By Travel Deal Hacker 
Travel Deal Hacker doesn’t just help you travel the world, but also travel in your neighborhood to make friends as an adult. Making friends as an adult isn’t the same as when we were in K -5 or in high school. You start conversations so naturally and become friends from there. The easiest effortless way to make new friends as an adult is right at work. Why? Because you see the people day in and day out, and you naturally look for connection. What if you’re looking for new friends outside of your normal place of work? How would you go about that? Travel Deal Hacker is here to help you make friends as an adult!
The biggest thing about making friends as an adult is opportunity. In order to find new friends, there needs to be an opportunity to do so! For example, you’re not going to make friends alone at your house, well unless it’s online. But I imagine you’re looking for friends that you can actually hang out with and get to know.
The first thing you’ll need is a monthly calendar where you can fill in everything that is happening for that month. A calendar at Walmart that has enough space to fill in everything that is happening that month and portable enough that you can bring it around with you. Here’s a link.
Most towns have a list of all the events that are happening that month, which makes it really easy to go through and see all the things that you’re interested in. Add each of the events that you’re interested in on the calendar, even if you may not be available. You never know if an opportunity may come up where plans change and you are able to do one of those things.
statecollege.com is wonderful if you live in the state college area!
Fill in the events your town has to offer in one color. With another color write something from the list below that you think would be fun to do! The goal is to have something for every day, so 28-31 events depending on the month. If you feel like taking it easy, then make the event a simple, relaxing thing to do. The first examples are where you could meet new people because it’s out there.
Social examples beyond what the town offers:
-Pool at a bar
-Walk around the neighborhood and say hello to a neighbor
-Kayaking on a lake
-Bowling
-Trivia night
-Dog park
And these examples are just for yourself, because it’s important to treat yourself and discover your interests as well.
More likely to do on your own
-Bird watching
-Photography
-Firepit
-Sit at the top of a mountain with music in the car
-Hike
Examples: of the current June month 18th-30th filled out with events coming up:
Going to new events also helps when talking to new people about the interesting things you do! You can do these events all on your own or try to invite people you already know. If you invite someone you already know, tell them to bring along someone they know. A great way to get to know new people!
Be sure to go to events that are sure to have other people that you could meet! The more people that are there, the more likely you could find someone that has similar interests!Trivia nights are great even if you don’t know anything!
The number one thing you can do to find new friends is look for opportunities! More people doesn’t mean that you’ll be more likely to make friends, because if you go to a place with more people and everyone’s already in their group it makes it very difficult to make new friends! Look for events that you’re likely to be able to meet new people easily! Things such as meeting new people in the neighborhood where people go on there own or with one other person. Meeting new people in your area going to events that have social Bingo, where you need to talk and ask about people to fill in a bingo card. Example:
Even better bring a social bingo card like the one below to an event and say you are playing and wondering if people could fill it in!
Socialize in a place where there’s a whole bunch of people that you could potentially get to know is making your rounds to get to know as many people as possible that are there and keeping notes on which people that you think you would like to talk to again and after you talk to mostly people there come back to your favorite person or people and stick with that group the rest of the night
Spend the most amount of time with them! Also look for the first chance to bond over an experience! Immediately get there number and say lets do that this upcoming week! Can be 2 minutes into conversation and then keep talking after that. Pressure is off and you already got a way to reach back out again after hanging out!
Some great first messages
“Hello_____ I enjoyed meeting you! That was funny when _____ happened. Let’s meet up to______ this upcoming week or next! Does Tuesday sound good?
This is what I would do to make friends as an adult