Were you one of those kids who would annoyingly profess
"I'M BORED" at the top of your lungs, expecting your Mother to stop slaving away at the casserole she's been preparing for hours for tonights family dinner?
*slowly raises hand*
*hurriedly tucks it back down to avoid looking like that irritating kid from The Middle*
Well now we're grown ass adults. We wear big girl pants and drive a big girl car and pay big girl bills and make big girl dinners. Well maybe not big girl dinners. Mum will always be the best at those -
and she knows it too!But being in our twenties, there is literally no reason we should ever get bored.
Lazy? Yes.
Bored? No.
But sometimes we forget you know? It's not like the minute we get home we can just drop all our crap at the front door and run off to the next door neighbours house to play bat down and expect our room to be tidy, washing to be done and dinner to be made. That doesn't happen any more.
Why god whhhhy..
We can forget about the
fun, the little things that make life worth while. So on those days when you are bored
*coughlazycough*, use this resource to get yourself out of that funk.
50 Things To Do When You're Bored
Take a Walk In The Woods: Grab your sneakers and head out to the forest! There's nothing more rejuvenating than taking a walk in the native bush, plus you get to pretend you're an adventurer hunting for treasure! Or is that just me?
Create a Scavenger Hunt: You don't have to be a kid to do half the things here. Make a night out of it with your friends and have really cool prizes or even better, dares!
Ooooooo....
Have a Picnic in the Park (or your backyard): Pack some simple sammy's, cut up some fruit, bake some cookies and take a bottle of wine. Bring your teddy bears, or maybe just your friends, OR make it a date with someone special!
Fly A Kite: Don't roll your eyes. When was the last time you flew a kite anyway? Go one step up and make your own kite, or one more step up and try a kite surfing kite!Windy? Make it a competition with you and another and see whose kite does best!
Play Sports the Beach: If it's a hot day, take your cricket set, frisbee, rugby or soccer balls down to the beach with a few friends and have some fun. Take some sausages and make it a BBQ!
Go Vintage Shopping: Grab your girls or step out and go it alone. See what treasures you can find at your local thrift stores and op shops. I've found some AMAZING items at ridiculous prices!
Make A Recipe Book: You know how you keep ripping recipes out of magazines and then hoarding them in a folder? Well spend an afternoon cutting, pasting and prettying them up in your very on DIY recipe book!
Make a Self Love Bible: If recipes aren't your thing, grab some old magazines, flip through the pages and cut out images that promote healthy self-image and esteem to you. Stick em into your own pretty self-love bible.
Start Your Own Veggie Garden: Instead of staring at a messy backyard, try your luck with making your very own veggie patch! Now I'm not talkin' go Martha Stewart on me but maybe this year try a tomato plant or a baby lettuce plant. Go on, I know you want to you little domesticated squirrel!
Read Your Fave Blogs Archives: We've all got fave blogs and usually they've been around for quite some time. Spend a day just trawling through the posts!
Visit Your Local Museum: Go by yourself to your local museum and take a walk back through history. Learn about things you never heard of and even take one of the guided tours! They're the best!
Host A Pot Luck Dinner: Set a date, give your friends a list of who needs to bring what and make it a super fun night!
Have a Bake Off With A Girlfriend: It's always fun to get together with your BFF and have a bake off. Reason being? The prize is you get to gobble up the treats afterwards!
Have a Karaoke Night: Bust out the Singstar, maybe make a few margaritas and have yourself a fun night. (Just make sure you don't get whacked in the face by an over excited boyfriend trying to do a solo. It never ends well).
Become a Volunteer Dog Walker: Head down to your local SPCA or pet shelter and pop your name down to be a volunteer dog walker. You get to dote on any dog of your choice and they get a break from being locked up in a cage all day. But most of all they get to have fun exploring new places/walks/streets/forests with you for an hour or so!
Start Your Own Blog: Ever thought about it? Well now I dare you too! Might just be the best decision you ever made!
Host a Clothes Swap: Get your girls to bring round all their unwanted clothes and add yours to the mix, fix up some fruity cocktails and have some fun shopping for free!
Have a DVD Night: Theme your night with either horror, rom-com or action, make up some popcorn, get a ton of blankets and you're set!
Donate Clothes to Charity: Rather than just letting those clothes you wont ever wear again grow dust in the back of your closet, donate them to charity where someone who needs them will have the opportunity to.
Have a Board Game Night: When me and my friends have these nights they are literally filled with so much laughter (like crazy ass hysterics) you can't contain yourself. My favourite recommendation?
Balderdash.
Visit The Art Gallery: Pop your inquisitive hat on and head down to your local art gallery to check out the current showcases.
Have a Music Trade With Your GF: Bring the old school CD's back and trade em with your gf. You can use this as a way to get to know each other too! Girl bonding!
Create a Flash Mob: Get a group of yourselves together, create a routine, plan your attack and go for it! (PS - Send me the vid will ya!?)
Watch a Play: Whether it's local or a fancy pants broadway spectacular, get your ass down there! I never used to go until my friend forced me to one night, I never knew what I was missing out on!
Play 'Man Hunt': Get your flashlights, dress in black, know your perimeter and hide. First one back to base without being caught get's a large cocktail made by the loser!
Set Up a Burma Trail: Get rope, find a cluster of trees, wait for nightfall and send your friends into the woods. Bonus points if you purposefully try to scare them as they're going through!
Write Your Very Own eBook: Everyone has a book in them! Write your own and then sell it on amazon kindle. You could make a killing!
Visit The Zoo: Hit up your local zoo, watch the lions get feed, see the seals swirl around in their tanks and take tons of pics!
Do The 365 Day Photo Challenge: You've seen it done on facebook, now do it yourself! Bonus Points: Turn it into a folder/collage at the completion of your challenge.
Be Someones Admirer: Send flowers, love letters, chocolate and sweet sweet notes. Regardless of whether they find out it's you, you will make them feel so incredibly special.
Take Dance Classes: Wanna salsa? Maybe hip hop's your thing? No? Ooooooh I know! Burlesque! Sign up to move your booty and have an AWESOME time while you're at it.
Have a Slumber Party: Set up mattresses in the living room, have bowls of snacks and your favourite old school tv series (The OC) set to play back-to-back!
Try New Hairstyles: Jump on
pinterest and find awesome styles you can try with your hair. Maybe you always have it tied up, well try a gorgeous half-and-half do!
Make a Gratitude Wall: Get out your post it notes and start writing one thing you're grateful for on each post-it. Then stick em on the wall. Soon you'll have a multi-colour wall of gratitude.
DreamStorm The Next 5 Years: Brainstorm is so 20 years ago, now it's about dreamstorming or heartstorming as some like to call it. Get out big sheets of paper, coloured pens and let your imagination run wild.
Start a New Hobby: Like tennis? Join a club! Wanna try acting? Sign up for a class! Intrigued by the idea of taxidermy? Get in there!
Go Mountain Biking: My hometown is like mountain bike central so I grew up with it. I swear it's the next best thing to a roller coaster!
Try Hiking A Hill: That hill/mountain you see in the distance? Spend saturday or sunday hiking up it!
Make Choc Chip Cookies for Someone: Everybody loves choc chip cookies! Make em with love for someone you love. They'll go down a treat!
Make Cards & Send Them To Friends: Rather than txting a message, or phoning, do something different and make your own card with a lovely message and send it snail mail styles to your friends.
Create a Photo Board: Go down to your local stationary store and print out photos you've taken recently and then stick em onto a board. Pop that board up on your wall and boom! instant wall art!
Spend The Day in A Book Store: Seriously, I can spend hours in borders. Try it! You'll be surprised at how long you wind up staying in there reading different books and magazines!
Create New Outfit Combos: Bring everything out of that crazy messy wardrobe and create new outfits for yourself. Put them together as a set in your wardrobe and then you wont have to worry about piecing them together again!
Have a Home Retreat: Buy some bubble bath, use those
bath bombs you got for christmas or that
bubble bath you've been meaning to make, play your most relaxing music and just soak. Later spend time laxing in the sun reading your favourite magazines and then have yourself a delicious scrumptious meal of your choice. Finish off with a decadent desert and a nights sleep in a freshly linen-ed bed. Ahhhh bliss.
Start Sewing: Your mothers sewing machine will be passed down to you so you might as well learn how to sew now while she's still here to teach you! You can get so good that you can start making your own outfits (which could save you a lot of money!)
Build a Fort: Outside or inside, it doesn't matter - it's a freaking fort! Make it homely and spend a few hours (or even the night) laying in it and talking about dreams and things.
Make a Giant Sized Board Game: Grab some free cardboard boxes from your local supermarket and then cut out pieces to make yourself a giant board game, you can even make a giant dice!
DIY Gifts for Friends: Get your craft on, buy some supplies and create something awesome for your loved ones. Make bulk and you wont have to worry about buying anything as a gift for a while!
Write Letters: To yourself, to a friend, to your mother, to whoever you want and send it.
Go to a Water Park: Get your friends, pop on your bikini and go splash about at your local water park. This day screams fun and excitement!
There you go, now you have absolutely no reason for boredom!
Tell me, what are your tips for keeping boredom at bay?
xo Elise
