100 Booze-Free Things to do This Winter
This epic list of 100 booze-free things to do this winter is going to get you motivated and inspired to enjoy this festive season. This holiday season will be your best yet with these fun and easy ways to hang out without the hangover.
1. Cover the house in fairy lights
2. Visit your local Christmas Market
3. Make a festive non-alcoholic cocktail (check out these alternatives)
4. Cuddle up in your sober girl sweater (Check out this one)
5. Bake your own gingerbread
6. Prepare Christmas pudding
7. Go caroling
8. Send Christmas cards
9. Take a time out and meditate
10. Go watch a Christmas play
11. Go to your local town’s switching on of the Christmas lights
12. Visit a department store for festive shopping
13. Order your turkey
14. Make your own advent calendar
15. Decorate your Christmas tree (real or artificial, which do you prefer?)
16. Make a wreath for the front door
17. Compile your own Christmas playlist
18. Decorate the house with festive cheer
19. Create your ideal Christmas Day menu
20. Bake bread
21. Make homemade candles
22. Kiss under the mistletoe
23. Take pictures with Santa
24. Go see some reindeers at a local farm
25. Watch ELF! (best Christmas movie EVER!)
26. Make some homemade gifts
27. Play board games
28. Hide chocolate around the house
29. Go boxing day shopping
30. Host a Holiday party
31. Build a snowman
32. Make paper snowflakes
33. Go to a Holiday party
34. Knit a hat or scarf
35. Frost the windows
36. Drink NA wine (or alternative of choice) and eat cheese
37. Visit your grandparents, parents, or relatives.
38. Make a centerpiece for the table
39. Eat pie
40. Buy some woolly socks
41. Have a Christmas sweater day
42. Make a Christmas desert
43. Volunteer your time with the homeless or less fortunate
44. Tell someone you love them
45. Watch It’s a Wonderful Life
46. Leave cookies out for Santa
47. Hang stockings
48. Check in with yourself and journal (my favorite tool)
49. Go tobogganing (snow allowing)
50. Watch the Macy’s Christmas Day Parade
51. Volunteer at a local food bank
52. Pull some tarot or oracle cards
53. Watch The Grinch That Stole Christmas
54. Sit around a fire
55. Make DIY gift tags
56. Go to a museum or art exhibit
57. Go ice skating
58. Listen to a carol concert
59. Light Christmas scented candles
60. Go to watch The Nutcracker ballet
61. Roast chestnuts on an open fire
62. Visit a Holiday fair or market
63. Donate to your chosen charity
64. Make a Yule Log
65. Write a list of everything you are grateful for
66. Make kombucha
67. Relax
68. Make luxurious hot chocolate
69. Bake mini gingerbread houses for your hot chocolate mugs
70. Make paperchains and fill your house with them
71. Have a snowball fight
72. Do karaoke
73. Make your own snow globe
74. Wear a Santa hat
75. Dance to cheesy Christmas songs
76. Make your own Christmas tree ornament
77. Decorate your home with dried oranges
78. Take an outing to a town or village you’ve never been to before
79. Wear lots of layers and take a winter’s walk in the woods
80. Start a new tradition with your family/friends
81. Make goals for the new year
82. Do a random act of kindness
83. Make your own wrapping paper
84. Stuff the stockings
85. Host a decorating Christmas cookies party
86. Write a letter to Santa
87. Make a wish!
88. Reach out to a friend
89. Facetime someone
90. Drive around to see the lights in your neighborhood
91. Buy yourself a present and wrap it under the tree
92. Listen to a podcast (A Sober Girls Guide Podcast)
93. Play a game of cards
94. Have a festive picnic in your living room
95. Spend the day in your pajamas
96. Meet a Sober Girl in your city (Meet now!)
97. Organise a Secret Santa
98. Light a candle and give thanks
99. Take a family portrait
100. Read The Night Before Christmas
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