Those w/out kids - is your life boring?

Oh well for me, I was just commenting on the lack of downtime we have now with 3 kids. Before we had kids, I definitely spent many weekend mornings sleeping in and just kind of putzing around doing nothing much. I have tendencies towards laziness so this was probably not a good thing! lol.

Now this is only possible if my H takes the kids to my inlaws for brunch. The rest of the time we have soccer practice, school events, birthday parties, playdates and get togethers for the kids (and the adults , holiday stuff like visiting the pumpkin patch, etc. Our kids are of the go, go, go variety and start to act out and misbehave when they are bored and restless. So it's actually just easier to take them out and occupy them with some type of activity.

I'm sure we'd find stuff to do if we didn't have them though.

Oh yeah, I have a kid, and my life is boring to most people.
I am sure as she gets older, it will get more interesting, but right now, we dont do too much exciting stuff

I think my life is super fun. I live in an awesome city, go out drinking a lot, go to great restaurants a lot, go on fun trips, get to be spontaneous, etc. A lot of that would be way less fun for me if I had kids and had to be responsible and home at night and stuff.

But I can see how for people who had boring lives before kids, adding kids to the equation might add some excitement.

I tend to socialize a lot more than people I know with or without kids, so not boring. We do spend plenty of quite time at home, but it is exceedingly rare that I feel bored.

People are unpredictable (children or otherwise), so I can see a child adding an extra level interest that that may translate more to exhaustion that fun.

I also see children as forcing me to spend way more time with my in-laws which am not sure how I could handle. They are nice people but they lose their minds when it comes to their grandchildren.

My childfree life is most definitely NOT boring.

I have no children and my life is not boring.

Ditto this 200%

Yeah, I'm the kind of person who gets stir crazy fairly easily so we are constantly on the go. It helps that we live in an awesome neighborhood in an urban area, with restaurants, shopping, parks, etc within walking distance from our house. There are festivals going on almost every weekend this time of year. This weekend, I went out with friends Friday night, DH and I went with a group to a local beer fest on Saturday then out to dinner, walked to breakfast on Sunday and then ran errands. We both also have hobbies that we spend a fair amount of time doing.

Definitely not boring. I'm afraid that having kids will cramp our style.

My life was not boring before kids. Honestly, I think the only people with boring lives are boring people.

My kids have added a level of joy to my life that wasn't there before, but not because we were previously twiddling our thumbs looking for something to do.

Sometimes I think I love my child free life too much, so I definitely do not see it as boring.

Not boring. But I also don't think lounging around and sleeping in a Saturday morning is boring.

Hahaha. No.

I work at a job I love, have a great husband and awesome dog at home, and have as much of a social life as my introverted self can handle. (I've got plans four nights this week!)

While I'm sure my life will change when I have kids, I doubt I'll ever look back on my 20s and think "man, what a boring life I led."

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I have a kid and I think I said in that thread that I was more BORED before I had her. That's applicable to me personally and I don't think it would apply to everyone, but I just didn't have a whole lot of hobbies, or any hobbies really, before I had her. I had a lot of free time and didn't do much productive with it and was bored a lot.

When I became a mom and lost a lot of my free time, suddenly I started wanting to use what little I had in a more productive manner, so I took up sewing, began reading more often and in earnest, tried out knitting, accomplished a lot of DIY home improvement projects, took up yoga and meditation to lose the baby weight, started working on my garden and landscaping, began doing most of the cooking... I have a lot of hobbies now. I am pretty much never bored.

I don't think I was necessarily a boring person before kids; we went out a lot more, and we traveled a lot more, and hung out tons more with friends. But I am the type of person where the more I have to do, the more I get done, and for a myriad of reasons that are probably too much to get into here I did become a more active and well rounded person due to having a kid. I maybe would have also done so if I had not had a kid but who knows.

I certainly do not think it would work this way for everyone.