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No internet for a week. UPDATED #53
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I am after some help, suggestions, creative ideas please.
Hubby and I are, from tomorrow, having a week without the internet. Although there will be some exceptions (we will still have sky/Amazon prime).
The idea is to spend more time together. As it stands, he will play computer games, I will be on my phone and the next thing we know the evening has passed. We are also aiming to go to bed at the same time. At the moment I will go to bed to watch TV at about half 9, he wil come to bed about 11ish.
But....... what on earth do you do? Any ideas? We always make dinner together and eat together, so that will remain the same.
There are films, realistically that is just a couple of hours, we could play board games, again a few hours. So I am after ideas. It is not forever, just a week and we thought it would be fun to see what we can do together - and if we last!
It is too dark/cold for walks, as being outdoors would be so much easier. I was talking at work and most said they just potter and do not spend time with partners.
Any ideas at all, I am open to suggestions. I would like to say I will keep you updated, but it would have to be in my lunch breaks as home is a no internet zone from midnight......
Hubby and I are, from tomorrow, having a week without the internet. Although there will be some exceptions (we will still have sky/Amazon prime).
The idea is to spend more time together. As it stands, he will play computer games, I will be on my phone and the next thing we know the evening has passed. We are also aiming to go to bed at the same time. At the moment I will go to bed to watch TV at about half 9, he wil come to bed about 11ish.
But....... what on earth do you do? Any ideas? We always make dinner together and eat together, so that will remain the same.
There are films, realistically that is just a couple of hours, we could play board games, again a few hours. So I am after ideas. It is not forever, just a week and we thought it would be fun to see what we can do together - and if we last!
It is too dark/cold for walks, as being outdoors would be so much easier. I was talking at work and most said they just potter and do not spend time with partners.
Any ideas at all, I am open to suggestions. I would like to say I will keep you updated, but it would have to be in my lunch breaks as home is a no internet zone from midnight......
Forty and fabulous, well that's what my cards say....
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Have you tried sex?
I'm not that fond of it myself, but some people seem to enjoy it.
Or how about a good session wallpapering the back bedroom together.A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.0 -
A jigsaw???0
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Ouija Board?? :-D0
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Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »Have you tried sex?
I'm not that fond of it myself, but some people seem to enjoy it.
Or how about a good session wallpapering the back bedroom together.
Tried it once
I was more thinking of the none obvious..... decorating is actually a good idea.gettingtheresometime wrote: »A jigsaw???
Loving this! We have done jigsaws from photos of previous holidays I might hunt out.Forty and fabulous, well that's what my cards say....0 -
This is a wind up surely. If you don't know how to spend time with your husband then i can only assume you have both married the wrong person0
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Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »Have you tried sex?
I'm not that fond of it myself, but some people seem to enjoy it.
Or how about a good session wallpapering the back bedroom together.
Ive not heard of "wallpapering the back bedroom" before. What positions is that??
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This is a wind up surely. If you don't know how to spend time with your husband then i can only assume you have both married the wrong person
Totally not a wind up....... we spend a fair bit of time not in each others company. I go to the gym, he goes out with his hobby, we come home and yes we spend time together, but not necessarily doing things together.
To be honest when I talked about it at work others were similar. One even said they couldn't do it for a week. It might just be the people I asked. One said she reads every night and would hate to give that up, and I understand that.
But I am struggling to think of things we can do together to fill a week that doesn't involve others or internet etc. Yes a couple of nights or a few hours a night, but I recon I'll be ready to throttle him after 3 nights.......Forty and fabulous, well that's what my cards say....0 -
I didn't have internet for a month. I read a lot of books, I caught up on all those 'when I get round to it ' jobs and I watched a lot of DVD's.The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with someone who matters to you.0
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welshbookworm wrote: »I didn't have internet for a month. I read a lot of books, I caught up on all those 'when I get round to it ' jobs and I watched a lot of DVD's.
I love reading, I have a Kindle and can read book after book but the idea is to spend the time doing something together. So him reading and me reading wouldn't really work but you have given me a great idea. He has just got a new SAS book I said I'd read it after him, but maybe we could actually read it to each other. Thank you I think that is really good and I would never have thought of that.Forty and fabulous, well that's what my cards say....0
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