The festive is upon us, and most people will be granted leave from work and other activities. It can be easy to lapse into a predictable routine even during holidays, especially if you’re on a strict budget. However, there are plenty of fun things to do during your days off, and to prove this here are 10 examples of activities to liven up your free time. They are cheap, fun, and entertaining, so give them a go!
1. Volunteer
Be a part of something that can bring a change or is an act of kindness. Volunteer yourself into a public service or a charity act. There is no scarcity of services that need volunteer. Volunteer for neighborhood cleaning programs. Possibilities are infinite where you can volunteer yourself and prove yourself useful and worthy for social welfare and social upliftment.
2. Meet Old Friends.
When you are involved in the race of life often time doesn’t allow you to be with friends. Holidays can be the best time for get-togethers after a long interval of time. Renew the decaying bond of friendship in time. Make plans with them to travel, visit any place. Awake those memories that you will laugh on now.
3. Create Memories.
Capture the moments of your life. Frame it later or share it instant on social networking sites as per the latest trend. Tell tales through your photographs. Join photography workshops; learn new methods and techniques of photography.
4. Go On A Shopping Spree.
Shopping is the best stress buster for women. Money cannot buy happiness but it can buy you a pretty clothes, diamond rings and new watches and you rarely find someone unhappy in brand new clothes wearing a brand new watch or a diamond ring. Spending is an effective way of buying happiness.
5. Explore On Arts And Music.
Every person is an unexplored artist. The real question is have you explored the artist in you? Or kept it pinned in the to-do list in the fast pace work life. Which is a better time than holidays to spend exploring the hidden artistic talents in you? Try drawing, sketching or painting, learn guitar, keyboard or any instrument that you fancy and try mastering them.
6. Try New Recipes.
Learn new dishes, explore new dishes, create new dishes experiment your experiences in kitchen to make something new out of it and dig he way from his stomach to heart. Also, holiday time can also be a good time for men to learn cooking and surprise their women with new food.
7. Play Sport.
Try any game, moving those lazy muscles; put it work before it rusts. Sports help in developing team spirit and cooperation. Sports develop strategic the functioning process of the mind. Sports are considered to be constructive expenditure of energy as it contributes to stress free and well-disciplined mind.
8. Go To Your Home Village.
We don’t normally go to our home villages for no reason, it is either for funerals or weddings. This does not give us time to spend with our relatives. You can take these long weekend as a way of re connecting with your relatives and your roots, away from the busy city life.
9. Unplug.
Designate a period of time as a “screen Sabbath” and turn off all your screens that is your phone, laptop, tablet, TV. The distance creates space for other things that are important in life and will remind you that you control your screens, not the other way around.
10. Read A Book.
Add into your account some significant amount of knowledge, facts, figures, and statistics. Books may or may not help you escape reality, time travel, travel to exotic places by sitting in your room, meet strangers and live another life but it will definitely help your from scratching itself into idleness. It helps to gradually improve your memory with consistent reading habit.
