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500 Things to Do When Bored – The Ultimate List

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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

    1. Free or cheap things to do when bored.
    2. Fun things to do when bored.
    3. Things to do when bored for kids.
    4. Things to do when bored at home.
    5. Things to do when bored at night.
    6. Things to do with your boyfriend (or girlfriend, husband, or wife) when bored.
    7. Things to do when bored with friends.
    8. Fun things to do on a laptop when bored.
    9. Fun things to do outside when bored.
    10. DIY things to do when bored.
    11. Things to do when bored on your phone.
    12. Things to do when bored that could make you money.
    13. 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.

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  1. Acapella
  2. Apply to be an extra in a  movie or tv show
  3. Arrange flowers
  4. Astronomy
  5. At home facials
  6. Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD
  7. Babysitting
  8. Balloon twisting
  9. Baseball
  10. Basketball
  11. Beachcombing
  12. Beach volleyball
  13. Beatboxing
  14. Become a Wikipedia editor
  15. Becoming a newspaper contributor
  16. Belly Dancing
  17. Bicycling
  18. Board game club
  19. Bonsai trees
  20. Boogie boarding
  21. Brainstorm your hobbies
  22. Breakdancing
  23. Build a family command center
  24. Build a functional igloo in the snow
  25. Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally
  26. Building fairy gardens
  27. Butterfly watching
  28. Calligraphy
  29. Camping
  30. Canning
  31. Canoeing
  32. Cardio
  33. Carve epic pumpkins
  34. Catch up on laundry
  35. Catching insects (like lightning bugs)
  36. Check out museums
  37. Clean out and detail clean your car
  38. Coin collecting
  39. Collecting leaves or flowers
  40. Collecting marbles
  41. Collecting seashells
  42. Collecting stickers
  43. Coloring
  44. Comic book art
  45. Container gardening
  46. Corn Maze
  47. Create a bucket list
  48. Create a home stock room
  49. Create a treasure hunt
  50. Creating a family tree
  51. Creating a time capsule
  52. Creating unique recipes
  53. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell
  54. Crocheting
  55. Cross country running
  56. Crossword puzzles
  57. Declutter and organize an area of your home
  58. Dig for clams
  59. Digital scrapbooking
  60. Dog training
  61. Dominoes
  62. Draw comics or learn animation
  63. Drawing
  64. Driveway chalk
  65. Dumpster diving
  66. Embroidery
  67. Explore different religious beliefs
  68. Farming
  69. Fell running
  70. Feng Shui your home
  71. Find a natural way to collect rainwater
  72. Finger painting
  73. Foosball
  74. Football
  75. Frisbee golf
  76. Gather food donations for a local non-profit
  77. Genealogy
  78. Geology
  79. 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).
  80. Go crabbing
  81. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)
  82. Going on picnics
  83. Ham radio
  84. Hand lettering
  85. Handball
  86. Handwriting letters to friends and family
  87. Have family meetings or budget meetings
  88. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)
  89. Hike the Appalachian mountains
  90. Hiking
  91. Hip Hop Dancing
  92. Hockey
  93. Hoverboarding
  94. Hurdles
  95. Impersonations
  96. Improve your memory
  97. Interviewing older relatives about their lives
  98. Inventing
  99. Jam making
  100. Juggling
  101. Jump rope
  102. Karaoke
  103. Kitchen chemistry
  104. Kite flying
  105. Knitting
  106. Knotting
  107. Learn a roundhouse kick
  108. Learn boxing or kickboxing
  109. Learn how to debone and eat a chicken wing in one bite
  110. Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)
  111. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands
  112. Learn how to light a match with one hand
  113. Learn how to meal plan
  114. Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily
  115. Learn how to start a fire with two sticks
  116. Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue
  117. Learn how to whistle using your fingers
  118. Learn magic tricks and card tricks
  119. Learn paper Origami or Tatebanko or paper quilling
  120. 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)
  121. Learn to bake
  122. Learn to budget
  123. Learn to cook
  124. Learn to crochet
  125. Learn to dirty dance
  126. Learn to do a backward roll
  127. Learn to do a cartwheel
  128. Learn to do a forward roll
  129. Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes
  130. Learn to forage for edible food
  131. Learn to high kick
  132. Learn to hunt or to track
  133. Learn to knit
  134. Learn to manage your home
  135. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)
  136. Learn to quilt
  137. Learn to rock climb or bouldering
  138. Learn to sew
  139. Learning the art of storytelling
  140. Lock picking
  141. Long distance track
  142. Long jump
  143. Look at free community events going on near you
  144. Make a collage
  145. Make a terrarium
  146. Make your own bookmarks
  147. Make your own candles
  148. Make your own hot sauce
  149. Make your own jewelry
  150. Make your own signature bbq sauce
  151. Make your own tea blends
  152. Making a bird feeder
  153. Making model cars
  154. Making your own clothes
  155. Meal plan for the week
  156. Meditation
  157. Microscopy
  158. Middle distance track
  159. Mini golf
  160. Model rockets
  161. Mud wrestle (or jello?)
  162. Needle Felting
  163. Organize your week
  164. Palm reading
  165. Paper mache
  166. Pencil sketching
  167. People watching
  168. Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: the secret ingredient? Cream cheese)
  169. Perfect your handshake
  170. Perfect your high five
  171. Pinochle
  172. Plan a monthly dinner club, bunco night, or poker party
  173. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)
  174. 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.)
  175. Plan out a yearly menu
  176. Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit
  177. Play badminton
  178. Play chess
  179. Play darts
  180. Play volleyball
  181. Playing harmonica
  182. Playing pool
  183. Podcasting
  184. Pressing flowers
  185. Proofreading
  186. Racquetball
  187. Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard
  188. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels
  189. Roast your own coffee
  190. Rock painting
  191. Roller skating
  192. Running
  193. Sand sculptures
  194. Sand surfing
  195. Science experiments
  196. Sculpting with clay
  197. Self-care or beauty night
  198. Sewing
  199. Shark tooth or fossil hunting
  200. 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)
  201. Short distance track
  202. Singing
  203. Skateboarding
  204. Sleigh riding
  205. Slingshots
  206. Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (This probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)
  207. Soap making
  208. Soccer
  209. Solve puzzles or mazes
  210. Speed reading
  211. Sports refereeing
  212. Stamp collecting
  213. Stargazing with a telescope
  214. Start a book club
  215. Start a journal
  216. Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)
  217. Starting a parents night out
  218. Staycation
  219. Stone skipping
  220. Story writing
  221. Strength training
  222. Sudoku
  223. Surfing
  224. Swimming
  225. Table tennis
  226. Tai Chi
  227. Take a positive discipline parenting class
  228. Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)
  229. Tarot reading
  230. Teach your kids a chore they can take over
  231. Tennis
  232. Throw axes
  233. Tower running (or extreme stair climbing)
  234. Track cycling
  235. Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman
  236. Trivia contests
  237. Ultimate frisbee
  238. Visit the aquarium
  239. Visit the local library
  240. Visit the zoo
  241. Volunteer at a local non-profit
  242. Volunteer at the food pantry
  243. Volunteer at the kids’ school
  244. Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization
  245. Volunteering
  246. Wakeboarding
  247. Walking
  248. 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).
  249. Wrestling
  250. Write a screenplay
  251. Write your family mission statement
  252. Writing a book
  253. Writing letters to loved ones
  254. Writing letters to your future self
  255. Yoga
  256. 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).

  1. 3D printing
  2. Acrobatics
  3. Acroyoga (couples yoga where you physically support each other)
  4. Aerial photography
  5. Airbrushing
  6. Airsoft guns
  7. Antiquing
  8. Archaeology (like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast)
  9. At home facials
  10. Baking
  11. Baseball
  12. Basketball
  13. Baton twirling
  14. Beachcombing
  15. Beach volleyball
  16. Beatboxing
  17. Become a connoisseur (wine, whiskey)
  18. Become a personal trainer or fitness instructor (either on your own or through whatever your jam is…CrossFit, Yoga or Zumba)
  19. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own
  20. Belly Dancing
  21. Bicycling
  22. Blacksmithing (make your own sword)
  23. Board game club
  24. Body surfing
  25. Boogie boarding
  26. Boomerangs
  27. Brainstorm your hobbies
  28. Breakdancing
  29. Breaking a world record
  30. Build a family command center
  31. Build a functional igloo in the snow
  32. Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally
  33. Build an experimental aircraft
  34. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects
  35. Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace
  36. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture
  37. Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard
  38. Building fairy gardens
  39. Butterfly watching
  40. Camping
  41. Candy making
  42. Canning
  43. Canoeing
  44. Carve epic pumpkins
  45. Catching insects (like lightning bugs)
  46. Cave diving
  47. Caving or spelunking
  48. Ceramics
  49. Chainsaw carvings
  50. Check out a salsa club
  51. Cheerleading
  52. Chocolate tasting
  53. Coin collecting
  54. Collecting baseball cards
  55. Collecting seashells
  56. Coloring
  57. Combat shooting
  58. Comic book art
  59. Cooking
  60. Cosplay
  61. Crabbing
  62. Create a bucket list
  63. Create a local Uber experience like a guided tour
  64. Create a treasure hunt
  65. Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes
  66. Creating a family tree
  67. Creating a time capsule
  68. Creating unique recipes
  69. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet
  70. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.
  71. Cross country running
  72. Cross country skiing
  73. Crossword puzzles
  74. Curling
  75. Decoupage
  76. Design funny or niche coffee mugs
  77. Design funny or niche tee shirts
  78. Design printable planner stickers
  79. Dig for clams
  80. Digital scrapbooking
  81. Diner club
  82. Dirt biking
  83. Discus
  84. Distilling
  85. DJing
  86. Dog training
  87. Dominoes
  88. Dragon boat racing
  89. Draw comics or learn animation
  90. Drawing
  91. Driveway chalk
  92. Embroidery
  93. Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)
  94. Enhance your survival skills
  95. Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties
  96. Explore different religious beliefs
  97. Fell running
  98. Feng Shui your home
  99. Field hockey
  100. Find a natural way to collect rainwater
  101. Finger painting
  102. Fire poi (fire performance)
  103. Fish pedicures
  104. Fishing for tuna
  105. Flower arrangements
  106. Fly Tying
  107. Flying drones
  108. Flying model planes
  109. Foosball
  110. Football
  111. Freezer cooking (once a month?)
  112. Frisbee golf
  113. Genealogy
  114. Get a tattoo
  115. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games
  116. Glamping
  117. Glass blowing
  118. 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).
  119. Go crabbing
  120. Go kart racing
  121. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)
  122. Go to local open houses and watch the real estate market.  
  123. Get into real estate or flipping houses.
  124. Going on picnics
  125. Groundhopping (going to as many stadiums or venues of your favorite artist or sports team)
  126. Gymnastics
  127. Hand lettering
  128. Hand to hand combat
  129. Handball
  130. Handwriting letters to friends and family
  131. Hang Gliding
  132. Haunted house tours
  133. Have a seafood boil in the sand
  134. Helicopter skiing
  135. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)
  136. Hike the Appalachian mountains
  137. Hiking
  138. Hip Hop Dancing
  139. Hockey
  140. Horseback riding
  141. Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)
  142. 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 )
  143. Hoverboarding
  144. Hula dancing
  145. Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields
  146. Hurdles
  147. Ice fishing
  148. Impersonations
  149. Improve your memory
  150. Interviewing older relatives about their lives
  151. Inventing
  152. Irish step dancing
  153. Jam making
  154. Jet ski
  155. Juggling in the street
  156. Jump rope
  157. Karaoke
  158. Kitchen chemistry
  159. Kite surfing
  160. Knifemaking
  161. Knife throwing
  162. Knotting
  163. Lacemaking
  164. Lacrosse
  165. Landscaping
  166. Learn archery
  167. Learn boxing or kickboxing
  168. Learn graphic design (for example, logos)
  169. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands
  170. Learn how to juggle fire
  171. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)
  172. Learn how to make printables
  173. Learn how to make wine
  174. Learn how to pick locks
  175. Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily
  176. Learn how to start a fire with two sticks
  177. Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue
  178. Learn how to use a bullwhip to snap a straw out of a man’s hand
  179. Learn how to whistle using your fingers
  180. Learn impressive party tricks
  181. Learn Klingon
  182. Learn Pig Latin
  183. Learn self-defense
  184. Learn spear fishing or fly fishing.
  185. 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)
  186. Learn to ballroom dance
  187. Learn to dirty dance
  188. Learn to fence
  189. Learn to fly (p.s. it’s expensive)
  190. Learn to forage for edible food
  191. Learn to hunt or to track
  192. Learn to ice skate
  193. Learn to perfect big barrel curls
  194. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)
  195. Learn to play craps
  196. Learn to rock climb or bouldering
  197. Learn to shoot
  198. Learn to travel hack
  199. Learning how to bartend
  200. Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)
  201. Learning how to tattoo
  202. Learning the art of storytelling
  203. Lip plumpers
  204. Lobster traps
  205. Long distance track
  206. Long jump
  207. Look at free community events going on near you
  208. Ludo sport (Lightsaber combat)
  209. Make a collage
  210. Make cold brew coffee
  211. Make hard cider (super easy!)
  212. Make miniature doll furniture
  213. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube Beat the record on Slitherio
  214. Make pottery
  215. Make your own beer
  216. Make your own boat
  217. Make your own bookmarks
  218. Make your own candles
  219. Make your own hot sauce
  220. Make your own jewelry
  221. Make your own robot
  222. Make your own signature bbq sauce
  223. Making digital photo books
  224. Making dolls
  225. Making model cars
  226. Manicures
  227. Massage
  228. Master airplane combat games
  229. Master barbeque
  230. Matchstick modeling
  231. Meditation
  232. Metalworking
  233. Microscopy
  234. Middle distance track
  235. Mini golf
  236. Model rockets
  237. Model shipbuilding
  238. Motocross
  239. Mud wrestle (or jello?)
  240. Obstacle course
  241. Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books
  242. Paint and sip nights
  243. Palm reading
  244. Paper mache
  245. Parachuting
  246. Paragliding
  247. Parkour
  248. Pedicures
  249. People watching
  250. Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: secret ingredient? Cream cheese)
  251. Performing stand up comedy
  252. Pinochle
  253. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)
  254. 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.)
  255. Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit
  256. Plant and maintain community fruit trees (Urban Harvest)
  257. Play badminton
  258. Play chess
  259. Play darts
  260. Play volleyball
  261. Playing harmonica
  262. Playing pool
  263. Podcasting
  264. Poker
  265. Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)
  266. Produce electronic music
  267. Puppetry
  268. Pyrotechnics or fireworks
  269. Quidditch
  270. Racquetball
  271. RC cars
  272. Reef aquarium
  273. Renovate your house
  274. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels
  275. Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)
  276. Road trips
  277. Roast your own coffee
  278. Rock painting
  279. Rollerblading
  280. Roller skating
  281. Room renovations or home designs
  282. Rugby
  283. Running
  284. RV across the US
  285. Sailing
  286. Sand sculptures
  287. Sand surfing
  288. Sandboarding
  289. Scale miniature building
  290. Science experiments
  291. Scottish sword dancing
  292. Scrapbooking
  293. Scuba Diving
  294. Sculpting
  295. Self-care or beauty night
  296. Self Tanning
  297. Sewing
  298. Shark Diving
  299. Shark tooth or fossil hunting
  300. 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)
  301. Short distance track
  302. Shot put
  303. Singing
  304. Skateboarding
  305. Skeet shooting
  306. Skydiving
  307. Snorkeling
  308. Snowboarding
  309. Snowmobiling
  310. Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (*probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)
  311. Soap making
  312. Soccer
  313. Speed reading
  314. Speed skating
  315. Spin classes
  316. Sports refereeing
  317. Stamp collecting
  318. Stargazing with a telescope
  319. Start a book club
  320. Start a journal
  321. Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)
  322. Start a soccer mom league
  323. Start an allotment or community garden
  324. Start and maintain a saltwater tank
  325. Staycation
  326. Stoneworking
  327. Story writing
  328. Style and decorate homes
  329. Subscription boxes
  330. Sudoku
  331. Sugar scrubs
  332. Surfing
  333. Sushi making
  334. Swimming
  335. Synchronized swimming
  336. Table tennis
  337. Tai Chi
  338. Take a discovery flight
  339. Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)
  340. Tandem, biking
  341. Target shooting
  342. Tarot reading
  343. Tasting parties with miracle fruit
  344. Teach your kids a chore they can take over
  345. Tennis
  346. Themed date nights
  347. Throw axes
  348. Touring wineries
  349. Tower running (or extreme stair climbing)
  350. Track cycling
  351. Trivia contest
  352. Ultimate frisbee
  353. Vaulting horses
  354. Ventriloquism
  355. Visit a speakeasy
  356. Visit the aquarium
  357. Visit the local library
  358. Visit the zoo
  359. Volunteer at the food pantry
  360. Volunteer at the kids’ school
  361. Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization
  362. Volunteering
  363. Wakeboarding
  364. Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting
  365. Watchmaking
  366. 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).
  367. Watercolors
  368. Weekend getaways
  369. Whale watching
  370. White water rafting
  371. Whittling or wood carving
  372. Windsurfing
  373. Wine/cheese tasting
  374. Wingsuit flying
  375. Wrestling
  376. Write your family mission statement
  377. Writing a book
  378. Writing letters to loved ones
  379. Writing letters to your future self
  380. Yoga
  381. Ziplining
  382. 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. 

  1. Acrobatics
  2. Airbrushing
  3. Apply to be an extra in a  movie or tv show
  4. Astronomy
  5. At home facials
  6. Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD
  7. Audition as an actor or for a commercial
  8. Audition to be a model
  9. Babysitting
  10. Baking
  11. Balloon twisting
  12. Baseball
  13. Basketball
  14. Baton twirling
  15. Beach volleyball
  16. Beat the record on Slitherio
  17. Beatboxing
  18. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own
  19. Becoming a newspaper contributor
  20. Belly Dancing
  21. Bicycling
  22. Biking
  23. Board dogs
  24. Board game club
  25. Body surfing
  26. Bonsai trees
  27. Boogie boarding
  28. Boomerangs
  29. Brainstorm your hobbies
  30. Breakdancing
  31. Breaking a world record
  32. Breed dogs
  33. Build a functional igloo in the snow
  34. Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally
  35. Build an experimental aircraft
  36. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects
  37. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture
  38. Building fairy gardens
  39. Butterfly watching
  40. Camping
  41. Candy making
  42. Cardmaking
  43. Cartography
  44. Carve epic pumpkins
  45. Catching insects (like lightning bugs)
  46. Cave Diving
  47. Caving or spelunking
  48. Ceramics
  49. Check out museums
  50. Cheerleading
  51. Chocolate tasting
  52. Coin collecting
  53. Collecting baseball cards
  54. Collecting leaves or flowers
  55. Collecting marbles
  56. Collecting model trains
  57. Collecting seashells
  58. Collecting stickers
  59. Coloring
  60. Comic book art
  61. Container gardening
  62. Cooking
  63. Corn Maze
  64. Crabbing
  65. Create a bucket list
  66. Create a charity
  67. Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)
  68. Create a treasure hunt
  69. Creating a family tree
  70. Creating a time capsule
  71. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet
  72. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.
  73. Cross country running
  74. Cross country skiing
  75. Crossword puzzles
  76. Cryptography
  77. Dig for clams
  78. Digital scrapbooking
  79. Dirt biking
  80. Discus
  81. DJing
  82. Dog competitions
  83. Dog sledding
  84. Dog training
  85. Dominoes
  86. Dragon boat racing
  87. Draw comics or learn animation
  88. Drawing
  89. Driveway chalk
  90. Dumpster diving
  91. Enhance your survival skills
  92. Explore different religious beliefs
  93. Farming
  94. Fell running
  95. Feng shui
  96. Field hockey
  97. Find a natural way to collect rainwater
  98. Finger painting
  99. Fish pedicures
  100. Fishing for tuna
  101. Flower arrangements
  102. Fly Tying
  103. Flying drones
  104. Flying model planes
  105. Foosball
  106. Football
  107. Foster animals:  either dogs and cats or more unique animals like rabbits, turtles, and birds
  108. Frisbee golf
  109. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.
  110. 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).
  111. Go crabbing
  112. Go kart racing
  113. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)
  114. Going on picnics
  115. Graphology
  116. Groundhopping (going to as many stadiums or venues of your favorite artist or sports team)
  117. Gymnastics
  118. Ham radio
  119. Hand lettering
  120. Handball
  121. Handwriting letters to friends and family
  122. Haunted house tours
  123. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)
  124. Hike the Appalachian mountains
  125. Hiking
  126. Hip Hop Dancing
  127. Hockey
  128. Horseback riding
  129. Hot air balloon
  130. Hoverboarding
  131. Hula dancing
  132. Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields
  133. Hurdles
  134. Ice fishing
  135. Impersonations
  136. Improve your memory
  137. Inventing
  138. Irish step dancing
  139. Juggling
  140. Jump rope
  141. Kick sledding
  142. Kitchen chemistry
  143. Kite flying
  144. Kite surfing
  145. Knotting
  146. Lacrosse
  147. Landscaping
  148. Learn a roundhouse kick
  149. Learn boxing or kickboxing
  150. Learn how to debone and eat a chicken wing in one bite
  151. Learn how to DIY almost anything:  home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)
  152. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands
  153. Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily
  154. Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue
  155. Learn how to whistle using your fingers
  156. Learn impressive party tricks
  157. Learn Klingon
  158. Learn magic tricks and card tricks
  159. Learn Pig Latin
  160. Learn self-defense
  161. Learn spear fishing or fly fishing.
  162. 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)
  163. Learn to ballroom dance
  164. Learn to do a backward roll
  165. Learn to do a cartwheel
  166. Learn to do a forward roll
  167. Learn to fence
  168. Learn to forage for edible food
  169. Learn to high kick
  170. Learn to ice skate
  171. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)
  172. Learn to rock climb or bouldering
  173. Learn to shoot
  174. Learn to wear fake eyelashes
  175. Learning a foreign language
  176. Learning the art of storytelling
  177. Lego building
  178. Lobster Traps
  179. Lock picking
  180. Long distance track
  181. Long jump
  182. Look at free community events going on near you
  183. Ludo sport (Lightsaber combat)
  184. Make a collage
  185. Make a terrarium
  186. Make miniature doll furniture
  187. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube
  188. Make pottery
  189. Make your own boat
  190. Make your own bookmarks
  191. Make your own hot sauce
  192. Make your own jewelry
  193. Make your own robot
  194. Make your own signature bbq sauce
  195. Make your own tea blends
  196. Making a bird feeder
  197. Making digital photo books
  198. Making dolls
  199. Making model cars
  200. Making your own clothes
  201. Manicures
  202. Master airplane combat games
  203. Matchstick modeling
  204. Metal detector
  205. Metalworking
  206. Microscopy
  207. Middle distance track
  208. Mini golf
  209. Model rockets
  210. Model shipbuilding
  211. Motocross
  212. Needle Felting
  213. Obstacle course
  214. Palm reading
  215. Paper mache
  216. Parachuting
  217. Paragliding
  218. Parkour
  219. Pedicures
  220. Pencil sketching
  221. People watching
  222. Perfect your handshake
  223. Perfect your high five
  224. Performing stand up comedy
  225. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)
  226. Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit
  227. Play badminton
  228. Play chess
  229. Play darts
  230. Play volleyball
  231. Playing harmonica
  232. Playing pool
  233. Podcasting
  234. Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)
  235. Pressing flowers
  236. Produce electronic music
  237. Puppetry
  238. Quidditch
  239. Racquetball
  240. RC cars
  241. Reef aquarium
  242. Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard
  243. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels
  244. Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)
  245. Roast your own coffee
  246. Rock painting
  247. Rollerblading
  248. Roller skating
  249. Rowing
  250. Running
  251. Sand sculptures
  252. Sand surfing
  253. Sandboarding
  254. Scale miniature building
  255. Science experiments
  256. Scottish sword dancing
  257. Scouting
  258. Scrapbooking
  259. Sculpting
  260. Sculpting with clay
  261. Self-care or beauty night
  262. Sewing
  263. Short distance track
  264. Singing
  265. Skateboarding
  266. Skijoring (skiing with a horse pulling you)
  267. Skydiving
  268. Sleigh riding
  269. Slingshots
  270. Snorkeling
  271. Snowboarding
  272. Snowmobiling
  273. Soap making
  274. Soccer
  275. Solve puzzles or mazes
  276. Speed reading
  277. Speed skating
  278. Stamp collecting
  279. Stargazing with a telescope
  280. Start a book club
  281. Start a journal
  282. Start an allotment or community garden
  283. Start and maintain a saltwater tank
  284. Stone skipping
  285. Story writing
  286. Sugar scrubs
  287. Surfing
  288. Sushi making
  289. Swimming
  290. Synchronized swimming
  291. Table tennis
  292. Tandem, biking
  293. Tarot reading
  294. Taxidermy
  295. Teeth whitening
  296. Tennis
  297. Tower running (or extreme stair climbing)
  298. Track cycling
  299. Train a  falcon
  300. Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman
  301. Trivia contests
  302. Ultimate frisbee
  303. Vaulting horses
  304. Ventriloquism
  305. Visit the aquarium
  306. Visit the local library
  307. Visit the zoo
  308. Volunteer at the food pantry
  309. Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization
  310. Volunteering
  311. Wakeboarding
  312. Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting
  313. 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).
  314. Watercolors
  315. Whale watching
  316. White water rafting
  317. Whittling or wood carving
  318. Windsurfing
  319. Wrestling
  320. Write a screenplay
  321. Writing a book
  322. 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. 

  1. Take a free home management course like Home Rescue.
  2. Arrange flowers
  3. Astronomy
  4. At home facials
  5. Babysitting
  6. Bake and sell gourmet pet treats
  7. Baking
  8. Beat the record on Slitherio
  9. Take a free budgeting course like the 90 Day Budget Boot Camp. 
  10. Become a Wikipedia editor
  11. Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)
  12. Becoming a newspaper contributor
  13. Belly Dancing
  14. Board dogs
  15. Board game club
  16. Bonsai trees
  17. Book restoration
  18. Boomerangs
  19. Brainstorm your hobbies
  20. Breed dogs
  21. Build a family command center
  22. Build a nixie tube clock
  23. Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally
  24. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects
  25. Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace
  26. Build your own smoker
  27. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture
  28. Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard
  29. Building fairy gardens
  30. Butterfly watching
  31. Camping
  32. Candy making
  33. Canning
  34. Cardio
  35. Catch up on laundry
  36. Ceramics
  37. Chocolate tasting
  38. Clean out and detail clean your car
  39. Collecting baseball cards
  40. Coloring
  41. Comic book art
  42. Container gardening
  43. Cooking
  44. Cosplay
  45. Create a bucket list
  46. Create a home stock room
  47. Create a treasure hunt
  48. Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls
  49. Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes
  50. Creating a family tree
  51. Creating a time capsule
  52. Creating unique recipes
  53. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet
  54. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.
  55. Crocheting
  56. Crossword puzzles
  57. Declutter and organize an area of your home
  58. Decoupage
  59. Design funny or niche coffee mugs
  60. Design funny or niche tee shirts
  61. Design printable planner stickers
  62. Digital scrapbooking
  63. Dog training
  64. Dominoes
  65. Draw comics or learn animation
  66. Drawing
  67. Dry brushing
  68. Embroidery
  69. Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties
  70. Explore different religious beliefs
  71. Farming
  72. Feng Shui your home
  73. Find a natural way to collect rainwater
  74. Float spa
  75. Flower arrangements
  76. Fly Tying
  77. Flying drones
  78. Flying model planes
  79. Foosball
  80. Foster animals either dogs and cats or more unique animals like rabbits, turtles, and birds
  81. Freezer meals or Once a month meals
  82. Frisbee golf
  83. Furniture restoration
  84. Gather food donations for a local non-profit
  85. Genealogy
  86. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.
  87. 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).
  88. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)
  89. Hand lettering
  90. Have family meetings or budget meetings
  91. Hip Hop Dancing
  92. Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)
  93. Impersonations
  94. Improve your memory
  95. Interviewing older relatives about their lives
  96. Inventing
  97. Jam making
  98. Kitchen chemistry
  99. Knitting
  100. Knotting
  101. Lacemaking
  102. Lacrosse
  103. Lamp making
  104. Landscaping
  105. Learn extreme couponing
  106. Learn graphic design (for example, logos)
  107. Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)
  108. 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)
  109. Learn how to make printables
  110. Learn how to make wine
  111. Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA
  112. Learn how to meal plan
  113. Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions
  114. Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily
  115. Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue
  116. Learn impressive party tricks
  117. Learn Klingon
  118. Learn magic tricks and card tricks
  119. Learn Pig Latin
  120. Learn screen printing
  121. Learn SEO
  122. 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)
  123. Learn to bake
  124. Learn to be a life coach
  125. Learn to budget
  126. Learn to cook
  127. Learn to crochet
  128. Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes
  129. Learn to knit
  130. Learn to manage your home
  131. Learn to perfect big barrel curls
  132. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)
  133. Learn to play craps
  134. Learn to quilt
  135. Learn to sew
  136. Learn to wear fake eyelashes
  137. Learning a foreign language
  138. Lip plumpers
  139. Lock picking
  140. Look at free community events going on near you
  141. Macrame
  142. Make a collage
  143. Make a terrarium
  144. Make cold brew coffee
  145. Make hard cider (super easy!)
  146. Make miniature doll furniture
  147. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube
  148. Make your own beer
  149. Make your own bookmarks
  150. Make your own candles
  151. Make your own hot sauce
  152. Make your own jewelry
  153. Make your own signature bbq sauce
  154. Make your own tea blends
  155. Making a bird feeder
  156. Making dolls
  157. Making model cars
  158. Making wood family signs
  159. Making your own clothes
  160. Manicures
  161. Master airplane combat games
  162. Master barbeque
  163. Matchstick modeling
  164. Meal plan for the week
  165. Meditation
  166. Metalworking
  167. Model rockets
  168. Model shipbuilding
  169. Needle felting
  170. Obstacle course
  171. Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books
  172. Organize your week
  173. Palm reading
  174. Paper mache
  175. Parkour
  176. Pedicures
  177. Pencil sketching
  178. Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: secret ingredient? Cream cheese)
  179. Plan a monthly dinner club, bunco night, or poker party
  180. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)
  181. 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.)
  182. Plan out a yearly menu
  183. Play chess
  184. Playing pool
  185. Podcasting
  186. Polo leather making
  187. Pressing flowers
  188. Produce electronic music
  189. Proofreading
  190. Pyrotechnics or fireworks
  191. RC cars
  192. Reef aquarium
  193. Refinish a piece of furniture you find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace
  194. Renovate your house
  195. Rent a Tesla (self-driving car)
  196. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels
  197. Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)
  198. Roast your own coffee
  199. Rock painting
  200. Room renovations or home designs
  201. Running
  202. Scrapbooking
  203. Sculpting
  204. Sculpting with clay
  205. Self-care or beauty night
  206. Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist
  207. Sewing
  208. 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)
  209. Singing
  210. Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)
  211. Soap making
  212. Solve puzzles or mazes
  213. Speed reading
  214. Start a book club
  215. Start a journal
  216. Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)
  217. Start and maintain a saltwater tank
  218. Starting an Etsy or eBay store
  219. Staycation
  220. Story writing
  221. Strength training
  222. Subscription boxes
  223. Sudoku
  224. Sugar scrubs
  225. Sushi making
  226. Table tennis
  227. Tai Chi
  228. Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)
  229. Take surveys
  230. Tapestry
  231. Tarot reading
  232. Tasting parties with miracle fruit
  233. Teach your kids a chore they can take over
  234. Teeth whitening
  235. Trivia contests
  236. Ultimate frisbee
  237. Upholstery
  238. Volunteer at the food pantry
  239. Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization
  240. Walking
  241. Watchmaking
  242. 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).
  243. Watercolors
  244. Write your family mission statement
  245. Writing a book
  246. Writing letters to loved ones
  247. Writing letters to your future self
  248. Yoga
  249. 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.  

  1. 3D printing
  2. Aerial photography
  3. Airbrushing
  4. Astronomy
  5. At home facials
  6. Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD
  7. Bake and sell gourmet pet treats
  8. Baking
  9. Beat the record on Slitherio
  10. Beatboxing
  11. Become a Wikipedia editor
  12. Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)
  13. Becoming a newspaper contributor
  14. Belly Dancing
  15. Blacksmithing (make your own sword)
  16. Board dogs
  17. Board game club
  18. Book restoration
  19. Breakdancing
  20. Breed dogs
  21. Build a family command center
  22. Build a Tesla coil
  23. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects
  24. Build furniture
  25. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture
  26. Butterfly watching
  27. Camping
  28. Candy making
  29. Canning
  30. Cardmaking
  31. Cartography
  32. Carve epic pumpkins
  33. Catch up on laundry
  34. Catching insects (like lightning bugs)
  35. Ceramics
  36. Chocolate tasting
  37. Clean out and detail clean your car
  38. Coin collecting
  39. Collecting model trains
  40. Coloring
  41. Comic book art
  42. Cooking
  43. Cosplay
  44. Create a charity
  45. Create a home stock room
  46. Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)
  47. Create a treasure hunt
  48. Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls
  49. Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes
  50. Creating a family tree
  51. Creating a time capsule
  52. Creating unique recipes
  53. Creating videos (videography) for weddings and smaller productions (filming courses or tutorials)
  54. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet
  55. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.
  56. Crocheting
  57. Crossword puzzles
  58. Cryptography
  59. Declutter and organize an area of your home
  60. Decoupage
  61. Design funny or niche coffee mugs
  62. Design funny or niche tee shirts
  63. Digital scrapbooking
  64. Diner club
  65. Distilling
  66. DJing
  67. Dog training
  68. Dominoes
  69. Draw comics or learn animation
  70. Drawing
  71. Driving people around (Lyft or Uber)
  72. Dry brushing
  73. Dumpster diving
  74. Embroidery
  75. Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)
  76. Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties
  77. Explore different religious beliefs
  78. Feng Shui your home
  79. Fire poi (fire performance)
  80. Flower arrangements
  81. Fly Tying
  82. Foosball
  83. Freezer meals,  once a month meals
  84. Furniture restoration
  85. Genealogy
  86. Get a tattoo
  87. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.
  88. Glamping
  89. Glass blowing
  90. 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).
  91. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)
  92. Graphology
  93. Ham radio
  94. Hand lettering
  95. Handwriting letters to friends and family
  96. Haunted house tours
  97. Have family meetings or budget meetings
  98. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)
  99. Hip Hop Dancing
  100. Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)
  101. Impersonations
  102. Interviewing older relatives about their lives
  103. Inventing
  104. Jam making
  105. Karaoke
  106. Kitchen chemistry
  107. Knifemaking
  108. Knitting
  109. Knotting
  110. Lacemaking
  111. Lamp making
  112. Learn extreme couponing
  113. Learn graphic design (for example, logos)
  114. Learn how to edit videos
  115. Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)
  116. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)
  117. Learn how to make printables
  118. Learn how to make wine
  119. Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA
  120. Learn how to meal plan
  121. Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions
  122. Learn how to whistle using your fingers
  123. Learn Klingon
  124. Learn Pig Latin
  125. Learn screen printing
  126. Learn SEO
  127. 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)
  128. Learn to bake
  129. Learn to budget
  130. Learn to cook
  131. Learn to crochet
  132. Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes
  133. Learn to knit
  134. Learn to manage your home
  135. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)
  136. Learn to play craps
  137. Learn to quilt
  138. Learn to sew
  139. Learn to wear fake eyelashes
  140. Learning a foreign language
  141. Learning how to bartend
  142. Learning how to use and run a teleprompter (impressive money and has little competition for a part-time gig)
  143. Learning the art of storytelling
  144. Lego building
  145. Lip plumpers
  146. Lock picking
  147. Look at free community events going on near you
  148. Macrame
  149. Make a collage
  150. Make a terrarium
  151. Make cold brew coffee
  152. Make hard cider (super easy!)
  153. Make miniature doll furniture
  154. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube
  155. Make your own beer
  156. Make your own bookmarks
  157. Make your own candles
  158. Make your own hot sauce
  159. Make your own jewelry
  160. Make your own robot
  161. Make your own signature bbq sauce
  162. Make your own tea blends
  163. Making a bird feeder
  164. Making digital photo books
  165. Making dolls
  166. Making model cars
  167. Making your own clothes
  168. Manicures
  169. Master airplane combat games
  170. Master barbeque
  171. Matchstick modeling
  172. Meal plan for the week
  173. Mini golf
  174. Model rockets
  175. Model shipbuilding
  176. Needle Felting
  177. Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books
  178. Organize your week
  179. Paint and sip nights
  180. Palm reading
  181. Paper mache
  182. Pedicures
  183. Pencil sketching
  184. Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: secret ingredient? Cream cheese)
  185. Perfect your handshake
  186. Perfect your high five
  187. Performing stand up comedy
  188. Pinochle
  189. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)
  190. 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.)
  191. Plan out a yearly menu
  192. Play chess
  193. Play darts
  194. Playing harmonica
  195. Playing pool
  196. Podcasting
  197. Poker
  198. Polo leather making
  199. Produce electronic music
  200. Proofreading
  201. Puppetry
  202. Pyrotechnics or fireworks
  203. RC cars
  204. Rent a Tesla (self-driving car)
  205. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels
  206. Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)
  207. Roast your own coffee
  208. Roast your own coffee
  209. Rock painting
  210. Room renovations or home designs
  211. Science experiments
  212. Scrapbooking
  213. Sculpting
  214. Sculpting with clay
  215. Self-care or beauty night
  216. Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist
  217. Sewing
  218. 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)
  219. Singing
  220. Snowmobiling
  221. Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (*probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)
  222. Soap making
  223. Solve puzzles or mazes
  224. Speed reading
  225. Spin classes
  226. Sports refereeing
  227. Stamp collecting
  228. Stargazing with a telescope
  229. Start a book club
  230. Start a journal
  231. Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)
  232. Start and maintain a saltwater tank
  233. Starting a parents night out
  234. Starting an Etsy or eBay store
  235. Story writing
  236. Subscription boxes
  237. Sudoku
  238. Sugar scrubs
  239. Sushi making
  240. Table tennis
  241. Tai Chi
  242. Take a positive discipline parenting class
  243. Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)
  244. Tapestry
  245. Tarot reading
  246. Tasting parties with miracle fruit
  247. Taxidermy
  248. Teach your kids a chore they can take over
  249. Teeth whitening
  250. Themed date nights
  251. Train a  falcon
  252. Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman
  253. Upholstery
  254. Ventriloquism
  255. War games
  256. Watchmaking
  257. 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).
  258. Watercolors
  259. Wine/cheese tasting
  260. Write a screenplay
  261. Write your family mission statement
  262. Writing a book
  263. Writing letters to loved ones
  264. 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).

    1. 3D printing
    2. Acroyoga (couples yoga where you physically support each other)
    3. Aerial photography
    4. Airbrushing
    5. Airsoft guns
    6. Antiquing
    7. Apply to be an extra in a  movie or tv show
    8. Archaeology: like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast
    9. Astronomy
    10. Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD
    11. Audition as an actor or for a commercial
    12. Audition to be a model
    13. Baseball
    14. Basketball
    15. Beachcombing
    16. Beach volleyball
    17. Become a connoisseur (wine, whiskey)
    18. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own
    19. Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)
    20. Becoming a newspaper contributor
    21. Bicycling
    22. Biking
    23. Blacksmithing (make your own sword)
    24. Board dogs
    25. Board game club
    26. Body surfing
    27. Bonsai trees
    28. Boogie boarding
    29. Book restoration
    30. Boomerangs
    31. Brainstorm your hobbies
    32. Breaking a world record
    33. Breed dogs
    34. Build a family command center
    35. Build a functional igloo in the snow
    36. Build a Tesla coil
    37. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects
    38. Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace
    39. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture
    40. Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard
    41. Building fairy gardens
    42. Buy a boat
    43. Camping
    44. Canning
    45. Canoeing
    46. Cardio
    47. Cartography
    48. Carve epic pumpkins
    49. Catch up on laundry
    50. Catching insects (like lightning bugs)
    51. Cave Diving
    52. Caving or spelunking
    53. Check out a salsa club
    54. Check out museums
    55. Chocolate tasting
    56. Clean out and detail clean your car
    57. Coin collecting
    58. Collecting baseball cards
    59. Collecting model trains
    60. Collecting seashells
    61. Combat shooting
    62. Comic book art
    63. Cooking
    64. Crabbing
    65. Create a bucket list
    66. Create a charity
    67. Create a home stock room
    68. Create a treasure hunt
    69. Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes
    70. Creating a family tree
    71. Creating a time capsule
    72. Creating unique recipes
    73. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet
    74. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.
    75. Croquet
    76. Cross country running
    77. Cross country skiing
    78. Cryptography
    79. Curling
    80. Declutter and organize an area of your home
    81. Design funny or niche coffee mugs
    82. Design funny or niche tee shirts
    83. Dig for clams
    84. Diner club
    85. Distilling
    86. DJing
    87. Dog competitions
    88. Dog sledding
    89. Dog training
    90. Dominoes
    91. Dragon boat racing
    92. Draw comics or learn animation
    93. Dumpster diving
    94. Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)
    95. Enhance your survival skills
    96. Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties
    97. Explore different religious beliefs
    98. Farming
    99. Feng Shui your home
    100. Field hockey
    101. Find a natural way to collect rainwater
    102. Fire poi (fire performance)
    103. Fishing for tuna
    104. Float spa
    105. Flower arrangements
    106. Fly Tying
    107. Flying drones
    108. Flying model planes
    109. Foosball
    110. Football
    111. Foster animals:  either dogs and cats or more unique animals like rabbits, turtles, and birds
    112. Freezer meals,  once a month meals
    113. Frisbee golf
    114. Furniture restoration
    115. Gather food donations for a local non-profit
    116. Genealogy
    117. Geology
    118. Get a tattoo
    119. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games
    120. Glamping
    121. Glass blowing
    122. 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).
    123. Go crabbing
    124. Go kart racing
    125. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)
    126. Going on picnics
    127. Graphology
    128. Gunsmith
    129. Ham radio
    130. Hand to hand combat
    131. Handball
    132. Hang Gliding
    133. Haunted house tours
    134. Have a seafood boil in the sand
    135. Have family meetings or budget meetings
    136. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)
    137. Hike the Appalachian mountains
    138. Hiking
    139. Hockey
    140. Homesteading
    141. Horseback riding
    142. Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)
    143. Hot air balloon
    144. House of horror
    145. Ice fishing
    146. Impersonations
    147. Improve your memory
    148. Interviewing older relatives about their lives
    149. Inventing
    150. Jam making
    151. Jet ski
    152. Karaoke
    153. Kick sledding
    154. Kitchen chemistry
    155. Knifemaking
    156. Knife throwing
    157. Knotting
    158. Lacrosse
    159. Lamp making
    160. Landscaping
    161. Learn a roundhouse kick
    162. Learn archery
    163. Learn how to debone and eat a chicken wing in one bite
    164. Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)
    165. Learn how to DIY almost anything:  home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)
    166. Learn how to fix old broken computers (you can find dozens with problems for free or super cheap on Craigslist
    167. Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)
    168. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands
    169. Learn how to juggle fire
    170. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)
    171. Learn how to make wine
    172. Learn how to meal plan
    173. Learn how to start a fire with two sticks
    174. Learn impressive party tricks
    175. Learn Klingon
    176. Learn Pig Latin
    177. Learn self-defense
    178. Learn spear fishing or fly fishing.
    179. Learn to ballroom dance
    180. Learn to budget
    181. Learn to dirty dance
    182. Learn to do a backward roll
    183. Learn to do a cartwheel
    184. Learn to do a forward roll
    185. Learn to fence
    186. Learn to forage for edible food
    187. Learn to high kick
    188. Learn to hunt or to track
    189. Learn to ice skate
    190. Learn to manage your home
    191. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)
    192. Learn to play craps
    193. Learn to rock climb or bouldering
    194. Learn to shoot
    195. Learn to travel hack
    196. Learning a foreign language
    197. Learning how to bartend
    198. Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)
    199. Learning how to tattoo
    200. Learning the art of storytelling
    201. Lego building
    202. Letterboxing
    203. Lobster traps
    204. Lock picking
    205. Look at free community events going on near you
    206. Make a collage
    207. Make a pinhole camera and make your own darkroom to develop the images
    208. Make a terrarium
    209. Make cold brew coffee
    210. Make hard cider (super easy!)
    211. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube
    212. Make your own beer
    213. Make your own hot sauce
    214. Make your own robot
    215. Make your own signature bbq sauce
    216. Make your own tea blends
    217. Making a bird feeder
    218. Making digital photo books
    219. Making model cars
    220. Making pallet furniture
    221. Master airplane combat games
    222. Master barbeque
    223. Matchstick modeling
    224. Meal plan for the week
    225. Metalworking
    226. Microscopy
    227. Mini golf
    228. Model rockets
    229. Model shipbuilding
    230. Mud wrestle (or jello?)
    231. Obstacle course
    232. Organize your week
    233. Paint and sip nights
    234. Parachuting
    235. Paragliding
    236. Parasailing
    237. Parkour
    238. Pencil sketching
    239. People watching
    240. Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (secret ingredient? Cream cheese)
    241. Pinochle
    242. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)
    243. Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit
    244. Play badminton
    245. Play chess
    246. Play darts
    247. Play volleyball
    248. Playing pool
    249. Podcasting
    250. Poker
    251. Polo leather making
    252. Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)
    253. Produce electronic music
    254. Puppetry
    255. Pyrotechnics or fireworks
    256. Quidditch
    257. Racquetball
    258. Rappelling
    259. RC cars
    260. Reef aquarium
    261. Renovate your house
    262. Rent a Tesla (self-driving car)
    263. Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard
    264. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels
    265. Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)
    266. Road trips
    267. Roast your own coffee
    268. Sailing
    269. Sand sculptures
    270. Sand surfing
    271. Sandboarding
    272. Scale miniature building
    273. Science experiments
    274. Sculpting with clay
    275. Scuba Diving
    276. Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist
    277. Shark diving
    278. Shark tooth or fossil hunting
    279. Skeet shooting
    280. Skijoring (skiing with a horse pulling you)
    281. Skydiving
    282. Sleigh riding
    283. Slingshots
    284. Snorkeling
    285. Snowboarding
    286. Snowmobiling
    287. Soccer
    288. Speed reading
    289. Speed skating
    290. Spin classes
    291. Stamp collecting
    292. Stargazing with a telescope
    293. Start a book club
    294. Start and maintain a saltwater tank
    295. Starting a parents night out
    296. Starting an Etsy or eBay store
    297. Staycation
    298. Stoneworking
    299. Strength training
    300. Surfing
    301. Sushi making
    302. Swimming
    303. Table tennis
    304. Take a discovery flight
    305. Take a positive discipline parenting class
    306. Tandem, biking
    307. Tap maple trees to make syrup
    308. Target shooting
    309. Tarot reading
    310. Tasting parties with miracle fruit
    311. Taxidermy
    312. Teach your kids a chore they can take over
    313. Tennis
    314. Themed date nights
    315. Throw axes
    316. Touring wineries
    317. Tower running (or extreme stair climbing)
    318. Train a  falcon
    319. Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman
    320. Ultimate frisbee
    321. Upholstery
    322. Vaulting horses
    323. Ventriloquism
    324. Visit a speakeasy
    325. Visit the aquarium
    326. Visit the zoo
    327. Volunteer at a local non-profit
    328. Volunteer at the food pantry
    329. Volunteer at the kid’s school
    330. Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization
    331. Volunteering
    332. Wakeboarding
    333. Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting
    334. Walking
    335. War games
    336. Watchmaking
    337. 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).
    338. Weekend getaways
    339. Whale watching
    340. White water rafting
    341. Windsurfing
    342. Wine/cheese tasting
    343. Wingsuit flying
    344. Wrestling
    345. Write a screenplay
    346. Write your family mission statement
    347. 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).

  1. Take a comprehensive home management course together, like Hot Mess to Home Success. 
  2. 3D printing
  3. Acapella
  4. Aerial photography
  5. Antigravity cocooning (fitness)
  6. Antiquing
  7. Archaeology: like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast
  8. At home facials
  9. Baking
  10. Baseball
  11. Basketball
  12. Beachcombing
  13. Beach volleyball
  14. Become a connoisseur (wine, whiskey)
  15. Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)
  16. Belly Dancing
  17. Bicycling
  18. Biking
  19. Board game club
  20. Body surfing
  21. Boogie boarding
  22. Boomerangs
  23. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture
  24. Butterfly watching
  25. Calligraphy
  26. Camping
  27. Candy making
  28. Cardio
  29. Carve epic pumpkins
  30. Catch up on laundry
  31. Cave Diving
  32. Caving or spelunking
  33. Ceramics
  34. Check out a salsa club
  35. Chocolate tasting
  36. Coach a local sports team
  37. Coin collecting
  38. Collecting leaves or flowers
  39. Collecting seashells
  40. Coloring
  41. Combat shooting
  42. Comic book art
  43. Cooking
  44. Corn Maze
  45. Cosplay
  46. Crabbing
  47. Create a home stock room
  48. Create a treasure hunt
  49. Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes
  50. Creating a family tree
  51. Creating unique recipes
  52. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet
  53. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.
  54. Crocheting
  55. Cross country running
  56. Cross country skiing
  57. Cryotherapy
  58. Decoupage
  59. Dig for clams
  60. Diner club
  61. Distilling
  62. DJing
  63. Dominoes
  64. Dry brushing
  65. Embroidery
  66. Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties
  67. Explore different religious beliefs
  68. Fell running
  69. Field hockey
  70. Find a natural way to collect rainwater
  71. Fish pedicures
  72. Fishing for tuna
  73. Float spa
  74. Flower arrangements
  75. Flying drones
  76. Football
  77. Freezer cooking (once a month?)
  78. Frisbee golf
  79. Gather food donations for a local non-profit
  80. Get a tattoo
  81. Glamping
  82. Glass blowing
  83. 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).
  84. Go crabbing
  85. Go Kart
  86. Going on picnics
  87. Hand lettering
  88. Hand to hand combat
  89. Handball
  90. Hang Gliding
  91. Haunted house tours
  92. Have a seafood boil in the sand
  93. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)
  94. Hike the Appalachian mountains
  95. Hiking
  96. Hip Hop Dancing
  97. Hockey
  98. Horseback riding
  99. Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)
  100. 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 )
  101. House of horror
  102. Hula dancing
  103. Irish step dancing
  104. Jam making
  105. Jet ski
  106. Juggling in the street
  107. Karaoke
  108. Keratin treatment (permanent hair straightening)
  109. Kitchen chemistry
  110. Knitting
  111. Lacemaking
  112. Lacrosse
  113. Learn archery
  114. Learn boxing or kickboxing
  115. Learn graphic design (for example, logos)
  116. Learn how to juggle fire
  117. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)
  118. Learn how to make printables
  119. Learn how to make wine
  120. Learn how to meal plan
  121. Learn impressive party tricks
  122. Learn Klingon
  123. Learn Pig Latin
  124. Learn self-defense
  125. 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)
  126. Learn to ballroom dance
  127. Learn to budget
  128. Learn to crochet
  129. Learn to dirty dance
  130. Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes
  131. Learn to fence
  132. Learn to ice skate
  133. Learn to knit
  134. Learn to manage your home
  135. Learn to perfect big barrel curls
  136. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)
  137. Learn to play craps
  138. Learn to quilt
  139. Learn to rock climb or bouldering
  140. Learn to sew
  141. Learn to wear fake eyelashes
  142. Learning a foreign language
  143. Learning how to bartend
  144. Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)
  145. Learning how to tattoo
  146. Learning the art of storytelling
  147. Lip plumpers
  148. Lobster traps
  149. Look at free community events going on near you
  150. Macrame
  151. Make a collage
  152. Make cold brew coffee
  153. Make hard cider (super easy!)
  154. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube
  155. Make pottery
  156. Make your own beer
  157. Make your own hot sauce
  158. Make your own jewelry
  159. Make your own signature bbq sauce
  160. Making digital photo books
  161. Making dolls
  162. Making your own clothes
  163. Manicures
  164. Massage
  165. Master barbeque
  166. Meal plan for the week
  167. Mini golf
  168. Needle Felting
  169. Obstacle course
  170. Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books
  171. Organize your week
  172. Paint and sip nights
  173. Palm reading
  174. Parachuting
  175. Paragliding
  176. Pedicures
  177. Pencil sketching
  178. People watching
  179. Performing stand up comedy
  180. Plan a monthly dinner club, bunco night, or poker party
  181. Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit
  182. Play badminton
  183. Play chess
  184. Play darts
  185. Play volleyball
  186. Playing pool
  187. Podcasting
  188. Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)
  189. Pressing flowers
  190. Produce electronic music
  191. Puppetry
  192. Pyrotechnics or fireworks
  193. Quidditch
  194. Racquetball
  195. Rappelling
  196. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels
  197. Road trips
  198. Roast your own coffee
  199. Rollerblading
  200. Roller skating
  201. Room renovations or home designs
  202. Rugby
  203. Running
  204. RV across the US
  205. Sailing
  206. Sand sculptures
  207. Sand surfing
  208. Sandboarding
  209. Science experiments
  210. Scottish sword dancing
  211. Scrapbooking
  212. Scuba Diving
  213. Sculpting
  214. Self-care or beauty night
  215. Self Tanning
  216. Sewing
  217. Shark Diving
  218. Skydiving
  219. Snorkeling
  220. Snowboarding
  221. Snowmobiling
  222. Soap making
  223. Soccer
  224. Speed skating
  225. Spin classes
  226. Stamp collecting
  227. Stargazing with a telescope
  228. Start a book club
  229. Start a soccer mom league
  230. Strength training
  231. Subscription boxes
  232. Sugar scrubs
  233. Surfing
  234. Sushi making
  235. Swimming
  236. Synchronized swimming
  237. Table tennis
  238. Tai Chi
  239. Take a discovery flight
  240. Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)
  241. Tandem, biking
  242. Tapestry
  243. Target shooting
  244. Tarot reading
  245. Tasting parties with miracle fruit
  246. Teeth whitening
  247. Tennis
  248. Touring wineries
  249. Track cycling
  250. Ultimate frisbee
  251. Vaulting horses
  252. Ventriloquism
  253. Visit a speakeasy
  254. Visit the aquarium
  255. Visit the local library
  256. Visit the zoo
  257. Volunteer at a local non-profit
  258. Volunteer at the food pantry
  259. Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization
  260. Volunteering
  261. Wakeboarding
  262. Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting
  263. Walking
  264. 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).
  265. Weekend getaways
  266. Whale watching
  267. White water rafting
  268. Windsurfing
  269. Wine/cheese tasting
  270. Wingsuit flying
  271. Yoga
  272. 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).

  1. Antiquing
  2. Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD
  3. Become a certified financial planner
  4. Become a Wikipedia editor
  5. Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University) 
  6. Blogging
  7. YouTube
  8. Becoming a newspaper contributor
  9. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects
  10. Coding
  11. Collecting model trains
  12. Comic book art
  13. Create a charity
  14. Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)
  15. Creating videos (videography) for weddings and smaller productions (filming courses or tutorials)
  16. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet
  17. Design funny or niche coffee mugs
  18. Design funny or niche tee shirts
  19. Design printable planner stickers
  20. DJing
  21. Explore different religious beliefs
  22. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.
  23. Gunsmith
  24. Learn boxing or kickboxing
  25. Learn extreme couponing
  26. Learn graphic design (for example, logos)
  27. Learn how to edit videos
  28. Learn how to travel hack credit card rewards (not for the faint of heart!)
  29. Learn how to make printables
  30. Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA
  31. Learn how to meal plan
  32. Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions
  33. Learn screen printing
  34. Learn SEO
  35. Learn to be a Life Coach
  36. Learn to budget
  37. Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes
  38. Learn to manage your home
  39. Learning how to bartend
  40. Learning how to use and run a teleprompter (impressive money and has little competition for a part-time gig)
  41. Look at free community events going on near you
  42. Make a collage
  43. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube Beat the record on Slitherio
  44. Making digital photo books
  45. Master airplane combat games
  46. Meal plan for the week
  47. Plan a road trip
  48. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)
  49. Plan a vacation
  50. Plan an RV trip across the US
  51. 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.)
  52. Plan out a yearly menu
  53. Play chess
  54. Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E*Trade)
  55. Podcasting
  56. Poker
  57. Produce electronic music
  58. Programming
  59. Proofreading, formatting, and editing (books, court reports, blogs)
  60. Public speaking (get started with your local Toastmasters) goes well with a blog or YouTube channel
  61. Raspberry Pi projects (learn programming through fun practical projects)
  62. Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard
  63. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels
  64. Scrapbooking
  65. 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)
  66. Speed reading
  67. Start a journal
  68. Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)
  69. Table tennis
  70. Take a positive discipline parenting class
  71. Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)
  72. Take surveys
  73. Trivia contests
  74. War games
  75. Write reviews online
  76. Write your family mission statement
  77. Writing letters to loved ones
  78. 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. 

    1. Acrobatics
    2. Airsoft guns
    3. Antiquing
    4. Archaeology: like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast
    5. Astronomy
    6. At home facials
    7. Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD
    8. Baseball
    9. Basketball
    10. Beachcombing
    11. Beach volleyball
    12. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own
    13. Beekeeping
    14. Bicycling
    15. Body surfing
    16. Boogie boarding
    17. Boomerangs
    18. Build a functional igloo in the snow
    19. Build a nixie tube clock
    20. Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally
    21. Build a Tesla coil
    22. Build an experimental aircraft
    23. Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace
    24. Build your own smoker
    25. Building fairy gardens
    26. Butterfly watching
    27. Buy a boat
    28. Buy and sell land (particularly cheap but commonly undesirable land like land for mudding) 
    29. Canning
    30. Canoeing
    31. Cardio
    32. Carve epic pumpkins
    33. Catching insects (like lightning bugs)
    34. Cave Diving
    35. Caving or spelunking
    36. Chainsaw carvings
    37. Clean out and detail clean your car
    38. Coach a local sports team
    39. Collecting leaves or flowers
    40. Collecting seashells
    41. Combat shooting
    42. Comic book art
    43. Corn Maze
    44. Crabbing
    45. Create a treasure hunt
    46. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet
    47. Croquet
    48. Cross country running
    49. Cross country skiing
    50. Dig for clams
    51. Dirt biking
    52. Discus
    53. Distilling
    54. Dog competitions
    55. Dog sledding
    56. Dog training
    57. Drag boat racing
    58. Dragon boat racing
    59. Driveway chalk
    60. Driving people around (Lyft or Uber)
    61. Dumpster diving
    62. Enhance your survival skills
    63. Fell running
    64. Field hockey
    65. Find a natural way to collect rainwater
    66. Finger painting
    67. Fire poi (fire performance)
    68. Fishing for tuna
    69. Flying drones
    70. Flying model planes
    71. Football
    72. Frisbee golf
    73. Furniture restoration
    74. Geology
    75. Get chickens to sell the eggs
    76. Getting a dairy cow to sell the milk
    77. Glass blowing
    78. 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).
    79. Go crabbing
    80. Go kart racing
    81. Go off-roading or mudding.
    82. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)
    83. Going on picnics
    84. Growing herbs or vegetables
    85. Hand to hand combat
    86. Handball
    87. Hang Gliding
    88. Have a seafood boil in the sand
    89. Helicopter skiing
    90. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)
    91. Hike the Appalachian mountains
    92. Hiking
    93. Hiking
    94. Hockey
    95. Homesteading
    96. Horseback riding
    97. Hot air balloon
    98. Hoverboarding
    99. Hula dancing
    100. Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields
    101. Hurdles
    102. Ice fishing
    103. Jet ski
    104. Juggling in the street
    105. Jump rope
    106. Kick sledding
    107. Kite surfing
    108. Knife throwing
    109. Lacrosse
    110. Landscaping
    111. Learn a roundhouse kick
    112. Learn archery
    113. Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)
    114. Learn how to DIY almost anything:  home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)
    115. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands
    116. Learn how to juggle fire
    117. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)
    118. Learn how to make wine
    119. Learn how to start a fire with two sticks
    120. Learn how to use a bullwhip to snap a straw out of a man’s hand
    121. Learn self-defense
    122. Learn spear fishing or fly fishing.
    123. Learn to do a backward roll
    124. Learn to do a cartwheel
    125. Learn to do a forward roll
    126. Learn to fly
    127. Learn to forage for edible food
    128. Learn to high kick
    129. Learn to hunt or to track
    130. Learn to ice skate
    131. Learn to perfect big barrel curls
    132. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)
    133. Learn to rock climb or bouldering
    134. Learn to shoot
    135. Learning the art of storytelling
    136. Lip plumpers
    137. Lobster traps
    138. Lock picking
    139. Long distance track
    140. Long jump
    141. Look at free community events going on near you
    142. Make a collage
    143. Make a terrarium
    144. Make your own boat
    145. Make your own jewelry
    146. Making wood family signs
    147. Manicures
    148. Meditation
    149. Metal detector
    150. Middle distance track
    151. Mini golf
    152. Model shipbuilding
    153. Motocross
    154. Mud wrestle (or jello?)
    155. Obstacle course
    156. Parachuting
    157. Paragliding
    158. Parkour
    159. Pedicures
    160. People watching
    161. Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit
    162. Plant and maintain community fruit trees (Urban Harvest)
    163. Play badminton
    164. Play volleyball
    165. Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)
    166. Pyrotechnics or fireworks
    167. Quidditch
    168. Racquetball
    169. Rappelling
    170. Rent a Tesla (self-driving car)
    171. Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard
    172. Rollerblading
    173. Roller skating
    174. Rowing
    175. Rugby
    176. Running
    177. Sand sculptures
    178. Sand surfing
    179. Sandboarding
    180. Science experiments
    181. Scuba Diving
    182. Self Tanning
    183. Shark Diving
    184. Shark tooth or fossil hunting
    185. Short distance track
    186. Shot put
    187. Skateboarding
    188. Skeet shooting
    189. Skijoring (skiing with a horse pulling you)
    190. Skydiving
    191. Sleigh riding
    192. Smoking meat
    193. Snorkeling
    194. Snowboarding
    195. Snowmobiling
    196. Soccer
    197. Speed skating
    198. Stargazing with a telescope
    199. Start a soccer mom league
    200. Start an allotment or community garden
    201. Stone skipping
    202. Stoneworking
    203. Strength training
    204. Sugar scrubs
    205. Surfing
    206. Swimming
    207. Take a discovery flight
    208. Tandem, biking
    209. Tap maple trees to make syrup
    210. Target shooting
    211. Tennis
    212. Throw axes
    213. Track cycling
    214. Train a  falcon
    215. Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman
    216. Ultimate frisbee
    217. Vaulting horses
    218. Visit a flea market or thrift store and look for items to flip on eBay
    219. Wakeboarding
    220. Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting
    221. Walking
    222. 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)
    223. Whale watching
    224. White water rafting
    225. Whittling or wood carving
    226. Windsurfing
    227. Wingsuit flying
    228. Write your family mission statement
    229. Yoga
    230. 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!

  1. Antiquing
  2. Bake and sell gourmet pet treats
  3. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own
  4. Bookbinding
  5. Build a functional igloo in the snow
  6. Build a nixie tube clock
  7. Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally
  8. Build a Tesla coil
  9. Build an experimental aircraft
  10. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects
  11. Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace
  12. Build your own smoker
  13. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture
  14. Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard
  15. Building fairy gardens
  16. Candy making
  17. Canning food
  18. Cardmaking
  19. Ceramics
  20. Chainsaw carvings
  21. Cosplay
  22. Create a charity
  23. Create a treasure hunt
  24. Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls
  25. Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes
  26. Creating a family tree
  27. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.
  28. Decoupage
  29. Design printable planner stickers
  30. Distilling
  31. Farming
  32. Fly Tying
  33. Furniture restoration
  34. 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.
  35. Glass blowing
  36. Homesteading
  37. Kitchen chemistry
  38. Knifemaking
  39. Lamp making
  40. Landscaping
  41. Learn how to DIY almost anything:  home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)
  42. Learn how to flip cars
  43. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands
  44. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)
  45. Learn how to make wine
  46. Learn paper Origami or Tatebanko or paper quilling
  47. 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)
  48. Learn to crochet
  49. Learn to knit
  50. Learn to quilt
  51. Learn to sew
  52. Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)
  53. Learning how to tattoo
  54. Make a pinhole camera and make your own darkroom to develop the images
  55. Make a terrarium
  56. Make cold brew coffee
  57. Make hard cider (super easy!)
  58. Make miniature doll furniture
  59. Make pottery
  60. Make your own boat
  61. Make your own bookmarks
  62. Make your own hot sauce
  63. Make your own signature bbq sauce
  64. Make your own tea blends
  65. Making a bird feeder
  66. Making digital photo books
  67. Making model cars
  68. Making pallet furniture
  69. Making wood family signs
  70. Metalworking
  71. Palm reading
  72. Paper mache
  73. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)
  74. 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.)
  75. Plan out a yearly menu
  76. Plant and maintain community fruit trees (Urban Harvest)
  77. Reef aquarium
  78. Refinish a piece of furniture you find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace
  79. Restore a historic car
  80. Roast your own coffee
  81. Room renovations or home designs
  82. Sand sculptures
  83. Soap making
  84. Start a journal
  85. Start an allotment or community garden
  86. Stoneworking
  87. Sushi making
  88. Tai Chi
  89. Tap maple trees to make syrup
  90. Tapestry
  91. Upholstery
  92. 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.  

  1. Beat the record on Slitherio
  2. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own
  3. Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)
  4. Enhance your survival skills
  5. Explore different religious beliefs
  6. Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA
  7. Learn how to meal plan
  8. Learn how to pick locks
  9. Learn SEO
  10. Learn to budget
  11. Learn to forage for edible food
  12. Learn to manage your home
  13. Learn to travel hack
  14. Look at free community events going on near you
  15. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube
  16. Making digital photo books
  17. Meal plan for the week
  18. Meditation
  19. Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books
  20. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)
  21. 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.)
  22. Plan out a yearly menu
  23. Produce electronic music
  24. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels
  25. Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist
  26. 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)
  27. Start a journal
  28. Write reviews online
  29. 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.

  1. 3D printing
  2. Acrobatics
  3. Airbrushing
  4. Architecture
  5. Babysitting
  6. Bake (If you’re good at it… Look into selling baked goods at a farmers market or festival, or from your home).
  7. Bake and sell gourmet pet treats
  8. Baton twirling
  9. Beatboxing
  10. Become a certified financial planner
  11. Become a handyman
  12. Become a personal trainer or fitness instructor (either on your own or through whatever your jam is…CrossFit, Yoga or Zumba)
  13. Bookbinding
  14. Book restoration
  15. Breakdancing
  16. Build an experimental aircraft
  17. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects
  18. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture
  19. Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard
  20. Buy and sell land (particularly cheap but commonly undesirable land like land for mudding) (link to nick lopers podcast)
  21. Calligraphy
  22. Candy making
  23. Ceramics
  24. Chainsaw carvings
  25. Coding
  26. Coin collecting
  27. Collecting baseball cards
  28. Collecting model trains
  29. Collecting stamps
  30. Comic book art
  31. Cooking
  32. Cosplay
  33. Create a local Uber experience like a guided tour
  34. Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls
  35. Creating unique recipes
  36. Creating videos (videography) for weddings and smaller productions (filming courses or tutorials)
  37. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet
  38. Crocheting
  39. Decoupage
  40. Design funny or niche coffee mugs
  41. Design funny or niche tee shirts
  42. Design printable planner stickers
  43. Dig for clams
  44. Dirt biking
  45. DJing
  46. Drag boat racing
  47. Draw comics or learn animation
  48. Drawing
  49. Driving people around (Lyft or Uber)
  50. Embroidery
  51. Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties
  52. Flower arrangements
  53. Furniture restoration
  54. Get chickens to sell the eggs
  55. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.
  56. Getting a dairy cow to sell the milk
  57. Go crabbing
  58. Go to local open houses and watch the real estate market.  Get into real estate or flipping houses
  59. Growing herbs or vegetables
  60. Gunsmith
  61. Gymnastics
  62. Hand lettering
  63. Helicopter skiing
  64. Homesteading
  65. 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 )
  66. Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields
  67. Ice fishing
  68. Impersonations
  69. Inventing
  70. Jam making
  71. Juggling in the street
  72. Kitchen chemistry
  73. Knifemaking
  74. Knitting
  75. Lacemaking
  76. Lamp making
  77. Learn graphic design (for example, logos)
  78. Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)
  79. Learn how to DIY almost anything:  home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)
  80. Learn how to edit videos
  81. Learn how to fix old broken computers (you can find dozens with problems for free or super cheap on Craigslist
  82. Learn how to flip cars
  83. Learn how to hack credit card rewards (not for the faint of heart!) We are gonna get sued for this!?!
  84. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)
  85. Learn how to make printables
  86. Learn how to make wine
  87. Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA
  88. Learn how to meal plan
  89. Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions
  90. Learn how to stage homes for sale
  91. Learn screen printing
  92. Learn self-defense
  93. Learn SEO
  94. 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)
  95. Learn to bake
  96. Learn to be a Life Coach
  97. Learn to budget
  98. Learn to cook
  99. Learn to manage your home
  100. Learn to perfect big barrel curls
  101. Learn to play craps
  102. Learn to sew
  103. Learn to travel hack
  104. Learning a foreign language
  105. Learning how to bartend
  106. Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)
  107. Learning how to tattoo
  108. Learning how to use and run a teleprompter (impressive money and has little competition for a part-time gig)
  109. Learning the art of storytelling
  110. Lip plumpers
  111. Ludo sport (Lightsaber combat)
  112. Macrame
  113. Make a collage
  114. Make cold brew coffee
  115. Make hard cider (super easy!)
  116. Make miniature doll furniture
  117. Make pottery
  118. Make your own beer
  119. Make your own boat
  120. Make your own hot sauce
  121. Make your own jewelry
  122. Make your own robot
  123. Make your own signature bbq sauce
  124. Making a bird feeder
  125. Making dolls
  126. Making model cars
  127. Making pallet furniture
  128. Making wood family signs
  129. Making your own clothes
  130. Manicures
  131. Master airplane combat games
  132. Metalworking
  133. Motocross
  134. Mud Wrestling
  135. Paper mache
  136. Pedicures
  137. Performing stand up comedy
  138. Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E*Trade)
  139. Playing harmonica
  140. Playing Pool
  141. Podcasting
  142. Poker
  143. Produce electronic music
  144. Programming
  145. Proofreading, formatting, and editing (books, court reports, blogs)
  146. Public speaking (get started with your local Toastmasters) goes well with a blog or YouTube channel
  147. Puppetry
  148. Rappelling
  149. Raspberry Pi projects (learn programming through fun practical projects)
  150. RC cars
  151. Reef aquarium
  152. Refinish a piece of furniture you find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace
  153. Renovate your house
  154. Restore a historic car
  155. Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)
  156. Road trips
  157. Roast your own coffee
  158. Room renovations or home designs
  159. RV across the US
  160. Sailing
  161. Scrapbooking
  162. Sculpting
  163. Self Tanning
  164. Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist
  165. Sewing
  166. Singing
  167. Smoking meat
  168. Snorkeling
  169. Soap making
  170. Stamp collecting
  171. Start a blog, YouTube channel, or podcast
  172. Start and maintain a saltwater tank
  173. Starting an Etsy or eBay store
  174. Story writing
  175. Style and decorate homes
  176. Sushi making
  177. Synchronized swimming
  178. Take surveys
  179. Tap maple trees to make syrup
  180. Tapestry
  181. Tarot reading
  182. Teaching or tutoring, either an instrument or for school, or something else you excel in
  183. Tennis
  184. Ventriloquism
  185. Visit a flea market or thrift store and look for items to flip on eBay
  186. Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting
  187. Watchmaking
  188. Watercolors
  189. Whittling or wood carving
  190. Write a children’s book or first novel
  191. Writing a book
  192. 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).

  1. Baking
  2. Become a certified financial planner
  3. Become a handyman
  4. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own
  5. Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)
  6. Blacksmithing (make your own sword)
  7. Brainstorm your hobbies
  8. Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace
  9. Camping
  10. Canning food
  11. Cardio
  12. Catch up on laundry
  13. Clean out and detail clean your car
  14. Cooking
  15. Create a home stock room
  16. Creating unique recipes
  17. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell
  18. Cross country running
  19. Declutter and organize an area of your home
  20. Dig for clams
  21. Distilling
  22. Dog training
  23. Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)
  24. Enhance your survival skills
  25. Freezer meals,  once a month meals
  26. Furniture restoration
  27. Gather food donations for a local non-profit
  28. Go crabbing
  29. Have family meetings or budget meetings
  30. Homesteading
  31. 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 )
  32. Improve your memory
  33. Interviewing older relatives about their lives
  34. Inventing
  35. 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 )
  36. Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E*Trade)
  37. Become a handyman
  38. Landscaping
  39. Learn extreme couponing
  40. Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)
  41. Learn how to DIY almost anything:  home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)
  42. Learn how to fix old broken computers (you can find dozens with problems for free or super cheap on Craigslist)
  43. Learn how to flip cars
  44. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands
  45. Learn how to meal plan
  46. Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions
  47. Learn how to pick locks
  48. Learn how to stage homes for sale
  49. Learn how to start a fire with two sticks
  50. Learn self-defense
  51. Learn spear fishing or fly fishing
  52. 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)
  53. Learn to bake
  54. Learn to be a Life Coach
  55. Learn to budget
  56. Learn to cook
  57. Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes
  58. Learn to manage your home
  59. Learn to rock climb or bouldering
  60. Learn to sew
  61. Learn to shoot
  62. Learn to travel hack
  63. Learning a foreign language
  64. Learning the art of storytelling
  65. Make hard cider (super easy!)
  66. Make your own hot sauce
  67. Make your own signature bbq sauce
  68. Make your own tea blends
  69. Master barbeque
  70. Meal plan for the week
  71. Meditation
  72. Metalworking
  73. Organize your week
  74. 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.)
  75. Plan out a yearly menu
  76. Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E*Trade)
  77. Play volleyball
  78. Renovate your house
  79. Roast your own coffee
  80. Room renovations or home designs
  81. Running
  82. Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist
  83. Sewing
  84. 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)
  85. Soap making
  86. Spin classes
  87. Sports refereeing
  88. Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)
  89. Starting an Etsy or eBay store
  90. Strength training
  91. Style and decorate homes
  92. Sushi making
  93. Swimming
  94. Take a positive discipline parenting class
  95. Teach your kids a chore they can take over
  96. Teaching or tutoring, either an instrument or for school, or something else you excel in
  97. Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman
  98. Volunteer at a local non-profit
  99. Walking
  100. Yoga
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Comments

  1. Jess @ The Exceptionally Ordinary Life says

    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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  2. Hena says

    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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  4. Joanna says

    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

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