The holiday season is the time of year where you may travel to see family or visit a significant other’s family. The bottom line is that the holidays bring on additional expenses when you are in a relationship. Here are five ways being single during the holiday season saves you money.
Money
It is no surprise that the holidays push for people to buy their friends, family, and significant others gifts. Seasonal holiday jobs appear during this season so that people can make an additional income to spend on gifts during the holidays. This holiday season save money instead of spending it on a significant other.
Travel
Travel is another major expense during the holiday seasons. Depending on your work schedule and your relationship with your family, you may not be able to or want to go back home for the holidays. While your family may be understanding, a significant other would put more pressure on you to visit their family during the holidays so that you can meet their family. The cost of going home during the holidays or visiting a significant other’s family include transportation to and from airports food and drink at the airport terminal, and flight tickets. There should be no pressure to travel during the hectic holiday season and being single gives you the opportunity to make your own decisions about where you want to spend your holidays.
Dining Out
Relationships are expensive, especially dating relationships, because you have to pay for another person when you dine out. It is no longer a meal and a drink. It is now two meals and two drinks. Food and drink quickly add up when going out. But if you went home with your significant other for the holidays, they want to take you to their favorite places in their city. This means that you will need to include additional money in your holiday budget to dine out with your significant other. However, by being single during the holidays, you only have to pay for yourself when you go out. If you want to save money, you can cut back on going out and put it towards gifts or put the money that would originally go towards dining out into your savings account.
Gifts
Gifts can be expensive depending on what type of gifts you like to give people. If you have a significant other who you want to impress at Christmas, you may buy them some nice jewelry or bottle of their favorite spirit. While some families want to cut back costs of gifts by doing a white elephant gift exchange, you may not be so lucky with your significant other’s family. Being single means that you can save money again by having to get gifts for your one family instead of for a significant other and their family too.
Holiday Parties
Holiday parties start around Halloween and peak during New Year’s, but won’t end until after Valentine’s Day. That means you may be go to parties with friends or a significant other at least once for each holiday. Depending on the type of party and where it is located, parties may require purchasing tickets in advance and events for holiday parties can get expensive. Instead of being pressured to go to holiday parties and spend money that you really don’t want to because of a significant other, embrace being single this holiday season and go to holiday parties that you want to or save money by not going to any parties.
These are the five most common ways that you will spend money during the holidays. If you are single and are not obligated to visit a significant other’s family this holiday season, be thankful because not being in a relationship is saving you money. Is being single during the holidays starting to look better now? Happy holidays and enjoy being single this holiday season!
Views expressed in this article are the author’s opinions and do not necessarily reflect the views of Secure Single. It is intended for informational and educational purposes only. It is not investment or financial advice. James Bollen is the author of Thriving Solo: How to Flourish and Live Your Perfect Life (Without A Soulmate). Now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon. Subscribe to Secure Single’s Substack for free!
Halloween is one of the best holidays of the year. You can create your own costume or buy a costume. There are events throughout the month that singles can go to alone or with friends from events at bars or night clubs to murder mysteries. While Halloween is a great holiday, singles should be sure to stay safe and not do anything later in in the night without consent. Here are five activities for singles this Halloween.
Bar Hopping
Halloween is one of the best day of the year for bars. People often plan to bar hop with friends on Halloween. Find the bars that are having costume contests or go to your favorite watering hole dressed up alone or with friends.
Halloween Parties
Check your social media for Halloween Parties that your friends or favorite places may be hosting on Halloween. If it’s a friend’s party, dress up and bring a party gift as a thank you for hosting the party. A bottle of wine or liquor are standards to give to party hosts. Once at the party, all you need to do is to be in costume and character while enjoying hanging out with your friends and meeting new people.
Murder Mystery
There are normally a number of different types of murder mysteries that places do at restaurants or dinner clubs during October. A murder mystery is also a great party idea for anyone who may be hosting a Halloween party. If you have more time to plan the murder mystery, you can make it horror themed and scary for your party guests. It is Halloween after all. Find or make a thrilling murder mystery this Halloween.
Themed Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger hunts are fun ways to get to know people by having people be in two to four people groups. This is another entertaining party idea. The scavenger hunt can be as simple or complex as you want. If you don’t want to take the time to create your own scavenger hunt, Halloween themed scavenger hunts can often be found in major cities.
Horror Movie Marathon
This is a classic Halloween activity to do throughout October and on Halloween. Here are Rotten Tomatoes’ Top 100 Horror Movies of all time. This October has also seen the revamping of many classic and modern horror franchises: IT, Leatherface, and Jigsaw. You can do this by yourself, invite friends over, or go to a friend’s place who may be hosting a horror movie marathon. Enjoy and get scared this Halloween.
Views expressed in this article are the author’s opinions and do not necessarily reflect the views of Secure Single. It is intended for informational and educational purposes only. It is not investment or financial advice. James Bollen is the author of Thriving Solo: How to Flourish and Live Your Perfect Life (Without A Soulmate). Now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon. Subscribe to Secure Single’s Substack for free!
Summer has passed and fall is here. Autumn offers many different activities that singles can do alone or do with friends to enjoy the offerings of the season. Here are five activities or events that singles should do during October. Here are five October activities singles can do this fall.
5 October Activities For Singles To Do This Fall
Go to a Pumpkin Patch
Go to a pumpkin patch by yourself or with some friends to pick your number. This is a fun activity to do during October to find a pumpkin that you can carve for Halloween.
Host a Pumpkin Carving Contest
After you picked your pumpkin from the pumpkin patch or bought one at the store, host a pumpkin carving contest at your place. You can invite your friends over by sending out invites over social media. You will need a table cloth or something to place on the table or the floor for people to clean and carve their pumpkin during the event. You can make it pumpkin themed by buying seasonal Oktoberfest and Marzen beer and Halloween snacks for guests to enjoy during the event. Get creative and have fun at the pumpkin carving contest.
Go to a Corn Maze or a Haunted House
Find a corn maze or haunted house in your area. You can go by yourself or you can invite and go with friends. There are regular mazes and haunted mazes normally at the botanical garden, fairgrounds, or another event space. The other option is to find a haunted house in city or town. Haunted houses can be fun and you can find the different haunted houses in your area with a quick online search. Go to a corn maze or a haunted house this month and have fun alone or with friends.
Host a Thriller and Horror Movie Night
It is October. The month for chills and thrills. One of the best way to enjoy the month is to host or to watch thriller and horror movies. If you don’t know where to start, Rotten Tomatoes has a list of the top horror movies of all time. For new horror movies that are coming out this month, you can go see IT or Jigsaw.
Go to a Rocky Horror Picture Show and Costume Contest
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a cult classic film. There are normally a number of different Rocky Horror Picture Show events in cities during October. These events range from playing the film in independent theaters, live performances, and costume contests for the best costume at the event. Be sure to at least watch this movie once and maybe add going to a Rocky Horror Picture Show live performance or costume to your bucket list.
October is a fun month that offers many different activities and events that singles can go to alone or with friends with the month’s pinnacle being Halloween.
Views expressed in this article are the author’s opinions and do not necessarily reflect the views of Secure Single. It is intended for informational and educational purposes only. It is not investment or financial advice. James Bollen is the author of Thriving Solo: How to Flourish and Live Your Perfect Life (Without A Soulmate). Now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon. Subscribe to Secure Single’s Substack for free!
Halloween is a fun holiday where people dress up and take to the night for frights and thrills. The modern rendition of Halloween is based off the All Hallows’ Eve that was celebrated 2,000 years ago. Halloween is a holiday that can be celebrated alone. Singles should not be afraid to go out and celebrate alone since there are many events going on Halloween weekend and on Halloween Day throughout the country.
All Hallows’ Eve was a Celtic festival that was celebrated on November 1st that marked “Summer’s End” and the start of Fall. The Celtics believed that it was during this time that ghosts and the dead were most able to come back and mingle among the living. The Samhain Festival was celebrated with bonfires that honored the dead that would travel to the otherworld. The Gaelic’s offered sacrifices to the spirits in the form of fruit, animals, and vegetables to appease the spirits that came back to mingle among the living during this time. This was done to temper all manner of spirits that came back from the dead on All Hallows’ Eve: “ghosts, fairies, and demons–all part of the dark and dread.” Today, people celebrate Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) by dressing up and becoming the spirits by wearing costumes of different types of spirits, witches, demons, and all manner of myths and lore to mingle among the living on this day.
Modern Halloween is a festive holiday with different parties being held in cities. Everything from masquerade balls to costume club parties can be found during Halloween Weekend and on Halloween Day. Singles and unmarried should not be afraid to go out and celebrate Halloween on their own since it is a festive holiday. However, it is still important to be safe on Halloween and to keep your wits at parties as the night. If you are at a party and are drinking, keep an eye on your drink at all times to make sure that no one adds a date rape drug to take advantage of you at a party. Do not drink and drive. In short, be wise and have fun while you are out enjoying Halloween.
There are many opportunities to celebrate Halloween and being single should not deter you from celebrating the holiday. Find an event in your area and dress up as your favorite character or spirit. All Hallows’ Eve, or Samhain, has a long and deep history that everyone is able to celebrate in the modern rendition of Halloween. Be safe and celebrate Halloween as a single person, now go find an event and scare some couples.
Views expressed in this article are the author’s opinions and do not necessarily reflect the views of Secure Single. It is intended for informational and educational purposes only. It is not investment or financial advice. James Bollen is the author of Thriving Solo: How to Flourish and Live Your Perfect Life (Without A Soulmate). Now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon. Subscribe to Secure Single’s Substack for free!