What small DFW things will you do this week? W/C 12th August

carrielovesfanta

Morning all!

A bit sleepy this morning as OH decided to wake up at 5.30 and woke me up with him! Luckily it's my "Friday"

Today's plans:
:heartpuls B/L/D from stores
:heartpuls Gym at lunchtime
:heartpuls Charge phone in work
:heartpuls Washing on rack as raining all day here
:heartpuls Put away sheets/duvet cover
:heartpuls Bit of crochet. I have too many WIPS right now.

Have a good one all

clf x

crazy_cat_lady

Morning all :wave: :coffee:
Carrie - I feel your pain with the crochet WIP's - I'm embarrassed at how many bits I have on the go at the moment. Desperately trying to finish a king size bed blanket, which looks almost done but takes about an hour to do a round. Then I have a couple of baby blankets, and haven't even thought about the C word yet
HK - hope that you have managed to get a bit of rest and relaxation.
I have had a manic and immensely spendy couple of days which I need to recover from.
Monday I was out with my sister for afternoon tea at the venue for my divorce party in a couple of weeks. I paid the balance and spent the afternoon eating and sampling cocktails. Needless to say I got home more than a little worse for the wear and promptly slept for 3 hours on the sofa.
Yesterday - we all went out to a large shopping centre to tackle the school summer holiday shopping list of doom. Started at the Swedish Emporium so I could buy a new oven glove and some new roasting tins (along with £1 bacon sarnies for brunch) followed by an extended amount of time in a large shopping centre ticking items off a list. The good news is that we're all done apart from 3 things. The other good news is that I didn't break the budget but I don't think that my bank account feels the same :rotfl:
We had dinner out using Meerkat Meals plus a £10 voucher that I had which saved a massive amount of money and also saved me the stress of sorting dinner for 3 people who don't eat the same stuff, and got home just about 7pm. I was exhausted.
So, today's plans are very quiet as I need to recover from the 2 days out...
I need to do the usual household stuff - washing, dishes, hoover, rubbish and recycling
Declutter items for yesterday and today (I just didn't get round to it last night)
Cross another job off the frog list (I did 2 yesterday so I'm thrilled with that)
Aim for nsd
All meals from stores
Crochet whilst watching a box set (multitasking!)
Think that's it - I am intending on a very quiet day if at all possible.

determined_new_ms

Morning, today I have a funeral to go to. I really don't like going to funerals, I feel so sad and hate feeling like that so not feeling very bouncy this morning

Think I'm going to go for a run shortly

done a load of washing, bedding. Will check forecast to decide whether to put it out for a bit or just hang indoors

tidied u the garden to put in the garden waste bin. In the words of Foxgloves we've paid for it so we'll use it! Bin now brimming so good job I got it there in time

TOMM hallway - not much to do Will give me the op to wash all the woodwork down

all meals from stores

do a job search - mereida well done on the lucrative job offer!

do some sewing

try not to worry about everything

read newsletter - received the horror of news that because of when I studied my loan won't be written off until I'm 65!

carrielovesfanta

determined_new_ms wrote: »

Morning, today I have a funeral to go to. I really don't like going to funerals, I feel so sad and hate feeling like that so not feeling very bouncy this morning

I hope all goes as well as it can x

twiggy86

Morning!

I'll start with my confession - I did bring lunch to work yesterday as per my list BUT I didn't eat it! Ended up buying in lunch (it was delicious, colleague put the idea in my head!)! It was "only" £3.54, but it also meant I wasted the lunch I bought which I hadn't put in the fridge! Naughty me!

Today I have/will:
* Do washing up
* Take sausages out of freezer for dinner
* Squeeze out "old" toothpaste tube
* Take lunch to work
* Take contents of small change pot to pay into the bank, plus 6 old £1 coins to see if bank will change
* EAT LUNCH!
* Check OP and PA for surveys
* Make a small overpayment (depending how much is in change pot!)
* Charge phone in work
* Dinner from stores
* Do some walking whilst trying to dodge the rain to earn sweatcoins - maybe pick some blackberries if I remember to take a pot!
* Wash face with flannel rather than products
* Use up "old" shower gel - yes my OH moves on from these too before they're gone! (And toilet roll, and shampoo, and milk, and coffee.... you get the picture!!!)

Think that's everything for now! Hope you all have a good day!

determined_new_ms

carrielovesfanta wrote: »

I hope all goes as well as it can x

thanks carrie

twiggy86 wrote: »

Morning!

I'll start with my confession - I did bring lunch to work yesterday as per my list BUT I didn't eat it! Ended up buying in lunch (it was delicious, colleague put the idea in my head!)! It was "only" £3.54, but it also meant I wasted the lunch I bought which I hadn't put in the fridge! Naughty me!

The thing I have come to realise is when it comes to lunches at work they need to be food that I find delish and therefore appealing. Then it is absolutely no skin off my nose, in fact I feel really smg when colleagues are spending a fiver on a meal when I know mine costs a fraction and probably tastes better. But when I am scraping the bottom of the barrel that's when I'm in the danger zone!

I tend to make 3 x batches of something I love - some kind of stew, soup, chilli - every 2 weeks so I can mix them up and not get bored. I try out different stews etc so I keep it something I want to eat

ditty1234

Ditty, can I recommend Start Rescue? DNM (I think) recommended it to me a few years ago and they are awesome. Never waited more than an hour. Their prices are really l.o.w. compared to AA and RAC. Basic cover is £26.10 a year and you get a really simple App to summon help with, or you can call. When you call they send out a repair professional from your local area to help so you may have Dave's Autos Van come to help instead of a flashy branded van. We have 3 star cover which costs £38 for one car, the same cover with the AA is £145 a year! (Link)
I also recommend the MSE Resolver tool for getting complaint satisfaction. (Link) It has worked for me four times.

Ally I have now filed a complaint to RAC via Resolver and I will wait to hear, I might file w Tesco insurance as well as I feel their documentation for the cover is lacking and unclear.

Anyways great to be staying in on a rainy day.

La_escocesa

Hi gang,

DNMS, hope the funeral goes as well as can be expected
Ditty - glad you put in a complaint. I'm also staying in today - rubbish weather here too.
Twigs - don't go beating yourself up about lunch, life's too short
CLF and CCL - I've not got back into any crochet since little one arrived - need to get onto it now she's got a bit of a bedtime routine and I've got a wee bit of time to myself at night. I'm halfway through a blanket for her but it is quite laborious - not quite bedspread size though CCL so that'll power me through

Here's me:
- HM soup with HM bread for lunch
- Check banking/YNAB :cool:
- TOMM hallway and stairs
- Reading free kindle book
- sorting meal plan for the rest of the week and ideas for next week - usually get shop delivered on Friday after the week's veg box arrives tomorrow

Right...let's get on with this then... Catch up tomorrow

trailingspouse

Haven't been along for a while - life just got complicated!!


Today I have -

- sent off my most recent mileage claim
- put together my most recent expenses claim (together they come to more than £40, so totally worth doing)
- cleaned the bathroom
- did some ironing (two items). It's amazing what a difference not having a man in the house makes to the ironing pile...
- posted to my blog

- emptied the bins as it's bin day tomorrow. Need to remember to put the bin out tonight.
- tried to spend a money off voucher at the Co-op (£1 off if you spend £5) - but couldn't find anything that I needed for £5 that doesn't cost less than £4 at Aldi, so not worth bothering.
- bought cake for work (well, the place I volunteer at), as tomorrow is my last day
- bought a card for a colleague who will be 80 in a couple of weeks, so I can give it to her husband tomorrow, and save postage (as it's my last day, I won't be seeing them again before the big day). Lovely card, 99p from the Card Factory.

- bought hayfever tablets. I don't need them often, but I've just taken my last one. Piriteze £6.20 for 14, or Boots Own Brand £7.25 for 30. Guess which one I bought! Aldi's own brand are even cheaper, and it's supposed to be the same quantity of active ingredient, but I find they don't touch my symptoms.

- next job is to make a blackberry crumble. They've just started to ripen up here, and I went out yesterday evening foraging. There are LOADS on the bushes, so lots of brambling going to be happening over the next week or so. Just need some sunshine.

- dinner tonight will be pork chop and veggies, with rhubarb sauce (my own rhubarb, not much sugar and a fair amount of ginger from stores, works wonderfully well with fatty meat like pork). Followed by the aforementioned blackberry crumble.


So - as I said, life is complicated.

I now appear to have two jobs!! One is a casual job, just odd days, as an Explainer at the Media Museum in Bradford. But the other starts on Tuesday - I'm going to be working for B&Q, designing kitchens. It's part-time (5 hours a day, 5 days a week), but it's a start.



I'm not out of the woods yet, financially - my take home pay at B&Q only just covers my mortgage. But with the money from the lodger (who moves in on 25th), and the odd day at the Museum on my days off, plus what I'm getting from the business I run with the ex husband, things are manageable. But I have to be aware that the money from the business won't continue for ever. I'm still looking for a full-time job!!


On the plus side, the B&Q job is a 15 minute car drive away (I could actually cycle, if I really really wanted to...), compared to £4 return train fare + 20 minute walk to the Museum. Being out of the house so much will make a big difference to my heating bills over the winter. Uniform including shoes is provided, so no need to buy clothes for work, which is good. After 12 weeks I'll get staff discount - so I should qualify just before Christmas. I've already started a list, as I need floor paint to finish the garage!! Guess where I'll be buying all my Christmas presents from this year...

ziggy2407

Good Afternoon

Today we will:

Check Bank & made PAD - Done
Pilates - Done
RM Surveys & Correctly Delivered - Done
Clean Fridge & Freezer, meal plan and write shopping list -
Swagbucks -
Purge a few emails -
Enter comps -
All meals from cupboards/fridge/freezer -
Checked: Lucky Bob, PMP, WinaDinner -
Read Library Book -

Have a great day!

C x