Staycation tips

[MinnieMountain]

DH and I are talking about doing a staycation. We have ideas of what to do. We'll eat out both nights and do our favourite walks.

BUT how do you stop yourself doing housework? Sounds silly, but it's so ingrained in us.

Obviously we'll feed the cat.

I have to force myself to actually do housework so not doing any for two whole days sounds like normal to me. Obviously you need to trade whatever I've got with whatever you have that means doing housework is so ingrained that you can't not do it for a couple of days when you're on holiday.

Spend a lot of time in the garden, hopefully your staycation will coincide with nice weather so you're not inside habitually wanting to vacuum etc. Plus go out more. Visit places nearby that you've not seen enough of - museums, country parks etc, outdoor pool, coast or swimming lake.

Well done for using the word staycation in it's correct context too. I saw the title and expected someone to be talking about booking hotels, making arrangements for the cat to be fed etc.

I have to admit @BjorkdiditI'm waiting for someone to post that I've used staycation the wrong way 😁

Maybe breakfast out rather than at home would be a good idea. We should spend more time in the garden.

You have used staycation the right way. Thank you
I also have problems doing housework so this would not be an issue for me, but, if it is for you, how about doing a super clean the few evenings before.

Go to museums and tourist attractions that you don't normally go to because they're so close to home.
Eg I live between Bristol and Bath so one day I will head into Bristol and look around the SS Great Britain, the harbour and the museums/art gallery. The next day I'll hop over to Bath and visit the Roman Baths etc. In the past I've taken slightly longer trips and gone to Stonehenge, Wells and the Haynes motor museum near Yeovil.

See that all chores are done before, so you don't see any need for hoovering/cleaning bathroom or an ironing pile.

See that dishes will be the only thing you need to do.

Breakfast out or get some nice pastries from somewhere. I love the Waitrose frozen ones, they are great so that could be an alternative if you like it sweet. But I wouldn't cook a full English or anything complicated.

Garden if the weather is nice. Stock up on nice drinks and snacks. A boardgame or cards, some new books?

Look up if there is anything going on or if there is anything you always had on your list to do but never did. Any park, house, museum.

I find that aspect fine, but that might just be my standards are lower! We will just catch up on washing, change sheets & towels beforehand but for a couple of days that probably doesn't matter. Similarly I think we tend to prep for it almost as if going away - tidy up a bit, run down the fridge so you are not worrying about using up that hummus or those courgettes, then do our "holiday shop". It's all pretty organic though, it just sounds more written down.

Having a plan to go out in the mornings helps I think. We wouldn't go out for breakfast but we have designated days eg water park day, forest holiday day, sight seeing day, beach day so we focus on those things rather than just staying hime.

We call it "holiday at home". We've been doing it since before I heard the word "staycation". Honestly I find it very easy to switch into holiday mode while still enjoying the upsides of sleeping in our own beds. We find ourselves using the word "holiday" a lot. We have an autistic child with a routine which probably helps - he buys into it so we have to switch to his holiday routine. Croissants/chocolate cereal for breakfast, family games after dinner, puzzle books.

Doing standard holiday prep is a good idea. And frozen pastries.

Take turns imagining one of you in the role of visitor to the area and you were planning to show them around