What do adults without children do on weekends

[Curiousmum69]

I seem to have forgotten.

Other than shopping. Everything feels child orientated. Or I've just forgotten how to be an adult over the last 18 years.

We're in our 50s - I'm not at home at the moment (caring for aged parent) but when I am we:

Have people round for dinner
Play board games
Play computer games
Go to the cinema
Go out for Sunday lunch
Go for a bike ride
Go horse riding
Plant things
Visit local attractions - stately homes., gardens, museums, the beach etc. (not often though, too many other people doing the same thing!)
DH sometimes goes fishing
Go foraging in the woods and on the beach
Take the dogs for long walks
Spend the afternoon in the pub with friends
Visit friends (if invited!)
Go out for dinner
Take the cameras and go out for a photography day
Have a pamper day with face masks, hair dye, bath oils etc. (me, not DH).
Watch sport (DH, not me)
Sit and read a book
Investigate new recipes
Shop online
Move the furniture around, maybe do a bit of re-decoration

We very rarely get bored!

I don't understandthe question, our daughter now doesn't live at home, but when she did, she joined in with us, we did not do kiddy things, because well she was teenager, young adult, so either she was with her friends or cake to stuff we did. So nothing changed.

Socialise with friends, either them to us or us to them, or go gym, gardening, out for meals, shopping, cinema, gigs. Same stuff we have always done, and still do when she's home.

what ever we want to do, it's fantastic

Sleep, have lots of sex, eat and drink out, eat and drink in - in peace, general spontaneous fun. God them were the days !

I'm reading this with interest as my youngest of two is now doing a lot of stuff with mates that doesn't require me to be with her anymore.

I'm starting to get the odd little feeling of dread every so often (that I hope will disappear soon...) as I seem to have completely forgotten how to enjoy putting myself first.

My friends with one child have found the transition easier as (like PPs have said) their DCs tended to fit in with their life rather than the other way around.

The family-life side of having a family is over a lot quicker than you think!

Whatever they please.

Another thing I could do at a weekend before our DDs came to us was enjoy a HOT cuppa in peace. 😂

Eat too much, drink too much, have sex (is 'too much' a thing), watch films and goto the pub on a Super Sunday and watch three matches back to back...bliss!

I'm no spring chicken, but I agree with @Springwalk - a lot of these sound more like what retired couples get up to (maybe a lot of you are).

Embarrassingstoryteller, sadly, DP and I are only (ha!) in our 40s.

And yes, it was me that said 'I like nothing better than some tea and a pack of biscuits in my favourite chair by the window, with the radio burbling away quietly and a good book.'

a lot of these sound more like what retired couples get up to

Well, the point is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, surely? And people like doing different stuff - some love quiet, homey stuff. I'm in my 30s (just), but honestly got sick of going out drinking and partying before I even got to the age where I could legally do it (did plenty beforehand). And sadly we're not very healthy or wealthy, so anything super energetic of very expensive is not the weekly norm. I'm well aware that crafting and walks etc sound very boring to some, but luckily no one else but me has to live my life, so I only need to suit myself. (On the other hand I regularly get told I need to grow up and stop playing computer games, so maybe that balances out a bit?)

We go to the museum/cinema/ bars we do errands and go have a gander in TK max. Generally sleep in and have a tumble.

I also read a lot

Anything they bloody well like. Bastards 😂

What I do:
Long lie
Gardening
Supermarket
Housework and laundry
Meet friends
Cook lovely things
Go for walks or hikes
See a film

We've just spent a couple of weeks in Disneyland childless, no 'children' or grandchildren, felt a bit pervy!

I'm surprised how many people must be doing all their chores during the week! My weekend is more along the lines of

Lie in (yay!)
Laundry
More laundry
Housework
DIY
Life admin
Food shop
Have guests over, frantically clean, panic and cook beforehand
Church
Cooking
Collapse on couch
Read

Yes but @RyvitaBrevis how much housework is generated by a childfree home when the adults work? I find that when the kids are away for a fortnight with their dad I need to hoover about once every three days and struggle to make up a load each of light and dark washing.

I only wash up when they are away because it would take me a week to fill the dishwasher. Nothing needs tidying and I can do a food shop in under 20 minutes!

9 years ago i would sleep in until about 10am, often with a hangover, get up, get tea and toast in bed, then sit and read the paper until about 2pm when id finally get up.

Id shop, (food or clothes) because i worked all week so that was the only time to do it.

Loved cooking. Made elaborate dishes, or big curry meals with many dishes and invite loads of friends over to enjoy them.

Cinema in the afternoon, meals out never earlier than 7.30 (before going for tea at 5.30 started to seem like a good idea).

Seeing friends who were as fancy free as me.

Gym at the weekend if i was feeling virtuous. As it was i managed to go 3 times in the week around a very demanding job.

Oh yeah, sometimes used to work all weekend, which sucked, but at least it was possible.

Nowadays weekends consist of swimming lessons, washing, homework, church, park visits even though we should be tidying the house, and cooking has been reduced to much more functional dishes that feed the family for the week. Plus the child wrangling that takes up all your time. I love my kids but urgh its best not to dwell on how nice it was to have free time to yourself!!

Do laundry.
Stare at messy and unclean house. Vow to really get things done this weekend.
Spend weekend bingewatching Netflix....

@PyongyangKipperbang Point taken about the housework (hoovering no more than once a week) but we generate huge quantities of laundry somehow! Work clothes plus gardening / diy /sport/ gym clothes, etc plus other non-work clothes, towels, sheets, etc. You must have been on top of it beforehand to only need to do 2 loads whereas we're somehow always behind.

I'm surprised how many people must be doing all their chores during the week!
We tried to do the chores midweek when the kids were small as well as now. The weekend was ( for the kids) playtime! Any homework was done on Friday night, uniforms in the wash as soon as everyone was home. We could then relax and make sure we were up and out on Saturday and Sunday. Life us much the same now!

Hmm...So laying in didn't work
No sex as dh has just left for work.
I'll park run in a bit and take the dog for a long walk. But that will only kill the morning!

I've bought a new book. But I can read a good book in an afternoon if I get into it.
Sigh I'm bored just at the thought of it

All chores done through the week here too.

Weekends are not for housework, and midweek chores are quicker when everyone is out.

A poster commented that a lot of things sounded like something a retired couple would do. I am not sure which things exactly but although me and DH are in our early 60's (DH is not retired) we know lots of younger couples who do the same sort of things as we do.

Our nieces and their husbands/boyfriends spend weekends going to National Trust places, zoos, safari parks, cinema, the theatre, lunch, afternoon tea, museums, art galleries. All things we do.

They very very rarely go out drinking or to nightclubs and they are all in their 20's or early 30's. All their friends seem to do the same sort of things too.

None of them knit or sew as I sometimes do but one does upcycle furniture which she sells as a hobby.