Friday 06/06/08 What small dfw things have you done today???

lilian1977

It is!

Bought 6 Dr Who DVDs on Ebay for £1.99 plus postage - I wanted to watch one episode again so figured I might as well pay a few pence more for 5 others to relist. 3 of them have just sold for £1 each, and they only arrived in the post this morning. Woooo!

jenjade

i have put everything on the washing line just in time as otherwise i may have had to rewash it!!!eeekkk [STRIKE]2 washing lines[/STRIKE] full
[STRIKE]done a 40c wash and hung out[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]studied towards my ou exam[/STRIKE]:eek:
[STRIKE]daily clicks[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]chanced up e bay non payers[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]checked e bay[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]checked quidco[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]checked online banking[/STRIKE]

nsd so far need to post some e bay stuff later
store cupboard meals
entertainment this evening also free dvds from blockbuster!!

Cleosmum

Good luck Candy!

Today I have:

• Checked banking - all good
• Checked for mystery shops - none
• Changed a mystery shop date as feeling really hayfevery today
• Pinched a hayfever tablet from Mum - free
• Checked debt spreadsheet and have paid off nearly £1650 in 16 weeks - very impressed with me lol :T
• Breakfast and lunch from stores
• Fed veggies to animals that were going over, they are all very happy
• Washed up by hand, saving electric
• Done PB CT

And I will:

• [STRIKE]Do PB comps[/STRIKE]
• Check budget
• Dinner from stores - HM and SW friendly chicken kiev with large salad
• Sort ebay stuff and look at listing the last dregs, not sure I can bring myself to use ebay though, might join another one
• Wash lunch and dinner things by hand, saving electric
• 2 out of 3 children out to dinner - saving food
• Housework - free exercise and feel good factor
• Pot on spinach and tomato plants
• Do umpteen loads of washing on quickwash and line dry, although there is so much of it it will be on tomorrows list as well :eek:
• [STRIKE]Aaaaaaand finally I shall walk to school to collect kids, saving the dregs of petrol I have left [/STRIKE]

Can I say a huge thanks to everyone on this thread for keeping me motivated and focused. I did have a blip a couple of weeks ago where I just lost momentum, but I feel back with a vengeance and spurred on now :j <

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thats me with renewed vigour :rotfl:

jak

Today I will have:
- checked online banking for dh and myself- all good!
- line dried washing
- will see mp re: dh visa - ultimately hopefully money saving as we are in a bit of a tangle!
- wrote shopping list and WILL stick to it!
- shop split into ALDI and Tescos. See which is cheapest etc.
- store cupboard dinner
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andan

Evening all, no post from me today as have been very busy and am now off out for late birthday celebration dfw style of course! Using half price tickets that i got from Jongleurs and a free ticket for me due to it being my bday. Would be even more dfw if people didn't decide to cancel at the last min:mad:

However am away for the weekend at my course and will have no internet access:eek: but will see you all when i get back. Have a great weekend.

OliveOyl_2

Another late one here, evening all :hello:

Today I have/will

• walked to work for the THIRD time this week :eek: (but my nice colleague has given me a lift home each time )
• a NSD (but I did spend yesterday even though I predicted a NSD )
• shall now do my housework OS with Star Drops and wotsit cloths and elbow grease.
• took a packed lunch, and tonight am eating a reduced price pasty + leftovers- I haven't been food shopping for over a week
• entered a load of competitions, and have printed off (at work ) instructions for MBing.
• charged phone at work
• still waiting for payment on most of my e-bay sales :mad:
• still sorting things for a boot fair on the 15th
• Inland Revenue will be sending money they've owed for 7 months, but I have to write and complain to get the interest - so I'd better do that.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

Cleosmum

I have booked and paid for cheap travelodge rooms for trip to London in the summer hols. £48 for 2 nights for 5 of us. Will be keeping an eye out for cheap travel and will also be doing free stuff when there. Will swap some tesco vouchers so we can eat out 'posh' one night, but the rest of the time it will be rolls and fillings with a few lunch MS thrown in for good measure.

bountiful

No spend day.
Curry for tea with all the bits and bobs.

Poosmate

Evening all,

Haven't posted for a while but just thought I'd pop my head in.

I can't think of any new DFW things I've been doing recently although there are roadworks on the motorway I use to work so am forced to drive at 50mph (as opposed to 80! Eek! - I can't help it I'm always late for everything!).

I have got into some very frugal living habits though over the past 9 months since my lodger left (losing nearly £300 a month was a shock!). He was very wasteful especially with the electic. He's flitted back a few times since he left for the odd week or two but I've put his rent up considerably when he comes back.

Anyway, my electric bills were high when he left so I cut right back on electric use. So I don't put the lights on when it gets dark only on landing when going up/down stairs, kitchen when making coffee/dinner and on a "need to" basis for others. I even put tape on the 10seconds button of the microwave so I could set it to reheat my coffee without putting the light on! I don't put the bathroom light on when I go to the loo I just leave the door open and use the light from the landing and the streetlight from behind the house! lol I can do this because I live on my own.

During the winter my house was so cold (don't have central heating) so I slept on the settee in the lounge so I didn't have to heat the whole house!

Just doing these two things have resulted in reducing my gas/electric monthly payments by £25 per month! Yay! And now I'm in the habbit I just do it!

I've managed to reduce my internet/phone/tv from £42 to £30! Yay!

Have managed to invest any rent I've had from my occasional lodger (in May)in a brand new electric cooker and gas hob off ebay for £69.99, toilet rolls, coffee, storecupboard foodstuffs and paying chunks off CC's. My existing hob is fine so I can resell the new hob on ebay.

Did my first shop for the June grocery challenge - £7.84! lol

Oh! I decided to book a weeks leave from work from 16th June as my salary is 2 days pay short this month due to being on strike for 2 days in April. Well there's plenty to do in the house and garden and it will save me about £25-£30 of petrol.

That's all for now. If I can think of anything else I'll post again.

Poo

Mrs_Sparkle

Not much actually

I made fridge pasta for supper- basically stick anything lingering in the fridge into a big pan, add cooked pasta and value chopped tomatoes, grate cheese over it and bake for 20 mins- yum!

I WILL do my clicks before I go to bed and that's about it.