Money might feel tight right now, but that’s no reason to hole up at home like a hermit.
Kate Campbell and Owen Rask share dozens of budget entertainment ideas so you can have fun and save money.
📺 TV & Movies
- Only have one streaming service at once and always put calendar reminders in to cancel
- Cancel and return for new honeymoon deals on streaming services
- Some libraries still do DVDs
- On Shopback, you can get cheap Hoyts movie tickets for $11-$15 dollars
- Cheap Tuesdays and Sunday mornings at some cinemas
- Rewards within your banks/super/insurance provider often do cheap tickets
📚 Books
- Sign up to your local library. Even if you don’t go to the library, you can take advantage of their eBook/audiobook access.
- Local little libraries scattered throughout Australia
- all premium Spotify users will get 15 hours of free audiobook listening for 200,000+ books in their catalogue
🎶 Shows
- TodayTix: get last-minute deals on musicals, plays, ballets and more!
- Sign up to mailing list for early bird offers, preview nights, etc. for the production companies or theatres you want to go to
🥋 Activities
Activities are great gifts for friends and family
- ClassBento: a huge array of different activities
- Picnic in the park
- Host a dinner party or movie night at home (get creative with table settings & popcorn)
- Pot luck or cooking with friends (kitchen experiments can be really fun)
- Cocktails or mulled wine at home
- Start a walking group
- Museums & galleries in your town/capital city (often low-cost or free)
- Your local council will have things happening
- Take a soccer ball to your local park (it’s really fun)
- Board games at home or in the park
- Volunteering can be fun and rewarding
✈️ Vacations
- Go on a camping trip with friends
- Free (and cheap) camping – WikiCampers (I think there are lots of apps now) & HipCamp (like Airbnb for camping)
- Roadtrip to regional areas (accommodation, food and activities often much cheaper)
- Shopback also has a lot of travel sales (e.g. 10% cashback on booking.com today)
