Cheap Summer Thrills

Feel the need to beat the summer heat (and boredom)?

Other than spending thousands on beach trips and other pampering whatnots, try these inexpensive (and similarly boredom-beating) ways to get through your summer in a breeze.

Go swimming in a semi-private pool/resort. Practical and cheap. Bring your friends along and you might meet another group of friends also swimming. :)

Go book-hunting and free-reading. Go to Fully-Booked and finish a vampire pre-teen novel. Kill time by sitting on the carpet, maximizing the air-conditioned place, and contemplating how crappy that vampire novel is.

Go unleash your inner Master Chef. Turn your kitchen into a food laboratory by mixing all the stuff you see in the fridge. Who knows? You might just be the next master chef (or Picasso). This also beats the perpetual hunger summer brings.

Will update this post if I can think of more. I'm typing this half-asleep. :)