What do people do at weekends?!

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This makes me sound ridiculous but DH & I are both mid & late thirties, no kids, reasonable income and hardly ever have anything to do at the weekend.

We normally just stay at home or in the garden, sometimes go for a wander to the local pub but I don't want to do that all the time. All our friends have young kids so they're always doing stuff with them, occasionally we'll join them but to be honest as we don't have kids fetes and fairs and things aren't really our thing.

I feel like we're wasting so much of our lives just staying at home but am a bit lost for ideas...?

I study a language, DIY the house and kayak. If I didn't have kids I would probably laze around in bed all day reading and eating toast. Or hike.

Have some kids and join in

I'm late 30s, single, no kids.
This morning I went out for brunch and had a browse round a couple of book/gift shops. Did the food shopping. Now at home and need to tidy up.
Tomorrow I'm meeting a friend and we're going to an art exhibition and then for a walk.
Most weekends are a bit like this. Usually go out in the day, very rarely in the evening. Sometimes I go for day trips or to visit family for the weekend.

Do the six peaks challenge. Do a mountain a month!

Snowden is great! You could even stay overnight in a nice B and B after it.

Travel, explore, visit things, sport. Making or building something. Volunteering (you could make an incredible difference to somebody!). Campaigning. Studying.
The worlds your oyster!

That’s a good question! My DH and I often ask each other what we actually did before we had DC.
A lot of my friends spend time doing up properties, or going on mini breaks. Admittedly this takes up a lot of money so not an option for everyone!
Also having friends over for dinner/brunch, and making a day of it - eg shopping and cooking in the morning if the meal is dinner, or taking the friends out to something local (even if a walk in the countryside) after brunch.

Btw don’t discount doing things with your friends and their children - some of the kiddie outings are fun, honestly!

Before DC, we went out every weekend to the cinema plus eating out and going away for a long weekend, often to European cities.

With teen DC, it's mainly chauffeuring them around their activities and social life.

Exercise, have sex, brunch/lunch:dinner/cocktails, cinema, theatre, art show, shopping, bookshop, cafes, museum, long walks, nights away, house sorting..

Go on day trips and be a tourist.

Biking, festival, walking tour, cook together, go dancing, comedy club, bowling, bongo bingo, game night, wine tasting, picnic, casino...

Have a cooking day, pick a recipem go buy ingredients, from markets and local shops,no supermarket allowed and then cook a fab meal.

Plan to go away to another city for a weekend.

I would climb hills and go away for weekends

Been doing a pruning demo at a garden centre all morning, and now drinking tea prior to sorting out some random tat ready for our village garage/yard sale tomorrow.

Trying for a child is a good pass time! ;)

Well today I have:
Posted cards
Washed the car
Done the recycling
Two lots of washing
Stripped the bed
Bought new flooring for the kitchen
Shopping
My mother's shopping
Got dinner in the slow cooker
Wrapped birthday presents
Done dishes
Hoovered
Picked sweet peas
Changed light bulbs.

Love how weekends are seen as "time off" .

Day trips. I'm in London and drive into Kent for 30 minutes this morning and went for an amazing breakfast and Victoria sponge cake, then a castle, then a country park, another castle, a Lavender farm with pick your own apples, (bought loads of farm cheese, lavender oil, soap, candles)

And am back home for 3 to relax, watch and film.

You just GO OUT. (My kids are grown up)

Parkrun of course...!!!!

Join the National Trust? We love walking around the properties. We do have young children and they love the parks but there is plenty to do without them. Cakes are amazing too.

Can you take up a new hobby together? Until recently DH and I used to go to gym classes together at the weekends. We also volunteered at local charities one weekend in four (very rewarding).

Wow - to the people suggesting "have kids", there are so many sensitive reasons why that might not be a possibility. Catch yourselves on!

We bought a house in Jan 2018 so I feel although major redecoration is done there's still house stuff to do.
So today; watched end of rugby with tea, went out for breakfast, little supermarket shop, moved some stuff from my studio, went to the tip, sorting out my home studio while partner tidied / cleaned.

Other stuff we do;
Go to galleries and museums (I'm an artist so perhaps more interested than most)
Meals out
Box sets + films at home
See family
Theatre (we go to a small indie one where tickets are around a tenner)
Pub
Crafting (me)
Gaming
Sometimes board games
Chores like washing but we try to do the majority of cleaning in the week
Allotment (mainly my partner)
Cooking
Cinema (we have limitless pasaes6for odeon)

I'm child free by choice and do sometimes wonder how I'd manage not being able to do as we fancy! What do you enjoy?

*still always house stuff to do

I work, same as the rest of the week 😴
Besides that tho, in the quieter times, I ride, I walk the dog, I visit friends and family, I go out for cocktails with friends, go to the pub with my husband, visit national trust properties, do the housework, go to the beach, rain or shine, walk in the rain, surf and/or in the sun and go to Pilates class when I can.

I had kids late, and tbh my weekends before were just taking care of my elderly parents. So they were mind numbingly boring.

But on the odd occasion I was free....we kinda wasted them. I remember I would spend all day reading the Sunday Times. Good for decompressing, but I didn't actually DO a whole lot. A bit of shopping, maybe a pub lunch. It wasn't very interesting. I never had any hobbies besides reading.

Having kids definitely sharpens the mind regarding weekends. Now you're trying to claw back time for yourself so you start picking up hobbies just to have some "me" time.

Now I run every weekend. As the kids get older I may join a club at the weekends.

I have a sibling who's child free who does a lot of open water swimming and kayaking and triathaloning.

So yeah, you have to investigate hobbies. They don't have to be physical, but there are admittedly more physical hobbies about.

But I do believe that if you don't have a hobby, weekends can kinda drift by in a haze. Not that there's anything wrong with that if you like that, but it's not great if like you, you feel a vague dissatisfaction about it.