]* slice and freeze ys olive bread -[/STRIKE] my absolute favourite and for the grand sum of 48p rather than £2 :money:
[STRIKE]* madam gone to swimming lessons with oh - he gets to swim for £1 :money:[/STRIKE]
* nip over to the butchers for something. Was thinking steaks but now I remember how good pork chops were at the last bbq.... will speak to oh
* fruit courtesy of ys haul (there's a definite theme here!)
* triage fridge - didn't do this yesterday

Amazing news guys! We put a deposit down on our puppy yesterday :j:j:j:j so exciting! Other half of the partnership picks him up on 21st and we'll get him as we come back from our camping holiday in a couple of weeks - I am soooooo in love! :heartpuls

apricity

Descale the kettle

Build at least 2 of my Warhammer models
Wait in for a sign-for package (i have NO CLUE what this is)
Shower maybe / bath maybe?
Apply for 2 jobs

foxgloves

Morning Frugal Friends,
Mr f working all day & needed a quick get away so I took the opportunity to get an early start too.
*NSD - considered cycling to town for a couple of bits but decided to leave it till early next week.
*Sort out online shopping when it arrives. It also contains the first few items for our emergency stores, so will pack them into the space I have made expressly for this purpose.
*Clean whole house with minimal products & washable cloths. Have already done bathroom, kitchen & bins.
*Two baths from one lot of hot water & will get some free fitness later bailing the water out onto our flower beds.....amazing how many steps this task racks up with a 130 foot garden & short legs!
*L/O sausages to provide the basis of tonight's meal.
*Did a Prolific survey - £7- so a long one, but interesting.
*Might make a batch of garlic flatbreads to use up some old yoghurt lurking in the fridge. They freeze well & always come in useful.
*Check if greengages are ready. Very small crop but I am not leaving them for the wasps.
*Make list of everything I can usefully do on tomorrow's city centre trip & ensure cash from relevant Piggies is in my bag.
*All free leisure.....a good book to finish, a sock to cast on & I feel like playing some CDs & dancing around if I've still got the energy after all that garden watering & vacuuming.
Have a nice weekend all,
F x

apricity

I've descaled the kettle as much as I could, It took 2 tablets ! still note shiny in the bottom but much better than before. At least now I can enjoy a good cuppa.

I have applied for 2 jobs - Both nurseries & I have updated my job search list with the jobs I've applied for recently.

Tidied my desk a little

Got my cousin's birthday presents ready in a bag for tomorrow

I squeezed in a nap too. I'm super tired and feel ill

E11ie

Hi Everyone

Hope you are all having a nice weekend?
It's been a busy spendy few days here, as I had my graduation ceremony on Wednesday (have been working for 6 months now so felt nice but a bit odd too) and the parents are staying with us for a few days - even with our still slightly smelly carpet.

Managed 2 NSDs though so that's a good start all things considering, survived another 2 long days in the new job, and managed to work an overtime shift today as well. Parents have now gone home but my mum cooked a huge sausage casserole before she went (said she was bored as hadn't done anything for 4 days - works for me) :T so that will feed us for tomorrow at least, possibly more as she is rather generous with portions.

Was planning on going to the gym this evening but am now wondering if this is such a good idea, am totally wiped out and am trying learn from past mistakes of getting too tired.

Not much else to report right now as brain not really in gear, hmmmm neighbours are being a tad noisy (only watching a film, difficult when we all have all the windows open isn't it), maybe I'll nip to the gym for a bit of quiet time after all

:j:j:j

apricity

Since my last post -

I had a shower
We went out for a cheeky Nandos ; Didn't spend a thing as we were £50 resturantchoice gift card from his boss months ago.
Shopping came early & I put it away
I cleaned off our bedside table

I'm waiting for the MR to finish paint his warhammer figures so I can hoover.
last time i made a lot noise, i apparently made him go wrong when he was cutting his beard
*rolls eye* lol

DawnW

Foxgloves, sorry to hear that your Mum isn't well. I hope she is better soon.
Purplefairy, have lovely time at the wedding



Not much achieved here today - DD was here with the children for most of the day, and I have been waiting in for 4 items to be collected, 2 Freecycle and 2 FB sales. Would you believe not one of the 4 either turned up nor let me know they weren't coming :mad: One has now said she is coming tomorrow, and the other sales item has been offered to someone else, who has also said she is coming tomorrow. Not decided what to do about the freecycle things yet, reoffer them I guess, but how rude!


Anyway:
Ironing done (again - all these cotton clothes that need washing every day :eek:)
Washed and ironed a top that doesn't fit - I pulled it out yesterday and saw it had a mark on it, so decided to wash and iron it, and if the mark came out I would ebay it, if not it could go in the charity clothes bin thing at the supermarket. Anyway, it is perfect now, looks lovely and has the magic (for ebay at least) Monsoon label. Pity it doesn't fit really but it can be listed tomorrow.

All meals from home
Nothing spent
Watered the garden
Picked some raspberries and a courgette with aspirations to be a marrow :rotfl:



And that is about it!

spudsmum

Hi all!

Happy Saturday - hope everyone has enjoyed the return of the nice weather. Just got enough here without being oppressive.

This weeks small things

:A found a pack of puff pastry at back of fridge so made sausage bean and cheese melts using ys sausages
:A used pastry off cuts to make pizza pin wheels for the kids lunch boxes
:A while oven was on used over ripe bananas to make banana choc chip muffins
:A watered veggies with water butt water
:A instead of going out put the kids paddling pool and sandpit out in garden for free entertainment
:A cooked off some carrots and cauli that was near to going off and put it in the feezer
:A came in £7.75 under budget last week - a miracle during school hols
:A with meal plan and food stockpile spent only £24.37 on weekly shop (£45.63 under budget)
:A done 3 prolific studies
:A paid another £10 to MBNA.
:A found a pretty tutu online for my baby girl was £40 :eek: - had a close look and bought the bits on eBay to make one myself. Looks fab and cost £5.35! Going to make her a few Disney princess inspired ones to put away for Xmas.

Think that's it for now

apricity

- First things first, enjoy a cuppa in bed with the Mr

- Try to wash up (I badly sliced my finger yesterday shaving; the razor caught my nail as I was shaving and ripped off the nail and some of the skin with it... it's quite painful)

- Finish tidying bedroom

- Sort my bag of random things

- Get ready for my cousins birthday meal

- Go to birthday meal ; mums paying until i get payed on tuesday

- Put washing away & do all washing

- Search for & apply for 2 jobs

- Organise laptop

- Write 3 blog posts

Happy_Kitties

Morning everybody

Just catching up on the thread. Had to work last night so by the time I got back in I just crashed.

Got a lot more done yesterday than I planned. Slowly getting my energy levels back so plan to do a bit more today and keep the momentum going
Have been trying to package up charity items without much success. One box has collapsed on me, worked out the prices of breaking items down and sending in smaller boxes thru RM and whether there would be a price difference compared to sending a big box (not that I can get a decent one) by Herm@s for example-no price difference so thinking I might pop to our local Tesc@s today, take some recycling and look for some smaller but decent boxes.

Item is doing well on eBay so hope to pop another one on today.
Going to pack a bit more of the living room away. Looks like another lovely day outside so anything that needs washing is going in the wash.
I will mop the kitchen floor. Gave it a good clean yesterday but didn't have chance to mop before work so will do today-will be the highlight of my day......i love a clean floor!!!!

I know, I know. Picked up a cushion really cheap (down from £4 to a £1) in the card fact@ry sale for DD for Christmas, will get this wrapped and stored away tonight. I know it's very early but if I don't do it thru the year I go into meltdown in December. I hate packing and wrapping and the thought of doing it all in one hit I can't face but throughout the year, means I can enjoy November and December.

Right off to grab the day.......after another cuppa!!