I honestly can’t imagine someone being chronically bored in this day and age… there’s just so much to do! I know that sometimes boredom it just hits us. So in an effort to prevent boredom as much as possible, today I’m sharing a list of 100 things to do when you’re bored.
- Test out display mattresses
- Decorate a bus stop shelter
- Alphabetize your book, movie, or record collection
- Buy yourself some new office supplies
- Build a time capsule to open in five years
- Call a friend and talk for no less than one hour
- Start painting or drawing – it’s beneficial for your health!
- Make a fortune teller out of paper
- Write a list of things that you’ve done in the past year
- Play a drinking game while watching a Disney movie
- Plan a road trip and map out places to stop along the way
- Research the life of a strange celebrity, like Lisa Frank
- Stretch your muscles for thirty minutes
- Make an online dating profile
- Hold a meeting at an office supply store
- Drive around until you have seen fifteen dogs on walks
- Read a story book out loud to your pet
- Cover one of your walls in decorative washi tape
- Have a contest to see who can get the most things at Walmart for $5
- Hold a bubble gun while you bike around a neighborhood
- Make a s’more (and then some more…)
- Run through a sprinkler
- Make a list of everyone you’ve ever kissed
- Play with bleach on photos for interesting effects
- Read Katie Sokoler’s blog archives
- Conduct eye exams on strangers
- Figure out how many goats you’d be worth
- Take a nap facing the “wrong” way on your bed
- Videotape an epic montage
- Live tweet a very old movie as you watch it on DVD
- Write three minutes worth of stand-up comedy material
- Count how many rings a tree stump has
- Play True American
- Buy a homeless person a meal
- Memorize all the cheers from the first Bring It On movie
- Make an objective pros and cons list of having children
- Read all the Terms Of Service
- Schedule a cake testing, even if you’re not getting married
- Sneak in somewhere as part of another group
- Learn how to juggle
- Watch a movie with subtitles
- Learn how to tendu in all five ballet positions
- Make up a secret handshake
- Pretend you’re Beyoncé for six straight hours
- Recreate a famous movie scene
- Read twenty entries on Urban Dictionary
- Write your own epitaph
- Find a bidet and use it
- Sign up for an improv comedy class
- Play sleepover games like Light As A Feather or Truth Or Dare
- Put a crazy color highlight in your hair
- Go to the highest floor of the tallest building in your city
- Try to name all fifty US states (bonus points for capitals)
- Eat a jar of baby food
- Find out everything that’s open 24 hours within a ten mile radius
- Organize your fridge or pantry by color
- Take an extremely strange selfie
- Make your own sushi
- Try horsemaning with a friend
- Dance with strangers in public places
- Style your hair like Pippi Longstocking
- Make jewelry out of office supplies
- Do one of those stupid YouTube challenges
- Donate all of your old electronics and cartridges
- Research the history of another country in depth
- Get a picture of yourself blown up into a cardboard photo cutout
- Listen to all The Lonely Island songs in a row
- Figure out how to explain the plot of Donnie Darko to someone who has never seen it
- Jump in a fountain
- Learn how to play the guitar
- Get a pedicure
- Celebrate whatever strange holiday today is
- Get a caricature done of yourself
- Dance on top of bubble wrap
- Make a zine
- Fill up a disposable camera
- Come up with your life story in six words
- Visit a garden
- Make a blackout poem
- Start a Wreck This Journal
- Go to a museum, but just for the gift shop
- Find out how many grapes you can hold in your mouth at once
- Write fan fiction
- Offer your help to someone who is overwhelmed
- Release a balloon into the sky
- Make a playlist of songs you only listened to in high school
- Wear a name tag that says something other than your name
- Send an envelope full of confetti to your best friend
- Plan an elaborate scavenger hunt based on correctly answering riddles
- Clean the thing in your house that you really hate cleaning
- Have a photoshoot where you finally make overalls sexy
- Make a friendship award for someone you love
- See how many shirts you can wear at the same time
- Get a slinky to go all the way down the stairs without stopping
- Wear camouflage from head to toe and ask people if they can see you
- Spend a day at the ocean fishing
- Sing your heart out in the shower to “Total Eclipse Of The Heart”
- Figure out how to fold a fitted bed sheet
- Hang out at IKEA
- Make a list of 100 things to do when you’re bored
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200 Things To Do When You’re Bored
It’s like you’re inside my brain.
Overalls AREN’T sexy? **moans in despair**
What have I been doing with my life?
Well, Cara, you’re not going to have to try very hard to make them sexy.
Awesome list Mary! I loved your Creative list too. I’ve been making a 100 Ideas list for the past few weeks but it won’t be finished for some time. Ideas are hard sometime.
Bookmarked this page! Thanks for all of the ideas!
What a great, fun, funny list!!!
Thanks my wife and I love stuffs to do. We also love posing the stuffs we do to our blog. http://www.breathingforher.com 🙂
Oh how wonderful! I’m so glad to hear it. Let me know if you try any of them!
I love the way you write throughout 100 Things To Do
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I loved those ideas!they were very nice.Especially the 100 one
Thanks Desire!
This should be renamed 100 things to do if you’re bored and completely and totally lame.
Lol very cool ideas. I tried all of them, they were pretty fun to do, but since I’ve tried a All them I don’t know what to do anymore lol. But thanks for the ideas!!!!
You’re very welcome!
hey ive tried all these and looked on other sites and there is nothing left to do anymore u have such amazing ideas when it comes to boredom. thanx so much for ur fabulous ideas it has made my life more exciting
I saw a quiz to see how many goats are you worth. You can take this series of questions to measure your value in goats.
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