99 productive things to do when bored

Whenever you are bored, all you need is the motivation to get up and do something productive. Since you likely have a lot of short tasks that you’ve not completed, you can make a list. You should place the most important ones on top. If you keep procrastinating, your workload would just be increasing. So you should consider doing some of the productive things listed below

• Clean and arrange your furniture. If you have furniture that is damaged, you might also consider a replacement. 
• Sort your clothes and arrange them neatly in the wardrobe. You should also separate the clean ones from the dirty ones.
• You should also sell or give out clothes that you don’t use anymore
• Organize all your junks. You should throw out anyone that you don’t use anymore.
• Keep your kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, toilet, and all other rooms clean.
• Wash your car. You shouldn’t only wash the body, clean the seats, and everything inside.
• Take care of your makeup kit and clean them. You might even decide to throw off and replace some brushes. 
• Tidy your fridge and reload it with good drinks. If there are expired products inside, you should throw them away. 
• Keep your garage clean. You can even decide to brush the floor if it is dirty. 
• Organize your woman cave. If you don’t have one, you can set up a new one. 
• Plan how you want to eat weekly. To remember everything you planned, you should write it down. Make sure that you include everything that you need to have a balanced diet.
• You can even go out and purchase all ingredients that you need to prepare food in that week
• You can create a diary where you can write down your daily experiences
• Plan how to spend wisely. You can create a budget for yourself. Make sure that you put your salary into consideration while creating one
• If you have debts, create and write down a plan of how you want to pay everything
• Set goals for yourself. Make sure you take steps to achieve those goals daily
• If you’re getting old, you can plan on what you want to do after retirement
• If you have some bad habits, you can plan and write down how to stop doing them.
• Before you start a week, plan how you want everything to work out. 
• Create a routine of things that you want to do every morning. 
• Browse and download the latest songs of your favorite musicians
• Read books on any genre that you love. It can be motivation, romance, or any other one.
• If you love audiobooks, you can also download and listen to them.
• You can browse the popular podcasts in town and listen to them.
• Plan a routine on how to care for yourself. 
• There are some massages that you can’t carry out yourself. One of them is deep tissue massage. You can do it when bored. 
• Cut and clean all your fingernails.
• Take time to exfoliate and keep your skin clean. 
• Study books that can help improve your mental health.
• Stretch your legs, hands, and the whole of your body. 
• Sort everything on your computer. 
• Sort everything on your phone and keep similar files in the same folder. 
• Check your mailbox and read the updates. You should also delete emails that you don’t consider useful anymore. 
• Make sure that you keep your resume completely up to date. 
• Login your LinkedIn profile and update all your new skills and qualifications there. You can also change your profile picture to a recent one.
• If you want new ideas on things you can do, you should research on google.
• Visit websites where you can learn new skills and enroll in a course. Some of them require payment, while others are free.
• You can also enroll in an online class. You should visit a website like Udemy to get one. 
• There are a lot of side hustles that you can do online. You can research them and start learning how to do one. 
• Set up a list of things that you want on Amazon. 
• Perform an exercise. You can run or walk. It depends on your fitness level at that moment. 
• Visit the nearest swimming pool. It is advisable to swim with your friends. 
• To be fit, you can decide to set up a workout routine. 
• Volunteer at something that you can do well. It can be at a nursing home or any other place.
• Dance in front of a mirror. Since you are alone, you would enjoy watching yourself.

• Perform something cool to you. It can be your hobby or any other thing. 
• Start painting. All you have to do is get aboard, cardboard, and paints. 
• Take cool pictures. You can even snap yourself. 
• Paint what you like or feel. 
• Arrange pictures of things that you want to achieve on a vision board.
• Arrange a puzzle. Even though it can be stressful at times, you would feel good after completing one.
• Write a letter and send it to someone that you deeply love. You would be surprised at how much the person would appreciate a written letter. 
• Frame your favorite pictures. It can be the pictures saved on your phone or computer. 
• Pay your best friend a visit. 
• Make a video call with your family member.
 
• Visit someone that you’ve not seen in a long time.
• Invite your friend to have fun with you. 
• Organize a get together for your high school friends. 
• If you’re at the weekend, organize a party. 
• Plan and research on where to visit on vacation. 
• Research and study more about your dream career. You should plan on the steps to take to make it a reality. 
• Write down important things you have been postponing and start doing them. 
• Sell items that you don’t use anymore. You can sell them on eBay or any other platform. 
• Visit the local market and purchase farm products.
• Plant flowers to beautify your compound. You should remember to wet the flowers every day. 
• Research on a popular reality show and watch
• Read novels to improve your vocabulary. You should always check the meaning of new words you discover. 
• Join a club of people that are interested in the same thing as you. 
• If you’re female, you can learn new makeup styles to appear more beautiful. There are videos available to watch on YouTube and other platforms. 
• If you have a large backyard, you can plant your favorite flowers and grow them. 
• Watch a documentary on things that you love. It can be animals, medicine, engineering, or any other thing.
• Learn how to cook something new. You can always check YouTube for videos. 
• Play and have fun with your pet. If you’re confused about a pet to purchase, you can consider buying a dog.
• Contribute to providing homes for certain animals. You can either give out a little amount of money or help carry out some tasks. 
• Identify your weakness and work on improving. 
• If you love nail art, you can always watch some videos and practice. 
• Decorate and preserve your family scrapbook. 
• If you know how to sew, do something nice, and use it to surprise, someone.
• Learn a few words in a foreign language that you like.
• Bath well, and take good care of yourself.
• Create a new blog and post experiences that you would like to share.
• If you love poetry, you can decide to write a poem.
• Draft a love letter. You can decide to send it to your partner or not. 
• Bake a bread by yourself. You can watch YouTube videos if you’re just learning. 
• If you don’t have a bucket list, you should create one. 
• Visit amazon and create a list of things you would like to purchase for your birthday. 
• Cook for your neighbor or any friend that is with you. 
• Research about big business owners in your field. 
• Research about your personality type.
• Make a list of things that you would like to purchase soon.
• Sleep for a short time
• Create a backup of all important files on your computer. 
• Paint something that you like. 
• Visit your social media pages and make new friends
• Work on your style.
• Purchase new clothes that fit you. 
• Meet people that have a similar idea to you. 
• Go through different services that you’re using and end subscriptions on the ones that you don’t use anymore. It would help you save money. 
• Sort all your cords and cables.

Conclusion

Whenever you’re bored, it is always a sign that you can be doing something productive. If you do any of those things discussed above, you won’t only kill boredom. You would also add value to yourself. You shouldn’t do heavy work when bored. Your focus should be on light works that you can do within a short time. So you would still be left with energy to carry out your big tasks.