41 Things to Do If You Have Too Much Time On Your Hands

Posted at 17:44

16 March 2007

  1. Play all the hymns in the hymnal.
  2. Take out all the tissues from the box.
  3. Fold them all up and put them back in the box.
  4. Sing "I Know a Song that Gets on Everybody's Nerves"
  5. Write sappy sonnets to your imaginary beloved.
  6. Cut your hair really really short.
  7. Bake cookies and add salt instead of sugar.
  8. Dial every single phone number you can think of.
  9. Build a life-sized bed out of gumdrops and toothpicks.
  10. Erase a blank sheet of paper until either the paper or the eraser is worn out.
  11. Get a high score on every single game on orisinal.com.
  12. Pull all the buttons off a calculator, then stick them back on.
  13. Unpeel a clementine, eat the inside, then glue the peel back together and put it with the other clementines.
  14. Measure the area of your room using the length of your pinky as the unit.
  15. Sharpen an unused pencil until it's down to a stub.
  16. Play pictionary with yourself.
  17. Rearrange all the furniture in your room.
  18. Write all your words backwards - ekil siht.
  19. Make a paperclip chain with all the paperclips in the house.
  20. Pour out all the lotion in one bottle.
  21. Invent a cure for the common cold.
  22. Draw concentric circles on the driveway with chalk.
  23. Organize your brother's Pokemon cards in alphabetical order.
  24. See how many holes you can punch in one piece of paper.
  25. Count the stars.
  26. Fry an ice cube.
  27. Read the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
  28. Make a suit of armour out of aluminium trays.
  29. Look for the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.
  30. Push all the buttons in an elevator - and stay in the elevator.
  31. Count the number of Rice Krispies in one box.
  32. Reset all the clocks in the house 12 hours ahead.
  33. Eat a frozen TV dinner.
  34. Cut down a big tree with a 2-inch pocketknife.
  35. Run a cake of soap under water until it has totally melted.
  36. Practice balancing a baseball on your nose.
  37. Play all of Chopin's waltzes backwards.
  38. Calculate the number of seconds you waste each day.
  39. Search for a five-leaf clover.
  40. Eat raw oats.
  41. Write a list titled "51 things to do if you have to much time on your hands".

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

wow, serfy! it would appear that, although you have not done anything on your list, you do have too much time on your hands.
(must have been fun to write tho.)

Anonymous said...

(i forgot the smiley.)
so....

=)

Serfy said...

actually I have done numbers 4, 24, and 40.

sehwoo said...

haha.. you must have been bored.

some of those actually sound fun..

me said...

it would be kinda fun to make a bed outta toothpicks and gumdrops

me said...

oh, i hope you don't mind if i add a couple to your list...

42. Find the amount of licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop.

43. Calculate the length of your fingernails if left to grow for 50 years.

44. Drink 18 creamers in one sitting.

me said...

*i mean, a few

sehwoo said...

but jon.. drinking eighteen creamers is my thing. you can't add it to her list