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What small DFW things will you do w/c 11th March?
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Welcome to the thread JEdwards, its a great thread, full of lots of useful info. Hope you stick aroundSticking with the "Small things" thread to keep up us on the straight and narrow.
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Welcome JEdwards!LBM 11/06/2010: DFD 30/04/2013Total repaid: £10,490.310
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Hi guys
Thanks for the start ally. Sorry to hear about the card fiasco, glad to hear it has been rectified!
Quick post for me while having my lunch break. Feel like it's been a productive day but when I think about what I've done it doesn't actually seem that much! Ok so I have:
* checked banking
* did online chat as had a reverse fee I shouldn't have had and got that removed
* changed bedding, washed & hung on line
* had bacon & lentil soup (made last night) with fruit and greek yogurt for lunch
* got sausages out of freezer for tea
* have washed up, swished round and wiped marks off of freezer - inside & out. Am spring cleaning but a little each day
* took pup for walk this morning. Have just been playing ball with him in the garden. Will take him out again before picking up madam
* went to the allotment for a couple of hours and did a massive dig/tidy - still loads to do but feel like I'm having a positive impact
* did a muscle foods order for delivery next week
Still to do:
* jackets, veg and sausages for tea
* going to do some sewing now
* clean bathroom at some point & polish/vacuum stairs
* read book/bath/pamper & early night. I have been having so many early nights but still feeling really tired each day! I've realised I'm thinking while sleeping! so not sleeping deeply! Annoying! I did wake up at 5 but then went back to sleep, and slept soundly for 2 hours so prob why I'm not feeling so tired today.....
Ok finished my coffee will get on. Hope you're all having a great day xDF as at 30/12/16
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1LuckyLady wrote: »Also went into the loft to find some old cushion covers, they're plain cream so will do for now until we see something we love. - Love shopping at home first (as we might actually just stick with these cream ones and not buy new
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Thats my starter, take care all.
Could you dye the cream ones?LBM 11/06/2010: DFD 30/04/2013Total repaid: £10,490.310 -
Evening Money Savers,
Thought I may as well kick in today's efforts:
*Overnight laundry done for cheap tariff & all line dried outside for free. Timer set for another load tonight.
*Grocery shopping came in on budget.
*Used a recycled envelope & sticky label to send off some legal documents.
*Baked bread.
*Synchronised diaries with Mr f - being organised always saves us money.
*Cat's holiday bill came to less than the amount I budgeted.
*Tube of expensive pain relief gel cut open in the hope of extracting an extra day's worth of product. Success! Enough for at least two days.
*Knit more of current stash busting project.
*Froze bargainaceous pork cheeks spotted in supermarket this morning - they'll make a nice big slow cooker crock of stew at some point.
Need to do some budget updates but they can wait till tomorrow.
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Hi everyone,
I've eaten all meals from stores and only switched my heating on for an hour this evening. Been to exercise class but do a pre-payment plan so get one class free and paid for block of 5 last week so didn't actually cost me anything today.
Have had to pay for a prescription and bought another birthday present for DD2. Also bought some fruit & balsamic dressing as we'd run out - was very restrained in Mr S while waiting for prescription.....
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Morning
Welcome jewards!!
And i think it was purps (i forget names easily) thats awful about your cardand it is a good job your bank are on the ball but its very scary how they get your information in the first place!!
I almost had a nsd yest just £2 for dds brownies....i can cope with that
I caught up on all my housework and my house looks lovely again, had no sau mce for tea last night and not enough in to make any so i changed my meal completely and made chicken and rice...it was lovely dd had one of her friends for tea...she wouldnt eat it shes really fussy!! I hate when kids come and they wont eat it...i wasnt brought up that way once o ate dumplongs (cant stand them) because it would be rude not to at one of my friends houses....im prob just miserable :rotfl:
•Anyway today got a choice of 2 meals for tea so we shall see what i fancy later and neither take too long!!
•i am hoping for a nsd today -wont be a nsd because I have sw but defo a lsd
•work all day,i take all food with me
• SW this evening ive tried just not my best
• take dds library books back after school
And i think thats it for now...i shall go and wake the family as dd wanted 5 more minutes and that was 10 minutes ago :eek:
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Morning Emzmom and all who follow. I feel absolutely dreadful this morning, am having an allergic reaction to something and so far the sneeze count is on about 70. I'm exhausted! And I have a 6 hour meeting to sit through
Anyway hoping it gets better after a walk on the school run. Other things:
Check banking
Paid some money someone owed me off my credit card
More leftovers used up, apple last it's best grated in to overnight oats and dd and I are still working through the banana mountain.
Snacks and hot drink to work. They will provide lunch in the meeting
Smalls to prepaid activity tonight, will get some more steps in walking too and fro.
I'll make some tea of of what's in the fridge/store cupboard, leaving what's in the freezer for another day
Have a good day all. Purps.0 -
Morning folks!
Purps - we cross posted! I hope you feel better soon!
Miserable day here. I walk 2 miles to work and one of my shoes appears to be leaking...
Nothing exciting today:- B/L/D from stores - done
- Log food in free app - done
- No alcohol - done
- Check PMP - done
- Put veg boxes out for collection - done
- Prep tomorrow's food - done
- Wash on - done
- Investigate where leak in shoe is coming from - not sure... I will run a bead of superglue along the join between the sole and the upper
- OH to do housework - done
- Gym at lunchtime - done
- Back to gym for monthly consultation at 6 - done
- Rotate trays of seedlings to help prevent etiolation - done
- Crochet - done
- See if friend has some deep heat I can borrow. Bit of a sore neck but not worth buying a tube full as never use it - done
clf xLBM 11/06/2010: DFD 30/04/2013Total repaid: £10,490.310
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