Print out this list, cut it into narrow strips with one item each, and put them in a box or jar. When you're bored at home, just pull out any note at random and go according to plan.
1. Dance. To your favorite music, of course!
2. Test a new game. For example, or.
8. Discover new music. You can search for it all the way. Try it and you will realize how many great compositions you haven’t heard yet!
9. Rhyme everything you see around, even if it’s “cat - cattle.” You might end up with a poem! It's also a great workout for the brain.
10. Compose and beautifully design a crossword puzzle.
11. Explore a site you like and get ideas from there. Dig deep!
12. Start your own blog or.
13. Get lost in Pinterest. What to wear with your new pencil skirt, how to spend your child’s first birthday - millions of ideas await you for every taste!
14. Create your own personal page on Pinterest, saving ideas that interest you on it.
15. Take a bubble bath, adding a couple of drops of your favorite one.
16. Set up a spa at home: with masks and a hand bath and a heel brush.
17. Prepare and leisurely, savoring every sip, drink cocoa or perfect.
18. Give yourself a massage.
22. Start painting a picture by numbers.
26. Take a nap.
27. Sit in front of the window with a cup of coffee and watch passers-by, leaves and clouds. Feel yourself.
28. Spend the whole day on the couch and not worry about it one bit.
29. Understand the instructions for household appliances and finally figure out how to make a double latte in a cool new coffee maker.
30. Prepare something interesting according to some recipe. Or master it, which takes no more than 5 minutes. Or finally cook the best borscht of your life.
42. Make a list of goals for the next month, six months, year.
43. Update and expand your resume using , which can double your salary.
44. Update your profile on the website. If you are registered there, of course.
45. Give a facial massage.
46. Explore Wikipedia. Fall down the “rabbit hole” for a while: follow the links inside the article that interests you, expanding your knowledge of the issue more and more.
50. Shine the bathroom.
52. Make a list of the pros and cons of a task that you think about a lot. Should I have children? Should I buy a car? Going on vacation abroad or within the country?
64. Play with friends or children.
65. Teach your friends card tricks or surprise them with simple tricks based on the laws of physics.
66. Compete: who can make the farthest flight? You can use anything for aircraft construction: from office paper to old magazines and newspapers.
67. Together with someone, start assembling a huge puzzle of thousands of pieces.
69. Tell fortunes. For example, take the thickest book and invite your friends to name the page and line number, and then read the prediction together. Or do it.
70. Take plenty of photos with friends.
71. Blow soap bubbles.
72. Make your pet a new bed, toy or scratching post. Lifehacker instructions are already available.
73. Together with your children, write a letter to your family in the future. Hide it in a time capsule and promise to open it and read it in a year.
74. Make a clear joint plan with your children on how you will spend the summer holidays or. Select films on the websites of the nearest cinemas, book a ticket, make a route...
75. Cuddle the kids, have pillow fights (this is nice, and children will cherish such memories for a long time).
76. Finally go in for sports. Have you been dreaming of tightening up for a long time?
77. Together with the children, build a cardboard castle from old boxes and color it. If you put several boxes together, cutting doors into them, you will get a multi-room house!
78. Organize a dress-up show with the children (at the same time, go through the closet in the nursery).
79. Together, draw a general picture on a huge sheet or glued album sheets.
80. Take paints and a sheet of whatman paper and leave your palm prints on it. Date it and store it carefully.
Can Feng Shui, toothpaste and soap suds cause the release of endorphins - the hormones of joy? Surprisingly, yes. How can a seemingly well-worn Taoist practice, an ordinary hygiene product and a simple foaming mixture relieve boredom? You can find the answer to this question in seven tips. And the best way to find out their effectiveness is to check all seven recommendations in practice. So, what to do at home when you're bored and your endorphins are low?
1. Get creative with cleaning.
Cleaning rooms - what, at first glance, could be more boring? What if you look at this activity from a different angle and diversify it? To combine useful cleaning with pleasant leisure time, you can perform a number of sequential actions:
- Turn on your favorite, but always dynamic music in headphones, or even better - in speakers, so that the melodies can be heard in all rooms. It is moderately audible, because all that is needed is order and joy, and not the arrival of a police squad.
- Catch the rhythm and, while dancing, prepare cleaning supplies.
- Find any motivational things - sweets, a gadget with a game, money for pizza, toilet paper (in a certain situation, its absence will motivate you to work more than other items).
- Place the selected “exhibits” in the places where the cleaning will be carried out - they will be a reward for the cleaned area.
- And forward - to cleanliness and a cheerful mood.
What does this approach provide? Firstly, energetic music and dancing make the body “come to life” as endorphins are produced. Secondly, the usual cleaning, sanding, scraping and other tedious actions suddenly turn into an interesting quest. Thirdly, thankless work is finally transformed into “grateful” work - incentive prizes restore good spirits. As a result, the apartments are clean, pride in one’s accomplishments rejoices, boredom disappears along with the dust.
Two more additional arguments in favor of this method. First: clutter, dirt, poor air circulation in the room evoke melancholy just by looking at it. Besides, it is harmful to health. Add the terms and get depression. Second: the described approach can be applied in any situation when doing some work is simply boring.
2. Create decorative crafts for your home.
From useful to beautiful. There can never be too much aesthetics and comfort in a home, so making a couple of things with your own hands never hurts. Do you need to run to the shops, waste time and money looking for unknown things? Not at all necessary. Fortunately, hundreds of online ideas help you create beauty from available materials - paper, fabrics, stones, matches, old unnecessary things. All of these can be turned into homemade works of art, such as:
- rugs, tablecloths, covers for chairs, armchairs, sofas;
- panels, vertical wall crafts, mosaics;
- original flower pots, stands for writing instruments;
- unusual lamps, floor lamps for lamps;
- frames for photographs, paintings, mirrors;
- decorative pillows and cushions;
- drawings on tabletops, walls, doors, created using stencils.
You can make a collage of photos on the wall, a dream catcher, a night light from a garland, or a painting from painted sand in an old aquarium. The result is limited only by imagination and the desire to act. By creating something beautiful with his own hands, a person puts his soul into it and charges it with his energy. It is not surprising that such things become amulets designed to protect the house and its inhabitants from everything bad. And a creation of beauty leaves a good piece of positivity in the soul, which is reflected in the mood.
3. Rearrange the furniture according to the diagram.
The layout of furniture and decor in the rooms can be drawn up based on the rules of a particular style, practical and individual needs, or your own taste.
There is another 4 option - Feng Shui. According to this technique, there is vital energy Qi in the world. Simple objects can interrupt its flows and disrupt their circulation. This has a bad effect on a person's life. In order to prevent the emergence and development of problems, Chinese practice recommends arranging furniture in the apartment according to certain rules. The following principles are considered common to all rooms:
- You can’t have too much furniture in the house with non-functional corners; it’s better to choose rounded edges;
- a chaotic accumulation of different objects in one place has a detrimental effect on mood, health and luck;
- space, good natural lighting are the key to well-being, but it is better to avoid long passages by creating partitions for them;
- dilapidated, damaged interior items belong in a landfill, but not in the home of a happy person;
- clocks and wind chimes are hung away from doorways;
- mirrors are not placed opposite beds and doors, but it would be nice to hang beautiful paintings here;
- objects of different elements are not placed together. For example, the stove (fire) is installed away from the refrigerator (ice);
- those who are looking for a partner can arrange objects in pairs (the rule does not apply to flowers).
Isn't Feng Shui a great excuse to rearrange and update your furniture? This technique has a lot of laws, so it will take a long time to change things around. And this is a kind of sport that stimulates the production of good hormones and eliminates boredom.
If everything in the premises has long been “according to Feng Shui”... Well, who’s stopping you from inventing your own teaching and settling down according to its principles?
4. Creatively spoil the windows.
Didn't your parents pass on the painting gene? Are Raphael, Picasso, Michelangelo and Donatello only associated with the names of sewer turtles? Not a problem, because anyone can paint windows. Or almost everyone. As a last resort: “I’m an artist—that’s how I see it.”
If there is a complete disaster with fine art, cardboard or paper stencils will come to the rescue. You can draw them yourself or print them out and then cut them out. Another way to beautifully decorate glass is with tape. By gluing individual areas and painting over the gaps, you can get perfectly smooth geometric lines.
Problems like “no paints, nothing to paint with” are excuses. Do you have any toothpaste? Great because it leaves a noticeable mark on the windows but washes off easily. If you don’t have any brushes lying around in a dark corner, then old brushes, toothbrushes, pom-poms from a hat, or a cloth wrapped around your finger will do instead. Creativity still fails? Cleaning the glass and trying again is not such an impossible task. Or “I am an artist - this is how I see it” will save you again.
5. Make your purchase online.
Anyone who doesn’t like shopping has never bought anything in online stores. Or I bought it, but on a not-so-lucky day, when for some reason the purchase I received didn’t look very similar to its photo. However, choosing a good, reliable online platform solves the problem. You can order food products and dishes, hygiene, household and cosmetic products, gifts, hobby items, interior items - anything. In this case:
- you don’t have to go anywhere, everything is done behind the monitor, and the courier delivers the goods to your home;
- you can view all products, compare the characteristics of different items and choose the best option;
- in some cases, it is possible to pay for purchases upon receipt or immediately by card without the need to withdraw cash;
- often the price is lower than in real branches.
There are many advantages: you can flirt with consultants, and searching for things and looking at them will relieve boredom.
6. Write a heroic story with a twist.
Creating artistic essays can be boring, difficult and uninteresting. This attitude continues until one condition appears - you need to write about yourself and in a heroic style. There is no need to write an entire autobiography or waste time remembering anything funny from life. It is enough to describe the most ordinary day or a recent mini-event, but add a drop of pathos, a bit of humor and a handful of lofty words. A pen and paper, a monitor and a keyboard for the writer! You can do everything in the following sequence:
- Come up with a worthy name - add a Latin ending, title or rank.
- Choose an incident, moment, situation to describe.
- Make a rough outline of the story.
- Take inspiration by the gills and rush into prosaic (or perhaps poetic or dramatic) battle.
Here is an approximate short example of such verbal art:
“A difficult battle was looming, and the young 54-year-old Amazon Nattalia Dokhozyaiskaya was rubbing her hands in anticipation. A towel. The time has come to fight the main enemy - Posudius the Unwashed. Fortunately, the girl had allies - Vodeiro Protochny and Mochalkius Rough.
But the fight still promised to be unequal. Then Nattalia decided to turn to the gods for help. And they heard. The brave Fairy Glycerin took the side of the Amazon...”
Another tip: It's a good idea to laugh at yourself kindly in these stories. Healthy humor is the key to a cheerful mood.
7. Transform your bath into another world.
The easiest way to do this is to create the right atmosphere. You can run a bath, whip up some foam, place scented candles and turn on relaxing music. A good solution would be to add sea salt. It promotes the production of serotonin and melatonin in the body, which suppress boredom and depression.
If relaxation has the opposite effect, making you feel even more bored, you can fool around a little:
- paint your face with toothpaste in the form of war paint;
- blowing soap bubbles or paper boats;
- create patterns on the foam or “build up” a snow-white mohawk, mustache, beard;
- play alchemist, mixing liquids from different bottles - shampoos, gels, liquid soap, conditioners.
Perhaps most of the options seem a little childish. But it’s from kids that you can learn the ability to find something interesting in every object. In any case, following these tips really produces happiness hormones and effectively solves the question of what to do at home when you're bored.
All the important tasks for the day have been completed, and now you don’t know what to do with yourself, aimlessly looking at the TV screen, or sitting at the computer? What could be more boring than such a passive pastime?
After all, a person is truly happy only when he actively spends his time making all his dreams come true. And even if you are bored, this is not a reason to waste your time on various nonsense, which still will not bring satisfaction.
In the article we provide many options for solving the problem of what to do if you are bored at home, on the street, at school, on the bus or at a party. Let's talk about these methods in more detail.
Live in such a way that your friends will be bored when you die.
Gaius Julius Caesar
What to do if you're bored
Sometimes there are moments in life when it becomes unbearably boring, which makes you want to howl at the moon. This state causes a patterned course of things in life, a habitual way of existence, which is quite boring.But if you stop and look around, you will notice that life itself is throwing a lifeline. It's time to look at some things that bored people need to start doing.
There comes a time when boredom appears even from your favorite job, and you feel sad at home. Even at a fun party with friends, you feel nothing but boredom.
A series of identical days, like film frames, one follows another. And there is no longer any strength, no desire and, it seems, there is no possibility to change anything. There are fewer interesting, original, and extraordinary things in life. Gradually, the taste for life is lost and such a feeling as surprise, which used to accompany in any undertaking, is forgotten.
Work does not bring satisfaction, entertainment becomes a rare event. If this state becomes stable and even habitual, then you need to start changing everything.
There are many simple tricks that will help make life brighter and more colorful. And everything is simpler than it seems at first glance.It’s enough just to do familiar things differently than always.
Morning, traffic jams, crowded public transport. These are familiar pictures that everyone who goes to work sees. And as soon as you replace a trip on public transport with a leisurely walk to work through the park, an ordinary morning will become extraordinary.You need to give up watching TV for at least one weekend and go for a walk in an unfamiliar place. Extroverts are advised to be alone with themselves and reflect.
They are the ones who make our lives unpredictable and exciting. You can put away your cookbook, forget about your favorite recipes and make something completely new. An ordinary home dinner can be turned into a celebration by setting the table in a festive way: with original dishes, candles, expensive wine. While a person is alive, he can change everything: from the style of clothing, hairstyle, to boring work. You shouldn’t look back at someone, at someone’s opinion. Look. You need to behave and live the way you want, and not as others or fashion dictate. Restraint, the ability to control negative emotions and impulses are wonderful qualities of a strong person. They will be useful in business, work, and when communicating with superiors. But you definitely need to set aside at least an hour to let yourself go. At this moment, you can do whatever you want without hiding your emotions. You don’t have to take incredible poses to achieve enlightenment. You should find your position in which it will be convenient and comfortable, put on the sounds of nature and just relax. It is very difficult and extremely important to remain yourself, to play less roles imposed by society. It is very useful to learn to guess invented stereotypes in order to discard them in time and enjoy yourself, your originality, uniqueness. In addition to the fact that under any circumstances you need to remain yourself, you need to be able to feel yourself in different places, under different circumstances. You should learn to feel yourself and the world around you at the same time on the same plane and understand that the personality is a part of the world, and the world will always be a part of the personality. It is extremely important to understand for yourself that there will be no other life, there is only one person. Therefore, you should start loving yourself as you are, without adding various shortcomings to yourself.Tip #9: Imagine it’s your last day on Earth
No one can know what will happen in the next second, and perhaps this day will be the last on Earth. You need to live to the fullest, breathe deeply, and not put off life until later, because there may not be a later life at all.Tip No. 10. Self-expression is the path to self-knowledge
To understand your limitless possibilities, you need to work creatively. Boredom and melancholy will pass when what was planned turns out. And this causes moral satisfaction not only with oneself, but also with life. Of course, truly, without expecting anything in return. A person inevitably loses the ability to enjoy even the smallest achievements and victories over the years. It is necessary to learn to rejoice even in defeats, since they represent life lessons that make it possible to act differently in a similar situation and ultimately win. Constantly going over failures and negative moments in your memory, you lose precious minutes when you can be happy. Perhaps only children are capable of constantly being sincerely surprised by the world around them. It’s worth learning this skill from them. You need to find a minute to stop, stop your thoughts and enjoy the beauty of nature, to be amazed at how beautiful the world around you is.Things to do in your free time
Time is a flexible and phenomenal concept. In the process of complex and urgent work, an acute shortage of it is felt.Many people say that twenty-four hours in a day is not enough for them. But once you become the owner of free time, it begins to go as slowly as possible.
If someone had to wait for someone, then time moves at a very low speed and this waiting becomes tiresome. These are windows that seem to have nothing to fill.
It is important to learn to value time, whether it is as busy as possible during work or free time when there is nothing to do. For example, what to do if there are still 2 hours before the meeting, but there is no point in going back home? What can you do with your unexpected free time?
1. Go for a walk
It's not often that you get to go for a walk. As a rule, people mostly walk according to the “work - home” principle, which is the route from point A to point B. There is no time left for walking.As soon as you have free time, you should pay attention to a pleasant walk to the nearest park, where there is clean air, tree crowns, a small pond, ducks or swans swimming in it. In any case, walks are useful; they also distract you from your daily routine and make you think about relaxation and something pleasant.
2. Sit in a cozy cafe
If people who have never sat in a cafe or gone to the cinema all alone. But in vain, because there is some charm in this. Such gatherings in a cafe can serve as a good break from work and the fast pace of life.You can order a delicious drink that you have never tried, enjoy the atmosphere of the restaurant (they can surprise you now). Moreover, if a person has to wait for someone, it is better to do this in a cafe than to stand and freeze on the street in cold weather.
3. Watch the sky, birds, people. The sight of nature, for example, is always calming. But people rarely look at the sky. Watching is a fascinating activity. In this case, it is best to go to a place where there is nature.
In the flow of life, we rarely stop, because work requires active movement. Sometimes there is simply not enough time to stop and look around.
4. Call loved ones
Communication always has a beneficial effect on mood. Often after work there is no physical strength to communicate with someone, and such “pauses” allow you to fill in the gaps.Despite the fact that technologies are developing, they are not able to connect people who are far from each other. In our free time, we can remember people close to us and communicate with them.
5. Dream
They say that for a dream to come true, you need to visualize it. The task is not easy, because imagination is a vague thing. It takes time to get a clear picture. You need to think about good things more often.You can also figure out what steps you need to take to achieve your goal. This takes time. As soon as you have a free minute, you can sit down, calm down and close your eyes to remember and understand whether life is moving in the right direction and what can be changed to be closer to your dream.
6. Meditate
After all, thinking too much is harmful. The human brain needs rest. If you focus only on your breathing, you can temporarily let go of all thoughts. This way you can combine business with pleasure.Such moments of rest are very popular in eastern countries, where even falling asleep at work for a few minutes is not shameful. If a person feels tense and tired, it is necessary to give free rein to his body, give it the opportunity to relax and be filled with strength again.
7. Read a book
Works of art have a deep meaning and a calming effect. Books help you find the answer to almost any question. Therefore, it is worth reading books at least a few lines a day to improve your thinking and understand your problems.Free time is wealth in modern times; it’s worth learning how to spend it to your advantage.
Find something to do when you're home alone
94% of people, bored at home, turn on their favorite movie and watch it 5-6 times, hoping to somehow entertain themselves. A modern bored person spends all his free time on VKontakte or another social network.You can play Minecraft or Sims3. But this is not a way out, because there are much more interesting and fun things to do. And save these popular games for the time when you are sitting in line at the hospital or you are bored at work.
- The first thing you need to do is say goodbye to your phone.
Yes, yes, turn off this boring gadget that will distract you from happy idleness. Ready? Now the fun can begin.
- The second thing you should do is take a piece of paper and write a list of things that you would like to do around the house.
If your life is boring and monotonous, then you shouldn’t burden yourself even more with routine housework. It would be much better to spend this time fun and carefree. And boring housework will not escape you. Here are some of our tips:
- Take everything out of your closet.
Surely there are a lot of things lying around that you haven’t even taken out from the shelf for a long time. Now start trying on everything, modeling a new look with an unusual combination of individual elements of clothing.To make it even more fun, make it bright and post it on your VK page. Then your friends will join in the fun by commenting on your photos. Believe me, your bored friends will also enjoy your activity, and after the fittings you can have fun together on the Internet discussing.
- Make fun of your pet.
Is your cute cat basking on the windowsill? It's time to take it out, paint your nails with polish and do a fun hairstyle. Or you can put on your yapping dog your old top or a child’s dress that your daughter has already outgrown. - Read articles on educational sites.
A teenager can find a lot of interesting things on the computer. There are interesting sites on personality development. Believe me, their content is not as boring as the title. And if you are, for example, 12 years old, you can learn a lot of useful things from them, from communicating with your peers to fashionable new items in clothes or hairstyles. - Don't spend a lot of time playing computer games.
There is no need to sit aimlessly in Skyrim or build a new house in The Sims. Maybe this will bring some kind of moral satisfaction (after all, for today’s youth, making a career in GTA, for example, is more important than anything else), but the effect will be short-term and you will become bored playing them again. And in this way, expand your knowledge, and opportunities will open up for activities throughout the day. And you won’t die of boredom for a long time.
Faust
I'm bored, demon.
Mephistopheles
What should I do, Faust?
This is your limit
Nobody violates it.
All intelligent creatures are bored:
Some from laziness, some from deeds;
Who believes, who has lost faith;
He didn't have time to enjoy it
He enjoyed it in moderation,
And everyone yawns and lives -
And the coffin, yawning, awaits all of you.
Yawn too.
Faust
Dry joke!
Find me a way to unwind somehow!
A.S. Pushkin. Faust. seashore
The family is bored at home
What can you do at home when everyone is bored? What does it take to relieve boredom? It’s completely simple here. After all, company is the main thing you need for fun.There are plenty of similar options for what to do if you’re bored at home! Two household members will always have something to do when there is nothing to do, when they are bored at the computer and a lot of fantasies are swarming in their heads.
How to cheer yourself up while doing boring things?
Need to do a lot of daily tasks? But I don’t want to be so bored. Even thoughts about upcoming things make me sad.
Cleaning the apartment, a mountain of unwashed dishes, shopping. The thought comes that there is no escape from everyday chores, and whether you want to or not, you will have to do them.
Thinking about when this will end, a person begins to carry out the routine, while perhaps feeling tired and empty.
But you can approach your daily routine differently. Read and remember:
1. Why be discouraged when you can sing and dance!
While performing a routine, such as washing dishes, you can sing. You need to imagine that the goal is not washing dishes, with accompanying singing. And, on the contrary, singing your favorite songs, and, at the same time, washing the dishes. You can get so carried away by singing that you don’t notice that all the dishes have already been washed. All that remains is surprise: “Was it a mountain of dishes? And it seemed like there was so much of it.”2. Did something difficult or unpleasant happen? It's time to please yourself!
There are things that you don't want to do. Sometimes the amount of work or the unpleasant sensations associated with completing a task are frightening.Do you need to write another report of the same type? Or cleaning the house again when, it would seem, the cleaning was only recently done? There is no need to think that it will be boring and monotonous, and that such things are not inspiring. You can try to negotiate with yourself about a subsequent reward for the task completed.
You can make a list of your small wishes. For example, going to a cafe, wanting to eat pizza, watching a movie. Once you’ve done the job, it’s time to perform a pleasant action from the list.
3. Have a competition with yourself
In order to complete an unpleasant task faster, you can set a timer for 10 or 15 minutes, and try to complete the task during this time. Then your thoughts will not be about what routine task you have to do, but about how you will meet the specified time.4. Share responsibilities with your family
If you do routine work day after day with the thought that no one else needs it, then fatigue cannot be avoided. And if you distribute household chores among all family members, then there will be fewer unpleasant emotions, because there will be less fatigue.5. Divide a large task into small subtasks
It happens that the amount of work is intimidating. It seems difficult to accomplish. But if you do it a little at a time, the task won’t seem so overwhelming. For example, the report has 12 pages. You can write one page at a time, and then briefly distract yourself with something pleasant.6. If work seems routine, then you can come up with an emotional ritual.
There is a job that involves constant varied activities and communication with people. It's hard to get bored with a job like this. But there is work that involves repeating the same actions every day. Monotony can make you sad.In order to add emotions, you can come up with such a ritual. Before work, if your schedule allows, you can perform some emotional action. For example, watch an interesting film, or do something unusual, that is, new. Then the emotions from the action performed can drive away the melancholy of routine work.
7. You need to be outdoors more often
Doing routine tasks can be tiring. Walking in the fresh air will help you relax and recharge your batteries.8. Audiobooks
It happens that there is no time to listen to them. But, at the same time, you need to do things that make you sad. This way you can combine business with pleasure. For example, you can tidy up or iron clothes and listen to an audiobook.Boring is a subjective feeling. If you look at daily routine tasks differently, then perhaps there will be no trace of boredom left.
What to do outside when you're bored
We've figured out what to do if you're bored at home. But what to do with yourself if you are bored on the street, bored at work, in class, in the car or in the hospital? Hey Google, I need your help with entertainment!- On a bus or in a hospital in line to see a specialist, you can use a smartphone connected to the Internet to search for new information. If you haven’t visited the VKontakte page for a long time, you can visit there too.
- In the car you can listen to your favorite music and even sing along with the performer.
If you're just walking, what can you do outside?
Now, if I’m wandering under falling snowflakes in winter, I’m bored and lonely, I want something unusual, what will I do? That's right, I'll go build a snowman! Why not? This task is quite feasible even for one person. And remember yourself at 9-10 years old... Surely, you enjoyed this activity as a child.- In the summer, you can walk through the park, pick flowers and weave them into a beautiful wreath.
- Or buy a glass of sunflower seeds from your grandmother and just sit on a bench, not thinking about anything at all.
- You can go to the beach with a guy, a girl or friends and watch the sunset.
- At the dacha, if you’re bored, invite your friends over and barbecue with a friendly and noisy group!
Additionally: what else can you do outside if you’re bored?
Boredom is an unpleasant, monotonous, addictive state, like a quagmire. We get bored when we are busy with monotonous work, have no one to talk to, are languishing in line or are devastated. But then you decide to take your blues into a fist and go out for a walk, alone or in company. The question immediately arises, what to do on the street when you’re bored?The essence of the phenomenon
Boredom in its advanced form is similar to: we are doing things that are not at all what we want, we are moping, expecting a bright future when we will be fun and interesting. While in this state, a person becomes distracted and dissatisfied, relationships and quality of life deteriorate, and everything goes in circles.This condition can and should be fought. First, you need to decide what to do on the street alone.
In splendid isolation
Realize that your happiness depends on yourself, peace and joy come from your soul. No one will make you bored if you don't want to.Bring your camera for a walk. Photo– an excellent exercise that will help you see the beauty of the world, develop taste and creative imagination. Observe nature, people, animals. You will be surprised how many interesting things are happening around if you look.
An alternative to photography would be notepad and pen(or pencil). Find a secluded place, preferably in a park with a lot of plants. Draw, write down thoughts, write a poem. Take the flute and wander somewhere along the alley. You won’t notice how the time spent on your own creativity and thoughts flies by. You won’t have a question about what to do alone on the street when you’re bored.
Spending time contemplatively can help combat the anxiety and irritability that comes with boredom.
"Killing" time in transport
Time spent on the road, thanks to the waiting, shaking and monotony, also causes discomfort. What to do on the bus if you're bored? There are simple options:- read or listen to an audiobook;
- watch a movie on your smartphone;
- solve a crossword puzzle;
- look at the landscapes behind the glass;
- get to know your neighbors;
- eat an apple.
Society is a panacea for boredom
It is easier to overcome boredom if you are walking alone, with your lover or with a friend.What to do on the street with a friend if you are bored? It's a pleasure to communicate with such a person. Start planning, discuss gift ideas for your family for the upcoming holidays, play Words, feed the pigeons or a stray cat.
What to do outside when it’s boring in the summer with friends and you need to entertain a whole group? Strive for nature. For example, pick chestnuts in the fall, buy a slingshot or make one yourself from an elastic band and a branch, go to the river.
Feel like ancient warriors or athletes at the Olympics, organize competitions on the distance of throwing chestnuts, film a video review of the quality of various types of weapons and projectiles. Be careful.
Take the whole group to the local equestrian club. Communication with animals relieves stress and calms you down. Don't know how to stay in the saddle? A reason to learn.
What to do when you're bored?
There come moments when you want to climb the wall out of boredom. Isn't that right? This happened to everyone without exception. For some people, this is only beneficial and, in search of an activity that could reduce their time, they find a new interesting hobby or hobby.
But, there are lazy people who prefer to “survive” long hours lying on the couch.
Here are ten tips that will save you from apathy and boredom:
- Pay attention to your home, maybe it needs some deep cleaning? There are always household chores that will take away the boring moments. Thus, you can wash the dishes or do laundry, nail a shelf or fix a faucet. If all this has been done before, arrange a global rearrangement in your house or apartment.
- If you have nothing to do, take care of yourself. Most likely, you previously had a desire to learn something new, but due to lack of time, self-education was postponed until later. It is “this” time that should be spent on learning a foreign language, pumping up the abs or training your memory.
- A great idea is going to the movies. Check out what's currently showing in theaters and head there immediately. By making a “knight’s move” you will have a great time.
- Gather your friends and go to the countryside, where you can enjoy beautiful scenery, chat and, most importantly, relax your soul.
- Improve your health. Put on your sneakers, grab your music player and go for a run in a city park.
- Do you like to cook? Prepare your favorite dish, or better yet, “think” about something new. After preparing the dish, call your friends and show off your culinary masterpiece.
- Shopping is for most people a pleasant pastime and a chance to update their wardrobe
- Life is not an endless film of moments, sooner or later it ends, enjoy it! To have fun, all you need to do is go to a club and dance well and listen to quality music.
- In the evening, it won’t hurt to read a book that you’ve been eyeing for a long time. If you are a movie fan, then watch a movie of your favorite genre.
- How long has it been since you talked to your family? This implies a conversation on serious life topics, and not a dialogue lasting several minutes. Make yourself and your interlocutor (mom, dad, brother or sister, grandmother, grandfather) tea. Have what is called a “heart-to-heart” talk.
List of healthy and productive ways to spend your free time
Most people have enough free time. They can use this time as they please. This could be watching TV, reading a book, sleeping, etc.
Using your free time effectively can have a huge impact on your lifestyle. But do not confuse the effective use of free time with planning this time. Planning forces you into a certain framework, when you have to do everything in the allotted time, without experiencing any pleasure.
Effective use of free time directly affects your mind and health. Of course, it all depends on the person, some people like to watch TV and think that the brain is being supplied with useful information or is resting, while others would rather go for a walk or talk with family.
Thanks to research, it has been found that approximately 95% of people spend their free time on entertainment, while the remaining 5% of people spend this time learning something new.
1. Exercise
Instead of sitting at home and doing nothing, you can spend at least 1 hour doing various exercises. Choose the exercises you enjoy most and do them every day. Physical exercise will help you lose weight, strengthen muscles and keep your body in constant tone.2. Reading books
If you love reading books, then this is definitely the best way to effectively use your free time. It can be fantasy or non-fiction, romance books or detective stories, the main thing is to constantly change the genres, this will help improve your concentration and increase your knowledge in certain areas.For those people who haven’t really read anything after school, reading may take a long time, since at first they will not have enough concentration. If at first it’s hard for you, then devote about forty minutes to a book you like every day, and over time you will be able to improve your perseverance and concentration.
Anyone who reads books is never bored.
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3. Walking
If you find it difficult to do physical exercise, you can replace it with walking. Walking helps you lose weight, strengthen your leg and abdominal muscles, and will keep your body in constant tone.4. Games
While some people are watching TV, why not play some logic games on your computer. Such games allow you to learn something new and keep your brain in good shape. From a health perspective, gaming is much better than watching TV.5. Reflections
Every day you need to relax through meditation. Meditation helps improve concentration, mood and relieve nervous disorders. Meditation is highly recommended if a person suffers from depression and stress.6. Learning new things
Try to learn something new every time the opportunity arises. Scientists have found that learning new skills helps the brain grow. Constantly learning new skills helps you develop in other areas, thereby increasing your potential. For example, learning a new hobby can help relieve stress and make you more creative.7. Self-care
There are various ways in life that you can do small things faster and smarter that can have a significant impact on your quality of life.The best way to spend your free time productively is to take care of yourself, namely personal hygiene. This could be taking care of your skin, nails, teeth, hair, etc. Only when you look good can you start feeling great.
8. Create a personal blog
There are countless people around the world who spend all their free time blogging. You can also start exchanging opinions and experiences through a blog. Your blog can be on any topic that interests you.9. Spend time with friends
In today's busy schedule, it is almost impossible to find some time to spend with friends and family. But communicating with friends will help clear your heart and mind of negative emotions.10. Working with a flexible schedule
You can take a new part-time job. There are many jobs where you can work on a flexible schedule.Boring day? Then go ahead to defeat boredom!
Each person has their own ways to overcome boredom: for men - spending time in the company of friends, for women - gatherings with friends at home or in a cafe. However, people are designed in such a way that over time everything becomes boring and ceases to bring pleasure.Is this a reason to give in to the boring flow of life? No! This is a reason to think and make pleasant and unexpected changes in your personal life!
- Boredom- this is an unpleasant thing and can be expressed differently for everyone. Some people stop doing anything altogether, give up and gradually become infected with indifference to everything, others try to replace boredom with vigorous activity that does not bring pleasure and gradually causes disgust for everything.
- Chronic boredom- this is not something that you can give up on, they say, it’s nonsense - no, this is a serious symptom indicating the approach of depression, which is already quite serious and can lead to rash actions that negatively affect the future: marrying an unloved person, spontaneous expensive purchases or leaving work, loss of family.
- Positive changes- this is what can change your life for the better! There is no need to wait until boredom begins to make itself felt. It is necessary to take this area of your emotions into your own hands and turn on your imagination at full capacity, a powerful engine of a personal attitude toward positivity that can overcome the boring everyday life of a drab existence.
“Proven” methods that have become so tired: watching TV with beer, solving puzzles have long been ineffective.
Reading books? Cooking new recipes? Sitting behind embroidery? - It doesn't work.
Look around! Is our entire world concentrated in four camps or in the home-work-home route? The diversity of the world around us is a weapon against boredom!
The chessboard on which outstanding minds fight is limited to eight squares on each side, but the number of variations in the arrangement of pieces on it approaches several billion and this has been proven mathematically! How infinitely more diverse is what you see around you in this world!
Of course, it’s not easy to immediately solve the problem of boredom and come up with activities for your mind and hands. But this is not a reason to despair! Even remembering and telling a funny joke is difficult right away.
But here's the simplest thing to start with:
- make small changes to your environment. Simple steps: rearrange the flowerpot or place a new one. Do you want to plant flowers? - Plant a tree!
- create a completely new and unusual modern creation of all the trinkets you've found! If you put your soul into it when creating it, then this work will definitely become modern art!
For example, you can take matches, candle wax and a lighter. Just imagine the variety of crafts and flights of fancy when using ordinary matches held together with wax!
- try to be simpler. Simplicity is much deeper and more varied than it seems. Enjoying the singing of birds, the beauty of foliage and a variety of flowers, listening to children's laughter - isn't it wonderful? And very simple!
Bottom line
I hope you got the answer to your question, what to do when you are bored in your apartment, at home with your family, at school or on the street. You just have to use your imagination and you will find many options for spending your time.By following at least one piece of advice from this article, you can feel how life begins to change, how gradually melancholy is replaced by joy, and boredom is incomprehensibly transformed into surprise and admiration for oneself, loved ones and the world around us.
And, whatever you decide to do on the street or at home, alone or in company - let your activity make you happy, allow you to create and communicate. Boredom is a disease of modern society, but you can overcome it.
Tell us what ways do you use to entertain yourself when you are very bored? Share with us in the comments, we will be very interested to know them!
Hello everyone from Artem Bukanov and Sasha Bogdanova.
Today we asked ourselves: in fact, every single person is bored, and this doesn’t happen just once or twice in a lifetime. And absolutely everyone at this moment asks the question: what can you do at home when you’re bored?
Therefore, you should resolve this situation and stock up on a hundred ways to relieve boredom. The only people who don’t get bored are the children on vacation, but we, adults, don’t get bored from this.
So let's take a look...
Immediately, looking ahead, I want to point out that some of these methods will be effective, some will be voiced for fun, some will suit everyone, regardless of gender and age, others will suit a certain category of people. But first things first...
Banal remedies for the blues
What can you do when you're bored at home - this is a question many people ask, but, oddly enough, many of them most often remain in a sad state, having done nothing to change their mood.
But this is not our case! Here are options that can be used by everyone and in most common cases:
- watch a movie
- delicious food
- Internet surfing in search of something interesting
- get stuck on social media networks (today almost everyone can do this)
- chat with an interesting person
- make new acquaintances (you won’t get bored together)
- admire the window (if you have any suitable view from it)
- remember loved ones
- collect your thoughts (there may be unfinished business)
- make a to-do list (if you have them and you decide to get rid of them)
- plan necessary purchases
- admire the stars (preferably at night)
- admire the sky (this can be done at any time of the day and in any weather)
- go to sleep (in general, advice to all)
- make yourself tea/coffee (it’s not a fact that it will relieve boredom, but it will distract you a little and perhaps lead to interesting thoughts over a cup of hot drink)
- read your horoscope
- listen to music
- take a bath
- play computer games (the thing, of course, is interesting and addictive, but not everyone will take it up/it’s not suitable for everyone)
- sit by the fireplace (this is not heaven, and not everyone has one)
- cook something tasty and unusual
- go in for sports (for an amateur)
- invite friends (which will be discussed later)
Options for the company
I’ll say right away that it is highly advisable to try the following points in a company, because they imply that you invited someone to visit in advance or visited someone yourself.
So, let's go... things to do with friends:
- board games
- fool around (although you can do it alone)
- take interesting tests (you can also do this alone, but it’s much more fun in a group, so you’ll immediately forget about boredom)
- start an interesting debate (I emphasize: INTERESTING, and not a path to a fight; we still live in a civilized society, right?!)
What should girls do?
In this part, I will probably offer options (although, of course, a girl in my place would offer much more) for girls. What you can do alone or with a friend when you get bored:
- gossip (unfortunately many girls like this :/)
- chat on the phone
- take care of yourself (there are probably things to do for a week, girls, after all 🙂)
- spin in front of the mirror
- rummage through the closet
- get a loved one (preferably your man)
- run from him
- be offended that I caught up with you
- run away again
- take a selfie and post it on social media. networks (or even more than one)
- think about why it's boring
- tell everyone you're bored
- wait…
- understand that there are few real friends
- ...or they don't exist
- …at your place
- understand that you have you
- stop killing yourself
- think again about what to do
- no, having children out of boredom is thoughtless
Time to rave!
Now we will not talk about that nonsense when you are sick, but when you begin to suffer from nonsense out of boredom. What kind of crazy thoughts do we end up with:
- "play schizophrenia"
- knock on your neighbors’ wall (and wait for them to knock on your head)
- invent your own universe
- listen to the clock tick (a la degradation in full swing)
- set silence
- make an evil laugh
- shut your mouth with your hand
- grin evilly
- look back
- laugh ominously again
- repeat until you get tired of it
- feel sad again
- don't forget to conquer the world
For extraordinary natures
In this section I have crammed advice for intellectual, creative, refined people, clean people and everyone else who has trouble sitting on their butt. Here's what happened:
- read a book
- start drawing something
- play a musical instrument
- do embroidery
- modeling
- dance
- think about something important to you
- fantasize (dream)
- make plans for the future
- clean the house
- read the news
- watch scientific programs
- tidy up the room
- clean shoes
- wash the dishes (in case there is anything)
- tidy up your clothes
- think about your life
- read about other countries
- get an encyclopedia (they always have something interesting for any age)
- think about great things
- reflect on the essence of existence
- pray (what? And this has a place among believers)
- start creating something
- do some handicrafts
- rehearse something
- origami
- start a spring cleaning
- sing
- rearrange the room
A treasure trove of long-term prospects
Finally, I would like to name a few things that are aimed at creating long-term activities with further obtaining a certain result.
I won’t say that it will really amuse you, but it will definitely bring considerable benefits. Very suitable for those who are often bored, but at the same time do not mind using their time most productively:
- include an interesting series (the only one “not particularly useful”, but long-term among these points)
- look for a new hobby
- take care of your education
- have a dream (which will later become a goal)
- set a goal for yourself (provided that you start moving towards it)
- take up writing
- start keeping a diary (not to be confused with writing)
- think about changing activities (if you feel that you are not doing your job)
- look for a new source of income (it never hurts)
- make a piggy bank ()
Well... something like that. Don't blame me if some of the methods were too crazy. However, I would like to know your options in the comments.
And we – Sasha and Artem – say goodbye to you not for long. See you soon!
