A follow-up on previous post, I came up with a list of things I can do for free, or near-free, whenever I find myself in a financial pickle. I just wish I have the sense to return to it when needed.
- Read the books I own.
- Write in my journal.
- Work on the blog.
- Clean the house.
- Deep clean the house.
- Plan outfits.
- … or just play dress-up.
- Cook.
- Play with cats.
- Take walks up and down streets that don’t have many shops, leave wallet at home.
- Play piano using free music sheets – find the ones from my olden days of music school, use office printer to print out the ones I find online.
- Draw.
- Exercise.
- Play with makeup.
- Learn languages.
- Improve skills in the languages I already know.
- Talk to brother.
- Get back to running. (This one requires an investment – decent running shoes.)
- Unfortunately driving isn’t free what’s with the rising fuel prices, but it’s still cheaper than a lot of other shit, so – drive.
- Write book reviews.
- Watch movies and tv shows with all the subscriptions that I’m paying for.
- Do no-spend challenges.
- Write recipes using pantry foods.
- Ride public transport in off-peak hours, choose a random stop to get off on, explore the nearest three blocks.
- Take DSLR out to play.
- Write beauty reviews for [redacted].
- Take good pictures of beauty products too.
- Write up the history of my travels.
- Resurrect [redacted].
- Volunteer? (Question mark, because there are not many options here, but I’ll be on the lookout.)
- Study Tarot.
- Practise witchcraft.
- Work on grimoire and book of shadows.
- Study psychology.
- An elaborate skincare routine using all the products I bought.
- An elaborate hygiene routine.
- Take baths (water is “free”, as in I pay a set amount per month, regardless of how much I use, so the only limit here is my conscience).
- Assemble all the puzzles and Lego that I have that are still waiting for attention.
- If I go for drives, do ‘drive with me’ videos. I need to get a car mount for that again, though. But that’s the only investment, so to speak.
- Study art history.
- Go on dates and freeload off of people.
(Well that escalated quickly.)
(Actually that one won’t work, unless I do plan to sleep with the person. That would make the relationship transactional, and everyone could go on their merry way at any given moment.)
Let’s continue.
- Clean up and take good care of the graves of my ancestors. I have… eight to take care of.
- Organise – like, seriously, retentively – my library.
- Go to church, both orthodox and catholic. Service/ mass relax me.
- Film vlogs.
- Listen to music.
- Go to museums and art galleries again and again. This is not free, but as far as entertainment in the city goes, this is the cheapest.
- Indulge in piracy.
- Go to the library.
- Bribe what’s left of my friend circle with homemade baked goods and go on home-brewed coffee dates in the park.
Shit, Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D Minor for Solo Violin rips my heart out.
- Study ikonography.
- Learn tiktok dances.
- Practise asanas.
- Read the bible.
- Bum about in SkillShare and do a metric tonne of courses on subjects that look vaguely interesting/ useful.
- Do all the exercise videos stored on my computer until I can complete them start to finish without hyperventilating.
- Work on my car – clean, organise, read about it, etc.
- Learn software I pay for – i.e. Adobe.
- Organise decades of photos, both digital and printed.
- Origami.
- Paint with supplies I have on hand.
- Run my photos through Spiral Betty and pencil them in.
- Sleep.