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A few years ago, we reduced our spending by over $23,000, paid off our debt of over $30,000, I quit my job to stay home and then I replaced my salary working from home (We used this free step by step budgeting system to do that by the way). To make all of that possible, I spent a lot of time brainstorming things we could do that were free or cheap to keep us busy and replace the more expensive things we were used to doing.
Because dropping $200 on dinner, a movie, and a babysitter isn’t going to get anyone out of debt.
Over the years, I kept expanding the lists of things to do. As we built wealth and increased our income considerably, we found that while we didn’t need cheap and free things to do, we wanted unique experiences and skills that would give us the fulfilling life we wanted.
The cost didn’t matter anymore if the experience was worth it to us.
Then there are the times your kids (and you) are bored trying to fill up a long summer or school break and you just need a giant list of things to do when bored to give you ideas of how to fill your time.
Whatever your situation, I’m convinced that this is the most exhaustive list in the world of things to do when bored. If you can think of anything that I forgot, just leave a comment below and we’ll add it.
To make it easier, we separated the things to do when bored list into categories, this way if you’re looking for free things to do, I’m not tempting you with earning your private pilot license (which costs about $10,000 plus $130 per hour) when you’re trying to save money.
You can click on any of the categories below and it will take you straight to that list. Or just keep scrolling and you can go through all of them.
There’s a bit of repetition between the lists because we wanted each category to be completely comprehensive and several things fit into more than one category.
Side Note: I think we need a challenge to see if anyone can get through the entire “Things to Do When Bored” list.
Things To Do When Bored Categories
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- Free or cheap things to do when bored.
- Fun things to do when bored.
- Things to do when bored for kids.
- Things to do when bored at home.
- Things to do when bored at night.
- Things to do with your boyfriend (or girlfriend, husband, or wife) when bored.
- Things to do when bored with friends.
- Fun things to do on a laptop when bored.
- Fun things to do outside when bored.
- DIY things to do when bored.
- Things to do when bored on your phone.
- Things to do when bored that could make you money.
- Things to do when bored to make life easier.
Free or Cheap Things To Do When Bored
This list is perfect if you’re trying to replace more expensive hobbies and social gatherings to pay off your debt or to save up for a new house or retirement. We lived off this list for a few years.
Hint: You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.
If you need equipment, plan to grab it off Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace for a fraction of the price (plus you can usually sell it for the same amount you paid, when you’re ready to move on).
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- Acapella
- Apply to be an extra in a movie or tv show
- Arrange flowers
- Astronomy
- At home facials
- Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD
- Babysitting
- Balloon twisting
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Beachcombing
- Beach volleyball
- Beatboxing
- Become a Wikipedia editor
- Becoming a newspaper contributor
- Belly Dancing
- Bicycling
- Board game club
- Bonsai trees
- Boogie boarding
- Brainstorm your hobbies
- Breakdancing
- Build a family command center
- Build a functional igloo in the snow
- Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally
- Building fairy gardens
- Butterfly watching
- Calligraphy
- Camping
- Canning
- Canoeing
- Cardio
- Carve epic pumpkins
- Catch up on laundry
- Catching insects (like lightning bugs)
- Check out museums
- Clean out and detail clean your car
- Coin collecting
- Collecting leaves or flowers
- Collecting marbles
- Collecting seashells
- Collecting stickers
- Coloring
- Comic book art
- Container gardening
- Corn Maze
- Create a bucket list
- Create a home stock room
- Create a treasure hunt
- Creating a family tree
- Creating a time capsule
- Creating unique recipes
- Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell
- Crocheting
- Cross country running
- Crossword puzzles
- Declutter and organize an area of your home
- Dig for clams
- Digital scrapbooking
- Dog training
- Dominoes
- Draw comics or learn animation
- Drawing
- Driveway chalk
- Dumpster diving
- Embroidery
- Explore different religious beliefs
- Farming
- Fell running
- Feng Shui your home
- Find a natural way to collect rainwater
- Finger painting
- Foosball
- Football
- Frisbee golf
- Gather food donations for a local non-profit
- Genealogy
- Geology
- Gnoming (when you steal someone’s garden gnome and take them on epic adventures and travel sending postcards back to the rightful owner until the gnome is returned. Yes. it’s really a thing).
- Go crabbing
- Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)
- Going on picnics
- Ham radio
- Hand lettering
- Handball
- Handwriting letters to friends and family
- Have family meetings or budget meetings
- Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)
- Hike the Appalachian mountains
- Hiking
- Hip Hop Dancing
- Hockey
- Hoverboarding
- Hurdles
- Impersonations
- Improve your memory
- Interviewing older relatives about their lives
- Inventing
- Jam making
- Juggling
- Jump rope
- Karaoke
- Kitchen chemistry
- Kite flying
- Knitting
- Knotting
- Learn a roundhouse kick
- Learn boxing or kickboxing
- Learn how to debone and eat a chicken wing in one bite
- Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)
- Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands
- Learn how to light a match with one hand
- Learn how to meal plan
- Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily
- Learn how to start a fire with two sticks
- Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue
- Learn how to whistle using your fingers
- Learn magic tricks and card tricks
- Learn paper Origami or Tatebanko or paper quilling
- Learn the art of upcycling. (Start taking things you would have thrown out and turn them into something useful. We do this to tee shirts by turning them into useful tote bags)
- Learn to bake
- Learn to budget
- Learn to cook
- Learn to crochet
- Learn to dirty dance
- Learn to do a backward roll
- Learn to do a cartwheel
- Learn to do a forward roll
- Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes
- Learn to forage for edible food
- Learn to high kick
- Learn to hunt or to track
- Learn to knit
- Learn to manage your home
- Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)
- Learn to quilt
- Learn to rock climb or bouldering
- Learn to sew
- Learning the art of storytelling
- Lock picking
- Long distance track
- Long jump
- Look at free community events going on near you
- Make a collage
- Make a terrarium
- Make your own bookmarks
- Make your own candles
- Make your own hot sauce
- Make your own jewelry
- Make your own signature bbq sauce
- Make your own tea blends
- Making a bird feeder
- Making model cars
- Making your own clothes
- Meal plan for the week
- Meditation
- Microscopy
- Middle distance track
- Mini golf
- Model rockets
- Mud wrestle (or jello?)
- Needle Felting
- Organize your week
- Palm reading
- Paper mache
- Pencil sketching
- People watching
- Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: the secret ingredient? Cream cheese)
- Perfect your handshake
- Perfect your high five
- Pinochle
- Plan a monthly dinner club, bunco night, or poker party
- Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)
- Plan out a 3-week menu of favorite meals and shopping lists. Then create saved orders for them in Instacart or Walmart pick up. (Viola, meal planning and grocery shopping are automated.)
- Plan out a yearly menu
- Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit
- Play badminton
- Play chess
- Play darts
- Play volleyball
- Playing harmonica
- Playing pool
- Podcasting
- Pressing flowers
- Proofreading
- Racquetball
- Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard
- Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels
- Roast your own coffee
- Rock painting
- Roller skating
- Running
- Sand sculptures
- Sand surfing
- Science experiments
- Sculpting with clay
- Self-care or beauty night
- Sewing
- Shark tooth or fossil hunting
- Shop for best prices on the items you use the most (home goods like garbage bags, personal goods like shampoo and food items like ketchup)
- Short distance track
- Singing
- Skateboarding
- Sleigh riding
- Slingshots
- Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (This probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)
- Soap making
- Soccer
- Solve puzzles or mazes
- Speed reading
- Sports refereeing
- Stamp collecting
- Stargazing with a telescope
- Start a book club
- Start a journal
- Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)
- Starting a parents night out
- Staycation
- Stone skipping
- Story writing
- Strength training
- Sudoku
- Surfing
- Swimming
- Table tennis
- Tai Chi
- Take a positive discipline parenting class
- Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)
- Tarot reading
- Teach your kids a chore they can take over
- Tennis
- Throw axes
- Tower running (or extreme stair climbing)
- Track cycling
- Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman
- Trivia contests
- Ultimate frisbee
- Visit the aquarium
- Visit the local library
- Visit the zoo
- Volunteer at a local non-profit
- Volunteer at the food pantry
- Volunteer at the kids’ school
- Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization
- Volunteering
- Wakeboarding
- Walking
- Watching entire libraries of films in common (such as all Spielberg movies or all movies with Hugh Jackman, or the most popular 25 movies of the ’80s).
- Wrestling
- Write a screenplay
- Write your family mission statement
- Writing a book
- Writing letters to loved ones
- Writing letters to your future self
- Yoga
- Yoyoing
Fun Things To Do When You’re Bored.
This list is perfect if you’re looking for something fun and exciting to do when you’re bored. They are not always cheap (although, some are) but they will be awesome!
Hint: You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.
If you need equipment, plan to grab it off Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace for a fraction of the price (plus you can usually sell it for the same amount you paid, when you’re ready to move on).
- 3D printing
- Acrobatics
- Acroyoga (couples yoga where you physically support each other)
- Aerial photography
- Airbrushing
- Airsoft guns
- Antiquing
- Archaeology (like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast)
- At home facials
- Baking
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Baton twirling
- Beachcombing
- Beach volleyball
- Beatboxing
- Become a connoisseur (wine, whiskey)
- Become a personal trainer or fitness instructor (either on your own or through whatever your jam is…CrossFit, Yoga or Zumba)
- Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own
- Belly Dancing
- Bicycling
- Blacksmithing (make your own sword)
- Board game club
- Body surfing
- Boogie boarding
- Boomerangs
- Brainstorm your hobbies
- Breakdancing
- Breaking a world record
- Build a family command center
- Build a functional igloo in the snow
- Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally
- Build an experimental aircraft
- Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects
- Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace
- Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture
- Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard
- Building fairy gardens
- Butterfly watching
- Camping
- Candy making
- Canning
- Canoeing
- Carve epic pumpkins
- Catching insects (like lightning bugs)
- Cave diving
- Caving or spelunking
- Ceramics
- Chainsaw carvings
- Check out a salsa club
- Cheerleading
- Chocolate tasting
- Coin collecting
- Collecting baseball cards
- Collecting seashells
- Coloring
- Combat shooting
- Comic book art
- Cooking
- Cosplay
- Crabbing
- Create a bucket list
- Create a local Uber experience like a guided tour
- Create a treasure hunt
- Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes
- Creating a family tree
- Creating a time capsule
- Creating unique recipes
- Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet
- Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.
- Cross country running
- Cross country skiing
- Crossword puzzles
- Curling
- Decoupage
- Design funny or niche coffee mugs
- Design funny or niche tee shirts
- Design printable planner stickers
- Dig for clams
- Digital scrapbooking
- Diner club
- Dirt biking
- Discus
- Distilling
- DJing
- Dog training
- Dominoes
- Dragon boat racing
- Draw comics or learn animation
- Drawing
- Driveway chalk
- Embroidery
- Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)
- Enhance your survival skills
- Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties
- Explore different religious beliefs
- Fell running
- Feng Shui your home
- Field hockey
- Find a natural way to collect rainwater
- Finger painting
- Fire poi (fire performance)
- Fish pedicures
- Fishing for tuna
- Flower arrangements
- Fly Tying
- Flying drones
- Flying model planes
- Foosball
- Football
- Freezer cooking (once a month?)
- Frisbee golf
- Genealogy
- Get a tattoo
- Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games
- Glamping
- Glass blowing
- Gnoming (when you steal someone’s garden gnome and take them on epic adventures and travel sending postcards back to the rightful owner until the gnome is returned. Yes. it’s really a thing).
- Go crabbing
- Go kart racing
- Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)
- Go to local open houses and watch the real estate market.
- Get into real estate or flipping houses.
- Going on picnics
- Groundhopping (going to as many stadiums or venues of your favorite artist or sports team)
- Gymnastics
- Hand lettering
- Hand to hand combat
- Handball
- Handwriting letters to friends and family
- Hang Gliding
- Haunted house tours
- Have a seafood boil in the sand
- Helicopter skiing
- Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)
- Hike the Appalachian mountains
- Hiking
- Hip Hop Dancing
- Hockey
- Horseback riding
- Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)
- Host a freezer cooking party (and if you get good at running them, buy the ingredients and supplies and charge people to come, make and pack meals )
- Hoverboarding
- Hula dancing
- Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields
- Hurdles
- Ice fishing
- Impersonations
- Improve your memory
- Interviewing older relatives about their lives
- Inventing
- Irish step dancing
- Jam making
- Jet ski
- Juggling in the street
- Jump rope
- Karaoke
- Kitchen chemistry
- Kite surfing
- Knifemaking
- Knife throwing
- Knotting
- Lacemaking
- Lacrosse
- Landscaping
- Learn archery
- Learn boxing or kickboxing
- Learn graphic design (for example, logos)
- Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands
- Learn how to juggle fire
- Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)
- Learn how to make printables
- Learn how to make wine
- Learn how to pick locks
- Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily
- Learn how to start a fire with two sticks
- Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue
- Learn how to use a bullwhip to snap a straw out of a man’s hand
- Learn how to whistle using your fingers
- Learn impressive party tricks
- Learn Klingon
- Learn Pig Latin
- Learn self-defense
- Learn spear fishing or fly fishing.
- Learn the art of upcycling. (Take things you would have thrown out and turn them into something useful. We do this to tee shirts by turning them into useful tote bags)
- Learn to ballroom dance
- Learn to dirty dance
- Learn to fence
- Learn to fly (p.s. it’s expensive)
- Learn to forage for edible food
- Learn to hunt or to track
- Learn to ice skate
- Learn to perfect big barrel curls
- Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)
- Learn to play craps
- Learn to rock climb or bouldering
- Learn to shoot
- Learn to travel hack
- Learning how to bartend
- Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)
- Learning how to tattoo
- Learning the art of storytelling
- Lip plumpers
- Lobster traps
- Long distance track
- Long jump
- Look at free community events going on near you
- Ludo sport (Lightsaber combat)
- Make a collage
- Make cold brew coffee
- Make hard cider (super easy!)
- Make miniature doll furniture
- Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube Beat the record on Slitherio
- Make pottery
- Make your own beer
- Make your own boat
- Make your own bookmarks
- Make your own candles
- Make your own hot sauce
- Make your own jewelry
- Make your own robot
- Make your own signature bbq sauce
- Making digital photo books
- Making dolls
- Making model cars
- Manicures
- Massage
- Master airplane combat games
- Master barbeque
- Matchstick modeling
- Meditation
- Metalworking
- Microscopy
- Middle distance track
- Mini golf
- Model rockets
- Model shipbuilding
- Motocross
- Mud wrestle (or jello?)
- Obstacle course
- Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books
- Paint and sip nights
- Palm reading
- Paper mache
- Parachuting
- Paragliding
- Parkour
- Pedicures
- People watching
- Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: secret ingredient? Cream cheese)
- Performing stand up comedy
- Pinochle
- Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)
- Plan out a 3-week menu of favorite meals and shopping list on a rotating basis and then create saved orders for them in Instacart or Walmart pick up. (Viola, meal planning and grocery shopping are automated.)
- Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit
- Plant and maintain community fruit trees (Urban Harvest)
- Play badminton
- Play chess
- Play darts
- Play volleyball
- Playing harmonica
- Playing pool
- Podcasting
- Poker
- Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)
- Produce electronic music
- Puppetry
- Pyrotechnics or fireworks
- Quidditch
- Racquetball
- RC cars
- Reef aquarium
- Renovate your house
- Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels
- Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)
- Road trips
- Roast your own coffee
- Rock painting
- Rollerblading
- Roller skating
- Room renovations or home designs
- Rugby
- Running
- RV across the US
- Sailing
- Sand sculptures
- Sand surfing
- Sandboarding
- Scale miniature building
- Science experiments
- Scottish sword dancing
- Scrapbooking
- Scuba Diving
- Sculpting
- Self-care or beauty night
- Self Tanning
- Sewing
- Shark Diving
- Shark tooth or fossil hunting
- Shop for best prices on the items you use the most (both home goods like garbage bags, personal goods like shampoo and food items like ketchup)
- Short distance track
- Shot put
- Singing
- Skateboarding
- Skeet shooting
- Skydiving
- Snorkeling
- Snowboarding
- Snowmobiling
- Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (*probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)
- Soap making
- Soccer
- Speed reading
- Speed skating
- Spin classes
- Sports refereeing
- Stamp collecting
- Stargazing with a telescope
- Start a book club
- Start a journal
- Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)
- Start a soccer mom league
- Start an allotment or community garden
- Start and maintain a saltwater tank
- Staycation
- Stoneworking
- Story writing
- Style and decorate homes
- Subscription boxes
- Sudoku
- Sugar scrubs
- Surfing
- Sushi making
- Swimming
- Synchronized swimming
- Table tennis
- Tai Chi
- Take a discovery flight
- Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)
- Tandem, biking
- Target shooting
- Tarot reading
- Tasting parties with miracle fruit
- Teach your kids a chore they can take over
- Tennis
- Themed date nights
- Throw axes
- Touring wineries
- Tower running (or extreme stair climbing)
- Track cycling
- Trivia contest
- Ultimate frisbee
- Vaulting horses
- Ventriloquism
- Visit a speakeasy
- Visit the aquarium
- Visit the local library
- Visit the zoo
- Volunteer at the food pantry
- Volunteer at the kids’ school
- Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization
- Volunteering
- Wakeboarding
- Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting
- Watchmaking
- Watching entire libraries of films in common (such as all Spielberg movies or all movies with Hugh Jackman, or the most popular 25 movies of the ’80s).
- Watercolors
- Weekend getaways
- Whale watching
- White water rafting
- Whittling or wood carving
- Windsurfing
- Wine/cheese tasting
- Wingsuit flying
- Wrestling
- Write your family mission statement
- Writing a book
- Writing letters to loved ones
- Writing letters to your future self
- Yoga
- Ziplining
- Zumba
Things To Do When You’re Bored With Kids.
This list is perfect if you have kids (or if you are a kid) and you’re looking for things to do when you’re bored. This list is mostly cheap, pretty creative and will help them burn off some energy. There are ideas for kids of every age here… not just toddlers or school-aged kids.
- Acrobatics
- Airbrushing
- Apply to be an extra in a movie or tv show
- Astronomy
- At home facials
- Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD
- Audition as an actor or for a commercial
- Audition to be a model
- Babysitting
- Baking
- Balloon twisting
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Baton twirling
- Beach volleyball
- Beat the record on Slitherio
- Beatboxing
- Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own
- Becoming a newspaper contributor
- Belly Dancing
- Bicycling
- Biking
- Board dogs
- Board game club
- Body surfing
- Bonsai trees
- Boogie boarding
- Boomerangs
- Brainstorm your hobbies
- Breakdancing
- Breaking a world record
- Breed dogs
- Build a functional igloo in the snow
- Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally
- Build an experimental aircraft
- Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects
- Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture
- Building fairy gardens
- Butterfly watching
- Camping
- Candy making
- Cardmaking
- Cartography
- Carve epic pumpkins
- Catching insects (like lightning bugs)
- Cave Diving
- Caving or spelunking
- Ceramics
- Check out museums
- Cheerleading
- Chocolate tasting
- Coin collecting
- Collecting baseball cards
- Collecting leaves or flowers
- Collecting marbles
- Collecting model trains
- Collecting seashells
- Collecting stickers
- Coloring
- Comic book art
- Container gardening
- Cooking
- Corn Maze
- Crabbing
- Create a bucket list
- Create a charity
- Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)
- Create a treasure hunt
- Creating a family tree
- Creating a time capsule
- Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet
- Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.
- Cross country running
- Cross country skiing
- Crossword puzzles
- Cryptography
- Dig for clams
- Digital scrapbooking
- Dirt biking
- Discus
- DJing
- Dog competitions
- Dog sledding
- Dog training
- Dominoes
- Dragon boat racing
- Draw comics or learn animation
- Drawing
- Driveway chalk
- Dumpster diving
- Enhance your survival skills
- Explore different religious beliefs
- Farming
- Fell running
- Feng shui
- Field hockey
- Find a natural way to collect rainwater
- Finger painting
- Fish pedicures
- Fishing for tuna
- Flower arrangements
- Fly Tying
- Flying drones
- Flying model planes
- Foosball
- Football
- Foster animals: either dogs and cats or more unique animals like rabbits, turtles, and birds
- Frisbee golf
- Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.
- Gnoming (when you steal someone’s garden gnome and take them on epic adventures and travel sending postcards back to the rightful owner until the gnome is returned. Yes. it’s really a thing).
- Go crabbing
- Go kart racing
- Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)
- Going on picnics
- Graphology
- Groundhopping (going to as many stadiums or venues of your favorite artist or sports team)
- Gymnastics
- Ham radio
- Hand lettering
- Handball
- Handwriting letters to friends and family
- Haunted house tours
- Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)
- Hike the Appalachian mountains
- Hiking
- Hip Hop Dancing
- Hockey
- Horseback riding
- Hot air balloon
- Hoverboarding
- Hula dancing
- Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields
- Hurdles
- Ice fishing
- Impersonations
- Improve your memory
- Inventing
- Irish step dancing
- Juggling
- Jump rope
- Kick sledding
- Kitchen chemistry
- Kite flying
- Kite surfing
- Knotting
- Lacrosse
- Landscaping
- Learn a roundhouse kick
- Learn boxing or kickboxing
- Learn how to debone and eat a chicken wing in one bite
- Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)
- Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands
- Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily
- Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue
- Learn how to whistle using your fingers
- Learn impressive party tricks
- Learn Klingon
- Learn magic tricks and card tricks
- Learn Pig Latin
- Learn self-defense
- Learn spear fishing or fly fishing.
- Learn the art of upcycling. (Take things you would have thrown out and turn them into something useful. We do this to tee shirts by turning them into useful tote bags)
- Learn to ballroom dance
- Learn to do a backward roll
- Learn to do a cartwheel
- Learn to do a forward roll
- Learn to fence
- Learn to forage for edible food
- Learn to high kick
- Learn to ice skate
- Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)
- Learn to rock climb or bouldering
- Learn to shoot
- Learn to wear fake eyelashes
- Learning a foreign language
- Learning the art of storytelling
- Lego building
- Lobster Traps
- Lock picking
- Long distance track
- Long jump
- Look at free community events going on near you
- Ludo sport (Lightsaber combat)
- Make a collage
- Make a terrarium
- Make miniature doll furniture
- Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube
- Make pottery
- Make your own boat
- Make your own bookmarks
- Make your own hot sauce
- Make your own jewelry
- Make your own robot
- Make your own signature bbq sauce
- Make your own tea blends
- Making a bird feeder
- Making digital photo books
- Making dolls
- Making model cars
- Making your own clothes
- Manicures
- Master airplane combat games
- Matchstick modeling
- Metal detector
- Metalworking
- Microscopy
- Middle distance track
- Mini golf
- Model rockets
- Model shipbuilding
- Motocross
- Needle Felting
- Obstacle course
- Palm reading
- Paper mache
- Parachuting
- Paragliding
- Parkour
- Pedicures
- Pencil sketching
- People watching
- Perfect your handshake
- Perfect your high five
- Performing stand up comedy
- Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)
- Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit
- Play badminton
- Play chess
- Play darts
- Play volleyball
- Playing harmonica
- Playing pool
- Podcasting
- Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)
- Pressing flowers
- Produce electronic music
- Puppetry
- Quidditch
- Racquetball
- RC cars
- Reef aquarium
- Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard
- Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels
- Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)
- Roast your own coffee
- Rock painting
- Rollerblading
- Roller skating
- Rowing
- Running
- Sand sculptures
- Sand surfing
- Sandboarding
- Scale miniature building
- Science experiments
- Scottish sword dancing
- Scouting
- Scrapbooking
- Sculpting
- Sculpting with clay
- Self-care or beauty night
- Sewing
- Short distance track
- Singing
- Skateboarding
- Skijoring (skiing with a horse pulling you)
- Skydiving
- Sleigh riding
- Slingshots
- Snorkeling
- Snowboarding
- Snowmobiling
- Soap making
- Soccer
- Solve puzzles or mazes
- Speed reading
- Speed skating
- Stamp collecting
- Stargazing with a telescope
- Start a book club
- Start a journal
- Start an allotment or community garden
- Start and maintain a saltwater tank
- Stone skipping
- Story writing
- Sugar scrubs
- Surfing
- Sushi making
- Swimming
- Synchronized swimming
- Table tennis
- Tandem, biking
- Tarot reading
- Taxidermy
- Teeth whitening
- Tennis
- Tower running (or extreme stair climbing)
- Track cycling
- Train a falcon
- Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman
- Trivia contests
- Ultimate frisbee
- Vaulting horses
- Ventriloquism
- Visit the aquarium
- Visit the local library
- Visit the zoo
- Volunteer at the food pantry
- Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization
- Volunteering
- Wakeboarding
- Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting
- Watching entire libraries of films in common (such as all Spielberg movies or all movies with Hugh Jackman, or the most popular 25 movies of the ’80s).
- Watercolors
- Whale watching
- White water rafting
- Whittling or wood carving
- Windsurfing
- Wrestling
- Write a screenplay
- Writing a book
- Writing letters to loved ones
Things To Do When You’re Bored At Home.
This list of things to do when you’re bored at home covers all of the possible things you can do from home. Some of the options can make you money form home, some will help you learn skills to make managing your home and life easier, and some are meant to help you relax and enjoy the home you’ve created.
- Take a free home management course like Home Rescue.
- Arrange flowers
- Astronomy
- At home facials
- Babysitting
- Bake and sell gourmet pet treats
- Baking
- Beat the record on Slitherio
- Take a free budgeting course like the 90 Day Budget Boot Camp.
- Become a Wikipedia editor
- Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)
- Becoming a newspaper contributor
- Belly Dancing
- Board dogs
- Board game club
- Bonsai trees
- Book restoration
- Boomerangs
- Brainstorm your hobbies
- Breed dogs
- Build a family command center
- Build a nixie tube clock
- Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally
- Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects
- Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace
- Build your own smoker
- Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture
- Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard
- Building fairy gardens
- Butterfly watching
- Camping
- Candy making
- Canning
- Cardio
- Catch up on laundry
- Ceramics
- Chocolate tasting
- Clean out and detail clean your car
- Collecting baseball cards
- Coloring
- Comic book art
- Container gardening
- Cooking
- Cosplay
- Create a bucket list
- Create a home stock room
- Create a treasure hunt
- Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls
- Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes
- Creating a family tree
- Creating a time capsule
- Creating unique recipes
- Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet
- Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.
- Crocheting
- Crossword puzzles
- Declutter and organize an area of your home
- Decoupage
- Design funny or niche coffee mugs
- Design funny or niche tee shirts
- Design printable planner stickers
- Digital scrapbooking
- Dog training
- Dominoes
- Draw comics or learn animation
- Drawing
- Dry brushing
- Embroidery
- Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties
- Explore different religious beliefs
- Farming
- Feng Shui your home
- Find a natural way to collect rainwater
- Float spa
- Flower arrangements
- Fly Tying
- Flying drones
- Flying model planes
- Foosball
- Foster animals either dogs and cats or more unique animals like rabbits, turtles, and birds
- Freezer meals or Once a month meals
- Frisbee golf
- Furniture restoration
- Gather food donations for a local non-profit
- Genealogy
- Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.
- Gnoming (when you steal someone’s garden gnome and take them on epic adventures and travel sending postcards back to the rightful owner until the gnome is returned. Yes. it’s really a thing).
- Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)
- Hand lettering
- Have family meetings or budget meetings
- Hip Hop Dancing
- Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)
- Impersonations
- Improve your memory
- Interviewing older relatives about their lives
- Inventing
- Jam making
- Kitchen chemistry
- Knitting
- Knotting
- Lacemaking
- Lacrosse
- Lamp making
- Landscaping
- Learn extreme couponing
- Learn graphic design (for example, logos)
- Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)
- Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E*Trade)
- Learn how to make printables
- Learn how to make wine
- Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA
- Learn how to meal plan
- Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions
- Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily
- Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue
- Learn impressive party tricks
- Learn Klingon
- Learn magic tricks and card tricks
- Learn Pig Latin
- Learn screen printing
- Learn SEO
- Learn the art of upcycling. (Start taking things you would have thrown out and turn it into something useful. We do this to tee shirts by turning them into useful tote bags)
- Learn to bake
- Learn to be a life coach
- Learn to budget
- Learn to cook
- Learn to crochet
- Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes
- Learn to knit
- Learn to manage your home
- Learn to perfect big barrel curls
- Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)
- Learn to play craps
- Learn to quilt
- Learn to sew
- Learn to wear fake eyelashes
- Learning a foreign language
- Lip plumpers
- Lock picking
- Look at free community events going on near you
- Macrame
- Make a collage
- Make a terrarium
- Make cold brew coffee
- Make hard cider (super easy!)
- Make miniature doll furniture
- Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube
- Make your own beer
- Make your own bookmarks
- Make your own candles
- Make your own hot sauce
- Make your own jewelry
- Make your own signature bbq sauce
- Make your own tea blends
- Making a bird feeder
- Making dolls
- Making model cars
- Making wood family signs
- Making your own clothes
- Manicures
- Master airplane combat games
- Master barbeque
- Matchstick modeling
- Meal plan for the week
- Meditation
- Metalworking
- Model rockets
- Model shipbuilding
- Needle felting
- Obstacle course
- Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books
- Organize your week
- Palm reading
- Paper mache
- Parkour
- Pedicures
- Pencil sketching
- Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: secret ingredient? Cream cheese)
- Plan a monthly dinner club, bunco night, or poker party
- Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)
- Plan out a 3-week menu of favorite meals and shopping list. (Then create saved orders for them in Instacart or Walmart pick up. (Viola, meal planning and grocery shopping are automated.)
- Plan out a yearly menu
- Play chess
- Playing pool
- Podcasting
- Polo leather making
- Pressing flowers
- Produce electronic music
- Proofreading
- Pyrotechnics or fireworks
- RC cars
- Reef aquarium
- Refinish a piece of furniture you find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace
- Renovate your house
- Rent a Tesla (self-driving car)
- Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels
- Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)
- Roast your own coffee
- Rock painting
- Room renovations or home designs
- Running
- Scrapbooking
- Sculpting
- Sculpting with clay
- Self-care or beauty night
- Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist
- Sewing
- Shop for best prices on the items you use the most (both home goods like garbage bags, personal goods like shampoo and food items like ketchup)
- Singing
- Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)
- Soap making
- Solve puzzles or mazes
- Speed reading
- Start a book club
- Start a journal
- Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)
- Start and maintain a saltwater tank
- Starting an Etsy or eBay store
- Staycation
- Story writing
- Strength training
- Subscription boxes
- Sudoku
- Sugar scrubs
- Sushi making
- Table tennis
- Tai Chi
- Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)
- Take surveys
- Tapestry
- Tarot reading
- Tasting parties with miracle fruit
- Teach your kids a chore they can take over
- Teeth whitening
- Trivia contests
- Ultimate frisbee
- Upholstery
- Volunteer at the food pantry
- Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization
- Walking
- Watchmaking
- Watching entire libraries of films in common (such as all Spielberg movies or all movies with Hugh Jackman, or the most popular 25 movies of the ’80s).
- Watercolors
- Write your family mission statement
- Writing a book
- Writing letters to loved ones
- Writing letters to your future self
- Yoga
- Yoyoing
Things To Do When You’re Bored At Night.
This list is perfect when you’re looking for things to do when you’re bored at night. When Jon and I were working the 3rd shift in the State Police, we were up super late at night and always looking for things to do since the rest of the world was sleeping.
- 3D printing
- Aerial photography
- Airbrushing
- Astronomy
- At home facials
- Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD
- Bake and sell gourmet pet treats
- Baking
- Beat the record on Slitherio
- Beatboxing
- Become a Wikipedia editor
- Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)
- Becoming a newspaper contributor
- Belly Dancing
- Blacksmithing (make your own sword)
- Board dogs
- Board game club
- Book restoration
- Breakdancing
- Breed dogs
- Build a family command center
- Build a Tesla coil
- Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects
- Build furniture
- Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture
- Butterfly watching
- Camping
- Candy making
- Canning
- Cardmaking
- Cartography
- Carve epic pumpkins
- Catch up on laundry
- Catching insects (like lightning bugs)
- Ceramics
- Chocolate tasting
- Clean out and detail clean your car
- Coin collecting
- Collecting model trains
- Coloring
- Comic book art
- Cooking
- Cosplay
- Create a charity
- Create a home stock room
- Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)
- Create a treasure hunt
- Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls
- Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes
- Creating a family tree
- Creating a time capsule
- Creating unique recipes
- Creating videos (videography) for weddings and smaller productions (filming courses or tutorials)
- Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet
- Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.
- Crocheting
- Crossword puzzles
- Cryptography
- Declutter and organize an area of your home
- Decoupage
- Design funny or niche coffee mugs
- Design funny or niche tee shirts
- Digital scrapbooking
- Diner club
- Distilling
- DJing
- Dog training
- Dominoes
- Draw comics or learn animation
- Drawing
- Driving people around (Lyft or Uber)
- Dry brushing
- Dumpster diving
- Embroidery
- Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)
- Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties
- Explore different religious beliefs
- Feng Shui your home
- Fire poi (fire performance)
- Flower arrangements
- Fly Tying
- Foosball
- Freezer meals, once a month meals
- Furniture restoration
- Genealogy
- Get a tattoo
- Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.
- Glamping
- Glass blowing
- Gnoming (when you steal someone’s garden gnome and take them on epic adventures and travel sending postcards back to the rightful owner until the gnome is returned. Yes. it’s really a thing).
- Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)
- Graphology
- Ham radio
- Hand lettering
- Handwriting letters to friends and family
- Haunted house tours
- Have family meetings or budget meetings
- Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)
- Hip Hop Dancing
- Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)
- Impersonations
- Interviewing older relatives about their lives
- Inventing
- Jam making
- Karaoke
- Kitchen chemistry
- Knifemaking
- Knitting
- Knotting
- Lacemaking
- Lamp making
- Learn extreme couponing
- Learn graphic design (for example, logos)
- Learn how to edit videos
- Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)
- Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)
- Learn how to make printables
- Learn how to make wine
- Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA
- Learn how to meal plan
- Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions
- Learn how to whistle using your fingers
- Learn Klingon
- Learn Pig Latin
- Learn screen printing
- Learn SEO
- Learn the art of upcycling. (Take things you would have thrown out and turn it into something useful. We do this to tee shirts by turning them into useful tote bags)
- Learn to bake
- Learn to budget
- Learn to cook
- Learn to crochet
- Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes
- Learn to knit
- Learn to manage your home
- Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)
- Learn to play craps
- Learn to quilt
- Learn to sew
- Learn to wear fake eyelashes
- Learning a foreign language
- Learning how to bartend
- Learning how to use and run a teleprompter (impressive money and has little competition for a part-time gig)
- Learning the art of storytelling
- Lego building
- Lip plumpers
- Lock picking
- Look at free community events going on near you
- Macrame
- Make a collage
- Make a terrarium
- Make cold brew coffee
- Make hard cider (super easy!)
- Make miniature doll furniture
- Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube
- Make your own beer
- Make your own bookmarks
- Make your own candles
- Make your own hot sauce
- Make your own jewelry
- Make your own robot
- Make your own signature bbq sauce
- Make your own tea blends
- Making a bird feeder
- Making digital photo books
- Making dolls
- Making model cars
- Making your own clothes
- Manicures
- Master airplane combat games
- Master barbeque
- Matchstick modeling
- Meal plan for the week
- Mini golf
- Model rockets
- Model shipbuilding
- Needle Felting
- Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books
- Organize your week
- Paint and sip nights
- Palm reading
- Paper mache
- Pedicures
- Pencil sketching
- Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: secret ingredient? Cream cheese)
- Perfect your handshake
- Perfect your high five
- Performing stand up comedy
- Pinochle
- Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)
- Plan out a 3-week menu of favorite meals and shopping list. (Then create saved orders for them in Instacart or Walmart pick up. Viola, meal planning and grocery shopping are automated.)
- Plan out a yearly menu
- Play chess
- Play darts
- Playing harmonica
- Playing pool
- Podcasting
- Poker
- Polo leather making
- Produce electronic music
- Proofreading
- Puppetry
- Pyrotechnics or fireworks
- RC cars
- Rent a Tesla (self-driving car)
- Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels
- Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)
- Roast your own coffee
- Roast your own coffee
- Rock painting
- Room renovations or home designs
- Science experiments
- Scrapbooking
- Sculpting
- Sculpting with clay
- Self-care or beauty night
- Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist
- Sewing
- Shop for best prices on the items you use the most (both home goods like garbage bags, personal goods like shampoo and food items like ketchup)
- Singing
- Snowmobiling
- Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (*probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)
- Soap making
- Solve puzzles or mazes
- Speed reading
- Spin classes
- Sports refereeing
- Stamp collecting
- Stargazing with a telescope
- Start a book club
- Start a journal
- Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)
- Start and maintain a saltwater tank
- Starting a parents night out
- Starting an Etsy or eBay store
- Story writing
- Subscription boxes
- Sudoku
- Sugar scrubs
- Sushi making
- Table tennis
- Tai Chi
- Take a positive discipline parenting class
- Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)
- Tapestry
- Tarot reading
- Tasting parties with miracle fruit
- Taxidermy
- Teach your kids a chore they can take over
- Teeth whitening
- Themed date nights
- Train a falcon
- Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman
- Upholstery
- Ventriloquism
- War games
- Watchmaking
- Watching entire libraries of films in common (such as all Spielberg movies or all movies with Hugh Jackman, or the most popular 25 movies of the ’80s).
- Watercolors
- Wine/cheese tasting
- Write a screenplay
- Write your family mission statement
- Writing a book
- Writing letters to loved ones
- Writing letters to your future self
Things To Do With Your Boyfriend (Or Girlfriend, Husband, or Wife) When You’re Bored.
This list is perfect when you’re looking for things to do when you’re bored with your spouse or partner. These are date night ideas, and crazy things you can see, explore, build and learn together.
Hint: You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.
If you need equipment, plan to grab it off Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace for a fraction of the price (plus you can usually sell it for the same amount you paid, when you’re ready to move on).
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- 3D printing
- Acroyoga (couples yoga where you physically support each other)
- Aerial photography
- Airbrushing
- Airsoft guns
- Antiquing
- Apply to be an extra in a movie or tv show
- Archaeology: like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast
- Astronomy
- Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD
- Audition as an actor or for a commercial
- Audition to be a model
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Beachcombing
- Beach volleyball
- Become a connoisseur (wine, whiskey)
- Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own
- Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)
- Becoming a newspaper contributor
- Bicycling
- Biking
- Blacksmithing (make your own sword)
- Board dogs
- Board game club
- Body surfing
- Bonsai trees
- Boogie boarding
- Book restoration
- Boomerangs
- Brainstorm your hobbies
- Breaking a world record
- Breed dogs
- Build a family command center
- Build a functional igloo in the snow
- Build a Tesla coil
- Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects
- Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace
- Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture
- Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard
- Building fairy gardens
- Buy a boat
- Camping
- Canning
- Canoeing
- Cardio
- Cartography
- Carve epic pumpkins
- Catch up on laundry
- Catching insects (like lightning bugs)
- Cave Diving
- Caving or spelunking
- Check out a salsa club
- Check out museums
- Chocolate tasting
- Clean out and detail clean your car
- Coin collecting
- Collecting baseball cards
- Collecting model trains
- Collecting seashells
- Combat shooting
- Comic book art
- Cooking
- Crabbing
- Create a bucket list
- Create a charity
- Create a home stock room
- Create a treasure hunt
- Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes
- Creating a family tree
- Creating a time capsule
- Creating unique recipes
- Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet
- Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.
- Croquet
- Cross country running
- Cross country skiing
- Cryptography
- Curling
- Declutter and organize an area of your home
- Design funny or niche coffee mugs
- Design funny or niche tee shirts
- Dig for clams
- Diner club
- Distilling
- DJing
- Dog competitions
- Dog sledding
- Dog training
- Dominoes
- Dragon boat racing
- Draw comics or learn animation
- Dumpster diving
- Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)
- Enhance your survival skills
- Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties
- Explore different religious beliefs
- Farming
- Feng Shui your home
- Field hockey
- Find a natural way to collect rainwater
- Fire poi (fire performance)
- Fishing for tuna
- Float spa
- Flower arrangements
- Fly Tying
- Flying drones
- Flying model planes
- Foosball
- Football
- Foster animals: either dogs and cats or more unique animals like rabbits, turtles, and birds
- Freezer meals, once a month meals
- Frisbee golf
- Furniture restoration
- Gather food donations for a local non-profit
- Genealogy
- Geology
- Get a tattoo
- Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games
- Glamping
- Glass blowing
- Gnoming (when you steal someone’s garden gnome and take them on epic adventures and travel sending postcards back to the rightful owner until the gnome is returned. Yes. it’s really a thing).
- Go crabbing
- Go kart racing
- Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)
- Going on picnics
- Graphology
- Gunsmith
- Ham radio
- Hand to hand combat
- Handball
- Hang Gliding
- Haunted house tours
- Have a seafood boil in the sand
- Have family meetings or budget meetings
- Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)
- Hike the Appalachian mountains
- Hiking
- Hockey
- Homesteading
- Horseback riding
- Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)
- Hot air balloon
- House of horror
- Ice fishing
- Impersonations
- Improve your memory
- Interviewing older relatives about their lives
- Inventing
- Jam making
- Jet ski
- Karaoke
- Kick sledding
- Kitchen chemistry
- Knifemaking
- Knife throwing
- Knotting
- Lacrosse
- Lamp making
- Landscaping
- Learn a roundhouse kick
- Learn archery
- Learn how to debone and eat a chicken wing in one bite
- Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)
- Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)
- Learn how to fix old broken computers (you can find dozens with problems for free or super cheap on Craigslist
- Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)
- Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands
- Learn how to juggle fire
- Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)
- Learn how to make wine
- Learn how to meal plan
- Learn how to start a fire with two sticks
- Learn impressive party tricks
- Learn Klingon
- Learn Pig Latin
- Learn self-defense
- Learn spear fishing or fly fishing.
- Learn to ballroom dance
- Learn to budget
- Learn to dirty dance
- Learn to do a backward roll
- Learn to do a cartwheel
- Learn to do a forward roll
- Learn to fence
- Learn to forage for edible food
- Learn to high kick
- Learn to hunt or to track
- Learn to ice skate
- Learn to manage your home
- Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)
- Learn to play craps
- Learn to rock climb or bouldering
- Learn to shoot
- Learn to travel hack
- Learning a foreign language
- Learning how to bartend
- Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)
- Learning how to tattoo
- Learning the art of storytelling
- Lego building
- Letterboxing
- Lobster traps
- Lock picking
- Look at free community events going on near you
- Make a collage
- Make a pinhole camera and make your own darkroom to develop the images
- Make a terrarium
- Make cold brew coffee
- Make hard cider (super easy!)
- Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube
- Make your own beer
- Make your own hot sauce
- Make your own robot
- Make your own signature bbq sauce
- Make your own tea blends
- Making a bird feeder
- Making digital photo books
- Making model cars
- Making pallet furniture
- Master airplane combat games
- Master barbeque
- Matchstick modeling
- Meal plan for the week
- Metalworking
- Microscopy
- Mini golf
- Model rockets
- Model shipbuilding
- Mud wrestle (or jello?)
- Obstacle course
- Organize your week
- Paint and sip nights
- Parachuting
- Paragliding
- Parasailing
- Parkour
- Pencil sketching
- People watching
- Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (secret ingredient? Cream cheese)
- Pinochle
- Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)
- Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit
- Play badminton
- Play chess
- Play darts
- Play volleyball
- Playing pool
- Podcasting
- Poker
- Polo leather making
- Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)
- Produce electronic music
- Puppetry
- Pyrotechnics or fireworks
- Quidditch
- Racquetball
- Rappelling
- RC cars
- Reef aquarium
- Renovate your house
- Rent a Tesla (self-driving car)
- Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard
- Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels
- Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)
- Road trips
- Roast your own coffee
- Sailing
- Sand sculptures
- Sand surfing
- Sandboarding
- Scale miniature building
- Science experiments
- Sculpting with clay
- Scuba Diving
- Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist
- Shark diving
- Shark tooth or fossil hunting
- Skeet shooting
- Skijoring (skiing with a horse pulling you)
- Skydiving
- Sleigh riding
- Slingshots
- Snorkeling
- Snowboarding
- Snowmobiling
- Soccer
- Speed reading
- Speed skating
- Spin classes
- Stamp collecting
- Stargazing with a telescope
- Start a book club
- Start and maintain a saltwater tank
- Starting a parents night out
- Starting an Etsy or eBay store
- Staycation
- Stoneworking
- Strength training
- Surfing
- Sushi making
- Swimming
- Table tennis
- Take a discovery flight
- Take a positive discipline parenting class
- Tandem, biking
- Tap maple trees to make syrup
- Target shooting
- Tarot reading
- Tasting parties with miracle fruit
- Taxidermy
- Teach your kids a chore they can take over
- Tennis
- Themed date nights
- Throw axes
- Touring wineries
- Tower running (or extreme stair climbing)
- Train a falcon
- Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman
- Ultimate frisbee
- Upholstery
- Vaulting horses
- Ventriloquism
- Visit a speakeasy
- Visit the aquarium
- Visit the zoo
- Volunteer at a local non-profit
- Volunteer at the food pantry
- Volunteer at the kid’s school
- Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization
- Volunteering
- Wakeboarding
- Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting
- Walking
- War games
- Watchmaking
- Watching entire libraries of films in common (such as all Spielberg movies or all movies with Hugh Jackman, or the most popular 25 movies of the ’80s).
- Weekend getaways
- Whale watching
- White water rafting
- Windsurfing
- Wine/cheese tasting
- Wingsuit flying
- Wrestling
- Write a screenplay
- Write your family mission statement
- Ziplining
Things To Do When You’re Bored With Friends.
This list is perfect when you’re looking for things to do when you’re bored with your Friends. These are fun days out, and things you can do to keep those relationships strong.
Hint: You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.
If you need equipment, plan to grab it off Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace for a fraction of the price (plus you can usually sell it for the same amount you paid, when you’re ready to move on).
- Take a comprehensive home management course together, like Hot Mess to Home Success.
- 3D printing
- Acapella
- Aerial photography
- Antigravity cocooning (fitness)
- Antiquing
- Archaeology: like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast
- At home facials
- Baking
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Beachcombing
- Beach volleyball
- Become a connoisseur (wine, whiskey)
- Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)
- Belly Dancing
- Bicycling
- Biking
- Board game club
- Body surfing
- Boogie boarding
- Boomerangs
- Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture
- Butterfly watching
- Calligraphy
- Camping
- Candy making
- Cardio
- Carve epic pumpkins
- Catch up on laundry
- Cave Diving
- Caving or spelunking
- Ceramics
- Check out a salsa club
- Chocolate tasting
- Coach a local sports team
- Coin collecting
- Collecting leaves or flowers
- Collecting seashells
- Coloring
- Combat shooting
- Comic book art
- Cooking
- Corn Maze
- Cosplay
- Crabbing
- Create a home stock room
- Create a treasure hunt
- Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes
- Creating a family tree
- Creating unique recipes
- Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet
- Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.
- Crocheting
- Cross country running
- Cross country skiing
- Cryotherapy
- Decoupage
- Dig for clams
- Diner club
- Distilling
- DJing
- Dominoes
- Dry brushing
- Embroidery
- Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties
- Explore different religious beliefs
- Fell running
- Field hockey
- Find a natural way to collect rainwater
- Fish pedicures
- Fishing for tuna
- Float spa
- Flower arrangements
- Flying drones
- Football
- Freezer cooking (once a month?)
- Frisbee golf
- Gather food donations for a local non-profit
- Get a tattoo
- Glamping
- Glass blowing
- Gnoming (when you steal someone’s garden gnome and take them on epic adventures and travel sending postcards back to the rightful owner until the gnome is returned. Yes. it’s really a thing).
- Go crabbing
- Go Kart
- Going on picnics
- Hand lettering
- Hand to hand combat
- Handball
- Hang Gliding
- Haunted house tours
- Have a seafood boil in the sand
- Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)
- Hike the Appalachian mountains
- Hiking
- Hip Hop Dancing
- Hockey
- Horseback riding
- Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)
- Host a freezer cooking party (and if you get good at running them, buy the ingredients and supplies and charge people to come, make and pack meals )
- House of horror
- Hula dancing
- Irish step dancing
- Jam making
- Jet ski
- Juggling in the street
- Karaoke
- Keratin treatment (permanent hair straightening)
- Kitchen chemistry
- Knitting
- Lacemaking
- Lacrosse
- Learn archery
- Learn boxing or kickboxing
- Learn graphic design (for example, logos)
- Learn how to juggle fire
- Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)
- Learn how to make printables
- Learn how to make wine
- Learn how to meal plan
- Learn impressive party tricks
- Learn Klingon
- Learn Pig Latin
- Learn self-defense
- Learn the art of upcycling. (Take things you would have thrown out and turn it into something useful. We do this to tee shirts by turning them into useful tote bags)
- Learn to ballroom dance
- Learn to budget
- Learn to crochet
- Learn to dirty dance
- Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes
- Learn to fence
- Learn to ice skate
- Learn to knit
- Learn to manage your home
- Learn to perfect big barrel curls
- Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)
- Learn to play craps
- Learn to quilt
- Learn to rock climb or bouldering
- Learn to sew
- Learn to wear fake eyelashes
- Learning a foreign language
- Learning how to bartend
- Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)
- Learning how to tattoo
- Learning the art of storytelling
- Lip plumpers
- Lobster traps
- Look at free community events going on near you
- Macrame
- Make a collage
- Make cold brew coffee
- Make hard cider (super easy!)
- Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube
- Make pottery
- Make your own beer
- Make your own hot sauce
- Make your own jewelry
- Make your own signature bbq sauce
- Making digital photo books
- Making dolls
- Making your own clothes
- Manicures
- Massage
- Master barbeque
- Meal plan for the week
- Mini golf
- Needle Felting
- Obstacle course
- Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books
- Organize your week
- Paint and sip nights
- Palm reading
- Parachuting
- Paragliding
- Pedicures
- Pencil sketching
- People watching
- Performing stand up comedy
- Plan a monthly dinner club, bunco night, or poker party
- Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit
- Play badminton
- Play chess
- Play darts
- Play volleyball
- Playing pool
- Podcasting
- Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)
- Pressing flowers
- Produce electronic music
- Puppetry
- Pyrotechnics or fireworks
- Quidditch
- Racquetball
- Rappelling
- Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels
- Road trips
- Roast your own coffee
- Rollerblading
- Roller skating
- Room renovations or home designs
- Rugby
- Running
- RV across the US
- Sailing
- Sand sculptures
- Sand surfing
- Sandboarding
- Science experiments
- Scottish sword dancing
- Scrapbooking
- Scuba Diving
- Sculpting
- Self-care or beauty night
- Self Tanning
- Sewing
- Shark Diving
- Skydiving
- Snorkeling
- Snowboarding
- Snowmobiling
- Soap making
- Soccer
- Speed skating
- Spin classes
- Stamp collecting
- Stargazing with a telescope
- Start a book club
- Start a soccer mom league
- Strength training
- Subscription boxes
- Sugar scrubs
- Surfing
- Sushi making
- Swimming
- Synchronized swimming
- Table tennis
- Tai Chi
- Take a discovery flight
- Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)
- Tandem, biking
- Tapestry
- Target shooting
- Tarot reading
- Tasting parties with miracle fruit
- Teeth whitening
- Tennis
- Touring wineries
- Track cycling
- Ultimate frisbee
- Vaulting horses
- Ventriloquism
- Visit a speakeasy
- Visit the aquarium
- Visit the local library
- Visit the zoo
- Volunteer at a local non-profit
- Volunteer at the food pantry
- Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization
- Volunteering
- Wakeboarding
- Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting
- Walking
- Watching entire libraries of films in common (such as all Spielberg movies or all movies with Hugh Jackman, or the most popular 25 movies of the ’80s).
- Weekend getaways
- Whale watching
- White water rafting
- Windsurfing
- Wine/cheese tasting
- Wingsuit flying
- Yoga
- Ziplining
Fun things to do on a laptop when you’re bored.
Cool things to do when you’re bored on a laptop? This is your list!
Hint: You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.
If you need equipment, plan to grab it off Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace for a fraction of the price (plus you can usually sell it for the same amount you paid, when you’re ready to move on).
- Antiquing
- Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD
- Become a certified financial planner
- Become a Wikipedia editor
- Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University)
- Blogging
- YouTube
- Becoming a newspaper contributor
- Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects
- Coding
- Collecting model trains
- Comic book art
- Create a charity
- Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)
- Creating videos (videography) for weddings and smaller productions (filming courses or tutorials)
- Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet
- Design funny or niche coffee mugs
- Design funny or niche tee shirts
- Design printable planner stickers
- DJing
- Explore different religious beliefs
- Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.
- Gunsmith
- Learn boxing or kickboxing
- Learn extreme couponing
- Learn graphic design (for example, logos)
- Learn how to edit videos
- Learn how to travel hack credit card rewards (not for the faint of heart!)
- Learn how to make printables
- Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA
- Learn how to meal plan
- Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions
- Learn screen printing
- Learn SEO
- Learn to be a Life Coach
- Learn to budget
- Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes
- Learn to manage your home
- Learning how to bartend
- Learning how to use and run a teleprompter (impressive money and has little competition for a part-time gig)
- Look at free community events going on near you
- Make a collage
- Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube Beat the record on Slitherio
- Making digital photo books
- Master airplane combat games
- Meal plan for the week
- Plan a road trip
- Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)
- Plan a vacation
- Plan an RV trip across the US
- Plan out a 3-week menu of favorite meals and shopping list on a rotating basis and then create saved orders for them in Instacart or Walmart pick up. (Viola, meal planning and grocery shopping are automated.)
- Plan out a yearly menu
- Play chess
- Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E*Trade)
- Podcasting
- Poker
- Produce electronic music
- Programming
- Proofreading, formatting, and editing (books, court reports, blogs)
- Public speaking (get started with your local Toastmasters) goes well with a blog or YouTube channel
- Raspberry Pi projects (learn programming through fun practical projects)
- Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard
- Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels
- Scrapbooking
- Shop for best prices on the items you use the most (both home goods like garbage bags, personal goods like shampoo and food items like ketchup)
- Speed reading
- Start a journal
- Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)
- Table tennis
- Take a positive discipline parenting class
- Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)
- Take surveys
- Trivia contests
- War games
- Write reviews online
- Write your family mission statement
- Writing letters to loved ones
- Writing letters to your future self
Fun things to do outside when you’re bored.
Whether you need a little vitamin D or you’re trying to get the kids outside more after being cooped up all day, these fun things to do when you’re bored outside will give you plenty of ideas.
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- Acrobatics
- Airsoft guns
- Antiquing
- Archaeology: like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast
- Astronomy
- At home facials
- Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Beachcombing
- Beach volleyball
- Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own
- Beekeeping
- Bicycling
- Body surfing
- Boogie boarding
- Boomerangs
- Build a functional igloo in the snow
- Build a nixie tube clock
- Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally
- Build a Tesla coil
- Build an experimental aircraft
- Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace
- Build your own smoker
- Building fairy gardens
- Butterfly watching
- Buy a boat
- Buy and sell land (particularly cheap but commonly undesirable land like land for mudding)
- Canning
- Canoeing
- Cardio
- Carve epic pumpkins
- Catching insects (like lightning bugs)
- Cave Diving
- Caving or spelunking
- Chainsaw carvings
- Clean out and detail clean your car
- Coach a local sports team
- Collecting leaves or flowers
- Collecting seashells
- Combat shooting
- Comic book art
- Corn Maze
- Crabbing
- Create a treasure hunt
- Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet
- Croquet
- Cross country running
- Cross country skiing
- Dig for clams
- Dirt biking
- Discus
- Distilling
- Dog competitions
- Dog sledding
- Dog training
- Drag boat racing
- Dragon boat racing
- Driveway chalk
- Driving people around (Lyft or Uber)
- Dumpster diving
- Enhance your survival skills
- Fell running
- Field hockey
- Find a natural way to collect rainwater
- Finger painting
- Fire poi (fire performance)
- Fishing for tuna
- Flying drones
- Flying model planes
- Football
- Frisbee golf
- Furniture restoration
- Geology
- Get chickens to sell the eggs
- Getting a dairy cow to sell the milk
- Glass blowing
- Gnoming (when you steal someone’s garden gnome and take them on epic adventures and travel sending postcards back to the rightful owner until the gnome is returned. Yes. it’s really a thing).
- Go crabbing
- Go kart racing
- Go off-roading or mudding.
- Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)
- Going on picnics
- Growing herbs or vegetables
- Hand to hand combat
- Handball
- Hang Gliding
- Have a seafood boil in the sand
- Helicopter skiing
- Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)
- Hike the Appalachian mountains
- Hiking
- Hiking
- Hockey
- Homesteading
- Horseback riding
- Hot air balloon
- Hoverboarding
- Hula dancing
- Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields
- Hurdles
- Ice fishing
- Jet ski
- Juggling in the street
- Jump rope
- Kick sledding
- Kite surfing
- Knife throwing
- Lacrosse
- Landscaping
- Learn a roundhouse kick
- Learn archery
- Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)
- Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)
- Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands
- Learn how to juggle fire
- Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)
- Learn how to make wine
- Learn how to start a fire with two sticks
- Learn how to use a bullwhip to snap a straw out of a man’s hand
- Learn self-defense
- Learn spear fishing or fly fishing.
- Learn to do a backward roll
- Learn to do a cartwheel
- Learn to do a forward roll
- Learn to fly
- Learn to forage for edible food
- Learn to high kick
- Learn to hunt or to track
- Learn to ice skate
- Learn to perfect big barrel curls
- Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)
- Learn to rock climb or bouldering
- Learn to shoot
- Learning the art of storytelling
- Lip plumpers
- Lobster traps
- Lock picking
- Long distance track
- Long jump
- Look at free community events going on near you
- Make a collage
- Make a terrarium
- Make your own boat
- Make your own jewelry
- Making wood family signs
- Manicures
- Meditation
- Metal detector
- Middle distance track
- Mini golf
- Model shipbuilding
- Motocross
- Mud wrestle (or jello?)
- Obstacle course
- Parachuting
- Paragliding
- Parkour
- Pedicures
- People watching
- Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit
- Plant and maintain community fruit trees (Urban Harvest)
- Play badminton
- Play volleyball
- Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)
- Pyrotechnics or fireworks
- Quidditch
- Racquetball
- Rappelling
- Rent a Tesla (self-driving car)
- Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard
- Rollerblading
- Roller skating
- Rowing
- Rugby
- Running
- Sand sculptures
- Sand surfing
- Sandboarding
- Science experiments
- Scuba Diving
- Self Tanning
- Shark Diving
- Shark tooth or fossil hunting
- Short distance track
- Shot put
- Skateboarding
- Skeet shooting
- Skijoring (skiing with a horse pulling you)
- Skydiving
- Sleigh riding
- Smoking meat
- Snorkeling
- Snowboarding
- Snowmobiling
- Soccer
- Speed skating
- Stargazing with a telescope
- Start a soccer mom league
- Start an allotment or community garden
- Stone skipping
- Stoneworking
- Strength training
- Sugar scrubs
- Surfing
- Swimming
- Take a discovery flight
- Tandem, biking
- Tap maple trees to make syrup
- Target shooting
- Tennis
- Throw axes
- Track cycling
- Train a falcon
- Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman
- Ultimate frisbee
- Vaulting horses
- Visit a flea market or thrift store and look for items to flip on eBay
- Wakeboarding
- Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting
- Walking
- Watching entire libraries of films in common (such as all Spielberg movies or all movies with Hugh Jackman, or the most popular 25 movies of the ’80s)
- Whale watching
- White water rafting
- Whittling or wood carving
- Windsurfing
- Wingsuit flying
- Write your family mission statement
- Yoga
- Ziplining
DIY Things To Do When You’re Bored.
If you love projects and working with your hands, we compiled a giant list of all of the best DIY things to do so you always know what your next project is!
- Antiquing
- Bake and sell gourmet pet treats
- Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own
- Bookbinding
- Build a functional igloo in the snow
- Build a nixie tube clock
- Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally
- Build a Tesla coil
- Build an experimental aircraft
- Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects
- Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace
- Build your own smoker
- Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture
- Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard
- Building fairy gardens
- Candy making
- Canning food
- Cardmaking
- Ceramics
- Chainsaw carvings
- Cosplay
- Create a charity
- Create a treasure hunt
- Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls
- Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes
- Creating a family tree
- Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.
- Decoupage
- Design printable planner stickers
- Distilling
- Farming
- Fly Tying
- Furniture restoration
- Get into reenactments, make your own costumes, learn how to write with pen and quill and you can go to a demonstration as a reenactor.
- Glass blowing
- Homesteading
- Kitchen chemistry
- Knifemaking
- Lamp making
- Landscaping
- Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)
- Learn how to flip cars
- Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands
- Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)
- Learn how to make wine
- Learn paper Origami or Tatebanko or paper quilling
- Learn the art of upcycling. Take things you would have thrown out and turn it into something useful. (We do this to tee shirts by turning them into useful tote bags)
- Learn to crochet
- Learn to knit
- Learn to quilt
- Learn to sew
- Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)
- Learning how to tattoo
- Make a pinhole camera and make your own darkroom to develop the images
- Make a terrarium
- Make cold brew coffee
- Make hard cider (super easy!)
- Make miniature doll furniture
- Make pottery
- Make your own boat
- Make your own bookmarks
- Make your own hot sauce
- Make your own signature bbq sauce
- Make your own tea blends
- Making a bird feeder
- Making digital photo books
- Making model cars
- Making pallet furniture
- Making wood family signs
- Metalworking
- Palm reading
- Paper mache
- Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)
- Plan out a 3-week menu of favorite meals and shopping list on a rotating basis and then create saved orders for them in Instacart or Walmart pick up. (Viola, meal planning and grocery shopping are automated.)
- Plan out a yearly menu
- Plant and maintain community fruit trees (Urban Harvest)
- Reef aquarium
- Refinish a piece of furniture you find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace
- Restore a historic car
- Roast your own coffee
- Room renovations or home designs
- Sand sculptures
- Soap making
- Start a journal
- Start an allotment or community garden
- Stoneworking
- Sushi making
- Tai Chi
- Tap maple trees to make syrup
- Tapestry
- Upholstery
- Whittling or wood carving
Things To Do When You’re Bored On Your Phone.
Banish boredom in the waiting room with this giant lit of things to do on your phone when you’re bored.
- Beat the record on Slitherio
- Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own
- Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)
- Enhance your survival skills
- Explore different religious beliefs
- Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA
- Learn how to meal plan
- Learn how to pick locks
- Learn SEO
- Learn to budget
- Learn to forage for edible food
- Learn to manage your home
- Learn to travel hack
- Look at free community events going on near you
- Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube
- Making digital photo books
- Meal plan for the week
- Meditation
- Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books
- Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)
- Plan out a 3-week menu of favorite meals and shopping list. (Then create saved orders for them in Instacart or Walmart pick up. Viola, meal planning and grocery shopping are automated.)
- Plan out a yearly menu
- Produce electronic music
- Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels
- Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist
- Shop for best prices on the items you use the most (both home goods like garbage bags, personal goods like shampoo and food items like ketchup)
- Start a journal
- Write reviews online
- Yoga
Things To Do When You’re Bored That Could Make You Money.
Fun things to do when you’re bored that could make you money. There is a TON of ways to make money these days and this list while huge (doesn’t even cover all of them!).
If you’re trying to kill time… why in t \he world would you not start a side hustle that could take over your full time job one day. That’s what I did and my side hustle replaced my full time income in 10 months. Almost 5 years later, I’m forever grateful that I used that time to start a hobby that could make me money.
- 3D printing
- Acrobatics
- Airbrushing
- Architecture
- Babysitting
- Bake (If you’re good at it… Look into selling baked goods at a farmers market or festival, or from your home).
- Bake and sell gourmet pet treats
- Baton twirling
- Beatboxing
- Become a certified financial planner
- Become a handyman
- Become a personal trainer or fitness instructor (either on your own or through whatever your jam is…CrossFit, Yoga or Zumba)
- Bookbinding
- Book restoration
- Breakdancing
- Build an experimental aircraft
- Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects
- Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture
- Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard
- Buy and sell land (particularly cheap but commonly undesirable land like land for mudding) (link to nick lopers podcast)
- Calligraphy
- Candy making
- Ceramics
- Chainsaw carvings
- Coding
- Coin collecting
- Collecting baseball cards
- Collecting model trains
- Collecting stamps
- Comic book art
- Cooking
- Cosplay
- Create a local Uber experience like a guided tour
- Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls
- Creating unique recipes
- Creating videos (videography) for weddings and smaller productions (filming courses or tutorials)
- Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet
- Crocheting
- Decoupage
- Design funny or niche coffee mugs
- Design funny or niche tee shirts
- Design printable planner stickers
- Dig for clams
- Dirt biking
- DJing
- Drag boat racing
- Draw comics or learn animation
- Drawing
- Driving people around (Lyft or Uber)
- Embroidery
- Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties
- Flower arrangements
- Furniture restoration
- Get chickens to sell the eggs
- Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.
- Getting a dairy cow to sell the milk
- Go crabbing
- Go to local open houses and watch the real estate market. Get into real estate or flipping houses
- Growing herbs or vegetables
- Gunsmith
- Gymnastics
- Hand lettering
- Helicopter skiing
- Homesteading
- Host a freezer cooking party (and if you get good at running them, buy the ingredients and supplies and charge people to come, make and pack meals )
- Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields
- Ice fishing
- Impersonations
- Inventing
- Jam making
- Juggling in the street
- Kitchen chemistry
- Knifemaking
- Knitting
- Lacemaking
- Lamp making
- Learn graphic design (for example, logos)
- Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)
- Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)
- Learn how to edit videos
- Learn how to fix old broken computers (you can find dozens with problems for free or super cheap on Craigslist
- Learn how to flip cars
- Learn how to hack credit card rewards (not for the faint of heart!) We are gonna get sued for this!?!
- Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)
- Learn how to make printables
- Learn how to make wine
- Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA
- Learn how to meal plan
- Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions
- Learn how to stage homes for sale
- Learn screen printing
- Learn self-defense
- Learn SEO
- Learn the art of upcycling. (Take something would have thrown out and turn it into something useful. (We do this to tee shirts by turning them into useful tote bags)
- Learn to bake
- Learn to be a Life Coach
- Learn to budget
- Learn to cook
- Learn to manage your home
- Learn to perfect big barrel curls
- Learn to play craps
- Learn to sew
- Learn to travel hack
- Learning a foreign language
- Learning how to bartend
- Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)
- Learning how to tattoo
- Learning how to use and run a teleprompter (impressive money and has little competition for a part-time gig)
- Learning the art of storytelling
- Lip plumpers
- Ludo sport (Lightsaber combat)
- Macrame
- Make a collage
- Make cold brew coffee
- Make hard cider (super easy!)
- Make miniature doll furniture
- Make pottery
- Make your own beer
- Make your own boat
- Make your own hot sauce
- Make your own jewelry
- Make your own robot
- Make your own signature bbq sauce
- Making a bird feeder
- Making dolls
- Making model cars
- Making pallet furniture
- Making wood family signs
- Making your own clothes
- Manicures
- Master airplane combat games
- Metalworking
- Motocross
- Mud Wrestling
- Paper mache
- Pedicures
- Performing stand up comedy
- Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E*Trade)
- Playing harmonica
- Playing Pool
- Podcasting
- Poker
- Produce electronic music
- Programming
- Proofreading, formatting, and editing (books, court reports, blogs)
- Public speaking (get started with your local Toastmasters) goes well with a blog or YouTube channel
- Puppetry
- Rappelling
- Raspberry Pi projects (learn programming through fun practical projects)
- RC cars
- Reef aquarium
- Refinish a piece of furniture you find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace
- Renovate your house
- Restore a historic car
- Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)
- Road trips
- Roast your own coffee
- Room renovations or home designs
- RV across the US
- Sailing
- Scrapbooking
- Sculpting
- Self Tanning
- Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist
- Sewing
- Singing
- Smoking meat
- Snorkeling
- Soap making
- Stamp collecting
- Start a blog, YouTube channel, or podcast
- Start and maintain a saltwater tank
- Starting an Etsy or eBay store
- Story writing
- Style and decorate homes
- Sushi making
- Synchronized swimming
- Take surveys
- Tap maple trees to make syrup
- Tapestry
- Tarot reading
- Teaching or tutoring, either an instrument or for school, or something else you excel in
- Tennis
- Ventriloquism
- Visit a flea market or thrift store and look for items to flip on eBay
- Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting
- Watchmaking
- Watercolors
- Whittling or wood carving
- Write a children’s book or first novel
- Writing a book
- Zumba
Things To Do When You’re Bored To Make Life Easier.
My favorite list of all time. These things to do when you’re bored will make your life easier and save your budget. These are some of the habits and routines that are taught in Hot Mess to Home Success (a comprehensive course that teaches you how to manage your home (and life!) in less than one hour a day, even if you’re chronically disorganized.)
You can check out Hot Mess to Home Success and jump on the waiting list here….
If you need equipment, plan to grab it off Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace for a fraction of the price (plus you can usually sell it for the same amount you paid, when you’re ready to move on).
- Baking
- Become a certified financial planner
- Become a handyman
- Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own
- Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)
- Blacksmithing (make your own sword)
- Brainstorm your hobbies
- Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace
- Camping
- Canning food
- Cardio
- Catch up on laundry
- Clean out and detail clean your car
- Cooking
- Create a home stock room
- Creating unique recipes
- Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell
- Cross country running
- Declutter and organize an area of your home
- Dig for clams
- Distilling
- Dog training
- Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)
- Enhance your survival skills
- Freezer meals, once a month meals
- Furniture restoration
- Gather food donations for a local non-profit
- Go crabbing
- Have family meetings or budget meetings
- Homesteading
- Host a freezer cooking party (and if you get good at running them, buy the ingredients and supplies and charge people to come, make and pack meals )
- Improve your memory
- Interviewing older relatives about their lives
- Inventing
- Host a freezer cooking party (and if you get good at running them, buy the ingredients and supplies and charge people to come, make and pack meals )
- Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E*Trade)
- Become a handyman
- Landscaping
- Learn extreme couponing
- Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)
- Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)
- Learn how to fix old broken computers (you can find dozens with problems for free or super cheap on Craigslist)
- Learn how to flip cars
- Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands
- Learn how to meal plan
- Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions
- Learn how to pick locks
- Learn how to stage homes for sale
- Learn how to start a fire with two sticks
- Learn self-defense
- Learn spear fishing or fly fishing
- Learn the art of upcycling. Take things you would have thrown out and turn them into something useful. We do this to tee shirts by turning them into useful tote bags)
- Learn to bake
- Learn to be a Life Coach
- Learn to budget
- Learn to cook
- Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes
- Learn to manage your home
- Learn to rock climb or bouldering
- Learn to sew
- Learn to shoot
- Learn to travel hack
- Learning a foreign language
- Learning the art of storytelling
- Make hard cider (super easy!)
- Make your own hot sauce
- Make your own signature bbq sauce
- Make your own tea blends
- Master barbeque
- Meal plan for the week
- Meditation
- Metalworking
- Organize your week
- Plan out a 3-week menu of favorite meals and shopping list. (Then create saved orders for them in Instacart or Walmart pick up. (Viola, meal planning and grocery shopping are automated.)
- Plan out a yearly menu
- Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E*Trade)
- Play volleyball
- Renovate your house
- Roast your own coffee
- Room renovations or home designs
- Running
- Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist
- Sewing
- Shop for best prices on the items you use the most (both home goods like garbage bags, personal goods like shampoo and food items like ketchup)
- Soap making
- Spin classes
- Sports refereeing
- Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)
- Starting an Etsy or eBay store
- Strength training
- Style and decorate homes
- Sushi making
- Swimming
- Take a positive discipline parenting class
- Teach your kids a chore they can take over
- Teaching or tutoring, either an instrument or for school, or something else you excel in
- Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman
- Volunteer at a local non-profit
- Walking
- Yoga
Holy crap, this is like the Great-Great-Great Grandmother of all to-do lists! I gotta say, I have always found the concept of being bored sort of alien, never having been bored myself, but this list has tons of super fun ideas that I’d love to try with my family anyway. Had to look up ham radio and pig latin (that one made me laugh) though. Thanks for sharing, Rosemarie!
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Wow!! Just wow!!! I love this list.
We made a simple one for my preschooler to do stuff during the summer with us but I need to bookmark this one for ALL. THE. TIMES!!
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Wow! That is some list. I love learning and trying new things so this will be a staple in our household. Thanks for sharing!
Sometimes I realize how that I get depressed if I stay indoors for too long… This is a great reminder that there are plenty of things to do when boredom strikes! Definitely saving for later thanks for this xx