How to feel like you're on holiday when you're not?

[qualityjaisket]

I'm really craving a week (or several) in the sun but have no plans for holidays this year. How can I recreate that holiday feeling at home?

We're just sending this over to classics. Thanks for the nomination!

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Thank you Lorna for moving the thread. Was wanting to add that Bronze Goddess parfum is nice, if you like vanilla, but nothing like the eau fraiche at all, certainly doesn't smell at all summery. Not a fan of Bobbi Brown Beach either, that one smells like a cold rainy beach to me. I've looked up reviews on fragrantica and I don't get the references to heat at all.

Install a fridge in your bedroom and stock it with miniature spirits, packets of peanuts and tiny Pringles tubes. Flush a tenner down your loo each time you eat something from it.

Lie on the floor of your living room, wearing sun cream, and read five books in a week. Every so often complain about it being too hot. Phone a friend and ask what the weather is like where they are. Put your used toilet roll in the bin instead of down the loo.

Put your used toilet roll in the bin instead of down the loo.

Ha! Sounds familiar. Greece or Canary Islands, perhaps?

Ask your partner to throw a random item that you use daily into the bin, to replicate that "Oh, shit, I forgot to pack X" experience.

For a really authentic feel add some mosquito bites to your legs and one foot with red marker pen. Then hobble around in flip flops as if it's too painful to wear other shoes. You must do this on day one. Whenever you sit down elevate the bad foot to minimise the 'swelling'. Moan about it. A lot.

Panic as you realise there’s only two days of your holiday left. You haven’t done anything intellectual.

Google “Things to do in ”. Feel sad, and open a 2 litre wine box.

Pack up 2 gigantic suitcases that you must sit on to zip..carry out to the car...scratching the bumper as you attempt to load up in the boot...drop at least one, if not both on your foot...a week later, remove baggage,
drop at least one on foot again...take into house, stick under the bed and never unpack...finally after months of not being able to locate several items of missing clothing you work out that they are probably in "vacation" baggage @AlCalavicci, @AnneKipankitoo
@iklboo
@MrsMackesy
@UnlimitedChipsAndSalsa
@BakeOffRewatch

Anything to add to this reinstated zombie thread that is very apropos?😂

Get a sunburn then let a seagull grab your sandwich and fly away (the seagull is the one flying away not you...).