How to enjoy a Holiday in Pajamas

How about taking a vacation right in your own home?

Stay put and you’ll get the same relaxing benefits as that of going on a trip.

1. Turn off your “working mode.” That includes turning off your mobile phone and laptop if you will use these gadgets for the purpose of working. As if you’re going abroad, inform your business colleagues that you cannot be reached.
2. To put yourself in that “relaxed mode,” cozy up in your pajamas.
3. Meditate or do yoga.
4. Soak in the bath alone or with your partner, sipping your favorite glass of wine and listening to a soothing music. Fill up your tub with hot water, which can relax tension in your muscles. Use nice-smelling shampoos and bubble bath for a delicious aromatherapy.
5. Dry yourself using freshly washed fluffy towels.
6. Use scented candles, bunches of fresh flowers, essential oils, potpourri or incense in your bedroom. These relaxing scents will put you in that proper mood: lavender, bergamot, sandalwood, vanilla or cinnamon. Take in the atmosphere and let it relax you.
7. Sleep. Use crisp, freshly laundered sheets for a hotel feel.
8. Drink a bottle or more of cold beer. After that, loosen up and start singing your thoughts away in your favorite couch.
9. Still in that couch, watch a movie or reruns of your favorite movies with popcorn.
10. Bring out that child in you and play computer games.
11. Can you paint a canvass other than your face? Go paint!
12. Has it been a while since you’ve kept a journal? Perhaps you possess the poetic license to write poems. If not, simply write your thoughts in free verse and upload it later as a blog.
13. Catch up on your reading. This is no time for speed reading, read a magazine or book at a leisurely pace.
14. Do scrapbook. Don’t regard your trash as an eye sore just yet. Maybe you can recycle some old containers and trash into crafts and artwork.
15. Go through old photo albums. This never fails to make me smile or laugh, especially the fashion and hairstyles of the past and the before and after looks.
16. Go for a walk or jog around your subdivision. Exercise is a good way to clear your head and prepare mentally for the next day’s challenges. Pay attention to your breathing, listen to the sound of leaves rustling in the wind, or your iPod.
17. Eat chocolates – the natural mood booster.
18. Whip up something tasty in the kitchen. Turn your kitchen into a laboratory by creating new dishes.
19. Do gardening. Feel the earth with bare hands as you pull weeds and trim bushes. This can be relaxing and visually gratifying.
20. Lie on the grass, look up at the stars, figure out their formations or you can do stargazing with a telescope.
21. Practice your backstroke or butterfly in the pool.
22. Get a good tan without getting sunburned in the poolside.You don’t have to isolate yourself within the four corners of your home. You can cover some distance to distress. Invite some friends to spend your vacation with.
23. Organize a pool party or barbecue party with housemates and neighbors. You can be the deejay or the chief chef.
24. Try something new to you and your friends like wine tasting or sushi making. You can host it in your home for this week and rotate hosting among your friends.
25. Camp out in your backyard. Have a picnic.
26. If you have kids, you can do storytelling in costume. Adventure and ghost stories would get everyone’s attention! Perhaps you can do a simple puppet show.
27. While computer games are fun, you miss out on the real fun of playing outdoor games. Get physical. If there are two of you, play tennis, if there’s more, you can group yourselves into teams and play basketball. Fly a kite on a sunny day.
28. Meet up with friends at a salon for facial, foot spa, manicure, massage or other beauty treatment. Wear that soothing eye mask. You may also do this at home using natural facial scrub ingredients. Give and get a massage from your partner.
29. Go to a coffee shop. Read a book in solitude or chat with friends.
30. Have a pajama party. Pick a reason to celebrate. You can play dress up and invite your friends to sleepover wearing their funkiest or flirtiest wear. Going back to tip #8, you and your guests can watch a movie. It can be a thematic evening based on the movie, like wearing wizard costumes for Harry Potter series.
31. Practice photography. There are informative sites like DIY (Do-It-Yourself) which will teach you the basics. Use the plants in your garden as objects of your lenses. Experiment and adjust your camera’s exposure settings during photography’s magic hours of sunrise and sunset.
32. Are you a stranger in your own town? Be a tourist and explore interesting places, which you may have overlooked as you set sights on far places.
33. Ride your bike as you tour the town. There may even be a mountain bike trail.
34. Check in a nice but affordable hotel. It’s like you’re on vacation. You’ll enjoy a change in your routine and a change in location. They may have facilities that you don’t have at home like a gym, a sauna, a pool. And there are no chores to be done.
35. Sip decaf peppermint tea before going to bed and call it a day.

When you’ve enjoyed a day to yourself or have spent it with the people you love, doing the things you love, it’s like going on a vacation, even if it means wearing your pajamas.

If your health matters to your wealth, then invest time on what matters more. No Leave, No Life.

Photo of people relaxing in pajamas by Mr.Thomas

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