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What small DFW things will you do w/c 9th September

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  • Awake early and it's pay day so thought I'd get up and be useful. So far I have:

    Done the money shuffle, all pots topped up. Pleasingly £35 left in food budget this month. This has been snaffled in to a food surplus pot that I can have as a sub pot to my main account without opening a separate savings account. :T
    Have been through bank account, cancelled 3 inactive DD and removed several payees from internet banking so I don't pay them by accident
    Drank coffee :D

    I will also:
    Delete some e mails and unsubscribe from some more
    Hot drink for commute
    Packed lunches all round
    Make sausage rolls
    Think of something creative and not sausage like to do with 2nd pack of sausages that defrosted yesterday in an open freezer door incident so it doesn't seem like we're having sausages 2 nights in a row :rotfl:
    Have a quick tidy round
    Walk with friend at lunch

    Have a good day all. Purps.
  • natlie
    natlie Posts: 1,707 Forumite
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    Hi All

    Bit late to it this week

    I've closed two credit Accounts this week, don't know if it was the right thing to do for my credit score but its better for me that they have gone

    I have had to buy a DSLR camera for my daughters photography course, managed to buy a secondhand but unused one from EB*y for £100 less than I could see it online but i still couldnt really afford it (I've made up £50 by selling some stuff), school also want cash for art supplies

    Awaiting payment for 3 buffets, got two booked next week. August we have some very large buffets booked in so expecting around 1,500 in over the next few months - the business has also been entered into an Awards for sustainability

    Today:
    Made lunch for work
    Dinner tonight - TBC but plenty here
    post Eb*ys

    Have a good day all
    Nat
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  • foxgloves
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    Sounds like you're going to be busy with your business, Natlie.

    Morning all,
    Quick post before I get a move on.
    *No spending as I don't need to go out.
    *Do my big weekly house clean. As usual will be using minimal products & washable cloths.
    *Water & feed veg as this fell off the list yesterday.
    *Pick more chillies & freeze.
    *Check & put away grocery delivery when it arrives.
    *Make a list of jobs I can usefully do tomorrow when I'm in town.
    *Start picking pears.
    *Dismantle hanging baskets, keeping anything savable to pot up for using again.
    *Check regularly for solicitor email. I'm expecting one & really do want to move things on.
    *Home pedicure. Intend to get my nail polish box out & choose a nice autumn colour.
    *Finish knitting current stash project as need to return to knitting large item for a Christmas present.
    *Start thinking logistics of replacing ancient freezer...... which is exceedingly full atm.
    I need to wake myself up a bit & get cracking.
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  • Morning

    Nothing very exciting but jobs for today are:

    Check banking
    Tend to plants
    Charge tablet and phone
    Take medication
    Himself is off to doctors so whilst he's out I'll get a quick tidy done and hopefully dispose of some useless and broken things when he's not looking
    Leave shopping till tomorrow. Nothing needed urgently
    Check bus times for holiday
    Look out birthday card from stash for my friend to take with us so I don't have to buy one from the very expensive (but nice) shops in the village
    Do a little extra job in the house. Yesterday's worked like magic
    Take steak from freezer to defrost

    Finish coffee and off I go.
    Have adventures. laugh a lot and always be kind.
  • PurpleFairy some ideas for sausages, cook the second pack and return to the freezer, then you have cold sausages ready to add to packed lunches etc.
    You could prepare, cook then freeze one of your regular sausage meals, ready for an easy meal another time.
    Alternatively you could take the meat out of the skins add chopped onion & seasoning, form into balls, cook in a tomato based sauce, we would have this with pasta.
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    79.5 coupons rolled over 4/75.5 coupons spent - using for secondhand purchases

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  • Later we are visiting family for cake to celebrate my dn's birthday.

    Before that I want to get plenty done.

    Today's list:
    PAD
    Update spending diary
    Pmp etc
    B/L/D from stores
    Stick to the meal plan
    Home educate children for free
    Quick check & tidy of the fridge
    Make a batch of muesli
    Look for recipes to make the most of our windfall apples, suggestions welcome

    Getting organised, clearing my mind:
    Complete dd's registration form
    Keep up with emails, deleting unsubscribing, filing
    File home edition resources, my friend passed on some old empty folders their business no longer needs, otherwise 2 piles of clutter first paperwork, second empty folders
    Once filled and labelled, store folders in a less accessible shelf, freeing up space that is easier to get to
    Fashion on a ration 2025 0/66 coupons spent
    79.5 coupons rolled over 4/75.5 coupons spent - using for secondhand purchases

    One
     income, home educating family 
  • twiggy86
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    Morning all!

    Today I have/will:
    * Check banks
    * Make CC payment
    * Take lunch to work
    * Make call from work to car insurance
    * Check PA/OP
    * Charge phone at work
    * Go to gym at lunch
    * Start looking for present for nephew
    * Make meal plan and shopping list
    * Shop to list!
    * Snap receipt
    * Dinner from stores
    * Keep lights off to extent possible!

    Feel like I'm missing something but that's everything I can think of for now! Hope you all have a good day!
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  • Morning guys :D today is going to look something like this:

    * finishing off commission for sanitary pads
    * do a repair for someone
    * finish off my linen trousers
    * TOMM
    * all meals from stores - check meal plan!
    * madam going to school disco
    * go for a walk
    * dye my hair. Have a bath & a pamper session

    that's all I think. Hope you all have a good day
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    Grocery spend challenge March £253.38/£285 £20/£70 Eating out
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    Eating out budget: £55/£420
    Extra cash earned 2025: £195
  • purps I made jack monroe's boozy sausage casserole last week. Went down a storm in my house
    DF as at 30/12/16
    Wombling 2025: £87.12
    NSD March: YTD: 35
    Grocery spend challenge March £253.38/£285 £20/£70 Eating out
    GC annual £449.80/£4500
    Eating out budget: £55/£420
    Extra cash earned 2025: £195
  • DawnW
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    Evening all :)
    Today I have:
    HG fruit with breakfast :)
    Took some items to my sales unit
    Made a cake and a fruit crumble
    Some tidying in the garden

    Pesto pasta for dinner
    Done the pile of ironing that has been staring at me for about a week now :o
    Ordered OH some new trousers, and will be murdering him if he wears them in his workshop and ruins them (like he has all his existing ones)!
    A couple of surveys

    Started a shopping list, but won't need to go for a day or two.
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