35 Things to Do When You're Really Bored
Are you dying of boredom? Some or all of these suggestions might help!- Take a picture of an old camera that can't take pictures anymore.
- Play frisbee golf with old CDs or DVDs you don't care about.
- Close the fridge really slowly to see when the light goes out.
- Take a nap under a shady tree. Like, a tree with shade. Not like, a sketchy, creepy tree. Don't do that.
- Count the squirrels at your local park. If your park has no squirrels, just sit there and think about life.
- Volunteer in your community by becoming one of those garbage stabber people.
- Plant carrots. Grow carrots. Pick carrots. Wash carrots. Eat carrots.
- Have a parade with just you walking down the street playing a kazoo. Maybe have your dog in there too.
- Play basketball with a deflated ball since it's really kind of a whole new game.
- Freeze a milkshake so it can just be regular ice cream in cylinder form. Mmm, cylinders.
- Microwave something, then open the microwave at 1 second left and pretend you disabled a bomb.
- Teach a cat how to do backflips so that when people come over your cat can do backflips and people will think your cat is cool.
- Try to find where you can get some cantaloupe ice cream, since that sounds kind of weird but yet is probably still a thing.
- Open a paint program and draw a stickman war on medieval, modern, or future age. Your choice.
- Think about how successful grass is as a species. There are like, trillions of those things.
- Try to run for a really long time like Forrest Gump but then stop after maybe a block or two.
- Drink some water! Too many people are dehydrated these days.
- Visit a butterfly house. They're like wasps except all the bad things are replaced with good things.
- Stare at the back of someone's head then see if they turn around like they have that "someone's watching me" feeling.
- Dehydrate a watermelon to make watermelon jerky. It's a real thing!
- Poke something or someone to the beat of a song.
- Draw pictures in total darkness and see how they turn out.
- Go through an old yearbook and see how weird everyone looked.
- Say potato really slow in a deep voice.
- Type ingredients you already have in your kitchen into a recipe generator and cook or bake something.
- Film yourself eating food then put it in reverse.
- Put soap in a hot tub and then turn the jets on, then give yourself a beard made out of bubbles.
- Listen to 2 completely different songs at the same time and see what it sounds like.
- Go on a 5 minute vacation to the most luxurious place you can find within those 5 minutes.
- Scream at a tree. It deserves to know that you acknowledge its hard work and dedication to the environment.
- Find a cookie. Eat it.
- Order a chicken and an egg from Amazon and see which one comes first.
- For the rest of the day, answer every question with a question.
- Watch some kids shows you were obsessed with when you were 4-8. Feel the nostalgia course through your veins.
- Question the meaning of boredom until you get so deep and scientific that you're no longer bored.
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