What small DFW things will you do w/c 5th November?

foxgloves

Morning all,
Well, the quest to get my life back to normal continues today, with a dull bit useful day planned. I was wide awake by 5 am so got up at 5.45 & am off to a good start:
*Heated airer switched off as soon as I got up..No point continuing to pay for it to run once clothes are dry so putting this at the top of my lists should save a few quid over the year.
*Baked the sourdough loaf I made yesterday. Smelling yum.
*Ironing - eeugghh, my worst job. Will only iron what is necessary & will switch off to press final garment.
*Make Hairy Biker curry - it's a lovely one with squash & red lentils & will make sufficient to freeze 2 portions.
*Do meal plans for next week.
*Write shopping list.
*Make list of everything I could usefully do in town tomorrow to make best use of the car park charge.
*Free fitness today will be wrestling 3/4 of a large unruly buddleja into the garden waste bin ready for collection tomorrow.
*Check for my OnePoll payment as I have a use planned for it.
*Umpteen small sorting/tidying/getting back to normal jobs which I shall do as I go along.
Then I intend to sit down with a cafetiere & my knitting to watch a bit of TV.
Wishing everyone a peaceful & productive day.
F x

natlie

Hi

Well woken up to the news that Barclaycard have messed up my payment date change and although they have apologised I am now waiting to hear if they are going to be taking 2 £275 payments from me before xmas they were supposed to change the billing date so that my next payments came out on the 23-27th of Nov and December but it looks like it will now be the 16th Nov and the 6th December - idiots! they can't change it again in the same billing period

Lunch yesterday was lovely, I am really glad i went - even if I did spend my last £10

Still no payments have been made for catering

I am going to walk to work today - might wake me up a bit, Thurday's are the day i struggle to most, post 2 ebays, take sandwich and crisps for lunch.

have a good day all
Nat

determined_new_ms

natlie cancel your dd and make the payments manually then set up dd again when you can

Morning off of work now for a week :j

Today we are going to a funeral a friend's daughter died, same age as my daughter I'll be wearing a made by me dress. am a little nervous as me, ds and dd are going together and there are always complexities when we are together....

As well as that I am going to:

* check onepoll
* go to the allotment for an hour
* tidy up - have done kitchen
* water all plants & bring two in from the garden
* B/L from stores
* finish sock
* do some quilting of patchwork quilt I'm making dd
* pay for afterschool club
* oh & madam picking up pup tonight :A

right better get my act together!

carrielovesfanta

DNMS - will be thinking of you and your friend today. It sounds heartbreaking

carrielovesfanta

Morning folks

I'm feeling a bit better today. I did do my list yesterday but it was about 1.5 hours of stuff through the whole day. The rest of the day was spent on the sofa reading. I have ploughed through Sense and Sensibility and half of Emma.

Today I'm going to try and be a bit more active. I'd quite like to get outdoors as it's sunny at the moment.

Mission:

• B/L/D from stores - done
• Trip to the tip (OH hates this) - done
• List a load of coat hangers on freegle. I was going to take them straight to the tip but cba snapping the metal hooks off the plastic hangers - done
• Water bill arrived - no change
• Elec/gas bill arrived - no change
• Remind OH to be keep up the frugal work with utilities. Because our fix recently ended, and we switched to a 3 year fix (Brexit-proofing) the unit price has SHOT up - done
• Do something useful. Possibly hem the curtains that I got for the kitchen in FEB and carry on with my spruce-up of the kitchen window - done some more
  
• If feeling very keen, might nip into the garden for half an hour. Am gradually tidying up for winter. Need to empty dying pots. - done
• No heating - done
• Cast on sock??? - done!!!
• Strip bed - done and remake - done
• Window open to air bedroom - done
• Put water from dehumidifier into free flush bucket - done
• Make another attempt to remove yellow stains from OH's shirt. This has never been an issue (in 12 years!) until he bought a new type of deodorant and it wrecked all his white tops within 2 weeks. - done but didn't work
  
• Loaf of bread in new BM. Am not happy with the new recipe booklet so am trying the recipe from my old BM. the new recipe calls for 5TBSP sugar in a white loaf!!! :eek: - done. Watch this space. Damn it collapsed
  

Have a good one all

clf x

maria3104

Hi All

I have been reading but not posting. however, just had our new electricity contract offered to us.

A 50% increase on both day and night rates. Really!!!!!!! I have had to have a lie down.

Good grief, how are people meant to keep the lights on. If we have another hard winter I suspect there will be a lot of casualties from fuel poverty.

Anyway, I am enjoying following you all. Keep on money savings.

Love Maria

DawnW

Hi all
Nice to 'see' you Maria
DNMS, ((hugs for you and your friend))
CLF, I have fixed my gas and elec as well - 5 tbsp of sugar in a loaf? How strange, my BM only asks for 1 teaspoon :eek:


Today:
Cooked HG fruit from freezer for breakfast instead of bought fresh fruit
Load of washing blowing on the line - it was raining when I got up, but the path was drying up so I took a chance and pegged it outside
Went to next town to the market / flea market this morning. Bought a few bits to sell on, and some veg in the market
Collected special offer meat from the butcher, and did the bit of shopping I needed in Icyland as it is next to the butcher's
Visited sales unit to tidy up, as I was out anyway
Little bit of business paperwork

Freezer tetris to get the meat that I had bought into the freezer :eek:

Finished off huge, but not totally successful fish / rice thing made the day before yesterday for lunch. Not my finest moment, but it tasted ok and fed us both for 3 meals!

Left a gammon steak out of the freezer for dinner - it is huge, so OH and I will share it
Am about to go outside and plant the garlic cloves that arrived the other day, I have the pots all ready for them (actually 2 discarded recycling boxes, so quite big!)
Also need to sort out the printer, which is complaining that it needs new ink; maybe do some cooking, check banks and update spreadsheet

allydowd

Hi November Networkers,

Afternoon!:coffee: Work day. Very down at the moment but pressing on. Hugs to all.


Debt-Free-Nillionaire Continuity Plan Year Four:

* Check online banking. Done.

* Get some exercise. Done. Cycle.

* Mini clean with Stardrops and washable cloths. Done.


Things don't have to be perfect to be wonderful.

crazy_cat_lady

Evening all :coffee:
DNMS - hope today went as well as these things can.
How lovely to hear from you Maria.
Foxgloves - is a heated airer worth getting? I have been looking at them online recently but not sure if it would be a useful buy...
I've had another day of the same stuff. Not enough sleep, not enough money, too much work. However, I managed to survive at work at least and both of my detentions turned up without any issue so that's something to be grateful for. Left at 4pm, and got home grateful that there were leftovers in the fridge for a decent dinner without any effort. I'm now grateful for the company of dd, curtains shut and home for the evening.
Another nsd although I will need to do some shopping either tomorrow or Saturday.

determined_new_ms

crazy_cat_lady wrote: »

Foxgloves - is a heated airer worth getting? I have been looking at them online recently but not sure if it would be a useful buy...
.

I love mine! I have the same one as foxgloves. It's this one:

https://www.lakeland.co.uk/25372/Dry:Soon-3-Tier-Heated-Airer-and-Cover-Offer-Bundle?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIu7akvsfF3gIVy7HtCh13ZwQeEAQYAiABEgI_TfD_BwE&src=gfeed&s_kwcid=AL!49!3!251275991007!!!g!43865648285!&ef_id=EAIaIQobChMIu7akvsfF3gIVy7HtCh13ZwQeEAQYAiABEgI_TfD_BwE:G:s

I bought it maybe 6 years ago and it's still going strong. It wasn't as expensive as this though It come out about this time every year until spring. It can hold about 2 loads and takes about a day to dry everything straight from the machine, obviously less, maybe over night, if it's been on the line.

I definitely count it as one of our best home appliances