How to make friends

Moominmamma

How about a book club if you enjoy reading?

McKneff

Have a barbecue and invite some of the neighbours.

gadjah543

You could try the woman and home forum. There are links to supper clubs or book clubs in your area. If there is nothing near you then you could always put a feeler out on the forum to start one up yourself. I am sure there are lots of people who feel the same as you who want to make new friends.

SailorSam

Making friends is a bigger problem than lots of people think. We spoken about it before here and there's a couple of longer threads where you may find ideas.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1990929

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2451585

BEAR

SailorSam wrote: »

Making friends is a bigger problem than lots of people think. We spoken about it before here and there's a couple of longer threads where you may find ideas.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1990929

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2451585

My problem is that I cant make the step from accquaintance to friend as i cant talk about my son wthout becoming a snivelling wreck...and nfortunately once you've done the polite weather talk it the converstion always comes round to families. I am resigned to it now though and not that unhappy but sometimes think it would be great to have someone to have cofee with

beverley1471

i'm trying to find ways to make new friends as well. I am a widow and i'm trying to start going out more but finding people to do things with is prooving difficult. I've joined afew groups and met with them afew times which has been nice. But as i work shifts i can't do any classess or anything that involves a weekly meet as my work refuse give me the same day off each week. I was hoping for a friendship forum as well or something similar.

I have looked at meetup and spice but where i live is small and their is nothing from either of them in my area. So both of them are ruled out unless i travel miles to where the nearest group is. I'm to young for WI in my area as its all very old ladies. Perhaps i need to look for a new job! i'll read this with interest to see if i can find any tips!

McKneff

Why not just start up a 'friendship' thread on the boards.

Some threads are thousands of posts long.

VfM4meplse

theoldcynic wrote: »

If you do decide you'd like to try something in real life, this site is good www.meetup.com (it covers UK too).

I would highly recomend this site too, having made some good friends through it who are completely outside of my usual social circle.

Mr_Toad

sistafromanothermista wrote: »

I was thinking an online friendship would be best due to not really having any interests! that sounds awful but true, unless you count reading?
Thanks for the suggestion though:)

I think you've hit the nail on the head, you have no particular interests.

People spend most of their life at work or asleep with a few short hours in between. If you don't work with a lot of people what you do in those few short hours matters a lot.

The only way to make friends is to meet people, the only way to meet people is to get out of the house, away from the idiot box and join in with life.

You have to make time, you do it for the gym. Find something that interests you and find a group of like minded people.

There are so many things out there, far too many to list.

There's so much more to life than work, gym, TV, sleep, repeat but it rarely comes to you, you have to go and find it.

minerva_windsong

BlueC wrote: »

get some interests, join some clubs, and meet similarly like-minded people to yourself who enjoy doing similar things. then you'll make some friends.

Or start them yourselves - that's what a friend of mine did as he's very into creative writing but couldn't find any groups locally. He hired a room, put posters up locally, got people to put stuff out on Twitter/Facebook and now it's thriving. So that could be something to think about - maybe a book group if you like reading?