What small DFW things will you do w/c 15th April?

DawnW

Evening all
Lovely day today, much warmer
Not a great deal achieved today, as I didn't get much sleep last night again but I did:
Heating off

Use up half an apple rejected by GD for breakfast
Folded up washing (my brother's) ready for him to collect

Watered seedlings
Took more items to sales unit
Posted an ebay sale plus a RM surveys item
Small supermarket shop, as there is no way I am getting caught up in Easter supermarket madness from tomorrow on :eek: (though may go to the market in next town)
Updated spending diary and spreadsheet

Bits / leftovers from fridge for lunch

Planted 8 onion sets that a neighbour gave me, as he had them left over from his own planting. He was going to throw them away, but that is 8 free onions right there! I will give him tomato plants, if he would like some, in exchange

Walked dog to town with OH, free exercise for all of us
Watered seedlings

Made parsley pesto for dinner (yum) using fresh parsley from a planter in the garden
And yay! it is still warm and we won't need to light the stove this evening :T

Pip_Boy_111

1LuckyLady wrote: »

Its got to be grated cheese with cheese and onion crisps in a crisp sarnie! :rotfl:

Salt and vinegar with grated cheese or roast chicken with mayo. Taste sensations. Now I want a crisp sandwich :rotfl:

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Hi all, RL/work too busy and stressful atm so not posting much. Worked late on Monday but DD1 left some tea for me - yummy! Worked late yesterday but got fed at lunch as went to a funeral. A nice lady who i know through work so not a personal loss as such. She certainly lived a very full life and her family were touched by the amount of people who attended.

Been to one of my self employment roles today so got fed again! had leftovers for tea and just had to buy potatoes which were on offer at Mr C. Back at self employment tomorrow and in a meeting at 8am! Hoping for some free food - we asked for bacon butties but i'm not sure that'll happen but maybe some croissants....

Done a few surveys and just going to check i-say and SB as not checked for a day.

Well done with router trailing - i always feel very proud when i deal with techy stuff on my own - i was chuffed i managed to put new ink in my printer on Monday :rotfl:

Cheese and marmite sandwiches are my fave with plain crisps on the side:)

Take care everyone
Dx

Pip_Boy_111

Marmite! There's something I haven't had in forever

Morning all. Looks like another stunner of a day :T
All wide awake and ready to enjoy my "weekend".

Today's plan:

Spray skirting boards with white vinegar in living room. Seems a strange thing do eh? Well, we had a number of visitors last night in the form of ants! Seems that white vinegar around the area is a deterrent (according to the interwebs) so that is priority 1 today. I like nature, just preferably not in my living room :rotfl:

Check first direct account. Hopefully.the loan funds will be paid today. If so contact hsbc and repay original loan with the funds.

Update spreadsheets.

All meals from stores today. (Takeaway was goooood but left me so full could hardly sleep ).

Learn how to knock autocorrect off on this tablet :mad:

Golf on a budget. 50% off again and the weather's too good to waste whilst everyone's out at school/work. This is paid from my part of the "fun budget" so no adjustment necessary and still DFW (ish)

Have a great Thursday (fake Friday as it's bank holiday weekend) all :beer:

carrielovesfanta

Morning all!

It's the start of 5 days off for me and I feel like I need the break from work. I hope that things are settling down there but I am a bit nervous about a few things! Trying to settle myself a bit in general. I feel a bit flighty and panicky atm for no real reason...

Today's mission:
:heartpuls B/L/D from stores
:heartpuls Track food in free app. I keep flimflamming about on whether I want to do this or not. Basically I cba and I cba avoiding any nice treat that comes my way. On the other hand, i am eating a little too much and I want to keep my protein up.
:heartpuls Heating off
:heartpuls Gym this morning
:heartpuls Washing on 30 deg and spin reduced to lowest setting
:heartpuls Washing to be pegged onto line
:heartpuls Put dry washing away. The neverending story!
:heartpuls Reconcile budget sheet
:heartpuls No alcohol
:heartpuls Make a very frugal meal plan based on what we have in
:heartpuls OH to take me to the garden centre to get plants for my pond. I never got round to posting about this last week but I am building myself a little wildlife pond. I have been reusing and recycling as much as possible for it but I need a couple of plants. It's only a small pond so don't need much. This to come from my personal spends.
Current spend so far is only £25 on the pre-formed pond liner. I am making it freestanding and am building a stepped structure around it using the bricks that my LL dumped at the back of the house last summer. I had some leftover gravel and have been collecting larger stones. I have also rigged my solar fountain into the system so I don't need to buy a pump.

Have a good one all

clf x

trailingspouse

Ants!! Pip Boy 111, you have my sympathy.

Volunteering today - I've just made my sandwiches, but we're short-handed today so if I get a lunch break it will be a minor miracle. Grabbing a bite as I pass the Volunteers' Kitchen will be as good as it gets I suspect!
Another techy success this morning - I needed to print today's rota for work, and the laptop would. not. communicate. with the printer. And I sorted it!!

Thursday is my 'really cheap meal' day - today it will be sausage casserole (I like to think of it as poor woman's cassoulet...) - two sausages cut into chunks, some pearl barley, and anything that needs using up from the back of the fridge (today it will be an onion, some carrots, and an out-of-date stock cube!). In the oven for an hour. Yum. And I've even managed to remember to get the sausages out of the freezer, so they'll be ready to go by the time I get back in.

Bought an Easter egg for Mum at Aldi yesterday. Dad never eats sweets, and it would never cross his mind to buy chocolate for her, and she would never buy one for herself, so as I'm seeing them on Saturday I thought I'd get her one - I got the one that looks like a cocoa bean, very grown-up and sophisticated looking. And at £4.49 well within my '£10 per person per occasion' rule.

Off to Asda now, to buy ingredients for the cookery demo - it's not me doing it, but when I was in on Monday I realised that one of our ingredients was well past its best. Thought I could replace it when I was in Aldi yesterday, but they didn't have any so will have to go to Asda. I get the money back, so no worries on that score, I just have to actually remember to do it.
The meeting with the accountant went well, we now know what our options are, and as I suspected there are a couple of options that we hadn't thought of. Now I just need to sit down and work through all of them, and decide what the pros and cons are (for me and also for the ex OH) of each one.

Enjoy this lovely weather - heating most definitely off now!!

DawnW

Morning all
Decided not to go to local market today, as we don'r actually need anything! Also, we are waiting for something to be delivered which, annoyingly, could happen anytime between today and the 23 April. Are we supposed to stay within sight / hearing of the front door for 5 days?? I suspect that it won't arrive till after the BH anyway.
So, today's small things:
Free HG fruit with breakfast
Washing done, now out on line to dry
OH decided he wants meat for dinner today (by no means an everyday thing here), so got out some bits to BBQ. The weather has suddenly got cooler and windier, and the sun has disappeared :rotfl:but I guess it can just be cooked indoors if need be.
Rounded up cabbage, onion and carrot for coleslaw, and chopped up in the processor. Now in fridge, just need to add mayo and seasoning later
Made BBQ sauce from storecupboard stuff, also now in fridge
Decided against going out specifically for rolls, as there is bread in the larder, and we can just use that!

Got special offer chicken thighs out of freezer to make a big casserole later. Will add chorizo and do a round up of fridge veg.
Cleaned drainer thing by sink, and put the metal parts in the DW to give them a good clean
Watered plant pots in front garden
Go me this morning! :j
Still to do:
Leftovers for lunch

Make chicken casserole
A RM surveys item needs to go to the post office - not sure if it will get there today
Water seedlings if needed
Look for online surveys
Check banks / update spreadsheet etc if need be
No plans for any spending today

1LuckyLady

Afternoon all,
A spendy day here but a nice day.
I've washed a load on the quick 30 degree wash and hung it on the line to dry.
My parents came for a bacon/sausage butty (to help use up some part baked crusty rolls that were past the BBE date- only by a month which isn't bad for me ) kept back some of the sausage & bacon for tomorrow.
Took ds1 into town where he was meeting his friends to go for the cinema & food (first proper time out in town without us! :eek: what happened to that little baby! ) £20 spent
Ds2 & I had a costalot with my mum but used gift card from dh's work so no effect on bank balance, We also popped to primarni to get ds1 a few tshirts, hes had another growth spurt and we are going away tomorrow, checked his tops this morning and he only had 4 tshirts that fit so I've bought another 4 as we go away for the week tomorrow. £8 spent
I bought a game for our holidays from Tiger, something that will be a bit of fun, won't last long but I think it will get us, my sis/niece and parents giggling! £4 spent
Popped to little shop on the way back that has a bakery to get fresh rolls so that I can make us bacon and egg mayo sarnies for the drive tomorrow (usual drive takes 3hrs, I'm wondering how long it will take on Good Friday as we'd usually avoid travelling on a bank hol!)anyway rolls = £1.19 but that will save a £20+ spend at a motorway service area.
Dishwasher on a quick wash

Still need to
** start packing (I don't know why I procrastinate so much with this!)
** make a frickadellan omelette for tomorrows picnic this will use 4 eggs and then hard boil the rest of the eggs for sandwiches etc done
** check banking/update spreadsheet
** clean out fridge and use up whatever we have in there for tonights tea done, having bacon & chicken pasta bake tonight plus some Cajun potato wedges (made from some left over cooked salad potatoes that I'll fry)
** start the packing (I'm typing this again to make sure I do it sooner rather then later)
** washing away
** empty bins
** update freezer list done and have been able to move what we had left into one fridge freezer so have switched the other one off for whilst we are away
** start pack.......................

5.15pm update - :eek::eek: packing still not started!! well I've got some stuff out in the kitchen to pack (as its self catering & I want to take my own knives/chopping board/peeler etc) but nothing has actually made it into a suitcase yet :rotfl: ah well dh has rung to say he's finished work so I'll wait til he's home now so that I can sort out his car boot and work out what I have space for and go from there!

foxgloves

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The End,
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DawnW

foxgloves wrote: »

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How annoying! I always enjoy reading your posts, as well!