What do your free weekends look like?

editing to add — we are screen-free with our child!

Hi there! What do your free frugal weekends look like? My husband and I are buckling down and becoming more frugal with a focus on spending our extra dollars on quality groceries and also saving as we build out our homestead. We need some things to do with our 4 year old on the weekends and would love ideas!

We spent this weekend puttering around the house, and then on Sunday we took a trip to the park. I'd love to have some things in our back pocket that we can do on weekends that don't make it feel like we either have to be doing something productive for productivity's sake (like fixing something or deep cleaning something just to have something to do) or feeling like we are aimlessly walking around the house lol. We are new to this, we started becoming really frugal and intense with our budget at the first of the year, and now we are ready to feel a little more fulfilled and less bored but still within our budgetary limits (which is $0 haha). Basically, I don't want us to lose steam because we are bored at home on the weekends. My husband works from home and I am a SAHM, so a lot of our house things get taken care of during the week so we don't have to do them during the weekend.

Some things we have tried —

— taking our 4 year old to the park

— going out on a walk

— I am a reader so I try and read a little more, but my husband is not so I try and save that for the evenings

— House work that hasn't gotten done

— Baking

Thank you all!