What small DFW things will you do w/c 26th August?

PurpleFairy26

Morning all :hello:

I'm up and about after a middle of the night sneezing fit, so thought I'd get on with my day. Yesterday was very productive getting all my list done and a little bit more, including sorting out both the smalls wardrobes and clothes they have grown out of. Feels very satisfying.

Today's jobs:
Check banking
Reconcile just for points credit card
Make 2 x packed lunches
Quick shower, let hair dry naturally
Sew up PE kit bag
Home pedicure
Drink plenty of water
Something from freezer for tea
Finish meal plan from what we have in freezer
Compare cat food prices to see cheapest place to buy
Hot drink for commute, hope post bank holiday traffic is kind
Make jam
Hang washing done overnight out, another load in now, see if I can squeeze last one on a quick wash before work and peg out
Water garden, pick more fruit

Have a good day all. Purps.

Toni'sfriend

Morning, Everyone.

Jobs for today

Collect prescription from Health Centre and hand it into chemist (so glad we don't have prescription charges here)
Collect some things for my son (aka the Boy) whilst I'm there (no chemist near where he works).
Freeze the remainder of yesterday's soup.
Take lunch and dinner out of freezer.
Take a curry out of freezer for the Boy (He's coming for dinner)
Ironing but only what needs done (don't like ironing)
Move the odd pennies from my current account to a little savings account (Hoping that if I do that it will buy a few little Christmas presents for OH (aka Himself)
Water the plants and check the herbs. (Dawn - I don't have a garden so everything is in pots on my small porch type thing. I'm trying to root some mint on the kitchen window sill just now)
General tidy up.
Try very hard to do a bit of decluttering.

Right. Finish off the coffee and get started.

Have a good day.

foxgloves

Morning Campers,
Hi Toni'sfriend & welcome.
Not quite as unbearably hot today & am hoping for thunder later to clear the ait a bit. Anyway, on today's list:
*Big Budget Day.
*Bake bread rolls & pizza base.
*Rubber chicken duties - it's already done two meals & will do another two & maybe a sandwich. Bones will be frozen for next stock making opportunity.
*Make tomorrow's packed lunch.
*Early hours laundry on cheaper tariff is just finishing. Will peg out for free drying. Surely there can't anyone is still paying out for tumble drying in this hot weather other than people who have zero access to outside space.
*Puck tomatoes & courgettes.
*Water veggie garden & greenhouse.
*Check for reply from solicitor.
*Another kettle of boiling water over weeds in front drive paving..... it's defo knocking them out & no chemicals.
*Pay two more 50ps into my sealed pot.
*Re-sew dropped hem on newly washed door curtain & re-hang it.
*Label the blackberry & apple jam I made yesterday.
I think I will spend more time indoors today. I'm covered in insect bites & hoping very much that the worst one isn't going to require a GP visit, as I've got previous form with fly bites going yukky. Hopefully 2 or 3 more days of anti-histamines will sort it. A bad year for biting insects. Unlike me, Mr F hardly ever gets bitten, but even he has over 30 bites!
Oh well, time to get cracking.
F x

trailingspouse

Morning all, hope everyone had a good Bank Holiday and we're all refreshed and invigorated... Nice to make your acquaintance Toni's friend.



I have a day off today, so I'm off to do my 'casual' job instead. I basically get paid for playing with Lego, so all is good!!


There's a bit of a list of things that need doing today, but I'm working 9:30 - 4:30 and probably won't be home until nearly 5:30 depending on the trains, so I think they might have to wait until tomorrow. I don't start work tomorrow until 11:30, so there'll be time in the morning to crack on and get a bit of paperwork under my belt.


Anyway, tonight I'm on Rubber Chicken Day Two, and will be making myself a risotto for dinner. I'll also get out and pick some more blackberries, so that'll be pudding sorted (stewed just enough for the juices to run, with a bit of sugar (not too much!), then served with a swirl of natural yogurt - cheap, healthy and quick, and it looks fabulous - what's not to love!!!)


The chicken is also doing duty for lunch - chicken sandwiches with pickle. I'm on to my last half a jar of the pickle stores - I really did have a ridiculous quantity of pickles. Once it's finished, I'll turn my attention to the mustard...


Oh, and I'm at the gym tonight. As gyms go I don't think it's particularly cheap, but it's very sociable and because I go so often my cost-per-session is only about £2.70. The alternative would be to stay home, snack, get unfit and flabby, and reduce my social life considerably (at some cost to my mental health as well as my physical health) - so I sacrifice other things (no holiday this year, no alcohol bought since February), and I can justify it.


Enjoy the sunshine, keep drinking the water. xx

La_escocesa

Hi everyone :wave:

Hope you're all ok. Passes coffee pot round...:coffee:

Hi Toni'sfriend - hope you stick with us - it's lovely here

Staying at home today May go out a wee walk later.

Having a pretty frugal few days...
Oat milk chilling in the fridge
Made cookies with the leftover oat milk pulp
Clearing out the freezer - Dawn, the salmon was lovely for lunch yesterday, thanks :T and then having quorn fillets for lunch with pasta. They've been lurking in there for a while!
Made hidden veg sauce for HM pizza and pasta - one big batch and used lots of carrots up - was lovely
HM pizzas with dough from bread maker saved me about £20 on a delivery!
Line drying washing and more today
Need to YNAB
The mortgage guy is going to call me back this morning - really can't be bothered talking to him as my current bank offered me 1.39% with zero fee and zero hassle but I'll see what he can beat it with... :think:

We're going away for a long weekend this weekend so need to get organised :cool:

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Morning all
Sunny again, but not so hot as it has been (at the moment, anyway).
So far:
HG raspberries with cereal for breakfast
Stripped off bed and put linen on to wash
Walked dog
Got my dehydrator out (a small round one I got for £30 years ago, don't know the make) and have put in raspberries and slices of banana I have tomatoes and courgettes to do, but I think the smells / flavours would cross contaminate, if that makes sense, so will do those separately. I will mix the banana and raspberries for winter cereal topping. Smells gorgeous already

Still to do:
Remake bed, clean upstairs
Hang washing out when done
Ironing
Check banks and update spreadsheet
Bits / leftovers from fridge for lunch
OH is home tonight, so I got lumps of something I though was chicken breast for fajitas, but it turns out they are pork steaks in some kind of marinade They look nice (and will be, as they were bought from our fantastic local butcher) so I will grill a couple of them with potato wedges and garden veg instead.
Coffee finished, so better get on with some of this cleaning- still a bit breathless from my virus, so it won't be a quick job, and not sure how far I will get, but gotta try!


Toni's friend, good luck with the herbs, I bet they look really pretty on your porch. I have them in the pots in my tiny, hot front garden, as they seem to be pretty resistant to drought. Some I planted, and others turned up on their own (seemed to find their own way from the back garden). Marjoram is really pretty, with soft purple flowers which the bees love

La E, glad the fish recipe worked well. I am sure it is gorgeous with salmon - I usually just use unidentified lumps of white YS fish, and it is always a favourite

allydowd

Hi August Austerity-Fans,

I've a day off for a very important routine medical appointment.

Trying to fit a lot in.


Debt-Free-Nillionaire Continuity Plan Year Five:

* Check online banking. Done.

* Tidy house. Done.

* Buy currency for forthcoming holiday. Done

* Pack for forthcoming holiday. Hate this job. Done. It was awful.

* Deal with dodgy drainpipe, again. Ignored. Boiler broke. Had to deal with that instead. Fixed now.

* Sort out kitchen. Bombs hit it. Done.

* Treat my late father's wooden toolbox with some preservative. Not done.

* List old Wifi router on eBay. Yesterday we got put on a new contract and we got a new box with it. Done.

* Continue my Challenge 500 miles challenge to travel 500 miles for free before the end of 2019: walking, hiking, climbing, cycling, running and swimming. I'm up to 326/500. Done. Walked.





“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”

allydowd

La_escocesa wrote: »

Hope you're all ok. Passes coffee pot round...:coffee:

Thanks. :coffee: Have some cake. :bdaycake:

ziggy2407

Good Morning

Today we will:

Rest & home pamper session -
Gym - Done
Check Bank & made PAD - Done
RM Survey - Done
3 bags to charity shop - Done
Return Library Book (& collect new book) - Done
Washing & Line dry -
Swagbucks -
Purge a few emails -
Enter comps -
All meals from cupboards/fridge/freezer -
Checked: Lucky Bob, PMP, WinaDinner -
Read Book -
Headspace app before bed -

Have a great day!

C x