Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

PennysIntoPounds

Would the garden centre or NT website be offering/advertising the daff deal and say which variety it is?

Ooh a published magazine letter writer! Well done you. 

36p is... an insult for two surveys, but better than a slap in the face with a wet fish!

Excellent thinking on the paper template 

Blackcats

Feeling ultra smug now having earned 43p on surveys today 🥳. It all adds up over the month though and I do treat it as bonus money which gets added to our Christmas savings.

EssexHebridean

This prompted me to go and look at Prolific so thank you for that!  😁

KajiKita

Well done on the letter leading to seeds 😊 What did it say? 

I know what you mean about cronesville …. 😉 I’m having to pace myself and do just a bit each day (and hour or so) so I can do more the next day and don’t hobble myself for three or four days 😊

KK

foxgloves

Thanks for all your comments & contributions.

@KajiKita - It was a tale from our veg plot. Re stiffness, I think mine is from tight muscles - hip abductors or reductors - I haven't worked out the difference yet - as it is worsened by sitting & defo feels muscular rather than joint-based. I am going to look online for useful hip stretches I could try.
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foxgloves

Morning all!
I shall shortly be heading out to the garden. Target tasks today are doing the rest of the bulb planting - iris reticulata & tulips and getting the rest of the tender stuff into the greenhouse, as we had frost on Friday night. I shall then need to match up re-potted geraniums with pot holders & find room for them in the conservatory & possibly bathroom windowsill.

Really good city centre trip yesterday. Yes, we spent quite a lot, but it was all planned spending & there were several good budget 'wins' (including freebies) along the way, as well as a good advancement in our Christmas shopping.
Shall have lots of budget updates to do tomorrow or Tues to get the figures straight for Mid-Month Budget Check-In on Wednesday.
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P.S I beat Mr F on steps yesterday. He couldn't work out how I'd done it but I know & it involved a ridiculously long queue (which wasn't moving) for the loos at M&S, lol. I stood there for a few mins before deciding to decamp to alternative facilities some distance away. This then resulted in a longer walk back to meet him (which needed to.be pretty brisk because of car park timing), so I earned 'intensity minutes' too. Go me!
Ok, on with the gardening boots....
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Florafauna

Enjoy your gardening @foxgloves. Been laid low with a chest infection and still feeling poorly so have resourcefully spent very little over the last week as I have been eating from the cupboards and reading library books. I'm also finishing off a large piece of sashiko embroidery which I am planning  to make into purses.
Have some tinned lentils that I will make into dahl later

amber03

Just reminded me reading your post that I have some winter bulbs to get potted up. Have given the grass a cut today, so will pot up on Tuesday when I have a free day.x

foxgloves

Hmmmph! Well, today has been a day of two halves & we've ended up having to spend an unplanned £529 which I was not at all happy about! Have an online talk booked for 6pm so will post tomorrow.
F x

EssexHebridean

Ouch to that - even when we have EFs to fund such unplanned costs, it still stings!