Thursday 10/01/2008 What small dfw thing hve you done or will you do today???

jamtart6

Sophiesmum usually posts this, I've searched and can't find one for today hope you are ok Sophiesmum! I missed it today so hope you don't mind me posting it on your behalf
When we start out on the DFW trail we do loads of "big stuff" that makes quite a difference to our situation. These include having our lightbulb moment, cutting up the credit cards and cancelling Sky and the gym.

But once we have done the bigger stuff, we often feel that we are not making the same amount of progress, when in fact the small steps are helping us form good financial habits and helping us get closer everyday to staying in control and becoming debt free.

Examples could be charging your phone up at work instead of at home to save your electricity, hanging the washing out instead of using the tumble dryer or leaving your purse/wallet at home to avoid the risk of spending.

So be proud of those small steps, they really are important.

Today I will:
* Loads my 2 phones into their Envirophone jiffy bags that came yesterday
* Bring milk from home - saving 50p by making my own tea instead of the cafe
* Look at more sign ups on pigsback

claireabelle_2

Thanks for starting!
I am doing a mystery shop tonight so free dinner out (well, after it gets reimbursed)
Looked into getting my car done at Nationwide autocentre with 15% Civil Service Discount, and thanks to immoral angel will go through quidco and get £8 cash back, and use my tesco clubcard for points, so about £35 better than main Ford Dealer :j
I made my own lunch and breakfast, too.

wornoutmumoftwo

Hello

I have bought two toys from boots in their 75% off sale (via quidco of course) saving myself about £45.

And I have been busy cooking and stocking my freezer, I have enough food in there for two weeks and the majority of it is from the reduced counter in Tesco's

I also wasted £5 on a taxi as it was raining bad and had to get kids to school so I need to do something to make that up.

:A

splishsplash

Hi Jamtart,
Today I will:

• stick to mealplanner dinner
• update accounts (payday today!)
• sort out ds's room and clear unwanted clothes/toys to give away
• Update spending diary and budget
• clean inside of car myself (really tempted to get it valetted:o )
• organise meal plan for next week, taking evening work into account

That's it, hope everyone has a good day!

claireabelle_2

Thanks splishsplash, you have reminded me to do my meal plans and to do my ebay listings at the weekend! (and to start a to-do list! )

always_amazed

Hello!!

Today I will:

1) Have a NSD (apart from possible cake ingredients friend may have forgotten)
2)Replace batteries in friends camera (to take photos of Bay items)
3)Take photos of my horrible messy room (thanks to pigpen for that idea.... if I do that I just might keep it tidy for once!!)
4)Clear cookies in my browsers and apply for new account for MB and PayPaling (my current account is with an overly security concious bank who keep rejecting paypal!!!)

always_amazed

And I just got 2 stars!! Thats quite a DFW thing to do, isn't it?!?!?

angelflower_2

sent my phones back to envirophone today and so chuffed as two of the books i listed on amazon late last night have sold already. Wont get back to post office until tomorrow and havent made mega bucks but still quite chuffed.

Yorkielass

Today I:

Will try and park in the free car park when I go to specsavers later for a check up.
Have sent a friend a home made card.
Will take books back to library and get some more out.
Do 10 competitions and clicks (did a survey earlier too)
Get 1 thing on ebay.
Make extra dinner and freeze the rest.

sophiesmum_2

Thanks jamtart:D
have just dragged myself onto the laptop to post the thread, feeling really crappy with the dreaded lurgy:sad: :sad: everyone here seems to be having a turn of this flu bug.
So today i will not be doing much at all, but at least will be a no spend day:D
Using batch cooking for tea so just have to stick in oven - home made ready meals:j
Nothing else to report.
have a good day everyone.

jamtart6

aww get well soon! hope you dont get the sickness bug - it was horrendous!! sorry for nabbing the thread i was missing it! it gives me focus!!

i hardly ever get any surveys and am a member of Toluna, MyTNS (now MySurveys) which others are you members of (sorry to totally hijack the thread!)