Thursday, July 18, 2013

100 Things To Do When You're Bored

Just for fun, here's a long list of activities you can do when you have nothing to do. Numbers #25 and up are exclusively Bohemian.

1. Have a staring contest with your cat or dog.
2. Go through your closet and sell some of your clothes on Ebay.
3. Make a fort in your closet.
4. Go to a parking lot and put condoms on the tailpipes of all the cars in one row.
5. Walk up to the drive-through while making car sounds.
6. Blast heavy metal CD's with all the windows open and start moshing in front of your neighbors.
7. Bark/Meow at your pet until they answer you.
8. Make a short film of yourself eating cereal.
9. Put two peeps in the microwave and watch them mutate.
10. Perform assorted surgeries on gummy bears.
11. Start a journal filled with photos of strange foods (ex. conjoined gummies, oddly shaped crackers, etc.)
12. Find a food in your cabinet and eat it in a strange way.
13. Using old clothes, stuff them with garbage bags until it looks like an adult human. Put shoes on it and hang the dummy from the gutters with a ladder off to the side. Wait for people to freak out.
14. Go trick-or-treating, especially if it's a long way from Halloween.
15. Attempt to climb a tree in your yard.
16. Go to the dairy aisle in a supermarket and do the waltz with a random person.
17. Dress up as a superhero and stop one petty crime (ex. littering, loitering).
18. Create your own alphabet.
19. Argue with yourself.
20. Rearrange the "Mystery" section of the library so the spines are hidden instead of exposed.
21. Buy certain items at Wal-Mart that will make the cashier and nearby shoppers freak out.
22. Buy orange traffic cones and reroute your whole neighborhood.
23. Go to the Apple store and ask for Blackberry support.
24. Put on a puppet show for your cat or dog.
25. Have a romantic dinner with your imaginary friend.
26. Buy stretchy black shoes, a black turtleneck, and black pants. Slink around the house like Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face.
27. Read A Clockwork Orange and claim the movie is better.
28. Find a strange word in the dictionary and write a letter that claims how much you disagree with the provided definition.
29. Reenact one of Hamlet's monologues on your front lawn.
30. Sit in a tree all day.
31. Lighten your hair color with flour or chalk.
32. Make new curtains out of old scarves.
33. Dim all the lights, put on Mozart's Requiem and succumb to your insanity.
34. Put on dense mascara/eyeliner and cry your eyes out for no reason.
35. Create a color-coded menu and shop appropriately.
36. Paint a depressed self-portrait and burn it.
37. Make a short video of you burning things.
38. Find a white wall and allow your black paint pen to move freely.
39. Ask yourself why you're bored. Feel guilty. Have a drink.
40. Customize the cover of an old textbook.
41. Try sleeping in a weird position.
42. Create a tent by a tree using silk blankets.
43. Discover a new conspiracy.
44. Read Vonnegut.
45. See what you're favorite band is up to.
46. Dye your hair an obscure color.
47. Write a love poem for no one in particular.
48. Make a short animation.
49. Ask yourself who you are.
50. Repaint assorted things in your house.
51. Empty your last liquor bottle.
52. Take a walk in the rain.
53. Go thrifting.
54. Create a bonfire in your backyard.
55. Create a fairy house under a tree.
56. Write an angry poem about materialism.
57. Rearrange glass bottles on your windowsill.
58. Make a candle out of an old teacup and cooking fat.
59. Read an old book.
60. Write your own book.
61. Critique a movie.
62. Take pictures of your cat.
63. Make a piece of jewelry out of something you found outside.
64. Book an exorcism just to be safe.
65. Scribble poetry on your nails.
66. Use eyeshadow erratically.
67. Contemplate getting a tattoo.
68. Make yourself a bowl of rice.
69. Meditate.
70. Burn incense until the house is filled with it.
71. Feed the birds outside.
72. Rearrange your picture frames.
73. Dance with yourself.
74. Paint your vehicle.
75. Visit an art auction.
76. Go to the library and pick out the strangest books you can find.
77. Bake some bread.
78. Pick out the flowers in your yard and put them in an old vase.
79. Draw a Runic symbol on your forehead.
80. Start chanting.
81. Take a bath and babble in Shakespearean verse.
82. Braid your hair and accent it with charms.
83. Watch a movie with no plot.
84. Watch a movie with no dialogue.
85. Watch any movie.
86. Paint your nails...and your face.
87. Learn how to say basic phrases in a dead language.
88. Break into a drum solo.
89. Alter a shirt dramatically.
90. Accent a piece of clothing with safety pins or studs.
91. Draw something in chiaroscuro.
92. Burn a candle until it goes out.
93. Write a song.
94. Paint a frame.
95. Rearrange the art in your home.
96. Paint your door.
97. Try out a new form of incense.
98. Color your nails with the softest graphite pencil you own.
99. Think of alternate monikers for your name.
100. Scream into the mirror.

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