What do you do at the weekend?

[Fandangoes]

Every weekend my husband and I ask each other what we are going to do and never have any idea! Children are all grown up now so it’s just the 2 of us. He works away Mon-Friday so we like to spend time together but I guess we’ve run out of ideas! We go for walks, meals, shopping, cinema. We’re not big drinkers. It’s Friday night and we’re stuck again - what are you doing tomorrow?

I was going to say you must be fun at parties, but given your attitude I don’t imagine you get invited to many. I really don’t understand why you would post something so mean spirited.

OP - I’m not quite in the same boat as DH and I have a young child, but as she is getting older and attending more clubs or spending more time with friends, we do seem to have more time. So aside from the usual housework that has to be done on the weekend, DH and I go to exhibitions, museums, the theatre, comedy nights, and the occasional gig. We read a lot too, and maybe watch a TV series. But the big thing is that we try to socialise at weekends. We invite people round or go to theirs. Most of this can be done with or without our DC in tow.

We have children in tow but in general we like to plan one "doing" day and one chilling out day for the weekend.

If we are doing something that could be seeing friends or family, going to a National Trust property, out to one of our favourite cafés.....we are working our way through all of them within half an hour radius, see what's going on locally. Zoos, cinema, theatre..... anything and everything!

For example there's a vintage steam rally about half an hour away from us today so we're going to that, then we have friends and their kids over for a Eurovision party this evening.

Tomorrow will be a chilling day. Just pottering at home usually.... baking, playing games, watching films, sitting in the garden when the weather allows. We may go on a walk or a bike ride but that's adventurous as it gets.

I can sympathise, we are the same, it’s so boring ,but we end up doing chores then rewarding ourselves with a nice coffee somewhere. It’s all we can do.

No kids here so similar situation to you OP. We both work from home a lot so need to get out of the house at weekends for one day at least

Saturday - might go for a long walk, or cinema, bit of light shopping, visit a museum / exhibition, pub and usually eat out in evening

Sunday - gym, grocery delivery, I might meet a friend for lunch, otherwise stay home, baking, cook a nice dinner, read, watch telly

I have found that we are not good at doing anything other than what needs to be done. Happy to clean, garden, shop if we need something etc but if my DH says shall we go to the coast and have a walk and a coffee I think why? What’s the point? We will spend an hour driving there, walk for an hour, pay almost a tenner for coffee and then spend an hour driving home. I think I just enjoy being at home.

I limit myself to time spent on chores unless it’s some specific big job to do. I like to have a balance of chores, social and time alone.
Look at any events or exhibitions in your local and wider area that you might enjoy.
Next week, there’s a national science festival so quite a few talks going on mainly in pubs, if that’s your thing.
Do anything you want. Painting, kayaking, walks, social meet up groups. There’s so much to do if you look.

I live alone and do my own thing.
Today im chilling out with my laptop.
Tomorrow im doing the same.
Yesterday I painted the kitchen, took 4 bags of stuff to the charity bin so I need a rest.

No one interrupting me no chores to do.
Order Donna wrap for lunch.
Might go for a walk later on tonight.

The weekends are for resting and regrouping, ready for the week ahead.

dog walks
coffee with friends
cleaning the house (urrrghh - hate this bit)
baking
gardening
bell ringing
reading
occasional theatre/concerts

We're glamping in the Lakes. Currently sat in the sun with a cup of tea after a delicious breakfast with the sausage dog curled up on my lap. We're off to Coniston in a bit to see the Bluebird then might have a walk around Windermere or Ambleside later and a pub lunch.

I am exploring the Roman ruins of London today. It's what I do most weekends. Looking for ancient things.

That sounds like bliss, have the best time!

My weekends are usually taking my son swimming at the gym I go to, countryside dog walks, pizza, baking, reading, watching TV. I too have a chronic illness and work in the nhs so weekends are downtime and recovery.

Occasionally like this weekend I’ll go out and see a friend or go to the beach with the dog. Eurovision tonight, with scorecards and snacks. 🎹🎤

Op, for a while me and dh got into a similar rut.
When the kids were little, right up until they left home we always had plans . Once they left Saturday would arrive and we would say things like
" what do you fancy doing doing?"
"Don't mind, what do you want to do?"
" Don't mind."
"Any ideas?"
"No, not really, you?"
And so on!!!!! 😆 🤣

What I eneded up doing was getting scrap paper and making a 'milm' box. If any anyone follows Good boy Ollie on insta, you will know what I am talking about. If not, I write a load of ideas down, individually on a scap piece of paper fold them and put them in a tin. On Friday night, when we knew we were both free on Saturday or Sunday or both we would pick a piece of paper.
I would get my ideas from places we had heard about but never got round to going to or had forgotten about, ideas from instagram/ Facebook, recommenations. Also things we like doing such as cycling and hiking.
As much as possible I put in places that would be off the beaten track or not over popular eg. I dont suggest Dovestones or Ambleside for a Saturday afternoon!
I use 'AllTrails' or 'Hiiker' for walk ideas.
I know what we dont like as well for example making a trip to a farmers market or garden centre would bore the arse off both of us unless it we were just passing by going somewhere else. We would never ever shop for fun, eg go to the Trafford centre on a Saturday or Sunday.

I have a free day by myself today so I am finalising holiday plans, getting the house organised, going to the gym and DH has phoned to see if I want to meet him and Ds once they finish work mid afternoon and go for something to eat.
Tomorrow we are going to Manchester to do one of those city Whodunnit puzzles.

Slightly different as still have children at home, but mostly we do things around the house mixed with some trips out and facilitating dc’s activities and friendships.

This morning, I went and looked after my horse (at livery nearby). Dh and I are spending most of the rest of the day re-doing the veg garden, making new raised beds because it’s all gone to shit over the past year. Then I’ll take dc to sports practice and need to pop to the garden centre. We’re making pizzas in the pizza oven tonight and making fancy mocktails.

Tomorrow, more gardening, then going to an English Heritage open day and having a picnic there, then more gardening, then making a roast for dinner.

I’m pretty boring. Mostly, it’s stuff around the house, cooking and eating, but also walks and wild swims or trips to the beach depending on the day/weather.

Oh dear! 😂😂 I mean, I’m sure it is a prime hotspot for it!

You sound fun.

Would recommend a murder mystery pack (likes of cases and clues). Really well done and a lot of fun.

Drive teens around (rural living, sigh)
Dog walks
Sort uniforms etc for the week
Shopping centre (one weekend each month)
Go for an. Icecream
Gardening
Cook a Sunday roast
Visit elderly relatives

Would recommend a murder mystery pack (likes of cases and clues). Really well done and a lot of fun.
Thats what I was trying to think of in my post!
We are doing Manchester tomorrow.

Thanks everyone. I’ve realised what a gap it leaves when you do no exercise 😂. Today we went for a walk (nearly 7k) then came home for lunch and watched some football then went out to a garden centre for coffee and cake and a couple of bits for the garden, then stopped at an upcycling centre I’ve been wanting to visit for years! Now going to make a healthy dinner and watch something in tv with a few drinks. A better day than I had thought yesterday and it wasn’t that hard.

DH and I in our late 50s, both kids at uni, and expected back for the summer. Tonight we’re watching Eurovision with a bottle of wine and nibbles I bought today. Quite looking forward to it. Often spend weekends when the kids are away going for a walk, a bit of shopping, we love meals out, go to the pub. I usually visit my mum for the day every other week, and DH comes along about 50% of the time. So I’m driving to mum’s tomorrow and will take her out for lunch. And there is the inevitable cleaning, gardening and pet mucking out every weekend too, though I am by no means house proud.

Next weekend we’re having 2 nights in a nice hotel. Will look around the town we’re staying in and have a country walk too.

We both work in London and socialise there a bit in the week with colleagues / friends, so tend to enjoy quiet weekends together staying close to home, which is rural. When kids are home we do some family stuff too, and it is always a lot busier and noisier. Altogether I don’t really get bored though many weekends are quite samey.

A regular weekend will be cleaning washing and food shopping on a Saturday and then listen to Rylan in the afternoon and a movie in the evening
Sundays, drive somewhere for a dog walk and a coffee and potter about/ironing etc once home.
We go away every couple of months so don’t feel like we’re missing out on anything, we do often go for brunch, meets friends etc but it’s not an every weekend thing