What do you do at the weekends?

Almo

Thanks all. We have just moved back to the UK from overseas, to a new city where we don't know anyone so are limited in terms of having friends over!

We both used to have gym memberships, would go shopping at the markets and cook, would go for a wander around the city and probably have a coffee or lunch, go to the cinema etc. Also used to go to a local auction, buy retro stuff and clean it up etc to sell on. We have moved from a city of 4 million to a small city of about 100k so are getting used to fewer options for wandering around! My partner gets itchy feet at the prospect of staying in all weekend.

Some useful ideas and tips, thanks!

OneLife_OneShot

I spend most weekends with my girlfriend just enjoying each others company as its really the only time we get to see each other.

We don't drink much we just look for cool things to do.

You don't need money to have a good time. Or alcohol.

Asiacat

Greetings from Thailand.

For me Saturday is auction day.

There is a large auction here in Pattaya every Saturday which runs from 11 a.m to 4:30 p.m.

I attend each auction looking for things I need but ready to snap up anything that goes for well below it's actual value to sell on.

I have a friend who runs a second hand bookshop so I nearly always buy any batches of books which I can then pass on at a not unreasonable profit.

I also pick up any antiques that go for bargain prices and tale them up to Bangkok (90 miles away) and put them in the well attended antique auctions there.

In the evening I go to a bar and watch the football from England. Seven hours ahead of GMT so the matches kick off at 10 p.m. over here.

Sunday I work teaching 3 2 hour English classes to Thais.

unoriginal_uk

Weekends are a new thing for my OH and me - previously it was very easy for me not to spend money of a weekend as my OH worked most weekends so I would usually either go see friends or stay at home watching tv and doing housey chores, so no money spent.

At the start of this year though, my OH got a new job so now we have every weekend together (which is amazing ) but means the temptation is there to spend money again!

So we are learning to sit down and look up free stuff to do - which is difficult when the weather is bad like it is at the moment. We have so far done/planned:

Movie day (spend the day in bed with popcorn and DVDs)
Going to London and wandering around (OH has a travelcard so only spend was train ticket for me)
Going to visit friends
Baking Day (pick 2 or 3 things to bake depending on what you've got in the cupboards and have a fun messy day baking cakes etc)
Organising housey stuff day (sounds real boring but for me i.e. OCD queen it's great - I make the OH help me to organise stuff into storage boxes for boot sales and put price labels etc on them - which is actually helping to make money rather than spend but again.....not a great day for everyone hehe)

Will have a think and post again....mind has gone blank but I know loads of other ideas! Also if you google 'free things to do/days out in london/surrey/wherever you live' you'll find quite a lot of stuff!

primaryteacher

duckandcover wrote: »

I love the honesty in this post!

So often people at work say "what did you do this weekend?!" and sometimes it can actually be a struggle to answer - had a nice enjoyable couple of days, but didn't exactly climb mount everest or take a trip to vegas!

Totally agree - very common question in the staff room - and I often think, 'Do you know what... I'm going to have a lovely lie in, then maybe walk the dog somewhere scenic locally... perhaps a spot of gardening if the weather permits, watch a good film snuggled up with my OH and a glass of wine, spend too much time on the internet, visit a local car boot sale, see family...'
So I end up saying 'Oh just a quiet one'... but to be honest I don't want or need my weekends to be action-packed exhausting marathons of special events. But then maybe I'm just a natural homebody!:)

ninadam

BF and i are both working saturday morning.then we are planning to walk the dog both days...good exercise and free!then we are stopping in!watching fa cup football (boooo) and then watching films/tv at night, make a nice meal and have a bottle of champagne i was bought for my birthday last week.I love stopping in when the weathers like this, sofa watching tv with a blanket!xx nina xx

kittypimms

We have 2 dogs. Staying in is not an option!!! Usually a big group walk one day, or a trip out to the forest or beach, then a quieter nearer home day the next where we do cleaning/ sorting out the house stff that needs doing (boring grown up stuff).
TBH we rarely make plans, and tend to go off on random trips if we're bored, so say to a town we've not visited, or to a craft fair or something. It may be complete bobbins*, but if we don't do these things, we'd never know!!

*Southampton. Crikey. Never again.

This weekend, my sister bought me tickets to Cirque du Soleil, so we're off to that London tomorrow

FireWyrm

Baking
Cleaning
Tidying up after everyone else
Washing
Brewing
Reading (pleasure and planning next weeks meals)
Resting (veging on the sofa watching tv)
Odd walk in the country side
Amazon window shopping and entirely too much time on the internet
Get on with making my projects (a new blanket for our new imminent arrival)

And this weekend, cleaning out the Storage Locker so I can stop paying a positively stupid £70 per month to store stuff I havnt seen in 6 years.

If asked, I usually have a 'quiet weekend', but it's anything but I can asure you.

dolly84

I know what people mean about the 'what did you do at the weekend?' question, my children aged 7 and 9 both have a group carpet time on Monday morning where they talk about what they did and you feel like you let them down if they didn't visit Disneyland Paris, learn to play a musical instrument and find a cure for cancer. The competition aspect is crazy for adults and kids. Same with birthdays I find too. One 8 year old at our school had a hot tub party - wrong on so many levels.

I like to get out and about in the countryside at the weekend and would find I spend a lot less on entertainment if we lived in a country where the weather was nice at least some of the time. Many businesses must make a mint through the poor weather here. Having said that we had a picnic in the middle of nowhere a couple of weeks ago and it was freezing but we still enjoyed it.

Cycling is a great weekend pastime then come home, nice bath, something yummy for dinner, wine and a film. M&S dine in for £10 springs to mind here, even better if paid for with survey vouchers.

mascott514

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