To ask for your ideas in helping me plan a fake holiday

[GlitterUnicornsAndAllThatJazz]

Me and DP haven't had a holiday in a year. We're both self employed and have had huge expenses this past year.

Its really grinding us down and we just need to hang in there for another 2 to 3 months before we can get away.

In the meantime I've had the idea that I'm going to create a fake holiday abroad when he comes home this evening.

I was going to make chilli anyway so I guess we're going to Mexico.

I'll prepare some guac and salsa and make margaritas for when he arrives, and will have some Mexican music playing when he gets in. Ill put the heating on full blast and wear a summer dress.

Any other good ideas?

Oh my god this is AN AMAZING IDEA!

You need cocktails. And crank the heating up so you can lounge in your holiday clothes.

Get the sound of crickets chirruping in the background!

Ooooh! Good idea! New names, you can be Sanguilla, and him.....Gustavros.

Offer him a complementary cocktail when he comes in, and give him a printed itinerary of the evening.

Find some Spanish language tv or film to have on and try to guess what's being said (more ridiculous seeming the better). Esp after/during the drinks 😁

Washing up bowl with water in it to paddle in? 🌊🌊🌊

Paddling pool in the middle of the room.

If you have a storm then pretend it is a hurricane and light candles.

Take the sheets off the bed and replace them with slightly stiff cotton ones, and change your pillows for lumpy ones and it'll be like the all inclusive resort we stayed in there.

Agyne

Instead of your favourite perfume spray yourself with deet.
Play Despacito on loop.
Serve the chilli lukewarm on a slightly dirty plate
Wake him up at 3am pretending you have jet leg.

A margarita pool, like the show “Last Man on Earth.”

Buy some live crickets or locusts from your pet supplier.

Pop some sun cream on, the smell takes me straight away on holiday.

By the time you’ve downed a few margaritas you won’t care where you are!

OP your OH and his ex split shortly after your SS was born?

The boy is 10 and you have been together nearly 10 years?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/2886199-How-to-feel-like-youre-on-holiday-when-youre-not

Oops wrong thread!

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OMG this is amazing!! I'm doing this this weekend now. Our honeymoon was ruined by Hurricane Irma (first world problem) so I'm going to make this house a Caribbean getaway. Albeit with dog in tow. Thanks OP!

if you are feeling crafty

Sprinkle some cockroaches around the kitchen.

Don't wash your hands when handling raw meat.

Rick Steins 'Road to Mexico' on the tv.

When he goes to the loo take his wallet.