Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

Elisheba

Another one pinching the annoying jobs list idea 😁. Sounds like a great way to get things done. I started The Twyford Code but needed to take it back to the library - I should give it another go. As you say it was a very innovative style.

Four_Seasons

Another one pinching the annoying job list, will check in next week with a tally to keep me accountable  xx

Baileys_Babe

Like you now and then I write an annoying mobs list, my code mine no spends, less than £10 and over £10, feels like a good time to start a new one.

I did tackle an annoying job this evening, we arrived home at about 8.30 pm OH went and finished making the diner and I grabbed my secateurs and pruned the bush by the gate which I have been catching myself on for months. Every time I went through the gate I thought about it cutting it back but I seemed to forget until the next time I went though it, now it is all done the prunings in the garden bin and my gloves and secateurs put away, it took no more than 5 minutes, if only I had dealt with it when it first cropped up.

foxgloves

@Baileys_Babe - That would be my exact definition of an Annoying Job. My list is still growing. I've added 3 things to it this morning before I'd even finished my coffee!
F

ladyholly

Its those little annoying jobs that are put off. The big ones get done because they have to be .

Suffolk_lass

no_more_spending said:

oooooooo I love the Annoying Job list idea. I will be pinching that!

me too! I have just received a hurumph when I explained my "OOHH!" here

Makingabobor2

Love the annoying job list idea. Really must try that. I tend to just transfer them to the next day list and they seem to never get done. Will try and get through a few more tomorrow. 

foxgloves

Thanks for all your comments, especially about the notion of Annoying Jobs. I think really, these just start out as 'jobs', but officially become Annoying Jobs because we keep walking past them & either forget to do them or they fall victim to procrastination. I am seriously intending to blitz a whole load of them over the next few weeks because I am sick of seeing them! Last time I tackled the backlog by making a list, it did work well as I could see I was making progress because of all the ticks on my list.
F

foxgloves

Hello Sunday Pence-Savers,
I'm typing this up at my desk in Foxgloves HQ. Sun streaming through the window & hopefully giving my chilli babies a boost as I have them on the windowsill (very definitely NOT the end that Ash likes to sit). Mr F had to work today, not backfilling staff absence this time, but supervising some corporate filming. He's just pinged to say he's on his way via Waitbl00m or the C**p, which I am guessing means beer! Anyway, let's cut the woffle & get on with today's small budget positives:
*Put the slow cooker on first thing - that's dinner sorted plus there should be 2 additional portions for the freezer. Serving with sourdough toast.
*Made tomorrow's packed lunch & porridge pot.
*Sowed more cress - kitchen windowsill, using lid of an ice-cream tub.
*Did final cut of the autumn-sown rocket & put the spent growbags (already used twice) aside for filling up a bit of trench still showing from when neighbour put new fence in.
*Cleaned greenhouse bench to make room for seed sowing over the coming week.
*Sowed tomatoes (Oh happy day, Consuelo & Roma). Now in my little old heated propagator.
*Moved the autumn verbena bonariensis cuttings to the cold frame. Got to love free plants!
*Added more Annoying Jobs to the list. AND I did one of them! Only a tiny one, but as I haven't finished compiling the list yet, it did feel good to be ticking something off!
And that has pretty much been it for today's efforts - the money saving bits, anyway. I finished my garden session by lugging a rubbish bag full of assorted shed crud out the front to the wheelie bin as if it sat in the shed any longer (in the way of my plant pot & seed tray shelves), it was in danger of making it onto the Annoying Jobs List. Also started a pile of scrap metal as I know Mr F is thinking about a tip run.
Really hoping for a productive week ahead,
F x

badmemory

Congrats on doing an annoying job.  Mine is getting longer by the day again as I got it down a lot after my hip op.

I once mentioned to my sister about having a to do list.  Her, as normal, snotty comment was - why don't you just do them when they crop up then you wouldn't need a list.  I kept my mouth shut as I can never win.