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$50 Note? Pft, Take The Week Off! 20 Fun Things That You Can Do For Under $20 ♥
in I Want... Inspiration!, I Want... Life!, I Want... Fun!15 Jun 2010 | 16 Comments
Saving your pennies?! (Hello!) Low on coin?! (Um, ka-ching!)
Think that you absolutely, 100% can't have a a frocking good time (jeez, did anybody else just cringe at that horrendous pun or WHAT?!) with $20?
Oh, please.
Of course you can!
$50 note? Take the week off. There's an abundance of magnificence to be enjoyed with $20, instead!:
x Throw a picnic! Why yes, I did mention this in the most recent edition of Thank Frock It's Friday and why yes, I do believe that it's a fantastic way to spend a day! Simply grab a blanket, whip up some sandwiches, bring a few drinks (iced tea? Raspberry lemonade? Coconut-flavoured vodka?!) and voila!` You've got the ingredients for an excellent afternoon!
x Visit a discount store of the two-dollar variety and pick up a bunch of jewellery making accessories (seriously, I did this on Sunday and it was so brilliantly easy and cheap to do - think $1 per set of beads and earring hooks!) and create your own (master)pieces!
x Meet somebody for an ice-cream date.
x Rent a movie or boxset of your favourite television show and buy a bag of microwave popcorn. Movies, schmovies!
x Go thrifting/op-shopping.
x Eat fish and chips on the beach.
x Play pool at your local bar or tavern.
x Visit a travel agent and ask for a stack of brochures on various locations (the Equatorial Guinea? Djibouti? Uzbekistan?!) and plan a future escape!
x Wander the department stores for cosmetic and fragrance samples.
x Create a photo/inspiration/appreciation-for-lightbulbs (hey, it's your wall!) wall for your bedroom.
x Sneak into a hotel swimming pool.
x Buy a bunch of herbs and plant them in your garden. (This has been on my to-do list since the beginning of the year, eek!)
x Drink hot chocolate in the park.
x Explore galleries and museums.
x Visit a second-hand bookstore and comb for biographies on your favourite musicians.
x Pitch a tent in your backyard. Honestly, my best friend once hosted a camping party in her garden and it is one of the most stupidly thrilling activities that we've ever completed!
x Go bowling!
x Roam the streets with your camera.
x Research your city's best cheap eateries (there are many which offer an entree + a main meal for under $20!) and dine out!
x Scour the internet for free entertainment: comedy festivals? Jazz nights? Open-air cinemas? Line dancing?!
♥
What's your favourite way to spend $20?
xoxo
Comments (16)
I love the backyard camping party idea! I wanna do that! :)
19 Aug 2010, Drummbellina, drummbellina.typepad.com
This is so awesome! I really want to have a camping party now!
20 Jun 2010, Vanessa, http://chickensoupforthedorkysoul.blogspot.com/
Find a country fare, my favourite is the Collector Pumpkin Festival. $16 will get you a coffee, 6 pumpkin scones to take home, a knitted tea cosy and a handmade apron. And you'll come with $4 change!
I love, love the picnic and backyard camping idea!
17 Jun 2010, LaLa, www.julaberry.com
<3 <3 <3
17 Jun 2010, Ella
All great ideas. I especially like the ice cream date idea! =)
17 Jun 2010, 5ft0, www.5ft0.blogspot.com
Annie Spandex - Definitely!
Joanne Faith - Now that's my kind of game! Awesome!
Eurofilla - Yes! And that all sounds great!
Alex - And for a 1/4 of the price usually, too, whee!
17 Jun 2010, x Corrine/Frock & Roll x, www.frockandrollonline.com
Fab suggestions, Corrine :)
I loooove second hand bookstores, you find so many gems!
16 Jun 2010, Alex, http://stockingsneededmending.blogspot.com
This is great!!
Plus summer is the perfect season for all of this!
I may add to organize a tea party with friends (maybe it can start by baking your own cookies), or a Gin Rummy tournament with friends, or have a hand massage (they come cheap!) it's one of the best thing ever!!!
16 Jun 2010, Euforilla, http://euforilla.blogspot.com
My boyfriend and I do like ice cream dates. :] We ALMOST went and played pool last Friday night, instead we bought a 6 pack of cider and played shot-glass chess, each of the pieces were shot glasses & you'd drink when you lost one of 'em. Cheap fun.
16 Jun 2010, Joanne Faith, http://www.joannefaith.com
Ooh! Jewelry-making sounds fun! That'd be a great girl-talk activity.
16 Jun 2010, Annie Spandex, http://anniespandex.com
Yup! México is like super cheap. You can do a lot with very little money! COME SOON!!!
16 Jun 2010, Julie, http://juliettemaxwell.com
Kathryn - I actually REALLY wanted to say something like that or make a suggestion about delicious, cheap pub lunches followed by tossing $1 in a pokie machine purely for fun, but didn't want to sound like I was endorsing hardcore gambling or something, haha! (Not that $1 is hardcore!) So thank-you for saying it!
15 Jun 2010, x Corrine/Frock & Roll x, www.frockandrollonline.com
Go to your local pub with a TAB and put a few $1 each bets on (well 20 bets!) I did that with a friend and we won enough to keep us in drinks and food for the arvo!
Greyhounds are easier than the big horses.
15 Jun 2010, kathryn, http://www.project-kathryn.com
Raquel - Yes! Those are fantastic suggestions, thank-you!
Julie - You're welcome! And jeez, you can do all that in Mexico with $20?! Somebody find me a plane!
15 Jun 2010, x Corrine/Frock & Roll x, www.frockandrollonline.com
Let's see $20AUS is roughly $200MXN so I can do many, many things with that like:
-get my hair cut and done in a fancy way
-invite my 2 best girls to the movies
-grab coffe at a fancy neighborhood in the city
-explore the aztec ruins, go to the zócalo and watch football, go to the Chapultepec castle and eat awesome churros
-go to the children's museum at night (which is AWESOME), the package includes a movie at the IMAX screen and a nightly tour of the city on bus
-go to the park and have cotton candy and enjoy the rides
those are many things I've never considered! Thanks for the post :D.
15 Jun 2010, Julie, http://juliettemaxwell.com
Totally with you on the camera roaming - I roamed around the city last week on my bike with my camera. On that note, go for a bike ride! Go to those weird public lectures you see advertised (I recently went to one on Marxism). Go to a cheap exercise or dance class! They're usually $10-$15. Go on a rampage at your public library - books, magazines, CDs, DVDs and even sewing patterns! Hells yes!
15 Jun 2010, Raquel, http://misschiaroscuro.blogspot.com
