It's really hard sometimes to "Pass the time" when you have no money. In these economic days its really hard to go out and do things you loved to do. Like the movies, it not only costs almost $10.00 ore more to get in you have to also pay for Popcorn and a drink could also cost you $10.00 or more and that is buying the small portions. So going to the movies theses days can be more stress then it's worth. If you just want to go out and have coffee with a Friend just to pass the time and talk you need to have a wallet full as well. The most popular place around would be Starbucks (Because Dunkin Donuts is not what it was since Starbucks came along) But if you go to Starbucks once again your wallet needs to have the $$$ in it. A Grande Vanilla Latte Medium cost $ 4.25 these days and they will always try and talk you into a "Venti/Large" size bigger which is only $.50 cents more.... . so every where you go it cost you not only money but alot of it compared to a couple of years ago!
What you need to do is find things that either don't cost alot or don't cost anything at all (which is very hard). I love to do scrap books but it can be costly. You need to go to the scrapbook stores and go over to the Clearance tables and they always have alot and also good deals. Scrap booking can be fun and memorable depending on what your doing.
Another Idea is what I am doing now, each night I am working on my puzzles. I use to do puzzles a long time ago with my mother. She use to put out big ones on our dinner room table and work for days on it. After awhile they were getting so big we would all end up eating in the living room with trays (but we still always ate together every single night) My mom would do 1,000 piece to 1,500 piece puzzles. I am just starting on my first 500 piece puzzle. I have done at least Five Hundred Piece puzzles and 2 of the 300 piece puzzles.. It is very time consuming but I love doing them. I really get a sense of "Look what I have done" or when it's a lot of pieces I can say "Look what I got done" it's a really good way to pass those moneyless time periods in your life.
Another way came up to me by chance while I was playing with my Grandson. Coloring! I love doing, in fact I am obsessed with it now. I finished some color book pictures that Ayden had around the house and then during my weekly food shopping trip I picked up a couple of color books for $1.00. So, as you can see not expensive, fun and time passes before you know it.
So these are just a few of "My" ways of passing the time and keeping myself busy. It has been fun finding out all these neat things to do but if you look at them they are things I did as a kid and just never realized how much fun they were to do...and how much money I am saving also.
1 comment:
The activities from our childhood are definitely the best! I also love to read and that doesn't cost anything with the huge selection at the library. You are always good about keeping yourself busy Karen. This was a great post!
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