Is it hot? Are you kind of poor? Do you want to have fun outside AND cool down at the same time? If you can’t join a pool, go on vacation or live somewhere that is currently experiencing winter, I have the solution!
Here is what you’ll need (4-6 are key, folks):
1. A really good sprinkler.
2. Blow up pool.
3. Grapefruit, orange or cranberry juice.
4. Vodka.
5. An imagination.
6. No dignity at all whatsoever (not to be confused with “No Diggity”– the song by Blackstreet ft. Dr. Dre and Queen Pen).
Okay, so the rest is pretty self-explanatory. Go ahead and blow up the pool, hook that sprinkler up to a hose, mix juice with vodka (or don’t…), put on a bathing suit (or don’t…WINK), sit in the blow up pool while the sprinkler sprays you, get hella tipsy, close your eyes and imagine you’re anywhere but the yard. You’re welcome. Oh, and don’t forget sunscreen. I use the kind with sparkles because it makes me shimmer and my neighbors are probably all “ooooh” and “aaaaah” about it.
Photographic summary:
tales of a charm city chick 
I’ll just drink the vodka. I don’t care if I’m inside or out.
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That’s probably the best choice. I’ll be expecting some drunk messages later.
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Honestly, I just might end up drunk after the day I’ve had. I’ll try to remember to message you but no promises.
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I AM poorish and I HAVE been wanting to know what I should be doing this summer! Thank you for the idea!
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Oh good! I’ll be looking for photos on The Waiting Blog’s Facebook page. Not because I’m creepy!
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My new neighbors have a four kids under five and a kiddie pool. I think I’ll forgo the vodka and just hang out with them. I do have the mentality of a five year old after all. 🙂
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That works, too. Sparkly lotion is a must, though. Don’t forget that.
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But of course darling. We can NOT forget the sparkly lotion. Sparkly girls like us NEED it. 🙂
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Change my drink to beer and I’m there!
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I can see you now. It’s kinda funny, and I like it.
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There’s nothing better than beach side beverages in your own back yard! Watch out … Cannon Ball!
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Hahaha, which may be followed by the purchase of a new blow up pool…or a trip to the hospital! 😉
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Yes. This.
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I’ve missed you.
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I have missed you too! I saw your clip and still have it saved. You are so stinking cute!!
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Awww thanks!
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I love playing in the sprinkler, vodka or not!
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In Canada people do this for the entire week that it’s hot, right?
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Oh yes! It’s called Sprinkler week! You Yankees have shark week on Discovery, we Canucks celebrate the week when our lawns finally become visible!
Should happen any day now, go away snow!!!
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*Crosses fingers that Bob gets to run through the sprinkler VERY soon*
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Four kids under 5? That’s amazing. I have yet to buy the pool, but vodka is stocked. I haven’t bought a good sprinkler but have gone through a few cheap ones. My girls do things with sprinklers that disallow pics. I used to think girls were different than boys. Ha!
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Hahaha, kids are funny like that.
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HAHA! The state helicopters got a view of me lounging in the hard plastic kiddie pool with my legs, arms and head hanging over the side last Friday. At least, I was hidden from public view on my rooftop deck! And, being the free spirit I am, no vodka necessary. :p The resulting sunburn is not so enjoyable.
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Haha, I can see this now. Lucky helicopters! Miss you.
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Nosey neighbors and living near a semi-busy street makes the sprinkler and pool a little tricky… But the vodka, I like!
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Yes that could be an issue. Vodka prior to the rest might be helpful!
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Of course when I saw the title, my wacko brain saw this “Summer Fun for Polish People”
Luckily I never had any dignity…
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HAHAHA
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Or Popish people 🙂
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Maybe 1-3 are key, too. I used 4-6 a few summer’s ago and it led to the idea I was an Olympic pole vaulter.
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That. Is. Awesome. How’d you do?
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Not well because the stick I was using broke and I ended up chipping my heel bone. So, bronze?
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Silver because drunk!
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HAHAHAHAHA I will probably do this!
<3, Charlotte
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I officially heart you. DO IT!
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I totally read that as “no diggity” and it took me back to junior high when I was just a lonely girl, rapping to my own reflection in the bathroom mirror.
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THANK GOD. No offense but ME TOO. We would have been pals.
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Sounds like a very scientific formula for a good time. I had to go back and listen to “No Diggity.” Then, because I thought it would hilarious, I found the Nightcore version of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOArW00hZuk
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Hahahahahahaha I am listening to that now. Thank you.
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I just pour cold beer down my gullet. The judgement banning me from wearing swimwear is still in effect.
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Thanks for the encouragement. I have a ‘mist’ function on my hose that is my idea of heaven on a hot day.
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You give the best most financially responsible advice involving Vodka of anyone on WP. Glad you are back, doll.
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Lazy alternative: sit in a cool bathtub all day. Requires cooperative cohabitants, though.
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Yeaaaah I’m pretty lazy, So that works too. 😉
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If only we had the room for a blow-up pool. Sadly, our balcony probably can’t sustain the weight of even a filled kiddie pool, and would collapse onto our downstairs neighbors. And we have no sprinklers, although maybe if we set off the sprinklers in our ceiling that would be nice. But we have everything else, even the No Diggity. Thank you for these very helpful tips, lady.
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One can never have enough Blackstreet references. Thank you. Oh and this was hilarious.
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I’ve never heard the phrase: “Poorish People.” Love it!
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I made it up!
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Genius dear.
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