What Small Things Will You Do This Week?? 18/04/22

carrielovesfanta

*sidles in*

Good morning everyone! Long time no "see"
I hope everyone is well and coping xx

I haven't been on for moons due to lots of things - we've had a big family crisis (my dad has been diagnosed with prostate cancer but it has paralysed him from the waist down ) but I think my real excuse is that I haven't really been focussed on money saving - I just can't seem to keep a lid on it since the pandemic. That's going to have to change with the p**pshow that is going to be the cost of living for the near (long term??) future.

So I'm going to refocus on keeping those purse strings nice and tightly shut.
Today's things:
Gym session (making sure I use them as I pay for 3 per week) - done
B/L/D from stores - all eaten/cooked
Nip to the allotment later - free entertainment and quality time with OH
Get a lift home from work with colleague - saves OH an hour's round trip and petrol
Charge phone and drill in work (need to use the drill in work!) - done
Heating most certainly off as it's boiling here - done
Sort a meal plan for the next couple of weeks - prioritise food that we already have in the house
Read the mse email as I haven't bothered in a long long time - done
Washing on the line so dehumidifier just set to "air purifier" - done
OH doing a couple of private music lessons - gives him spends money!
Reconcile budget sheet

Spends today:
Cake Thursday at work... my turn to buy. In future I will be more organised and I will bake something - not my turn after all! Purse strings snapped shut.

Love you all lots

clf x

twiggy86

Morning all! (If there is anyone there!)

Today I have/will:

• Check banks
• Make lunch to take to work 
• Drive on eco mode 
  
• Update spreadsheet with any spends 
• Do a money shuffle/pay CC if OH transfers me some money 
  
• Call a bank who I received a letter for my grandad who passed away 9 years ago! (I own his old house - half purchased, half inherited). Not sure if there's an account that we didn't know about as it's a very strange letter! 
• Charge phone fully before I leave work
  
• Dinner from stores 
• Park for free at netball 

That's everything I can think of for now. I hope you all have a good day!

Twigs

BlueJ94

Sorry to heard about your dad @carrielovesfanta

Hope all is okay! 

BlueJ94

Today I have 

Made work lunch 
Taken a walk on morning break
Walked to park and eating my lunch 
Did a shift as over time with Sainsburys 

To do

Walk on my later break 
Put away clothes 
Make work lunch for tomorrow
Redye my hair 

Bagpuss741

@carrielovesfanta Sending love to you and your family, my grandfather had the exact same thing.  Take each day as it comes and look after yourself xx

Bagpuss741

Today I have/will:

1.  Checked online banking
2.  Been to visit my four legged furry nephew
3.  Meals from stores
4.  Surveys
5.  Duolingo Welsh - Will finally finish the whole course on the weekend
6.  Washing on line
7.  Washed down greenhouse and disinfected it.

Deb4

Hi everyone 

Pegged washing out 
Put washer on 
Check online banking 
Took dog a way with-its the only way she will go if there is more than 2 people 

Have a good evening everyone 

twiggy86

Morning all.

Today I have/will:

• Check banks
• Drive on eco mode 
  
• Update spreadsheet with any spends 
• Consider signing up for a leaflet drop - would be £50 for 500 leaflets which feels like a lot of work but the extra pennies would come in very handy! 
• Do a money shuffle/pay CC if OH transfers me some money 
  
• Charge phone fully before I leave work
  
• Need to do some food shopping but will only buy essentials 
• Snap receipt
• Dinner from stores 
• Crochet in front of the TV!  

Hope you all have a good day!

Twigs 

carrielovesfanta

Morning folks

I was a bit stressed out yesterday and forgot to post. Lots done though, gym; shopping; some meal prep for OH while I'm away; sewing up the blanket squares; then had my neighbours round for tea. It wasn't an NSD as I spent money on food and petrol, but apart from a £3.50 bottle of non-alcoholic wine, all non-essential spends were not to be seen.

Bit tired this morning as I kicked them out at about quarter to 12, then promptly woke up at 6.30 - I am pathologically incapable of sleeping in, no matter how late I get to bed! OH is on a stag do this weekend so I'm on my own so I have a bit of peace!

Today's list:
B/L/D from stores
Make simnel-ish cake (bit late I know) using past bbe date Christmas Cake kit randomly presented to me by my sister in law.
Make egg and bacon "muffins" to use up surplus of eggs
Bake some cookies for OH while oven on
Plant grape hyacinth bulbs rescued from pots at work when I repotted the shrubs
Nip up to the allotment to water seeds/seedlings and check on he tadpoles' progress
More blanket sewing
NSD

Un-MSE things
oven will be on for a long time d/t simnel cake
three washes to do. Mitigated by washing at 30 deg and reducing spin as it's a good drying day

Have a good one all

clf x

BlueJ94

Afternoon all

To do 

Change brake light in the car 
Put washing on
Clean up in general 

Have done 

Swapped out a lambda sensor in the car so now I have no lights on my dash