What’s going on everyone? I hope things have been good for you. Is it me or does it seem like the weekend isn’t long enough? I already know the answer. Some of my weekends are busy, while other times, it’s slow cruising. If you find yourself to be bored during the weekend, then you are in the right place. In this post, I share with you several free things that you can do this weekend.
Go to the Park
The first item on the list of free things to do this weekend is going to the park. The park is always a nice place to visit. Depending on the size of your city, you may have a lot to choose from. You could bring a blanket and some food and have a picnic out there. If you have allergies, make sure that you take your Claritin first. You don’t want to be out there sneezing the whole time. That would mess up the experience.
Visit the Library
The library is always free, many people (including myself) haven’t been to one in a minute. I need to change that. Besides books, you can also check out movies and music. If you work at home, the library could be a change of place for you. It may even allow you to get your creative juices flowing.
Cleaning
This is the perfect weekend for you to do some cleaning around your house. Some places that you should clean are closets, drawers, cabinets, and your garage if you have one. Once you find things that you don’t need anymore you donate them or get rid of them.
Learn a Foreign Language
Next up on the list of free things to do this weekend is to learn a foreign language. You can rent some books on the language that you are interested in the library. There are also websites such as Duolingo or even YouTube that can help you out.
Start a Photo Project
Most of us have a box of family pictures – here is a time to go through it and create an album. Once you begin this process, you’ll surely be hooked. If your photos are digital, upload the keepers to a website like Flickr. It is totally free and so cool. You can edit, organize, and crop them to make albums, then share them with loved ones. If you’re old school, you can print out some pictures and put them in an album,
Take a Nap
Not just a regular nap, make it memorable with all your favorite stuff – comfy blanket, open window, soft music, pillow, or secluded location outdoors. Or even better, turn off your phone, get engaged with a great book, and steal away for the whole afternoon.
Make a Playlist for Someone Special
Pick out some special music and make someone’s day. If you can not create a playlist, find some tutorials on itunes.com or Microsoft.com. When you are done, you can either burn a CD or load it up onto the person’s cellphone or iPod.
Go Geocaching
It is not exactly a sporting event, but an outdoor treasure hunting game involving a GPS to hide and seek caches (containers). Typically, a cache is a small waterproof container that containers treasure/ logbooks, usually trinkets and little value toys. Over 600,000 geocachers are registered on several websites do this pastime. Just with a GPS-enabled phone, you are good to go. Just visit geocaching.com and read how to get started. You will need to register, but it is free. When you are ready, input your zip code and start Geocaching.
Find Your Favorite Student (or Yourself) a Scholarship
If you have a few hours of free time, you can visit some websites like Fastweb to check out some scholarships and Grant available for college students. On FastWeb, here are a lot of information and advice to help win more awards. You will have to register your student or yourself to help filter the type of award they qualify for. It is not a quick procedure, but you have a high probability of discovering scholarships and grants ideal for your specific background.
Volunteer
You could use a day of your weekend at the library to organize a periodical or undertake other tasks that are left continuously undone due to insufficient help. Visit a hospital to ask if their pediatric ward needs a storyteller, help them at a women’s shelter, or other places that need volunteers. Call your church to find out about projects that need someone to help out.
Take in a Local Event
Several cities have host free concerts, picnics, and festivals, so find out from your newspapers, the website of local colleges, chambers of commerce, churches, etc. You can also google the name of your city with the keyword – tourist, and get ready for a pleasant surprise of the number of event attractions that you had either forgotten about or were not even aware of their existence. By doing that, you can support your community and have a ball simultaneously- killing two birds with a stone.
Go on a picnic
A picnic with close relatives is an excellent way to have fun without spending money. You can go to your preferred outdoor spot and use it as a chance to explore new places. Here is a strategy for you – pull up Google maps and search for green patches near your home. Then google that name to see if it is a place you can go for a picnic.
Take a Hike
Hiking is one of the best ways to see nature while exercising the body. Find trails near you using channels like AllTrails, which gives you a detailed trail map, reviews, and pictures.
Read Some Books
This is one free activity you can carry out over the weekend. Books are virtually free to read, especially those you’ve had on the chef for a long time. If you don’t have a book you can easily find one at a local library or, you could just get a free eBook off the internet. It doesn’t have to be a novel but it could also be a history book or a travel book. There is so much you can do from reading a book and once you indulge in them, it can be really fun.
Plan Your Routine
The weekend is a nice time to plan your time and routine for the next week. It might not be very fun but it’ll sure help you get things in order and make the coming week a lot less stressful. You could go ahead and plan your meals for the week, supplies you have to get and when to get them, and how much time you can spend on a task. This can be a very useful way to spend a weekend and it doesn’t cost you a dime.
Make a Dinner Date
It’s the weekend and a perfect way to spend it is to go on dinner dates. Dinner dates aren’t as expensive as you think and could be probably free if you have food lying around the house. You could make a nice meal and invite some friends over for dinner. That way, you can strengthen the bond between you guys by having fun at the dinner table. On other weekends you could switch it up and go over to their place for a dinner date. This could be a really fun way to spend a weekend. You could make some salad, or pasta or even a sauce.
Go out and Take Some Pictures
Sick and tired of staying indoors? Then you can opt for an outdoor photo session. It’s a beautiful world out there and what better time to capture it than on the weekend with your smartphone. Most smartphones these days come with really great cameras, so you do not need to hire a photographer to take pictures. You could even take some friends with you and you could have a nice laugh taking pictures and walking around.
Visit the Museum
Another free way to spice up your weekend is a good ole visit to the museum. Almost every city has a museum these days. Visiting could help make your weekend a whole lot more fun. You could go alone or take your friends and family with you. Visiting Museums is a nice way to learn about history, culture and see a lot of artifacts. You could even take some pictures at the museum for memory’s sake. There are a lot of free museums you could visit and see prehistoric animals like dinosaurs, and other interesting things, even art galleries.
Connect With Friends and Family
Over the week, we are always too busy with work and our other businesses to keep in touch with our friends or even maintain a healthy relationship with the family. This has led to a lot of relationship failures between friends and family, and this is major because we do not make out time to hang out with them or even call them.
This could however be done over the weekend. Your relationships do not have to suffer because of work. Call your friends for the weekend and invite them over so you could do things together. Take a drive and say hi to your mom, or dad, or sibling. It costs absolutely nothing and could be very helpful to you.
Treat Your Self to a Homemade Spa Night
One way to relieve your stress is a little hot bath and some relaxation over the weekend. Don’t want to spend all that money going to a spa, why not create a mini spa in your home? Prep your bathroom for spa night by adding some scented candles, some roses, some body oil, and some scenting soap. Put on some nice cool blues and let the music play as you lay in the tub soaking up that heat. It will do your body some good and help you relax.
Movie Night
This is another fun activity I love to do on the weekends. I call it “Netflix and Chill”. Throughout the week we are probably so bothered with meeting submission deadlines or getting the job done that we are not able to find the time to catch up with some of our beloved series or movies. Over the weekends I get myself some nice hot meal and a little bottle of wine and turn on the TV and watch some movies.
Movies are interesting ways to pass the time and have fun. You could also invite friends over and make it a movie night where you all agree on a particular movie. Movie nights on the weekend are great for bonding and they almost cost nothing.
Game Night
Another fun free activity to carry out over the weekend is game night. If you love to play games then the game night will do just great for you. It doesn’t matter the type of game. It could be a PlayStation or an Xbox or it could be simple board games like Scrabble or chess. It doesn’t matter games are fun and free ways to pass the weekend. It also has the habit of bringing friends to close through a little bit of healthy competition and fun.
Chase Your Passion
Thanks to the stress of working a 9 to 5 or running a business, we barely have the time to follow our passions or hobbies. Weekends are great times to do that. Maybe your passion is to learn the guitar or take singing lessons; you could do that over the weekend without spending a dime. Thanks to Youtube lessons. You could take out time from your weekend to chase that passion or learn something new. Maybe a new language or sport does not matter.
Yard Sale
Here’s a little something you can do over the weekend. The yard sale is gold, not only because you do not spend money but you can make money from it. Whether we like it or not there is always going to be something down there that we don’t need, but we keep it anyway. Well, it’s time to empty that basement and start a yard sale.
Yard sales are awesome to have over the weekends because they can help you meet new people in your neighborhood and also make some money.
Weekends are meant to be enjoyed. You shouldn’t have to have a boring weekend just because you can’t afford it or you don’t want to spend some money. Hopefully, these tips can help you have the time of your life.
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Previously Published on mymoneychronicles.com
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