100 Things To Do When You’re Bored

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.

1. Test out display mattresses
2. Decorate a bus stop shelter
3. Alphabetize your book, movie, or record collection
4. Buy yourself some new office supplies
5. Build a time capsule to open in five years
6. Call a friend and talk for no less than one hour
7. Start painting or drawing – it’s beneficial for your health!
8. Make a fortune teller out of paper
9. Write a list of things that you’ve done in the past year
10. Play a drinking game while watching a Disney movie
11. Plan a road trip and map out places to stop along the way
12. Research the life of a strange celebrity, like Lisa Frank
13. Stretch your muscles for thirty minutes
14. Make an online dating profile
15. Hold a meeting at an office supply store
16. Drive around until you have seen fifteen dogs on walks
17. Read a story book out loud to your pet
18. Cover one of your walls in decorative washi tape
19. Have a contest to see who can get the most things at Walmart for $5
20. Hold a bubble gun while you bike around a neighborhood
21. Make a s’more (and then some more…)
22. Run through a sprinkler
23. Make a list of everyone you’ve ever kissed
24. Play with bleach on photos for interesting effects
25. Read Katie Sokoler’s blog archives
26. Conduct eye exams on strangers
27. Figure out how many goats you’d be worth
28. Take a nap facing the “wrong” way on your bed
29. Videotape an epic montage
30. Live tweet a very old movie as you watch it on DVD
31. Write three minutes worth of stand-up comedy material
32. Count how many rings a tree stump has
33. Play True American
34. Buy a homeless person a meal
35. Memorize all the cheers from the first Bring It On movie
36. Make an objective pros and cons list of having children
37. Read all the Terms Of Service
38. Schedule a cake testing, even if you’re not getting married
39. Sneak in somewhere as part of another group
40. Learn how to juggle
41. Watch a movie with subtitles
42. Learn how to tendu in all five ballet positions
43. Make up a secret handshake
44. Pretend you’re Beyoncé for six straight hours
45. Recreate a famous movie scene
46. Read twenty entries on Urban Dictionary
47. Write your own epitaph
48. Find a bidet and use it
49. Sign up for an improv comedy class
50. Play sleepover games like Light As A Feather or Truth Or Dare
51. Put a crazy color highlight in your hair
52. Go to the highest floor of the tallest building in your city
53. Try to name all fifty US states (bonus points for capitals)
54. Eat a jar of baby food
55. Find out everything that’s open 24 hours within a ten mile radius
56. Organize your fridge or pantry by color
57. Take an extremely strange selfie
58. Make your own sushi
59. Try horsemaning with a friend
60. Dance with strangers in public places
61. Style your hair like Pippi Longstocking
62. Make jewelry out of office supplies
63. Do one of those stupid YouTube challenges
64. Donate all of your old electronics and cartridges
65. Research the history of another country in depth
66. Get a picture of yourself blown up into a cardboard photo cutout
67. Listen to all The Lonely Island songs in a row
68. Figure out how to explain the plot of Donnie Darko to someone who has never seen it
69. Jump in a fountain
70. Learn how to play the guitar
71. Get a pedicure
72. Celebrate whatever strange holiday today is
73. Get a caricature done of yourself
74. Dance on top of bubble wrap
75. Make a zine
76. Fill up a disposable camera
77. Come up with your life story in six words
78. Visit a garden
79. Make a blackout poem
80. Start a Wreck This Journal
81. Go to a museum, but just for the gift shop
82. Find out how many grapes you can hold in your mouth at once
83. Write fan fiction
84. Offer your help to someone who is overwhelmed
85. Release a balloon into the sky
86. Make a playlist of songs you only listened to in high school
87. Wear a name tag that says something other than your name
88. Send an envelope full of confetti to your best friend
89. Plan an elaborate scavenger hunt based on correctly answering riddles
90. Clean the thing in your house that you really hate cleaning
91. Have a photoshoot where you finally make overalls sexy
92. Make a friendship award for someone you love
93. See how many shirts you can wear at the same time
94. Get a slinky to go all the way down the stairs without stopping
95. Wear camouflage from head to toe and ask people if they can see you
96. Spend a day at the ocean fishing
97. Sing your heart out in the shower to “Total Eclipse Of The Heart”
98. Figure out how to fold a fitted bed sheet
99. Hang out at IKEA
100. Make a list of 100 things to do when you’re bored

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