Campout Afton State Park Bluffs

Price: $5 (per group)

Location: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/afton/index.html

Afton State park is just past Woodbury, Southeast of the twin cities. It costs $5 per car to park there or $25 for a year long pass. Camp along the bluffs of the St Croix River. They have firewood, water, toilets, everything else. The views are spectacular. Fall is a good time to go to see the treeline across in Wisconsin. You have to hike about 1/2 mile from the parking lot to get to the camp site. Bring a cooler with some beer and look for a triple rainbow.

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Poisonade Bum

Price $8
Location: Public - any Central Business District

Buy Windex, Blue Gatorade & a ripped suit from the Salvation army...pour out the windex and replace it with the Blue Gatorade. Sit on a street corner in the suit and act like a bum for an hour or so. This way you can say the things you have always wanted to yell at people in public and they'll just think you're crazy and ignore it.

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One for the Narnians

Price: Free
Location: IKEA

Go to IKEA, hide in a wardrobe, wait 10 min, then jump out yelling “for Narnia”

–taken from FreePostia.com

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Winter lawn games - shuffleboard

Price: $4 (cheap spray paint)

Making your own shuffleboard alley or curling alley isn't that difficult. Of course, you won't have the ice perfectly flat, but it still works to make up your own games.

Things you will need:
warm water (hose or bucket)
shovel
spray paint
large rocks / bricks
shuffleboard-type sticks (optional)
All you do is find a pond or lake and shovel off a 30' x 3' area and spray paint some lines on each end (I usually do 2 black lines leaving a white space in between). Then pour the warm water over the whole thing to make it slick. Wait until the surface water is frozen then make up some type of game similar to shufflboard or curling. I usually play with 2 bricks each and assign 1,2,3 point values to each line. If you like playing lawn games in the summer, this is your best bet for continuing through the snowy winter.

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A Good Cry (not you though!)

Price: $2 for some paper

Location: Not near your house / apt

Put signs up that says free Beagle puppy...if not adopted soon, will be put to sleep. Then set up voicemail on your phone to say "if you're calling about the puppy, we already put it down. If not, leave a message." -all in a heartless tone.

You will have people crying and saying ridiculous things on your machine to laugh about later.

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Punishments

1 - Upside down body shot (out of the plumber butt-crack...only show an inch or so please) We don't want to punish everyone. Only the loser.

2 - Right side up body shot (for women)

3 - 1 piece of clothing

4 - Blindfolded for the next #X rounds

5 - Loser goes on their hands and knees and is the chair for the winner for the next #X rounds.

Ask out a Random

Price: $0

Location: Coffee shop (preferred)

The key to asking out a random person is finding someone who is somewhat open-minded and will try new things. Here's the idea....Throw a party with some of your buddies or set this up when you are going to a party. Make a note / letter that says something like (Party at 1XXX West XXXX St, Bring ANYONE you want. We are thinking like 100 people or so. I will be on Peter's cell (555-XXX-XXXX...etc.) Go into a Coffee shop where you're likely to find someone a little more open-minded. If you are a guy, ask a girl and say "have you seen a guys, about 6' tall, really good looking, name is John etc.? Well I am supposed to meet him here, but I have to run and I don't have my phone on me. He will be here soon, can you give him this? After you give it to her (him) strike up menial conversation for a minute, and hopefully they will read the card and you can invite them to the party casually.

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Radio/TV Contests

I never thought of myself as a lucky man but boy do these radio/tv contests pay off. Over my contest playing career I have won:

Chance to participate in a Deadpool (KQRS)
4 tickets to the Trail of Terror (K102)
The Bourne Trilogy on Blue Ray (KDWB
Preshowing of 21.(KDWB)
A sweatshirt and a Nerf Ball (KDWB).

All of the contests a very simple. Most of them you just have to enter your name phone number and email address. Some you have to call in and others you have to submit entries online. Either way it is a good way to find free things to do. KDWB has by far the biggest variety of things from Taylor Swift tickets to Lil Waynes new CD. Just go to the website of your favorite radio station or TV channel and look for "interactive" or "contests" and click around until you find something interesting. I would suggest staying local because your odds of winning a trip to the Final Four from CBS Sportsline are slim.