Do you plan your weekends?

paulineb_2

I dont plan my weekends, even nights out tend to be at quite short notice and Im fine with having a weekend or a couple of weekends with nothing to do.

Counting_Pennies_2

So much routine we are swept along by it. I long to lie in and doing anything by chance.

lostinrates

poorly_scammo wrote: »

I hate organising stuff too far in advance and am slightly uneasy that free time has to be 'maximised'. It sounds very regimented and boot campy to me. My father never sits still for a minute and has to have every second of every day planned. It drives me bonkers as he never relaxes and never gives himself time to ponder which I think is a very important thing to be able to do.

Some weekends are planned if there's something special that I want/have to do but unless it's a birthday party or something which can only be done on a particular day then planning usually comes on Friday or Thursday at the earliest. The dog has to go out whatever day it is and if we do do something at the weekend, we have to decide whether he's coming with us or not. Beyond that, we take each weekend as it comes.

Probably is a bit boot campy, but on the other hand, for us, we find if we don't things drift or we get sidetracked into doing things that are engaging but not of longterm enrichment or benefit.

Our time together is hard won and never long enough. DH comes home on a Friday evening, and goes on a . Monday morning, I often have clients contacting me or wanting me in a Saturday morning. We also have animals who demand a 'structure' of sorts, and nature creates a timetable of sorts for us.

I don't think there is a right and a wrong way, but it does seem one can drive in life or be a passenger. I get carsick unless I drive or at least sit shot gun. We have to go with the flow, there is no point painting a wall outside because its on the schedule even though its pouring with rain, but at some point it all has to be done. If its scheduled there is more efficiency and more time for the purely extra curricular.

DKLS

Usually a nice mix of planned activities and days or weekends where we just wing it and do what we fancy which could be as basic as a walk in the woods to a mad friday dash to the airport to go on a cheap last minute city break.

victory

DKLS wrote: »

Usually a nice mix of planned activities and days or weekends where we just wing it and do what we fancy which could be as basic as a walk in the woods to a mad friday dash to the airport to go on a cheap last minute city break.

Oh that does sound exciting, a mad city break, where do you go off to?:D

Tropez

We don't make any particular plans. Most Sundays we have my mum over for lunch. Other than that it's how our moods take us. This weekend we opted for a lot of lazing around on the sofa, watching films, sports and catching up with what we have on Sky+ and what we're getting through on Lovefilm/Netflix.

Our lack of planning may be because whenever one of us asks the other what we want to do at any given moment the usual response is either "don't mind" or something... suggestive.

Every now and again one of us will surprise the other with something though, which does take a bit of planning but that's not the norm.

aliasojo

Funny this thread should come up now, this was the very subject discussed in our house recently.

We've always been in the 'done nothing much' camp, simply because we've been skint for years and never had any spare money to do anything at the weekends.

Very recent discussions between my brother and I have highlighted the fact that neither of us have any happy memories from our childhood.

So, spurred on by that, OH and I have decided we're going to make more of an effort to take the kids out more and if that means our debt takes longer to clear then so be it. Last weekend we went to Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. It was free to get in so all it cost was the petrol to drive to Glasgow. We spent a great day there and learned some stuff at the same time. (I didn't know that reindeer became extinct in the Highlands 8000 years ago due to the climate change for instance and that the reindeer that are in the Cairngorms now were brought in specially from Sweden. ) I lived in the Highlands for 30 years, I expect I should really have known that, lol.

We're going to try to plan something at least once or twice a month. It will still need to be cheap or free but life is too short to couch slob and wait for better financial times to arrive. We probably need to plan and organise rather than waiting till the weekend comes simply because we would likely procrastinate so much we'd end up going nowhere. :rotfl:

lady1964

Sometimes we make plans, sometimes we don't

Take last weekend as an example; we had lots to do in the house preparing for a couple of rooms being decorated whilst we're on holiday, so had lots to clear away/trip to the tip/taking down of nets/general tidying up and prep. I thought this would take longer than it did, so we had a jaunt out yesterday, which was lovely as it wasn't planned.

Other weekends will be planned; my parents coming to spend the weekend in a few weekends' time or meeting friends for an evening out or a theatre visit.

Generally speaking, we might make plans for one weekend day but keep the other free for housework & a bit of lazing around.

74jax

I like to know I'm doing 'something' but not really what. Ie ask a friend for lunch then on the morning call each other for where. Or arrange with hubby to go out Sat night but again maybe decide at 5pm where.

If I have no plans and someone asks to do something then I know I can say yes as Hubby isn't expecting me.

One thursday a friend and I decided to go Ireland to visit my family on the Friday so I could send hubby a text saying 'I'm off'.

I don't think you're wanting a rigid structure, but knowing your seeing friends on Saturday and a meal with hubby on Sunday would give you something to talk about Monday.

But there's nothing wrong with saying you had a blissful veg out over the weekend, as long as its what you want.

VfM4meplse

Always have plans for the weekend - these do not include housework or paperwork, and my days of taking work home are over. Also like to go out 2-3 times per week so if I don't dust for a while, so what? But am always up early which is a great time to crack on with the housework.