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- Ask someone for advice you don’t need
- Listen to a painting
- Take your sofa for a walk
- Shave a shrub
- Hold a debate. Take both sides
- Interview a cloud
- Ask for advice at the chemist … disagree
- Put legwarmers on the furniture
- Mug a stop sign
- Clean and polish your belly button
- Water the dog … see if he grows
- Mow your carpet
- Rake your carpet (to clean up clippings from mowing)
- Dial-A-Therapist and argue
- Dial-A-Prayer for forgiveness for above
- Rent a dog to chase your car
- Let him catch it
- Sue the owner of above
- Confess to a crime you didn’t commit
- Play solitaire – with your toes
- Run for president
- Make friends with a bird in your garden … give him a name
- Give your goldfish language enrichment classes
- Talk politics to a tree
- Put out a fire
- If you can’t find a fire start one
- Confuse an ant by moving a grain of sugar around
- Tell your boss you are bored at the office
- Tell your kids the neighbors invited them for a party
- Learn to break dance .. on the couch
- Learn to Hip Hop dance in front of a window the neighbors can see
- Get a bubble blower and tell the secretary to count the bubbles
- Make up songs or poems about your mother-in-law
- Send it to her
- Play cards
- Play frisbee
- Play dead
- Make a tune with your phones keypad numbers
- Dial the above number and speak to them
- Sing opera
- Practice your cartwheel skills
- Write an autobiography about your boss
- Play pranks on your friends
- Change the names on someones phone
- Bore someone with the words “I am bored!”
- Turn the volume of the TV down and make up dialogue
- Visit a beauty salon – only ask for tips
- Take your TV for a walk in the garden
- Have a heart to heart with your car
- Have a picnic in the office on the carpet
- Talk to your imaginery friend in public
- Sing wildly to some music while in traffic
- Shave your head
- Shave someone elses head
- Tan patterns on your face
- Walk with your slippers into the office
- Give a stranger some marital advice
- Go fishing in your towns fountain
- Pull faces at strangers
- Teach your dog to say: “I can bite”
- Doodle with your wife or girlfriends nailpolish
- Laugh at the moon
- Serenade the sun
- Walk on an “invisible” thin line in a shop
- Snort your coffee
- Pretend to arrive home drunk. Now I AM BORED!
- Pretend to have a hangover at work
- Tickle a plant
- Baby talk a plant
- Phone someone and ask for their business address repeat it back wrong a few times
- Ask someone if they need a hand, give them a photo copy of a hand
- Change your accent after every sentence
- Have a swivel chair race
- Fill a balloon with water, draw a face & name and drop out of an office window
- Write “help!” on your car’s window
- Use a fruit as pointer for your next presentation
- Water the fake office plants … daily
- Decide whether it’s “I am bored!” or “I am a bore!”