10 ways to spend time at home with benefit and pleasure

What to do in spring? If the desire to fill every day with something special is your thing, then be sure to take a look at our calendar of creativity and comfort, where changing dates brings new exciting tasks. And today we will offer more 10 ideas for those who prefer to spend time at home - and do it fun, creatively, for the benefit of the soul and business. Join us and share your options in the comments!

The first method: creative and handicraft

Of course, we couldn’t start with something else. Moreover, time flies unnoticed while pursuing your favorite hobby, and the process itself brings great pleasure, relaxes and lifts your spirits. 8 ways to improve your health through crafts >

Do you want to try something new and unusual? Take the test to find out which exotic art form you should definitely try - and be sure to try it! Another day to be creative: 14 workshops to try something new >

Learn something new.

If the opportunity to study ended with university couples, the world would be full of academics living with their mothers. Cramming lectures and multi-volume textbooks is good, but practical skills cannot be learned from these books. Boredom is the first signal that the stock of knowledge and skills at this stage is too small and requires development. What can you do in this case?

Learn to play a musical instrument.
Master a martial art or spiritual practice.
Try extreme sports or overcome your fear.
Develop your hobby to such a level that you can make a profit from it, albeit a small one.
Take up the study of a foreign language, culture, history, traditions.
Develop a sense of style, learn more about interior design, and design in general.
Learn something useful for everyday life - the basics of communication, cooking, repairs.
Take a dance course, master a new type of paired or solo expression of art.
You can get additional education remotely.
Imagine yourself as a magician, try to do a couple of tricks.

Fifth method: cinematographic

Everything here is even simpler than with music: watch a good movie! Or TV series. Or spring films from our selection. Or make movies and cartoons yourself, with the whole family. We even have a master class on shooting an animated film. How to make a cartoon yourself at home >

Create gifts with your own hands.

Giving gifts to friends is always a pleasure. What good things can you create with your own hands?

Postcard with paper applications.
Collage of joint photos.
Home decoration.
Picture frame.
Bouquet of paper flowers and sweets.
Dream Catcher.
Jewelry - bracelet, chain, choker, hair tie.
A beautifully designed set with sweets, stationery or hygiene products.
Poster with funny pictures and notes.
A painted jar with applications containing notes with wishes, compliments, and short pleasant memories.

Take the perception type test

Sixth method: educational

Don't get bored - study! Moreover, at the Masters Fair there are many opportunities for this:

see photo and video lessons on interesting topics here >
sign up for upcoming webinars at the Academy of the Masters Fair to participate online. Schedule >
work at your own pace: purchase recordings of past classes or watch lessons from a selection of free webinars >

Things to do at home. 80 exciting, enjoyable and rewarding activities

Print out this list, cut it into narrow strips with one item each, and put them in a box or jar. When you're bored at home, just pull out any note at random and go according to plan.

1. Dance. To your favorite music, of course!

2. Test a new game. For example, Morphite or Alto's Odyssey.

3. Watch all episodes of Game of Thrones in one fell swoop. If you have enough weekends, of course.

4. Take a lot of selfies, choose the best ones and update your avatars in instant messengers and social networks.

5. Try on all the current clothes, putting together several stylish looks.

6. Move furniture to freshen up the interior. Any changes in the surrounding space benefit brain cells, improve memory and mood.

7. Make a plank.

8. Discover new music. You can search for it in as many as 40 different ways. Try it and you will realize how many great compositions you haven’t heard yet!

9. Rhyme everything you see around, even if it’s “cat - cattle.” You might end up with a poem! It's also a great workout for the brain.

10. Compose and beautifully design a crossword puzzle.

11. Explore a site you like and get ideas from there. Dig deep!

12. Start your own blog or channel on Telegram.

13. Get lost in Pinterest. What to wear with your new pencil skirt, how to spend your child’s first birthday—millions of ideas await you for every taste!

14. Create your own personal page on Pinterest, saving ideas that interest you on it.

15. Take a bubble bath, adding a couple of drops of your favorite aromatic oil.

16. Set up a spa at home: with face and hair masks, a hand bath and a heel brush.

17. Prepare and leisurely, savoring every sip, drink cocoa or the perfect hot chocolate.

18. Give yourself a massage.

19. Start reading some book about travel, space or magic.

20. Turn on a light, relaxing movie - about something good and without unnecessary frills.

21. Thoughtfully fill an anti-stress coloring book with all the colors of the rainbow.

22. Start painting a picture by numbers.

23. Practice yoga. All you need is some floor space and a rug (although a rug will do).

24. Seduce your partner.

25. Learn to meditate.

26. Take a nap.

27. Sit in front of the window with a cup of coffee and watch passers-by, leaves and clouds. Feel happy.

28. Spend the whole day on the couch and not worry about it one bit.

29. Understand the instructions for household appliances and finally figure out how to make a double latte in a cool new coffee maker.

30. Cook something interesting according to the recipe of some culinary guru. Or master express dishes that take no more than 5 minutes. Or finally cook the best borscht of your life.

31. Clean your computer and smartphone from unnecessary applications.

32. Start listening to podcasts: educational or entertaining.

33. Choose an interesting online course and listen to it.

34. View photos and videos accumulated in the smartphone’s memory. Remove unnecessary ones.

35. Update software on your laptop and gadgets. Make sure the latest versions of the OS and antivirus are installed.

36. Take photos of unnecessary things and post them on Avito.

37. Go to Avito and look there for an item that you have been thinking about buying for a long time. Find an inexpensive ideal option, order.

38. Go through your closet and put things in a bag that you can then give to those in need.

39. Disassemble the home first aid kit, leaving in it only what is needed and not expired.

40. Make a unique interior decoration with your own hands. There are a lot of ideas and instructions.

41. Start keeping a personal diary.

42. Make a list of goals for the next month, six months, year.

43. Update and expand your resume with life hacks that can double your salary.

44. Update your profile on a dating site. If you are registered there, of course.

45. Give a facial massage.

46. Explore Wikipedia. Fall down the “rabbit hole” for a while: follow the links inside the article that interests you, expanding your knowledge of the issue more and more.

47. Plant a mini-garden on your windowsill: in a couple of weeks you will have your own organic greenery.

48. Prepare lunches for the office in advance, divide them into portions and place them in the refrigerator.

49. Do the cleaning. For example, according to the Japanese principles of kaizen.

50. Shine the bathroom.

51. Wash the windows.

52. Make a list of the pros and cons of a task that you think about a lot. Should I have children? Should I buy a car? Going on vacation abroad or within the country?

53. Pack an emergency bag in case of emergency.

54. Wash and clean combs and makeup brushes.

55. Learn to tie a tie or scarf in a dozen stylish ways.

56. Remember an old friend with whom you haven’t spoken for a long time, and send him a message via instant messenger or voicemail.

57. Write a letter (real, paper!) to your grandparents. Tell there everything about yourself, your life and how you love the recipients.

58. Write short messages to your loved one on small pieces of paper, then discreetly slip them into his pockets and bag.

59. Take colored paper, scissors, glue and make some greeting cards for friends and family for the upcoming holidays. Lifehacker wrote about homemade gifts for February 23 and March 8. But the ideas are so good that they can be used all year round.

60. Make (and write down so you don’t forget!) a list of gifts that will delight your loved ones.

61. Watch with friends those TV series that perfectly suit your mood. Don't forget to order pizza!

62. Talk with your partner about joint plans and goals and be sure to agree on the dates of the next adventure.

63. Meet a friend. Give each other cool hairstyles.

64. Play board games with friends or children.

65. Teach your friends card tricks or surprise them with simple tricks based on the laws of physics.

66. Compete: who can fold the furthest-flying paper airplane? You can use anything for aircraft construction: from office paper to old magazines and newspapers.

67. Together with someone, start assembling a huge puzzle of thousands of pieces.

68. Give your partner a foot massage.

69. Tell fortunes. For example, take the thickest book and invite your friends to name the page and line number, and then read the prediction together. Or make magic cookies.

70. Take plenty of photos with friends.

71. Blow soap bubbles.

72. Make your pet a new bed, toy or scratching post. Lifehacker has already collected the instructions.

73. Together with your children, write a letter to your family in the future. Hide it in a time capsule and promise to open it and read it in a year.

74. Make a clear joint plan with your children on how you will spend the summer holidays or the next weekend. Select films on the websites of the nearest cinemas, book a ticket, make a route...

75. Cuddle the kids, have pillow fights (this is nice, and children will cherish such memories for a long time).

76. Finally go in for sports. Have you been dreaming of tightening your stomach or buttocks for a long time?

77. Together with the children, build a cardboard castle from old boxes and color it. If you put several boxes together, cutting doors into them, you will get a multi-room house!

78. Organize a dress-up show with the children (at the same time, go through the closet in the nursery).

79. Draw a general picture together on a huge sheet or glued together album sheets.

80. Take paints and a sheet of whatman paper and leave your palm prints on it. Date it and store it carefully.

Eighth method: cultural and entertainment

Visit a museum without leaving home? Yes Easy! Now many institutions around the world have a collection of open video materials, or, simply put, virtual excursions. Thus, just recently a five-hour film-walk through the Hermitage was released: inspiring footage takes the viewer to the luxurious halls of the Winter Palace and introduces impressive works of art. View >

Get out into the fresh air.

Staying in a poorly ventilated room provokes the development of depression and health problems. Fresh air, on the contrary, improves blood circulation, stimulates brain function, increases concentration and self-esteem.

Oxygen, uncontaminated by machine exhausts and factory waste, is the best option to regain your spirits, activate your imagination, and strengthen your immune system. That is why fresh air means nature, and not stuffy, cramped streets. What can you do in such places?

Workout. Jogging and warming up on playgrounds are suitable for the warm, dry season. In winter, it would be nice to organize leisurely walks, brisk walking, and skiing.
In the summer, go rollerblading, in the winter, ice skating.
Walk the dog. If you don’t have your own pet, you can ask friends or relatives.
On warm days, swim in the river or sea, create a mermaid out of sand, on cold days, go sledding, build a snowman.
Walk through the forest, collecting leaves and cones. Look for squirrels, woodpeckers, hares.
Visit all the parks in the city, find the most noticeable differences in them, and determine the best one for yourself.
Feed ducks, geese, swans, fish in the pond.
Build a route for morning jogging, find areas where you can warm up. Or simply explore an unfamiliar area.
Find a place where birds flock. Hang the feeder.
Ride a horse or pony. In some circuses, special zoos, and farms, for a small fee you can ride more exotic animals - camels, elephants, ostriches.

Take a temperament test

Ninth method: cleansing

In the literal sense of the word, because order in the house means order in the thoughts and soul. Of course, if you prefer to reign over chaos, then so be it. But in any case, it’s worth checking whether it’s time to get rid of unnecessary and simply harmful things that have accumulated in the house. And sorting and arranging creative materials is truly a meditative activity!

18 household items that you didn’t even know had an expiration date > A selection of products for organization and order in the house > How to hang pictures: useful infographics from the Masters Fair > Bobbins and organizers for floss from the Masters Fair >

Get to know yourself better.

You can know your favorite flowers, dishes, songs of your soul mate, best friend, relative and not even know about your own preferences. And in vain, because ignorance of personal tastes and goals causes boredom. How can you know yourself?

Take psychological personality tests.
Watch several different films to determine the best genre for you.
Try the cuisine in different cafes, find out which dish turned out to be your favorite.
Ask your loved ones to tell you how they see your loved one.
Start a diary, write down all your emotional experiences, important events, and other significant things.
Go see a psychotherapist.
Chat with the baby. Children are straightforward, their attitude to life is striking in its spontaneity. They help you find the child within you and understand what you really want at the moment.
Play association games. As a rule, such a game opens the subconscious.
Analyze your dreams. Sometimes dreams carry mysterious symbols of the future, and sometimes they indicate repressed desires.
Find questions on the Internet that will help you get to know yourself better. Try to answer them honestly.

Listen to your favorite music

Music is the best way to pass the time and feel a rush of pleasant emotions

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Today, electronic technologies make it possible to listen to music almost everywhere and always. If you are one of the passionate music lovers, then do not deprive yourself of the pleasure of listening to your favorite music
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Such a pastime can inspire and motivate a person to be productive.

Each song or melody carries a certain sign, experience or information. Try listening to the positive vibrations of live music.

By the way, it has long been proven that soft classical music

can have great healing effects on the human mind and body.

Play sports

There is always a free minute for a few simple exercises. This is the best thing you can do for your body.

There are quite a few types of gymnastics. breathing exercises on one day.

, in the other -
eye gymnastics
, especially for office workers who spend the whole day at the computer.

Know that exercise increases blood flow to muscles and organs. Even five minutes of exercise will make you feel better and lift your spirits.

Pick up the camera.

A digital camera or a good one can relieve boredom. What interesting things can you shoot?

Happy birthday video greeting.
Warm words for those who are now far away on work or other matters.
Reminders for yourself. For example, where to put the set, how to knit correctly with five needles, how much cinnamon to add to donuts.
Pranks, jokes.
Beautiful areas of nature, so that after a hard day you can relax and watch them.
Ideas or entire episodes for a video blog.
Holidays, important moments in the lives of loved ones - graduations, weddings, the first steps of a child.
Performances by street artists - musicians, dancers, skaters, roller skaters.
Your own thoughts, opinions, in order to develop them later, not to forget where you stopped.
Yourself while reading your favorite poems.

What to do if you have a lot of free time

A large amount of free time should be occupied with deep hobbies. If a man doesn’t know how to entertain himself and still has a lot of free time, he can try his hand at fishing. There are a lot of advantages in this business: privacy, nature, fresh air, male company, and fresh food on the table. This type of holiday is relevant even in winter.

Fishing

Women on maternity leave often suffer from the fact that their work life has been replaced by crying babies and diapers, and self-realization has reached a dead end. For such girls, there is an opportunity to master knitting from wool - and the child can always create a new wardrobe item, and his free time, while the baby is sleeping, will be occupied with a quiet activity.

Income-generating hobby

Some of the profitable ways to entertain yourself include:

fishing;
knitting wardrobe items;
seasonal cultivation of vegetable and garden crops in the country;
writing test papers for college and technical school students;
copywriting;
walking pets;
Providing childcare services for neighboring children who did not receive a place in kindergarten.

The only condition that you should pay attention to when choosing a type of activity for money is that it should bring pleasure, otherwise it will turn into a second poorly paid job.

Clean houses

Sometimes it is very useful to get rid of everything old

and unnecessary things, and each of us has a lot of such things.

Putting things in order

– an excellent way to combat negative emotions and even depression, as proven by numerous studies. Yes, yes, it is ordinary housework that helps to distract from obsessive thoughts.

Psychologists say that by parting with old things that remind us of some event (even a joyful and bright one), we say goodbye to the past and thereby open the way to a new bright future.

Change.

It seems something incredible. However, just a few minutes can be the start of big changes. How to influence your life?

Put an end to relationships with people who drag you to the bottom.
Change haircut, hair color.
Update your wardrobe, change your style.
Try something unusual. For more details, see the “Learn something new” section.
Think about moving to another street or even to another city or country.
Buy a lottery ticket. But what if?
Change the route of jogging, going to work or to some establishment.
To meet new people.
Go on a healthy diet and start leading a healthy lifestyle.
Play sports or change the type of sports.

Don't do anything

This, of course, sounds strange, but why not? Every person is free to decide what to do and how to spend their free time

. However, many of us devote too much time to work, which negatively affects our health and rhythm of life in general.

But the human body needs time to restore strength after physical or mental stress

. He cannot constantly work for wear and tear.

Therefore, at least sometimes allow yourself the so-called “doing nothing”, enjoy the feeling of complete physical and mental relaxation

. Try not to think about anything. Know that a state of complete lightheadedness has a healing effect.

Remember!

It's okay to do nothing when you have free time during the day.