Category: Tips & Advice
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How To Make 2017 Your Year For Meeting New People
New people bring new experiences, new hobbies, and plenty of laughs. So, why not make the coming year your year for meeting new people? There are so many benefits to getting out there and mixing with others. The joys of conversation Meeting new people gives you the chance to engage with another person’s point of…
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4 Reasons Meeting New People Improves Your Life Expectancy
Life is about happiness and sharing moments with the people around us. Not only is this an enjoyable way to pass the days, it can actually help improve your health and increase your life expectancy. Happiness and positive human relationships have been scientifically linked to longer life expectancy. This means that you have more time to…
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How To Meet New People In A New Area?
Almost everyone in their lifetime will have moved at least once, either from the place they grew up in or perhaps a new job can cause people to leave their social life and a strong link of friends behind to make a go of it in a new city. Consequently, everyone is keen to meet…
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Struggling To Find Things To Do In The Evenings?
Work can be overwhelming and sometimes there is no time to plan or actively search for things to do in the evenings. This is why MixingOut is such a great place for people who are busy and want to be able to get involved in a variety of different events in the evening, ranging from…
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What it Takes to Be an Event Organiser With MixingOut
Although it requires a certain… je nais se qua to organise and host a MixingOut event, it’s probably not as difficult as you may think. In fact, we’ve made the whole process as simple as possible. Yes, there are a few qualities needed in order to ensure a successful get-together. But otherwise anybody who loves…
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6 Signs You Need to Go Out and Start Having Fun
It’s nice to get some downtime now and again, but when things start to go awry you know it’s time to get up off the sofa and have some fun outside. In case you can’t tell the difference between a day off and a write-off, here’s 6 signs to look out for: You’re surfing channels…
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How to organise the perfect Mixing Out event…
Have you attended a few Mixing Out events and now find yourself thinking ‘I could do that, I could host the most amazing event’? Well, if you haven’t noticed from the prompts around the site already, YOU CAN!! You could be the host/hostess with the most/mostess. Your event should very much represent you and your…
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Top Christmas Gifts For Your New Friends
Every year it’s the same dilemma: what to buy your new friends for Christmas. If you’ve known your mates a while, it can be easy. But if you’ve only just met then there’s a fine balance between getting your gift idea spot-on and disastrously falling short of the mark. Luckily we’ve already scoured the internet…
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Meeting New People is Easy, When You Know What to Say
Wherever you go, whether it’s down to your local ghetto or across the other side of the world to some distant shanty in the middle of nowhere – it certainly pays to know the lingo. Otherwise, who can say what kind of trouble a simple misunderstanding of the term “blood-pact” may get you in to?…
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Halloween Survival Guide, Part Two
You might be a bit too old for trick or treating but that shouldn’t stop you from going out and meeting friends this Halloween. October 31st is right around the corner and as part of our special Halloween Survival Guide, we’ve put together this list of things to do for all you guys who really…
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Halloween Survival Guide – Part One
The end of October is probably best known for one of three things: beer gardens closing down, wearing shorts outdoors becoming less acceptable, and only 54 shopping days left until Christmas. However, for those of us with a child-like taste for the theatrics it’s also time for dusting off those pumpkins (ooh-err) and getting out…
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The Over-thinker’s Guide to Dancing With New Friends
You know the score: a few late night drinks with some new friends and somebody suggests you all hit a club. Before you know it, you’ve been coerced onto the dance floor, when all you really want to do is order one of those ludicrous pitchers filled with phosphorescent alcohol. Then from out of nowhere,…
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3 Ways of Making Friends When You Were a Kid That Still Apply Today
Making friends when you’re a kid is easy. Remember when you were six, and one minute you were best friends with somebody because they liked the same things as you – and by the end of the day you were best friends with somebody else because you both had the same coloured shoes. Ah yes,…
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Meeting New People Is Fun – It’s Normal To Be Nervous
Meeting new people can always feel a little intimidating at first, especially when you’re by yourself in a large group, without your usual circle of friends around you. And even though we do it almost all the time, perhaps at a party or in a club, nerves can still sometimes get the better us. It…
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5 Types of New Friends Everyone Should Have
We’ve all seen the movies; new friends and old friends heading off on a night out/to search for a dead body/to throw a ring into the fires of Mordor. There’s always one of every ‘type’ to help the hero on their way. But when it comes back to the real world – which types of…
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Why March is The Perfect Time to Get Out and Start Making New Friends
We all enjoy going out and making new friends, and most of us would agree that we should be making more of an effort to do the things we enjoy. But more often than not, finding that motivation can sometimes elude us – especially after a busy week at work and other so-called ‘more important’…
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Fun and Interesting Words (You Never Knew Existed) to Use When Meeting New People
Have you ever been in that situation when meeting new people, where a word slips into the conversation, and you have absolutely no idea what it means. Staring vacantly, slowly nodding your head, you just go along with it, hoping you won’t get found out. So we thought we’d help switch things around a little,…
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Become an Event Organiser with Mixing Out – The Easiest Way to Meet New People
With so many new members signing up to Mixing Out, there’s never been a better time to become an event organiser – it’s a great way to meet new people and kickstart your social calendar for the new year. So what does an event organiser actually do? Well, it’s really quite simple – you get…
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New Year, New Friends: 6 Resolutions to Keep Things Social
It’s that time of year when we all vow to shed those pounds, meet new friends, get more out of life and generally swear to be an overall better person. That’s right, New Year signifies New Beginnings. We all come up with the regular resolutions for the upcoming year, no matter how unlikely we are…
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MixingOut’s Guide to Last Minute Christmas Gifts for Your New Friends
If you’re on ‘advent calendar’ time then you’ve probably worked out by now that there isn’t many chocolates (erm, we mean days) left until Christmas. Hopefully you’ve got something exciting lined up for the festive season, someplace fun to go and lots of new friends to meet up with. But have you sorted out your…
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MixingOut’s Good Night Out Checklist: 4 tried and tested tips to consider before going out to make new friends
So you’re on your way out, revved up and rearing to go – excited to meet up with loads of folk and ready to make new friends along the way… but are you sure you’ve got everything? Spontaneity is all part of the fun of going and and meeting whenever you feel like it.…
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MixingOut’s Guide To A Spontaneous Night Out With New Friends
We’ve all been there; planned the ultimate night out with new friends and watched it deteriorate miserably as each passing moment fails to live up to your expectations. How many times have you hyped something with your friends, being like “This night out is going to be INSANE. It’s going to be EPIC, OMG I…
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MixingOut’s guide to partying hard: meet friends, have fun & feel fresh the next morning
You know the score: You’ve arranged to meet friends for a wild night out on the town – the kind of night you hope to read about in the morning papers. Well, just because you’re going to smash it, doesn’t necessarily mean you want a smashing reminder the next day. So with that in mind,…