How to Romanticize Rainy Days with These Simply Lovely Activities

On soft rainy days, you may be tempted to feel as gray as the sky. However, there is a great opportunity to slow down and enjoy yourself to the fullest. This list of activities will help you romanticize rainy days with simple, yet enchanting activities.

Keep reading to find out what simple activities you can try out to romanticize rainy days with ease. Plus, check out the quick tips at the end to help boost overall wellness with small daily changes and habits.

What is Romanticizing Life

Romanticizing your life is a trend that can have great mental health benefits. It consists of appreciating the little things and cultivating small habits that can create a life you truly love to live. There is no need for a big change in your daily life. Instead, romanticizing life can help turn the ordinary into extraordinary. It helps you focus on searching for joy in every moment and can help reduce stress, and anxiety while boosting your mood easily. 

Check out this complete guide on how to romanticize your life. Some simple habits you can try though include making fun drinks by adding berries instead of ice cubes, eating your food on beautiful plates, adding music to everyday activities like cleaning, and many more small daily changes.

Romanticize Rainy Days with These Simply Lovely Activities

Here are some simple yet lovely activities to help you romanticize rainy days easily. Try them out the next time the weather is a bit gray and dreary. Make everyday moments more magical with simple tips today.

1. Read with Rain

One of the simplest yet most fulfilling activities to do is to read beside the rain. There are countless playlists online with music set to a downpour. With rainy weather, there’s no need for this. Let nature set the tone for a relaxing time and get to reading.

2. Listen to Nature

Along the same vein, a simple yet stunningly beautiful activity to do on rainy days can be to simply exist and listen to the sounds of nature. Do your very best to simply exist at the moment and lend your ear to the noises outside. Focus on how the raindrops sound against the window, listen to thunder shake the sky, and turn your attention towards the wind howling outside. This can be a simple way for you to connect with nature and calm the mind down.

3. Watch an Old Movie

Another simple activity that you can try out on rainy days when you can’t go outside is to watch an old movie. A rainy day lends an atmosphere of calm that can be the perfect setting to watch a classic movie you love. Bonus points if it’s black and white.

4. Bake Something Simple

It can be quite comforting to eat something delicious and freshly baked on a rainy day. Not only will it help fill you up, but it can also give you a sense of accomplishment. Try and bake something super simple the next time it’s too damn to go outside. This will fill the house with a pleasant warmth and delicious scent that will last throughout the day and night.

5. Sit by a Window

A simple activity to romanticize rainy days is to set yourself up in a corner with a window. This can be in the comfort of your own home, at your favorite cafe, or in your local library. Sit by a window and do whatever you need to do, whether it’s catching up on emails, writing notes down, or simply gazing outside. This is a calming atmosphere that will help ease you through any task you need to do.

6. Journal with Thunder

Something I love doing is to write while it rains. There is something extremely romantic about sitting down and taking paper and pen and jotting down all the thoughts that come to mind. Use rainy days as a time to journal, write letters, or tell stories. It’s not the same as jotting notes down with your note app on your phone or on your computer. There is something refreshing about physically writing, and the rain makes it all the better. Not sure how to start journaling? Here’s a list of five different ways to journal today.

7. Listen to a Rainy Vibe Playlist

A rainy day provides sights and sounds that we don’t always get. On days like this, it can be very pleasant to add more ambiance to the atmosphere. Do this by creating a rainy day playlist that goes perfectly with the downpour. What a rainy day playlist is depends on your taste. It can be classical music, soft slow techno, or even acoustic pop songs.

8. Eat by Candlelight

There’s something about rainy days that makes candlelight a necessity. Lighting a candle in and of itself is a simple way to promote self-care and a soothing environment. A soft candle-lit atmosphere, especially later in the day, can help relax the mind and promote better sleep at night. On this rainy day, have your dinner by candlelight. Be extremely mindful, taking the time to enjoy the sights and smells of your meal.

9. Cozy Up Under a Blanket

On a rainy day, it can be super pleasant to warm yourself up under a blanket. It can create a cocoon of safety and good feelings. This may not apply to summertime rain, especially in somewhere like Florida. The summer tends to be hot and humid, and a blanket would just make the tape miserable. However, if you set your house to a cool temperature, any time can be blanket time.

10. Camp Indoors

This is one of the funniest activities you can do on a rainy day. I hate camping, I’m not a fan of bugs, and I’m scared of bears. However, camping indoors? While it is storming outside? An amazing experience. S’mores taste just as good toasted with a candle and heated in the microwave, change my mind.

Quick Tips to Boost Overall Wellbeing

Here are some quick tips to boost overall wellness in your day-to-day life, regardless of whether or not it is raining.

• Enjoy mindful moments – take moments daily to just exist and be present. This can help reduce worry and stress and can help you become more solution-oriented instead of focusing on issues and problems.
• Take me time – me time is all about doing something for yourself. This can be something as small as enjoying a cup of tea or something as big as taking a weekend off and enjoying a trip.
• Self care – self-care is something we should be doing daily. It is all about taking care of ourselves. It can be something as small as practicing a skincare routine, taking note of how you feel, or doing some activity you love. It can also be something bigger like buying yourself that book you’ve been longing for or splurging on some fancy dinner. 

The Takeaway

It is a great idea to romanticize rainy days. Rainy weather is already super cozy, soft, and slow, and by practicing habits to romanticize your life, you will be able to boost your mental and physical wellness easily.

Remember that health comes from within. Eat well, exercise when you can, and take care of your mental health. Daily habits become the building blocks to improve mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing. Try to take care of your gut health too! Get your complete guide to gut microbiota health for free here.