Look Again at Your Budget

Budgeting is essential, but you need to keep it up to date and evaluate its effectiveness. When you’re watching the TV, pull out your finances and have another look at your budget. Update your expenditure and consider whether you have more disposable income than you thought. If you’re spending more than you want, take a look at areas you can cut back on.

Pay Those Bills

While you’ve got your finances up and some spare time, pay your bills. These are really important to stay on top of because they do affect your credit rating.

If you’re struggling to keep up with payments, research the numbers to call so you can discuss your financial situation with the creditors and companies.

Organise Your Emails!

Have you left your emails piling up for when you have a few spare minutes? Well, there is no better time than right now. Take a look through your emails and discard the ones that you really don’t need.

Set out folders for the different areas of your life the emails come from and decide if you really need to keep any. At the same time, reply to any of those that need an answer.

Clean the Living Room

Tidy up the living room while you’re in it. You could tidy your children’s toys or give the couches a quick wipe down. You may even find that dusting and sweeping is a possibility. If you’re watching a rerun and know what’s going to happen, consider using the vacuum cleaner for a few minutes.

Get a Workout In

Who said you have to sit on the couch to watch your TV show? This is the perfect time to get some exercise in. The Wii Fit allows you to set a stepper programme or running game so it will continue running in the background while you watch the TV.

You could decide to do some sit ups, press ups or other bodyweight exercises instead. If you don’t want to risk missing something, use the ad breaks to do your exercises instead.

Get the Planning Out of the Way

Planning for a wedding? Maybe you have a holiday coming up. You may just want to get your weekend organised. Whatever it is, the TV time is a great time to do this.

You can pull up all the websites you’ve been meaning to look at on your lunch break and sit down with a pen and paper to sort out everything. You’ll soon find within the hour that everything is done.

Work on Your Facial Exercises

Fine lines and wrinkles appear when your muscles start to relax and your skin sags. You can tone your face up with facial exercises.

They’re done just like normal exercises and you can use your fingers to create resistance instead of weights. The benefit is that you can do these whenever you want, even if you have ailing health!

Work on a Healthy BMI

Unless you’re an athlete, the BMI scale is a good sign if you are under- or overweight. As you get older, your metabolism slows down so you are likely overweight. Focus on getting your BMI to a healthy level.

You will look younger and feel much better about yourself. You may even find that some of your illnesses and ailments disappear!

Get All the Nutrients You Need

Your body still needs nutrients to be healthy so you need to focus on them.

You may want to talk to your doctor about the ones that your body really needs now but the most common ones are calcium, iron and all the vitamins.

You can get them from fruit and vegetables, instead of supplements that you have no idea what has been added to them.

Boost Your Fibre Intake

Poor digestive systems are common in older people. Help yourself by boosting your fibre intake. This comes from beans, lentils and bran cereal.

Fibre is also a great way to lose weight and avoid blood sugar issues. It breaks down slowly in the body and will help you release energy throughout the day.

Don’t Rely on the TV for Entertainment

Get out and about. Enjoy a walk in the countryside, socialise with friends or see your relatives. The TV has become a major source for entertainment for many, especially older people.

You’re wasting your years by sitting on the couch and it will not do you any good for the aging process. Getting yourself moving and feeling happy are important steps to avoiding most of the common aging problems.

If You Drink, Drink Red Wine

Red wine is the only alcoholic drink that you should consider. It is low in sugars and one glass a day has been linked to improved cardiovascular healthy.

However, that’s just one glass a day! Two or more isn’t going to give you the benefit!

Skipped the Simple Carbohydrates

White pasta, bread and other simple carbohydrates aren’t good for the body and they making the aging process worse. They breakdown quickly and release sugars into the blood in spikes.

This leads to spikes in insulin being release and can lead to diabetes. Diabetes then leads to other health problems, including eye-sight issues. Do you really want all that or is it worth cutting out simple carbohydrates?

Make a vacation plan:

Even though no one is leaving the house, a vacation plan is still in order. A family should sit down and think of all the fun things their want to do while on vacation.

The plan will get everyone in the mood for the vacation while still at home.

Look around the hometown:

The town a family lives in may be a place with a lot of things to do, but it may take a little effort to find them.

With a little time and research, a family can find a lot of fun things to do around their own hometown that they never knew existed before.

Take a class:

This is the chance for the family to do something they have always wanted to try.

A vacation at home is a great way to take a yoga class, go sky diving, bungee jumping, or some other really fun family activity.

Try a new restaurant:

People like to try things they never have before, which may include eating a restaurant that makes ethnic food.

Since the vacation is at home, this may be a chance to try a restaurant that serves Indian, Moroccan, Greek, or food from any other country.

Turn off the electronics:

Getting away from it all means getting away from it all including electronics like the computer and the cell phone.

If everyone knows the family is on vacation, they should respect that and not try to call, text, or email.

Play games together:

Now is the time for a family to spend a lot of quality time together. A vacation at home is the best time to break out the big stack of board games, make popcorn, and have a game night.

However, if there are no games then a movie night can be just as fun especially when a pizza is ordered and everyone gets to pick one movie apiece.

Make dinner as a family:

The family may have family meal, and now everyone can have the fun of making it together. The radio can be turned on, and making a meal can be a lot of fun with everyone dancing, singing, and working together as a team.

The meal can be made quickly and easily, and everyone will feel good about the fact they helped make dinner.

Not having money for a vacation does not mean that everyone has to stay home upset or angry. Staying at home can be the best vacation time ever as long as the family decides on what to do together.

The family may discover how much fun it is to stay in town, and next year the family may want to have another home vacation.

Take a Bath Together

After a long hard day of work, there is nothing more relaxing than a warm bubble bath. Instead of taking it alone, and if the tub allows for the room, invite your husband to join you.

You both can get clean and have some nice conversation at the same time.

Turn Off Your Cell Phones

In order to be out of reach, you both need to make sure your cellular phones are turned off or on silent.

If anyone needs to reach you, they can leave a message that you can return later because this is a special night for you and your spouse.

A Quiet Dinner For Two

You might not be in the mood to cook, but ordering in can be just as fun. You two can decide on the meal you want and then have it delivered.

While eating, you both can talk over a nice bottle of wine.

Your Favorite Movie or TV Show

Because the evening is all about the two of you, pick something to watch that you both enjoy.

If there is a favorite movie or television show you both love, then turn it on, snuggle up together, and have fun watching your favorite show with your favorite person.

Some Nice Slow Dancing

If you two only like one television show, one movie, or if you don’t feel like watching television than try a little slow dancing.

Lower the lights, close the shades, and put on your favorite record and just dance.

Going Out On the Town

If it’s a weekend, and neither one of you has to work, you can take this rare night as the chance to go out and have some fun.

You can go to a club, a movie, or just take a drive out somewhere together, park the car, and just sit out on the hood and watch the stars.

Ending the Night

After you get home, you can go to your bedroom and relax. You both can get undressed, and crawl into bed, and hold one another close.

If you two have a usual custom of being intimate, then make it even more special by lighting some candles, putting on some soft music, or breaking out another bottle of wine that you can enjoy together under the sheets.

Date night is a time for you both to leave work behind and just enjoy being with the one person that makes your life complete.

There are many things you can do to make the night even more special like slow dancing in the living room, or parking the car in a secluded area to watch the stars.

Though no matter what you two decide to do, the night will be special for the simple reason that you both are spending quality time together.

The Pillowcase

Now, I have to admit, this is one that is definitely surprising to me. We all know that getting sleep every night is necessary to help you stay healthy but did you know that your pillowcase can pull moisture away from the body?

Because of this you could look like you’re aging before your time. So, what’s the solution to this nearly impossible problem? Buying silk pillowcases can help fight the wrinkles and the loss of moisture.

Smiling

Yikes! This one is horrible consider the fact that most women love to smile! The smile is the first thing you see when you’re meeting someone for the first time and the fact that smiling alone can cause you to age is stunning.

Fine lines and wrinkles can form on the face when you smile often or even squint or make other strange facial features.

Central Heating and Air

Dry skin brought on by central air can speed up the aging process. You may be roasting in the summertime but is it worth the wrinkles?

Personally I think it is but many of us feel it’s necessary to sweat it out and fight the signs of aging.

Drinking Liquids Through Bottles and Straws

Repeated motions of the muscles can cause wrinkles so when you pucker up your lips to drink from a bottle or through a straw you may want to think twice.

It may take quite some time to cause this problem but overtime depending on how frequently you use a straw or drink from water bottles you could be setting the stage for those pesky wrinkles and fine lines.

Sugar

Excess sugar can create various health problems and wrinkles and early signs of aging are one of them. If you’re eating a lot of sugar currently you should replace them with low-glycemic carbohydrates such as foods packed with whole grains.

The body will process these new substances a lot slower which in turn will limit the amount of collagen that’s removed from the body.

Television

Many of us women love our TV but it can be what’s causing you to look 20 years older than you really are.

Those who watch nearly six or more hours of television on a daily basis live shorter lives than those who don’t according to a study done in 2011. That’s something to ponder when the next episode of Days of Our Lives comes on!

Stress

This is one that’s fairly common but stress can cause you to age.

You should leave work at work and try to cope with your daily personal lives the best that you can and try to de-stress each day by doing some form of exercise or meditation because your skin depends on it.