Frugal February # 17: Game Night

Wondering how to have some fun at home on a Friday night or a weekend?  How about a game night!  Instead of paying to go out and be entertained, stay in and have some fun playing board games or card games.  Invite some friends.  Invite some neighbors.  Make it a potluck meal!  Everyone brings a dish to pass and a game to play.

Break out those games you have tucked away and forgotten in a closet.  The old classics: Scrabble, Parcheesi, Monopoly, Sorry, Life, Risk, Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary. . .  Maybe you have some newer ones like Apples to Apples, Imaginiff, Scattergories, You Might Be a Redneck. . . Take a look in those dark, cobwebby recesses of your storage areas and see what you come up with. 

Or grab a deck of cards for Uno, Rummy, Euchre.

Step back in time to when there was no electronic entertainment available.  When there were no reputable businesses open in the evening. When family members associated with each other.  When neighbors knew each other's names.  When saving money didn't mean a life of drudgery and boredom.  When people got together to socialize and have fun without it costing them a dime.

You own those games.  Use them.  Have a game night some night soon.  Have some free fun.