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75 Things To Do When You're Bored

We all need something to do sometimes.

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When I was writing this article, I was extremely bored. Here are all of the things that I should have done, but was too lazy to do.

1. Make a list of 75 things to do when you're bored.

2. Count how many pairs of sock you own. (I just did this.)

3. Binge watch a random Netflix show.

4. Rearrange your bedroom.

5. Organize your closet.

6. Count as high as you can.

7. Clean your bathroom.

8. Refresh your Twitter feed approximately 739,672 times.

9. Stalk your ex-boyfriend on Instagram.

10. Stalk your current hookup on Instagram.

11. Stalk the girl in his most recent Insta post. (If she's cuter than me, he's DEF not coming over ever again, lmao.)

12. Attempt writing your article for The Odyssey and suffer from writer's block.

13. Get on Facebook.

14. Immediately get off of Facebook.

15. Ignore all of your real responsibilities (i.e. homework, laundry, eating).

16. Make a Tinder and swipe right on all the cute Frat boys at your school.

17. Look through pictures from middle school and cry at how weird you and your friends were.

18. Think about all the things you don't want to do this week.

19. Finally delete the pictures of you and your ex-boyfriend that you've had for, like, four years.

20. Cry while doing it.

21. Text your ex just to "check in."

22. Get emo about it and actually start feeling him again. (Me every week, several times a week.)

23. Look at cat pictures on Google Images because cats are f*cking adorable.

24. Adopt a cat from a homeless shelter.

25. Hide said cat from your RA so you don't get fined.

26. Make a Tumblr.

27. Get in your feelings.

28. Make a list of all the places you want to travel to.

29. Make a list of all of your favorite foods.

30. Buy a paint-by-numbers thing and fail miserably.

31. Or prosper, because YGG.

32. Clean out your dresser. Get rid of all the stuff that you don't actually wear but you're too attached to actually get rid of it.

33. Write letters to your friends who are at different colleges.

34. Try to do a puzzle and get frustrated.

35. Get on Spotify or Apple Music and try to find some hipster music to listen to.

36. Or listen to your favorite musical soundtrack. (Mine is "Hamilton." Lin-Manuel Miranda is God's gift to Broadway.)

37. Draw one of those really cool mandala things that are trendy right now.

38. Color in a coloring book.

40. Look at your bookshelf and count how many books you have that you haven't read.

41. Watch an exercise video and try to exercise. (Just kidding, exercise is lame.)

42. Buy a crossword puzzle book and try doing all of them without cheating.

43. Try Sudoku.

44. Loathe Sudoku.

45. Make a list of all the dumb things you want to do.

46. Go to Target and buy all of the socks from the dollar section.

47. Cry because of boredom.

48. Call your mom.

49. Listen to your mom complain about how you never call her.

50. Call your dad.

51. Ask your dad for more money.

52. Listen to him complain about how you only call him when you need something.

53. Text your hookup to "comeeeee overrrrr ;-)".

54. Make him watch "A Cinderella Story" with you.

55. Paint your nails.

56. Watch makeup tutorials on YouTube.

57. Attempt the makeup styles and fail.

58. FaceTime your grandma.

59. Start your Christmas list on Amazon.

60. Send it to all of your family members.

61. Buy canvases and paint lame shit on them. (I know you love lame Pinterest quotes.)

62. Make a list of your ultimate celebrity daddies. ;-)

63. Try writing poetry.

64. Take a nap because naps are the best things ever.

65. Read the local newspaper.

66. Cook food.

67. Dance around your room with no pants on.

68. Watch a Rom Com.

69. Go to the library and look at old books.

70. Learn how to tie a tie.

71. Go through all of the contacts on your phone and delete the people you don't know.

72. Go to a cool new restaurant that's near where you live.

73. Burn a mixed CD for your bestie.

74. Try yoga.

75. If you actually finished reading this list, you must be really bored.

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