There’s nothing worse than feeling bored and not knowing what the heck to do with your spare time. If you’re lucky enough to have any spare time, feeling bored can actually make you feel inspired to do something else. We are nearly finishing up 2024 already and you should have more than enough on your plate to not have to feel bored.
However, you need to be able to have some fun things lined up to keep you entertained if you’re stuck inside because of the rain or you are out of plans this weekend and you don’t know what to do with yourself. Cabin fever is never any fun, and while you can sit and play round after round of minesweeper with your favorite drink, it doesn’t mean you want to spend all that time there. So, instead of sitting bored, here are some things that you can do to cure your boredom if you can’t go anywhere.
- Head to an online escape room so you can’t leave the house. Maybe you’re ill, or maybe you’re just stuck looking after the kids, or you have something to wait in for. We can all do with a little bit of escapism right now, so if you want to be able to get out but you can’t go anywhere, then the Internet is your new way to escape. There are plenty of online escape rooms that you can enjoy and there are so many that you can do either with friends, as an online game or by yourself. They can get your heart racing and your adrenaline pumping and that’s what you’re aiming for.
- Lay down with a true crime podcast. One of the best things about true crime podcasts is that they give you that thrill that you need without having to leave the house. Sometimes they are gruesome and they’re always keeping you on the edge of your seat. Whether it’s a cold case or a miscarriage of justice, you’re going to be able to listen through twist after twist. In fact, you could literally lay down with your favorite snacks and listen as some of the scariest murderers or criminals in the world have had their crime unraveled.
- Work your way through Netflix. You do not have to be bored if you have a plethora of movies and TV shows on Netflix in front of you. There are some movies out there that absolutely suck, but giving yourself a challenge to be able to watch every single movie on Netflix is a good way to start. You can work your way through different genres and even different TV shows. The fun part about this is that you could binge TV shows and movies and then find out that after you’ve binged an entire season of a TV show, they’ve canceled it because that’s what Netflix likes to do. You can come up with your own rating system, grab the popcorn and a drink and have fun.
- Learn to make cocktails from home. There’s something super therapeutic about taking the time to make a quality cocktail. If you, like many others, enjoy having a drink to unwind at the end of a very long day, learning how to do cocktails in the same way that Tom Cruise once did in that movie from the 80s is a great idea. If you’ve got a cocktail shaker, a handful of ice, and a couple of bottles from your drink cabinet, you can head to YouTube or just head to Google itself and learn how to make cocktails that taste delicious.
- Dive into science fiction. Science fiction isn’t all about space battles and spaceships, although there is a lot of that. When it’s good, it’s an escape from the real world. But what makes sci-fi super special is that at its core, you can really enjoy everything you learn about it. Whether you’re a Star Trek or Star Wars fan, science fiction is full of fables that tell us about humanity right now and where it’s going. Sci-fi movies and science fiction books for beginners are a great place to begin, and you can order on Amazon Prime and have it delivered to your house.
- Get into photography. You don’t necessarily have to be out and about to be able to be into photography. There’s nothing quite like browsing some mind-blowing photography to take your mind off things, especially if you’re feeling bored. Most national galleries are now online which allow you to explore and discover from the comfort of your own home. You can find photography in breathtaking natural landscapes or in animal photography, and you can order yourself a camera and some tutorials to do from home. It could end up being a nice little hobby or something even more lucrative than that.
- Get into running. So your friends aren’t available and you don’t really have anywhere that you need to be, but you’re itching to get out of the house. If you are able to leave the house to cure your boredom, why don’t you start running? The Couch to 5K app is a great place to begin because you can start by walking for most of the minutes that you are doing the program and then learn how to run, funnily enough. It’s not something that everybody just knows how to do. There is a reason that Olympians run for ages and it’s because they have trained and built their stamina to do so.
- Learn to cook. Given that you’re a grown adult, there’s every chance you already know how to do that, but you can really cure that boredom by learning how to cook something amazing. TikTok and YouTube have been unbelievably good for people learning how to cook for the first time because a lot of the video tutorials can be paused as you go. You can copy what they’re doing and make something absolutely spectacular and learn your repertoire. At the end of the day, you’ll be able to find the best cookbooks around or the best cooking videos and start to make your very own Michelin Star kitchen.
- Get back into video games. Were you somebody who used to kick butt on Mario Kart? Did you love to mash the buttons on Tekken 3 when you kick your friends around the arena? Are you old enough to remember the SNES and the Atari? No matter what, if you’re staring at that console gathering dust in the corner over the past 12 months, you need to be able to get back online and start playing simplistic games. For Mario enthusiasts, you want the Nintendo. For those who remembered Lara Croft’s original Tomb Raider, then get yourself back on your PlayStation. There are so many different games that you can immerse yourself in that you’ll never be bored.
- Dive back into reading. One of the best things that you’d be able to understand about the world is that books are always free if you have a library nearby. Whether you get out of the house and find a good library chair to curl up into, read all day long, or you borrow books to bring home, the library is a good place to begin if you’re looking to take a literary tour of the world. You can expand your horizons without actually leaving home too, because you can order books into you, or you can take yourself a literary world map, which is a bookshelf made-up of the most popular books set in every country in the world. It’s a good place to begin, and it gives you that extra bump of culture that you’ve been looking for.
- Learn how to make a great cup of coffee.If you’ve been spending a few dollars every day buying a coffee from your local coffee store, then it’s time to invest some money into a decent coffee machine and learn how to make it properly at home. Yes, you’re going to spend some money up front to get the right beans and the right machine to help you, but it’s fun to learn how to do something new. Making coffee can be just as fun as going out to buy it, and you’ll be able to make coffee according to the tutorials on YouTube, which will help you to make something amazing.
Bring out your mobile phone games. Apps can be a wonderful way to pass the time if you’re bored. The right apps can get you educated, can make you have fun while you play games, and it can really make you feel like you’re part of something truly brilliant. Mobile games usually fall into either violent or relaxing ones, so if you can find something that’s exciting and relaxing at the same time, then you’re onto a winner. There are hundreds of thousands of apps out there, so you get a chance now to explore and cure your boredom at the same time.
