If you didn’t need to work for money, what would you do with your time ?

[Pheonix2023]

How would you fill your days

Gardening, play piano, take language lessons, volunteer to hear readers at an infant school, dog walk, exercise class, run a brownie pack, read.

Do you have a dog or would you get one ?

I have a dog, but my husband does more of the walks as it fits his work better.

Travel and volunteering.

I don't work (early retirement) so I do gardening, crafts, reading, cooking, socialising. It's great.

Look after my family better, start writing again, walks, travel, gardening, education courses on subjects I'm curious about.

There is so much to do if you didn't need to work for money.

1-become a zumba instructor and then move on to free classess for specific groups of people

2-art classess

3-travel

4-various volunteering

5- dog foster parent

Art, cooking, watching films with my cats, seeing friends, going places, arsing about, doing things up, something useful (and probably spending too much time on Twitter)

I volunteer and spend time with family and friends; I go and see my granny 3 times a week and am very grateful to have this time with her. I meet my mum and sister for lunch weekly.
Generally do the things I used to do around work so that our evenings and weekends and completely free to do things we want to do.

Tumbleweed101
how do you mean look after your family better ?

Well, the total amount of posts on Mumsnet would increase around 60%, I suspect.

I would:

Volunteer one day a week. Either at a food bank or as a PP said, hearing readers at a primary school.

Go on a walk every day if possible and listen to an interesting podcast while I walked.

Go to the gym more, I'm currently lucky if I go once a week around work/kids.

Meet friends for coffee if they were also off.

Use the local library and read more books.

Volunteer and travel

I don't need to work for money, I work full time though.

Walk dog, catch up with friends, travel, read, exercise, volunteer

I would love not to have to work!

I’d read, craft, do gardening, volunteer at a food bank or similar, see friends, travel, cook more complicated food & do other cookery courses, do an art/pottery course, walk the dog more interesting places than just the local park every day, get an allotment, go to gigs and the theatre… I’d fill my days easily.

Read, walk, swim.
Volunteer with children (school, Brownies)
Go to the cinema/theatre
Travel
Maybe do some courses based on interests
Catch up with friends whenever possible

Travel. I'd love to foster dogs but I live in a flat so not possible.

I don't work. I spend my time staying on top of a big house and a big family. I cook nice meals for everyone. I usually have some kind of diy project on the go. I have a dog and live close to a lovely NT place so walk a lot and we often walk down to see the deer.
My upbringing was very different to my childrens

I don't have to work but do (albeit very part time). I find it hard not working at all because I'm the sort of person that needs structure/a purpose. I've tried volunteering before but I find that it's not quite the same as being an employee. Even though people are friendly and welcoming, you don't always feel fully part of the team. Everybody works nowadays and it often seems frowned upon (especially on mumsnet) if you don't. It shouldn't be like that but unfortunately it is. People always ask what you do as a job as a conversation starter.

I would set up a business and use my training/skills to help little charities get better at what they do...but I'd do it on a 'pay what you can afford' basis.

I would be a professional potterer.

I’m retiring this year and people keep asking me what I’ll do - I can’t wait! I’m aiming to just do what I do now but more of it and more consistently, so

• look after my happy marriage with good food and good financial management and maybe take over some of the housework DH does
• look after my mental and physical health with exercise, gardening, and staying social
• support my family - elderly PIL, adult children
• keep up my volunteering for as long as I’m fit and able
• keep up my paid hobbies to bring in an extra bit of pocket money

Work brings me nothing that I will miss any more.

DH and I used to talk about fostering but I think that would have to wait until DSs are older. Volunteering (I can never do any of the school stuff), keeping on top of the house and childcare (the last two are currently outsourced).

It would, I suspect, be a bit of a waste for me personally. At the moment I’m very useful as a volunteer because of my job (I’m an accountant) and that would fade very quickly (within about five years, based on DM’s experience post retirement). And I do not do terribly well at home…the last few months of both maternity leaves were an endurance ordeal.

If we had a lot of money, buy a bigger house and foster whilst still outsourcing cleaning etc.

I'd do 3 days a week at the charity shop I volunteer in as I love it there.

My house would be much tidier. I'd do the decorating jobs I don't find the energy for currently.

More painting, more reading, cat fostering.

Go and see my family much more, especially as my mum is 80 and I don't get to see her as much as I'd like.

Breathe. I'm audhd, and working is exhausting for me. I'm really good at what I do, but it leaves little energy for other stuff.

If money was no object, I'd have precooked meals delivered to me as I struggle with feeding myself due to the above.