100 Things to Do During a Money Free Weekend

Tuesday, February 17th, 2015

1. Check out the community calendar ? look at the towns events, many of which are free
2. Visit your community library
3. Get involved in community sports
4. Get your financial papers in order
5. Check out podcasts

6. Play board games
7. Bake a loaf of homemade bread
8. Learn how to juggle
9. Teach yourself how to chance the oil in your car
10. Meet your neighbours

1. Have a cupboard potlock ? go through your cupboards and find any items that have slipped to the back, get some friends over and make a potluck dinner prepared from the ingredients you have found.
2. Clear out your media collections, books, DVD?s CD?s etc.
3. Make a 101 Goals in 1001 Days list ? then start on some of them
4. Make decisions about and write out your will
5. Do a household maintenance walkthrough ? look for any maintenance tasks that need to be done

1. Organise a walking tour
2. Teach yourself how to knit
3. Take some digital photographs
4. Share those photographs with others
5. Start a blog on a topic that interests you

1. Have a quilting bee ? all you need is some spare cloth, add some friends and all create a quilt of your choice.
2. Try out some great open source and free software
3. Practice origami
4. Make a how-to video for YouTube
5. Do a bill reduction

1. Play football
2. Scan your old pictures
3. Have a film festival
4. Seduce your partner
5. Do some networking

1. Practice yoga ? or try it for the first time
2. Cut your own hair
3. Do a neighbourhood cleanup
4. Build some paper airplanes

1. Rearrange the furniture in a room
2. Read an entertaining book
3. Build a giant blanket fort
4. Call a family member or friend you haven?t spoken to in a while
5. Start a natural collection or observation notebook
6. Start a compost bin

1. Have a garden sale
2. Learn a foreign language
3. Deep-clean the room in your house you spend the most time in
4. Make some homemade greeting cards
5. Take a nap

1. Get things done
2. Dig up your family tree
3. Sit down with your partner for an afternoon and talk about your goals
4. Play Calvinball ? you need a ball, and some children and open space. Just kick the ball around and make up the rules as you go along.
5. Do some puzzles

1. Volunteer your time
2. Turn on the water sprinkler
3. Try a basic meditation technique
4. Get involved in an open programming project
5. Teach yourself a card trick

1. Attend a religious service
2. Start a workout routine
3. Read a brilliant book
4. Go swimming
5. Get involved with public access television

1. Blow bubbles
2. Start a journal
3. Write a letter to your future children or grandchildren
4. Make Christmas gifts in advance
5. Go voucher hunting
6. Pick up a musical instrument and learn it
7. Plan next year?s summer holiday
8. Sharpen your kitchen knives
9. Pick up and read a copy of the towns free newspapers

Play with a pet

1. Go on a wandering walk
2. Hold a baby
3. Exchange messages with your partner
4. Help out an elderly or disabled friend or neighbour
5. Start a book club

1. Play a card game
2. Have an entertainment swap with a friend ? just have a friend bring over a pile of their own DVDS etc and then swap the ones you something of yours.
3. Take a child to a playground and play with them
4. Explore a blog you like
5. Work for a political campaign
6. Clean out cupboards/wardrobe
7. Play Frisbee at the park
8. Take a long soaking bath
9. Play desktop free games
10. Visit a magazine room

1. Attend a dress rehearsal
2. Attend a free community class
3. Donate some unwanted things to charity
4. Discover new music
5. Build a cardboard castle

1. Dig an old video game console out of the loft and play some of your favourites
2. Do some amateur stargazing
3. Go on a hike or long walk
4. Take a stab at writing poetry
5. Go on a bike ride