Days Out With Friends

[Calliope]

I'm going to try to think of free stuff:

• Craft night - get a bunch of people together and paint, collage, knit, draw, sculpt; do something creative. Giggles & I did this yesterday.
• Improv group/Start a flash mob/Pretend you're in an episode of Scrubs!
• Go to your library! You can get free books, magazines, audiobooks and ebooks, but you can also get DVDs, and sometimes videos, records, videogames, toys or craft/building equipment, based on the scope of your library system.
• Key Party.
• A lot of cities have a free monthly Art Walk, where a bunch of local businesses open up their doors and display various exhibitions for the night. I'm thinking of getting a bunch of people together and putting on a show, after we've all sat around making the art together.
• Any sort of trivia/videogame/gambling for pennies night, because nothing seals a friendship like the glory of victorious gloating.
• You know, I think there's still something to be said for good old fashioned pranking.
• Set up a "free advice" booth on your sidewalk and see what kind of people come and ask you questions. I'd do this with a phone-number if I had a landline.
• Many art galleries and museums have free days, as well as free lecture series or events like outdoor movies - it's worth checking out, along with any other landmarks or notable things your city may have to offer.
• Book club, movie night, cards against humanity, political debate, posting up street art or writing sweet notes to slip into books for strangers to find, walk around trying to make strangers laugh or smile and award yourself a point for each person you get - the world can be an amazing place.

[Loony BoB]

Key... party?

[Agent Proto]

Hanging out seems cool, and most of what Miriel listed also seem like fun things to do, now only if I had local friends to do them with.

[Formalhaut]

Thanks guys for all the amazing responses: I find it heart-warming that so many helped me out with this social dilemma.

It was just the only thing was I really couldn't do spontaneity. I love planning things and just randomly phoning up a friend and saying "hey let's do [x]" seems unnatural and scary. I like to plan things like a week in advance (or at least a few days).

I know, I'm very strange like that.

[Calliope]

I don't think that's strange. People like to schedule their time and they often have other commitments. I would much rather plan something in advance than try to convince people to drop everything at the last minute. Good luck!

[Pumpkin]

Why don't you plan a movie night, or a cooking night? You guys could make dinner together and then watch a movie or something. Cooking with friends is always fun. Me and my friend Sam used to do it almost every night.

[Shorty]

I only go with spontaneity with people I know really well. Otherwise, schedule in advance, please.

[Pike]

Play hotseat Civ IV!!

Hux, myself and Jiro did that when were together for a few days and it was freaking fantastic.

[Jinx]

orgies

[Jiro]

Play hotseat Civ IV!!

Hux, myself and Jiro did that when were together for a few days and it was freaking fantastic.

Oh man, so much this. Just doing something while chatting is enough to get double the fun. Good company is its own reward, and adding in some Civ IV or some Earth Defence Force or hell ultimate frisbee down at the beach - whatever you want, man!

[Laddy]

I WISH I WAS THERE SO I CAN BE BROS AS MANSA MUSA WITH YOU GUYS *sobs*

[Aulayna]

Phone people out of the blue, have a gathering.

Honestly some of the best times I remember from late school/uni were just getting random phone calls to go to a friends house or have them come over and we'd just get some crappy Tesco value pizzas, cola and a bottle of vodka or two and just stay up till late playing games together - usually Mario Party or Mario Kart... or even drunken monopoly... just bantering about random stuff the entire time.

Or we'd just go out walking. Like, literally, wondering aimlessly - just enjoying each others company and the weather.

[Pike]

Earth Defence Force

oh my god yes

Dak bro I have some amazing memories of all of us drinking and taking turns playing fightan games on 360

Great times

I WISH I WAS THERE SO I CAN BE BROS AS MANSA MUSA WITH YOU GUYS *sobs*

YES OMG WE NEED TO DO THIS

[escobert]

I'm 27 years old and still have the friends I had in highschool. I suppose since I was the only one who went to college that made it easy. Anyways, we just party together 3 of my good friends I play a lot of video games with and the other I go to festivals, fishing and hunting with.

[Shlup]

We hang a sheet up in the backyard and project a movie, which we watch from our heated pool. It's pretty fab.