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1. Shard Calculation

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Response:

Calculated Shard: 36 (from laksa119)

2. Crawled Status Check

Query:

curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa036.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

Response:

{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/","crawl_time":1775392777,"first_indexed_time":1560268941,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,busybudgeter!www,\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/ s443","src_root_hash":"15482650007713370836","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"500 Things to Do When Bored - The Ultimate List - The Busy Budgeter","meta_descriptions":["This ultimate list of things to do when bored is broken down into seven categories including things to do that make money and things to do with kids."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"This giant list of things to do when you’re bored is the ultimate resource of experiences to have and skills to master.\nWhether you’re looking for a new free hobby to save money or you’re looking for an earth-shattering experience that will change your life, we’ve got you covered.\nUpdate: You asked for it and I’m delivering!\nStarting NOW, you can grab the Trashed to Total Home Transformation Survival Guide (Pandemic Edition) For FREE! \nIt teaches you step by step how to work with your personality to not only set up home routines that will work (no matter how many times you’ve failed in the past), but that you’ll stick to… long after the pandemic is over. \nWe’ve taught hundreds of thousands of people\nhow to use bare minimum consistent effort to completely transform their home (and life!). You’re up next. \nYou can get your Survival Guide here for FREE… \nA few years ago, we\nreduced our spending by over $23,000\n,\npaid off our debt of over $30,000\n, I quit my job to stay home and then\nI replaced my salary working from home\n(\nWe used this free step by step budgeting system to do that by the way\n). 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.\nBecause dropping $200 on dinner, a movie, and a babysitter isn’t going to get anyone out of debt.\nOver 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.\nThe cost didn’t matter anymore if the experience was worth it to us.\nThen 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.\nWhatever your situation, I’m convinced that this is the most exhaustive list in the world of things to do when bored.\nIf you can think of anything that I forgot, just leave a comment below and we’ll add it.\nTo 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.\nYou 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.\nThere’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.\nSide Note: I think we need a challenge to see if anyone can get through the entire “Things to Do When Bored” list.\nThings To Do When Bored Categories\nFree or cheap things to do when bored.\nFun things to do when bored.\nThings to do when bored for kids.\nThings to do when bored at home.\nThings to do when bored at night.\nThings to do with your boyfriend (or girlfriend, husband, or wife) when bored.\nThings to do when bored with friends.\nFun things to do on a laptop when bored.\nFun things to do outside when bored.\nDIY things to do when bored.\nThings to do when bored on your phone.\nThings to do when bored that could make you money.\nThings to do when bored to make life easier.\nFree or Cheap Things\nTo Do When Bored\nThis list is perfect if you’re trying to replace more expensive hobbies and social gatherings to\npay off your debt or to save up for a new house or retirement.\nWe lived off this list for a few years.\nHint:\nYou can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.\nIf 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 for it when you’re ready to move on).\nIf you’re trying to reduce your spending or pay off debt, I can’t say enough about the 90 Day Budget Bootcamp. This is the exact step by step system we used to reduce our spending by over $23,000 a year, pay off our over $30,000 in debt so I could quit my job and stay home with my kids. This is the only program that worked for us after years of trying and failing to budget and save money. You can\nget instant access to the 90 Day Budget Boot Camp for free here. \nAcapella\nApply to be an extra in a  movie or tv show\nArrange flowers\nAstronomy\nAt home facials\nAttempting to solve a cold case in your local PD\nBabysitting\nBalloon twisting\nBaseball\nBasketball\nBeachcombing\nBeach volleyball\nBeatboxing\nBecome a Wikipedia editor\nBecoming a newspaper contributor\nBelly Dancing\nBicycling\nBoard game club\nBonsai trees\nBoogie boarding\nBrainstorm your hobbies\nBreakdancing\nBuild a family command center\nBuild a functional igloo in the snow\nBuild a shelter in the woods using materials found locally\nBuilding fairy gardens\nButterfly watching\nCalligraphy\nCamping\nCanning\nCanoeing\nCardio\nCarve epic pumpkins\nCatch up on laundry\nCatching insects (like lightning bugs)\nCheck out museums\nClean out and detail clean your car\nCoin collecting\nCollecting leaves or flowers\nCollecting marbles\nCollecting seashells\nCollecting stickers\nColoring\nComic book art\nContainer gardening\nCorn Maze\nCreate a bucket list\nCreate a home stock room\nCreate a treasure hunt\nCreating a family tree\nCreating a time capsule\nCreating unique recipes\nCreating your own unique t-shirts to sell\nCrocheting\nCross country running\nCrossword puzzles\nDeclutter and organize an area of your home\nDig for clams\nDigital scrapbooking\nDog training\nDominoes\nDraw comics or learn animation\nDrawing\nDriveway chalk\nDumpster diving\nEmbroidery\nExplore different religious beliefs\nFarming\nFell running\nFeng Shui your home\nFind a natural way to collect rainwater\nFinger painting\nFoosball\nFootball\nFrisbee golf\nGather food donations for a local non-profit\nGenealogy\nGeology\nGnoming (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).\nGo crabbing\nGo on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\nGoing on picnics\nHam radio\nHand lettering\nHandball\nHandwriting letters to friends and family\nHave family meetings or budget meetings\nHerping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\nHike the Appalachian mountains\nHiking\nHip Hop Dancing\nHockey\nHoverboarding\nHurdles\nImpersonations\nImprove your memory\nInterviewing older relatives about their lives\nInventing\nJam making\nJuggling\nJump rope\nKaraoke\nKitchen chemistry\nKite flying\nKnitting\nKnotting\nLearn a roundhouse kick\nLearn boxing or kickboxing\nLearn how to debone and eat a chicken wing in one bite\nLearn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)\nLearn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\nLearn how to light a match with one hand\nLearn how to meal plan\nLearn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily\nLearn how to start a fire with two sticks\nLearn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue\nLearn how to whistle using your fingers\nLearn magic tricks and card tricks\nLearn paper Origami or Tatebanko or paper quilling\nLearn 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)\nLearn to bake\nLearn to budget\nLearn to cook\nLearn to crochet\nLearn to dirty dance\nLearn to do a backward roll\nLearn to do a cartwheel\nLearn to do a forward roll\nLearn to efficiently hand wash dishes\nLearn to forage for edible food\nLearn to high kick\nLearn to hunt or to track\nLearn to knit\nLearn to manage your home\nLearn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\nLearn to quilt\nLearn to rock climb or bouldering\nLearn to sew\nLearning the art of storytelling\nLock picking\nLong distance track\nLong jump\nLook at free community events going on near you\nMake a collage\nMake a terrarium\nMake your own bookmarks\nMake your own candles\nMake your own hot sauce\nMake your own jewelry\nMake your own signature bbq sauce\nMake your own tea blends\nMaking a bird feeder\nMaking model cars\nMaking your own clothes\nMeal plan for the week\nMeditation\nMicroscopy\nMiddle distance track\nMini golf\nModel rockets\nMud wrestle (or jello?)\nNeedle Felting\nOrganize your week\nPalm reading\nPaper mache\nPencil sketching\nPeople watching\nPerfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: the secret ingredient? Cream cheese)\nPerfect your handshake\nPerfect your high five\nPinochle\nPlan a monthly dinner club, bunco night, or poker party\nPlan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\nPlan 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.)\nPlan out a yearly menu\nPlant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit\nPlay badminton\nPlay chess\nPlay darts\nPlay volleyball\nPlaying harmonica\nPlaying pool\nPodcasting\nPressing flowers\nProofreading\nRacquetball\nResearching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard\nResearching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\nRoast your own coffee\nRock painting\nRoller skating\nRunning\nSand sculptures\nSand surfing\nScience experiments\nSculpting with clay\nSelf-care or beauty night\nSewing\nShark tooth or fossil hunting\nShop for best prices on the items you use the most (home goods like garbage bags, personal goods like shampoo and food items like ketchup)\nShort distance track\nSinging\nSkateboarding\nSleigh riding\nSlingshots\nSoak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (This probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)\nSoap making\nSoccer\nSolve puzzles or mazes\nSpeed reading\nSports refereeing\nStamp collecting\nStargazing with a telescope\nStart a book club\nStart a journal\nStart a new planner (or get creative with your old one)\nStarting a parents night out\nStaycation\nStone skipping\nStory writing\nStrength training\nSudoku\nSurfing\nSwimming\nTable tennis\nTai Chi\nTake a positive discipline parenting class\nTake highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)\nTarot reading\nTeach your kids a chore they can take over\nTennis\nThrow axes\nTower running (or extreme stair climbing)\nTrack cycling\nTrain for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman\nTrivia contests\nUltimate frisbee\nVisit the aquarium\nVisit the local library\nVisit the zoo\nVolunteer at a local non-profit\nVolunteer at the food pantry\nVolunteer at the kids’ school\nVolunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization\nVolunteering\nWakeboarding\nWalking\nWatching 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).\nWrestling\nWrite a screenplay\nWrite your family mission statement\nWriting a book\nWriting letters to loved ones\nWriting letters to your future self\nYoga\nYoyoing\nFun Things To Do\nWhen You’re Bored. \nThis 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!\nHint:\nYou can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.\nIf 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).\n3D printing\nAcrobatics\nAcroyoga (couples yoga where you physically support each other)\nAerial photography\nAirbrushing\nAirsoft guns\nAntiquing\nArchaeology (like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast)\nAt home facials\nBaking\nBaseball\nBasketball\nBaton twirling\nBeachcombing\nBeach volleyball\nBeatboxing\nBecome a connoisseur (wine, whiskey)\nBecome a personal trainer or fitness instructor (either on your own or through whatever your jam is…CrossFit, Yoga or Zumba)\nBecome a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\nBelly Dancing\nBicycling\nBlacksmithing (make your own sword)\nBoard game club\nBody surfing\nBoogie boarding\nBoomerangs\nBrainstorm your hobbies\nBreakdancing\nBreaking a world record\nBuild a family command center\nBuild a functional igloo in the snow\nBuild a shelter in the woods using materials found locally\nBuild an experimental aircraft\nBuild electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\nBuild furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace\nBuilding a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\nBuilding a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard\nBuilding fairy gardens\nButterfly watching\nCamping\nCandy making\nCanning\nCanoeing\nCarve epic pumpkins\nCatching insects (like lightning bugs)\nCave diving\nCaving or spelunking\nCeramics\nChainsaw carvings\nCheck out a salsa club\nCheerleading\nChocolate tasting\nCoin collecting\nCollecting baseball cards\nCollecting seashells\nColoring\nCombat shooting\nComic book art\nCooking\nCosplay\nCrabbing\nCreate a bucket list\nCreate a local Uber experience like a guided tour\nCreate a treasure hunt\nCreate look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes\nCreating a family tree\nCreating a time capsule\nCreating unique recipes\nCreating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\nCreating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\nCross country running\nCross country skiing\nCrossword puzzles\nCurling\nDecoupage\nDesign funny or niche coffee mugs\nDesign funny or niche tee shirts\nDesign printable planner stickers\nDig for clams\nDigital scrapbooking\nDiner club\nDirt biking\nDiscus\nDistilling\nDJing\nDog training\nDominoes\nDragon boat racing\nDraw comics or learn animation\nDrawing\nDriveway chalk\nEmbroidery\nEngineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)\nEnhance your survival skills\nEntertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties\nExplore different religious beliefs\nFell running\nFeng Shui your home\nField hockey\nFind a natural way to collect rainwater\nFinger painting\nFire poi (fire performance)\nFish pedicures\nFishing for tuna\nFlower arrangements\nFly Tying\nFlying drones\nFlying model planes\nFoosball\nFootball\nFreezer cooking (once a month?)\nFrisbee golf\nGenealogy\nGet a tattoo\nGet immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games\nGlamping\nGlass blowing\nGnoming (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).\nGo crabbing\nGo kart racing\nGo on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\nGo to local open houses and watch the real estate market.  \nGet into real estate or flipping houses.\nGoing on picnics\nGroundhopping (going to as many stadiums or venues of your favorite artist or sports team)\nGymnastics\nHand lettering\nHand to hand combat\nHandball\nHandwriting letters to friends and family\nHang Gliding\nHaunted house tours\nHave a seafood boil in the sand\nHelicopter skiing\nHerping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\nHike the Appalachian mountains\nHiking\nHip Hop Dancing\nHockey\nHorseback riding\nHost a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)\nHost 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 )\nHoverboarding\nHula dancing\nHunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields\nHurdles\nIce fishing\nImpersonations\nImprove your memory\nInterviewing older relatives about their lives\nInventing\nIrish step dancing\nJam making\nJet ski\nJuggling in the street\nJump rope\nKaraoke\nKitchen chemistry\nKite surfing\nKnifemaking\nKnife throwing\nKnotting\nLacemaking\nLacrosse\nLandscaping\nLearn archery\nLearn boxing or kickboxing\nLearn graphic design (for example, logos)\nLearn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\nLearn how to juggle fire\nLearn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\nLearn how to make printables\nLearn how to make wine\nLearn how to pick locks\nLearn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily\nLearn how to start a fire with two sticks\nLearn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue\nLearn how to use a bullwhip to snap a straw out of a man’s hand\nLearn how to whistle using your fingers\nLearn impressive party tricks\nLearn Klingon\nLearn Pig Latin\nLearn self-defense\nLearn spear fishing or fly fishing.\nLearn 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)\nLearn to ballroom dance\nLearn to dirty dance\nLearn to fence\nLearn to fly (p.s. it’s expensive)\nLearn to forage for edible food\nLearn to hunt or to track\nLearn to ice skate\nLearn to perfect big barrel curls\nLearn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\nLearn to play craps\nLearn to rock climb or bouldering\nLearn to shoot\nLearn to travel hack\nLearning how to bartend\nLearning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)\nLearning how to tattoo\nLearning the art of storytelling\nLip plumpers\nLobster traps\nLong distance track\nLong jump\nLook at free community events going on near you\nLudo sport (Lightsaber combat)\nMake a collage\nMake cold brew coffee\nMake hard cider (super easy!)\nMake miniature doll furniture\nMake or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube Beat the record on Slitherio\nMake pottery\nMake your own beer\nMake your own boat\nMake your own bookmarks\nMake your own candles\nMake your own hot sauce\nMake your own jewelry\nMake your own robot\nMake your own signature bbq sauce\nMaking digital photo books\nMaking dolls\nMaking model cars\nManicures\nMassage\nMaster airplane combat games\nMaster barbeque\nMatchstick modeling\nMeditation\nMetalworking\nMicroscopy\nMiddle distance track\nMini golf\nModel rockets\nModel shipbuilding\nMotocross\nMud wrestle (or jello?)\nObstacle course\nOrganize your Goodreads libraries and find new books\nPaint and sip nights\nPalm reading\nPaper mache\nParachuting\nParagliding\nParkour\nPedicures\nPeople watching\nPerfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: secret ingredient? Cream cheese)\nPerforming stand up comedy\nPinochle\nPlan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\nPlan 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.)\nPlant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit\nPlant and maintain community fruit trees (Urban Harvest)\nPlay badminton\nPlay chess\nPlay darts\nPlay volleyball\nPlaying harmonica\nPlaying pool\nPodcasting\nPoker\nPowerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)\nProduce electronic music\nPuppetry\nPyrotechnics or fireworks\nQuidditch\nRacquetball\nRC cars\nReef aquarium\nRenovate your house\nResearching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\nRetro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)\nRoad trips\nRoast your own coffee\nRock painting\nRollerblading\nRoller skating\nRoom renovations or home designs\nRugby\nRunning\nRV across the US\nSailing\nSand sculptures\nSand surfing\nSandboarding\nScale miniature building\nScience experiments\nScottish sword dancing\nScrapbooking\nScuba Diving\nSculpting\nSelf-care or beauty night\nSelf Tanning\nSewing\nShark Diving\nShark tooth or fossil hunting\nShop 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)\nShort distance track\nShot put\nSinging\nSkateboarding\nSkeet shooting\nSkydiving\nSnorkeling\nSnowboarding\nSnowmobiling\nSoak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (*probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)\nSoap making\nSoccer\nSpeed reading\nSpeed skating\nSpin classes\nSports refereeing\nStamp collecting\nStargazing with a telescope\nStart a book club\nStart a journal\nStart a new planner (or get creative with your old one)\nStart a soccer mom league\nStart an allotment or community garden\nStart and maintain a saltwater tank\nStaycation\nStoneworking\nStory writing\nStyle and decorate homes\nSubscription boxes\nSudoku\nSugar scrubs\nSurfing\nSushi making\nSwimming\nSynchronized swimming\nTable tennis\nTai Chi\nTake a discovery flight\nTake highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)\nTandem, biking\nTarget shooting\nTarot reading\nTasting parties with miracle fruit\nTeach your kids a chore they can take over\nTennis\nThemed date nights\nThrow axes\nTouring wineries\nTower running (or extreme stair climbing)\nTrack cycling\nTrivia contest\nUltimate frisbee\nVaulting horses\nVentriloquism\nVisit a speakeasy\nVisit the aquarium\nVisit the local library\nVisit the zoo\nVolunteer at the food pantry\nVolunteer at the kids’ school\nVolunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization\nVolunteering\nWakeboarding\nWalk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting\nWatchmaking\nWatching 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).\nWatercolors\nWeekend getaways\nWhale watching\nWhite water rafting\nWhittling or wood carving\nWindsurfing\nWine\/cheese tasting\nWingsuit flying\nWrestling\nWrite your family mission statement\nWriting a book\nWriting letters to loved ones\nWriting letters to your future self\nYoga\nZiplining\nZumba\nThings To Do When\nYou’re Bored With Kids.\nThis 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. \nAcrobatics\nAirbrushing\nApply to be an extra in a  movie or tv show\nAstronomy\nAt home facials\nAttempting to solve a cold case in your local PD\nAudition as an actor or for a commercial\nAudition to be a model\nBabysitting\nBaking\nBalloon twisting\nBaseball\nBasketball\nBaton twirling\nBeach volleyball\nBeat the record on Slitherio\nBeatboxing\nBecome a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\nBecoming a newspaper contributor\nBelly Dancing\nBicycling\nBiking\nBoard dogs\nBoard game club\nBody surfing\nBonsai trees\nBoogie boarding\nBoomerangs\nBrainstorm your hobbies\nBreakdancing\nBreaking a world record\nBreed dogs\nBuild a functional igloo in the snow\nBuild a shelter in the woods using materials found locally\nBuild an experimental aircraft\nBuild electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\nBuilding a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\nBuilding fairy gardens\nButterfly watching\nCamping\nCandy making\nCardmaking\nCartography\nCarve epic pumpkins\nCatching insects (like lightning bugs)\nCave Diving\nCaving or spelunking\nCeramics\nCheck out museums\nCheerleading\nChocolate tasting\nCoin collecting\nCollecting baseball cards\nCollecting leaves or flowers\nCollecting marbles\nCollecting model trains\nCollecting seashells\nCollecting stickers\nColoring\nComic book art\nContainer gardening\nCooking\nCorn Maze\nCrabbing\nCreate a bucket list\nCreate a charity\nCreate a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)\nCreate a treasure hunt\nCreating a family tree\nCreating a time capsule\nCreating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\nCreating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\nCross country running\nCross country skiing\nCrossword puzzles\nCryptography\nDig for clams\nDigital scrapbooking\nDirt biking\nDiscus\nDJing\nDog competitions\nDog sledding\nDog training\nDominoes\nDragon boat racing\nDraw comics or learn animation\nDrawing\nDriveway chalk\nDumpster diving\nEnhance your survival skills\nExplore different religious beliefs\nFarming\nFell running\nFeng shui\nField hockey\nFind a natural way to collect rainwater\nFinger painting\nFish pedicures\nFishing for tuna\nFlower arrangements\nFly Tying\nFlying drones\nFlying model planes\nFoosball\nFootball\nFoster animals:  either dogs and cats or more unique animals like rabbits, turtles, and birds\nFrisbee golf\nGet immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.\nGnoming (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).\nGo crabbing\nGo kart racing\nGo on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\nGoing on picnics\nGraphology\nGroundhopping (going to as many stadiums or venues of your favorite artist or sports team)\nGymnastics\nHam radio\nHand lettering\nHandball\nHandwriting letters to friends and family\nHaunted house tours\nHerping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\nHike the Appalachian mountains\nHiking\nHip Hop Dancing\nHockey\nHorseback riding\nHot air balloon\nHoverboarding\nHula dancing\nHunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields\nHurdles\nIce fishing\nImpersonations\nImprove your memory\nInventing\nIrish step dancing\nJuggling\nJump rope\nKick sledding\nKitchen chemistry\nKite flying\nKite surfing\nKnotting\nLacrosse\nLandscaping\nLearn a roundhouse kick\nLearn boxing or kickboxing\nLearn how to debone and eat a chicken wing in one bite\nLearn how to DIY almost anything:  home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)\nLearn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\nLearn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily\nLearn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue\nLearn how to whistle using your fingers\nLearn impressive party tricks\nLearn Klingon\nLearn magic tricks and card tricks\nLearn Pig Latin\nLearn self-defense\nLearn spear fishing or fly fishing.\nLearn 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)\nLearn to ballroom dance\nLearn to do a backward roll\nLearn to do a cartwheel\nLearn to do a forward roll\nLearn to fence\nLearn to forage for edible food\nLearn to high kick\nLearn to ice skate\nLearn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\nLearn to rock climb or bouldering\nLearn to shoot\nLearn to wear fake eyelashes\nLearning a foreign language\nLearning the art of storytelling\nLego building\nLobster Traps\nLock picking\nLong distance track\nLong jump\nLook at free community events going on near you\nLudo sport (Lightsaber combat)\nMake a collage\nMake a terrarium\nMake miniature doll furniture\nMake or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube\nMake pottery\nMake your own boat\nMake your own bookmarks\nMake your own hot sauce\nMake your own jewelry\nMake your own robot\nMake your own signature bbq sauce\nMake your own tea blends\nMaking a bird feeder\nMaking digital photo books\nMaking dolls\nMaking model cars\nMaking your own clothes\nManicures\nMaster airplane combat games\nMatchstick modeling\nMetal detector\nMetalworking\nMicroscopy\nMiddle distance track\nMini golf\nModel rockets\nModel shipbuilding\nMotocross\nNeedle Felting\nObstacle course\nPalm reading\nPaper mache\nParachuting\nParagliding\nParkour\nPedicures\nPencil sketching\nPeople watching\nPerfect your handshake\nPerfect your high five\nPerforming stand up comedy\nPlan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\nPlant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit\nPlay badminton\nPlay chess\nPlay darts\nPlay volleyball\nPlaying harmonica\nPlaying pool\nPodcasting\nPowerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)\nPressing flowers\nProduce electronic music\nPuppetry\nQuidditch\nRacquetball\nRC cars\nReef aquarium\nResearching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard\nResearching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\nRetro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)\nRoast your own coffee\nRock painting\nRollerblading\nRoller skating\nRowing\nRunning\nSand sculptures\nSand surfing\nSandboarding\nScale miniature building\nScience experiments\nScottish sword dancing\nScouting\nScrapbooking\nSculpting\nSculpting with clay\nSelf-care or beauty night\nSewing\nShort distance track\nSinging\nSkateboarding\nSkijoring (skiing with a horse pulling you)\nSkydiving\nSleigh riding\nSlingshots\nSnorkeling\nSnowboarding\nSnowmobiling\nSoap making\nSoccer\nSolve puzzles or mazes\nSpeed reading\nSpeed skating\nStamp collecting\nStargazing with a telescope\nStart a book club\nStart a journal\nStart an allotment or community garden\nStart and maintain a saltwater tank\nStone skipping\nStory writing\nSugar scrubs\nSurfing\nSushi making\nSwimming\nSynchronized swimming\nTable tennis\nTandem, biking\nTarot reading\nTaxidermy\nTeeth whitening\nTennis\nTower running (or extreme stair climbing)\nTrack cycling\nTrain a  falcon\nTrain for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman\nTrivia contests\nUltimate frisbee\nVaulting horses\nVentriloquism\nVisit the aquarium\nVisit the local library\nVisit the zoo\nVolunteer at the food pantry\nVolunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization\nVolunteering\nWakeboarding\nWalk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting\nWatching 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).\nWatercolors\nWhale watching\nWhite water rafting\nWhittling or wood carving\nWindsurfing\nWrestling\nWrite a screenplay\nWriting a book\nWriting letters to loved ones\nThings To Do When\nYou’re Bored At Home.\nThis 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. \nTake a free\nhome management course like Home Rescue\n.\nArrange flowers\nAstronomy\nAt home facials\nBabysitting\nBake and sell gourmet pet treats\nBaking\nBeat the record on Slitherio\nTake a free budgeting course like the\n90 Day Budget Boot Camp. \nBecome a Wikipedia editor\nBecome certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)\nBecoming a newspaper contributor\nBelly Dancing\nBoard dogs\nBoard game club\nBonsai trees\nBook restoration\nBoomerangs\nBrainstorm your hobbies\nBreed dogs\nBuild a family command center\nBuild a nixie tube clock\nBuild a shelter in the woods using materials found locally\nBuild electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\nBuild furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace\nBuild your own smoker\nBuilding a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\nBuilding a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard\nBuilding fairy gardens\nButterfly watching\nCamping\nCandy making\nCanning\nCardio\nCatch up on laundry\nCeramics\nChocolate tasting\nClean out and detail clean your car\nCollecting baseball cards\nColoring\nComic book art\nContainer gardening\nCooking\nCosplay\nCreate a bucket list\nCreate a home stock room\nCreate a treasure hunt\nCreate and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls\nCreate look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes\nCreating a family tree\nCreating a time capsule\nCreating unique recipes\nCreating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\nCreating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\nCrocheting\nCrossword puzzles\nDeclutter and organize an area of your home\nDecoupage\nDesign funny or niche coffee mugs\nDesign funny or niche tee shirts\nDesign printable planner stickers\nDigital scrapbooking\nDog training\nDominoes\nDraw comics or learn animation\nDrawing\nDry brushing\nEmbroidery\nEntertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties\nExplore different religious beliefs\nFarming\nFeng Shui your home\nFind a natural way to collect rainwater\nFloat spa\nFlower arrangements\nFly Tying\nFlying drones\nFlying model planes\nFoosball\nFoster animals either dogs and cats or more unique animals like rabbits, turtles, and birds\nFreezer meals or Once a month meals\nFrisbee golf\nFurniture restoration\nGather food donations for a local non-profit\nGenealogy\nGet immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.\nGnoming (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).\nGo on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\nHand lettering\nHave family meetings or budget meetings\nHip Hop Dancing\nHost a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)\nImpersonations\nImprove your memory\nInterviewing older relatives about their lives\nInventing\nJam making\nKitchen chemistry\nKnitting\nKnotting\nLacemaking\nLacrosse\nLamp making\nLandscaping\nLearn extreme couponing\nLearn graphic design (for example, logos)\nLearn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)\nLearn 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)\nLearn how to make printables\nLearn how to make wine\nLearn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA\nLearn how to meal plan\nLearn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions\nLearn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily\nLearn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue\nLearn impressive party tricks\nLearn Klingon\nLearn magic tricks and card tricks\nLearn Pig Latin\nLearn screen printing\nLearn SEO\nLearn 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)\nLearn to bake\nLearn to be a life coach\nLearn to budget\nLearn to cook\nLearn to crochet\nLearn to efficiently hand wash dishes\nLearn to knit\nLearn to manage your home\nLearn to perfect big barrel curls\nLearn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\nLearn to play craps\nLearn to quilt\nLearn to sew\nLearn to wear fake eyelashes\nLearning a foreign language\nLip plumpers\nLock picking\nLook at free community events going on near you\nMacrame\nMake a collage\nMake a terrarium\nMake cold brew coffee\nMake hard cider (super easy!)\nMake miniature doll furniture\nMake or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube\nMake your own beer\nMake your own bookmarks\nMake your own candles\nMake your own hot sauce\nMake your own jewelry\nMake your own signature bbq sauce\nMake your own tea blends\nMaking a bird feeder\nMaking dolls\nMaking model cars\nMaking wood family signs\nMaking your own clothes\nManicures\nMaster airplane combat games\nMaster barbeque\nMatchstick modeling\nMeal plan for the week\nMeditation\nMetalworking\nModel rockets\nModel shipbuilding\nNeedle felting\nObstacle course\nOrganize your Goodreads libraries and find new books\nOrganize your week\nPalm reading\nPaper mache\nParkour\nPedicures\nPencil sketching\nPerfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: secret ingredient? Cream cheese)\nPlan a monthly dinner club, bunco night, or poker party\nPlan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\nPlan 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.)\nPlan out a yearly menu\nPlay chess\nPlaying pool\nPodcasting\nPolo leather making\nPressing flowers\nProduce electronic music\nProofreading\nPyrotechnics or fireworks\nRC cars\nReef aquarium\nRefinish a piece of furniture you find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace\nRenovate your house\nRent a Tesla (self-driving car)\nResearching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\nRetro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)\nRoast your own coffee\nRock painting\nRoom renovations or home designs\nRunning\nScrapbooking\nSculpting\nSculpting with clay\nSelf-care or beauty night\nSell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist\nSewing\nShop 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)\nSinging\nSoak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)\nSoap making\nSolve puzzles or mazes\nSpeed reading\nStart a book club\nStart a journal\nStart a new planner (or get creative with your old one)\nStart and maintain a saltwater tank\nStarting an Etsy or eBay store\nStaycation\nStory writing\nStrength training\nSubscription boxes\nSudoku\nSugar scrubs\nSushi making\nTable tennis\nTai Chi\nTake highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)\nTake surveys\nTapestry\nTarot reading\nTasting parties with miracle fruit\nTeach your kids a chore they can take over\nTeeth whitening\nTrivia contests\nUltimate frisbee\nUpholstery\nVolunteer at the food pantry\nVolunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization\nWalking\nWatchmaking\nWatching 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).\nWatercolors\nWrite your family mission statement\nWriting a book\nWriting letters to loved ones\nWriting letters to your future self\nYoga\nYoyoing\nThings To Do When\nYou’re Bored At Night.\nThis 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.  \n3D printing\nAerial photography\nAirbrushing\nAstronomy\nAt home facials\nAttempting to solve a cold case in your local PD\nBake and sell gourmet pet treats\nBaking\nBeat the record on Slitherio\nBeatboxing\nBecome a Wikipedia editor\nBecome certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)\nBecoming a newspaper contributor\nBelly Dancing\nBlacksmithing (make your own sword)\nBoard dogs\nBoard game club\nBook restoration\nBreakdancing\nBreed dogs\nBuild a family command center\nBuild a Tesla coil\nBuild electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\nBuild furniture\nBuilding a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\nButterfly watching\nCamping\nCandy making\nCanning\nCardmaking\nCartography\nCarve epic pumpkins\nCatch up on laundry\nCatching insects (like lightning bugs)\nCeramics\nChocolate tasting\nClean out and detail clean your car\nCoin collecting\nCollecting model trains\nColoring\nComic book art\nCooking\nCosplay\nCreate a charity\nCreate a home stock room\nCreate a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)\nCreate a treasure hunt\nCreate and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls\nCreate look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes\nCreating a family tree\nCreating a time capsule\nCreating unique recipes\nCreating videos (videography) for weddings and smaller productions (filming courses or tutorials)\nCreating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\nCreating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\nCrocheting\nCrossword puzzles\nCryptography\nDeclutter and organize an area of your home\nDecoupage\nDesign funny or niche coffee mugs\nDesign funny or niche tee shirts\nDigital scrapbooking\nDiner club\nDistilling\nDJing\nDog training\nDominoes\nDraw comics or learn animation\nDrawing\nDriving people around (Lyft or Uber)\nDry brushing\nDumpster diving\nEmbroidery\nEngineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)\nEntertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties\nExplore different religious beliefs\nFeng Shui your home\nFire poi (fire performance)\nFlower arrangements\nFly Tying\nFoosball\nFreezer meals,  once a month meals\nFurniture restoration\nGenealogy\nGet a tattoo\nGet immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.\nGlamping\nGlass blowing\nGnoming (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).\nGo on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\nGraphology\nHam radio\nHand lettering\nHandwriting letters to friends and family\nHaunted house tours\nHave family meetings or budget meetings\nHerping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\nHip Hop Dancing\nHost a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)\nImpersonations\nInterviewing older relatives about their lives\nInventing\nJam making\nKaraoke\nKitchen chemistry\nKnifemaking\nKnitting\nKnotting\nLacemaking\nLamp making\nLearn extreme couponing\nLearn graphic design (for example, logos)\nLearn how to edit videos\nLearn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)\nLearn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\nLearn how to make printables\nLearn how to make wine\nLearn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA\nLearn how to meal plan\nLearn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions\nLearn how to whistle using your fingers\nLearn Klingon\nLearn Pig Latin\nLearn screen printing\nLearn SEO\nLearn 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)\nLearn to bake\nLearn to budget\nLearn to cook\nLearn to crochet\nLearn to efficiently hand wash dishes\nLearn to knit\nLearn to manage your home\nLearn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\nLearn to play craps\nLearn to quilt\nLearn to sew\nLearn to wear fake eyelashes\nLearning a foreign language\nLearning how to bartend\nLearning how to use and run a teleprompter (impressive money and has little competition for a part-time gig)\nLearning the art of storytelling\nLego building\nLip plumpers\nLock picking\nLook at free community events going on near you\nMacrame\nMake a collage\nMake a terrarium\nMake cold brew coffee\nMake hard cider (super easy!)\nMake miniature doll furniture\nMake or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube\nMake your own beer\nMake your own bookmarks\nMake your own candles\nMake your own hot sauce\nMake your own jewelry\nMake your own robot\nMake your own signature bbq sauce\nMake your own tea blends\nMaking a bird feeder\nMaking digital photo books\nMaking dolls\nMaking model cars\nMaking your own clothes\nManicures\nMaster airplane combat games\nMaster barbeque\nMatchstick modeling\nMeal plan for the week\nMini golf\nModel rockets\nModel shipbuilding\nNeedle Felting\nOrganize your Goodreads libraries and find new books\nOrganize your week\nPaint and sip nights\nPalm reading\nPaper mache\nPedicures\nPencil sketching\nPerfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: secret ingredient? Cream cheese)\nPerfect your handshake\nPerfect your high five\nPerforming stand up comedy\nPinochle\nPlan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\nPlan 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.)\nPlan out a yearly menu\nPlay chess\nPlay darts\nPlaying harmonica\nPlaying pool\nPodcasting\nPoker\nPolo leather making\nProduce electronic music\nProofreading\nPuppetry\nPyrotechnics or fireworks\nRC cars\nRent a Tesla (self-driving car)\nResearching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\nRetro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)\nRoast your own coffee\nRoast your own coffee\nRock painting\nRoom renovations or home designs\nScience experiments\nScrapbooking\nSculpting\nSculpting with clay\nSelf-care or beauty night\nSell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist\nSewing\nShop 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)\nSinging\nSnowmobiling\nSoak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (*probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)\nSoap making\nSolve puzzles or mazes\nSpeed reading\nSpin classes\nSports refereeing\nStamp collecting\nStargazing with a telescope\nStart a book club\nStart a journal\nStart a new planner (or get creative with your old one)\nStart and maintain a saltwater tank\nStarting a parents night out\nStarting an Etsy or eBay store\nStory writing\nSubscription boxes\nSudoku\nSugar scrubs\nSushi making\nTable tennis\nTai Chi\nTake a positive discipline parenting class\nTake highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)\nTapestry\nTarot reading\nTasting parties with miracle fruit\nTaxidermy\nTeach your kids a chore they can take over\nTeeth whitening\nThemed date nights\nTrain a  falcon\nTrain for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman\nUpholstery\nVentriloquism\nWar games\nWatchmaking\nWatching 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).\nWatercolors\nWine\/cheese tasting\nWrite a screenplay\nWrite your family mission statement\nWriting a book\nWriting letters to loved ones\nWriting letters to your future self\nThings To Do With Your Boyfriend\n(Or Girlfriend, Husband, or Wife) When You’re Bored.\nThis 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.\nHint:\nYou can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.\nIf 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).\n3D printing\nAcroyoga (couples yoga where you physically support each other)\nAerial photography\nAirbrushing\nAirsoft guns\nAntiquing\nApply to be an extra in a  movie or tv show\nArchaeology: like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast\nAstronomy\nAttempting to solve a cold case in your local PD\nAudition as an actor or for a commercial\nAudition to be a model\nBaseball\nBasketball\nBeachcombing\nBeach volleyball\nBecome a connoisseur (wine, whiskey)\nBecome a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\nBecome certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)\nBecoming a newspaper contributor\nBicycling\nBiking\nBlacksmithing (make your own sword)\nBoard dogs\nBoard game club\nBody surfing\nBonsai trees\nBoogie boarding\nBook restoration\nBoomerangs\nBrainstorm your hobbies\nBreaking a world record\nBreed dogs\nBuild a family command center\nBuild a functional igloo in the snow\nBuild a Tesla coil\nBuild electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\nBuild furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace\nBuilding a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\nBuilding a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard\nBuilding fairy gardens\nBuy a boat\nCamping\nCanning\nCanoeing\nCardio\nCartography\nCarve epic pumpkins\nCatch up on laundry\nCatching insects (like lightning bugs)\nCave Diving\nCaving or spelunking\nCheck out a salsa club\nCheck out museums\nChocolate tasting\nClean out and detail clean your car\nCoin collecting\nCollecting baseball cards\nCollecting model trains\nCollecting seashells\nCombat shooting\nComic book art\nCooking\nCrabbing\nCreate a bucket list\nCreate a charity\nCreate a home stock room\nCreate a treasure hunt\nCreate\nlook-alikes\nfor your favorite restaurant dishes\nCreating a family tree\nCreating a time capsule\nCreating unique recipes\nCreating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\nCreating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\nCroquet\nCross country running\nCross country skiing\nCryptography\nCurling\nDeclutter and organize an area of your home\nDesign funny or niche coffee mugs\nDesign funny or niche tee shirts\nDig for clams\nDiner club\nDistilling\nDJing\nDog competitions\nDog sledding\nDog training\nDominoes\nDragon boat racing\nDraw comics or learn animation\nDumpster diving\nEngineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)\nEnhance your survival skills\nEntertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties\nExplore different religious beliefs\nFarming\nFeng Shui your home\nField hockey\nFind a natural way to collect rainwater\nFire poi (fire performance)\nFishing for tuna\nFloat spa\nFlower arrangements\nFly Tying\nFlying drones\nFlying model planes\nFoosball\nFootball\nFoster animals:  either dogs and cats or more unique animals like rabbits, turtles, and birds\nFreezer meals,  once a month meals\nFrisbee golf\nFurniture restoration\nGather food donations for a local non-profit\nGenealogy\nGeology\nGet a tattoo\nGet immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games\nGlamping\nGlass blowing\nGnoming (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).\nGo crabbing\nGo kart racing\nGo on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\nGoing on picnics\nGraphology\nGunsmith\nHam radio\nHand to hand combat\nHandball\nHang Gliding\nHaunted house tours\nHave a seafood boil in the sand\nHave family meetings or budget meetings\nHerping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\nHike the Appalachian mountains\nHiking\nHockey\nHomesteading\nHorseback riding\nHost a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)\nHot air balloon\nHouse of horror\nIce fishing\nImpersonations\nImprove your memory\nInterviewing older relatives about their lives\nInventing\nJam making\nJet ski\nKaraoke\nKick sledding\nKitchen chemistry\nKnifemaking\nKnife throwing\nKnotting\nLacrosse\nLamp making\nLandscaping\nLearn a roundhouse kick\nLearn archery\nLearn how to debone and eat a chicken wing in one bite\nLearn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)\nLearn how to DIY almost anything:  home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)\nLearn how to fix old broken computers (you can find dozens with problems for free or super cheap on Craigslist\nLearn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)\nLearn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\nLearn how to juggle fire\nLearn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\nLearn how to make wine\nLearn how to meal plan\nLearn how to start a fire with two sticks\nLearn impressive party tricks\nLearn Klingon\nLearn Pig Latin\nLearn self-defense\nLearn spear fishing or fly fishing.\nLearn to ballroom dance\nLearn to budget\nLearn to dirty dance\nLearn to do a backward roll\nLearn to do a cartwheel\nLearn to do a forward roll\nLearn to fence\nLearn to forage for edible food\nLearn to high kick\nLearn to hunt or to track\nLearn to ice skate\nLearn to manage your home\nLearn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\nLearn to play craps\nLearn to rock climb or bouldering\nLearn to shoot\nLearn to travel hack\nLearning a foreign language\nLearning how to bartend\nLearning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)\nLearning how to tattoo\nLearning the art of storytelling\nLego building\nLetterboxing\nLobster traps\nLock picking\nLook at free community events going on near you\nMake a collage\nMake a pinhole camera and make your own darkroom to develop the images\nMake a terrarium\nMake cold brew coffee\nMake hard cider (super easy!)\nMake or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube\nMake your own beer\nMake your own hot sauce\nMake your own robot\nMake your own signature bbq sauce\nMake your own tea blends\nMaking a bird feeder\nMaking digital photo books\nMaking model cars\nMaking pallet furniture\nMaster airplane combat games\nMaster barbeque\nMatchstick modeling\nMeal plan for the week\nMetalworking\nMicroscopy\nMini golf\nModel rockets\nModel shipbuilding\nMud wrestle (or jello?)\nObstacle course\nOrganize your week\nPaint and sip nights\nParachuting\nParagliding\nParasailing\nParkour\nPencil sketching\nPeople watching\nPerfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (secret ingredient? Cream cheese)\nPinochle\nPlan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\nPlant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit\nPlay badminton\nPlay chess\nPlay darts\nPlay volleyball\nPlaying pool\nPodcasting\nPoker\nPolo leather making\nPowerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)\nProduce electronic music\nPuppetry\nPyrotechnics or fireworks\nQuidditch\nRacquetball\nRappelling\nRC cars\nReef aquarium\nRenovate your house\nRent a Tesla (self-driving car)\nResearching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard\nResearching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\nRetro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)\nRoad trips\nRoast your own coffee\nSailing\nSand sculptures\nSand surfing\nSandboarding\nScale miniature building\nScience experiments\nSculpting with clay\nScuba Diving\nSell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist\nShark diving\nShark tooth or fossil hunting\nSkeet shooting\nSkijoring (skiing with a horse pulling you)\nSkydiving\nSleigh riding\nSlingshots\nSnorkeling\nSnowboarding\nSnowmobiling\nSoccer\nSpeed reading\nSpeed skating\nSpin classes\nStamp collecting\nStargazing with a telescope\nStart a book club\nStart and maintain a saltwater tank\nStarting a parents night out\nStarting an Etsy or eBay store\nStaycation\nStoneworking\nStrength training\nSurfing\nSushi making\nSwimming\nTable tennis\nTake a discovery flight\nTake a positive discipline parenting class\nTandem, biking\nTap maple trees to make syrup\nTarget shooting\nTarot reading\nTasting parties with miracle fruit\nTaxidermy\nTeach your kids a chore they can take over\nTennis\nThemed date nights\nThrow axes\nTouring wineries\nTower running (or extreme stair climbing)\nTrain a  falcon\nTrain for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman\nUltimate frisbee\nUpholstery\nVaulting horses\nVentriloquism\nVisit a speakeasy\nVisit the aquarium\nVisit the zoo\nVolunteer at a local non-profit\nVolunteer at the food pantry\nVolunteer at the kid’s school\nVolunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization\nVolunteering\nWakeboarding\nWalk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting\nWalking\nWar games\nWatchmaking\nWatching 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).\nWeekend getaways\nWhale watching\nWhite water rafting\nWindsurfing\nWine\/cheese tasting\nWingsuit flying\nWrestling\nWrite a screenplay\nWrite your family mission statement\nZiplining\nThings To Do When\nYou’re Bored With Friends.\nThis 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.\nHint:\nYou can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.\nIf 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).\nTake a\ncomprehensive home management course together, like Hot Mess to Home Success. \n3D printing\nAcapella\nAerial photography\nAntigravity cocooning (fitness)\nAntiquing\nArchaeology: like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast\nAt home facials\nBaking\nBaseball\nBasketball\nBeachcombing\nBeach volleyball\nBecome a connoisseur (wine, whiskey)\nBecome certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)\nBelly Dancing\nBicycling\nBiking\nBoard game club\nBody surfing\nBoogie boarding\nBoomerangs\nBuilding a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\nButterfly watching\nCalligraphy\nCamping\nCandy making\nCardio\nCarve epic pumpkins\nCatch up on laundry\nCave Diving\nCaving or spelunking\nCeramics\nCheck out a salsa club\nChocolate tasting\nCoach a local sports team\nCoin collecting\nCollecting leaves or flowers\nCollecting seashells\nColoring\nCombat shooting\nComic book art\nCooking\nCorn Maze\nCosplay\nCrabbing\nCreate a home stock room\nCreate a treasure hunt\nCreate look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes\nCreating a family tree\nCreating unique recipes\nCreating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\nCreating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\nCrocheting\nCross country running\nCross country skiing\nCryotherapy\nDecoupage\nDig for clams\nDiner club\nDistilling\nDJing\nDominoes\nDry brushing\nEmbroidery\nEntertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties\nExplore different religious beliefs\nFell running\nField hockey\nFind a natural way to collect rainwater\nFish pedicures\nFishing for tuna\nFloat spa\nFlower arrangements\nFlying drones\nFootball\nFreezer cooking (once a month?)\nFrisbee golf\nGather food donations for a local non-profit\nGet a tattoo\nGlamping\nGlass blowing\nGnoming (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).\nGo crabbing\nGo Kart\nGoing on picnics\nHand lettering\nHand to hand combat\nHandball\nHang Gliding\nHaunted house tours\nHave a seafood boil in the sand\nHerping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\nHike the Appalachian mountains\nHiking\nHip Hop Dancing\nHockey\nHorseback riding\nHost a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)\nHost 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 )\nHouse of horror\nHula dancing\nIrish step dancing\nJam making\nJet ski\nJuggling in the street\nKaraoke\nKeratin treatment (permanent hair straightening)\nKitchen chemistry\nKnitting\nLacemaking\nLacrosse\nLearn archery\nLearn boxing or kickboxing\nLearn graphic design (for example, logos)\nLearn how to juggle fire\nLearn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\nLearn how to make printables\nLearn how to make wine\nLearn how to meal plan\nLearn impressive party tricks\nLearn Klingon\nLearn Pig Latin\nLearn self-defense\nLearn 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)\nLearn to ballroom dance\nLearn to budget\nLearn to crochet\nLearn to dirty dance\nLearn to efficiently hand wash dishes\nLearn to fence\nLearn to ice skate\nLearn to knit\nLearn to manage your home\nLearn to perfect big barrel curls\nLearn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\nLearn to play craps\nLearn to quilt\nLearn to rock climb or bouldering\nLearn to sew\nLearn to wear fake eyelashes\nLearning a foreign language\nLearning how to bartend\nLearning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)\nLearning how to tattoo\nLearning the art of storytelling\nLip plumpers\nLobster traps\nLook at free community events going on near you\nMacrame\nMake a collage\nMake cold brew coffee\nMake hard cider (super easy!)\nMake or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube\nMake pottery\nMake your own beer\nMake your own hot sauce\nMake your own jewelry\nMake your own signature bbq sauce\nMaking digital photo books\nMaking dolls\nMaking your own clothes\nManicures\nMassage\nMaster barbeque\nMeal plan for the week\nMini golf\nNeedle Felting\nObstacle course\nOrganize your Goodreads libraries and find new books\nOrganize your week\nPaint and sip nights\nPalm reading\nParachuting\nParagliding\nPedicures\nPencil sketching\nPeople watching\nPerforming stand up comedy\nPlan a monthly dinner club, bunco night, or poker party\nPlant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit\nPlay badminton\nPlay chess\nPlay darts\nPlay volleyball\nPlaying pool\nPodcasting\nPowerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)\nPressing flowers\nProduce electronic music\nPuppetry\nPyrotechnics or fireworks\nQuidditch\nRacquetball\nRappelling\nResearching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\nRoad trips\nRoast your own coffee\nRollerblading\nRoller skating\nRoom renovations or home designs\nRugby\nRunning\nRV across the US\nSailing\nSand sculptures\nSand surfing\nSandboarding\nScience experiments\nScottish sword dancing\nScrapbooking\nScuba Diving\nSculpting\nSelf-care or beauty night\nSelf Tanning\nSewing\nShark Diving\nSkydiving\nSnorkeling\nSnowboarding\nSnowmobiling\nSoap making\nSoccer\nSpeed skating\nSpin classes\nStamp collecting\nStargazing with a telescope\nStart a book club\nStart a soccer mom league\nStrength training\nSubscription boxes\nSugar scrubs\nSurfing\nSushi making\nSwimming\nSynchronized swimming\nTable tennis\nTai Chi\nTake a discovery flight\nTake highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)\nTandem, biking\nTapestry\nTarget shooting\nTarot reading\nTasting parties with miracle fruit\nTeeth whitening\nTennis\nTouring wineries\nTrack cycling\nUltimate frisbee\nVaulting horses\nVentriloquism\nVisit a speakeasy\nVisit the aquarium\nVisit the local library\nVisit the zoo\nVolunteer at a local non-profit\nVolunteer at the food pantry\nVolunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization\nVolunteering\nWakeboarding\nWalk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting\nWalking\nWatching 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).\nWeekend getaways\nWhale watching\nWhite water rafting\nWindsurfing\nWine\/cheese tasting\nWingsuit flying\nYoga\nZiplining\nFun things to do on a\nlaptop when you’re bored.\nCool things to do when you’re bored on a laptop?   This is your list!\nHint:\nYou can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.\nIf 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).\nAntiquing\nAttempting to solve a cold case in your local PD\nBecome a certified financial planner\nBecome a Wikipedia editor\nBecome certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University)\n \nBlogging\nYouTube\nBecoming a newspaper contributor\nBuild electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\nCoding\nCollecting model trains\nComic book art\nCreate a charity\nCreate a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)\nCreating videos (videography) for weddings and smaller productions (filming courses or tutorials)\nCreating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\nDesign funny or niche coffee mugs\nDesign funny or niche tee shirts\nDesign printable planner stickers\nDJing\nExplore different religious beliefs\nGet immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.\nGunsmith\nLearn boxing or kickboxing\nLearn extreme couponing\nLearn graphic design (for example, logos)\nLearn how to edit videos\nLearn how to travel hack credit card rewards (not for the faint of heart!)\nLearn how to make printables\nLearn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA\nLearn how to meal plan\nLearn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions\nLearn screen printing\nLearn SEO\nLearn to be a Life Coach\nLearn to budget\nLearn to efficiently hand wash dishes\nLearn to manage your home\nLearning how to bartend\nLearning how to use and run a teleprompter (impressive money and has little competition for a part-time gig)\nLook at free community events going on near you\nMake a collage\nMake or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube Beat the record on Slitherio\nMaking digital photo books\nMaster airplane combat games\nMeal plan for the week\nPlan a road trip\nPlan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\nPlan a vacation\nPlan an RV trip across the US\nPlan 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.)\nPlan out a yearly menu\nPlay chess\nPlay the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E*Trade)\nPodcasting\nPoker\nProduce electronic music\nProgramming\nProofreading, formatting, and editing (books, court reports, blogs)\nPublic speaking (get started with your local Toastmasters) goes well with a blog or YouTube channel\nRaspberry Pi projects (learn programming through fun practical projects)\nResearching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard\nResearching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\nScrapbooking\nShop 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)\nSpeed reading\nStart a journal\nStart a new planner (or get creative with your old one)\nTable tennis\nTake a positive discipline parenting class\nTake highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)\nTake surveys\nTrivia contests\nWar games\nWrite reviews online\nWrite your family mission statement\nWriting letters to loved ones\nWriting letters to your future self\nFun things to do outside\nwhen you’re bored.\nWhether 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. \nAcrobatics\nAirsoft guns\nAntiquing\nArchaeology: like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast\nAstronomy\nAt home facials\nAttempting to solve a cold case in your local PD\nBaseball\nBasketball\nBeachcombing\nBeach volleyball\nBecome a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\nBeekeeping\nBicycling\nBody surfing\nBoogie boarding\nBoomerangs\nBuild a functional igloo in the snow\nBuild a nixie tube clock\nBuild a shelter in the woods using materials found locally\nBuild a Tesla coil\nBuild an experimental aircraft\nBuild furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace\nBuild your own smoker\nBuilding fairy gardens\nButterfly watching\nBuy a boat\nBuy and sell land (\nparticularly cheap but commonly undesirable land like land for mudding\n) \nCanning\nCanoeing\nCardio\nCarve epic pumpkins\nCatching insects (like lightning bugs)\nCave Diving\nCaving or spelunking\nChainsaw carvings\nClean out and detail clean your car\nCoach a local sports team\nCollecting leaves or flowers\nCollecting seashells\nCombat shooting\nComic book art\nCorn Maze\nCrabbing\nCreate a treasure hunt\nCreating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\nCroquet\nCross country running\nCross country skiing\nDig for clams\nDirt biking\nDiscus\nDistilling\nDog competitions\nDog sledding\nDog training\nDrag boat racing\nDragon boat racing\nDriveway chalk\nDriving people around (Lyft or Uber)\nDumpster diving\nEnhance your survival skills\nFell running\nField hockey\nFind a natural way to collect rainwater\nFinger painting\nFire poi (fire performance)\nFishing for tuna\nFlying drones\nFlying model planes\nFootball\nFrisbee golf\nFurniture restoration\nGeology\nGet chickens to sell the eggs\nGetting a dairy cow to sell the milk\nGlass blowing\nGnoming (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).\nGo crabbing\nGo kart racing\nGo off-roading or mudding.\nGo on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\nGoing on picnics\nGrowing herbs or vegetables\nHand to hand combat\nHandball\nHang Gliding\nHave a seafood boil in the sand\nHelicopter skiing\nHerping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\nHike the Appalachian mountains\nHiking\nHiking\nHockey\nHomesteading\nHorseback riding\nHot air balloon\nHoverboarding\nHula dancing\nHunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields\nHurdles\nIce fishing\nJet ski\nJuggling in the street\nJump rope\nKick sledding\nKite surfing\nKnife throwing\nLacrosse\nLandscaping\nLearn a roundhouse kick\nLearn archery\nLearn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)\nLearn how to DIY almost anything:  home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)\nLearn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\nLearn how to juggle fire\nLearn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\nLearn how to make wine\nLearn how to start a fire with two sticks\nLearn how to use a bullwhip to snap a straw out of a man’s hand\nLearn self-defense\nLearn spear fishing or fly fishing.\nLearn to do a backward roll\nLearn to do a cartwheel\nLearn to do a forward roll\nLearn to fly\nLearn to forage for edible food\nLearn to high kick\nLearn to hunt or to track\nLearn to ice skate\nLearn to perfect big barrel curls\nLearn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\nLearn to rock climb or bouldering\nLearn to shoot\nLearning the art of storytelling\nLip plumpers\nLobster traps\nLock picking\nLong distance track\nLong jump\nLook at free community events going on near you\nMake a collage\nMake a terrarium\nMake your own boat\nMake your own jewelry\nMaking wood family signs\nManicures\nMeditation\nMetal detector\nMiddle distance track\nMini golf\nModel shipbuilding\nMotocross\nMud wrestle (or jello?)\nObstacle course\nParachuting\nParagliding\nParkour\nPedicures\nPeople watching\nPlant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit\nPlant and maintain community fruit trees (Urban Harvest)\nPlay badminton\nPlay volleyball\nPowerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)\nPyrotechnics or fireworks\nQuidditch\nRacquetball\nRappelling\nRent a Tesla (self-driving car)\nResearching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard\nRollerblading\nRoller skating\nRowing\nRugby\nRunning\nSand sculptures\nSand surfing\nSandboarding\nScience experiments\nScuba Diving\nSelf Tanning\nShark Diving\nShark tooth or fossil hunting\nShort distance track\nShot put\nSkateboarding\nSkeet shooting\nSkijoring (skiing with a horse pulling you)\nSkydiving\nSleigh riding\nSmoking meat\nSnorkeling\nSnowboarding\nSnowmobiling\nSoccer\nSpeed skating\nStargazing with a telescope\nStart a soccer mom league\nStart an allotment or community garden\nStone skipping\nStoneworking\nStrength training\nSugar scrubs\nSurfing\nSwimming\nTake a discovery flight\nTandem, biking\nTap maple trees to make syrup\nTarget shooting\nTennis\nThrow axes\nTrack cycling\nTrain a  falcon\nTrain for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman\nUltimate frisbee\nVaulting horses\nVisit a flea market or thrift store and look for items to flip on eBay\nWakeboarding\nWalk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting\nWalking\nWatching 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)\nWhale watching\nWhite water rafting\nWhittling or wood carving\nWindsurfing\nWingsuit flying\nWrite your family mission statement\nYoga\nZiplining\nDIY Things To Do When\nYou’re Bored.\nIf 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!\nAntiquing\nBake and sell gourmet pet treats\nBecome a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\nBookbinding\nBuild a functional igloo in the snow\nBuild a nixie tube clock\nBuild a shelter in the woods using materials found locally\nBuild a Tesla coil\nBuild an experimental aircraft\nBuild electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\nBuild furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace\nBuild your own smoker\nBuilding a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\nBuilding a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard\nBuilding fairy gardens\nCandy making\nCanning food\nCardmaking\nCeramics\nChainsaw carvings\nCosplay\nCreate a charity\nCreate a treasure hunt\nCreate and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls\nCreate look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes\nCreating a family tree\nCreating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\nDecoupage\nDesign printable planner stickers\nDistilling\nFarming\nFly Tying\nFurniture restoration\nGet into reenactments, make your own costumes, learn how to write with pen and quill and you can go to a demonstration as a reenactor.\nGlass blowing\nHomesteading\nKitchen chemistry\nKnifemaking\nLamp making\nLandscaping\nLearn how to DIY almost anything:  home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)\nLearn how to flip cars\nLearn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\nLearn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\nLearn how to make wine\nLearn paper Origami or Tatebanko or paper quilling\nLearn 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)\nLearn to crochet\nLearn to knit\nLearn to quilt\nLearn to sew\nLearning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)\nLearning how to tattoo\nMake a pinhole camera and make your own darkroom to develop the images\nMake a terrarium\nMake cold brew coffee\nMake hard cider (super easy!)\nMake miniature doll furniture\nMake pottery\nMake your own boat\nMake your own bookmarks\nMake your own hot sauce\nMake your own signature bbq sauce\nMake your own tea blends\nMaking a bird feeder\nMaking digital photo books\nMaking model cars\nMaking pallet furniture\nMaking wood family signs\nMetalworking\nPalm reading\nPaper mache\nPlan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\nPlan 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.)\nPlan out a yearly menu\nPlant and maintain community fruit trees (Urban Harvest)\nReef aquarium\nRefinish a piece of furniture you find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace\nRestore a historic car\nRoast your own coffee\nRoom renovations or home designs\nSand sculptures\nSoap making\nStart a journal\nStart an allotment or community garden\nStoneworking\nSushi making\nTai Chi\nTap maple trees to make syrup\nTapestry\nUpholstery\nWhittling or wood carving\nThings To Do When\nYou’re Bored On Your Phone.\nBanish boredom in the waiting room with this giant lit of things to do on your phone when you’re bored.  \nBeat the record on Slitherio\nBecome a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\nCreate a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)\nEnhance your survival skills\nExplore different religious beliefs\nLearn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA\nLearn how to meal plan\nLearn how to pick locks\nLearn SEO\nLearn to budget\nLearn to forage for edible food\nLearn to manage your home\nLearn to travel hack\nLook at free community events going on near you\nMake or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube\nMaking digital photo books\nMeal plan for the week\nMeditation\nOrganize your Goodreads libraries and find new books\nPlan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\nPlan 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.)\nPlan out a yearly menu\nProduce electronic music\nResearching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\nSell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist\nShop 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)\nStart a journal\nWrite reviews online\nYoga\nThings To Do When You’re\nBored That Could Make You Money.\nFun 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!).  \nIf 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.\n3D printing\nAcrobatics\nAirbrushing\nArchitecture\nBabysitting\nBake (If you’re good at it… Look into selling baked goods at a farmers market or festival, or from your home).\nBake and sell gourmet pet treats\nBaton twirling\nBeatboxing\nBecome a certified financial planner\nBecome a handyman\nBecome a personal trainer or fitness instructor (either on your own or through whatever your jam is…CrossFit, Yoga or Zumba)\nBookbinding\nBook restoration\nBreakdancing\nBuild an experimental aircraft\nBuild electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\nBuilding a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\nBuilding a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard\nBuy and sell land (particularly cheap but commonly undesirable land like land for mudding) (link to nick lopers podcast)\nCalligraphy\nCandy making\nCeramics\nChainsaw carvings\nCoding\nCoin collecting\nCollecting baseball cards\nCollecting model trains\nCollecting stamps\nComic book art\nCooking\nCosplay\nCreate a local Uber experience like a guided tour\nCreate and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls\nCreating unique recipes\nCreating videos (videography) for weddings and smaller productions (filming courses or tutorials)\nCreating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\nCrocheting\nDecoupage\nDesign funny or niche coffee mugs\nDesign funny or niche tee shirts\nDesign printable planner stickers\nDig for clams\nDirt biking\nDJing\nDrag boat racing\nDraw comics or learn animation\nDrawing\nDriving people around (Lyft or Uber)\nEmbroidery\nEntertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties\nFlower arrangements\nFurniture restoration\nGet chickens to sell the eggs\nGet immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.\nGetting a dairy cow to sell the milk\nGo crabbing\nGo to local open houses and watch the real estate market.  Get into real estate or flipping houses\nGrowing herbs or vegetables\nGunsmith\nGymnastics\nHand lettering\nHelicopter skiing\nHomesteading\nHost 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 )\nHunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields\nIce fishing\nImpersonations\nInventing\nJam making\nJuggling in the street\nKitchen chemistry\nKnifemaking\nKnitting\nLacemaking\nLamp making\nLearn graphic design (for example, logos)\nLearn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)\nLearn how to DIY almost anything:  home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)\nLearn how to edit videos\nLearn how to fix old broken computers (you can find dozens with problems for free or super cheap on Craigslist\nLearn how to flip cars\nLearn how to hack credit card rewards (not for the faint of heart!) We are gonna get sued for this!?!\nLearn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\nLearn how to make printables\nLearn how to make wine\nLearn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA\nLearn how to meal plan\nLearn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions\nLearn how to stage homes for sale\nLearn screen printing\nLearn self-defense\nLearn SEO\nLearn 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)\nLearn to bake\nLearn to be a Life Coach\nLearn to budget\nLearn to cook\nLearn to manage your home\nLearn to perfect big barrel curls\nLearn to play craps\nLearn to sew\nLearn to travel hack\nLearning a foreign language\nLearning how to bartend\nLearning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)\nLearning how to tattoo\nLearning how to use and run a teleprompter (impressive money and has little competition for a part-time gig)\nLearning the art of storytelling\nLip plumpers\nLudo sport (Lightsaber combat)\nMacrame\nMake a collage\nMake cold brew coffee\nMake hard cider (super easy!)\nMake miniature doll furniture\nMake pottery\nMake your own beer\nMake your own boat\nMake your own hot sauce\nMake your own jewelry\nMake your own robot\nMake your own signature bbq sauce\nMaking a bird feeder\nMaking dolls\nMaking model cars\nMaking pallet furniture\nMaking wood family signs\nMaking your own clothes\nManicures\nMaster airplane combat games\nMetalworking\nMotocross\nMud Wrestling\nPaper mache\nPedicures\nPerforming stand up comedy\nPlay the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E*Trade)\nPlaying harmonica\nPlaying Pool\nPodcasting\nPoker\nProduce electronic music\nProgramming\nProofreading, formatting, and editing (books, court reports, blogs)\nPublic speaking (get started with your local Toastmasters) goes well with a blog or YouTube channel\nPuppetry\nRappelling\nRaspberry Pi projects (learn programming through fun practical projects)\nRC cars\nReef aquarium\nRefinish a piece of furniture you find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace\nRenovate your house\nRestore a historic car\nRetro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)\nRoad trips\nRoast your own coffee\nRoom renovations or home designs\nRV across the US\nSailing\nScrapbooking\nSculpting\nSelf Tanning\nSell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist\nSewing\nSinging\nSmoking meat\nSnorkeling\nSoap making\nStamp collecting\nStart a blog, YouTube channel, or podcast\nStart and maintain a saltwater tank\nStarting an Etsy or eBay store\nStory writing\nStyle and decorate homes\nSushi making\nSynchronized swimming\nTake surveys\nTap maple trees to make syrup\nTapestry\nTarot reading\nTeaching or tutoring, either an instrument or for school, or something else you excel in\nTennis\nVentriloquism\nVisit a flea market or thrift store and look for items to flip on eBay\nWalk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting\nWatchmaking\nWatercolors\nWhittling or wood carving\nWrite a children’s book or first novel\nWriting a book\nZumba\nThings To Do When\nYou’re Bored To Make Life Easier.\nMy 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.) \nYou can check out Hot Mess to Home Success and jump on the waiting list here….\nIf 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).\nBaking\nBecome a certified financial planner\nBecome a handyman\nBecome a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\nBecome certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)\nBlacksmithing (make your own sword)\nBrainstorm your hobbies\nBuild furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace\nCamping\nCanning food\nCardio\nCatch up on laundry\nClean out and detail clean your car\nCooking\nCreate a home stock room\nCreating unique recipes\nCreating your own unique t-shirts to sell\nCross country running\nDeclutter and organize an area of your home\nDig for clams\nDistilling\nDog training\nEngineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)\nEnhance your survival skills\nFreezer meals,  once a month meals\nFurniture restoration\nGather food donations for a local non-profit\nGo crabbing\nHave family meetings or budget meetings\nHomesteading\nHost 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 )\nImprove your memory\nInterviewing older relatives about their lives\nInventing\nHost 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 )\nPlay the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E*Trade)\nBecome a handyman\nLandscaping\nLearn extreme couponing\nLearn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)\nLearn how to DIY almost anything:  home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)\nLearn how to fix old broken computers (you can find dozens with problems for free or super cheap on Craigslist)\nLearn how to flip cars\nLearn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\nLearn how to meal plan\nLearn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions\nLearn how to pick locks\nLearn how to stage homes for sale\nLearn how to start a fire with two sticks\nLearn self-defense\nLearn spear fishing or fly fishing\nLearn 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)\nLearn to bake\nLearn to be a Life Coach\nLearn to budget\nLearn to cook\nLearn to efficiently hand wash dishes\nLearn to manage your home\nLearn to rock climb or bouldering\nLearn to sew\nLearn to shoot\nLearn to travel hack\nLearning a foreign language\nLearning the art of storytelling\nMake hard cider (super easy!)\nMake your own hot sauce\nMake your own signature bbq sauce\nMake your own tea blends\nMaster barbeque\nMeal plan for the week\nMeditation\nMetalworking\nOrganize your week\nPlan 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.)\nPlan out a yearly menu\nPlay the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E*Trade)\nPlay volleyball\nRenovate your house\nRoast your own coffee\nRoom renovations or home designs\nRunning\nSell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist\nSewing\nShop 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)\nSoap making\nSpin classes\nSports refereeing\nStart a new planner (or get creative with your old one)\nStarting an Etsy or eBay store\nStrength training\nStyle and decorate homes\nSushi making\nSwimming\nTake a positive discipline parenting class\nTeach your kids a chore they can take over\nTeaching or tutoring, either an instrument or for school, or something else you excel in\nTrain for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman\nVolunteer at a local non-profit\nWalking\nYoga\nFTC Disclosure of Material Connection: In order for us to maintain this website, some of the links in the post above may be affiliate links. 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You’re up next.**\n\n[You can get your Survival Guide here for FREE…](https:\/\/busybudgeter.lpages.co\/pandemic-guide-trashed-to-total-home-transformation\/)\n\n[![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='500'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20500'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)](https:\/\/busybudgeter.lpages.co\/pandemic-guide-trashed-to-total-home-transformation\/)\n\nA few years ago, we [reduced our spending by over \\$23,000](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/how-we-reduced-our-spending-by-23537-00-in-a-year-specific-stepsand-calculations-included\/), [paid off our debt of over \\$30,000](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/90-day-budget-beginners-boot-camp\/), I quit my job to stay home and then [I replaced my salary working from home](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/the-4-side-jobs-that-make-me-over-3000-a-month-as-a-stay-at-home-mom\/) ([We used this free step by step budgeting system to do that by the way](http:\/\/busybudgeter.com\/boot-camp)). 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.\n\n**Because dropping \\$200 on dinner, a movie, and a babysitter isn’t going to get anyone out of debt.**\n\nOver 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.\n\nThe cost didn’t matter anymore if the experience was worth it to us.\n\nThen 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.\n\n**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.\n\nTo 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.\n\nYou 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.\n\nThere’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.\n\nSide Note: I think we need a challenge to see if anyone can get through the entire “Things to Do When Bored” list.\n\n## Things To Do When Bored Categories\n1. 1. [Free or cheap things to do when bored.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#free-or-cheap)\n   2. [Fun things to do when bored.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#fun-things-to-do-when-youre-bored-at-night)\n   3. [Things to do when bored for kids.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#bored-for-kids)\n   4. [Things to do when bored at home.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#bored-at-home)\n   5. [Things to do when bored at night.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#bored-at-night)\n   6. [Things to do with your boyfriend (or girlfriend, husband, or wife) when bored.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#with-your-boyfriend)\n   7. [Things to do when bored with friends.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#bored-with-friends)\n   8. [Fun things to do on a laptop when bored.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#do-on-a-laptop)\n   9. [Fun things to do outside when bored.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#outside-when-youre-bored)\n   10. [DIY things to do when bored.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#diy-things)\n   11. [Things to do when bored on your phone.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#bored-on-your-phone)\n   12. [Things to do when bored that could make you money.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#make-you-money)\n   13. [Things to do when bored to make life easier.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#make-life-easier)\n## Free or Cheap Things To Do When Bored\nThis 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.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/boot-camp) We lived off this list for a few years.\n\n**Hint:** You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.\n\nIf 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 for it when you’re ready to move on).\n\nIf you’re trying to reduce your spending or pay off debt, I can’t say enough about the 90 Day Budget Bootcamp. This is the exact step by step system we used to reduce our spending by over \\$23,000 a year, pay off our over \\$30,000 in debt so I could quit my job and stay home with my kids. This is the only program that worked for us after years of trying and failing to budget and save money. You can [get instant access to the 90 Day Budget Boot Camp for free here.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/boot-camp)\n\n[![Book cover for 90 Day Budget Boot Camp from The Busy Budgeter, Rosemarie Groner with a quote to the right stating, \"â€œThe 90 Day Budget Bootcamp changed not only my finances, but our marriage. We had been fighting about money for the entire 8 years weâ€™ve been married. I didnâ€™t realize there was another way. I started the bootcamp just to get things under control, and I was shocked that after the â€œcombine your forces challengeâ€ he started working with me. We havenâ€™t had a money fight in 7 months. We paid off all but one credit card (that one should be done in March) and I canâ€™t believe that all of this came from a \\$7 workbook. Iâ€™m forever in debt to you (and soon only you!). Thank you.â€ - Julie, Daytona Beach\" and button on the middle bottom that says \"Sign Up for Free\"](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1200'%20height='628'%20viewBox='0%200%201200%20628'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/boot-camp)\n\n1. Acapella\n2. Apply to be an extra in a movie or tv show\n3. Arrange flowers\n4. Astronomy\n5. At home facials\n6. Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD\n7. Babysitting\n8. Balloon twisting\n9. Baseball\n10. Basketball\n11. Beachcombing\n12. Beach volleyball\n13. Beatboxing\n14. Become a Wikipedia editor\n15. Becoming a newspaper contributor![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='450'%20height='300'%20viewBox='0%200%20450%20300'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n16. Belly Dancing\n17. Bicycling\n18. Board game club\n19. Bonsai trees\n20. Boogie boarding\n21. Brainstorm your hobbies\n22. Breakdancing\n23. Build a family command center\n24. Build a functional igloo in the snow\n25. Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally\n26. Building fairy gardens\n27. Butterfly watching\n28. Calligraphy\n29. Camping\n30. Canning![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='450'%20height='300'%20viewBox='0%200%20450%20300'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n31. Canoeing\n32. Cardio\n33. Carve epic pumpkins\n34. Catch up on laundry\n35. Catching insects (like lightning bugs)\n36. Check out museums\n37. Clean out and detail clean your car\n38. Coin collecting\n39. Collecting leaves or flowers\n40. Collecting marbles\n41. Collecting seashells\n42. Collecting stickers\n43. Coloring\n44. Comic book art\n45. Container gardening\n46. Corn Maze\n47. Create a bucket list\n48. Create a home stock room\n49. Create a treasure hunt\n50. Creating a family tree\n51. Creating a time capsule\n52. Creating unique recipes\n53. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell ![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='450'%20height='300'%20viewBox='0%200%20450%20300'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n54. Crocheting\n55. Cross country running\n56. Crossword puzzles\n57. Declutter and organize an area of your home\n58. Dig for clams\n59. Digital scrapbooking\n60. Dog training\n61. Dominoes\n62. Draw comics or learn animation\n63. Drawing\n64. Driveway chalk\n65. Dumpster diving\n66. Embroidery\n67. Explore different religious beliefs\n68. Farming\n69. Fell running\n70. Feng Shui your home\n71. Find a natural way to collect rainwater\n72. Finger painting\n73. Foosball\n74. Football\n75. Frisbee golf\n76. Gather food donations for a local non-profit\n77. Genealogy\n78. Geology\n79. 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).\n80. Go crabbing\n81. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids) ![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n82. Going on picnics\n83. Ham radio\n84. Hand lettering\n85. Handball\n86. Handwriting letters to friends and family\n87. Have family meetings or budget meetings\n88. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\n89. Hike the Appalachian mountains ![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n90. Hiking\n91. Hip Hop Dancing\n92. Hockey\n93. Hoverboarding\n94. Hurdles\n95. Impersonations\n96. Improve your memory\n97. Interviewing older relatives about their lives\n98. Inventing\n99. Jam making\n100. Juggling\n101. Jump rope\n102. Karaoke\n103. Kitchen chemistry\n104. Kite flying\n105. Knitting\n106. Knotting\n107. Learn a roundhouse kick\n108. Learn boxing or kickboxing\n109. Learn how to debone and eat a chicken wing in one bite\n110. Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)\n111. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\n112. Learn how to light a match with one hand\n113. Learn how to meal plan\n114. Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily\n115. Learn how to start a fire with two sticks\n116. Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue\n117. Learn how to whistle using your fingers\n118. Learn magic tricks and card tricks\n119. Learn paper Origami or Tatebanko or paper quilling\n120. 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)\n121. Learn to bake\n122. Learn to budget\n123. Learn to cook\n124. Learn to crochet\n125. Learn to dirty dance\n126. Learn to do a backward roll\n127. Learn to do a cartwheel\n128. Learn to do a forward roll\n129. Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes\n130. Learn to forage for edible food\n131. Learn to high kick\n132. Learn to hunt or to track\n133. Learn to knit\n134. Learn to manage your home\n135. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\n136. Learn to quilt![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='402'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20402'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n137. Learn to rock climb or bouldering\n138. Learn to sew\n139. Learning the art of storytelling\n140. Lock picking\n141. Long distance track\n142. Long jump\n143. Look at free community events going on near you\n144. Make a collage\n145. Make a terrarium\n146. Make your own bookmarks\n147. Make your own candles\n148. Make your own hot sauce\n149. Make your own jewelry\n150. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n151. Make your own tea blends\n152. Making a bird feeder\n153. Making model cars\n154. Making your own clothes\n155. Meal plan for the week\n156. Meditation\n157. Microscopy\n158. Middle distance track\n159. Mini golf\n160. Model rockets\n161. Mud wrestle (or jello?)\n162. Needle Felting\n163. Organize your week![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n164. Palm reading\n165. Paper mache\n166. Pencil sketching\n167. People watching\n168. Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: the secret ingredient? Cream cheese)\n169. Perfect your handshake\n170. Perfect your high five\n171. Pinochle\n172. Plan a monthly dinner club, bunco night, or poker party\n173. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\n174. 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.)\n175. Plan out a yearly menu\n176. Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit\n177. Play badminton\n178. Play chess\n179. Play darts\n180. Play volleyball\n181. Playing harmonica\n182. Playing pool\n183. Podcasting\n184. Pressing flowers\n185. Proofreading\n186. Racquetball\n187. Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard\n188. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\n189. Roast your own coffee\n190. Rock painting\n191. Roller skating ![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='399'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20399'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n192. Running\n193. Sand sculptures\n194. Sand surfing\n195. Science experiments\n196. Sculpting with clay\n197. Self-care or beauty night\n198. Sewing\n199. Shark tooth or fossil hunting\n200. 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)\n201. Short distance track\n202. Singing\n203. Skateboarding\n204. Sleigh riding\n205. Slingshots\n206. Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (This probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)\n207. Soap making ![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n208. Soccer\n209. Solve puzzles or mazes\n210. Speed reading\n211. Sports refereeing\n212. Stamp collecting\n213. Stargazing with a telescope\n214. Start a book club\n215. Start a journal\n216. Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)\n217. Starting a parents night out\n218. Staycation\n219. Stone skipping\n220. Story writing\n221. Strength training\n222. Sudoku\n223. Surfing\n224. Swimming\n225. Table tennis\n226. Tai Chi\n227. Take a positive discipline parenting class\n228. Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)\n229. Tarot reading\n230. Teach your kids a chore they can take over\n231. Tennis\n232. Throw axes\n233. Tower running (or extreme stair climbing)\n234. Track cycling\n235. Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman\n236. Trivia contests\n237. Ultimate frisbee\n238. Visit the aquarium\n239. Visit the local library\n240. Visit the zoo\n241. Volunteer at a local non-profit\n242. Volunteer at the food pantry\n243. Volunteer at the kids’ school\n244. Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization\n245. Volunteering\n246. Wakeboarding ![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n247. Walking\n248. 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).\n249. Wrestling\n250. Write a screenplay\n251. Write your family mission statement\n252. Writing a book\n253. Writing letters to loved ones\n254. Writing letters to your future self\n255. Yoga\n256. Yoyoing\n## Fun Things To Do When You’re Bored.\nThis 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\\!\n\n**Hint:** You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.\n\nIf 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).\n\n1. 3D printing\n2. Acrobatics\n3. Acroyoga (couples yoga where you physically support each other)\n4. Aerial photography\n5. Airbrushing\n6. Airsoft guns\n7. Antiquing\n8. Archaeology (like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast)\n9. At home facials\n10. Baking\n11. Baseball\n12. Basketball\n13. Baton twirling![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n14. Beachcombing\n15. Beach volleyball\n16. Beatboxing\n17. Become a connoisseur (wine, whiskey)\n18. Become a personal trainer or fitness instructor (either on your own or through whatever your jam is…CrossFit, Yoga or Zumba)\n19. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\n20. Belly Dancing\n21. Bicycling\n22. Blacksmithing (make your own sword)\n23. Board game club\n24. Body surfing\n25. Boogie boarding\n26. Boomerangs\n27. Brainstorm your hobbies![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n28. Breakdancing\n29. Breaking a world record\n30. Build a family command center\n31. Build a functional igloo in the snow\n32. Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally\n33. Build an experimental aircraft\n34. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\n35. Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace\n36. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\n37. Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard\n38. Building fairy gardens\n39. Butterfly watching\n40. Camping\n41. Candy making\n42. Canning\n43. Canoeing\n44. Carve epic pumpkins\n45. Catching insects (like lightning bugs)\n46. Cave diving\n47. Caving or spelunking\n48. Ceramics\n49. Chainsaw carvings\n50. Check out a salsa club\n51. Cheerleading\n52. Chocolate tasting\n53. Coin collecting\n54. Collecting baseball cards\n55. Collecting seashells\n56. Coloring\n57. Combat shooting\n58. Comic book art\n59. Cooking\n60. Cosplay\n61. Crabbing\n62. Create a bucket list\n63. Create a local Uber experience like a guided tour\n64. Create a treasure hunt\n65. Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes\n66. Creating a family tree\n67. Creating a time capsule\n68. Creating unique recipes\n69. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\n70. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\n71. Cross country running![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n72. Cross country skiing\n73. Crossword puzzles\n74. Curling\n75. Decoupage\n76. Design funny or niche coffee mugs\n77. Design funny or niche tee shirts\n78. Design printable planner stickers\n79. Dig for clams\n80. Digital scrapbooking\n81. Diner club\n82. Dirt biking\n83. Discus\n84. Distilling\n85. DJing\n86. Dog training\n87. Dominoes\n88. Dragon boat racing\n89. Draw comics or learn animation\n90. Drawing\n91. Driveway chalk\n92. Embroidery\n93. Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)\n94. Enhance your survival skills\n95. Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties\n96. Explore different religious beliefs\n97. Fell running\n98. Feng Shui your home\n99. Field hockey\n100. Find a natural way to collect rainwater\n101. Finger painting![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n102. Fire poi (fire performance)\n103. Fish pedicures\n104. Fishing for tuna\n105. Flower arrangements\n106. Fly Tying\n107. Flying drones\n108. Flying model planes\n109. Foosball\n110. Football\n111. Freezer cooking (once a month?)\n112. Frisbee golf\n113. Genealogy\n114. Get a tattoo\n115. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games\n116. Glamping\n117. Glass blowing\n118. 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).\n119. Go crabbing\n120. Go kart racing\n121. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\n122. Go to local open houses and watch the real estate market.\n123. Get into real estate or flipping houses.\n124. Going on picnics\n125. Groundhopping (going to as many stadiums or venues of your favorite artist or sports team)\n126. Gymnastics\n127. Hand lettering\n128. Hand to hand combat\n129. Handball\n130. Handwriting letters to friends and family\n131. Hang Gliding\n132. Haunted house tours\n133. Have a seafood boil in the sand\n134. Helicopter skiing\n135. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\n136. Hike the Appalachian mountains\n137. Hiking\n138. Hip Hop Dancing\n139. Hockey\n140. Horseback riding![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n141. Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)\n142. 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 )\n143. Hoverboarding\n144. Hula dancing\n145. Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields\n146. Hurdles\n147. Ice fishing\n148. Impersonations\n149. Improve your memory\n150. Interviewing older relatives about their lives\n151. Inventing\n152. Irish step dancing\n153. Jam making\n154. Jet ski\n155. Juggling in the street\n156. Jump rope\n157. Karaoke\n158. Kitchen chemistry\n159. Kite surfing\n160. Knifemaking\n161. Knife throwing\n162. Knotting\n163. Lacemaking\n164. Lacrosse\n165. Landscaping\n166. Learn archery\n167. Learn boxing or kickboxing\n168. Learn graphic design (for example, logos)\n169. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\n170. Learn how to juggle fire\n171. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\n172. Learn how to make printables\n173. Learn how to make wine\n174. Learn how to pick locks\n175. Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily\n176. Learn how to start a fire with two sticks\n177. Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue\n178. Learn how to use a bullwhip to snap a straw out of a man’s hand\n179. Learn how to whistle using your fingers ![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='402'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20402'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n180. Learn impressive party tricks\n181. Learn Klingon\n182. Learn Pig Latin\n183. Learn self-defense\n184. Learn spear fishing or fly fishing.\n185. 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)\n186. Learn to ballroom dance\n187. Learn to dirty dance\n188. Learn to fence\n189. Learn to fly (p.s. it’s expensive)\n190. Learn to forage for edible food\n191. Learn to hunt or to track\n192. Learn to ice skate\n193. Learn to perfect big barrel curls\n194. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\n195. Learn to play craps\n196. Learn to rock climb or bouldering\n197. Learn to shoot\n198. Learn to travel hack\n199. Learning how to bartend\n200. Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)\n201. Learning how to tattoo\n202. Learning the art of storytelling\n203. Lip plumpers\n204. Lobster traps\n205. Long distance track\n206. Long jump\n207. Look at free community events going on near you\n208. Ludo sport (Lightsaber combat)\n209. Make a collage\n210. Make cold brew coffee\n211. Make hard cider (super easy!)\n212. Make miniature doll furniture\n213. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube Beat the record on Slitherio\n214. Make pottery\n215. Make your own beer\n216. Make your own boat\n217. Make your own bookmarks\n218. Make your own candles\n219. Make your own hot sauce\n220. Make your own jewelry\n221. Make your own robot\n222. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n223. Making digital photo books\n224. Making dolls\n225. Making model cars\n226. Manicures\n227. Massage\n228. Master airplane combat games\n229. Master barbeque\n230. Matchstick modeling\n231. Meditation\n232. Metalworking\n233. Microscopy\n234. Middle distance track\n235. Mini golf\n236. Model rockets\n237. Model shipbuilding\n238. Motocross\n239. Mud wrestle (or jello?)\n240. Obstacle course\n241. Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books\n242. Paint and sip nights\n243. Palm reading\n244. Paper mache\n245. Parachuting\n246. Paragliding ![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n247. Parkour\n248. Pedicures\n249. People watching\n250. Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: secret ingredient? Cream cheese)\n251. Performing stand up comedy\n252. Pinochle\n253. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\n254. 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.)\n255. Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit\n256. Plant and maintain community fruit trees (Urban Harvest)\n257. Play badminton\n258. Play chess\n259. Play darts\n260. Play volleyball\n261. Playing harmonica\n262. Playing pool\n263. Podcasting\n264. Poker\n265. Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)\n266. Produce electronic music\n267. Puppetry\n268. Pyrotechnics or fireworks\n269. Quidditch\n270. Racquetball\n271. RC cars\n272. Reef aquarium\n273. Renovate your house\n274. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\n275. Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)\n276. Road trips\n277. Roast your own coffee\n278. Rock painting\n279. Rollerblading\n280. Roller skating![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n281. Room renovations or home designs\n282. Rugby\n283. Running\n284. RV across the US\n285. Sailing\n286. Sand sculptures\n287. Sand surfing\n288. Sandboarding\n289. Scale miniature building\n290. Science experiments\n291. Scottish sword dancing\n292. Scrapbooking\n293. Scuba Diving\n294. Sculpting\n295. Self-care or beauty night\n296. Self Tanning\n297. Sewing\n298. Shark Diving\n299. Shark tooth or fossil hunting\n300. 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)\n301. Short distance track\n302. Shot put\n303. Singing\n304. Skateboarding\n305. Skeet shooting\n306. Skydiving\n307. Snorkeling\n308. Snowboarding\n309. Snowmobiling\n310. Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (\\*probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)\n311. Soap making\n312. Soccer\n313. Speed reading\n314. Speed skating\n315. Spin classes\n316. Sports refereeing\n317. Stamp collecting\n318. Stargazing with a telescope\n319. Start a book club\n320. Start a journal\n321. Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)\n322. Start a soccer mom league\n323. Start an allotment or community garden\n324. Start and maintain a saltwater tank\n325. Staycation\n326. Stoneworking\n327. Story writing\n328. Style and decorate homes\n329. Subscription boxes\n330. Sudoku\n331. Sugar scrubs\n332. Surfing\n333. Sushi making![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='375'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20375'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n334. Swimming\n335. Synchronized swimming\n336. Table tennis\n337. Tai Chi\n338. Take a discovery flight\n339. Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)\n340. Tandem, biking\n341. Target shooting\n342. Tarot reading\n343. Tasting parties with miracle fruit\n344. Teach your kids a chore they can take over\n345. Tennis\n346. Themed date nights\n347. Throw axes\n348. Touring wineries\n349. Tower running (or extreme stair climbing)\n350. Track cycling\n351. Trivia contest\n352. Ultimate frisbee\n353. Vaulting horses\n354. Ventriloquism\n355. Visit a speakeasy\n356. Visit the aquarium\n357. Visit the local library\n358. Visit the zoo\n359. Volunteer at the food pantry\n360. Volunteer at the kids’ school\n361. Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization\n362. Volunteering\n363. Wakeboarding\n364. Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting\n365. Watchmaking\n366. 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).\n367. Watercolors\n368. Weekend getaways\n369. Whale watching![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='429'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20429'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n370. White water rafting\n371. Whittling or wood carving\n372. Windsurfing\n373. Wine\/cheese tasting\n374. Wingsuit flying\n375. Wrestling\n376. Write your family mission statement\n377. Writing a book\n378. Writing letters to loved ones\n379. Writing letters to your future self\n380. Yoga\n381. Ziplining\n382. Zumba\n## Things To Do When You’re Bored With Kids.\nThis 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.\n\n1. Acrobatics\n2. Airbrushing\n3. Apply to be an extra in a movie or tv show\n4. Astronomy![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='306'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20306'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n5. At home facials\n6. Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD\n7. Audition as an actor or for a commercial\n8. Audition to be a model\n9. Babysitting\n10. Baking\n11. Balloon twisting\n12. Baseball\n13. Basketball\n14. Baton twirling\n15. Beach volleyball\n16. Beat the record on Slitherio\n17. Beatboxing\n18. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\n19. Becoming a newspaper contributor\n20. Belly Dancing\n21. Bicycling\n22. Biking\n23. Board dogs\n24. Board game club\n25. Body surfing\n26. Bonsai trees\n27. Boogie boarding\n28. Boomerangs\n29. Brainstorm your hobbies\n30. Breakdancing\n31. Breaking a world record\n32. Breed dogs\n33. Build a functional igloo in the snow\n34. Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally\n35. Build an experimental aircraft\n36. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\n37. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\n38. Building fairy gardens\n39. Butterfly watching\n40. Camping\n41. Candy making\n42. Cardmaking\n43. Cartography\n44. Carve epic pumpkins\n45. Catching insects (like lightning bugs)\n46. Cave Diving\n47. Caving or spelunking\n48. Ceramics\n49. Check out museums\n50. Cheerleading\n51. Chocolate tasting\n52. Coin collecting\n53. Collecting baseball cards\n54. Collecting leaves or flowers\n55. Collecting marbles\n56. Collecting model trains![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='399'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20399'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n57. Collecting seashells\n58. Collecting stickers\n59. Coloring\n60. Comic book art\n61. Container gardening\n62. Cooking\n63. Corn Maze\n64. Crabbing\n65. Create a bucket list\n66. Create a charity\n67. Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)\n68. Create a treasure hunt\n69. Creating a family tree\n70. Creating a time capsule\n71. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\n72. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\n73. Cross country running\n74. Cross country skiing\n75. Crossword puzzles\n76. Cryptography\n77. Dig for clams\n78. Digital scrapbooking\n79. Dirt biking\n80. Discus\n81. DJing\n82. Dog competitions![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n83. Dog sledding\n84. Dog training\n85. Dominoes\n86. Dragon boat racing\n87. Draw comics or learn animation\n88. Drawing\n89. Driveway chalk\n90. Dumpster diving\n91. Enhance your survival skills\n92. Explore different religious beliefs\n93. Farming\n94. Fell running\n95. Feng shui\n96. Field hockey\n97. Find a natural way to collect rainwater\n98. Finger painting\n99. Fish pedicures\n100. Fishing for tuna\n101. Flower arrangements\n102. Fly Tying\n103. Flying drones\n104. Flying model planes\n105. Foosball\n106. Football\n107. Foster animals: either dogs and cats or more unique animals like rabbits, turtles, and birds\n108. Frisbee golf\n109. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.\n110. 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).\n111. Go crabbing\n112. Go kart racing\n113. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\n114. Going on picnics\n115. Graphology\n116. Groundhopping (going to as many stadiums or venues of your favorite artist or sports team)\n117. Gymnastics\n118. Ham radio\n119. Hand lettering\n120. Handball\n121. Handwriting letters to friends and family\n122. Haunted house tours\n123. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\n124. Hike the Appalachian mountains\n125. Hiking\n126. Hip Hop Dancing\n127. Hockey\n128. Horseback riding\n129. Hot air balloon\n130. Hoverboarding\n131. Hula dancing\n132. Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields\n133. Hurdles\n134. Ice fishing\n135. Impersonations\n136. Improve your memory\n137. Inventing\n138. Irish step dancing\n139. Juggling\n140. Jump rope![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n141. Kick sledding\n142. Kitchen chemistry\n143. Kite flying\n144. Kite surfing\n145. Knotting\n146. Lacrosse\n147. Landscaping\n148. Learn a roundhouse kick\n149. Learn boxing or kickboxing\n150. Learn how to debone and eat a chicken wing in one bite\n151. Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)\n152. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\n153. Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily\n154. Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue\n155. Learn how to whistle using your fingers\n156. Learn impressive party tricks\n157. Learn Klingon\n158. Learn magic tricks and card tricks\n159. Learn Pig Latin\n160. Learn self-defense\n161. Learn spear fishing or fly fishing.\n162. 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)\n163. Learn to ballroom dance\n164. Learn to do a backward roll\n165. Learn to do a cartwheel\n166. Learn to do a forward roll\n167. Learn to fence\n168. Learn to forage for edible food\n169. Learn to high kick\n170. Learn to ice skate\n171. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\n172. Learn to rock climb or bouldering\n173. Learn to shoot\n174. Learn to wear fake eyelashes\n175. Learning a foreign language\n176. Learning the art of storytelling\n177. Lego building\n178. Lobster Traps\n179. Lock picking\n180. Long distance track\n181. Long jump\n182. Look at free community events going on near you\n183. Ludo sport (Lightsaber combat)\n184. Make a collage\n185. Make a terrarium\n186. Make miniature doll furniture\n187. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube\n188. Make pottery\n189. Make your own boat\n190. Make your own bookmarks\n191. Make your own hot sauce\n192. Make your own jewelry ![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n193. Make your own robot\n194. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n195. Make your own tea blends\n196. Making a bird feeder\n197. Making digital photo books\n198. Making dolls\n199. Making model cars\n200. Making your own clothes\n201. Manicures\n202. Master airplane combat games\n203. Matchstick modeling\n204. Metal detector\n205. Metalworking\n206. Microscopy\n207. Middle distance track\n208. Mini golf\n209. Model rockets\n210. Model shipbuilding\n211. Motocross\n212. Needle Felting\n213. Obstacle course\n214. Palm reading\n215. Paper mache\n216. Parachuting\n217. Paragliding\n218. Parkour\n219. Pedicures\n220. Pencil sketching\n221. People watching\n222. Perfect your handshake\n223. Perfect your high five\n224. Performing stand up comedy\n225. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\n226. Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='428'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20428'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n227. Play badminton\n228. Play chess\n229. Play darts\n230. Play volleyball\n231. Playing harmonica\n232. Playing pool\n233. Podcasting\n234. Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)\n235. Pressing flowers\n236. Produce electronic music\n237. Puppetry\n238. Quidditch\n239. Racquetball\n240. RC cars\n241. Reef aquarium\n242. Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard\n243. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\n244. Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)\n245. Roast your own coffee\n246. Rock painting\n247. Rollerblading\n248. Roller skating\n249. Rowing\n250. Running\n251. Sand sculptures\n252. Sand surfing\n253. Sandboarding\n254. Scale miniature building\n255. Science experiments\n256. Scottish sword dancing\n257. Scouting\n258. Scrapbooking\n259. Sculpting\n260. Sculpting with clay\n261. Self-care or beauty night\n262. Sewing\n263. Short distance track\n264. Singing\n265. Skateboarding\n266. Skijoring (skiing with a horse pulling you)\n267. Skydiving\n268. Sleigh riding\n269. Slingshots\n270. Snorkeling\n271. Snowboarding\n272. Snowmobiling\n273. Soap making\n274. Soccer\n275. Solve puzzles or mazes\n276. Speed reading\n277. Speed skating\n278. Stamp collecting\n279. Stargazing with a telescope![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n280. Start a book club\n281. Start a journal\n282. Start an allotment or community garden\n283. Start and maintain a saltwater tank\n284. Stone skipping\n285. Story writing\n286. Sugar scrubs\n287. Surfing\n288. Sushi making\n289. Swimming\n290. Synchronized swimming\n291. Table tennis\n292. Tandem, biking\n293. Tarot reading\n294. Taxidermy\n295. Teeth whitening\n296. Tennis\n297. Tower running (or extreme stair climbing)\n298. Track cycling\n299. Train a falcon\n300. Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman\n301. Trivia contests\n302. Ultimate frisbee\n303. Vaulting horses\n304. Ventriloquism\n305. Visit the aquarium\n306. Visit the local library\n307. Visit the zoo\n308. Volunteer at the food pantry\n309. Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization\n310. Volunteering![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='411'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20411'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n311. Wakeboarding\n312. Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting\n313. 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).\n314. Watercolors\n315. Whale watching\n316. White water rafting\n317. Whittling or wood carving\n318. Windsurfing\n319. Wrestling\n320. Write a screenplay\n321. Writing a book\n322. Writing letters to loved ones\n## Things To Do When You’re Bored At Home.\nThis 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.\n\n1. Take a free [home management course like Home Rescue](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/home-rescue).\n2. Arrange flowers\n3. Astronomy\n4. At home facials\n5. Babysitting\n6. Bake and sell gourmet pet treats\n7. Baking\n8. Beat the record on Slitherio\n9. Take a free budgeting course like the [90 Day Budget Boot Camp.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/boot-camp)\n10. Become a Wikipedia editor\n11. Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)\n12. Becoming a newspaper contributor\n13. Belly Dancing\n14. Board dogs![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n15. Board game club\n16. Bonsai trees\n17. Book restoration\n18. Boomerangs\n19. Brainstorm your hobbies\n20. Breed dogs\n21. Build a family command center\n22. Build a nixie tube clock\n23. Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally\n24. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\n25. Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace\n26. Build your own smoker\n27. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\n28. Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard\n29. Building fairy gardens\n30. Butterfly watching![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n31. Camping\n32. Candy making\n33. Canning\n34. Cardio\n35. Catch up on laundry\n36. Ceramics\n37. Chocolate tasting\n38. Clean out and detail clean your car\n39. Collecting baseball cards\n40. Coloring\n41. Comic book art\n42. Container gardening\n43. Cooking\n44. Cosplay\n45. Create a bucket list\n46. Create a home stock room\n47. Create a treasure hunt\n48. Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls\n49. Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes\n50. Creating a family tree\n51. Creating a time capsule\n52. Creating unique recipes\n53. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\n54. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\n55. Crocheting\n56. Crossword puzzles\n57. Declutter and organize an area of your home\n58. Decoupage\n59. Design funny or niche coffee mugs\n60. Design funny or niche tee shirts\n61. Design printable planner stickers\n62. Digital scrapbooking\n63. Dog training\n64. Dominoes\n65. Draw comics or learn animation\n66. Drawing\n67. Dry brushing\n68. Embroidery\n69. Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties\n70. Explore different religious beliefs\n71. Farming\n72. Feng Shui your home\n73. Find a natural way to collect rainwater\n74. Float spa\n75. Flower arrangements\n76. Fly Tying\n77. Flying drones\n78. Flying model planes\n79. Foosball\n80. Foster animals either dogs and cats or more unique animals like rabbits, turtles, and birds![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n81. Freezer meals or Once a month meals\n82. Frisbee golf\n83. Furniture restoration\n84. Gather food donations for a local non-profit\n85. Genealogy\n86. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.\n87. 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).\n88. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\n89. Hand lettering\n90. Have family meetings or budget meetings\n91. Hip Hop Dancing\n92. Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)\n93. Impersonations\n94. Improve your memory\n95. Interviewing older relatives about their lives\n96. Inventing\n97. Jam making\n98. Kitchen chemistry\n99. Knitting\n100. Knotting\n101. Lacemaking\n102. Lacrosse\n103. Lamp making\n104. Landscaping\n105. Learn extreme couponing\n106. Learn graphic design (for example, logos)\n107. Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)\n108. 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)\n109. Learn how to make printables\n110. Learn how to make wine\n111. Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA\n112. Learn how to meal plan\n113. Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions\n114. Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily\n115. Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue\n116. Learn impressive party tricks\n117. Learn Klingon\n118. Learn magic tricks and card tricks\n119. Learn Pig Latin\n120. Learn screen printing\n121. Learn SEO\n122. 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)\n123. Learn to bake\n124. Learn to be a life coach\n125. Learn to budget![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n126. Learn to cook\n127. Learn to crochet\n128. Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes\n129. Learn to knit\n130. Learn to manage your home\n131. Learn to perfect big barrel curls\n132. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\n133. Learn to play craps\n134. Learn to quilt\n135. Learn to sew\n136. Learn to wear fake eyelashes\n137. Learning a foreign language\n138. Lip plumpers\n139. Lock picking\n140. Look at free community events going on near you\n141. Macrame\n142. Make a collage\n143. Make a terrarium\n144. Make cold brew coffee\n145. Make hard cider (super easy!)\n146. Make miniature doll furniture\n147. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube\n148. Make your own beer\n149. Make your own bookmarks\n150. Make your own candles\n151. Make your own hot sauce\n152. Make your own jewelry\n153. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n154. Make your own tea blends\n155. Making a bird feeder\n156. Making dolls\n157. Making model cars\n158. Making wood family signs\n159. Making your own clothes\n160. Manicures\n161. Master airplane combat games\n162. Master barbeque\n163. Matchstick modeling\n164. Meal plan for the week\n165. Meditation\n166. Metalworking\n167. Model rockets\n168. Model shipbuilding\n169. Needle felting\n170. Obstacle course\n171. Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books\n172. Organize your week\n173. Palm reading\n174. Paper mache\n175. Parkour\n176. Pedicures\n177. Pencil sketching\n178. Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: secret ingredient? Cream cheese)\n179. Plan a monthly dinner club, bunco night, or poker party\n180. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\n181. 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.)\n182. Plan out a yearly menu\n183. Play chess![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n184. Playing pool\n185. Podcasting\n186. Polo leather making\n187. Pressing flowers\n188. Produce electronic music\n189. Proofreading\n190. Pyrotechnics or fireworks\n191. RC cars\n192. Reef aquarium\n193. Refinish a piece of furniture you find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace\n194. Renovate your house\n195. Rent a Tesla (self-driving car)\n196. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\n197. Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)\n198. Roast your own coffee\n199. Rock painting\n200. Room renovations or home designs\n201. Running\n202. Scrapbooking\n203. Sculpting\n204. Sculpting with clay\n205. Self-care or beauty night\n206. Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist\n207. Sewing\n208. 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)\n209. Singing\n210. Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)\n211. Soap making\n212. Solve puzzles or mazes\n213. Speed reading\n214. Start a book club\n215. Start a journal\n216. Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)\n217. Start and maintain a saltwater tank\n218. Starting an Etsy or eBay store\n219. Staycation\n220. Story writing\n221. Strength training\n222. Subscription boxes\n223. Sudoku\n224. Sugar scrubs![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n225. Sushi making\n226. Table tennis\n227. Tai Chi\n228. Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)\n229. Take surveys\n230. Tapestry\n231. Tarot reading\n232. Tasting parties with miracle fruit\n233. Teach your kids a chore they can take over\n234. Teeth whitening\n235. Trivia contests\n236. Ultimate frisbee\n237. Upholstery\n238. Volunteer at the food pantry\n239. Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization\n240. Walking\n241. Watchmaking\n242. 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).\n243. Watercolors\n244. Write your family mission statement\n245. Writing a book\n246. Writing letters to loved ones\n247. Writing letters to your future self\n248. Yoga\n249. Yoyoing\n## Things To Do When You’re Bored At Night.\nThis 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.\n\n1. 3D printing\n2. Aerial photography\n3. Airbrushing\n4. Astronomy\n5. At home facials\n6. Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD\n7. Bake and sell gourmet pet treats\n8. Baking\n9. Beat the record on Slitherio\n10. Beatboxing\n11. Become a Wikipedia editor\n12. Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)\n13. Becoming a newspaper contributor\n14. Belly Dancing\n15. Blacksmithing (make your own sword)\n16. Board dogs\n17. Board game club\n18. Book restoration\n19. Breakdancing\n20. Breed dogs\n21. Build a family command center\n22. Build a Tesla coil\n23. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n24. Build furniture\n25. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\n26. Butterfly watching\n27. Camping\n28. Candy making\n29. Canning\n30. Cardmaking\n31. Cartography\n32. Carve epic pumpkins\n33. Catch up on laundry\n34. Catching insects (like lightning bugs)\n35. Ceramics\n36. Chocolate tasting\n37. Clean out and detail clean your car![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='379'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20379'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n38. Coin collecting\n39. Collecting model trains\n40. Coloring\n41. Comic book art\n42. Cooking\n43. Cosplay\n44. Create a charity\n45. Create a home stock room\n46. Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)\n47. Create a treasure hunt\n48. Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls\n49. Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes\n50. Creating a family tree\n51. Creating a time capsule\n52. Creating unique recipes\n53. Creating videos (videography) for weddings and smaller productions (filming courses or tutorials)\n54. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\n55. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\n56. Crocheting\n57. Crossword puzzles\n58. Cryptography\n59. Declutter and organize an area of your home\n60. Decoupage\n61. Design funny or niche coffee mugs\n62. Design funny or niche tee shirts\n63. Digital scrapbooking\n64. Diner club\n65. Distilling\n66. DJing\n67. Dog training\n68. Dominoes\n69. Draw comics or learn animation\n70. Drawing\n71. Driving people around (Lyft or Uber)\n72. Dry brushing\n73. Dumpster diving\n74. Embroidery\n75. Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)\n76. Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties\n77. Explore different religious beliefs\n78. Feng Shui your home\n79. Fire poi (fire performance)\n80. Flower arrangements\n81. Fly Tying\n82. Foosball\n83. Freezer meals, once a month meals\n84. Furniture restoration\n85. Genealogy\n86. Get a tattoo\n87. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.\n88. Glamping\n89. Glass blowing\n90. 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).\n91. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\n92. Graphology\n93. Ham radio\n94. Hand lettering![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='338'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20338'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n95. Handwriting letters to friends and family\n96. Haunted house tours\n97. Have family meetings or budget meetings\n98. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\n99. Hip Hop Dancing\n100. Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)\n101. Impersonations\n102. Interviewing older relatives about their lives\n103. Inventing\n104. Jam making\n105. Karaoke\n106. Kitchen chemistry\n107. Knifemaking\n108. Knitting\n109. Knotting\n110. Lacemaking\n111. Lamp making\n112. Learn extreme couponing\n113. Learn graphic design (for example, logos)\n114. Learn how to edit videos\n115. Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)\n116. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\n117. Learn how to make printables\n118. Learn how to make wine\n119. Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA\n120. Learn how to meal plan\n121. Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions\n122. Learn how to whistle using your fingers\n123. Learn Klingon\n124. Learn Pig Latin\n125. Learn screen printing\n126. Learn SEO\n127. 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)\n128. Learn to bake\n129. Learn to budget\n130. Learn to cook\n131. Learn to crochet\n132. Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes\n133. Learn to knit\n134. Learn to manage your home![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n135. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\n136. Learn to play craps\n137. Learn to quilt\n138. Learn to sew\n139. Learn to wear fake eyelashes\n140. Learning a foreign language\n141. Learning how to bartend\n142. Learning how to use and run a teleprompter (impressive money and has little competition for a part-time gig)\n143. Learning the art of storytelling\n144. Lego building\n145. Lip plumpers\n146. Lock picking\n147. Look at free community events going on near you\n148. Macrame\n149. Make a collage\n150. Make a terrarium\n151. Make cold brew coffee\n152. Make hard cider (super easy!)\n153. Make miniature doll furniture\n154. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube\n155. Make your own beer\n156. Make your own bookmarks\n157. Make your own candles\n158. Make your own hot sauce\n159. Make your own jewelry\n160. Make your own robot\n161. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n162. Make your own tea blends\n163. Making a bird feeder\n164. Making digital photo books\n165. Making dolls\n166. Making model cars\n167. Making your own clothes\n168. Manicures\n169. Master airplane combat games![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='372'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20372'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n170. Master barbeque\n171. Matchstick modeling\n172. Meal plan for the week\n173. Mini golf\n174. Model rockets\n175. Model shipbuilding\n176. Needle Felting\n177. Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books\n178. Organize your week\n179. Paint and sip nights\n180. Palm reading\n181. Paper mache\n182. Pedicures\n183. Pencil sketching\n184. Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: secret ingredient? Cream cheese)\n185. Perfect your handshake\n186. Perfect your high five\n187. Performing stand up comedy\n188. Pinochle\n189. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\n190. 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.)\n191. Plan out a yearly menu\n192. Play chess\n193. Play darts\n194. Playing harmonica\n195. Playing pool![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='450'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20450'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n196. Podcasting\n197. Poker\n198. Polo leather making\n199. Produce electronic music\n200. Proofreading\n201. Puppetry\n202. Pyrotechnics or fireworks\n203. RC cars\n204. Rent a Tesla (self-driving car)\n205. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\n206. Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)\n207. Roast your own coffee\n208. Roast your own coffee\n209. Rock painting\n210. Room renovations or home designs\n211. Science experiments\n212. Scrapbooking\n213. Sculpting\n214. Sculpting with clay\n215. Self-care or beauty night\n216. Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist\n217. Sewing\n218. 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)\n219. Singing\n220. Snowmobiling\n221. Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (\\*probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)\n222. Soap making\n223. Solve puzzles or mazes\n224. Speed reading\n225. Spin classes\n226. Sports refereeing\n227. Stamp collecting\n228. Stargazing with a telescope\n229. Start a book club\n230. Start a journal\n231. Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)\n232. Start and maintain a saltwater tank\n233. Starting a parents night out\n234. Starting an Etsy or eBay store\n235. Story writing\n236. Subscription boxes\n237. Sudoku\n238. Sugar scrubs\n239. Sushi making\n240. Table tennis\n241. Tai Chi\n242. Take a positive discipline parenting class\n243. Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)\n244. Tapestry\n245. Tarot reading\n246. Tasting parties with miracle fruit\n247. Taxidermy\n248. Teach your kids a chore they can take over\n249. Teeth whitening\n250. Themed date nights\n251. Train a falcon\n252. Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman\n253. Upholstery\n254. Ventriloquism\n255. War games\n256. Watchmaking![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n257. 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).\n258. Watercolors\n259. Wine\/cheese tasting\n260. Write a screenplay\n261. Write your family mission statement\n262. Writing a book\n263. Writing letters to loved ones\n264. Writing letters to your future self\n## Things To Do With Your Boyfriend  (Or Girlfriend, Husband, or Wife) When You’re Bored.\nThis 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.\n\n**Hint:** You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.\n\nIf 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).\n\n1. 1. 3D printing\n   2. Acroyoga (couples yoga where you physically support each other)\n   3. Aerial photography\n   4. Airbrushing\n   5. Airsoft guns\n   6. Antiquing\n   7. Apply to be an extra in a movie or tv show\n   8. Archaeology: like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n   9. Astronomy\n   10. Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD\n   11. Audition as an actor or for a commercial\n   12. Audition to be a model\n   13. Baseball\n   14. Basketball\n   15. Beachcombing\n   16. Beach volleyball\n   17. Become a connoisseur (wine, whiskey)\n   18. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\n   19. Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)\n   20. Becoming a newspaper contributor\n   21. Bicycling\n   22. Biking\n   23. Blacksmithing (make your own sword)\n   24. Board dogs\n   25. Board game club\n   26. Body surfing\n   27. Bonsai trees\n   28. Boogie boarding\n   29. Book restoration\n   30. Boomerangs\n   31. Brainstorm your hobbies\n   32. Breaking a world record\n   33. Breed dogs\n   34. Build a family command center\n   35. Build a functional igloo in the snow\n   36. Build a Tesla coil\n   37. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\n   38. Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace\n   39. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\n   40. Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard\n   41. Building fairy gardens\n   42. Buy a boat\n   43. Camping\n   44. Canning\n   45. Canoeing\n   46. Cardio\n   47. Cartography\n   48. Carve epic pumpkins\n   49. Catch up on laundry\n   50. Catching insects (like lightning bugs)\n   51. Cave Diving\n   52. Caving or spelunking![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='360'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20360'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n   53. Check out a salsa club\n   54. Check out museums\n   55. Chocolate tasting\n   56. Clean out and detail clean your car\n   57. Coin collecting\n   58. Collecting baseball cards\n   59. Collecting model trains\n   60. Collecting seashells\n   61. Combat shooting\n   62. Comic book art\n   63. Cooking\n   64. Crabbing\n   65. Create a bucket list\n   66. Create a charity\n   67. Create a home stock room\n   68. Create a treasure hunt\n   69. Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes\n   70. Creating a family tree\n   71. Creating a time capsule\n   72. Creating unique recipes\n   73. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\n   74. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\n   75. Croquet\n   76. Cross country running\n   77. Cross country skiing\n   78. Cryptography\n   79. Curling\n   80. Declutter and organize an area of your home\n   81. Design funny or niche coffee mugs\n   82. Design funny or niche tee shirts\n   83. Dig for clams\n   84. Diner club\n   85. Distilling\n   86. DJing\n   87. Dog competitions\n   88. Dog sledding\n   89. Dog training\n   90. Dominoes\n   91. Dragon boat racing\n   92. Draw comics or learn animation\n   93. Dumpster diving\n   94. Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)\n   95. Enhance your survival skills\n   96. Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties\n   97. Explore different religious beliefs\n   98. Farming\n   99. Feng Shui your home\n   100. Field hockey\n   101. Find a natural way to collect rainwater\n   102. Fire poi (fire performance)\n   103. Fishing for tuna\n   104. Float spa\n   105. Flower arrangements![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='338'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20338'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n   106. Fly Tying\n   107. Flying drones\n   108. Flying model planes\n   109. Foosball\n   110. Football\n   111. Foster animals: either dogs and cats or more unique animals like rabbits, turtles, and birds\n   112. Freezer meals, once a month meals\n   113. Frisbee golf\n   114. Furniture restoration\n   115. Gather food donations for a local non-profit\n   116. Genealogy\n   117. Geology\n   118. Get a tattoo\n   119. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games\n   120. Glamping![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='401'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20401'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n   121. Glass blowing\n   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).\n   123. Go crabbing\n   124. Go kart racing\n   125. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\n   126. Going on picnics\n   127. Graphology\n   128. Gunsmith\n   129. Ham radio\n   130. Hand to hand combat\n   131. Handball\n   132. Hang Gliding\n   133. Haunted house tours\n   134. Have a seafood boil in the sand\n   135. Have family meetings or budget meetings\n   136. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\n   137. Hike the Appalachian mountains\n   138. Hiking\n   139. Hockey\n   140. Homesteading\n   141. Horseback riding\n   142. Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)\n   143. Hot air balloon\n   144. House of horror\n   145. Ice fishing\n   146. Impersonations\n   147. Improve your memory\n   148. Interviewing older relatives about their lives\n   149. Inventing\n   150. Jam making\n   151. Jet ski\n   152. Karaoke\n   153. Kick sledding\n   154. Kitchen chemistry\n   155. Knifemaking\n   156. Knife throwing\n   157. Knotting\n   158. Lacrosse\n   159. Lamp making\n   160. Landscaping\n   161. Learn a roundhouse kick\n   162. Learn archery\n   163. Learn how to debone and eat a chicken wing in one bite\n   164. Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)\n   165. Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)\n   166. Learn how to fix old broken computers (you can find dozens with problems for free or super cheap on Craigslist\n   167. Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)\n   168. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\n   169. Learn how to juggle fire\n   170. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\n   171. Learn how to make wine\n   172. Learn how to meal plan\n   173. Learn how to start a fire with two sticks\n   174. Learn impressive party tricks\n   175. Learn Klingon\n   176. Learn Pig Latin\n   177. Learn self-defense\n   178. Learn spear fishing or fly fishing.\n   179. Learn to ballroom dance\n   180. Learn to budget\n   181. Learn to dirty dance\n   182. Learn to do a backward roll\n   183. Learn to do a cartwheel\n   184. Learn to do a forward roll\n   185. Learn to fence\n   186. Learn to forage for edible food\n   187. Learn to high kick\n   188. Learn to hunt or to track\n   189. Learn to ice skate\n   190. Learn to manage your home\n   191. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\n   192. Learn to play craps\n   193. Learn to rock climb or bouldering![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n   194. Learn to shoot\n   195. Learn to travel hack\n   196. Learning a foreign language\n   197. Learning how to bartend\n   198. Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)\n   199. Learning how to tattoo\n   200. Learning the art of storytelling\n   201. Lego building\n   202. Letterboxing\n   203. Lobster traps\n   204. Lock picking\n   205. Look at free community events going on near you\n   206. Make a collage\n   207. Make a pinhole camera and make your own darkroom to develop the images\n   208. Make a terrarium\n   209. Make cold brew coffee\n   210. Make hard cider (super easy!)\n   211. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube\n   212. Make your own beer\n   213. Make your own hot sauce\n   214. Make your own robot\n   215. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n   216. Make your own tea blends\n   217. Making a bird feeder\n   218. Making digital photo books\n   219. Making model cars\n   220. Making pallet furniture\n   221. Master airplane combat games\n   222. Master barbeque\n   223. Matchstick modeling\n   224. Meal plan for the week\n   225. Metalworking\n   226. Microscopy\n   227. Mini golf\n   228. Model rockets\n   229. Model shipbuilding\n   230. Mud wrestle (or jello?)\n   231. Obstacle course\n   232. Organize your week\n   233. Paint and sip nights\n   234. Parachuting\n   235. Paragliding![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='337'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20337'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n   236. Parasailing\n   237. Parkour\n   238. Pencil sketching\n   239. People watching\n   240. Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (secret ingredient? Cream cheese)\n   241. Pinochle\n   242. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\n   243. Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit\n   244. Play badminton\n   245. Play chess\n   246. Play darts\n   247. Play volleyball\n   248. Playing pool\n   249. Podcasting\n   250. Poker\n   251. Polo leather making\n   252. Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)\n   253. Produce electronic music\n   254. Puppetry\n   255. Pyrotechnics or fireworks\n   256. Quidditch\n   257. Racquetball\n   258. Rappelling\n   259. RC cars\n   260. Reef aquarium\n   261. Renovate your house\n   262. Rent a Tesla (self-driving car)\n   263. Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard\n   264. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\n   265. Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)\n   266. Road trips\n   267. Roast your own coffee\n   268. Sailing\n   269. Sand sculptures\n   270. Sand surfing\n   271. Sandboarding\n   272. Scale miniature building\n   273. Science experiments\n   274. Sculpting with clay\n   275. Scuba Diving\n   276. Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist\n   277. Shark diving\n   278. Shark tooth or fossil hunting\n   279. Skeet shooting\n   280. Skijoring (skiing with a horse pulling you)\n   281. Skydiving\n   282. Sleigh riding\n   283. Slingshots\n   284. Snorkeling\n   285. Snowboarding![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n   286. Snowmobiling\n   287. Soccer\n   288. Speed reading\n   289. Speed skating\n   290. Spin classes\n   291. Stamp collecting\n   292. Stargazing with a telescope\n   293. Start a book club\n   294. Start and maintain a saltwater tank\n   295. Starting a parents night out\n   296. Starting an Etsy or eBay store\n   297. Staycation\n   298. Stoneworking\n   299. Strength training\n   300. Surfing\n   301. Sushi making\n   302. Swimming\n   303. Table tennis\n   304. Take a discovery flight\n   305. Take a positive discipline parenting class\n   306. Tandem, biking\n   307. Tap maple trees to make syrup\n   308. Target shooting\n   309. Tarot reading\n   310. Tasting parties with miracle fruit\n   311. Taxidermy\n   312. Teach your kids a chore they can take over\n   313. Tennis\n   314. Themed date nights\n   315. Throw axes\n   316. Touring wineries\n   317. Tower running (or extreme stair climbing)\n   318. Train a falcon\n   319. Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman\n   320. Ultimate frisbee\n   321. Upholstery\n   322. Vaulting horses\n   323. Ventriloquism\n   324. Visit a speakeasy\n   325. Visit the aquarium\n   326. Visit the zoo\n   327. Volunteer at a local non-profit\n   328. Volunteer at the food pantry\n   329. Volunteer at the kid’s school![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n   330. Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization\n   331. Volunteering\n   332. Wakeboarding\n   333. Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting\n   334. Walking\n   335. War games\n   336. Watchmaking\n   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).\n   338. Weekend getaways\n   339. Whale watching\n   340. White water rafting\n   341. Windsurfing\n   342. Wine\/cheese tasting\n   343. Wingsuit flying\n   344. Wrestling\n   345. Write a screenplay\n   346. Write your family mission statement\n   347. Ziplining\n## Things To Do When You’re Bored With Friends.\nThis 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.\n\n**Hint:** You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.\n\nIf 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).\n\n1. Take a [comprehensive home management course together, like Hot Mess to Home Success.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/Hotmesswaitinglist)\n2. 3D printing\n3. Acapella\n4. Aerial photography\n5. Antigravity cocooning (fitness)\n6. Antiquing![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='450'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20450'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n7. Archaeology: like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast\n8. At home facials\n9. Baking\n10. Baseball\n11. Basketball\n12. Beachcombing\n13. Beach volleyball\n14. Become a connoisseur (wine, whiskey)\n15. Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)\n16. Belly Dancing\n17. Bicycling\n18. Biking\n19. Board game club\n20. Body surfing\n21. Boogie boarding\n22. Boomerangs\n23. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\n24. Butterfly watching\n25. Calligraphy\n26. Camping\n27. Candy making\n28. Cardio![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n29. Carve epic pumpkins\n30. Catch up on laundry\n31. Cave Diving\n32. Caving or spelunking\n33. Ceramics\n34. Check out a salsa club\n35. Chocolate tasting\n36. Coach a local sports team\n37. Coin collecting\n38. Collecting leaves or flowers\n39. Collecting seashells\n40. Coloring\n41. Combat shooting\n42. Comic book art\n43. Cooking\n44. Corn Maze\n45. Cosplay\n46. Crabbing\n47. Create a home stock room\n48. Create a treasure hunt\n49. Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes\n50. Creating a family tree\n51. Creating unique recipes\n52. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\n53. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\n54. Crocheting\n55. Cross country running\n56. Cross country skiing\n57. Cryotherapy\n58. Decoupage\n59. Dig for clams\n60. Diner club\n61. Distilling\n62. DJing\n63. Dominoes\n64. Dry brushing\n65. Embroidery\n66. Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties\n67. Explore different religious beliefs\n68. Fell running\n69. Field hockey\n70. Find a natural way to collect rainwater\n71. Fish pedicures\n72. Fishing for tuna\n73. Float spa\n74. Flower arrangements\n75. Flying drones\n76. Football\n77. Freezer cooking (once a month?)\n78. Frisbee golf\n79. Gather food donations for a local non-profit\n80. Get a tattoo\n81. Glamping\n82. Glass blowing\n83. 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).\n84. Go crabbing![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n85. Go Kart\n86. Going on picnics\n87. Hand lettering\n88. Hand to hand combat\n89. Handball\n90. Hang Gliding\n91. Haunted house tours\n92. Have a seafood boil in the sand\n93. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\n94. Hike the Appalachian mountains\n95. Hiking\n96. Hip Hop Dancing\n97. Hockey\n98. Horseback riding\n99. Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)\n100. 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 )\n101. House of horror\n102. Hula dancing\n103. Irish step dancing\n104. Jam making\n105. Jet ski\n106. Juggling in the street\n107. Karaoke\n108. Keratin treatment (permanent hair straightening)\n109. Kitchen chemistry\n110. Knitting\n111. Lacemaking\n112. Lacrosse\n113. Learn archery\n114. Learn boxing or kickboxing\n115. Learn graphic design (for example, logos)\n116. Learn how to juggle fire\n117. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\n118. Learn how to make printables\n119. Learn how to make wine\n120. Learn how to meal plan\n121. Learn impressive party tricks\n122. Learn Klingon\n123. Learn Pig Latin\n124. Learn self-defense\n125. 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)\n126. Learn to ballroom dance![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='368'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20368'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n127. Learn to budget\n128. Learn to crochet\n129. Learn to dirty dance\n130. Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes\n131. Learn to fence\n132. Learn to ice skate\n133. Learn to knit\n134. Learn to manage your home\n135. Learn to perfect big barrel curls\n136. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\n137. Learn to play craps\n138. Learn to quilt\n139. Learn to rock climb or bouldering\n140. Learn to sew\n141. Learn to wear fake eyelashes\n142. Learning a foreign language\n143. Learning how to bartend\n144. Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)\n145. Learning how to tattoo\n146. Learning the art of storytelling\n147. Lip plumpers\n148. Lobster traps\n149. Look at free community events going on near you\n150. Macrame\n151. Make a collage\n152. Make cold brew coffee\n153. Make hard cider (super easy!)\n154. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube\n155. Make pottery\n156. Make your own beer\n157. Make your own hot sauce\n158. Make your own jewelry\n159. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n160. Making digital photo books\n161. Making dolls\n162. Making your own clothes\n163. Manicures\n164. Massage\n165. Master barbeque\n166. Meal plan for the week\n167. Mini golf\n168. Needle Felting\n169. Obstacle course\n170. Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books\n171. Organize your week\n172. Paint and sip nights\n173. Palm reading\n174. Parachuting\n175. Paragliding\n176. Pedicures\n177. Pencil sketching\n178. People watching\n179. Performing stand up comedy\n180. Plan a monthly dinner club, bunco night, or poker party\n181. Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit\n182. Play badminton\n183. Play chess\n184. Play darts\n185. Play volleyball\n186. Playing pool\n187. Podcasting\n188. Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)\n189. Pressing flowers\n190. Produce electronic music\n191. Puppetry\n192. Pyrotechnics or fireworks\n193. Quidditch\n194. Racquetball\n195. Rappelling\n196. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\n197. Road trips\n198. Roast your own coffee\n199. Rollerblading\n200. Roller skating\n201. Room renovations or home designs\n202. Rugby\n203. Running\n204. RV across the US\n205. Sailing\n206. Sand sculptures\n207. Sand surfing\n208. Sandboarding\n209. Science experiments\n210. Scottish sword dancing\n211. Scrapbooking\n212. Scuba Diving\n213. Sculpting\n214. Self-care or beauty night\n215. Self Tanning\n216. Sewing\n217. Shark Diving\n218. Skydiving\n219. Snorkeling\n220. Snowboarding\n221. Snowmobiling\n222. Soap making\n223. Soccer\n224. Speed skating\n225. Spin classes\n226. Stamp collecting\n227. Stargazing with a telescope\n228. Start a book club\n229. Start a soccer mom league\n230. Strength training\n231. Subscription boxes\n232. Sugar scrubs![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='267'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20267'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n233. Surfing\n234. Sushi making\n235. Swimming\n236. Synchronized swimming\n237. Table tennis\n238. Tai Chi\n239. Take a discovery flight\n240. Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)\n241. Tandem, biking\n242. Tapestry\n243. Target shooting\n244. Tarot reading\n245. Tasting parties with miracle fruit\n246. Teeth whitening\n247. Tennis\n248. Touring wineries\n249. Track cycling\n250. Ultimate frisbee\n251. Vaulting horses\n252. Ventriloquism\n253. Visit a speakeasy\n254. Visit the aquarium\n255. Visit the local library\n256. Visit the zoo\n257. Volunteer at a local non-profit\n258. Volunteer at the food pantry\n259. Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization\n260. Volunteering\n261. Wakeboarding\n262. Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting\n263. Walking\n264. 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).\n265. Weekend getaways\n266. Whale watching\n267. White water rafting\n268. Windsurfing ![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='256'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20256'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n269. Wine\/cheese tasting\n270. Wingsuit flying\n271. Yoga\n272. Ziplining\n## Fun things to do on a laptop when you’re bored.\nCool things to do when you’re bored on a laptop? This is your list\\!\n\n**Hint:** You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.\n\nIf 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).\n\n1. Antiquing\n2. Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD\n3. Become a certified financial planner\n4. Become a Wikipedia editor\n5. Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University) ![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n6. Blogging\n7. YouTube\n8. Becoming a newspaper contributor\n9. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\n10. Coding\n11. Collecting model trains\n12. Comic book art\n13. Create a charity\n14. Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)\n15. Creating videos (videography) for weddings and smaller productions (filming courses or tutorials)\n16. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\n17. Design funny or niche coffee mugs\n18. Design funny or niche tee shirts\n19. Design printable planner stickers\n20. DJing\n21. Explore different religious beliefs\n22. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.\n23. Gunsmith\n24. Learn boxing or kickboxing\n25. Learn extreme couponing\n26. Learn graphic design (for example, logos)\n27. Learn how to edit videos\n28. Learn how to travel hack credit card rewards (not for the faint of heart!)\n29. Learn how to make printables\n30. Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA\n31. Learn how to meal plan\n32. Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions\n33. Learn screen printing\n34. Learn SEO\n35. Learn to be a Life Coach\n36. Learn to budget\n37. Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes\n38. Learn to manage your home\n39. Learning how to bartend\n40. Learning how to use and run a teleprompter (impressive money and has little competition for a part-time gig)\n41. Look at free community events going on near you\n42. Make a collage\n43. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube Beat the record on Slitherio\n44. Making digital photo books\n45. Master airplane combat games\n46. Meal plan for the week ![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n47. Plan a road trip\n48. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\n49. Plan a vacation\n50. Plan an RV trip across the US\n51. 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.)\n52. Plan out a yearly menu\n53. Play chess\n54. Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E\\*Trade)\n55. Podcasting\n56. Poker\n57. Produce electronic music\n58. Programming\n59. Proofreading, formatting, and editing (books, court reports, blogs)\n60. Public speaking (get started with your local Toastmasters) goes well with a blog or YouTube channel\n61. Raspberry Pi projects (learn programming through fun practical projects)\n62. Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard\n63. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\n64. Scrapbooking\n65. 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)\n66. Speed reading\n67. Start a journal\n68. Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n69. Table tennis\n70. Take a positive discipline parenting class\n71. Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)\n72. Take surveys\n73. Trivia contests\n74. War games\n75. Write reviews online\n76. Write your family mission statement\n77. Writing letters to loved ones\n78. Writing letters to your future self\n## Fun things to do outside when you’re bored.\nWhether 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.\n\n1. 1. Acrobatics\n   2. Airsoft guns\n   3. Antiquing\n   4. Archaeology: like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast\n   5. Astronomy\n   6. At home facials\n   7. Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD\n   8. Baseball\n   9. Basketball\n   10. Beachcombing\n   11. Beach volleyball\n   12. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\n   13. Beekeeping\n   14. Bicycling\n   15. Body surfing\n   16. Boogie boarding\n   17. Boomerangs\n   18. Build a functional igloo in the snow\n   19. Build a nixie tube clock\n   20. Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally\n   21. Build a Tesla coil\n   22. Build an experimental aircraft\n   23. Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace\n   24. Build your own smoker\n   25. Building fairy gardens\n   26. Butterfly watching![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n   27. Buy a boat\n   28. Buy and sell land ([particularly cheap but commonly undesirable land like land for mudding](https:\/\/www.sidehustlenation.com\/side-hustle-show\/))\n   29. Canning\n   30. Canoeing\n   31. Cardio\n   32. Carve epic pumpkins\n   33. Catching insects (like lightning bugs)\n   34. Cave Diving\n   35. Caving or spelunking\n   36. Chainsaw carvings\n   37. Clean out and detail clean your car\n   38. Coach a local sports team\n   39. Collecting leaves or flowers\n   40. Collecting seashells\n   41. Combat shooting\n   42. Comic book art\n   43. Corn Maze\n   44. Crabbing\n   45. Create a treasure hunt\n   46. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\n   47. Croquet\n   48. Cross country running\n   49. Cross country skiing\n   50. Dig for clams\n   51. Dirt biking\n   52. Discus\n   53. Distilling\n   54. Dog competitions\n   55. Dog sledding\n   56. Dog training\n   57. Drag boat racing\n   58. Dragon boat racing\n   59. Driveway chalk\n   60. Driving people around (Lyft or Uber)\n   61. Dumpster diving\n   62. Enhance your survival skills\n   63. Fell running\n   64. Field hockey\n   65. Find a natural way to collect rainwater\n   66. Finger painting\n   67. Fire poi (fire performance)\n   68. Fishing for tuna\n   69. Flying drones\n   70. Flying model planes\n   71. Football\n   72. Frisbee golf\n   73. Furniture restoration\n   74. Geology\n   75. Get chickens to sell the eggs\n   76. Getting a dairy cow to sell the milk\n   77. Glass blowing\n   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).\n   79. Go crabbing\n   80. Go kart racing![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n   81. Go off-roading or mudding.\n   82. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\n   83. Going on picnics\n   84. Growing herbs or vegetables\n   85. Hand to hand combat\n   86. Handball\n   87. Hang Gliding\n   88. Have a seafood boil in the sand\n   89. Helicopter skiing\n   90. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\n   91. Hike the Appalachian mountains\n   92. Hiking\n   93. Hiking\n   94. Hockey\n   95. Homesteading\n   96. Horseback riding\n   97. Hot air balloon\n   98. Hoverboarding\n   99. Hula dancing\n   100. Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields\n   101. Hurdles\n   102. Ice fishing\n   103. Jet ski\n   104. Juggling in the street\n   105. Jump rope\n   106. Kick sledding\n   107. Kite surfing\n   108. Knife throwing\n   109. Lacrosse\n   110. Landscaping\n   111. Learn a roundhouse kick\n   112. Learn archery\n   113. Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)\n   114. Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)\n   115. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\n   116. Learn how to juggle fire\n   117. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\n   118. Learn how to make wine\n   119. Learn how to start a fire with two sticks\n   120. Learn how to use a bullwhip to snap a straw out of a man’s hand\n   121. Learn self-defense\n   122. Learn spear fishing or fly fishing.\n   123. Learn to do a backward roll\n   124. Learn to do a cartwheel\n   125. Learn to do a forward roll\n   126. Learn to fly\n   127. Learn to forage for edible food\n   128. Learn to high kick\n   129. Learn to hunt or to track\n   130. Learn to ice skate![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n   131. Learn to perfect big barrel curls\n   132. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\n   133. Learn to rock climb or bouldering\n   134. Learn to shoot\n   135. Learning the art of storytelling\n   136. Lip plumpers\n   137. Lobster traps\n   138. Lock picking\n   139. Long distance track\n   140. Long jump\n   141. Look at free community events going on near you\n   142. Make a collage\n   143. Make a terrarium\n   144. Make your own boat\n   145. Make your own jewelry\n   146. Making wood family signs\n   147. Manicures\n   148. Meditation\n   149. Metal detector\n   150. Middle distance track\n   151. Mini golf\n   152. Model shipbuilding\n   153. Motocross\n   154. Mud wrestle (or jello?)\n   155. Obstacle course\n   156. Parachuting\n   157. Paragliding\n   158. Parkour\n   159. Pedicures\n   160. People watching\n   161. Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit\n   162. Plant and maintain community fruit trees (Urban Harvest)\n   163. Play badminton\n   164. Play volleyball\n   165. Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)\n   166. Pyrotechnics or fireworks\n   167. Quidditch\n   168. Racquetball\n   169. Rappelling\n   170. Rent a Tesla (self-driving car)\n   171. Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard\n   172. Rollerblading\n   173. Roller skating\n   174. Rowing\n   175. Rugby\n   176. Running\n   177. Sand sculptures\n   178. Sand surfing\n   179. Sandboarding\n   180. Science experiments\n   181. Scuba Diving\n   182. Self Tanning\n   183. Shark Diving\n   184. Shark tooth or fossil hunting\n   185. Short distance track\n   186. Shot put\n   187. Skateboarding\n   188. Skeet shooting\n   189. Skijoring (skiing with a horse pulling you)\n   190. Skydiving\n   191. Sleigh riding\n   192. Smoking meat\n   193. Snorkeling\n   194. Snowboarding\n   195. Snowmobiling\n   196. Soccer\n   197. Speed skating\n   198. Stargazing with a telescope\n   199. Start a soccer mom league\n   200. Start an allotment or community garden\n   201. Stone skipping\n   202. Stoneworking![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n   203. Strength training\n   204. Sugar scrubs\n   205. Surfing\n   206. Swimming\n   207. Take a discovery flight\n   208. Tandem, biking\n   209. Tap maple trees to make syrup\n   210. Target shooting\n   211. Tennis\n   212. Throw axes\n   213. Track cycling\n   214. Train a falcon\n   215. Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman\n   216. Ultimate frisbee\n   217. Vaulting horses\n   218. Visit a flea market or thrift store and look for items to flip on eBay\n   219. Wakeboarding\n   220. Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting\n   221. Walking\n   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)\n   223. Whale watching\n   224. White water rafting\n   225. Whittling or wood carving\n   226. Windsurfing\n   227. Wingsuit flying\n   228. Write your family mission statement\n   229. Yoga\n   230. Ziplining\n## DIY Things To Do When You’re Bored.\nIf 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\\!\n\n1. Antiquing\n2. Bake and sell gourmet pet treats\n3. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\n4. Bookbinding\n5. Build a functional igloo in the snow\n6. Build a nixie tube clock\n7. Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally\n8. Build a Tesla coil\n9. Build an experimental aircraft\n10. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\n11. Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace\n12. Build your own smoker\n13. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\n14. Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard\n15. Building fairy gardens![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='399'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20399'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n16. Candy making\n17. Canning food\n18. Cardmaking\n19. Ceramics\n20. Chainsaw carvings\n21. Cosplay\n22. Create a charity\n23. Create a treasure hunt\n24. Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls\n25. Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes\n26. Creating a family tree\n27. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\n28. Decoupage\n29. Design printable planner stickers\n30. Distilling\n31. Farming\n32. Fly Tying\n33. Furniture restoration\n34. 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.\n35. Glass blowing\n36. Homesteading\n37. Kitchen chemistry\n38. Knifemaking\n39. Lamp making\n40. Landscaping\n41. Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)\n42. Learn how to flip cars\n43. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\n44. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\n45. Learn how to make wine\n46. Learn paper Origami or Tatebanko or paper quilling\n47. 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)\n48. Learn to crochet\n49. Learn to knit\n50. Learn to quilt\n51. Learn to sew![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n52. Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)\n53. Learning how to tattoo\n54. Make a pinhole camera and make your own darkroom to develop the images\n55. Make a terrarium\n56. Make cold brew coffee\n57. Make hard cider (super easy!)\n58. Make miniature doll furniture\n59. Make pottery\n60. Make your own boat\n61. Make your own bookmarks\n62. Make your own hot sauce\n63. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n64. Make your own tea blends\n65. Making a bird feeder\n66. Making digital photo books\n67. Making model cars\n68. Making pallet furniture\n69. Making wood family signs\n70. Metalworking\n71. Palm reading\n72. Paper mache\n73. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\n74. 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.)\n75. Plan out a yearly menu\n76. Plant and maintain community fruit trees (Urban Harvest)\n77. Reef aquarium\n78. Refinish a piece of furniture you find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace\n79. Restore a historic car\n80. Roast your own coffee\n81. Room renovations or home designs![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='402'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20402'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n82. Sand sculptures\n83. Soap making\n84. Start a journal\n85. Start an allotment or community garden\n86. Stoneworking\n87. Sushi making\n88. Tai Chi\n89. Tap maple trees to make syrup\n90. Tapestry\n91. Upholstery\n92. Whittling or wood carving\n## Things To Do When You’re Bored On Your Phone.\nBanish boredom in the waiting room with this giant lit of things to do on your phone when you’re bored.\n\n1. Beat the record on Slitherio\n2. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\n3. Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)\n4. Enhance your survival skills\n5. Explore different religious beliefs\n6. Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA\n7. Learn how to meal plan\n8. Learn how to pick locks\n9. Learn SEO\n10. Learn to budget\n11. Learn to forage for edible food\n12. Learn to manage your home\n13. Learn to travel hack\n14. Look at free community events going on near you\n15. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube\n16. Making digital photo books\n17. Meal plan for the week![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='388'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20388'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n18. Meditation\n19. Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books\n20. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\n21. 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.)\n22. Plan out a yearly menu\n23. Produce electronic music\n24. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\n25. Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist\n26. 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)\n27. Start a journal\n28. Write reviews online\n29. Yoga\n## Things To Do When You’re Bored That Could Make You Money.\nFun 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!).\n\nIf 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.\n\n1. 3D printing\n2. Acrobatics\n3. Airbrushing\n4. Architecture\n5. Babysitting\n6. Bake (If you’re good at it… Look into selling baked goods at a farmers market or festival, or from your home).![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n7. Bake and sell gourmet pet treats\n8. Baton twirling\n9. Beatboxing\n10. Become a certified financial planner\n11. Become a handyman\n12. Become a personal trainer or fitness instructor (either on your own or through whatever your jam is…CrossFit, Yoga or Zumba)\n13. Bookbinding\n14. Book restoration\n15. Breakdancing\n16. Build an experimental aircraft\n17. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\n18. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\n19. Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard\n20. Buy and sell land (particularly cheap but commonly undesirable land like land for mudding) (link to nick lopers podcast)\n21. Calligraphy\n22. Candy making\n23. Ceramics\n24. Chainsaw carvings\n25. Coding\n26. Coin collecting\n27. Collecting baseball cards\n28. Collecting model trains\n29. Collecting stamps\n30. Comic book art\n31. Cooking\n32. Cosplay\n33. Create a local Uber experience like a guided tour\n34. Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls\n35. Creating unique recipes\n36. Creating videos (videography) for weddings and smaller productions (filming courses or tutorials)\n37. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\n38. Crocheting\n39. Decoupage\n40. Design funny or niche coffee mugs\n41. Design funny or niche tee shirts\n42. Design printable planner stickers\n43. Dig for clams\n44. Dirt biking\n45. DJing\n46. Drag boat racing\n47. Draw comics or learn animation![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n48. Drawing\n49. Driving people around (Lyft or Uber)\n50. Embroidery\n51. Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties\n52. Flower arrangements\n53. Furniture restoration\n54. Get chickens to sell the eggs\n55. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.\n56. Getting a dairy cow to sell the milk\n57. Go crabbing\n58. Go to local open houses and watch the real estate market. Get into real estate or flipping houses\n59. Growing herbs or vegetables\n60. Gunsmith\n61. Gymnastics\n62. Hand lettering\n63. Helicopter skiing\n64. Homesteading\n65. 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 )\n66. Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields\n67. Ice fishing\n68. Impersonations\n69. Inventing\n70. Jam making\n71. Juggling in the street\n72. Kitchen chemistry\n73. Knifemaking\n74. Knitting\n75. Lacemaking\n76. Lamp making\n77. Learn graphic design (for example, logos)\n78. Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)\n79. Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)\n80. Learn how to edit videos\n81. Learn how to fix old broken computers (you can find dozens with problems for free or super cheap on Craigslist\n82. Learn how to flip cars\n83. Learn how to hack credit card rewards (not for the faint of heart!) We are gonna get sued for this!?\\!\n84. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\n85. Learn how to make printables\n86. Learn how to make wine\n87. Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA\n88. Learn how to meal plan\n89. Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions\n90. Learn how to stage homes for sale\n91. Learn screen printing\n92. Learn self-defense\n93. Learn SEO\n94. 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)\n95. Learn to bake\n96. Learn to be a Life Coach\n97. Learn to budget\n98. Learn to cook\n99. Learn to manage your home\n100. Learn to perfect big barrel curls\n101. Learn to play craps\n102. Learn to sew\n103. Learn to travel hack\n104. Learning a foreign language\n105. Learning how to bartend\n106. Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)\n107. Learning how to tattoo\n108. Learning how to use and run a teleprompter (impressive money and has little competition for a part-time gig)\n109. Learning the art of storytelling\n110. Lip plumpers\n111. Ludo sport (Lightsaber combat)\n112. Macrame\n113. Make a collage\n114. Make cold brew coffee\n115. Make hard cider (super easy!)\n116. Make miniature doll furniture![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n117. Make pottery\n118. Make your own beer\n119. Make your own boat\n120. Make your own hot sauce\n121. Make your own jewelry\n122. Make your own robot\n123. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n124. Making a bird feeder\n125. Making dolls\n126. Making model cars\n127. Making pallet furniture\n128. Making wood family signs\n129. Making your own clothes\n130. Manicures\n131. Master airplane combat games\n132. Metalworking\n133. Motocross\n134. Mud Wrestling\n135. Paper mache\n136. Pedicures\n137. Performing stand up comedy\n138. Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E\\*Trade)\n139. Playing harmonica\n140. Playing Pool\n141. Podcasting\n142. Poker\n143. Produce electronic music\n144. Programming\n145. Proofreading, formatting, and editing (books, court reports, blogs)\n146. Public speaking (get started with your local Toastmasters) goes well with a blog or YouTube channel\n147. Puppetry\n148. Rappelling\n149. Raspberry Pi projects (learn programming through fun practical projects)\n150. RC cars\n151. Reef aquarium\n152. Refinish a piece of furniture you find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace\n153. Renovate your house\n154. Restore a historic car\n155. Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)\n156. Road trips\n157. Roast your own coffee\n158. Room renovations or home designs\n159. RV across the US\n160. Sailing![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='338'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20338'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n161. Scrapbooking\n162. Sculpting\n163. Self Tanning\n164. Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist\n165. Sewing\n166. Singing\n167. Smoking meat\n168. Snorkeling\n169. Soap making\n170. Stamp collecting\n171. Start a blog, YouTube channel, or podcast\n172. Start and maintain a saltwater tank\n173. Starting an Etsy or eBay store\n174. Story writing\n175. Style and decorate homes\n176. Sushi making\n177. Synchronized swimming\n178. Take surveys\n179. Tap maple trees to make syrup\n180. Tapestry\n181. Tarot reading\n182. Teaching or tutoring, either an instrument or for school, or something else you excel in\n183. Tennis\n184. Ventriloquism\n185. Visit a flea market or thrift store and look for items to flip on eBay\n186. Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting\n187. Watchmaking\n188. Watercolors\n189. Whittling or wood carving\n190. Write a children’s book or first novel\n191. Writing a book![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n192. Zumba\n## Things To Do When You’re Bored To Make Life Easier.\nMy 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.)\n\n[You can check out Hot Mess to Home Success and jump on the waiting list here….](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/Hotmesswaitinglist)\n\nIf 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).\n\n1. Baking\n2. Become a certified financial planner\n3. Become a handyman\n4. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\n5. Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)\n6. Blacksmithing (make your own sword)\n7. Brainstorm your hobbies\n8. Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace\n9. Camping\n10. Canning food\n11. Cardio\n12. Catch up on laundry![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n13. Clean out and detail clean your car\n14. Cooking\n15. Create a home stock room\n16. Creating unique recipes\n17. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell\n18. Cross country running\n19. Declutter and organize an area of your home\n20. Dig for clams\n21. Distilling\n22. Dog training\n23. Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)\n24. Enhance your survival skills\n25. Freezer meals, once a month meals\n26. Furniture restoration\n27. Gather food donations for a local non-profit\n28. Go crabbing\n29. Have family meetings or budget meetings\n30. Homesteading\n31. 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 )\n32. Improve your memory\n33. Interviewing older relatives about their lives\n34. Inventing\n35. 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 )\n36. Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E\\*Trade)\n37. Become a handyman\n38. Landscaping\n39. Learn extreme couponing\n40. Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)\n41. Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)\n42. Learn how to fix old broken computers (you can find dozens with problems for free or super cheap on Craigslist)\n43. Learn how to flip cars\n44. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\n45. Learn how to meal plan\n46. Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions\n47. Learn how to pick locks\n48. Learn how to stage homes for sale\n49. Learn how to start a fire with two sticks\n50. Learn self-defense\n51. Learn spear fishing or fly fishing\n52. 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)\n53. Learn to bake\n54. Learn to be a Life Coach\n55. Learn to budget\n56. Learn to cook\n57. Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes\n58. Learn to manage your home\n59. Learn to rock climb or bouldering\n60. Learn to sew\n61. Learn to shoot\n62. Learn to travel hack\n63. Learning a foreign language\n64. Learning the art of storytelling\n65. Make hard cider (super easy!)\n66. Make your own hot sauce\n67. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n68. Make your own tea blends\n69. Master barbeque\n70. Meal plan for the week![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1024'%20height='683'%20viewBox='0%200%201024%20683'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\n71. Meditation\n72. Metalworking\n73. Organize your week\n74. 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.)\n75. Plan out a yearly menu\n76. Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E\\*Trade)\n77. Play volleyball\n78. Renovate your house\n79. Roast your own coffee\n80. Room renovations or home designs\n81. Running\n82. Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist\n83. Sewing\n84. 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)\n85. Soap making\n86. Spin classes\n87. Sports refereeing\n88. Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)\n89. Starting an Etsy or eBay store\n90. Strength training\n91. Style and decorate homes\n92. Sushi making\n93. Swimming\n94. Take a positive discipline parenting class\n95. Teach your kids a chore they can take over\n96. Teaching or tutoring, either an instrument or for school, or something else you excel in\n97. Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman\n98. Volunteer at a local non-profit\n99. Walking\n100. Yoga\n\nFTC Disclosure of Material Connection: In order for us to maintain this website, some of the links in the post above may be affiliate links. Regardless, we only recommend products or services we use personally and\/or believe will add value to readers\n\nFiled Under: [Budget](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/category\/lifeskills101\/budget\/), [Get Organized](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/category\/get-organized\/), [Make Money](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/category\/make-money\/)\n\n### Comments\n1. ![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='48'%20height='48'%20viewBox='0%200%2048%2048'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)[Jess @ The Exceptionally Ordinary Life](https:\/\/theexceptionallyordinarylife.com\/) says\n   \n   [June 11 at 1:29 pm](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#comment-24003)\n   \n   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\\!\n   \n   [Reply](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#comment-24003)\n2. ![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='48'%20height='48'%20viewBox='0%200%2048%2048'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)[Hena](https:\/\/www.mendingwithgold.com\/summer-bucket-list-for-kids\/) says\n   \n   [June 13 at 5:48 am](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#comment-24109)\n   \n   Wow!! Just wow!!! I love this list.  \n    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!\\!\n   \n   [Reply](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#comment-24109)\n3. ![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='48'%20height='48'%20viewBox='0%200%2048%2048'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)[Celina Unkles](https:\/\/livewellgrowrich.com\/) says\n   \n   [July 1 at 5:50 pm](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#comment-24976)\n   \n   Wow! That is some list. I love learning and trying new things so this will be a staple in our household. Thanks for sharing\\!\n   \n   [Reply](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#comment-24976)\n4. ![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='48'%20height='48'%20viewBox='0%200%2048%2048'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)[Joanna](http:\/\/www.joannarahier.com\/) says\n   \n   [July 22 at 4:53 pm](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#comment-25736)\n   \n   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\n   \n   [Reply](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#comment-25736)\n5. ![](data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='48'%20height='48'%20viewBox='0%200%2048%2048'%3E%3C\/svg%3E)[Dom Abraham](https:\/\/sleepiverse.com\/) says\n   \n   [September 23 at 3:00 am](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#comment-135814)\n   \n   This is the best list I’ve found till now! Thanks! A lot of great ideas instead of laying in bed all day 🙂\n   \n   [Reply](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#comment-135814)\n### Tell me what you think\\![Cancel reply](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#respond)\nThis site uses Akismet to reduce spam. [Learn how your comment data is processed.](https:\/\/akismet.com\/privacy\/)\n\nSuccess! 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[Privacy Policy](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/privacy-policy\/)  \nDesign by [Pixel Me Designs](http:\/\/www.pixelmedesigns.com\/)","attrs_readable_markdown":"This giant list of things to do when you’re bored is the ultimate resource of experiences to have and skills to master. **Whether you’re looking for a new free hobby to save money or you’re looking for an earth-shattering experience that will change your life, we’ve got you covered.**\n\n**Update: You asked for it and I’m delivering\\!** *Starting NOW, you can grab the Trashed to Total Home Transformation Survival Guide (Pandemic Edition) For FREE\\!*\n\nIt teaches you step by step how to work with your personality to not only set up home routines that will work (no matter how many times you’ve failed in the past), but that you’ll stick to… long after the pandemic is over.\n\nWe’ve taught hundreds of thousands of people **how to use bare minimum consistent effort to completely transform their home (and life!). You’re up next.**\n\n[You can get your Survival Guide here for FREE…](https:\/\/busybudgeter.lpages.co\/pandemic-guide-trashed-to-total-home-transformation\/)\n\n[![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Transformation-1.png)](https:\/\/busybudgeter.lpages.co\/pandemic-guide-trashed-to-total-home-transformation\/)\n\nA few years ago, we [reduced our spending by over \\$23,000](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/how-we-reduced-our-spending-by-23537-00-in-a-year-specific-stepsand-calculations-included\/), [paid off our debt of over \\$30,000](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/90-day-budget-beginners-boot-camp\/), I quit my job to stay home and then [I replaced my salary working from home](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/the-4-side-jobs-that-make-me-over-3000-a-month-as-a-stay-at-home-mom\/) ([We used this free step by step budgeting system to do that by the way](http:\/\/busybudgeter.com\/boot-camp)). 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.\n\n**Because dropping \\$200 on dinner, a movie, and a babysitter isn’t going to get anyone out of debt.**\n\nOver 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.\n\nThe cost didn’t matter anymore if the experience was worth it to us.\n\nThen 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.\n\n**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.\n\nTo 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.\n\nYou 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.\n\nThere’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.\n\nSide Note: I think we need a challenge to see if anyone can get through the entire “Things to Do When Bored” list.\n\n## Things To Do When Bored Categories\n1. 1. [Free or cheap things to do when bored.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#free-or-cheap)\n   2. [Fun things to do when bored.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#fun-things-to-do-when-youre-bored-at-night)\n   3. [Things to do when bored for kids.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#bored-for-kids)\n   4. [Things to do when bored at home.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#bored-at-home)\n   5. [Things to do when bored at night.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#bored-at-night)\n   6. [Things to do with your boyfriend (or girlfriend, husband, or wife) when bored.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#with-your-boyfriend)\n   7. [Things to do when bored with friends.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#bored-with-friends)\n   8. [Fun things to do on a laptop when bored.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#do-on-a-laptop)\n   9. [Fun things to do outside when bored.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#outside-when-youre-bored)\n   10. [DIY things to do when bored.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#diy-things)\n   11. [Things to do when bored on your phone.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#bored-on-your-phone)\n   12. [Things to do when bored that could make you money.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#make-you-money)\n   13. [Things to do when bored to make life easier.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list\/#make-life-easier)\n## Free or Cheap Things To Do When Bored\nThis 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.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/boot-camp) We lived off this list for a few years.\n\n**Hint:** You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.\n\nIf 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 for it when you’re ready to move on).\n\nIf you’re trying to reduce your spending or pay off debt, I can’t say enough about the 90 Day Budget Bootcamp. This is the exact step by step system we used to reduce our spending by over \\$23,000 a year, pay off our over \\$30,000 in debt so I could quit my job and stay home with my kids. This is the only program that worked for us after years of trying and failing to budget and save money. You can [get instant access to the 90 Day Budget Boot Camp for free here.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/boot-camp)\n\n[![Book cover for 90 Day Budget Boot Camp from The Busy Budgeter, Rosemarie Groner with a quote to the right stating, \"â€œThe 90 Day Budget Bootcamp changed not only my finances, but our marriage. We had been fighting about money for the entire 8 years weâ€™ve been married. I didnâ€™t realize there was another way. I started the bootcamp just to get things under control, and I was shocked that after the â€œcombine your forces challengeâ€ he started working with me. We havenâ€™t had a money fight in 7 months. We paid off all but one credit card (that one should be done in March) and I canâ€™t believe that all of this came from a \\$7 workbook. Iâ€™m forever in debt to you (and soon only you!). Thank you.â€ - Julie, Daytona Beach\" and button on the middle bottom that says \"Sign Up for Free\"](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/bootcamp-testimonial-graphic.jpg)](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/boot-camp)\n\n1. Acapella\n2. Apply to be an extra in a movie or tv show\n3. Arrange flowers\n4. Astronomy\n5. At home facials\n6. Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD\n7. Babysitting\n8. Balloon twisting\n9. Baseball\n10. Basketball\n11. Beachcombing\n12. Beach volleyball\n13. Beatboxing\n14. Become a Wikipedia editor\n15. Becoming a newspaper contributor![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AdobeStock_92909568.jpg)\n16. Belly Dancing\n17. Bicycling\n18. Board game club\n19. Bonsai trees\n20. Boogie boarding\n21. Brainstorm your hobbies\n22. Breakdancing\n23. Build a family command center\n24. Build a functional igloo in the snow\n25. Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally\n26. Building fairy gardens\n27. Butterfly watching\n28. Calligraphy\n29. Camping\n30. Canning![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AdobeStock_92909568-1.jpg)\n31. Canoeing\n32. Cardio\n33. Carve epic pumpkins\n34. Catch up on laundry\n35. Catching insects (like lightning bugs)\n36. Check out museums\n37. Clean out and detail clean your car\n38. Coin collecting\n39. Collecting leaves or flowers\n40. Collecting marbles\n41. Collecting seashells\n42. Collecting stickers\n43. Coloring\n44. Comic book art\n45. Container gardening\n46. Corn Maze\n47. Create a bucket list\n48. Create a home stock room\n49. Create a treasure hunt\n50. Creating a family tree\n51. Creating a time capsule\n52. Creating unique recipes\n53. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell ![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Knitting..jpg)\n54. Crocheting\n55. Cross country running\n56. Crossword puzzles\n57. Declutter and organize an area of your home\n58. Dig for clams\n59. Digital scrapbooking\n60. Dog training\n61. Dominoes\n62. Draw comics or learn animation\n63. Drawing\n64. Driveway chalk\n65. Dumpster diving\n66. Embroidery\n67. Explore different religious beliefs\n68. Farming\n69. Fell running\n70. Feng Shui your home\n71. Find a natural way to collect rainwater\n72. Finger painting\n73. Foosball\n74. Football\n75. Frisbee golf\n76. Gather food donations for a local non-profit\n77. Genealogy\n78. Geology\n79. 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).\n80. Go crabbing\n81. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids) ![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AdobeStock_84477939.jpg)\n82. Going on picnics\n83. Ham radio\n84. Hand lettering\n85. Handball\n86. Handwriting letters to friends and family\n87. Have family meetings or budget meetings\n88. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\n89. Hike the Appalachian mountains ![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Hiking.jpg)\n90. Hiking\n91. Hip Hop Dancing\n92. Hockey\n93. Hoverboarding\n94. Hurdles\n95. Impersonations\n96. Improve your memory\n97. Interviewing older relatives about their lives\n98. Inventing\n99. Jam making\n100. Juggling\n101. Jump rope\n102. Karaoke\n103. Kitchen chemistry\n104. Kite flying\n105. Knitting\n106. Knotting\n107. Learn a roundhouse kick\n108. Learn boxing or kickboxing\n109. Learn how to debone and eat a chicken wing in one bite\n110. Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)\n111. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\n112. Learn how to light a match with one hand\n113. Learn how to meal plan\n114. Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily\n115. Learn how to start a fire with two sticks\n116. Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue\n117. Learn how to whistle using your fingers\n118. Learn magic tricks and card tricks\n119. Learn paper Origami or Tatebanko or paper quilling\n120. 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)\n121. Learn to bake\n122. Learn to budget\n123. Learn to cook\n124. Learn to crochet\n125. Learn to dirty dance\n126. Learn to do a backward roll\n127. Learn to do a cartwheel\n128. Learn to do a forward roll\n129. Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes\n130. Learn to forage for edible food\n131. Learn to high kick\n132. Learn to hunt or to track\n133. Learn to knit\n134. Learn to manage your home\n135. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\n136. Learn to quilt![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Rock-Climbing.jpg)\n137. Learn to rock climb or bouldering\n138. Learn to sew\n139. Learning the art of storytelling\n140. Lock picking\n141. Long distance track\n142. Long jump\n143. Look at free community events going on near you\n144. Make a collage\n145. Make a terrarium\n146. Make your own bookmarks\n147. Make your own candles\n148. Make your own hot sauce\n149. Make your own jewelry\n150. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n151. Make your own tea blends\n152. Making a bird feeder\n153. Making model cars\n154. Making your own clothes\n155. Meal plan for the week\n156. Meditation\n157. Microscopy\n158. Middle distance track\n159. Mini golf\n160. Model rockets\n161. Mud wrestle (or jello?)\n162. Needle Felting\n163. Organize your week![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Palm-Reading.jpg)\n164. Palm reading\n165. Paper mache\n166. Pencil sketching\n167. People watching\n168. Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: the secret ingredient? Cream cheese)\n169. Perfect your handshake\n170. Perfect your high five\n171. Pinochle\n172. Plan a monthly dinner club, bunco night, or poker party\n173. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\n174. 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.)\n175. Plan out a yearly menu\n176. Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit\n177. Play badminton\n178. Play chess\n179. Play darts\n180. Play volleyball\n181. Playing harmonica\n182. Playing pool\n183. Podcasting\n184. Pressing flowers\n185. Proofreading\n186. Racquetball\n187. Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard\n188. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\n189. Roast your own coffee\n190. Rock painting\n191. Roller skating ![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Running.jpg)\n192. Running\n193. Sand sculptures\n194. Sand surfing\n195. Science experiments\n196. Sculpting with clay\n197. Self-care or beauty night\n198. Sewing\n199. Shark tooth or fossil hunting\n200. 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)\n201. Short distance track\n202. Singing\n203. Skateboarding\n204. Sleigh riding\n205. Slingshots\n206. Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (This probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)\n207. Soap making ![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Family-Soccer.jpg)\n208. Soccer\n209. Solve puzzles or mazes\n210. Speed reading\n211. Sports refereeing\n212. Stamp collecting\n213. Stargazing with a telescope\n214. Start a book club\n215. Start a journal\n216. Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)\n217. Starting a parents night out\n218. Staycation\n219. Stone skipping\n220. Story writing\n221. Strength training\n222. Sudoku\n223. Surfing\n224. Swimming\n225. Table tennis\n226. Tai Chi\n227. Take a positive discipline parenting class\n228. Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)\n229. Tarot reading\n230. Teach your kids a chore they can take over\n231. Tennis\n232. Throw axes\n233. Tower running (or extreme stair climbing)\n234. Track cycling\n235. Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman\n236. Trivia contests\n237. Ultimate frisbee\n238. Visit the aquarium\n239. Visit the local library\n240. Visit the zoo\n241. Volunteer at a local non-profit\n242. Volunteer at the food pantry\n243. Volunteer at the kids’ school\n244. Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization\n245. Volunteering\n246. Wakeboarding ![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Walking.jpg)\n247. Walking\n248. 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).\n249. Wrestling\n250. Write a screenplay\n251. Write your family mission statement\n252. Writing a book\n253. Writing letters to loved ones\n254. Writing letters to your future self\n255. Yoga\n256. Yoyoing\n## Fun Things To Do When You’re Bored.\nThis 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\\!\n\n**Hint:** You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.\n\nIf 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).\n\n1. 3D printing\n2. Acrobatics\n3. Acroyoga (couples yoga where you physically support each other)\n4. Aerial photography\n5. Airbrushing\n6. Airsoft guns\n7. Antiquing\n8. Archaeology (like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast)\n9. At home facials\n10. Baking\n11. Baseball\n12. Basketball\n13. Baton twirling![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Beachcombing-1.jpg)\n14. Beachcombing\n15. Beach volleyball\n16. Beatboxing\n17. Become a connoisseur (wine, whiskey)\n18. Become a personal trainer or fitness instructor (either on your own or through whatever your jam is…CrossFit, Yoga or Zumba)\n19. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\n20. Belly Dancing\n21. Bicycling\n22. Blacksmithing (make your own sword)\n23. Board game club\n24. Body surfing\n25. Boogie boarding\n26. Boomerangs\n27. Brainstorm your hobbies![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Breakdancing.jpg)\n28. Breakdancing\n29. Breaking a world record\n30. Build a family command center\n31. Build a functional igloo in the snow\n32. Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally\n33. Build an experimental aircraft\n34. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\n35. Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace\n36. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\n37. Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard\n38. Building fairy gardens\n39. Butterfly watching\n40. Camping\n41. Candy making\n42. Canning\n43. Canoeing\n44. Carve epic pumpkins\n45. Catching insects (like lightning bugs)\n46. Cave diving\n47. Caving or spelunking\n48. Ceramics\n49. Chainsaw carvings\n50. Check out a salsa club\n51. Cheerleading\n52. Chocolate tasting\n53. Coin collecting\n54. Collecting baseball cards\n55. Collecting seashells\n56. Coloring\n57. Combat shooting\n58. Comic book art\n59. Cooking\n60. Cosplay\n61. Crabbing\n62. Create a bucket list\n63. Create a local Uber experience like a guided tour\n64. Create a treasure hunt\n65. Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes\n66. Creating a family tree\n67. Creating a time capsule\n68. Creating unique recipes\n69. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\n70. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\n71. Cross country running![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Cross-Country-Skiing_.jpg)\n72. Cross country skiing\n73. Crossword puzzles\n74. Curling\n75. Decoupage\n76. Design funny or niche coffee mugs\n77. Design funny or niche tee shirts\n78. Design printable planner stickers\n79. Dig for clams\n80. Digital scrapbooking\n81. Diner club\n82. Dirt biking\n83. Discus\n84. Distilling\n85. DJing\n86. Dog training\n87. Dominoes\n88. Dragon boat racing\n89. Draw comics or learn animation\n90. Drawing\n91. Driveway chalk\n92. Embroidery\n93. Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)\n94. Enhance your survival skills\n95. Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties\n96. Explore different religious beliefs\n97. Fell running\n98. Feng Shui your home\n99. Field hockey\n100. Find a natural way to collect rainwater\n101. Finger painting![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Fireshow-performance_.jpg)\n102. Fire poi (fire performance)\n103. Fish pedicures\n104. Fishing for tuna\n105. Flower arrangements\n106. Fly Tying\n107. Flying drones\n108. Flying model planes\n109. Foosball\n110. Football\n111. Freezer cooking (once a month?)\n112. Frisbee golf\n113. Genealogy\n114. Get a tattoo\n115. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games\n116. Glamping\n117. Glass blowing\n118. 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).\n119. Go crabbing\n120. Go kart racing\n121. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\n122. Go to local open houses and watch the real estate market.\n123. Get into real estate or flipping houses.\n124. Going on picnics\n125. Groundhopping (going to as many stadiums or venues of your favorite artist or sports team)\n126. Gymnastics\n127. Hand lettering\n128. Hand to hand combat\n129. Handball\n130. Handwriting letters to friends and family\n131. Hang Gliding\n132. Haunted house tours\n133. Have a seafood boil in the sand\n134. Helicopter skiing\n135. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\n136. Hike the Appalachian mountains\n137. Hiking\n138. Hip Hop Dancing\n139. Hockey\n140. Horseback riding![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Casino-Night_.jpg)\n141. Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)\n142. 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 )\n143. Hoverboarding\n144. Hula dancing\n145. Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields\n146. Hurdles\n147. Ice fishing\n148. Impersonations\n149. Improve your memory\n150. Interviewing older relatives about their lives\n151. Inventing\n152. Irish step dancing\n153. Jam making\n154. Jet ski\n155. Juggling in the street\n156. Jump rope\n157. Karaoke\n158. Kitchen chemistry\n159. Kite surfing\n160. Knifemaking\n161. Knife throwing\n162. Knotting\n163. Lacemaking\n164. Lacrosse\n165. Landscaping\n166. Learn archery\n167. Learn boxing or kickboxing\n168. Learn graphic design (for example, logos)\n169. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\n170. Learn how to juggle fire\n171. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\n172. Learn how to make printables\n173. Learn how to make wine\n174. Learn how to pick locks\n175. Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily\n176. Learn how to start a fire with two sticks\n177. Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue\n178. Learn how to use a bullwhip to snap a straw out of a man’s hand\n179. Learn how to whistle using your fingers ![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Card-Tricks_.jpg)\n180. Learn impressive party tricks\n181. Learn Klingon\n182. Learn Pig Latin\n183. Learn self-defense\n184. Learn spear fishing or fly fishing.\n185. 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)\n186. Learn to ballroom dance\n187. Learn to dirty dance\n188. Learn to fence\n189. Learn to fly (p.s. it’s expensive)\n190. Learn to forage for edible food\n191. Learn to hunt or to track\n192. Learn to ice skate\n193. Learn to perfect big barrel curls\n194. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\n195. Learn to play craps\n196. Learn to rock climb or bouldering\n197. Learn to shoot\n198. Learn to travel hack\n199. Learning how to bartend\n200. Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)\n201. Learning how to tattoo\n202. Learning the art of storytelling\n203. Lip plumpers\n204. Lobster traps\n205. Long distance track\n206. Long jump\n207. Look at free community events going on near you\n208. Ludo sport (Lightsaber combat)\n209. Make a collage\n210. Make cold brew coffee\n211. Make hard cider (super easy!)\n212. Make miniature doll furniture\n213. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube Beat the record on Slitherio\n214. Make pottery\n215. Make your own beer\n216. Make your own boat\n217. Make your own bookmarks\n218. Make your own candles\n219. Make your own hot sauce\n220. Make your own jewelry\n221. Make your own robot\n222. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n223. Making digital photo books\n224. Making dolls\n225. Making model cars\n226. Manicures\n227. Massage\n228. Master airplane combat games\n229. Master barbeque\n230. Matchstick modeling\n231. Meditation\n232. Metalworking\n233. Microscopy\n234. Middle distance track\n235. Mini golf\n236. Model rockets\n237. Model shipbuilding\n238. Motocross\n239. Mud wrestle (or jello?)\n240. Obstacle course\n241. Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books\n242. Paint and sip nights\n243. Palm reading\n244. Paper mache\n245. Parachuting\n246. Paragliding ![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Pedicure_.jpg)\n247. Parkour\n248. Pedicures\n249. People watching\n250. Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: secret ingredient? Cream cheese)\n251. Performing stand up comedy\n252. Pinochle\n253. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\n254. 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.)\n255. Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit\n256. Plant and maintain community fruit trees (Urban Harvest)\n257. Play badminton\n258. Play chess\n259. Play darts\n260. Play volleyball\n261. Playing harmonica\n262. Playing pool\n263. Podcasting\n264. Poker\n265. Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)\n266. Produce electronic music\n267. Puppetry\n268. Pyrotechnics or fireworks\n269. Quidditch\n270. Racquetball\n271. RC cars\n272. Reef aquarium\n273. Renovate your house\n274. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\n275. Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)\n276. Road trips\n277. Roast your own coffee\n278. Rock painting\n279. Rollerblading\n280. Roller skating![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Decor_.jpg)\n281. Room renovations or home designs\n282. Rugby\n283. Running\n284. RV across the US\n285. Sailing\n286. Sand sculptures\n287. Sand surfing\n288. Sandboarding\n289. Scale miniature building\n290. Science experiments\n291. Scottish sword dancing\n292. Scrapbooking\n293. Scuba Diving\n294. Sculpting\n295. Self-care or beauty night\n296. Self Tanning\n297. Sewing\n298. Shark Diving\n299. Shark tooth or fossil hunting\n300. 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)\n301. Short distance track\n302. Shot put\n303. Singing\n304. Skateboarding\n305. Skeet shooting\n306. Skydiving\n307. Snorkeling\n308. Snowboarding\n309. Snowmobiling\n310. Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (\\*probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)\n311. Soap making\n312. Soccer\n313. Speed reading\n314. Speed skating\n315. Spin classes\n316. Sports refereeing\n317. Stamp collecting\n318. Stargazing with a telescope\n319. Start a book club\n320. Start a journal\n321. Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)\n322. Start a soccer mom league\n323. Start an allotment or community garden\n324. Start and maintain a saltwater tank\n325. Staycation\n326. Stoneworking\n327. Story writing\n328. Style and decorate homes\n329. Subscription boxes\n330. Sudoku\n331. Sugar scrubs\n332. Surfing\n333. Sushi making![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Synchronized-Swimming_.jpg)\n334. Swimming\n335. Synchronized swimming\n336. Table tennis\n337. Tai Chi\n338. Take a discovery flight\n339. Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)\n340. Tandem, biking\n341. Target shooting\n342. Tarot reading\n343. Tasting parties with miracle fruit\n344. Teach your kids a chore they can take over\n345. Tennis\n346. Themed date nights\n347. Throw axes\n348. Touring wineries\n349. Tower running (or extreme stair climbing)\n350. Track cycling\n351. Trivia contest\n352. Ultimate frisbee\n353. Vaulting horses\n354. Ventriloquism\n355. Visit a speakeasy\n356. Visit the aquarium\n357. Visit the local library\n358. Visit the zoo\n359. Volunteer at the food pantry\n360. Volunteer at the kids’ school\n361. Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization\n362. Volunteering\n363. Wakeboarding\n364. Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting\n365. Watchmaking\n366. 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).\n367. Watercolors\n368. Weekend getaways\n369. Whale watching![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/White-Water-Rafting_.jpg)\n370. White water rafting\n371. Whittling or wood carving\n372. Windsurfing\n373. Wine\/cheese tasting\n374. Wingsuit flying\n375. Wrestling\n376. Write your family mission statement\n377. Writing a book\n378. Writing letters to loved ones\n379. Writing letters to your future self\n380. Yoga\n381. Ziplining\n382. Zumba\n## Things To Do When You’re Bored With Kids.\nThis 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.\n\n1. Acrobatics\n2. Airbrushing\n3. Apply to be an extra in a movie or tv show\n4. Astronomy![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Facials_-1.jpg)\n5. At home facials\n6. Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD\n7. Audition as an actor or for a commercial\n8. Audition to be a model\n9. Babysitting\n10. Baking\n11. Balloon twisting\n12. Baseball\n13. Basketball\n14. Baton twirling\n15. Beach volleyball\n16. Beat the record on Slitherio\n17. Beatboxing\n18. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\n19. Becoming a newspaper contributor\n20. Belly Dancing\n21. Bicycling\n22. Biking\n23. Board dogs\n24. Board game club\n25. Body surfing\n26. Bonsai trees\n27. Boogie boarding\n28. Boomerangs\n29. Brainstorm your hobbies\n30. Breakdancing\n31. Breaking a world record\n32. Breed dogs\n33. Build a functional igloo in the snow\n34. Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally\n35. Build an experimental aircraft\n36. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\n37. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\n38. Building fairy gardens\n39. Butterfly watching\n40. Camping\n41. Candy making\n42. Cardmaking\n43. Cartography\n44. Carve epic pumpkins\n45. Catching insects (like lightning bugs)\n46. Cave Diving\n47. Caving or spelunking\n48. Ceramics\n49. Check out museums\n50. Cheerleading\n51. Chocolate tasting\n52. Coin collecting\n53. Collecting baseball cards\n54. Collecting leaves or flowers\n55. Collecting marbles\n56. Collecting model trains![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Collecting-Shells_.jpg)\n57. Collecting seashells\n58. Collecting stickers\n59. Coloring\n60. Comic book art\n61. Container gardening\n62. Cooking\n63. Corn Maze\n64. Crabbing\n65. Create a bucket list\n66. Create a charity\n67. Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)\n68. Create a treasure hunt\n69. Creating a family tree\n70. Creating a time capsule\n71. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\n72. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\n73. Cross country running\n74. Cross country skiing\n75. Crossword puzzles\n76. Cryptography\n77. Dig for clams\n78. Digital scrapbooking\n79. Dirt biking\n80. Discus\n81. DJing\n82. Dog competitions![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Dog-Sledding_.jpg)\n83. Dog sledding\n84. Dog training\n85. Dominoes\n86. Dragon boat racing\n87. Draw comics or learn animation\n88. Drawing\n89. Driveway chalk\n90. Dumpster diving\n91. Enhance your survival skills\n92. Explore different religious beliefs\n93. Farming\n94. Fell running\n95. Feng shui\n96. Field hockey\n97. Find a natural way to collect rainwater\n98. Finger painting\n99. Fish pedicures\n100. Fishing for tuna\n101. Flower arrangements\n102. Fly Tying\n103. Flying drones\n104. Flying model planes\n105. Foosball\n106. Football\n107. Foster animals: either dogs and cats or more unique animals like rabbits, turtles, and birds\n108. Frisbee golf\n109. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.\n110. 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).\n111. Go crabbing\n112. Go kart racing\n113. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\n114. Going on picnics\n115. Graphology\n116. Groundhopping (going to as many stadiums or venues of your favorite artist or sports team)\n117. Gymnastics\n118. Ham radio\n119. Hand lettering\n120. Handball\n121. Handwriting letters to friends and family\n122. Haunted house tours\n123. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\n124. Hike the Appalachian mountains\n125. Hiking\n126. Hip Hop Dancing\n127. Hockey\n128. Horseback riding\n129. Hot air balloon\n130. Hoverboarding\n131. Hula dancing\n132. Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields\n133. Hurdles\n134. Ice fishing\n135. Impersonations\n136. Improve your memory\n137. Inventing\n138. Irish step dancing\n139. Juggling\n140. Jump rope![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Jump-Rope_.jpg)\n141. Kick sledding\n142. Kitchen chemistry\n143. Kite flying\n144. Kite surfing\n145. Knotting\n146. Lacrosse\n147. Landscaping\n148. Learn a roundhouse kick\n149. Learn boxing or kickboxing\n150. Learn how to debone and eat a chicken wing in one bite\n151. Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)\n152. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\n153. Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily\n154. Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue\n155. Learn how to whistle using your fingers\n156. Learn impressive party tricks\n157. Learn Klingon\n158. Learn magic tricks and card tricks\n159. Learn Pig Latin\n160. Learn self-defense\n161. Learn spear fishing or fly fishing.\n162. 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)\n163. Learn to ballroom dance\n164. Learn to do a backward roll\n165. Learn to do a cartwheel\n166. Learn to do a forward roll\n167. Learn to fence\n168. Learn to forage for edible food\n169. Learn to high kick\n170. Learn to ice skate\n171. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\n172. Learn to rock climb or bouldering\n173. Learn to shoot\n174. Learn to wear fake eyelashes\n175. Learning a foreign language\n176. Learning the art of storytelling\n177. Lego building\n178. Lobster Traps\n179. Lock picking\n180. Long distance track\n181. Long jump\n182. Look at free community events going on near you\n183. Ludo sport (Lightsaber combat)\n184. Make a collage\n185. Make a terrarium\n186. Make miniature doll furniture\n187. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube\n188. Make pottery\n189. Make your own boat\n190. Make your own bookmarks\n191. Make your own hot sauce\n192. Make your own jewelry ![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Robot_.jpg)\n193. Make your own robot\n194. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n195. Make your own tea blends\n196. Making a bird feeder\n197. Making digital photo books\n198. Making dolls\n199. Making model cars\n200. Making your own clothes\n201. Manicures\n202. Master airplane combat games\n203. Matchstick modeling\n204. Metal detector\n205. Metalworking\n206. Microscopy\n207. Middle distance track\n208. Mini golf\n209. Model rockets\n210. Model shipbuilding\n211. Motocross\n212. Needle Felting\n213. Obstacle course\n214. Palm reading\n215. Paper mache\n216. Parachuting\n217. Paragliding\n218. Parkour\n219. Pedicures\n220. Pencil sketching\n221. People watching\n222. Perfect your handshake\n223. Perfect your high five\n224. Performing stand up comedy\n225. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\n226. Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Plant-a-Tree_.jpg)\n227. Play badminton\n228. Play chess\n229. Play darts\n230. Play volleyball\n231. Playing harmonica\n232. Playing pool\n233. Podcasting\n234. Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)\n235. Pressing flowers\n236. Produce electronic music\n237. Puppetry\n238. Quidditch\n239. Racquetball\n240. RC cars\n241. Reef aquarium\n242. Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard\n243. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\n244. Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)\n245. Roast your own coffee\n246. Rock painting\n247. Rollerblading\n248. Roller skating\n249. Rowing\n250. Running\n251. Sand sculptures\n252. Sand surfing\n253. Sandboarding\n254. Scale miniature building\n255. Science experiments\n256. Scottish sword dancing\n257. Scouting\n258. Scrapbooking\n259. Sculpting\n260. Sculpting with clay\n261. Self-care or beauty night\n262. Sewing\n263. Short distance track\n264. Singing\n265. Skateboarding\n266. Skijoring (skiing with a horse pulling you)\n267. Skydiving\n268. Sleigh riding\n269. Slingshots\n270. Snorkeling\n271. Snowboarding\n272. Snowmobiling\n273. Soap making\n274. Soccer\n275. Solve puzzles or mazes\n276. Speed reading\n277. Speed skating\n278. Stamp collecting\n279. Stargazing with a telescope![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Book-Club_.jpg)\n280. Start a book club\n281. Start a journal\n282. Start an allotment or community garden\n283. Start and maintain a saltwater tank\n284. Stone skipping\n285. Story writing\n286. Sugar scrubs\n287. Surfing\n288. Sushi making\n289. Swimming\n290. Synchronized swimming\n291. Table tennis\n292. Tandem, biking\n293. Tarot reading\n294. Taxidermy\n295. Teeth whitening\n296. Tennis\n297. Tower running (or extreme stair climbing)\n298. Track cycling\n299. Train a falcon\n300. Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman\n301. Trivia contests\n302. Ultimate frisbee\n303. Vaulting horses\n304. Ventriloquism\n305. Visit the aquarium\n306. Visit the local library\n307. Visit the zoo\n308. Volunteer at the food pantry\n309. Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization\n310. Volunteering![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Wakeboarding_.jpg)\n311. Wakeboarding\n312. Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting\n313. 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).\n314. Watercolors\n315. Whale watching\n316. White water rafting\n317. Whittling or wood carving\n318. Windsurfing\n319. Wrestling\n320. Write a screenplay\n321. Writing a book\n322. Writing letters to loved ones\n## Things To Do When You’re Bored At Home.\nThis 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.\n\n1. Take a free [home management course like Home Rescue](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/home-rescue).\n2. Arrange flowers\n3. Astronomy\n4. At home facials\n5. Babysitting\n6. Bake and sell gourmet pet treats\n7. Baking\n8. Beat the record on Slitherio\n9. Take a free budgeting course like the [90 Day Budget Boot Camp.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/boot-camp)\n10. Become a Wikipedia editor\n11. Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)\n12. Becoming a newspaper contributor\n13. Belly Dancing\n14. Board dogs![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Board-Games_.jpg)\n15. Board game club\n16. Bonsai trees\n17. Book restoration\n18. Boomerangs\n19. Brainstorm your hobbies\n20. Breed dogs\n21. Build a family command center\n22. Build a nixie tube clock\n23. Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally\n24. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\n25. Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace\n26. Build your own smoker\n27. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\n28. Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard\n29. Building fairy gardens\n30. Butterfly watching![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Camping_.jpg)\n31. Camping\n32. Candy making\n33. Canning\n34. Cardio\n35. Catch up on laundry\n36. Ceramics\n37. Chocolate tasting\n38. Clean out and detail clean your car\n39. Collecting baseball cards\n40. Coloring\n41. Comic book art\n42. Container gardening\n43. Cooking\n44. Cosplay\n45. Create a bucket list\n46. Create a home stock room\n47. Create a treasure hunt\n48. Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls\n49. Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes\n50. Creating a family tree\n51. Creating a time capsule\n52. Creating unique recipes\n53. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\n54. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\n55. Crocheting\n56. Crossword puzzles\n57. Declutter and organize an area of your home\n58. Decoupage\n59. Design funny or niche coffee mugs\n60. Design funny or niche tee shirts\n61. Design printable planner stickers\n62. Digital scrapbooking\n63. Dog training\n64. Dominoes\n65. Draw comics or learn animation\n66. Drawing\n67. Dry brushing\n68. Embroidery\n69. Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties\n70. Explore different religious beliefs\n71. Farming\n72. Feng Shui your home\n73. Find a natural way to collect rainwater\n74. Float spa\n75. Flower arrangements\n76. Fly Tying\n77. Flying drones\n78. Flying model planes\n79. Foosball\n80. Foster animals either dogs and cats or more unique animals like rabbits, turtles, and birds![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Freezer-Cooking_.jpg)\n81. Freezer meals or Once a month meals\n82. Frisbee golf\n83. Furniture restoration\n84. Gather food donations for a local non-profit\n85. Genealogy\n86. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.\n87. 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).\n88. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\n89. Hand lettering\n90. Have family meetings or budget meetings\n91. Hip Hop Dancing\n92. Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)\n93. Impersonations\n94. Improve your memory\n95. Interviewing older relatives about their lives\n96. Inventing\n97. Jam making\n98. Kitchen chemistry\n99. Knitting\n100. Knotting\n101. Lacemaking\n102. Lacrosse\n103. Lamp making\n104. Landscaping\n105. Learn extreme couponing\n106. Learn graphic design (for example, logos)\n107. Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)\n108. 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)\n109. Learn how to make printables\n110. Learn how to make wine\n111. Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA\n112. Learn how to meal plan\n113. Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions\n114. Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily\n115. Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue\n116. Learn impressive party tricks\n117. Learn Klingon\n118. Learn magic tricks and card tricks\n119. Learn Pig Latin\n120. Learn screen printing\n121. Learn SEO\n122. 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)\n123. Learn to bake\n124. Learn to be a life coach\n125. Learn to budget![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Cooking_.jpg)\n126. Learn to cook\n127. Learn to crochet\n128. Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes\n129. Learn to knit\n130. Learn to manage your home\n131. Learn to perfect big barrel curls\n132. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\n133. Learn to play craps\n134. Learn to quilt\n135. Learn to sew\n136. Learn to wear fake eyelashes\n137. Learning a foreign language\n138. Lip plumpers\n139. Lock picking\n140. Look at free community events going on near you\n141. Macrame\n142. Make a collage\n143. Make a terrarium\n144. Make cold brew coffee\n145. Make hard cider (super easy!)\n146. Make miniature doll furniture\n147. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube\n148. Make your own beer\n149. Make your own bookmarks\n150. Make your own candles\n151. Make your own hot sauce\n152. Make your own jewelry\n153. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n154. Make your own tea blends\n155. Making a bird feeder\n156. Making dolls\n157. Making model cars\n158. Making wood family signs\n159. Making your own clothes\n160. Manicures\n161. Master airplane combat games\n162. Master barbeque\n163. Matchstick modeling\n164. Meal plan for the week\n165. Meditation\n166. Metalworking\n167. Model rockets\n168. Model shipbuilding\n169. Needle felting\n170. Obstacle course\n171. Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books\n172. Organize your week\n173. Palm reading\n174. Paper mache\n175. Parkour\n176. Pedicures\n177. Pencil sketching\n178. Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: secret ingredient? Cream cheese)\n179. Plan a monthly dinner club, bunco night, or poker party\n180. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\n181. 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.)\n182. Plan out a yearly menu\n183. Play chess![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Billiards_.jpg)\n184. Playing pool\n185. Podcasting\n186. Polo leather making\n187. Pressing flowers\n188. Produce electronic music\n189. Proofreading\n190. Pyrotechnics or fireworks\n191. RC cars\n192. Reef aquarium\n193. Refinish a piece of furniture you find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace\n194. Renovate your house\n195. Rent a Tesla (self-driving car)\n196. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\n197. Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)\n198. Roast your own coffee\n199. Rock painting\n200. Room renovations or home designs\n201. Running\n202. Scrapbooking\n203. Sculpting\n204. Sculpting with clay\n205. Self-care or beauty night\n206. Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist\n207. Sewing\n208. 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)\n209. Singing\n210. Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)\n211. Soap making\n212. Solve puzzles or mazes\n213. Speed reading\n214. Start a book club\n215. Start a journal\n216. Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)\n217. Start and maintain a saltwater tank\n218. Starting an Etsy or eBay store\n219. Staycation\n220. Story writing\n221. Strength training\n222. Subscription boxes\n223. Sudoku\n224. Sugar scrubs![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Sushi_.jpg)\n225. Sushi making\n226. Table tennis\n227. Tai Chi\n228. Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)\n229. Take surveys\n230. Tapestry\n231. Tarot reading\n232. Tasting parties with miracle fruit\n233. Teach your kids a chore they can take over\n234. Teeth whitening\n235. Trivia contests\n236. Ultimate frisbee\n237. Upholstery\n238. Volunteer at the food pantry\n239. Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization\n240. Walking\n241. Watchmaking\n242. 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).\n243. Watercolors\n244. Write your family mission statement\n245. Writing a book\n246. Writing letters to loved ones\n247. Writing letters to your future self\n248. Yoga\n249. Yoyoing\n## Things To Do When You’re Bored At Night.\nThis 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.\n\n1. 3D printing\n2. Aerial photography\n3. Airbrushing\n4. Astronomy\n5. At home facials\n6. Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD\n7. Bake and sell gourmet pet treats\n8. Baking\n9. Beat the record on Slitherio\n10. Beatboxing\n11. Become a Wikipedia editor\n12. Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)\n13. Becoming a newspaper contributor\n14. Belly Dancing\n15. Blacksmithing (make your own sword)\n16. Board dogs\n17. Board game club\n18. Book restoration\n19. Breakdancing\n20. Breed dogs\n21. Build a family command center\n22. Build a Tesla coil\n23. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Woodworking_.jpg)\n24. Build furniture\n25. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\n26. Butterfly watching\n27. Camping\n28. Candy making\n29. Canning\n30. Cardmaking\n31. Cartography\n32. Carve epic pumpkins\n33. Catch up on laundry\n34. Catching insects (like lightning bugs)\n35. Ceramics\n36. Chocolate tasting\n37. Clean out and detail clean your car![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Coin-Collecting_.jpg)\n38. Coin collecting\n39. Collecting model trains\n40. Coloring\n41. Comic book art\n42. Cooking\n43. Cosplay\n44. Create a charity\n45. Create a home stock room\n46. Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)\n47. Create a treasure hunt\n48. Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls\n49. Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes\n50. Creating a family tree\n51. Creating a time capsule\n52. Creating unique recipes\n53. Creating videos (videography) for weddings and smaller productions (filming courses or tutorials)\n54. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\n55. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\n56. Crocheting\n57. Crossword puzzles\n58. Cryptography\n59. Declutter and organize an area of your home\n60. Decoupage\n61. Design funny or niche coffee mugs\n62. Design funny or niche tee shirts\n63. Digital scrapbooking\n64. Diner club\n65. Distilling\n66. DJing\n67. Dog training\n68. Dominoes\n69. Draw comics or learn animation\n70. Drawing\n71. Driving people around (Lyft or Uber)\n72. Dry brushing\n73. Dumpster diving\n74. Embroidery\n75. Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)\n76. Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties\n77. Explore different religious beliefs\n78. Feng Shui your home\n79. Fire poi (fire performance)\n80. Flower arrangements\n81. Fly Tying\n82. Foosball\n83. Freezer meals, once a month meals\n84. Furniture restoration\n85. Genealogy\n86. Get a tattoo\n87. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.\n88. Glamping\n89. Glass blowing\n90. 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).\n91. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\n92. Graphology\n93. Ham radio\n94. Hand lettering![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Handwriting_.jpg)\n95. Handwriting letters to friends and family\n96. Haunted house tours\n97. Have family meetings or budget meetings\n98. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\n99. Hip Hop Dancing\n100. Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)\n101. Impersonations\n102. Interviewing older relatives about their lives\n103. Inventing\n104. Jam making\n105. Karaoke\n106. Kitchen chemistry\n107. Knifemaking\n108. Knitting\n109. Knotting\n110. Lacemaking\n111. Lamp making\n112. Learn extreme couponing\n113. Learn graphic design (for example, logos)\n114. Learn how to edit videos\n115. Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)\n116. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\n117. Learn how to make printables\n118. Learn how to make wine\n119. Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA\n120. Learn how to meal plan\n121. Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions\n122. Learn how to whistle using your fingers\n123. Learn Klingon\n124. Learn Pig Latin\n125. Learn screen printing\n126. Learn SEO\n127. 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)\n128. Learn to bake\n129. Learn to budget\n130. Learn to cook\n131. Learn to crochet\n132. Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes\n133. Learn to knit\n134. Learn to manage your home![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Instrument_.jpg)\n135. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\n136. Learn to play craps\n137. Learn to quilt\n138. Learn to sew\n139. Learn to wear fake eyelashes\n140. Learning a foreign language\n141. Learning how to bartend\n142. Learning how to use and run a teleprompter (impressive money and has little competition for a part-time gig)\n143. Learning the art of storytelling\n144. Lego building\n145. Lip plumpers\n146. Lock picking\n147. Look at free community events going on near you\n148. Macrame\n149. Make a collage\n150. Make a terrarium\n151. Make cold brew coffee\n152. Make hard cider (super easy!)\n153. Make miniature doll furniture\n154. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube\n155. Make your own beer\n156. Make your own bookmarks\n157. Make your own candles\n158. Make your own hot sauce\n159. Make your own jewelry\n160. Make your own robot\n161. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n162. Make your own tea blends\n163. Making a bird feeder\n164. Making digital photo books\n165. Making dolls\n166. Making model cars\n167. Making your own clothes\n168. Manicures\n169. Master airplane combat games![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Grill_.jpg)\n170. Master barbeque\n171. Matchstick modeling\n172. Meal plan for the week\n173. Mini golf\n174. Model rockets\n175. Model shipbuilding\n176. Needle Felting\n177. Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books\n178. Organize your week\n179. Paint and sip nights\n180. Palm reading\n181. Paper mache\n182. Pedicures\n183. Pencil sketching\n184. Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: secret ingredient? Cream cheese)\n185. Perfect your handshake\n186. Perfect your high five\n187. Performing stand up comedy\n188. Pinochle\n189. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\n190. 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.)\n191. Plan out a yearly menu\n192. Play chess\n193. Play darts\n194. Playing harmonica\n195. Playing pool![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Podcasting_.jpg)\n196. Podcasting\n197. Poker\n198. Polo leather making\n199. Produce electronic music\n200. Proofreading\n201. Puppetry\n202. Pyrotechnics or fireworks\n203. RC cars\n204. Rent a Tesla (self-driving car)\n205. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\n206. Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)\n207. Roast your own coffee\n208. Roast your own coffee\n209. Rock painting\n210. Room renovations or home designs\n211. Science experiments\n212. Scrapbooking\n213. Sculpting\n214. Sculpting with clay\n215. Self-care or beauty night\n216. Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist\n217. Sewing\n218. 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)\n219. Singing\n220. Snowmobiling\n221. Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (\\*probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage)\n222. Soap making\n223. Solve puzzles or mazes\n224. Speed reading\n225. Spin classes\n226. Sports refereeing\n227. Stamp collecting\n228. Stargazing with a telescope\n229. Start a book club\n230. Start a journal\n231. Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)\n232. Start and maintain a saltwater tank\n233. Starting a parents night out\n234. Starting an Etsy or eBay store\n235. Story writing\n236. Subscription boxes\n237. Sudoku\n238. Sugar scrubs\n239. Sushi making\n240. Table tennis\n241. Tai Chi\n242. Take a positive discipline parenting class\n243. Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)\n244. Tapestry\n245. Tarot reading\n246. Tasting parties with miracle fruit\n247. Taxidermy\n248. Teach your kids a chore they can take over\n249. Teeth whitening\n250. Themed date nights\n251. Train a falcon\n252. Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman\n253. Upholstery\n254. Ventriloquism\n255. War games\n256. Watchmaking![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Watch-TV_.jpg)\n257. 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).\n258. Watercolors\n259. Wine\/cheese tasting\n260. Write a screenplay\n261. Write your family mission statement\n262. Writing a book\n263. Writing letters to loved ones\n264. Writing letters to your future self\n## Things To Do With Your Boyfriend  (Or Girlfriend, Husband, or Wife) When You’re Bored.\nThis 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.\n\n**Hint:** You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.\n\nIf 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).\n\n1. 1. 3D printing\n   2. Acroyoga (couples yoga where you physically support each other)\n   3. Aerial photography\n   4. Airbrushing\n   5. Airsoft guns\n   6. Antiquing\n   7. Apply to be an extra in a movie or tv show\n   8. Archaeology: like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Star-Gazing_.jpg)\n   9. Astronomy\n   10. Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD\n   11. Audition as an actor or for a commercial\n   12. Audition to be a model\n   13. Baseball\n   14. Basketball\n   15. Beachcombing\n   16. Beach volleyball\n   17. Become a connoisseur (wine, whiskey)\n   18. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\n   19. Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)\n   20. Becoming a newspaper contributor\n   21. Bicycling\n   22. Biking\n   23. Blacksmithing (make your own sword)\n   24. Board dogs\n   25. Board game club\n   26. Body surfing\n   27. Bonsai trees\n   28. Boogie boarding\n   29. Book restoration\n   30. Boomerangs\n   31. Brainstorm your hobbies\n   32. Breaking a world record\n   33. Breed dogs\n   34. Build a family command center\n   35. Build a functional igloo in the snow\n   36. Build a Tesla coil\n   37. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\n   38. Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace\n   39. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\n   40. Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard\n   41. Building fairy gardens\n   42. Buy a boat\n   43. Camping\n   44. Canning\n   45. Canoeing\n   46. Cardio\n   47. Cartography\n   48. Carve epic pumpkins\n   49. Catch up on laundry\n   50. Catching insects (like lightning bugs)\n   51. Cave Diving\n   52. Caving or spelunking![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Salsa_.jpg)\n   53. Check out a salsa club\n   54. Check out museums\n   55. Chocolate tasting\n   56. Clean out and detail clean your car\n   57. Coin collecting\n   58. Collecting baseball cards\n   59. Collecting model trains\n   60. Collecting seashells\n   61. Combat shooting\n   62. Comic book art\n   63. Cooking\n   64. Crabbing\n   65. Create a bucket list\n   66. Create a charity\n   67. Create a home stock room\n   68. Create a treasure hunt\n   69. Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes\n   70. Creating a family tree\n   71. Creating a time capsule\n   72. Creating unique recipes\n   73. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\n   74. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\n   75. Croquet\n   76. Cross country running\n   77. Cross country skiing\n   78. Cryptography\n   79. Curling\n   80. Declutter and organize an area of your home\n   81. Design funny or niche coffee mugs\n   82. Design funny or niche tee shirts\n   83. Dig for clams\n   84. Diner club\n   85. Distilling\n   86. DJing\n   87. Dog competitions\n   88. Dog sledding\n   89. Dog training\n   90. Dominoes\n   91. Dragon boat racing\n   92. Draw comics or learn animation\n   93. Dumpster diving\n   94. Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)\n   95. Enhance your survival skills\n   96. Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties\n   97. Explore different religious beliefs\n   98. Farming\n   99. Feng Shui your home\n   100. Field hockey\n   101. Find a natural way to collect rainwater\n   102. Fire poi (fire performance)\n   103. Fishing for tuna\n   104. Float spa\n   105. Flower arrangements![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Fly-Tying_.jpg)\n   106. Fly Tying\n   107. Flying drones\n   108. Flying model planes\n   109. Foosball\n   110. Football\n   111. Foster animals: either dogs and cats or more unique animals like rabbits, turtles, and birds\n   112. Freezer meals, once a month meals\n   113. Frisbee golf\n   114. Furniture restoration\n   115. Gather food donations for a local non-profit\n   116. Genealogy\n   117. Geology\n   118. Get a tattoo\n   119. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games\n   120. Glamping![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Glass-Blowing_.jpg)\n   121. Glass blowing\n   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).\n   123. Go crabbing\n   124. Go kart racing\n   125. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\n   126. Going on picnics\n   127. Graphology\n   128. Gunsmith\n   129. Ham radio\n   130. Hand to hand combat\n   131. Handball\n   132. Hang Gliding\n   133. Haunted house tours\n   134. Have a seafood boil in the sand\n   135. Have family meetings or budget meetings\n   136. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\n   137. Hike the Appalachian mountains\n   138. Hiking\n   139. Hockey\n   140. Homesteading\n   141. Horseback riding\n   142. Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)\n   143. Hot air balloon\n   144. House of horror\n   145. Ice fishing\n   146. Impersonations\n   147. Improve your memory\n   148. Interviewing older relatives about their lives\n   149. Inventing\n   150. Jam making\n   151. Jet ski\n   152. Karaoke\n   153. Kick sledding\n   154. Kitchen chemistry\n   155. Knifemaking\n   156. Knife throwing\n   157. Knotting\n   158. Lacrosse\n   159. Lamp making\n   160. Landscaping\n   161. Learn a roundhouse kick\n   162. Learn archery\n   163. Learn how to debone and eat a chicken wing in one bite\n   164. Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)\n   165. Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)\n   166. Learn how to fix old broken computers (you can find dozens with problems for free or super cheap on Craigslist\n   167. Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully)\n   168. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\n   169. Learn how to juggle fire\n   170. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\n   171. Learn how to make wine\n   172. Learn how to meal plan\n   173. Learn how to start a fire with two sticks\n   174. Learn impressive party tricks\n   175. Learn Klingon\n   176. Learn Pig Latin\n   177. Learn self-defense\n   178. Learn spear fishing or fly fishing.\n   179. Learn to ballroom dance\n   180. Learn to budget\n   181. Learn to dirty dance\n   182. Learn to do a backward roll\n   183. Learn to do a cartwheel\n   184. Learn to do a forward roll\n   185. Learn to fence\n   186. Learn to forage for edible food\n   187. Learn to high kick\n   188. Learn to hunt or to track\n   189. Learn to ice skate\n   190. Learn to manage your home\n   191. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\n   192. Learn to play craps\n   193. Learn to rock climb or bouldering![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Shooting_.jpg)\n   194. Learn to shoot\n   195. Learn to travel hack\n   196. Learning a foreign language\n   197. Learning how to bartend\n   198. Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)\n   199. Learning how to tattoo\n   200. Learning the art of storytelling\n   201. Lego building\n   202. Letterboxing\n   203. Lobster traps\n   204. Lock picking\n   205. Look at free community events going on near you\n   206. Make a collage\n   207. Make a pinhole camera and make your own darkroom to develop the images\n   208. Make a terrarium\n   209. Make cold brew coffee\n   210. Make hard cider (super easy!)\n   211. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube\n   212. Make your own beer\n   213. Make your own hot sauce\n   214. Make your own robot\n   215. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n   216. Make your own tea blends\n   217. Making a bird feeder\n   218. Making digital photo books\n   219. Making model cars\n   220. Making pallet furniture\n   221. Master airplane combat games\n   222. Master barbeque\n   223. Matchstick modeling\n   224. Meal plan for the week\n   225. Metalworking\n   226. Microscopy\n   227. Mini golf\n   228. Model rockets\n   229. Model shipbuilding\n   230. Mud wrestle (or jello?)\n   231. Obstacle course\n   232. Organize your week\n   233. Paint and sip nights\n   234. Parachuting\n   235. Paragliding![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Paragliding_.jpg)\n   236. Parasailing\n   237. Parkour\n   238. Pencil sketching\n   239. People watching\n   240. Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (secret ingredient? Cream cheese)\n   241. Pinochle\n   242. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\n   243. Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit\n   244. Play badminton\n   245. Play chess\n   246. Play darts\n   247. Play volleyball\n   248. Playing pool\n   249. Podcasting\n   250. Poker\n   251. Polo leather making\n   252. Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)\n   253. Produce electronic music\n   254. Puppetry\n   255. Pyrotechnics or fireworks\n   256. Quidditch\n   257. Racquetball\n   258. Rappelling\n   259. RC cars\n   260. Reef aquarium\n   261. Renovate your house\n   262. Rent a Tesla (self-driving car)\n   263. Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard\n   264. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\n   265. Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)\n   266. Road trips\n   267. Roast your own coffee\n   268. Sailing\n   269. Sand sculptures\n   270. Sand surfing\n   271. Sandboarding\n   272. Scale miniature building\n   273. Science experiments\n   274. Sculpting with clay\n   275. Scuba Diving\n   276. Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist\n   277. Shark diving\n   278. Shark tooth or fossil hunting\n   279. Skeet shooting\n   280. Skijoring (skiing with a horse pulling you)\n   281. Skydiving\n   282. Sleigh riding\n   283. Slingshots\n   284. Snorkeling\n   285. Snowboarding![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Snowmobiling_.jpg)\n   286. Snowmobiling\n   287. Soccer\n   288. Speed reading\n   289. Speed skating\n   290. Spin classes\n   291. Stamp collecting\n   292. Stargazing with a telescope\n   293. Start a book club\n   294. Start and maintain a saltwater tank\n   295. Starting a parents night out\n   296. Starting an Etsy or eBay store\n   297. Staycation\n   298. Stoneworking\n   299. Strength training\n   300. Surfing\n   301. Sushi making\n   302. Swimming\n   303. Table tennis\n   304. Take a discovery flight\n   305. Take a positive discipline parenting class\n   306. Tandem, biking\n   307. Tap maple trees to make syrup\n   308. Target shooting\n   309. Tarot reading\n   310. Tasting parties with miracle fruit\n   311. Taxidermy\n   312. Teach your kids a chore they can take over\n   313. Tennis\n   314. Themed date nights\n   315. Throw axes\n   316. Touring wineries\n   317. Tower running (or extreme stair climbing)\n   318. Train a falcon\n   319. Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman\n   320. Ultimate frisbee\n   321. Upholstery\n   322. Vaulting horses\n   323. Ventriloquism\n   324. Visit a speakeasy\n   325. Visit the aquarium\n   326. Visit the zoo\n   327. Volunteer at a local non-profit\n   328. Volunteer at the food pantry\n   329. Volunteer at the kid’s school![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Aquarium_.jpg)\n   330. Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization\n   331. Volunteering\n   332. Wakeboarding\n   333. Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting\n   334. Walking\n   335. War games\n   336. Watchmaking\n   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).\n   338. Weekend getaways\n   339. Whale watching\n   340. White water rafting\n   341. Windsurfing\n   342. Wine\/cheese tasting\n   343. Wingsuit flying\n   344. Wrestling\n   345. Write a screenplay\n   346. Write your family mission statement\n   347. Ziplining\n## Things To Do When You’re Bored With Friends.\nThis 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.\n\n**Hint:** You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.\n\nIf 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).\n\n1. Take a [comprehensive home management course together, like Hot Mess to Home Success.](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/Hotmesswaitinglist)\n2. 3D printing\n3. Acapella\n4. Aerial photography\n5. Antigravity cocooning (fitness)\n6. Antiquing![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Archeology_.jpg)\n7. Archaeology: like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast\n8. At home facials\n9. Baking\n10. Baseball\n11. Basketball\n12. Beachcombing\n13. Beach volleyball\n14. Become a connoisseur (wine, whiskey)\n15. Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)\n16. Belly Dancing\n17. Bicycling\n18. Biking\n19. Board game club\n20. Body surfing\n21. Boogie boarding\n22. Boomerangs\n23. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\n24. Butterfly watching\n25. Calligraphy\n26. Camping\n27. Candy making\n28. Cardio![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Pumpkins_-1.jpg)\n29. Carve epic pumpkins\n30. Catch up on laundry\n31. Cave Diving\n32. Caving or spelunking\n33. Ceramics\n34. Check out a salsa club\n35. Chocolate tasting\n36. Coach a local sports team\n37. Coin collecting\n38. Collecting leaves or flowers\n39. Collecting seashells\n40. Coloring\n41. Combat shooting\n42. Comic book art\n43. Cooking\n44. Corn Maze\n45. Cosplay\n46. Crabbing\n47. Create a home stock room\n48. Create a treasure hunt\n49. Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes\n50. Creating a family tree\n51. Creating unique recipes\n52. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\n53. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\n54. Crocheting\n55. Cross country running\n56. Cross country skiing\n57. Cryotherapy\n58. Decoupage\n59. Dig for clams\n60. Diner club\n61. Distilling\n62. DJing\n63. Dominoes\n64. Dry brushing\n65. Embroidery\n66. Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties\n67. Explore different religious beliefs\n68. Fell running\n69. Field hockey\n70. Find a natural way to collect rainwater\n71. Fish pedicures\n72. Fishing for tuna\n73. Float spa\n74. Flower arrangements\n75. Flying drones\n76. Football\n77. Freezer cooking (once a month?)\n78. Frisbee golf\n79. Gather food donations for a local non-profit\n80. Get a tattoo\n81. Glamping\n82. Glass blowing\n83. 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).\n84. Go crabbing![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AdobeStock_4887928-1024x683.jpeg)\n85. Go Kart\n86. Going on picnics\n87. Hand lettering\n88. Hand to hand combat\n89. Handball\n90. Hang Gliding\n91. Haunted house tours\n92. Have a seafood boil in the sand\n93. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\n94. Hike the Appalachian mountains\n95. Hiking\n96. Hip Hop Dancing\n97. Hockey\n98. Horseback riding\n99. Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut)\n100. 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 )\n101. House of horror\n102. Hula dancing\n103. Irish step dancing\n104. Jam making\n105. Jet ski\n106. Juggling in the street\n107. Karaoke\n108. Keratin treatment (permanent hair straightening)\n109. Kitchen chemistry\n110. Knitting\n111. Lacemaking\n112. Lacrosse\n113. Learn archery\n114. Learn boxing or kickboxing\n115. Learn graphic design (for example, logos)\n116. Learn how to juggle fire\n117. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\n118. Learn how to make printables\n119. Learn how to make wine\n120. Learn how to meal plan\n121. Learn impressive party tricks\n122. Learn Klingon\n123. Learn Pig Latin\n124. Learn self-defense\n125. 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)\n126. Learn to ballroom dance![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Budget_.jpg)\n127. Learn to budget\n128. Learn to crochet\n129. Learn to dirty dance\n130. Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes\n131. Learn to fence\n132. Learn to ice skate\n133. Learn to knit\n134. Learn to manage your home\n135. Learn to perfect big barrel curls\n136. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\n137. Learn to play craps\n138. Learn to quilt\n139. Learn to rock climb or bouldering\n140. Learn to sew\n141. Learn to wear fake eyelashes\n142. Learning a foreign language\n143. Learning how to bartend\n144. Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)\n145. Learning how to tattoo\n146. Learning the art of storytelling\n147. Lip plumpers\n148. Lobster traps\n149. Look at free community events going on near you\n150. Macrame\n151. Make a collage\n152. Make cold brew coffee\n153. Make hard cider (super easy!)\n154. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube\n155. Make pottery\n156. Make your own beer\n157. Make your own hot sauce\n158. Make your own jewelry\n159. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n160. Making digital photo books\n161. Making dolls\n162. Making your own clothes\n163. Manicures\n164. Massage\n165. Master barbeque\n166. Meal plan for the week\n167. Mini golf\n168. Needle Felting\n169. Obstacle course\n170. Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books\n171. Organize your week\n172. Paint and sip nights\n173. Palm reading\n174. Parachuting\n175. Paragliding\n176. Pedicures\n177. Pencil sketching\n178. People watching\n179. Performing stand up comedy\n180. Plan a monthly dinner club, bunco night, or poker party\n181. Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit\n182. Play badminton\n183. Play chess\n184. Play darts\n185. Play volleyball\n186. Playing pool\n187. Podcasting\n188. Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)\n189. Pressing flowers\n190. Produce electronic music\n191. Puppetry\n192. Pyrotechnics or fireworks\n193. Quidditch\n194. Racquetball\n195. Rappelling\n196. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\n197. Road trips\n198. Roast your own coffee\n199. Rollerblading\n200. Roller skating\n201. Room renovations or home designs\n202. Rugby\n203. Running\n204. RV across the US\n205. Sailing\n206. Sand sculptures\n207. Sand surfing\n208. Sandboarding\n209. Science experiments\n210. Scottish sword dancing\n211. Scrapbooking\n212. Scuba Diving\n213. Sculpting\n214. Self-care or beauty night\n215. Self Tanning\n216. Sewing\n217. Shark Diving\n218. Skydiving\n219. Snorkeling\n220. Snowboarding\n221. Snowmobiling\n222. Soap making\n223. Soccer\n224. Speed skating\n225. Spin classes\n226. Stamp collecting\n227. Stargazing with a telescope\n228. Start a book club\n229. Start a soccer mom league\n230. Strength training\n231. Subscription boxes\n232. Sugar scrubs![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Surfing_.jpg)\n233. Surfing\n234. Sushi making\n235. Swimming\n236. Synchronized swimming\n237. Table tennis\n238. Tai Chi\n239. Take a discovery flight\n240. Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)\n241. Tandem, biking\n242. Tapestry\n243. Target shooting\n244. Tarot reading\n245. Tasting parties with miracle fruit\n246. Teeth whitening\n247. Tennis\n248. Touring wineries\n249. Track cycling\n250. Ultimate frisbee\n251. Vaulting horses\n252. Ventriloquism\n253. Visit a speakeasy\n254. Visit the aquarium\n255. Visit the local library\n256. Visit the zoo\n257. Volunteer at a local non-profit\n258. Volunteer at the food pantry\n259. Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization\n260. Volunteering\n261. Wakeboarding\n262. Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting\n263. Walking\n264. 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).\n265. Weekend getaways\n266. Whale watching\n267. White water rafting\n268. Windsurfing ![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Wine-and-Cheese_.jpg)\n269. Wine\/cheese tasting\n270. Wingsuit flying\n271. Yoga\n272. Ziplining\n## Fun things to do on a laptop when you’re bored.\nCool things to do when you’re bored on a laptop? This is your list\\!\n\n**Hint:** You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube.\n\nIf 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).\n\n1. Antiquing\n2. Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD\n3. Become a certified financial planner\n4. Become a Wikipedia editor\n5. Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University) ![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Blogging_.jpg)\n6. Blogging\n7. YouTube\n8. Becoming a newspaper contributor\n9. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\n10. Coding\n11. Collecting model trains\n12. Comic book art\n13. Create a charity\n14. Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)\n15. Creating videos (videography) for weddings and smaller productions (filming courses or tutorials)\n16. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\n17. Design funny or niche coffee mugs\n18. Design funny or niche tee shirts\n19. Design printable planner stickers\n20. DJing\n21. Explore different religious beliefs\n22. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.\n23. Gunsmith\n24. Learn boxing or kickboxing\n25. Learn extreme couponing\n26. Learn graphic design (for example, logos)\n27. Learn how to edit videos\n28. Learn how to travel hack credit card rewards (not for the faint of heart!)\n29. Learn how to make printables\n30. Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA\n31. Learn how to meal plan\n32. Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions\n33. Learn screen printing\n34. Learn SEO\n35. Learn to be a Life Coach\n36. Learn to budget\n37. Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes\n38. Learn to manage your home\n39. Learning how to bartend\n40. Learning how to use and run a teleprompter (impressive money and has little competition for a part-time gig)\n41. Look at free community events going on near you\n42. Make a collage\n43. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube Beat the record on Slitherio\n44. Making digital photo books\n45. Master airplane combat games\n46. Meal plan for the week ![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AdobeStock_143669338-1024x683.jpeg)\n47. Plan a road trip\n48. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\n49. Plan a vacation\n50. Plan an RV trip across the US\n51. 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.)\n52. Plan out a yearly menu\n53. Play chess\n54. Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E\\*Trade)\n55. Podcasting\n56. Poker\n57. Produce electronic music\n58. Programming\n59. Proofreading, formatting, and editing (books, court reports, blogs)\n60. Public speaking (get started with your local Toastmasters) goes well with a blog or YouTube channel\n61. Raspberry Pi projects (learn programming through fun practical projects)\n62. Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard\n63. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\n64. Scrapbooking\n65. 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)\n66. Speed reading\n67. Start a journal\n68. Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one)![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Table-Tennis_.jpg)\n69. Table tennis\n70. Take a positive discipline parenting class\n71. Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!)\n72. Take surveys\n73. Trivia contests\n74. War games\n75. Write reviews online\n76. Write your family mission statement\n77. Writing letters to loved ones\n78. Writing letters to your future self\n## Fun things to do outside when you’re bored.\nWhether 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.\n\n1. 1. Acrobatics\n   2. Airsoft guns\n   3. Antiquing\n   4. Archaeology: like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast\n   5. Astronomy\n   6. At home facials\n   7. Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD\n   8. Baseball\n   9. Basketball\n   10. Beachcombing\n   11. Beach volleyball\n   12. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\n   13. Beekeeping\n   14. Bicycling\n   15. Body surfing\n   16. Boogie boarding\n   17. Boomerangs\n   18. Build a functional igloo in the snow\n   19. Build a nixie tube clock\n   20. Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally\n   21. Build a Tesla coil\n   22. Build an experimental aircraft\n   23. Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace\n   24. Build your own smoker\n   25. Building fairy gardens\n   26. Butterfly watching![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Boating_.jpg)\n   27. Buy a boat\n   28. Buy and sell land ([particularly cheap but commonly undesirable land like land for mudding](https:\/\/www.sidehustlenation.com\/side-hustle-show\/))\n   29. Canning\n   30. Canoeing\n   31. Cardio\n   32. Carve epic pumpkins\n   33. Catching insects (like lightning bugs)\n   34. Cave Diving\n   35. Caving or spelunking\n   36. Chainsaw carvings\n   37. Clean out and detail clean your car\n   38. Coach a local sports team\n   39. Collecting leaves or flowers\n   40. Collecting seashells\n   41. Combat shooting\n   42. Comic book art\n   43. Corn Maze\n   44. Crabbing\n   45. Create a treasure hunt\n   46. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\n   47. Croquet\n   48. Cross country running\n   49. Cross country skiing\n   50. Dig for clams\n   51. Dirt biking\n   52. Discus\n   53. Distilling\n   54. Dog competitions\n   55. Dog sledding\n   56. Dog training\n   57. Drag boat racing\n   58. Dragon boat racing\n   59. Driveway chalk\n   60. Driving people around (Lyft or Uber)\n   61. Dumpster diving\n   62. Enhance your survival skills\n   63. Fell running\n   64. Field hockey\n   65. Find a natural way to collect rainwater\n   66. Finger painting\n   67. Fire poi (fire performance)\n   68. Fishing for tuna\n   69. Flying drones\n   70. Flying model planes\n   71. Football\n   72. Frisbee golf\n   73. Furniture restoration\n   74. Geology\n   75. Get chickens to sell the eggs\n   76. Getting a dairy cow to sell the milk\n   77. Glass blowing\n   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).\n   79. Go crabbing\n   80. Go kart racing![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Jeep_.jpg)\n   81. Go off-roading or mudding.\n   82. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids)\n   83. Going on picnics\n   84. Growing herbs or vegetables\n   85. Hand to hand combat\n   86. Handball\n   87. Hang Gliding\n   88. Have a seafood boil in the sand\n   89. Helicopter skiing\n   90. Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles)\n   91. Hike the Appalachian mountains\n   92. Hiking\n   93. Hiking\n   94. Hockey\n   95. Homesteading\n   96. Horseback riding\n   97. Hot air balloon\n   98. Hoverboarding\n   99. Hula dancing\n   100. Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields\n   101. Hurdles\n   102. Ice fishing\n   103. Jet ski\n   104. Juggling in the street\n   105. Jump rope\n   106. Kick sledding\n   107. Kite surfing\n   108. Knife throwing\n   109. Lacrosse\n   110. Landscaping\n   111. Learn a roundhouse kick\n   112. Learn archery\n   113. Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)\n   114. Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)\n   115. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\n   116. Learn how to juggle fire\n   117. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\n   118. Learn how to make wine\n   119. Learn how to start a fire with two sticks\n   120. Learn how to use a bullwhip to snap a straw out of a man’s hand\n   121. Learn self-defense\n   122. Learn spear fishing or fly fishing.\n   123. Learn to do a backward roll\n   124. Learn to do a cartwheel\n   125. Learn to do a forward roll\n   126. Learn to fly\n   127. Learn to forage for edible food\n   128. Learn to high kick\n   129. Learn to hunt or to track\n   130. Learn to ice skate![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Ice-Skating_.jpg)\n   131. Learn to perfect big barrel curls\n   132. Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin)\n   133. Learn to rock climb or bouldering\n   134. Learn to shoot\n   135. Learning the art of storytelling\n   136. Lip plumpers\n   137. Lobster traps\n   138. Lock picking\n   139. Long distance track\n   140. Long jump\n   141. Look at free community events going on near you\n   142. Make a collage\n   143. Make a terrarium\n   144. Make your own boat\n   145. Make your own jewelry\n   146. Making wood family signs\n   147. Manicures\n   148. Meditation\n   149. Metal detector\n   150. Middle distance track\n   151. Mini golf\n   152. Model shipbuilding\n   153. Motocross\n   154. Mud wrestle (or jello?)\n   155. Obstacle course\n   156. Parachuting\n   157. Paragliding\n   158. Parkour\n   159. Pedicures\n   160. People watching\n   161. Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit\n   162. Plant and maintain community fruit trees (Urban Harvest)\n   163. Play badminton\n   164. Play volleyball\n   165. Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances)\n   166. Pyrotechnics or fireworks\n   167. Quidditch\n   168. Racquetball\n   169. Rappelling\n   170. Rent a Tesla (self-driving car)\n   171. Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard\n   172. Rollerblading\n   173. Roller skating\n   174. Rowing\n   175. Rugby\n   176. Running\n   177. Sand sculptures\n   178. Sand surfing\n   179. Sandboarding\n   180. Science experiments\n   181. Scuba Diving\n   182. Self Tanning\n   183. Shark Diving\n   184. Shark tooth or fossil hunting\n   185. Short distance track\n   186. Shot put\n   187. Skateboarding\n   188. Skeet shooting\n   189. Skijoring (skiing with a horse pulling you)\n   190. Skydiving\n   191. Sleigh riding\n   192. Smoking meat\n   193. Snorkeling\n   194. Snowboarding\n   195. Snowmobiling\n   196. Soccer\n   197. Speed skating\n   198. Stargazing with a telescope\n   199. Start a soccer mom league\n   200. Start an allotment or community garden\n   201. Stone skipping\n   202. Stoneworking![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Work-out_.jpg)\n   203. Strength training\n   204. Sugar scrubs\n   205. Surfing\n   206. Swimming\n   207. Take a discovery flight\n   208. Tandem, biking\n   209. Tap maple trees to make syrup\n   210. Target shooting\n   211. Tennis\n   212. Throw axes\n   213. Track cycling\n   214. Train a falcon\n   215. Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman\n   216. Ultimate frisbee\n   217. Vaulting horses\n   218. Visit a flea market or thrift store and look for items to flip on eBay\n   219. Wakeboarding\n   220. Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting\n   221. Walking\n   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)\n   223. Whale watching\n   224. White water rafting\n   225. Whittling or wood carving\n   226. Windsurfing\n   227. Wingsuit flying\n   228. Write your family mission statement\n   229. Yoga\n   230. Ziplining\n## DIY Things To Do When You’re Bored.\nIf 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\\!\n\n1. Antiquing\n2. Bake and sell gourmet pet treats\n3. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\n4. Bookbinding\n5. Build a functional igloo in the snow\n6. Build a nixie tube clock\n7. Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally\n8. Build a Tesla coil\n9. Build an experimental aircraft\n10. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\n11. Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace\n12. Build your own smoker\n13. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\n14. Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard\n15. Building fairy gardens![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Candy-Making_.jpg)\n16. Candy making\n17. Canning food\n18. Cardmaking\n19. Ceramics\n20. Chainsaw carvings\n21. Cosplay\n22. Create a charity\n23. Create a treasure hunt\n24. Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls\n25. Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes\n26. Creating a family tree\n27. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell.\n28. Decoupage\n29. Design printable planner stickers\n30. Distilling\n31. Farming\n32. Fly Tying\n33. Furniture restoration\n34. 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.\n35. Glass blowing\n36. Homesteading\n37. Kitchen chemistry\n38. Knifemaking\n39. Lamp making\n40. Landscaping\n41. Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)\n42. Learn how to flip cars\n43. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\n44. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\n45. Learn how to make wine\n46. Learn paper Origami or Tatebanko or paper quilling\n47. 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)\n48. Learn to crochet\n49. Learn to knit\n50. Learn to quilt\n51. Learn to sew![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Cosplay.jpg)\n52. Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)\n53. Learning how to tattoo\n54. Make a pinhole camera and make your own darkroom to develop the images\n55. Make a terrarium\n56. Make cold brew coffee\n57. Make hard cider (super easy!)\n58. Make miniature doll furniture\n59. Make pottery\n60. Make your own boat\n61. Make your own bookmarks\n62. Make your own hot sauce\n63. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n64. Make your own tea blends\n65. Making a bird feeder\n66. Making digital photo books\n67. Making model cars\n68. Making pallet furniture\n69. Making wood family signs\n70. Metalworking\n71. Palm reading\n72. Paper mache\n73. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\n74. 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.)\n75. Plan out a yearly menu\n76. Plant and maintain community fruit trees (Urban Harvest)\n77. Reef aquarium\n78. Refinish a piece of furniture you find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace\n79. Restore a historic car\n80. Roast your own coffee\n81. Room renovations or home designs![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Sand-Castle.jpg)\n82. Sand sculptures\n83. Soap making\n84. Start a journal\n85. Start an allotment or community garden\n86. Stoneworking\n87. Sushi making\n88. Tai Chi\n89. Tap maple trees to make syrup\n90. Tapestry\n91. Upholstery\n92. Whittling or wood carving\n## Things To Do When You’re Bored On Your Phone.\nBanish boredom in the waiting room with this giant lit of things to do on your phone when you’re bored.\n\n1. Beat the record on Slitherio\n2. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\n3. Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails)\n4. Enhance your survival skills\n5. Explore different religious beliefs\n6. Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA\n7. Learn how to meal plan\n8. Learn how to pick locks\n9. Learn SEO\n10. Learn to budget\n11. Learn to forage for edible food\n12. Learn to manage your home\n13. Learn to travel hack\n14. Look at free community events going on near you\n15. Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube\n16. Making digital photo books\n17. Meal plan for the week![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Meditation_.jpg)\n18. Meditation\n19. Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books\n20. Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away)\n21. 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.)\n22. Plan out a yearly menu\n23. Produce electronic music\n24. Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels\n25. Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist\n26. 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)\n27. Start a journal\n28. Write reviews online\n29. Yoga\n## Things To Do When You’re Bored That Could Make You Money.\nFun 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!).\n\nIf 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.\n\n1. 3D printing\n2. Acrobatics\n3. Airbrushing\n4. Architecture\n5. Babysitting\n6. Bake (If you’re good at it… Look into selling baked goods at a farmers market or festival, or from your home).![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AdobeStock_225459094-1024x683.jpeg)\n7. Bake and sell gourmet pet treats\n8. Baton twirling\n9. Beatboxing\n10. Become a certified financial planner\n11. Become a handyman\n12. Become a personal trainer or fitness instructor (either on your own or through whatever your jam is…CrossFit, Yoga or Zumba)\n13. Bookbinding\n14. Book restoration\n15. Breakdancing\n16. Build an experimental aircraft\n17. Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects\n18. Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture\n19. Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard\n20. Buy and sell land (particularly cheap but commonly undesirable land like land for mudding) (link to nick lopers podcast)\n21. Calligraphy\n22. Candy making\n23. Ceramics\n24. Chainsaw carvings\n25. Coding\n26. Coin collecting\n27. Collecting baseball cards\n28. Collecting model trains\n29. Collecting stamps\n30. Comic book art\n31. Cooking\n32. Cosplay\n33. Create a local Uber experience like a guided tour\n34. Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls\n35. Creating unique recipes\n36. Creating videos (videography) for weddings and smaller productions (filming courses or tutorials)\n37. Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet\n38. Crocheting\n39. Decoupage\n40. Design funny or niche coffee mugs\n41. Design funny or niche tee shirts\n42. Design printable planner stickers\n43. Dig for clams\n44. Dirt biking\n45. DJing\n46. Drag boat racing\n47. Draw comics or learn animation![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Drawing....jpg)\n48. Drawing\n49. Driving people around (Lyft or Uber)\n50. Embroidery\n51. Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties\n52. Flower arrangements\n53. Furniture restoration\n54. Get chickens to sell the eggs\n55. Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games.\n56. Getting a dairy cow to sell the milk\n57. Go crabbing\n58. Go to local open houses and watch the real estate market. Get into real estate or flipping houses\n59. Growing herbs or vegetables\n60. Gunsmith\n61. Gymnastics\n62. Hand lettering\n63. Helicopter skiing\n64. Homesteading\n65. 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 )\n66. Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields\n67. Ice fishing\n68. Impersonations\n69. Inventing\n70. Jam making\n71. Juggling in the street\n72. Kitchen chemistry\n73. Knifemaking\n74. Knitting\n75. Lacemaking\n76. Lamp making\n77. Learn graphic design (for example, logos)\n78. Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)\n79. Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)\n80. Learn how to edit videos\n81. Learn how to fix old broken computers (you can find dozens with problems for free or super cheap on Craigslist\n82. Learn how to flip cars\n83. Learn how to hack credit card rewards (not for the faint of heart!) We are gonna get sued for this!?\\!\n84. Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)\n85. Learn how to make printables\n86. Learn how to make wine\n87. Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA\n88. Learn how to meal plan\n89. Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions\n90. Learn how to stage homes for sale\n91. Learn screen printing\n92. Learn self-defense\n93. Learn SEO\n94. 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)\n95. Learn to bake\n96. Learn to be a Life Coach\n97. Learn to budget\n98. Learn to cook\n99. Learn to manage your home\n100. Learn to perfect big barrel curls\n101. Learn to play craps\n102. Learn to sew\n103. Learn to travel hack\n104. Learning a foreign language\n105. Learning how to bartend\n106. Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character)\n107. Learning how to tattoo\n108. Learning how to use and run a teleprompter (impressive money and has little competition for a part-time gig)\n109. Learning the art of storytelling\n110. Lip plumpers\n111. Ludo sport (Lightsaber combat)\n112. Macrame\n113. Make a collage\n114. Make cold brew coffee\n115. Make hard cider (super easy!)\n116. Make miniature doll furniture![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Brewing-Beer.jpg)\n117. Make pottery\n118. Make your own beer\n119. Make your own boat\n120. Make your own hot sauce\n121. Make your own jewelry\n122. Make your own robot\n123. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n124. Making a bird feeder\n125. Making dolls\n126. Making model cars\n127. Making pallet furniture\n128. Making wood family signs\n129. Making your own clothes\n130. Manicures\n131. Master airplane combat games\n132. Metalworking\n133. Motocross\n134. Mud Wrestling\n135. Paper mache\n136. Pedicures\n137. Performing stand up comedy\n138. Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E\\*Trade)\n139. Playing harmonica\n140. Playing Pool\n141. Podcasting\n142. Poker\n143. Produce electronic music\n144. Programming\n145. Proofreading, formatting, and editing (books, court reports, blogs)\n146. Public speaking (get started with your local Toastmasters) goes well with a blog or YouTube channel\n147. Puppetry\n148. Rappelling\n149. Raspberry Pi projects (learn programming through fun practical projects)\n150. RC cars\n151. Reef aquarium\n152. Refinish a piece of furniture you find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace\n153. Renovate your house\n154. Restore a historic car\n155. Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.)\n156. Road trips\n157. Roast your own coffee\n158. Room renovations or home designs\n159. RV across the US\n160. Sailing![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Scrapbooking_.jpg)\n161. Scrapbooking\n162. Sculpting\n163. Self Tanning\n164. Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist\n165. Sewing\n166. Singing\n167. Smoking meat\n168. Snorkeling\n169. Soap making\n170. Stamp collecting\n171. Start a blog, YouTube channel, or podcast\n172. Start and maintain a saltwater tank\n173. Starting an Etsy or eBay store\n174. Story writing\n175. Style and decorate homes\n176. Sushi making\n177. Synchronized swimming\n178. Take surveys\n179. Tap maple trees to make syrup\n180. Tapestry\n181. Tarot reading\n182. Teaching or tutoring, either an instrument or for school, or something else you excel in\n183. Tennis\n184. Ventriloquism\n185. Visit a flea market or thrift store and look for items to flip on eBay\n186. Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting\n187. Watchmaking\n188. Watercolors\n189. Whittling or wood carving\n190. Write a children’s book or first novel\n191. Writing a book![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Zumba_.jpg)\n192. Zumba\n## Things To Do When You’re Bored To Make Life Easier.\nMy 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.)\n\n[You can check out Hot Mess to Home Success and jump on the waiting list here….](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/Hotmesswaitinglist)\n\nIf 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).\n\n1. Baking\n2. Become a certified financial planner\n3. Become a handyman\n4. Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own\n5. Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline)\n6. Blacksmithing (make your own sword)\n7. Brainstorm your hobbies\n8. Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace\n9. Camping\n10. Canning food\n11. Cardio\n12. Catch up on laundry![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Laundry_.jpg)\n13. Clean out and detail clean your car\n14. Cooking\n15. Create a home stock room\n16. Creating unique recipes\n17. Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell\n18. Cross country running\n19. Declutter and organize an area of your home\n20. Dig for clams\n21. Distilling\n22. Dog training\n23. Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new)\n24. Enhance your survival skills\n25. Freezer meals, once a month meals\n26. Furniture restoration\n27. Gather food donations for a local non-profit\n28. Go crabbing\n29. Have family meetings or budget meetings\n30. Homesteading\n31. 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 )\n32. Improve your memory\n33. Interviewing older relatives about their lives\n34. Inventing\n35. 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 )\n36. Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E\\*Trade)\n37. Become a handyman\n38. Landscaping\n39. Learn extreme couponing\n40. Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition)\n41. Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself)\n42. Learn how to fix old broken computers (you can find dozens with problems for free or super cheap on Craigslist)\n43. Learn how to flip cars\n44. Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands\n45. Learn how to meal plan\n46. Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions\n47. Learn how to pick locks\n48. Learn how to stage homes for sale\n49. Learn how to start a fire with two sticks\n50. Learn self-defense\n51. Learn spear fishing or fly fishing\n52. 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)\n53. Learn to bake\n54. Learn to be a Life Coach\n55. Learn to budget\n56. Learn to cook\n57. Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes\n58. Learn to manage your home\n59. Learn to rock climb or bouldering\n60. Learn to sew\n61. Learn to shoot\n62. Learn to travel hack\n63. Learning a foreign language\n64. Learning the art of storytelling\n65. Make hard cider (super easy!)\n66. Make your own hot sauce\n67. Make your own signature bbq sauce\n68. Make your own tea blends\n69. Master barbeque\n70. Meal plan for the week![](https:\/\/www.busybudgeter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AdobeStock_144637539-1-1024x683.jpeg)\n71. Meditation\n72. Metalworking\n73. Organize your week\n74. 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Boilerpipe Text	This giant list of things to do when you’re bored is the ultimate resource of experiences to have and skills to master. Whether you’re looking for a new free hobby to save money or you’re looking for an earth-shattering experience that will change your life, we’ve got you covered. Update: You asked for it and I’m delivering! Starting NOW, you can grab the Trashed to Total Home Transformation Survival Guide (Pandemic Edition) For FREE! It teaches you step by step how to work with your personality to not only set up home routines that will work (no matter how many times you’ve failed in the past), but that you’ll stick to… long after the pandemic is over. We’ve taught hundreds of thousands of people how to use bare minimum consistent effort to completely transform their home (and life!). You’re up next. You can get your Survival Guide here for FREE… 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 Free or cheap things to do when bored. Fun things to do when bored. Things to do when bored for kids. Things to do when bored at home. Things to do when bored at night. Things to do with your boyfriend (or girlfriend, husband, or wife) when bored. Things to do when bored with friends. Fun things to do on a laptop when bored. Fun things to do outside when bored. DIY things to do when bored. Things to do when bored on your phone. Things to do when bored that could make you money. Things to do when bored to make life easier. Free or Cheap Things To Do When Bored This list is perfect if you’re trying to replace more expensive hobbies and social gatherings to pay off your debt or to save up for a new house or retirement. We lived off this list for a few years. Hint: You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube. 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Acapella Apply to be an extra in a movie or tv show Arrange flowers Astronomy At home facials Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD Babysitting Balloon twisting Baseball Basketball Beachcombing Beach volleyball Beatboxing Become a Wikipedia editor Becoming a newspaper contributor Belly Dancing Bicycling Board game club Bonsai trees Boogie boarding Brainstorm your hobbies Breakdancing Build a family command center Build a functional igloo in the snow Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally Building fairy gardens Butterfly watching Calligraphy Camping Canning Canoeing Cardio Carve epic pumpkins Catch up on laundry Catching insects (like lightning bugs) Check out museums Clean out and detail clean your car Coin collecting Collecting leaves or flowers Collecting marbles Collecting seashells Collecting stickers Coloring Comic book art Container gardening Corn Maze Create a bucket list Create a home stock room Create a treasure hunt Creating a family tree Creating a time capsule Creating unique recipes Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell Crocheting Cross country running Crossword puzzles Declutter and organize an area of your home Dig for clams Digital scrapbooking Dog training Dominoes Draw comics or learn animation Drawing Driveway chalk Dumpster diving Embroidery Explore different religious beliefs Farming Fell running Feng Shui your home Find a natural way to collect rainwater Finger painting Foosball Football Frisbee golf Gather food donations for a local non-profit Genealogy Geology Gnoming (when you steal someone’s garden gnome and take them on epic adventures and travel sending postcards back to the rightful owner until the gnome is returned. Yes. it’s really a thing). Go crabbing Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids) Going on picnics Ham radio Hand lettering Handball Handwriting letters to friends and family Have family meetings or budget meetings Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles) Hike the Appalachian mountains Hiking Hip Hop Dancing Hockey Hoverboarding Hurdles Impersonations Improve your memory Interviewing older relatives about their lives Inventing Jam making Juggling Jump rope Karaoke Kitchen chemistry Kite flying Knitting Knotting Learn a roundhouse kick Learn boxing or kickboxing Learn how to debone and eat a chicken wing in one bite Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully) Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands Learn how to light a match with one hand Learn how to meal plan Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily Learn how to start a fire with two sticks Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue Learn how to whistle using your fingers Learn magic tricks and card tricks Learn paper Origami or Tatebanko or paper quilling Learn the art of upcycling. (Start taking things you would have thrown out and turn them into something useful. We do this to tee shirts by turning them into useful tote bags) Learn to bake Learn to budget Learn to cook Learn to crochet Learn to dirty dance Learn to do a backward roll Learn to do a cartwheel Learn to do a forward roll Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes Learn to forage for edible food Learn to high kick Learn to hunt or to track Learn to knit Learn to manage your home Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin) Learn to quilt Learn to rock climb or bouldering Learn to sew Learning the art of storytelling Lock picking Long distance track Long jump Look at free community events going on near you Make a collage Make a terrarium Make your own bookmarks Make your own candles Make your own hot sauce Make your own jewelry Make your own signature bbq sauce Make your own tea blends Making a bird feeder Making model cars Making your own clothes Meal plan for the week Meditation Microscopy Middle distance track Mini golf Model rockets Mud wrestle (or jello?) Needle Felting Organize your week Palm reading Paper mache Pencil sketching People watching Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: the secret ingredient? Cream cheese) Perfect your handshake Perfect your high five Pinochle Plan a monthly dinner club, bunco night, or poker party Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away) Plan out a 3-week menu of favorite meals and shopping lists. Then create saved orders for them in Instacart or Walmart pick up. (Viola, meal planning and grocery shopping are automated.) Plan out a yearly menu Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit Play badminton Play chess Play darts Play volleyball Playing harmonica Playing pool Podcasting Pressing flowers Proofreading Racquetball Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels Roast your own coffee Rock painting Roller skating Running Sand sculptures Sand surfing Science experiments Sculpting with clay Self-care or beauty night Sewing Shark tooth or fossil hunting Shop for best prices on the items you use the most (home goods like garbage bags, personal goods like shampoo and food items like ketchup) Short distance track Singing Skateboarding Sleigh riding Slingshots Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (This probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage) Soap making Soccer Solve puzzles or mazes Speed reading Sports refereeing Stamp collecting Stargazing with a telescope Start a book club Start a journal Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one) Starting a parents night out Staycation Stone skipping Story writing Strength training Sudoku Surfing Swimming Table tennis Tai Chi Take a positive discipline parenting class Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!) Tarot reading Teach your kids a chore they can take over Tennis Throw axes Tower running (or extreme stair climbing) Track cycling Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman Trivia contests Ultimate frisbee Visit the aquarium Visit the local library Visit the zoo Volunteer at a local non-profit Volunteer at the food pantry Volunteer at the kids’ school Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization Volunteering Wakeboarding Walking Watching entire libraries of films in common (such as all Spielberg movies or all movies with Hugh Jackman, or the most popular 25 movies of the ’80s). Wrestling Write a screenplay Write your family mission statement Writing a book Writing letters to loved ones Writing letters to your future self Yoga Yoyoing Fun Things To Do When You’re Bored. This list is perfect if you’re looking for something fun and exciting to do when you’re bored. They are not always cheap (although, some are) but they will be awesome! Hint: You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube. If you need equipment, plan to grab it off Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace for a fraction of the price (plus you can usually sell it for the same amount you paid, when you’re ready to move on). 3D printing Acrobatics Acroyoga (couples yoga where you physically support each other) Aerial photography Airbrushing Airsoft guns Antiquing Archaeology (like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast) At home facials Baking Baseball Basketball Baton twirling Beachcombing Beach volleyball Beatboxing Become a connoisseur (wine, whiskey) Become a personal trainer or fitness instructor (either on your own or through whatever your jam is…CrossFit, Yoga or Zumba) Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own Belly Dancing Bicycling Blacksmithing (make your own sword) Board game club Body surfing Boogie boarding Boomerangs Brainstorm your hobbies Breakdancing Breaking a world record Build a family command center Build a functional igloo in the snow Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally Build an experimental aircraft Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard Building fairy gardens Butterfly watching Camping Candy making Canning Canoeing Carve epic pumpkins Catching insects (like lightning bugs) Cave diving Caving or spelunking Ceramics Chainsaw carvings Check out a salsa club Cheerleading Chocolate tasting Coin collecting Collecting baseball cards Collecting seashells Coloring Combat shooting Comic book art Cooking Cosplay Crabbing Create a bucket list Create a local Uber experience like a guided tour Create a treasure hunt Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes Creating a family tree Creating a time capsule Creating unique recipes Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell. Cross country running Cross country skiing Crossword puzzles Curling Decoupage Design funny or niche coffee mugs Design funny or niche tee shirts Design printable planner stickers Dig for clams Digital scrapbooking Diner club Dirt biking Discus Distilling DJing Dog training Dominoes Dragon boat racing Draw comics or learn animation Drawing Driveway chalk Embroidery Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new) Enhance your survival skills Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties Explore different religious beliefs Fell running Feng Shui your home Field hockey Find a natural way to collect rainwater Finger painting Fire poi (fire performance) Fish pedicures Fishing for tuna Flower arrangements Fly Tying Flying drones Flying model planes Foosball Football Freezer cooking (once a month?) Frisbee golf Genealogy Get a tattoo Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games Glamping Glass blowing Gnoming (when you steal someone’s garden gnome and take them on epic adventures and travel sending postcards back to the rightful owner until the gnome is returned. Yes. it’s really a thing). Go crabbing Go kart racing Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids) Go to local open houses and watch the real estate market. Get into real estate or flipping houses. Going on picnics Groundhopping (going to as many stadiums or venues of your favorite artist or sports team) Gymnastics Hand lettering Hand to hand combat Handball Handwriting letters to friends and family Hang Gliding Haunted house tours Have a seafood boil in the sand Helicopter skiing Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles) Hike the Appalachian mountains Hiking Hip Hop Dancing Hockey Horseback riding Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut) Host a freezer cooking party (and if you get good at running them, buy the ingredients and supplies and charge people to come, make and pack meals ) Hoverboarding Hula dancing Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields Hurdles Ice fishing Impersonations Improve your memory Interviewing older relatives about their lives Inventing Irish step dancing Jam making Jet ski Juggling in the street Jump rope Karaoke Kitchen chemistry Kite surfing Knifemaking Knife throwing Knotting Lacemaking Lacrosse Landscaping Learn archery Learn boxing or kickboxing Learn graphic design (for example, logos) Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands Learn how to juggle fire Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops) Learn how to make printables Learn how to make wine Learn how to pick locks Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily Learn how to start a fire with two sticks Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue Learn how to use a bullwhip to snap a straw out of a man’s hand Learn how to whistle using your fingers Learn impressive party tricks Learn Klingon Learn Pig Latin Learn self-defense Learn spear fishing or fly fishing. Learn the art of upcycling. (Take things you would have thrown out and turn them into something useful. We do this to tee shirts by turning them into useful tote bags) Learn to ballroom dance Learn to dirty dance Learn to fence Learn to fly (p.s. it’s expensive) Learn to forage for edible food Learn to hunt or to track Learn to ice skate Learn to perfect big barrel curls Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin) Learn to play craps Learn to rock climb or bouldering Learn to shoot Learn to travel hack Learning how to bartend Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character) Learning how to tattoo Learning the art of storytelling Lip plumpers Lobster traps Long distance track Long jump Look at free community events going on near you Ludo sport (Lightsaber combat) Make a collage Make cold brew coffee Make hard cider (super easy!) Make miniature doll furniture Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube Beat the record on Slitherio Make pottery Make your own beer Make your own boat Make your own bookmarks Make your own candles Make your own hot sauce Make your own jewelry Make your own robot Make your own signature bbq sauce Making digital photo books Making dolls Making model cars Manicures Massage Master airplane combat games Master barbeque Matchstick modeling Meditation Metalworking Microscopy Middle distance track Mini golf Model rockets Model shipbuilding Motocross Mud wrestle (or jello?) Obstacle course Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books Paint and sip nights Palm reading Paper mache Parachuting Paragliding Parkour Pedicures People watching Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: secret ingredient? Cream cheese) Performing stand up comedy Pinochle Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away) Plan out a 3-week menu of favorite meals and shopping list on a rotating basis and then create saved orders for them in Instacart or Walmart pick up. (Viola, meal planning and grocery shopping are automated.) Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit Plant and maintain community fruit trees (Urban Harvest) Play badminton Play chess Play darts Play volleyball Playing harmonica Playing pool Podcasting Poker Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances) Produce electronic music Puppetry Pyrotechnics or fireworks Quidditch Racquetball RC cars Reef aquarium Renovate your house Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.) Road trips Roast your own coffee Rock painting Rollerblading Roller skating Room renovations or home designs Rugby Running RV across the US Sailing Sand sculptures Sand surfing Sandboarding Scale miniature building Science experiments Scottish sword dancing Scrapbooking Scuba Diving Sculpting Self-care or beauty night Self Tanning Sewing Shark Diving Shark tooth or fossil hunting Shop for best prices on the items you use the most (both home goods like garbage bags, personal goods like shampoo and food items like ketchup) Short distance track Shot put Singing Skateboarding Skeet shooting Skydiving Snorkeling Snowboarding Snowmobiling Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage) Soap making Soccer Speed reading Speed skating Spin classes Sports refereeing Stamp collecting Stargazing with a telescope Start a book club Start a journal Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one) Start a soccer mom league Start an allotment or community garden Start and maintain a saltwater tank Staycation Stoneworking Story writing Style and decorate homes Subscription boxes Sudoku Sugar scrubs Surfing Sushi making Swimming Synchronized swimming Table tennis Tai Chi Take a discovery flight Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!) Tandem, biking Target shooting Tarot reading Tasting parties with miracle fruit Teach your kids a chore they can take over Tennis Themed date nights Throw axes Touring wineries Tower running (or extreme stair climbing) Track cycling Trivia contest Ultimate frisbee Vaulting horses Ventriloquism Visit a speakeasy Visit the aquarium Visit the local library Visit the zoo Volunteer at the food pantry Volunteer at the kids’ school Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization Volunteering Wakeboarding Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting Watchmaking Watching entire libraries of films in common (such as all Spielberg movies or all movies with Hugh Jackman, or the most popular 25 movies of the ’80s). Watercolors Weekend getaways Whale watching White water rafting Whittling or wood carving Windsurfing Wine/cheese tasting Wingsuit flying Wrestling Write your family mission statement Writing a book Writing letters to loved ones Writing letters to your future self Yoga Ziplining Zumba Things To Do When You’re Bored With Kids. This list is perfect if you have kids (or if you are a kid) and you’re looking for things to do when you’re bored. This list is mostly cheap, pretty creative and will help them burn off some energy. There are ideas for kids of every age here… not just toddlers or school-aged kids. Acrobatics Airbrushing Apply to be an extra in a movie or tv show Astronomy At home facials Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD Audition as an actor or for a commercial Audition to be a model Babysitting Baking Balloon twisting Baseball Basketball Baton twirling Beach volleyball Beat the record on Slitherio Beatboxing Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own Becoming a newspaper contributor Belly Dancing Bicycling Biking Board dogs Board game club Body surfing Bonsai trees Boogie boarding Boomerangs Brainstorm your hobbies Breakdancing Breaking a world record Breed dogs Build a functional igloo in the snow Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally Build an experimental aircraft Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture Building fairy gardens Butterfly watching Camping Candy making Cardmaking Cartography Carve epic pumpkins Catching insects (like lightning bugs) Cave Diving Caving or spelunking Ceramics Check out museums Cheerleading Chocolate tasting Coin collecting Collecting baseball cards Collecting leaves or flowers Collecting marbles Collecting model trains Collecting seashells Collecting stickers Coloring Comic book art Container gardening Cooking Corn Maze Crabbing Create a bucket list Create a charity Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails) Create a treasure hunt Creating a family tree Creating a time capsule Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell. Cross country running Cross country skiing Crossword puzzles Cryptography Dig for clams Digital scrapbooking Dirt biking Discus DJing Dog competitions Dog sledding Dog training Dominoes Dragon boat racing Draw comics or learn animation Drawing Driveway chalk Dumpster diving Enhance your survival skills Explore different religious beliefs Farming Fell running Feng shui Field hockey Find a natural way to collect rainwater Finger painting Fish pedicures Fishing for tuna Flower arrangements Fly Tying Flying drones Flying model planes Foosball Football Foster animals: either dogs and cats or more unique animals like rabbits, turtles, and birds Frisbee golf Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games. Gnoming (when you steal someone’s garden gnome and take them on epic adventures and travel sending postcards back to the rightful owner until the gnome is returned. Yes. it’s really a thing). Go crabbing Go kart racing Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids) Going on picnics Graphology Groundhopping (going to as many stadiums or venues of your favorite artist or sports team) Gymnastics Ham radio Hand lettering Handball Handwriting letters to friends and family Haunted house tours Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles) Hike the Appalachian mountains Hiking Hip Hop Dancing Hockey Horseback riding Hot air balloon Hoverboarding Hula dancing Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields Hurdles Ice fishing Impersonations Improve your memory Inventing Irish step dancing Juggling Jump rope Kick sledding Kitchen chemistry Kite flying Kite surfing Knotting Lacrosse Landscaping Learn a roundhouse kick Learn boxing or kickboxing Learn how to debone and eat a chicken wing in one bite Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself) Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue Learn how to whistle using your fingers Learn impressive party tricks Learn Klingon Learn magic tricks and card tricks Learn Pig Latin Learn self-defense Learn spear fishing or fly fishing. Learn the art of upcycling. (Take things you would have thrown out and turn them into something useful. We do this to tee shirts by turning them into useful tote bags) Learn to ballroom dance Learn to do a backward roll Learn to do a cartwheel Learn to do a forward roll Learn to fence Learn to forage for edible food Learn to high kick Learn to ice skate Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin) Learn to rock climb or bouldering Learn to shoot Learn to wear fake eyelashes Learning a foreign language Learning the art of storytelling Lego building Lobster Traps Lock picking Long distance track Long jump Look at free community events going on near you Ludo sport (Lightsaber combat) Make a collage Make a terrarium Make miniature doll furniture Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube Make pottery Make your own boat Make your own bookmarks Make your own hot sauce Make your own jewelry Make your own robot Make your own signature bbq sauce Make your own tea blends Making a bird feeder Making digital photo books Making dolls Making model cars Making your own clothes Manicures Master airplane combat games Matchstick modeling Metal detector Metalworking Microscopy Middle distance track Mini golf Model rockets Model shipbuilding Motocross Needle Felting Obstacle course Palm reading Paper mache Parachuting Paragliding Parkour Pedicures Pencil sketching People watching Perfect your handshake Perfect your high five Performing stand up comedy Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away) Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit Play badminton Play chess Play darts Play volleyball Playing harmonica Playing pool Podcasting Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances) Pressing flowers Produce electronic music Puppetry Quidditch Racquetball RC cars Reef aquarium Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.) Roast your own coffee Rock painting Rollerblading Roller skating Rowing Running Sand sculptures Sand surfing Sandboarding Scale miniature building Science experiments Scottish sword dancing Scouting Scrapbooking Sculpting Sculpting with clay Self-care or beauty night Sewing Short distance track Singing Skateboarding Skijoring (skiing with a horse pulling you) Skydiving Sleigh riding Slingshots Snorkeling Snowboarding Snowmobiling Soap making Soccer Solve puzzles or mazes Speed reading Speed skating Stamp collecting Stargazing with a telescope Start a book club Start a journal Start an allotment or community garden Start and maintain a saltwater tank Stone skipping Story writing Sugar scrubs Surfing Sushi making Swimming Synchronized swimming Table tennis Tandem, biking Tarot reading Taxidermy Teeth whitening Tennis Tower running (or extreme stair climbing) Track cycling Train a falcon Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman Trivia contests Ultimate frisbee Vaulting horses Ventriloquism Visit the aquarium Visit the local library Visit the zoo Volunteer at the food pantry Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization Volunteering Wakeboarding Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting Watching entire libraries of films in common (such as all Spielberg movies or all movies with Hugh Jackman, or the most popular 25 movies of the ’80s). Watercolors Whale watching White water rafting Whittling or wood carving Windsurfing Wrestling Write a screenplay Writing a book Writing letters to loved ones Things To Do When You’re Bored At Home. This list of things to do when you’re bored at home covers all of the possible things you can do from home. Some of the options can make you money form home, some will help you learn skills to make managing your home and life easier, and some are meant to help you relax and enjoy the home you’ve created. Take a free home management course like Home Rescue . Arrange flowers Astronomy At home facials Babysitting Bake and sell gourmet pet treats Baking Beat the record on Slitherio Take a free budgeting course like the 90 Day Budget Boot Camp. Become a Wikipedia editor Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline) Becoming a newspaper contributor Belly Dancing Board dogs Board game club Bonsai trees Book restoration Boomerangs Brainstorm your hobbies Breed dogs Build a family command center Build a nixie tube clock Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace Build your own smoker Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard Building fairy gardens Butterfly watching Camping Candy making Canning Cardio Catch up on laundry Ceramics Chocolate tasting Clean out and detail clean your car Collecting baseball cards Coloring Comic book art Container gardening Cooking Cosplay Create a bucket list Create a home stock room Create a treasure hunt Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes Creating a family tree Creating a time capsule Creating unique recipes Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell. Crocheting Crossword puzzles Declutter and organize an area of your home Decoupage Design funny or niche coffee mugs Design funny or niche tee shirts Design printable planner stickers Digital scrapbooking Dog training Dominoes Draw comics or learn animation Drawing Dry brushing Embroidery Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties Explore different religious beliefs Farming Feng Shui your home Find a natural way to collect rainwater Float spa Flower arrangements Fly Tying Flying drones Flying model planes Foosball Foster animals either dogs and cats or more unique animals like rabbits, turtles, and birds Freezer meals or Once a month meals Frisbee golf Furniture restoration Gather food donations for a local non-profit Genealogy Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games. Gnoming (when you steal someone’s garden gnome and take them on epic adventures and travel sending postcards back to the rightful owner until the gnome is returned. Yes. it’s really a thing). Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids) Hand lettering Have family meetings or budget meetings Hip Hop Dancing Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut) Impersonations Improve your memory Interviewing older relatives about their lives Inventing Jam making Kitchen chemistry Knitting Knotting Lacemaking Lacrosse Lamp making Landscaping Learn extreme couponing Learn graphic design (for example, logos) Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully) Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops)Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like ETrade) Learn how to make printables Learn how to make wine Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA Learn how to meal plan Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions Learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube easily Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue Learn impressive party tricks Learn Klingon Learn magic tricks and card tricks Learn Pig Latin Learn screen printing Learn SEO Learn the art of upcycling. (Start taking things you would have thrown out and turn it into something useful. We do this to tee shirts by turning them into useful tote bags) Learn to bake Learn to be a life coach Learn to budget Learn to cook Learn to crochet Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes Learn to knit Learn to manage your home Learn to perfect big barrel curls Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin) Learn to play craps Learn to quilt Learn to sew Learn to wear fake eyelashes Learning a foreign language Lip plumpers Lock picking Look at free community events going on near you Macrame Make a collage Make a terrarium Make cold brew coffee Make hard cider (super easy!) Make miniature doll furniture Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube Make your own beer Make your own bookmarks Make your own candles Make your own hot sauce Make your own jewelry Make your own signature bbq sauce Make your own tea blends Making a bird feeder Making dolls Making model cars Making wood family signs Making your own clothes Manicures Master airplane combat games Master barbeque Matchstick modeling Meal plan for the week Meditation Metalworking Model rockets Model shipbuilding Needle felting Obstacle course Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books Organize your week Palm reading Paper mache Parkour Pedicures Pencil sketching Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: secret ingredient? Cream cheese) Plan a monthly dinner club, bunco night, or poker party Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away) Plan out a 3-week menu of favorite meals and shopping list. (Then create saved orders for them in Instacart or Walmart pick up. (Viola, meal planning and grocery shopping are automated.) Plan out a yearly menu Play chess Playing pool Podcasting Polo leather making Pressing flowers Produce electronic music Proofreading Pyrotechnics or fireworks RC cars Reef aquarium Refinish a piece of furniture you find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace Renovate your house Rent a Tesla (self-driving car) Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.) Roast your own coffee Rock painting Room renovations or home designs Running Scrapbooking Sculpting Sculpting with clay Self-care or beauty night Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist Sewing Shop for best prices on the items you use the most (both home goods like garbage bags, personal goods like shampoo and food items like ketchup) Singing Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage) Soap making Solve puzzles or mazes Speed reading Start a book club Start a journal Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one) Start and maintain a saltwater tank Starting an Etsy or eBay store Staycation Story writing Strength training Subscription boxes Sudoku Sugar scrubs Sushi making Table tennis Tai Chi Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!) Take surveys Tapestry Tarot reading Tasting parties with miracle fruit Teach your kids a chore they can take over Teeth whitening Trivia contests Ultimate frisbee Upholstery Volunteer at the food pantry Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization Walking Watchmaking Watching entire libraries of films in common (such as all Spielberg movies or all movies with Hugh Jackman, or the most popular 25 movies of the ’80s). Watercolors Write your family mission statement Writing a book Writing letters to loved ones Writing letters to your future self Yoga Yoyoing Things To Do When You’re Bored At Night. This list is perfect when you’re looking for things to do when you’re bored at night. When Jon and I were working the 3rd shift in the State Police, we were up super late at night and always looking for things to do since the rest of the world was sleeping. 3D printing Aerial photography Airbrushing Astronomy At home facials Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD Bake and sell gourmet pet treats Baking Beat the record on Slitherio Beatboxing Become a Wikipedia editor Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline) Becoming a newspaper contributor Belly Dancing Blacksmithing (make your own sword) Board dogs Board game club Book restoration Breakdancing Breed dogs Build a family command center Build a Tesla coil Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects Build furniture Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture Butterfly watching Camping Candy making Canning Cardmaking Cartography Carve epic pumpkins Catch up on laundry Catching insects (like lightning bugs) Ceramics Chocolate tasting Clean out and detail clean your car Coin collecting Collecting model trains Coloring Comic book art Cooking Cosplay Create a charity Create a home stock room Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails) Create a treasure hunt Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes Creating a family tree Creating a time capsule Creating unique recipes Creating videos (videography) for weddings and smaller productions (filming courses or tutorials) Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell. Crocheting Crossword puzzles Cryptography Declutter and organize an area of your home Decoupage Design funny or niche coffee mugs Design funny or niche tee shirts Digital scrapbooking Diner club Distilling DJing Dog training Dominoes Draw comics or learn animation Drawing Driving people around (Lyft or Uber) Dry brushing Dumpster diving Embroidery Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new) Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties Explore different religious beliefs Feng Shui your home Fire poi (fire performance) Flower arrangements Fly Tying Foosball Freezer meals, once a month meals Furniture restoration Genealogy Get a tattoo Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games. Glamping Glass blowing Gnoming (when you steal someone’s garden gnome and take them on epic adventures and travel sending postcards back to the rightful owner until the gnome is returned. Yes. it’s really a thing). Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids) Graphology Ham radio Hand lettering Handwriting letters to friends and family Haunted house tours Have family meetings or budget meetings Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles) Hip Hop Dancing Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut) Impersonations Interviewing older relatives about their lives Inventing Jam making Karaoke Kitchen chemistry Knifemaking Knitting Knotting Lacemaking Lamp making Learn extreme couponing Learn graphic design (for example, logos) Learn how to edit videos Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully) Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops) Learn how to make printables Learn how to make wine Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA Learn how to meal plan Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions Learn how to whistle using your fingers Learn Klingon Learn Pig Latin Learn screen printing Learn SEO Learn the art of upcycling. (Take things you would have thrown out and turn it into something useful. We do this to tee shirts by turning them into useful tote bags) Learn to bake Learn to budget Learn to cook Learn to crochet Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes Learn to knit Learn to manage your home Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin) Learn to play craps Learn to quilt Learn to sew Learn to wear fake eyelashes Learning a foreign language Learning how to bartend Learning how to use and run a teleprompter (impressive money and has little competition for a part-time gig) Learning the art of storytelling Lego building Lip plumpers Lock picking Look at free community events going on near you Macrame Make a collage Make a terrarium Make cold brew coffee Make hard cider (super easy!) Make miniature doll furniture Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube Make your own beer Make your own bookmarks Make your own candles Make your own hot sauce Make your own jewelry Make your own robot Make your own signature bbq sauce Make your own tea blends Making a bird feeder Making digital photo books Making dolls Making model cars Making your own clothes Manicures Master airplane combat games Master barbeque Matchstick modeling Meal plan for the week Mini golf Model rockets Model shipbuilding Needle Felting Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books Organize your week Paint and sip nights Palm reading Paper mache Pedicures Pencil sketching Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (Hint: secret ingredient? Cream cheese) Perfect your handshake Perfect your high five Performing stand up comedy Pinochle Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away) Plan out a 3-week menu of favorite meals and shopping list. (Then create saved orders for them in Instacart or Walmart pick up. Viola, meal planning and grocery shopping are automated.) Plan out a yearly menu Play chess Play darts Playing harmonica Playing pool Podcasting Poker Polo leather making Produce electronic music Proofreading Puppetry Pyrotechnics or fireworks RC cars Rent a Tesla (self-driving car) Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.) Roast your own coffee Roast your own coffee Rock painting Room renovations or home designs Science experiments Scrapbooking Sculpting Sculpting with clay Self-care or beauty night Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist Sewing Shop for best prices on the items you use the most (both home goods like garbage bags, personal goods like shampoo and food items like ketchup) Singing Snowmobiling Soak in a bubble bath with a good book and candles (probably shouldn’t be a library book, they frown upon water damage) Soap making Solve puzzles or mazes Speed reading Spin classes Sports refereeing Stamp collecting Stargazing with a telescope Start a book club Start a journal Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one) Start and maintain a saltwater tank Starting a parents night out Starting an Etsy or eBay store Story writing Subscription boxes Sudoku Sugar scrubs Sushi making Table tennis Tai Chi Take a positive discipline parenting class Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!) Tapestry Tarot reading Tasting parties with miracle fruit Taxidermy Teach your kids a chore they can take over Teeth whitening Themed date nights Train a falcon Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman Upholstery Ventriloquism War games Watchmaking Watching entire libraries of films in common (such as all Spielberg movies or all movies with Hugh Jackman, or the most popular 25 movies of the ’80s). Watercolors Wine/cheese tasting Write a screenplay Write your family mission statement Writing a book Writing letters to loved ones Writing letters to your future self Things To Do With Your Boyfriend (Or Girlfriend, Husband, or Wife) When You’re Bored. This list is perfect when you’re looking for things to do when you’re bored with your spouse or partner. These are date night ideas, and crazy things you can see, explore, build and learn together. Hint: You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube. If you need equipment, plan to grab it off Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace for a fraction of the price (plus you can usually sell it for the same amount you paid, when you’re ready to move on). 3D printing Acroyoga (couples yoga where you physically support each other) Aerial photography Airbrushing Airsoft guns Antiquing Apply to be an extra in a movie or tv show Archaeology: like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast Astronomy Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD Audition as an actor or for a commercial Audition to be a model Baseball Basketball Beachcombing Beach volleyball Become a connoisseur (wine, whiskey) Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline) Becoming a newspaper contributor Bicycling Biking Blacksmithing (make your own sword) Board dogs Board game club Body surfing Bonsai trees Boogie boarding Book restoration Boomerangs Brainstorm your hobbies Breaking a world record Breed dogs Build a family command center Build a functional igloo in the snow Build a Tesla coil Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard Building fairy gardens Buy a boat Camping Canning Canoeing Cardio Cartography Carve epic pumpkins Catch up on laundry Catching insects (like lightning bugs) Cave Diving Caving or spelunking Check out a salsa club Check out museums Chocolate tasting Clean out and detail clean your car Coin collecting Collecting baseball cards Collecting model trains Collecting seashells Combat shooting Comic book art Cooking Crabbing Create a bucket list Create a charity Create a home stock room Create a treasure hunt Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes Creating a family tree Creating a time capsule Creating unique recipes Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell. Croquet Cross country running Cross country skiing Cryptography Curling Declutter and organize an area of your home Design funny or niche coffee mugs Design funny or niche tee shirts Dig for clams Diner club Distilling DJing Dog competitions Dog sledding Dog training Dominoes Dragon boat racing Draw comics or learn animation Dumpster diving Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new) Enhance your survival skills Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties Explore different religious beliefs Farming Feng Shui your home Field hockey Find a natural way to collect rainwater Fire poi (fire performance) Fishing for tuna Float spa Flower arrangements Fly Tying Flying drones Flying model planes Foosball Football Foster animals: either dogs and cats or more unique animals like rabbits, turtles, and birds Freezer meals, once a month meals Frisbee golf Furniture restoration Gather food donations for a local non-profit Genealogy Geology Get a tattoo Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games Glamping Glass blowing Gnoming (when you steal someone’s garden gnome and take them on epic adventures and travel sending postcards back to the rightful owner until the gnome is returned. Yes. it’s really a thing). Go crabbing Go kart racing Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids) Going on picnics Graphology Gunsmith Ham radio Hand to hand combat Handball Hang Gliding Haunted house tours Have a seafood boil in the sand Have family meetings or budget meetings Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles) Hike the Appalachian mountains Hiking Hockey Homesteading Horseback riding Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut) Hot air balloon House of horror Ice fishing Impersonations Improve your memory Interviewing older relatives about their lives Inventing Jam making Jet ski Karaoke Kick sledding Kitchen chemistry Knifemaking Knife throwing Knotting Lacrosse Lamp making Landscaping Learn a roundhouse kick Learn archery Learn how to debone and eat a chicken wing in one bite Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition) Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself) Learn how to fix old broken computers (you can find dozens with problems for free or super cheap on Craigslist Learn how to fold a fitted sheet (ha, good luck. I’ve been trying for 7 years unsuccessfully) Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands Learn how to juggle fire Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops) Learn how to make wine Learn how to meal plan Learn how to start a fire with two sticks Learn impressive party tricks Learn Klingon Learn Pig Latin Learn self-defense Learn spear fishing or fly fishing. Learn to ballroom dance Learn to budget Learn to dirty dance Learn to do a backward roll Learn to do a cartwheel Learn to do a forward roll Learn to fence Learn to forage for edible food Learn to high kick Learn to hunt or to track Learn to ice skate Learn to manage your home Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin) Learn to play craps Learn to rock climb or bouldering Learn to shoot Learn to travel hack Learning a foreign language Learning how to bartend Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character) Learning how to tattoo Learning the art of storytelling Lego building Letterboxing Lobster traps Lock picking Look at free community events going on near you Make a collage Make a pinhole camera and make your own darkroom to develop the images Make a terrarium Make cold brew coffee Make hard cider (super easy!) Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube Make your own beer Make your own hot sauce Make your own robot Make your own signature bbq sauce Make your own tea blends Making a bird feeder Making digital photo books Making model cars Making pallet furniture Master airplane combat games Master barbeque Matchstick modeling Meal plan for the week Metalworking Microscopy Mini golf Model rockets Model shipbuilding Mud wrestle (or jello?) Obstacle course Organize your week Paint and sip nights Parachuting Paragliding Parasailing Parkour Pencil sketching People watching Perfect the fluffy chocolate chip cookie (secret ingredient? Cream cheese) Pinochle Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away) Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit Play badminton Play chess Play darts Play volleyball Playing pool Podcasting Poker Polo leather making Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances) Produce electronic music Puppetry Pyrotechnics or fireworks Quidditch Racquetball Rappelling RC cars Reef aquarium Renovate your house Rent a Tesla (self-driving car) Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.) Road trips Roast your own coffee Sailing Sand sculptures Sand surfing Sandboarding Scale miniature building Science experiments Sculpting with clay Scuba Diving Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist Shark diving Shark tooth or fossil hunting Skeet shooting Skijoring (skiing with a horse pulling you) Skydiving Sleigh riding Slingshots Snorkeling Snowboarding Snowmobiling Soccer Speed reading Speed skating Spin classes Stamp collecting Stargazing with a telescope Start a book club Start and maintain a saltwater tank Starting a parents night out Starting an Etsy or eBay store Staycation Stoneworking Strength training Surfing Sushi making Swimming Table tennis Take a discovery flight Take a positive discipline parenting class Tandem, biking Tap maple trees to make syrup Target shooting Tarot reading Tasting parties with miracle fruit Taxidermy Teach your kids a chore they can take over Tennis Themed date nights Throw axes Touring wineries Tower running (or extreme stair climbing) Train a falcon Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman Ultimate frisbee Upholstery Vaulting horses Ventriloquism Visit a speakeasy Visit the aquarium Visit the zoo Volunteer at a local non-profit Volunteer at the food pantry Volunteer at the kid’s school Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization Volunteering Wakeboarding Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting Walking War games Watchmaking Watching entire libraries of films in common (such as all Spielberg movies or all movies with Hugh Jackman, or the most popular 25 movies of the ’80s). Weekend getaways Whale watching White water rafting Windsurfing Wine/cheese tasting Wingsuit flying Wrestling Write a screenplay Write your family mission statement Ziplining Things To Do When You’re Bored With Friends. This list is perfect when you’re looking for things to do when you’re bored with your Friends. These are fun days out, and things you can do to keep those relationships strong. Hint: You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube. If you need equipment, plan to grab it off Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace for a fraction of the price (plus you can usually sell it for the same amount you paid, when you’re ready to move on). Take a comprehensive home management course together, like Hot Mess to Home Success. 3D printing Acapella Aerial photography Antigravity cocooning (fitness) Antiquing Archaeology: like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast At home facials Baking Baseball Basketball Beachcombing Beach volleyball Become a connoisseur (wine, whiskey) Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline) Belly Dancing Bicycling Biking Board game club Body surfing Boogie boarding Boomerangs Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture Butterfly watching Calligraphy Camping Candy making Cardio Carve epic pumpkins Catch up on laundry Cave Diving Caving or spelunking Ceramics Check out a salsa club Chocolate tasting Coach a local sports team Coin collecting Collecting leaves or flowers Collecting seashells Coloring Combat shooting Comic book art Cooking Corn Maze Cosplay Crabbing Create a home stock room Create a treasure hunt Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes Creating a family tree Creating unique recipes Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell. Crocheting Cross country running Cross country skiing Cryotherapy Decoupage Dig for clams Diner club Distilling DJing Dominoes Dry brushing Embroidery Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties Explore different religious beliefs Fell running Field hockey Find a natural way to collect rainwater Fish pedicures Fishing for tuna Float spa Flower arrangements Flying drones Football Freezer cooking (once a month?) Frisbee golf Gather food donations for a local non-profit Get a tattoo Glamping Glass blowing Gnoming (when you steal someone’s garden gnome and take them on epic adventures and travel sending postcards back to the rightful owner until the gnome is returned. Yes. it’s really a thing). Go crabbing Go Kart Going on picnics Hand lettering Hand to hand combat Handball Hang Gliding Haunted house tours Have a seafood boil in the sand Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles) Hike the Appalachian mountains Hiking Hip Hop Dancing Hockey Horseback riding Host a casino night (check applicable laws in your area, most counties are allowed as long as you don’t take a cut) Host a freezer cooking party (and if you get good at running them, buy the ingredients and supplies and charge people to come, make and pack meals ) House of horror Hula dancing Irish step dancing Jam making Jet ski Juggling in the street Karaoke Keratin treatment (permanent hair straightening) Kitchen chemistry Knitting Lacemaking Lacrosse Learn archery Learn boxing or kickboxing Learn graphic design (for example, logos) Learn how to juggle fire Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops) Learn how to make printables Learn how to make wine Learn how to meal plan Learn impressive party tricks Learn Klingon Learn Pig Latin Learn self-defense Learn the art of upcycling. (Take things you would have thrown out and turn it into something useful. We do this to tee shirts by turning them into useful tote bags) Learn to ballroom dance Learn to budget Learn to crochet Learn to dirty dance Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes Learn to fence Learn to ice skate Learn to knit Learn to manage your home Learn to perfect big barrel curls Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin) Learn to play craps Learn to quilt Learn to rock climb or bouldering Learn to sew Learn to wear fake eyelashes Learning a foreign language Learning how to bartend Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character) Learning how to tattoo Learning the art of storytelling Lip plumpers Lobster traps Look at free community events going on near you Macrame Make a collage Make cold brew coffee Make hard cider (super easy!) Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube Make pottery Make your own beer Make your own hot sauce Make your own jewelry Make your own signature bbq sauce Making digital photo books Making dolls Making your own clothes Manicures Massage Master barbeque Meal plan for the week Mini golf Needle Felting Obstacle course Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books Organize your week Paint and sip nights Palm reading Parachuting Paragliding Pedicures Pencil sketching People watching Performing stand up comedy Plan a monthly dinner club, bunco night, or poker party Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit Play badminton Play chess Play darts Play volleyball Playing pool Podcasting Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances) Pressing flowers Produce electronic music Puppetry Pyrotechnics or fireworks Quidditch Racquetball Rappelling Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels Road trips Roast your own coffee Rollerblading Roller skating Room renovations or home designs Rugby Running RV across the US Sailing Sand sculptures Sand surfing Sandboarding Science experiments Scottish sword dancing Scrapbooking Scuba Diving Sculpting Self-care or beauty night Self Tanning Sewing Shark Diving Skydiving Snorkeling Snowboarding Snowmobiling Soap making Soccer Speed skating Spin classes Stamp collecting Stargazing with a telescope Start a book club Start a soccer mom league Strength training Subscription boxes Sugar scrubs Surfing Sushi making Swimming Synchronized swimming Table tennis Tai Chi Take a discovery flight Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!) Tandem, biking Tapestry Target shooting Tarot reading Tasting parties with miracle fruit Teeth whitening Tennis Touring wineries Track cycling Ultimate frisbee Vaulting horses Ventriloquism Visit a speakeasy Visit the aquarium Visit the local library Visit the zoo Volunteer at a local non-profit Volunteer at the food pantry Volunteer at the local aquarium or rescue organization Volunteering Wakeboarding Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting Walking Watching entire libraries of films in common (such as all Spielberg movies or all movies with Hugh Jackman, or the most popular 25 movies of the ’80s). Weekend getaways Whale watching White water rafting Windsurfing Wine/cheese tasting Wingsuit flying Yoga Ziplining Fun things to do on a laptop when you’re bored. Cool things to do when you’re bored on a laptop? This is your list! Hint: You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube. If you need equipment, plan to grab it off Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace for a fraction of the price (plus you can usually sell it for the same amount you paid, when you’re ready to move on). Antiquing Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD Become a certified financial planner Become a Wikipedia editor Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University) Blogging YouTube Becoming a newspaper contributor Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects Coding Collecting model trains Comic book art Create a charity Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails) Creating videos (videography) for weddings and smaller productions (filming courses or tutorials) Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet Design funny or niche coffee mugs Design funny or niche tee shirts Design printable planner stickers DJing Explore different religious beliefs Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games. Gunsmith Learn boxing or kickboxing Learn extreme couponing Learn graphic design (for example, logos) Learn how to edit videos Learn how to travel hack credit card rewards (not for the faint of heart!) Learn how to make printables Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA Learn how to meal plan Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions Learn screen printing Learn SEO Learn to be a Life Coach Learn to budget Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes Learn to manage your home Learning how to bartend Learning how to use and run a teleprompter (impressive money and has little competition for a part-time gig) Look at free community events going on near you Make a collage Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube Beat the record on Slitherio Making digital photo books Master airplane combat games Meal plan for the week Plan a road trip Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away) Plan a vacation Plan an RV trip across the US Plan out a 3-week menu of favorite meals and shopping list on a rotating basis and then create saved orders for them in Instacart or Walmart pick up. (Viola, meal planning and grocery shopping are automated.) Plan out a yearly menu Play chess Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like ETrade) Podcasting Poker Produce electronic music Programming Proofreading, formatting, and editing (books, court reports, blogs) Public speaking (get started with your local Toastmasters) goes well with a blog or YouTube channel Raspberry Pi projects (learn programming through fun practical projects) Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels Scrapbooking Shop for best prices on the items you use the most (both home goods like garbage bags, personal goods like shampoo and food items like ketchup) Speed reading Start a journal Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one) Table tennis Take a positive discipline parenting class Take highly rated university classes for free (even Yale!) Take surveys Trivia contests War games Write reviews online Write your family mission statement Writing letters to loved ones Writing letters to your future self Fun things to do outside when you’re bored. Whether you need a little vitamin D or you’re trying to get the kids outside more after being cooped up all day, these fun things to do when you’re bored outside will give you plenty of ideas. Acrobatics Airsoft guns Antiquing Archaeology: like finding Megalodon teeth on the coast Astronomy At home facials Attempting to solve a cold case in your local PD Baseball Basketball Beachcombing Beach volleyball Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own Beekeeping Bicycling Body surfing Boogie boarding Boomerangs Build a functional igloo in the snow Build a nixie tube clock Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally Build a Tesla coil Build an experimental aircraft Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace Build your own smoker Building fairy gardens Butterfly watching Buy a boat Buy and sell land ( particularly cheap but commonly undesirable land like land for mudding ) Canning Canoeing Cardio Carve epic pumpkins Catching insects (like lightning bugs) Cave Diving Caving or spelunking Chainsaw carvings Clean out and detail clean your car Coach a local sports team Collecting leaves or flowers Collecting seashells Combat shooting Comic book art Corn Maze Crabbing Create a treasure hunt Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet Croquet Cross country running Cross country skiing Dig for clams Dirt biking Discus Distilling Dog competitions Dog sledding Dog training Drag boat racing Dragon boat racing Driveway chalk Driving people around (Lyft or Uber) Dumpster diving Enhance your survival skills Fell running Field hockey Find a natural way to collect rainwater Finger painting Fire poi (fire performance) Fishing for tuna Flying drones Flying model planes Football Frisbee golf Furniture restoration Geology Get chickens to sell the eggs Getting a dairy cow to sell the milk Glass blowing Gnoming (when you steal someone’s garden gnome and take them on epic adventures and travel sending postcards back to the rightful owner until the gnome is returned. Yes. it’s really a thing). Go crabbing Go kart racing Go off-roading or mudding. Go on a puddle walk (or take the kids) Going on picnics Growing herbs or vegetables Hand to hand combat Handball Hang Gliding Have a seafood boil in the sand Helicopter skiing Herping (searching for amphibians like turtles) Hike the Appalachian mountains Hiking Hiking Hockey Homesteading Horseback riding Hot air balloon Hoverboarding Hula dancing Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields Hurdles Ice fishing Jet ski Juggling in the street Jump rope Kick sledding Kite surfing Knife throwing Lacrosse Landscaping Learn a roundhouse kick Learn archery Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition) Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself) Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands Learn how to juggle fire Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops) Learn how to make wine Learn how to start a fire with two sticks Learn how to use a bullwhip to snap a straw out of a man’s hand Learn self-defense Learn spear fishing or fly fishing. Learn to do a backward roll Learn to do a cartwheel Learn to do a forward roll Learn to fly Learn to forage for edible food Learn to high kick Learn to hunt or to track Learn to ice skate Learn to perfect big barrel curls Learn to play an instrument (flute, guitar, drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin) Learn to rock climb or bouldering Learn to shoot Learning the art of storytelling Lip plumpers Lobster traps Lock picking Long distance track Long jump Look at free community events going on near you Make a collage Make a terrarium Make your own boat Make your own jewelry Making wood family signs Manicures Meditation Metal detector Middle distance track Mini golf Model shipbuilding Motocross Mud wrestle (or jello?) Obstacle course Parachuting Paragliding Parkour Pedicures People watching Plant an urban fruit tree and add it to Falling Fruit Plant and maintain community fruit trees (Urban Harvest) Play badminton Play volleyball Powerbocking (spring loaded shoes that let you and, jump and glide at extreme distances) Pyrotechnics or fireworks Quidditch Racquetball Rappelling Rent a Tesla (self-driving car) Researching the background of an interesting grave in your local graveyard Rollerblading Roller skating Rowing Rugby Running Sand sculptures Sand surfing Sandboarding Science experiments Scuba Diving Self Tanning Shark Diving Shark tooth or fossil hunting Short distance track Shot put Skateboarding Skeet shooting Skijoring (skiing with a horse pulling you) Skydiving Sleigh riding Smoking meat Snorkeling Snowboarding Snowmobiling Soccer Speed skating Stargazing with a telescope Start a soccer mom league Start an allotment or community garden Stone skipping Stoneworking Strength training Sugar scrubs Surfing Swimming Take a discovery flight Tandem, biking Tap maple trees to make syrup Target shooting Tennis Throw axes Track cycling Train a falcon Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman Ultimate frisbee Vaulting horses Visit a flea market or thrift store and look for items to flip on eBay Wakeboarding Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting Walking Watching entire libraries of films in common (such as all Spielberg movies or all movies with Hugh Jackman, or the most popular 25 movies of the ’80s) Whale watching White water rafting Whittling or wood carving Windsurfing Wingsuit flying Write your family mission statement Yoga Ziplining DIY Things To Do When You’re Bored. If you love projects and working with your hands, we compiled a giant list of all of the best DIY things to do so you always know what your next project is! Antiquing Bake and sell gourmet pet treats Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own Bookbinding Build a functional igloo in the snow Build a nixie tube clock Build a shelter in the woods using materials found locally Build a Tesla coil Build an experimental aircraft Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace Build your own smoker Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard Building fairy gardens Candy making Canning food Cardmaking Ceramics Chainsaw carvings Cosplay Create a charity Create a treasure hunt Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls Create look-alikes for your favorite restaurant dishes Creating a family tree Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell. Decoupage Design printable planner stickers Distilling Farming Fly Tying Furniture restoration Get into reenactments, make your own costumes, learn how to write with pen and quill and you can go to a demonstration as a reenactor. Glass blowing Homesteading Kitchen chemistry Knifemaking Lamp making Landscaping Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself) Learn how to flip cars Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops) Learn how to make wine Learn paper Origami or Tatebanko or paper quilling Learn the art of upcycling. Take things you would have thrown out and turn it into something useful. (We do this to tee shirts by turning them into useful tote bags) Learn to crochet Learn to knit Learn to quilt Learn to sew Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character) Learning how to tattoo Make a pinhole camera and make your own darkroom to develop the images Make a terrarium Make cold brew coffee Make hard cider (super easy!) Make miniature doll furniture Make pottery Make your own boat Make your own bookmarks Make your own hot sauce Make your own signature bbq sauce Make your own tea blends Making a bird feeder Making digital photo books Making model cars Making pallet furniture Making wood family signs Metalworking Palm reading Paper mache Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away) Plan out a 3-week menu of favorite meals and shopping list on a rotating basis and then create saved orders for them in Instacart or Walmart pick up. (Viola, meal planning and grocery shopping are automated.) Plan out a yearly menu Plant and maintain community fruit trees (Urban Harvest) Reef aquarium Refinish a piece of furniture you find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace Restore a historic car Roast your own coffee Room renovations or home designs Sand sculptures Soap making Start a journal Start an allotment or community garden Stoneworking Sushi making Tai Chi Tap maple trees to make syrup Tapestry Upholstery Whittling or wood carving Things To Do When You’re Bored On Your Phone. Banish boredom in the waiting room with this giant lit of things to do on your phone when you’re bored. Beat the record on Slitherio Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own Create a niche Instagram feed that becomes popular (like taking photos and hashtags of your lunch every day or your nails) Enhance your survival skills Explore different religious beliefs Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA Learn how to meal plan Learn how to pick locks Learn SEO Learn to budget Learn to forage for edible food Learn to manage your home Learn to travel hack Look at free community events going on near you Make or write music (garage band, composer, singing, cover band) throw it up on YouTube Making digital photo books Meal plan for the week Meditation Organize your Goodreads libraries and find new books Plan a trip to Disney World in epic detail (even if a trip is 3-4 years away) Plan out a 3-week menu of favorite meals and shopping list. (Then create saved orders for them in Instacart or Walmart pick up. Viola, meal planning and grocery shopping are automated.) Plan out a yearly menu Produce electronic music Researching the existence of aliens, ghosts or angels Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist Shop for best prices on the items you use the most (both home goods like garbage bags, personal goods like shampoo and food items like ketchup) Start a journal Write reviews online Yoga Things To Do When You’re Bored That Could Make You Money. Fun things to do when you’re bored that could make you money. There is a TON of ways to make money these days and this list while huge (doesn’t even cover all of them!). If you’re trying to kill time… why in t \he world would you not start a side hustle that could take over your full time job one day. That’s what I did and my side hustle replaced my full time income in 10 months. Almost 5 years later, I’m forever grateful that I used that time to start a hobby that could make me money. 3D printing Acrobatics Airbrushing Architecture Babysitting Bake (If you’re good at it… Look into selling baked goods at a farmers market or festival, or from your home). Bake and sell gourmet pet treats Baton twirling Beatboxing Become a certified financial planner Become a handyman Become a personal trainer or fitness instructor (either on your own or through whatever your jam is…CrossFit, Yoga or Zumba) Bookbinding Book restoration Breakdancing Build an experimental aircraft Build electronics or create Raspberry Pi projects Building a dollhouse and curating miniature furniture Building a natural bridge and Koi pond in the backyard Buy and sell land (particularly cheap but commonly undesirable land like land for mudding) (link to nick lopers podcast) Calligraphy Candy making Ceramics Chainsaw carvings Coding Coin collecting Collecting baseball cards Collecting model trains Collecting stamps Comic book art Cooking Cosplay Create a local Uber experience like a guided tour Create and sell pet clothing or clothing for American Girl dolls Creating unique recipes Creating videos (videography) for weddings and smaller productions (filming courses or tutorials) Creating your own brand of comics like Strange Planet Crocheting Decoupage Design funny or niche coffee mugs Design funny or niche tee shirts Design printable planner stickers Dig for clams Dirt biking DJing Drag boat racing Draw comics or learn animation Drawing Driving people around (Lyft or Uber) Embroidery Entertaining or hosting events, fundraisers or parties Flower arrangements Furniture restoration Get chickens to sell the eggs Get immersed in World of Warcraft or other in-depth role-playing games. Getting a dairy cow to sell the milk Go crabbing Go to local open houses and watch the real estate market. Get into real estate or flipping houses Growing herbs or vegetables Gunsmith Gymnastics Hand lettering Helicopter skiing Homesteading Host a freezer cooking party (and if you get good at running them, buy the ingredients and supplies and charge people to come, make and pack meals ) Hunting for military paraphernalia at battlefields Ice fishing Impersonations Inventing Jam making Juggling in the street Kitchen chemistry Knifemaking Knitting Lacemaking Lamp making Learn graphic design (for example, logos) Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition) Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself) Learn how to edit videos Learn how to fix old broken computers (you can find dozens with problems for free or super cheap on Craigslist Learn how to flip cars Learn how to hack credit card rewards (not for the faint of heart!) We are gonna get sued for this!?! Learn how to make beer (extract is easy or upgrade in equipment to make from hops) Learn how to make printables Learn how to make wine Learn how to manage social media or become a Pinterest VA Learn how to meal plan Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions Learn how to stage homes for sale Learn screen printing Learn self-defense Learn SEO Learn the art of upcycling. (Take something would have thrown out and turn it into something useful. (We do this to tee shirts by turning them into useful tote bags) Learn to bake Learn to be a Life Coach Learn to budget Learn to cook Learn to manage your home Learn to perfect big barrel curls Learn to play craps Learn to sew Learn to travel hack Learning a foreign language Learning how to bartend Learning how to create custom cosplay outfits (wearing costumes to represent a specific character) Learning how to tattoo Learning how to use and run a teleprompter (impressive money and has little competition for a part-time gig) Learning the art of storytelling Lip plumpers Ludo sport (Lightsaber combat) Macrame Make a collage Make cold brew coffee Make hard cider (super easy!) Make miniature doll furniture Make pottery Make your own beer Make your own boat Make your own hot sauce Make your own jewelry Make your own robot Make your own signature bbq sauce Making a bird feeder Making dolls Making model cars Making pallet furniture Making wood family signs Making your own clothes Manicures Master airplane combat games Metalworking Motocross Mud Wrestling Paper mache Pedicures Performing stand up comedy Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like ETrade) Playing harmonica Playing Pool Podcasting Poker Produce electronic music Programming Proofreading, formatting, and editing (books, court reports, blogs) Public speaking (get started with your local Toastmasters) goes well with a blog or YouTube channel Puppetry Rappelling Raspberry Pi projects (learn programming through fun practical projects) RC cars Reef aquarium Refinish a piece of furniture you find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace Renovate your house Restore a historic car Retro gaming (Centipede, Pac Man, Tetris… you can play online with refurbished game consoles or buy a large arcade machine.) Road trips Roast your own coffee Room renovations or home designs RV across the US Sailing Scrapbooking Sculpting Self Tanning Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist Sewing Singing Smoking meat Snorkeling Soap making Stamp collecting Start a blog, YouTube channel, or podcast Start and maintain a saltwater tank Starting an Etsy or eBay store Story writing Style and decorate homes Sushi making Synchronized swimming Take surveys Tap maple trees to make syrup Tapestry Tarot reading Teaching or tutoring, either an instrument or for school, or something else you excel in Tennis Ventriloquism Visit a flea market or thrift store and look for items to flip on eBay Walk neighborhood dogs or start pet sitting Watchmaking Watercolors Whittling or wood carving Write a children’s book or first novel Writing a book Zumba Things To Do When You’re Bored To Make Life Easier. My favorite list of all time. These things to do when you’re bored will make your life easier and save your budget. These are some of the habits and routines that are taught in Hot Mess to Home Success (a comprehensive course that teaches you how to manage your home (and life!) in less than one hour a day, even if you’re chronically disorganized.) You can check out Hot Mess to Home Success and jump on the waiting list here…. If you need equipment, plan to grab it off Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace for a fraction of the price (plus you can usually sell it for the same amount you paid, when you’re ready to move on). Baking Become a certified financial planner Become a handyman Become a survivalist: learn how and what to eat if on your own Become certified to teach something you struggle with (like Financial Peace University or Positive Discipline) Blacksmithing (make your own sword) Brainstorm your hobbies Build furniture (farmhouse tables?) and sell on Facebook Marketplace Camping Canning food Cardio Catch up on laundry Clean out and detail clean your car Cooking Create a home stock room Creating unique recipes Creating your own unique t-shirts to sell Cross country running Declutter and organize an area of your home Dig for clams Distilling Dog training Engineering (recreate an invention yourself or invent something new) Enhance your survival skills Freezer meals, once a month meals Furniture restoration Gather food donations for a local non-profit Go crabbing Have family meetings or budget meetings Homesteading Host a freezer cooking party (and if you get good at running them, buy the ingredients and supplies and charge people to come, make and pack meals ) Improve your memory Interviewing older relatives about their lives Inventing Host a freezer cooking party (and if you get good at running them, buy the ingredients and supplies and charge people to come, make and pack meals ) Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like ETrade) Become a handyman Landscaping Learn extreme couponing Learn how to detail cars (hint: you’d make a fortune in restoring “mom-mobiles” to their pre-cheerio condition) Learn how to DIY almost anything: home repairs, auto repairs, lawn maintenance. (Learn how to do it and do it yourself) Learn how to fix old broken computers (you can find dozens with problems for free or super cheap on Craigslist) Learn how to flip cars Learn how to hillbilly handfish (aka noodling) where you catch a catfish in your bare hands Learn how to meal plan Learn how to optimize websites for speed or conversions Learn how to pick locks Learn how to stage homes for sale Learn how to start a fire with two sticks Learn self-defense Learn spear fishing or fly fishing Learn the art of upcycling. Take things you would have thrown out and turn them into something useful. We do this to tee shirts by turning them into useful tote bags) Learn to bake Learn to be a Life Coach Learn to budget Learn to cook Learn to efficiently hand wash dishes Learn to manage your home Learn to rock climb or bouldering Learn to sew Learn to shoot Learn to travel hack Learning a foreign language Learning the art of storytelling Make hard cider (super easy!) Make your own hot sauce Make your own signature bbq sauce Make your own tea blends Master barbeque Meal plan for the week Meditation Metalworking Organize your week Plan out a 3-week menu of favorite meals and shopping list. (Then create saved orders for them in Instacart or Walmart pick up. (Viola, meal planning and grocery shopping are automated.) Plan out a yearly menu Play the stock market (it’s easy and fun to get into with small trade sites like E*Trade) Play volleyball Renovate your house Roast your own coffee Room renovations or home designs Running Sell things around your house that you don’t use on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist Sewing Shop for best prices on the items you use the most (both home goods like garbage bags, personal goods like shampoo and food items like ketchup) Soap making Spin classes Sports refereeing Start a new planner (or get creative with your old one) Starting an Etsy or eBay store Strength training Style and decorate homes Sushi making Swimming Take a positive discipline parenting class Teach your kids a chore they can take over Teaching or tutoring, either an instrument or for school, or something else you excel in Train for a marathon, triathlon or Ironman Volunteer at a local non-profit Walking Yoga FTC Disclosure of Material Connection: In order for us to maintain this website, some of the links in the post above may be affiliate links. 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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. 1. [Free or cheap things to do when bored.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#free-or-cheap) 2. [Fun things to do when bored.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#fun-things-to-do-when-youre-bored-at-night) 3. [Things to do when bored for kids.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#bored-for-kids) 4. [Things to do when bored at home.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#bored-at-home) 5. [Things to do when bored at night.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#bored-at-night) 6. [Things to do with your boyfriend (or girlfriend, husband, or wife) when bored.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#with-your-boyfriend) 7. [Things to do when bored with friends.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#bored-with-friends) 8. [Fun things to do on a laptop when bored.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#do-on-a-laptop) 9. [Fun things to do outside when bored.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#outside-when-youre-bored) 10. [DIY things to do when bored.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#diy-things) 11. [Things to do when bored on your phone.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#bored-on-your-phone) 12. [Things to do when bored that could make you money.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#make-you-money) 13. [Things to do when bored to make life easier.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#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.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/boot-camp) We lived off this list for a few years. 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We had been fighting about money for the entire 8 years weâ€™ve been married. I didnâ€™t realize there was another way. I started the bootcamp just to get things under control, and I was shocked that after the â€œcombine your forces challengeâ€ he started working with me. We havenâ€™t had a money fight in 7 months. We paid off all but one credit card (that one should be done in March) and I canâ€™t believe that all of this came from a \$7 workbook. Iâ€™m forever in debt to you (and soon only you!). Thank you.â€ - Julie, Daytona Beach" and button on the middle bottom that says "Sign Up for Free"](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='1200'%20height='628'%20viewBox='0%200%201200%20628'%3E%3C/svg%3E)](https://www.busybudgeter.com/boot-camp) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='450'%20height='300'%20viewBox='0%200%20450%20300'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='450'%20height='300'%20viewBox='0%200%20450%20300'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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 ![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='450'%20height='300'%20viewBox='0%200%20450%20300'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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) ![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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 ![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='402'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20402'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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 ![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='399'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20399'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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 ![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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 ![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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 ![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='402'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20402'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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 ![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='375'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20375'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='429'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20429'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='306'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20306'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='399'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20399'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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 ![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='428'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20428'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='411'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20411'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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](https://www.busybudgeter.com/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.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='379'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20379'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='338'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20338'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='372'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20372'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='450'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20450'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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. 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='360'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20360'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='338'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20338'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='401'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20401'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='337'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20337'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/Hotmesswaitinglist) 2. 3D printing 3. Acapella 4. Aerial photography 5. Antigravity cocooning (fitness) 6. Antiquing![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='450'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20450'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='368'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20368'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='267'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20267'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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 ![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='256'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20256'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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) ![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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 ![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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)![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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. 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 27. Buy a boat 28. Buy and sell land ([particularly cheap but commonly undesirable land like land for mudding](https://www.sidehustlenation.com/side-hustle-show/)) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='399'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20399'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='402'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20402'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='388'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20388'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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).![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='338'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20338'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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….](https://www.busybudgeter.com/Hotmesswaitinglist) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='600'%20height='400'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20400'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='1024'%20height='683'%20viewBox='0%200%201024%20683'%3E%3C/svg%3E) 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 FTC Disclosure of Material Connection: In order for us to maintain this website, some of the links in the post above may be affiliate links. Regardless, we only recommend products or services we use personally and/or believe will add value to readers Filed Under: [Budget](https://www.busybudgeter.com/category/lifeskills101/budget/), [Get Organized](https://www.busybudgeter.com/category/get-organized/), [Make Money](https://www.busybudgeter.com/category/make-money/) ### Comments 1. ![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='48'%20height='48'%20viewBox='0%200%2048%2048'%3E%3C/svg%3E)[Jess @ The Exceptionally Ordinary Life](https://theexceptionallyordinarylife.com/) says [June 11 at 1:29 pm](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#comment-24003) 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\! [Reply](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#comment-24003) 2. ![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='48'%20height='48'%20viewBox='0%200%2048%2048'%3E%3C/svg%3E)[Hena](https://www.mendingwithgold.com/summer-bucket-list-for-kids/) says [June 13 at 5:48 am](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#comment-24109) 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!\! [Reply](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#comment-24109) 3. ![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='48'%20height='48'%20viewBox='0%200%2048%2048'%3E%3C/svg%3E)[Celina Unkles](https://livewellgrowrich.com/) says [July 1 at 5:50 pm](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#comment-24976) Wow! That is some list. I love learning and trying new things so this will be a staple in our household. Thanks for sharing\! [Reply](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#comment-24976) 4. ![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='48'%20height='48'%20viewBox='0%200%2048%2048'%3E%3C/svg%3E)[Joanna](http://www.joannarahier.com/) says [July 22 at 4:53 pm](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#comment-25736) 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 [Reply](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#comment-25736) 5. ![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='48'%20height='48'%20viewBox='0%200%2048%2048'%3E%3C/svg%3E)[Dom Abraham](https://sleepiverse.com/) says [September 23 at 3:00 am](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#comment-135814) This is the best list I’ve found till now! Thanks! A lot of great ideas instead of laying in bed all day 🙂 [Reply](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#comment-135814) ### Tell me what you think\![Cancel reply](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#respond) This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. [Learn how your comment data is processed.](https://akismet.com/privacy/) Success! Now check your email to confirm your subscription. 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Readable Markdown	This giant list of things to do when you’re bored is the ultimate resource of experiences to have and skills to master. Whether you’re looking for a new free hobby to save money or you’re looking for an earth-shattering experience that will change your life, we’ve got you covered. Update: You asked for it and I’m delivering\! Starting NOW, you can grab the Trashed to Total Home Transformation Survival Guide (Pandemic Edition) For FREE\! It teaches you step by step how to work with your personality to not only set up home routines that will work (no matter how many times you’ve failed in the past), but that you’ll stick to… long after the pandemic is over. We’ve taught hundreds of thousands of people how to use bare minimum consistent effort to completely transform their home (and life!). You’re up next. [You can get your Survival Guide here for FREE…](https://busybudgeter.lpages.co/pandemic-guide-trashed-to-total-home-transformation/) [![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Transformation-1.png)](https://busybudgeter.lpages.co/pandemic-guide-trashed-to-total-home-transformation/) A few years ago, we [reduced our spending by over \$23,000](https://www.busybudgeter.com/how-we-reduced-our-spending-by-23537-00-in-a-year-specific-stepsand-calculations-included/), [paid off our debt of over \$30,000](https://www.busybudgeter.com/90-day-budget-beginners-boot-camp/), I quit my job to stay home and then [I replaced my salary working from home](https://www.busybudgeter.com/the-4-side-jobs-that-make-me-over-3000-a-month-as-a-stay-at-home-mom/) ([We used this free step by step budgeting system to do that by the way](http://busybudgeter.com/boot-camp)). 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. 1. [Free or cheap things to do when bored.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#free-or-cheap) 2. [Fun things to do when bored.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#fun-things-to-do-when-youre-bored-at-night) 3. [Things to do when bored for kids.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#bored-for-kids) 4. [Things to do when bored at home.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#bored-at-home) 5. [Things to do when bored at night.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#bored-at-night) 6. [Things to do with your boyfriend (or girlfriend, husband, or wife) when bored.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#with-your-boyfriend) 7. [Things to do when bored with friends.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#bored-with-friends) 8. [Fun things to do on a laptop when bored.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#do-on-a-laptop) 9. [Fun things to do outside when bored.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#outside-when-youre-bored) 10. [DIY things to do when bored.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#diy-things) 11. [Things to do when bored on your phone.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#bored-on-your-phone) 12. [Things to do when bored that could make you money.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#make-you-money) 13. [Things to do when bored to make life easier.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/things-to-d-when-bored-ultimate-list/#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.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/boot-camp) We lived off this list for a few years. Hint: You can learn almost any skill in the world for free on YouTube. If you need equipment, plan to grab it off Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace for a fraction of the price (plus you can usually sell it for the same amount you paid for it when you’re ready to move on). If you’re trying to reduce your spending or pay off debt, I can’t say enough about the 90 Day Budget Bootcamp. This is the exact step by step system we used to reduce our spending by over \$23,000 a year, pay off our over \$30,000 in debt so I could quit my job and stay home with my kids. This is the only program that worked for us after years of trying and failing to budget and save money. You can [get instant access to the 90 Day Budget Boot Camp for free here.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/boot-camp) [![Book cover for 90 Day Budget Boot Camp from The Busy Budgeter, Rosemarie Groner with a quote to the right stating, "â€œThe 90 Day Budget Bootcamp changed not only my finances, but our marriage. We had been fighting about money for the entire 8 years weâ€™ve been married. I didnâ€™t realize there was another way. I started the bootcamp just to get things under control, and I was shocked that after the â€œcombine your forces challengeâ€ he started working with me. We havenâ€™t had a money fight in 7 months. We paid off all but one credit card (that one should be done in March) and I canâ€™t believe that all of this came from a \$7 workbook. Iâ€™m forever in debt to you (and soon only you!). Thank you.â€ - Julie, Daytona Beach" and button on the middle bottom that says "Sign Up for Free"](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/bootcamp-testimonial-graphic.jpg)](https://www.busybudgeter.com/boot-camp) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AdobeStock_92909568.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AdobeStock_92909568-1.jpg) 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 ![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Knitting..jpg) 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) ![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AdobeStock_84477939.jpg) 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 ![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Hiking.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Rock-Climbing.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Palm-Reading.jpg) 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 ![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Running.jpg) 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 ![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Family-Soccer.jpg) 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 ![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Walking.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Beachcombing-1.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Breakdancing.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Cross-Country-Skiing_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Fireshow-performance_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Casino-Night_.jpg) 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 ![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Card-Tricks_.jpg) 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 ![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Pedicure_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Decor_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Synchronized-Swimming_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/White-Water-Rafting_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Facials_-1.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Collecting-Shells_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Dog-Sledding_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Jump-Rope_.jpg) 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 ![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Robot_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Plant-a-Tree_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Book-Club_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Wakeboarding_.jpg) 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](https://www.busybudgeter.com/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.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Board-Games_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Camping_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Freezer-Cooking_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Cooking_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Billiards_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Sushi_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Woodworking_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Coin-Collecting_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Handwriting_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Instrument_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Grill_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Podcasting_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Watch-TV_.jpg) 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. 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Star-Gazing_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Salsa_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Fly-Tying_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Glass-Blowing_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Shooting_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Paragliding_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Snowmobiling_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Aquarium_.jpg) 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.](https://www.busybudgeter.com/Hotmesswaitinglist) 2. 3D printing 3. Acapella 4. Aerial photography 5. Antigravity cocooning (fitness) 6. Antiquing![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Archeology_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Pumpkins_-1.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AdobeStock_4887928-1024x683.jpeg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Budget_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Surfing_.jpg) 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 ![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Wine-and-Cheese_.jpg) 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) ![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Blogging_.jpg) 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 ![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AdobeStock_143669338-1024x683.jpeg) 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)![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Table-Tennis_.jpg) 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. 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Boating_.jpg) 27. Buy a boat 28. Buy and sell land ([particularly cheap but commonly undesirable land like land for mudding](https://www.sidehustlenation.com/side-hustle-show/)) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Jeep_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Ice-Skating_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Work-out_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Candy-Making_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Cosplay.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Sand-Castle.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Meditation_.jpg) 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).![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AdobeStock_225459094-1024x683.jpeg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Drawing....jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Brewing-Beer.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Scrapbooking_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Zumba_.jpg) 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….](https://www.busybudgeter.com/Hotmesswaitinglist) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Laundry_.jpg) 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![](https://www.busybudgeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AdobeStock_144637539-1-1024x683.jpeg) 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 FTC Disclosure of Material Connection: In order for us to maintain this website, some of the links in the post above may be affiliate links. 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