To spend the weekend in the house?

[MrsTumbletap]

Just wondering how many of you enjoy spending time in your house, to the point that you are happy to not leave for the whole weekend?

DH works weekends so is pretty much out of the picture so it's just me and DS, he is happy pottering around playing with toys, we have lunch, watch a film together etc. Sometimes a family member will pop over for coffee. But I always feel so lazy that we haven't done anything productive other than a bit of tidying and homework.

Some weekends are frantic, with kids parties and visits here and there, AIBU to basically potter around the house, when there is no agenda? AIBL am I being lazy?? Or is that what weekends are for?

Of course it's ok! I'm doing exactly that this weekend.

It beats me why people bust a gut to buy a nice house, then spend as much time out of it as they can. I love my house!

Rarray stay nice and snug in your house. I wouldn’t go out in that!

My DH works every other weekend. I dont drive and live a bit walk bus stop.I tend not to go out much them weekends. I work full time and catch up with bigger jobs and chill. DS a teenager so does own thing. I do go for a walk sometimes to supermarket but feel like if i go out i will spend. Do also meet friends sometimes. When DH off work do more things.

I hate getting up and staying in my pyjamas in the house. It makes me feel very sluggish. but I do love going out and doing an activity, or a sport and then coming home and putting my pjs back on and enjoying the rest of the day at home as I am doing now!

I love my house but I have to get out just a little bit.
Saturday and Sunday we are usually up and out by about 10.00 and walk through the park to our favourite cafe. Once home from there, about 12, I’m in though.

@agedknees
Happy hibernating don't worry!

I don't understand people who always feel the need to be out and doing something every weekend. I love being at home in my sanctuary. Obviously you don't want to develop into a hermit but I think enjoying your home is important. Each to their own I know

I just need some fresh air.

I don’t have small children so I guess it’s a bit different for me, but I absolutely love being at home. I adore my house and there is nowhere I would rather be! I like reading, doing my craft projects etc. I know my colleagues/friends think I have a boring life but I don’t really care what they think. I actually have more sympathy for them because when they have to spend time at home they can’t cope and get depressed! I spent a lot of time at home alone as a kid so I think I learnt to amuse myself from a young age. For that reason I think it’s good for children to have some lazy weekends at home. It teaches them an important skill.

Ds is 18 months and needs to get out in the fresh air, I on the other hand would love to just stay in and potter about on the weekend. Bliss after a busy week.

Regularly. Love being at home. Many of my friends like being outdoors, dog walking. Not me. Happy at home.

OP:

"I love it so much but what I hate is the guilt that is attached to it. I feel lazy, I feel like I have to hide it and pretend I'm being more productive than I am. But why??? "

This is it, isn't it? Like it's some sort of lazy shameful secret? But why? So wrong!

I like to stay at home as much as possible at the weekends. I do the essentials i.e. supermarket shop, nice off lead run at the park both days for Ddog as she doesn't always get one in the week in the winter, but other than that I like to go nowhere!! We moved house a year ago and really love our house now so I think that helps.

Very happy to spend a weekend pretty much just at home, but would usually want to go for a walk or cycle, even just a stroll to local shops. Maybe just some v low key socialising (cup of re with a friend). In the summer we might not leave the house and garden (garden is quite big, with pool). Wouldn't want every weekend to be like that, but rather enjoy it when it does happen.

We love being at home at the weekend. We will take the dog out for a walk, but that’s as much as we do on a lazy weekend. I also like to get all family visits out of the way during the week so we can just be us at the weekend.

If you are and you are not missing out on anything you consider important, then why not? Essentials such as food shopping can be done during the week (or delivered then), for example. As long as you are being active, I think it is your choice though not something I would ever do.

I feel you lot are my people!

DS is 5 (a poster asked earlier his age) he has played some mario kart, then we did a few hours of Lego, he then played with cars, had lunch and DH is home now and watching Spider-Man with him. I have pottered and just relaxed in my home.

I like my home so much it's so hard to leave on a Monday morning for work at 7am! I suppose if me and DH were the same I would feel less guilty, but he does feel like it's a wasted day.

The only thing if you stay in your pjs then have a surprise visitor it's embarrassing and my dad has a habit of turning up.

It was me who asked age.....mines 2 and no fucking way we could stay in without blood sweat and tears!
Have I got to wait another 3 years? ! Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhh

I do almost everything on my own with the kids - night wakings, school runs, errands, dentists, etc. I'm so mentally tired and sleep deprived with it all, and the having to socialise and put on my friendly face during the week that I usually just collapse at the weekend and just chuck the kids out in the garden.

Unstructured is fine but I wouldn’t be happy with the kids indoors every weekend, they need exercise.

So park when younger, or swimming, or sledging or trampoline or whatever. Older: a walk.

Ordinary fitness is important and once at secondary they do so little at school.

Ordinary fitness is important and once at secondary they do so little at school.

I agree with this. However, fresh air / exercise doesn't have to be done at the weekend - it's very much dependent on lifestyle I think. We walk to and from school and often go to the park, farm or soft play after school too, plus they do gymnastics after school. It can be hard and expensive to access many activities over a winter weekend if weather is bad, but active playing (playing superheroes, doing kids' yoga on YouTube or dancing to George Ezra) can all be done cheaply at home.

I love being at home . I drive about 1000 miles a week to and from work. I spend a significant amount of my work day driving with a high degree of concentration . So a day where I don’t get in the car at all , where I bimble about sorting out the horses , doing a bit of cooking whilst watching catch up tv , and just being slow time , is a real treat .

DD1 has to be up at sparrow fart for school and I rarely have a weekend off , so a day where we get up at our own speed and mooch about , take the dogs out , maybe go out for a ride , sit and watch a film , is really enjoyable.

Ive always loved being at home too...i love nothing more than a day off with the house to myself where i can just potter around all day....ive never felt guilty or lazy for staying in....not sure why anyone would.