List 10 free activities!

[PRICEPLUS]

We all have activities that are inexpensive or free. If we all list them, granted we'll have overlap, then we have the start of a list to refer to in future! A list that wiil be creative, lengthy, fun, and most important money saving!!!

1) Go for a walk. Get exercise and run errands.

2) Take a bike ride. Get exercise and set up bikes to carry items or groceries. You can get a second hand bike or pick a repairable one when someone in the neighborhood trows one out!

3) Dance> Put on a tape or CD and dance. It is aerobic and you can have fun while losing weight.

4) Take a class. Take any free class in your community.

5) Read a book. I like this on cold rainy days. I take my walk and then I come home and get dry. I make myself a hot chocolate and wrap myself in a fleece blanket.

6) Write a letter. Write a five page letter front and back to someone! No computer I am talking old fashioned letter here.

7) Have a cup of tea and watch the sun go down. It is alone time and it can really calm the nerves,

8) Take a movie(free) from the local library!

9) Go to any free or inexpensive community event or concert. I especially like the town fireworks display.

10) Spend some time on Savingadvice.com and save yourself some money!

Please add more to the list!

[PrincessPerky]

My list shows my biase for parenting small children.

1) read to a child (nevermind that he can read himself already, curled up with someone is a great way to read!)

2) help a child look up anything (any idea where the condors are, or why you can't ride them like the cartoon?)

3) learn something (internet or library, cost of gas/electricity alone)

4) Sing a song or three make up words when you forget, no it doesn't have to rhyme or make sense.

5) make a 'kitchen' or 'garage' or whatever out of cardboard with kids

6) take a bath, without the kids for mom, or put them in and read a magazine/book while they keep busy.

7) go on a 'hunt' for anything, things that start with a letter for young kids, things to show fall is here (or whatever season) sets of things for any number (from only pairs, to only things with over 100 stuff)

8) Play a board game, for young kids play 'old maid' or simplified Rummy

9) call a friend or family member with the free minutes on your phone, you pay for them use them!

10) draw a picture with a kid, any idea how to make a monkey? me either, but the kids like when I try .

[Fern]

Plant some flower bulbs for spring.

Invite a firend over for a cup of tea.

Declutter your life by cleaning out the garage, a junk drawer or what have you, maybe setting aside stuff you don't want for an upcoming tag sale.

Pull out your favorite old board games. Remember Trouble? How about checkers or Battleship? Scrabble's always good.

Take your dog for a walk in the woods.

Grab some bags and pick up all the litter on the street you live on. You may meet some of your neighbors when they come out to thank you.

[PRICEPLUS]

There really must be a few more!

[robex]

Go to the library.

Check out free days at a local museum.

Bake something with your kids.

Help an elderly neighbour with yard work.

Invite a friend over for tea.

Sit with a cat on the porch.

In the winter, go sledding.

In the summer, go to the waterpark.

Find a park with a swingset and fly.

Curl up under a blanket with your loved ones, have popcorn, and watch an old movie.

Go for a walk on the beach.

[contrary1]

Teach a class through your local Y or community school program

Get a group of friends to meet regularly to walk & visit

Invite a group of people who knit to join you..........either in public or at someones home

Volunteer ANYWHERE!!!

Clean out your closets & cupboards, taking the excess to the local food & clothing banks

If you live close to a metro area..........find out all the free days at local museums & galleries. Put one on your schedule every month

Picnics! Anytime, anywhere! Winter, sit in the car at the lake...........spring & summer, investigate new little neighborhood parks. Good with a group & great by yourself with a good book.

Start a potluck night & invite friends to join you for dinner.

Start playing cards. Invite others to join you in pinocle nights

play music............piano, guitar, whatever you can.............If not your own music, use the library to do a study of a particular composer, bringing CD's home.

[nanamom]

1. Games, card, board, or any type. My DH and I play them while DS2 falls asleep
2. Walks or bike rides
3. Crafts with kids, using recyclable stuff of course.
4. Read a book alone or to someone
5. Write a story
6. Snow angels, snowmen, sled riding
7. If you live where it it warm, walk in th erain (not accompanied by lightening of course)
8. Have a tea party, preferably with little kids but you could do it with friends too
9. Swap meet, invite people to bring 5 things they want to get rid of and swap
10. Go to the library, they probably have cool programs, internet access, great books, movies to rent, some even have toys to lend.

[Ima saver]

I like to sit out on the deck with my husband and watch and listen to the creek rush by. toast each other and your lives!! Eat by candlelight and dance after dinner!

[Lemony]

1) Clean a section of your house, while listening to classic rock (hey, something has to make it enjoyable!)

2) Take a shower

3) plan your vegetable garden for the spring (or transplant flowers in warmer climates)

4) Read a book

5) Watch an old movie you already own, or catch one starting on TBS

6) Bake a batch of muffins

7) Assuming you have the materials, Paint! (I have the materials, I just haven't bothered in a long time)

8) Play a board game, or if you're by yourself do a web sudoku.

9) Go to the coffee shop and read a newspaper that someone left behind.

10) Try and come up with 10 more free things to do. it's hard!

[howmuch]

1. Breathing in and out in a meditative/relaxing manner
2. Talking w/ kids and wife.

[Snoopy2645]

for me where I live somethings we do are

1. go to the library
2. go to the park
3. go to the the nature center
4. walk the skywalks
5. go the nature center
6. go to the lewis & clark center
7. go to the lake
8. go visiting people like grandmas
9. ride bikes
10. invite friends over

[jodi]

Find a new recipe online and make it
Get a deck of card and play solitaire, pitch, pinochle, hearts, spades, etc.
Do a crossword puzzle or Sudoko
Yardwork, gardening
Clean out the freezer and make soup
Dream up more ways to save money

[DivaJen]

1. go for a walk
2. watch a movie you already own
3. play a game
4. cook
5. invite friends over to share a in 2, 3 or 4 above
6. read
7. listen to music
8. finish something you started and never got back to that's lying around your house
9. write a letter (yeah, yeah, 39 cents to mail it)
10. work in your garden, yard

[BillsGirl]

this is a fun post!!!

1) take a walk around lake eola

2) walk around the mall

3) explore a section of town you haven't been to before (maybe woods, lakes, houses)

4) do yard work (we get the baby in the play pen and hubby n I love it)

5) Learn to cook a new dish

6) Read The Bible

7) Read any bood

8) play dominoes or monopoly or cards or risk

9) theme parks (we both work there so it's free)

10) take a nap.....lol I couldn't think of one!

[locolorenzo24]

-Hum a made up melody (with/without words)
-Walk to your errands
-Write a poem/ditty/to do list.
-go to the bookstore just to read.
-Window shop in some fancy store where you know you're not buying anything
-clean house
-Call a friend
-clean your car
-Go to a free concert/author reading/movie showing/etc...
-play guitar

[PrincessPerky]

Can I add more?

11)build a dream house of legos/duplos (duplos are bigger legos, safe for mouthing children, easier to build with)

12)make a card or note from cut out shapes and child writing (DD wrote 3 of the letters to her name yesterday!)

13) read an 'important paper' that you were required to in school but skimmed, like constitution or something.

14) plan a vacation, I know you might eventually want to spend the money on it, but planning it is free, and can help motivate the official saving.

15)stock a dream house from an ikea catalog or other such thing. I used to do this with my bro, we were silly, but it was fun. Sometimes we would challenge ourselves to the cheapest house, sometimes to a theme, always free.

[cicy33]

Here are the few things we do:

watch cable ( I know this isnt' free but considering it might keep us from going out and spending money I added it)
Play poker
Play Yahtzee
Play ship, captain, crew (dice game)
play on my computer (again internet but still cheaper than option above)
I do love to read but don't get to very often
That is about it for us.

[Ima saver]

jacuzzi, candlelight and wine. (ok not free but not too expensive)

[miclason]

1. make a movie theater in your own home (make some popcorn, pop a movie, close the curtains, turn off the lights!)
2. go outside and watch the clouds - extra fun if you can find shapes in them!
3. write a journal
4. if there are grown-ups around, try to remember what kind of clothes you wore 5, 10, 15 years ago...what kind of music you listened to, and what was your favorite TV Show...
5. Tell a story to a child, but without reading!! (honest, is not that easy!)
6. make soap bubbles!
7. Watch fish (it IS relaxing!)
8. Play with the family pet...
9. If you have children, tell them stories about when they "were little" (4 to 7 year olds love it!)- for older kids, tell them stories about when YOU were little
10. Tongue twisters!!!

[marjorie]

Use local high school pool
Use community college gym during "open gym" hours
Borrow kayak from teen center, and go nuts!
Skate!
Take a little kid for a walk where you go so slowly they get to examine everything
Look up recipies that need ingredients you already have
Repot something, it'll appreciate it
Inventory household
Go to a town meeting- see what's going on and meet people
Give an internet class at the library