11 things to do with your friend group that don’t involve drinking

Maintaining friendships as an adult can be tricky. With most people working during the days and spending their low more-key moments with their significant others, most friend get-togethers usually wind up with some form of alcohol involved.

Whether you don’t drink, are looking to save a bit of money, or simply want to spice up your usual Friday night activities with the gang,  scroll down to check out these 11 friend group activities that don’t involve a trip to the liquor store.

1. Make a trip to an escape room
2. Pack snacks, bring a camera and go on a day hike
3. Everyone bring beads and make friendship bracelets
4. Instead of a boozy dinner potluck, have everyone bring a breakfast dish and host a Sunday morning brunch

5. Listen to a few episodes of The Moth, pick a theme, and host your own story-telling evening. To make things more interesting, open it up to your broader friend group, the only rule is: everyone has to come willing and prepared.

6. Host a dinner where everyone has to bring a dish around a certain theme. For example, country, decade, specific diet (i.e. Tom Brady’s famous TB12 diet), dips, types of tacos, etc.

7. Host a murder mystery party where each guest is assigned a role before the party and must commit to it the entire evening

8. Join a rec sports team

9. Host a gold ol’ fashioned book club. Here are some of our book recommendations.

10. Spend an afternoon at a bouldering or rock climbing gym

11. Everyone brings lawn games, head to your local park, and get competitive.

12. Host a board game evening or a tournament event involving a sport or trivia.