What small DFW things will you do this week 04/01/21?

ziggy2407

Good Evening everyone

@ditty1234 - I'd forget the bus pass too, I think this lockdown will be longer than we anticipate 

Today we have:

Checked Bank & made PAD  
Posted RM Survey 
Swagbucks 
Purged a few emails 
Entered a few comps 
All meals from cupboards/fridge/freezer 
Checked: Lucky Bob, PMP, WinaDinner 

Night all, catch you all tomorrow.

C x

elvis69

Hi all I joined last week 😊
Ive cancelled my next stitchfix which is due in February. I love it but don't need new clothes in lockdown. Also cancelled my razor delivery. 
I'm also going to carry on with my NSD challenge which is so helpful
Hmm not sure what else, I'll watch and see what you all do and copy 😂

determined_new_ms

Morning quick post from me before madam takes over the laptop for the day. Home schooling part 2, this time it will be online all day via teams! Will be weird as apparently I should just be able to get on with my life while she is working with her class.

So given that I hope to:
* do an exercise video
* do some painting in the hallway - I think I will aim to do the d/s & u/s hallway bits, leaving just the main walls on the stairs for another day
* make pizza wheels
* lo potato bake with dinner
* TOMM
* check banking. Waiting for a cheque to show up that I paid in a week ago! Been told to give it until Friday
* read newsletter

ok better go. Hope you all have a good day. Ziggy I echo La E, I can't seem to get it in my head that ds has grown up over the last decade or so

DawnW

Morning all

Wasn't feeling great yesterday so didn't do much.  Still not feeling great, but I will avoid sitting about all day today! Horrible and cold outside, but must get the dog out for a walk shortly as it seems to have stopped raining.

Other plans:

I have mince out of the freezer to cook, and will make a shepherds pie with half of it, and pasta sauce with the other - the packet weighs just over 500g, and there are only 2 of us. It is great quality mince from the organic beef box I bought before Christmas, and I find it goes much further than supermarket mince, if that makes sense. I have lots of veg to add, so there should be several meals for the two of us there. I love cooking once and eating twice, or three times, or more. If we get bored we can always freeze portions for later.

I will list a few more items on ebay if the light improves enough to take decent photos

And see if there is enough washing to make up a load

Hopefully more, will see how it goes.

Welcome @elvis69 I'm sure you will find some good ideas. You might want to look at some of the DFW challenges and the Old Style board too, for more ideas     

elvis69

DawnW said:

Morning all

Wasn't feeling great yesterday so didn't do much.  Still not feeling great, but I will avoid sitting about all day today! Horrible and cold outside, but must get the dog out for a walk shortly as it seems to have stopped raining.

Other plans:

I have mince out of the freezer to cook, and will make a shepherds pie with half of it, and pasta sauce with the other - the packet weighs just over 500g, and there are only 2 of us. It is great quality mince from the organic beef box I bought before Christmas, and I find it goes much further than supermarket mince, if that makes sense. I have lots of veg to add, so there should be several meals for the two of us there. I love cooking once and eating twice, or three times, or more. If we get bored we can always freeze portions for later.

I will list a few more items on ebay if the light improves enough to take decent photos

And see if there is enough washing to make up a load

Hopefully more, will see how it goes.

Welcome @elvis69 I'm sure you will find some good ideas. You might want to look at some of the DFW challenges and the Old Style board too, for more ideas     

Oh great thanks I’ll have a look!
ive had a quiet day today, I’m a rubbish homeschooler it’s impossible with work! They qualify for schooling so off they g9 tomorrow 😀💪
been stung by some unexpected bills today so for next few days my plan is:
meal plan for next week
food shop online
delete marketing emails as soon as they come in
make hair scrunchies with the children at the weekend- fun and I wouldn’t spend anything

determined_new_ms

Morning quite pleased with my efforts yesterday, i did everything except read the newsletter a rare moment I feel I should appreciate!

elvis69 I feel your pain re the homeschooling. It's tough. My lo's school has moved online to teams and they have lessons 9-3.15 which is commendable but it struck me yesterday that that is her education I just hope this ends soon. We have been offered a space in school but to be honest I can't see that that will be any better for her. We're seeing how it goes but might take up the option of sending her in if I' not able to cope with it.

Today:
* get madam up in a minute and have breakfast with her
* take dog for a quick walk before oh goes to work
* TOMM - have to do it after 3.15 as it's kitchen's
* do a bit more painting
* NSD
* read newsletter
* vegetarian shepherds pie for dinner 
* do some reading & relaxing while madam is working - feeling like I have the world on my shoulders atm
* might do an exercise class but feeling it in my legs from yesterday!

ok that's me. I better go and wake up madam

carrielovesfanta

Morning folks,

welcome to @elvis69

Meant to check in yesterday evening but laptop was out of charge and I cba getting the charger and moving nearer to a plug
Bit of a mad morning yesterday as I woke up to to find that the shed I ordered on the 27th Dec with a 6 week lead time, was being delivered at 11.30am. No prior warning or option to change the day/postpone! I knew that OH and I would feel horrible if we carted bits of shed from the truck to our allotment plot so I threw a quick HELP up onto our allotment whatsapp. I must admit, a few tears almost welled up when we got there and found several volunteers waiting to help us, and they gave us cake too! 

I felt well enough after all that to clean both the bathrooms, which did knacker me out. Also managed to prep some veg for tea so I'll take that as a win. I didn't sleep very well again though and I'm tired today. Also the cold, dry air is irritating my chest. I remember this post-viral recovery from last year, it seems to take me a while to get going in the mornings. On the plus side, I was able to just about smell Olbas oil today!

So although I have asked my boss to defer my NEBOSH exam from the 3rd Feb to April, he is umming and ahing. All three of us would like to defer but he's not keen. Have sat down today and written out a learning/revision schedule. I should have enough time as long as I find that I can concentrate and absorb the info. I have a short 5 page section for today. I will probably start after lunch. 

The other thing to try to do today is dust one room. I am very behind with all the household chores for obvious reasons and I feel like the place is a pig sty. It doesn't help that I have a load of brexit/covid/emergency food stashed in the spare bedroom along with a load of stuff for the cs, stuff for the tip, and all of the Christmas presents that I couldn't take to my family

Right. Cup of tea, bit of gentle movement, rest, lunch then time to study!

Have a good one all

clf x

DawnW

Afternoon all

Cold, foggy and icy here today, though OH tells me the wind has changed and that means the weather probably will too. I expect that means it will rain   Short dog walk this morning as the pavements and roads were really icy. We are no longer young, and I have always been rubbish at skating    I am sure the local A&E department can do without people going in with preventable injuries at a time like this, so we cut it short and didn't do our usual couple of miles. I do miss a decent walk though

Spent the morning going through stocks of cleaning products and toiletries, and I am going to do food this afternoon - we had a brex*t / emergency stash too CLF, plus extras due to minimum spends on grocery deliveries since last March, which meant I would add some tins or whatever was on offer to make it up to the minimum possible. I also made a lot of preserves and froze garden veg. And there are still veg in the garden. So I am going to be making a concerted effort to use up a lot of it. I won't be running it down to nothing, as I have always 'kept a good larder' as far as I have been able, and have been very glad of it during bad weather, busy and stressful times at work and illness. But it can certainly be reduced a fair bit! Food deliveries are still an issue, as I am supposed to be shielding and would prefer to stay out of supermarkets as far as possible. I have however delayed the next one, and will try and make do with what we have in. Fresh stuff is what we get low on.

My seed potatoes arrived in the post this morning (from an excellent ebay seller) and have been put to chit in egg boxes on the windowsill of the third bedroom / OH's 'den' where he keeps a lot of his carp collections of stuff. The radiator is never on in this room, so it stays fairly cool.

Finished off last night's shepherds pie for lunch

I have just baked a rhubarb and raspberry crumble using HG freezer fruit - and the HM crumble mix was in there too, so very little effort needed. I have a chicken and veg curry simmering on the stove, enough for dinner tonight and another meal for the two of us   Again, all ingredients from stores. While poking about in the freezer I took out some blueberries frozen after our last trip to an outdoor market (several weeks ago now) for breakfast fruit, and some scones as the cake tin is empty.

Does anyone else follow Frugal Queen? She has a blog and also posts videos on youtube. I watched her meal planning ideas this morning, which has encouraged me to inventory my supplies and meal plan properly instead of 'sort of' doing it as I have been.

So pleased to hear that you are out and about again CLF, and that your allotment pals helped with the shed delivery

All the best with the home schooling DNMS, it isn't easy is it? It does sound as though your school are trying their best though! My 7 year old GD is going in to school 3 days a week as her Mum has to teach online on those days. Hopefully she won't bring anything back with her. Her 3 year old brother is continuing at nursery as usual, as nurseries are for some reason not affected by the lockdown (?)

((Hugs)) to anyone struggling.

ditty1234

Oh dear I just yelled at my whole house while on a staff meeting!

determined_new_ms

ditty1234 said:

Oh dear I just yelled at my whole house while on a staff meeting!

Oh dear!  Definitely keeping it real then?1

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