A List of Things to Do When Bored

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Phone a friend.
Read a book.
Learn origami.
Write a list of things to do when bored.
Play piano.
Play harmonica.
Write a computer program.
Eat.
Go for a long walk.
Be bored.
Learn all the world capitals.
Write a novel.
Watch television.
Build models.
Learn and play a musical instrument.
Practice (pretend to learn) a martial art or gymnastics.
Work out.
Take pictures.
Play the "How bored are you?" game.
Sleep.
Meditate.
Stretch.
Do yoga.
Start a newsgroup.
Interrupt lists with stupid messages.
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See how hot various items can get in the microwave. (ie. olives, grapes, etc.)
Write stupid protest slogans. (ie. STOP PLATE TECHTONICS!)
Sharpen all of the pencils in the house.
Make a list of bad names, every writing utensil imaginable, brutal deaths, etc.
Play with elastics.
Compose songs using a touch tone phone.
Try to build something using an electronics set.
Take apart and put back together items. (ie. radio, pens, disks, cars, etc.)
Make or solve a puzzle.
Invent cool sayings, phrases, names, etc.
Write poems and songs.
Sing.
Balance things.
Build a card castle.
Make models out of paper.
Design and fly a kite.
Learn to sky-dive.
Go bungee-jumping.
Spin tape dispensers.
Repeatly attack a toilet with a plunger.
Stick plungers onto the wall.
Head-butt the wall and pray that you won't hit a stud.
Pick scabs.
Eat fingernails.
Have a war with water pistols, balloons, elastics, paint, etc.
Think, how close can you get your elbow to your mouth?
Play hide-n-seek or tag.
Pop zits.
Learn to polka.
Dance.
Listen to tapes/CDs/etc.
Act out scenes from plays. (ie. Monty Phyton and the Holy Grail)
Tie facial tissues together.
Clean your room. (last resort)
Answer impossible questions.
Join a club.
Philosophize topics like 4-space, infinty, infinite space, infinity minus one...
Solve math problems.
Put on as much deodorant, perfume, aftershave possible at once.
Go to a kareokee bar.
Stick 3VDC items in a 110VAC socket. (stand back)
Measure things.
Study maps.
Order junk-mail.
Phone your house from your house.
Hold your breath for as long as possible.
Do homework. (last resort)
Mow lawn needlessly.
Go for a drive.
Go for a long bike ride.
See how far you can run without stopping.
Change all of your money to pennies.
Rearrange your room.
Put food colouring in everything that you eat.
Hallucinate.
Make snow angels on the lawn.
Collect things. (stamps, coins, episodes of the Simpsons, belly button lint)
See what interesting things you can find in your nose.
Invent something.
Take a course. (i.e. CPR, First Aid, Computer, Terrorist)
Mess around with anarchy.
Send mail to yourself.
Fill in all the spaces in each of the following letters: a, b, d, e, g, o, p, q
Make a big ball of elastics, tin foil, gum, etc.
Build a snow fort or snow man.
Climb a tree.
Kick (flip) your loafer up and catch it on your foot.
Learn to juggle.
Invent a language.
Learn a language. (ie. french, spanish, pig-latin)
Invent palindromes.
Count ceiling tiles, nails on the ceiling, etc.
Saw things.
Watch a movie. (comedy, drama, porno, etc.)
Play ping-pong with yourself.
Go golfing, fishing, etc.
Go for a week long canoeing/kayaking expedition.
Camp out in your backyard.
Play video games.
Cook things in the dishwasher.
Subscribe to magazines.
Circle all of the #'s on Free Product Information Cards and send them in.
Play 2-player board games by yourself.
Make imaginary friends.
Give money away to charity.
Climb on your roof, clog the drain-pipe and fill the eavestroughing with a garden hose.
Skip stones.
Plant a tree.
Grow a Chia-pet.
Shop.
Design a dream-house.
Daydream.
Explore the city, your basement, restricted areas, the sewer, etc.
Hack into your school or bank.
Tape your locker shut and then undo it.
Go swimming.
Go cliff diving.
Tie knots everywhere. (clothelines, shoelaces, your hair, etc.)
Throw darts.
Talk backwards.
Write and answer personal ads.
Go bar hopping.
See how much trouble you can get into. (not recommended)
Cut pens open to see how big of an ink blotch you can make.
Make irritating noises.
Travel.
See how far you can get in debt without going bankrupt.
Get dizzy.
Alphabetize everything. (soon to be done here)
Pick up foreign stations on the radio.
Figure out lyrics to songs.
Try to figure out how things work.
Hypnotize somebody.
Record yourself talking about anything for an hour.
Read this list.
Analyze other people's personalities.
Sit in the middle of nowhere and debate with yourself or think.
Play basketball/hacky sack.
Figure out why people did something.
Talk to stuffed animals, pets, etc.
Draw faces on your fingers.
Make a pop-can pyramid.
Repeat whatever somebody else says.
Imitate others.
Put clothes on backwards.
Flip a coin. (best 51 of 100)
Go rock climbing.
Put your shoes on the wrong feet.
Talk to yourself.
Build a treehouse.
Do the Magic Eye pictures by N. E. Thing Enterprises.
Try foreign food.
Give yourself paper cuts.
Go swimming with your clothes on.
Dye your hair.
Play with your hair.
Blow dry all of the hair on your body.
Cook or bake something by Jello.
See how much tabasco sauce or hot peppers you can eat without water.
Flip lawn chairs with your feet.
Find all of your pressure points on your body.
Try attaching everything with velcro.
Put your name on everything.
Climb on your roof, throw lawns chairs off the roof and try to get them to land upright.
Burn a thermometer. (stand back)
Add backgrounds to your home page.
Visit your brother's web site.
See how many sticks of gum, carrots, lit cigarettes, etc. can fit in your mouth.
Read comics.
Learn a new algorithm.
In alphabetical order, list all the words you know.
Write a 1500 word essay with the thesis "I am bored."
Jump off a roof and try to break your right arm.
Go online indefinitely.
Do your friend's homework.
Be an Obercarolinger. (or a member of some other organization with a bizarre name)
Call every number in the phone book and see how many friends you can make.
Call your friends, remain silent after the initial hello and see how long they stay on the phone.
When a company trys to sell stuff over the phone, try to sell them something and keep them on the phone for as long as possible.
Cut paper snowflakes.
Wish you weren't bored.
Test drive cars.
Call up your ex that you dumped to see what will happen.
Join the army, navy, etc. (last resort)
Type in random words in internet/library search tools.
Answer want ads.
Give names to everything. (body parts, stuffed animals, cieling tiles, etc.)
Play tapes backwards. (try to find subliminal messages)
Try to find the subliminal messages in this list.
Look up random words in a dictionary. (ie. alfresco, rambulate, etc.)
Reorganize your collections. (tape, cd, dust, rock, etc.)
Rip out all of the advertisements out of your magazines.
Fill them out in your friends names. (dont forget to check Bill Me Later)
Recite phrases backwards.
Try to figure out how many seconds remain until a significant event.
Create some new jokes.
List the serial numbers of all your belongings.
Put serial numbers on all of your stuff that doesn't already have them.
Pray.
Repent.
Party.
Puke.
Develop super file compression that crams 350K down to a 25K file.
Try downloading this page with a 2400 bps modem.
Get a part time job.
Get a full time job.
Clean out the fridge.
Try on your old clothes.
Try on someone else's old clothes.
Try on someone else's old fridge.
Get milk.
Get milked.
Get naked.
Make a log of your uploads and downloads.
Memorize the DOS interrupts.
Make card houses out of your floppies.
Color all the black and white cartoons on your wall.
Alphabetize your floppies.
Clean your desk.
Play with the gerbils.
Microwave a chicken patty with barbecue sauce on an English muffin.
Eat it.
Add to or improve your math skills.
Hold your breath.
Rest your eyes.
Nap.
Slumber.
Hibernate.
Wrestle with the dog.
Clean out your 'in' bin.
Subscribe to 20 newsgroups and read each email.
Pay bills.
Pay taxes.
Give blood.
Donate your organs.
Walk the dog.
Splash water on your face.
Brush your teeth.
Wash.
Shave
Take a shower.
Bathe.
Use your keylock to turn off your keyboard and vacuum it with the brush attachment.
Meditate.
Clean the printhead of your printer.
Re-ink your old ribbons with Ebonize.
Make fun of the dog/cat.
Think of things to worry about.
Update your resume.
Iron clothes.
Wash clothes.
Darn socks.
Sew buttons back on.
Make a wedding dress.
Wash the car.
Wash the motorcycle.
Change the oil.
Blueprint the engine.
Dim the lights, lay on the floor with headphones listening to your favorite music.
Turn on the strobe light.
Order pizza.
Tune up the bicycle.
Pick out your clothes for tomorrow.
Meditate.
Cut your nails.
Look for all your missing socks.
Play electric guitar.
Play electric bass.
Play electric keyboard.
Play electric shaver.
Contemplate pi.
Get the year's worth of birthday/anniversary/death for all of your whole family and friends, fill them out ahead of time, address and stamp them.
Read your software documentation.
Read the PKZIP documentation while uploading long, unzipped files.
Measure the dimensions of your house and draft a plan of it.
Go for a bicycle ride.
Go for a motorcycle ride.
Go for a tank ride. (Military only)
Leaf through your old computer magazines, cut out the interesting articles and paste them in a notebook, then recycle the leftovers.
Crush the aluminum cans in the garage.
Water the plants.
Plan a vacation.
Do aerobics.
Call foreign countries and try to speak their native tongue.
Plan ways to get back at spouse for deleting the 100MB .zip file you downloaded all last night.
Make dinner.
Think of things to with all those AOL disks.
Expand your vocabulary.
Make grocery list.
Build furniture.
Run the self test on your printer.
Draw designs in the dust on the monitor screen.
Make sounds for the RD/SD lights on your modem.
Wax the ceiling.
Loosen the lug nuts on your dad's new car.
Drop your cat from a high place, to see if it really does land on all four feet.
Repeat above until failure.
Rearrange political campaign signs.
Sharpen your teeth.
Play Houdini with one of your siblings.
Braid your dogs hair.
Clean and polish your belly button.
Water your dog...see if he grows.
Wash a tree.
Knight yourself and some close friends.
Found the Jim Jones' School of Modern Bartending.
Flirt with an evergreen.
Scare Steven King.
Give your cat a mohawk.
Purr.
Mow your carpet.
Rake your carpet to clean up the clippings.
Whine.
Dress like your favorite Heavy Metal group...surprise your grandmother.
Listen to a painting.
Play with matches.
Buff your cat.
Raise professional racing ferrets.
Paint your home...day-glo orange.
Read Homer in the original Greek.
Learn Greek.
Change your mind.
Change it back.
Watch the sun...see if it moves.
Recite romantic poetry...to your toaster.
Paint your windows.
Paint.
Smile.
Paint a smile.
Shoot at a fire hydrant.
Apologize to it.
See if you really can build a small nuclear device in your basement.
Rotate your garden...daily.
Plant a shoe.
Write letters to all the political officials that are representing you, and tell them what a good job they are doing...on April 1st.
Sweat.
Give an ink blot test to your gerbil.
Take apart all your major kitchen appliances.
Mix and match the parts.
Turn your TV picture tube upside down.
Take your sofa for a walk.
Write a letter to Plato.
Mail it.
Start.
Stop.
Put lighted EXIT signs on all your closets.
Carry a tune.
Drop it to see if it breaks.
Starch your shoes.
Contemplate a cockroach.
Get a dog to chase your car.
Let him catch it.
Form a political party.
Throw a political party.
Climb a sidewalk.
Ride a loaf of bread.
Annoy yourself.
Get angry with yourself.
Stop speaking to yourself.
Kiss and make-up.
Stand on your head.
Stand on someone else's head.
Learn everything there is to know about the Holy Roman Empire.
Build a pyramid.
Paint your teeth.
Wear a salad.
Speak with a forked tongue.
MAKE a drive in window at your local bank.
Walk on water...but DON'T get caught.
Shave a shrub.
Have a proton fight.
Watch a car rust.
Quiver.
Confess to a crime that you didn't commit.
Learn to type...with your toes.
Buy the Brooklyn Bridge.
Mail it to a friend.
Be in the wrong place at the right time.
Be someone special.
Plot the overthrow of your local School Board.
Request covert assistance from the CIA.
Factor your social security number.
Take the fifth.
Take the sixth.
Read the White Pages.
Eat the Yellow Pages.
Join the Foreign Legion.
Learn to write Sanskrit.
Learn to read Sanskrit.
Exist...existentially of course.
Search for buried treasure...in Nebraska.
Hot wax the bottoms of your dress shoes.
Print counterfeit Confederate money.
Kick a cabbage.
Take a picture.
Put it back.
Go back to square one.
Sand a mushroom.
Find the heat capacity of your chemistry professor.
Play solitare...for cash.
Abuse your patio furniture.
Write a book about a previous life.
Count to a million...fast.
Have your cat bronzed.
Make a quilt out of used cocktail napkins.
Revert.
Sleep on a bed of nails.
Don't toss and turn.
Think shallow thoughts.
Run around in squares.
Boil ice cream.
Carve your girl/boyfriends initials...in a marshmallow.
Converse...with a flatworm.
Speak in acronyms.
Drive the speed limit...in your garage.
Make a schematic drawing...of a rock.
Be a rabid Boxcar Willi fan.
Sing the National Anthem...during your calculus final.
Pay off the national debt...with a bad check.
Calmly have a nervous breakdown.
Give your goldfish a perm.
Fly a brick.
Play tag...on the nearest interstate.
Paint stripes on a lake.
Ski Kansas.
Test thin ice...with a pogo stick.
Apply for a Unicorn Hunting License.
Defend your neighborhood from roving Mongol hordes.
Do a good job.
Crawl.
Be a side effect.
Ride a bicycle...up Mt. McKinley.
Play hockey with your little cousin...as the puck.
Duck.
Redecorate your garage.
Develope a complex.
Join the Army...be someone simple.
Try harder.
Hit the deck.
Cut the deck.
Make a deal with the Devil...keep your fingers crossed.
Put legwarmers on all your furniture.
Be number six.
Sit.
Stay.
Roll over.
Play dead.
Scheme.
Cause a power failure.
Pour instant concrete in your brothers waterbed.
Give a lecture tour on the historical signifigance of cream cheese.
Wiggle.
Debate politics with a fern.
If you lose stop watering it.
Donate your brother's body to science.
Join Hell's Angels by mail.
Wonder.
Masturbate.
Give your cat a suntan...in the microwave.
Be a square root.
Park your car...with a friend.
Park your car...with a group of friends.
Ask stupid questions.
Spew.
Surf Ohio.
Go bowling...for small game.
Have your first statement of bankruptcy framed.
Hang it on the wall in your office.
Staple.
Solve the population problem. (i.e. x + 2y -x = population; solve for x)
Contribute to the population problem.
Interview a cloud.
Play tiddly-winks...go for blood.
Go to a drive-in movie in a tank.
Go to a non-drive-in movie in a tank and drive in anyway.
Crumble.
Crumple.
Translate Shakespeare into English.
Send the president an alarm clock...wind it up first.
Do aerobics...in your head.
Play cards with your swimming pool.
Found a cockroach stable and stud farm.
Send your goldfish to obedience school.
Pinstripe your driveway.
Play "Kick the fire-hydrant."
Harness chipmunk power
Free the opressed toaster-ovens of America.
Free the obsessed toaster-ovens of America.
Change your name...daily.
Go for a walk...in the attic.
Challenge the neighbor kid to duel.
Regress.
Find out how many ways there really are to skin a cat.
Go bow hunting...for Toyotas.
Kidnap Cabbage Patch Kids.
Boldly go where no man has gone before.
Jump back.
Play to lose.
Scalp a VW.
Be a threat to the American way of life.
Be a threat to the Northwest Tibetan way of life.
Re-establish the Roman Empire...in Toronto.
Have your car painted plaid.
Found the TLO (Toledo Liberation Organization.)
Play nuclear chicken with a small third world nation.
Race turnips.
Give your grandmother a raise...and another week paid vacation.
Sharpen your sleeping skills.
Put out a fire.
If you can't find one make one.
Ionize your new chemistry professor (remember you found the heat capacity of the first one)
Make a lifesized replica of the Statue of Liberty...out of grape jello.
Get a college education.
Bury your fathers Nissan.
Tell him the dog did it.
Catch a falling star.
Throw it back.
Place your cat in hyper-space.
Again tell your dad the dog did it.
Corner the market on Agnew in '76 buttons.
Find out where all these cylinders graduated from.
Install handicapped access to the your favorite pathetic baseball team's dugout.
Kickstart your TV.
Kickstop your TV.
Perfect the internal cumbustion telephone.
Prove once and for all that a cow can jump over the moon.
Complain to God that Jupiter has more moons than we do.
Make a list of things to do when bored.
Renumber the bored list...
Place an ad in the personals saying you're nineteen, love sex, and have the body of a super model then wait for the calls to pour in.
Go to Burger King and order a Big Mac. When they complain, insist that they promised that you could "Have it Your Way".
Call up the local FBI field office from a pay phone and anonymously report your parents are leaders of an international nuclear terrorist organization.
Wait till after midnight, then go to your local Seven-Eleven for a soda...while naked.
Tell your folks you met some communist lesbians on-line, and that you're running away to go live on their horse ranch in Montanna.
Stay on IRC until 5:00 am saying "I'm bored" in the hope that someone even more bored than you will post a list of suggested things you can do to alleviate your boredom.
Push your eyes and watch the interesting light show.
See how long you can hold your breath.
Try to not think about polar bears.
Scratch yourself.
Hurt yourself.
Try to swallow your tongue.
Look at something for awhile, shut eyes, study after image.
Get yourself as nauseated as possible.
See what's in your neighbor's trash.
Watch TV, repeat everything said in Italian accent.
Call up people who write editorials you disagree with.
Make prank phone calls.
Pretend all humans will die except for people in room with you.
Decide who you will eat first.
Decide who you will mate with.
Mate with them.
Step off a curb with eyes shut, imagine it's a cliff.
Burn things with a magnifying glass.
Have a water drinking contest.
Stare at the back of someone's head until they turn around.
Have a "Who is less competitive" competition.
Pick up a dog so it can see things from your point of view.
Pull out a hair, stick in someone's ear.
Pour water in hand, make sneeze noise, throw water on back of person's neck.
Do web searches for your favorite child actors and see what trouble they've gotten into.