A blog about stuff you can do when you get bored, or just stuff to do in general, most things are relatively cheap and inexpensive, something alternative to do.
I guess I'm the type of person who likes to socialize a lot, so naturally have a talk over coffee is great fun, and enjoyable.
Number of people: 1+
Time of day: Day or Night
Duration: 1 - 2hours
Budget: $5 - $30 (depending on if you get food or not)
Its coffee... don't need any instructions just drive/bus/taxi/train/walk (what ever your mode of transport is) to the coffee shop and sit drink and talk about lots of crap.
Guidelines:
If you're not a coffee drinker there's always hot chocolate, tea, and other stuff. If you don't know any good coffee shops, I'd recommend looking up reviews of coffee shops before you go, do a quick Google search.
If you're going at night time make sure the cafe you're going to is open at night, most cafe's close in the afternoon, but there are night time cafes.
Another one of those things everyone already knows about but don't think about sometimes when they're bored. Yet again not for everyone but most people like one or 2 board games, heres some ideas and guidelines to help you out.
Number of people: 3-10 (not many board games support more than 10, OK a 2 person board games is just sad so I'd recommend 3+)
Time of day: Anytime, but I'd recommend rainy days or night time.
Duration: 2 hours - 5 hours
Budget: $0 - $100 (depending on if your going to buy a board game or not)
Equipment:
-The board game, here are some common ones which are good fun.
Monopoly - Good game but sometimes people get too competitive
Cranium - Good fun and all round game for everyone, some funny out comes.
Risk - A old classic, more for the boys but do suit some girls
Pictionary - You get some good laughs from the pictures
Cludo - Another good all round detective game
Settlers - Very fun to play, a little like risk mixed with monopoly
- Some snacks and drinks
Guidelines:
Remember its a game don't get all worked up over it, have fun, kill some time.
Camping or just leaving town for a few days is quiet fun, a snow trip, camping in the woods, on the beach, fishing trip etc, I usually go away about 3 times a year and its quiet fun, nice to get away from usual life.
Number of people: 2+
Time of day: All
Duration: 1+ Nights
Budget: $100+
Equipment: I'm sure you know what camping or renting a Bach is and how to do it so I won't go into detail too much but here are a few things which would come in handy.
bug spray
togs
night games
music
night light
food
spending money
Guidelines
No real explaining needed really, just find a place to stay, find some stuff outside town to do and go do it. Realistically its going to cost you $100+ after gas, accommodation food, activities etc, plan for it.
OK so I guess you could say I was real bored on this one and it started off as a joke, but turned out to be a good hour and a half of good fun and laughter and a bit of blast from the past memories.
By the way, this isn't really for anyone still in there teens, well mainly anyone under 18 or still in high school else it won't be as fun cause your still in your teenage phase.
Number of people: 2+ you definitely can't do this by yourself and one of these people has to be at least a girl.
Time of day: Day or night
Duration: 30min - 2hours
Budget: $5 - $20
Equipment:
1 Girlfriend magazine (or any other trashy teenage magazine)
a packet or 2 of lollies
some chippies (chips)
I'm do most stuff with food so you may see food in everything I do (food is just a social language) Guidelines: (this is pretty easy but its part of my blogs structure so just read)
OK so this is pretty simple, pretty much you go to your local supermarket or convenient store buy some trashy teen magazine, some lollies and other snacks and then read the magazine.
Its pretty fun and funny cause at some point you were a teen, and reading the magazine will probably bring back memories laughing at our own teenage hood, and how dumb we were in high school. Reading this you realize how much you've changed and how much of an idiot you were, teenage crushes, silly things you did to impress people or fit in, laughing at how super naive you were...And if you really didn't pick any of these up then you can just laugh at the teens these days and think "is this what teens are really getting up to these days?" any ways either way I'm sure you'll have a good time reading the magazine.
This is something I do a bit, and something I really enjoy, its something you can do by yourself, with a group of friends or with that special someone. I'd definitely recommend this to those who like to talk or if you like quiet time.
Number of people: 1+, this is nice for some alone time or to hang out with your friends/family.
Time of day: Evening twilight till early morning
Duration: 30min - 3hours+
budget $0 - $20
Equipment (recommended but not needed)
Candle in a glass jar (as the wind will blow out a normal candle) or lantern
Blankets and mats (can get cold, not really needed in the summer)
Insect repellent (if your the type that gets bitten buy mossy like me)
Food/snacks (always goes with talking, hot foods or deserts are the best nuggets, chips etc)
MP3 player (if your having some alone time)
Wine, beer (a few quiet drinks)
Guidelines
Get your supply, food candles, insect repents etc. Food wise I'd recommend
Hot food
nuggets
hot chips
dumplings
Cold food
ice cream cones (pick some up from the petrol station the the way if you are driving)
cakes
apple pie
finger fruit (cherry's, grapes, strawberry's)
A lot this stuff you can pick up at a late night fish 'n' chips shop or fast food outlet
Some wine and beers also goes well or just some juice, remember to drink responsibly if you are driving (and also if your not).
Find a nice spot under the stars where no one else is (or not many), recommended places includes
beach
wharf/jetty
mountain top (easy access one, maybe one that over looks the city)
parks
playgrounds
backyard
roof top
farm
Light the candle(s)/lantern set some mood lighting
Hangout, talk, eat think what ever you like
Remember to take any rubbish if you have any.
Hope you have some nice alone time or some nice socializing with your friends/family :D
OK, so I had nothing much to do last night so I got together with a buncha friends to make waffles. They turned out amazing, and super delicious. Hope you enjoy.
Number of people: 1+
Duration: 1.5-3hours
Budget: $0 - $20 depending on what you already have at home
Recipe I found at allrecipes.com after looking at a few others this one had the best review rating of 4.5/5, and man were they amazing I'd give this recipe 5/5. Best Waffles I'd ever had and even better cause we did it ourselves. They are deliciously fluffly and crispy on the outside. This recipe is a bit more complicated than most, so remember to follow the recipe closely and make sure your yeast isn't past the used by date (cause ours was and it didn't work so we had to buy some more yeast). If your good at baking then this should be simple for you.
Other notes before you start
-This recipe makes enough to feed about 6 about 2 big waffles each.
-Do a few test on different temperatures we used a mid-high setting on our waffle iron, the hottest setting seemed to cook the outside too fast leaving the inside slightly under cook.
-We used a Breville waffle iron (looks like this),
Ingredients
7 g active dry yeast
60 ml warm milk (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
3 egg yolks
650 ml warm milk (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
170 g butter, melted and cooled to lukewarm
100 g white sugar (100 g is the standard amount form the recipe, we liked it a tad sweeter so we put another 2 table spoons in (about another 50g)
9 g salt
10 ml vanilla extract
500 g all-purpose flour
3 egg whites
Directions
In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup warm milk. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes.
In a large bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, 1/4 cup of the warm milk and the melted butter. Stir in the yeast mixture, sugar, salt and vanilla. Stir in the remaining 2 1/2 cups milk alternately with the flour, ending with the flour. Beat the egg whites until they form soft peaks; fold into the batter. Cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap. Let rise in a warm place until doubled in volume, about 1 hour.
Preheat the waffle iron. Brush with oil and spoon about 1/2 cup (or as recommended by manufacturer) onto center of iron. Close the lid and bake until it stops steaming and the waffle is golden brown. Serve immediately or keep warm in 200 degree oven.
Serve with your favorite toppings, ice cream, berries, cream, sauces, syrups.
Its pretty plain and simple, I started writing this blog when I was bored, and I also started a personal blog about my thoughts and life (when I was bored), I don't even know if anyone reads them but hey its pretty fun when your actually writing them, you get the feeling of sharing/talking to people. Number of people: 1+
Duration: 5min - 1hr, you can post short posts or long ones, just depends on your style whats your blog about
Budge: Free (providing you have a computer and internet at home that is)
Equiptment
A computer
Internet access
Guidelines
-Pick a topic to write about, this can be anything, there are blogs about anything and everything, i saw someone a blog a bout cats that look like hitter. -This can be can be done just by yourself or you could get together with some friends and together keep it up to date. -A successful blog needs to be have regular posts (so I've been told), maybe once or twice a week, but depends on what your blog is about. If its about news/current events then its appropriate to post every day. -Tell people about it, post it on your facebook/myspace/twitter page so people can see you have a blog, who knows maybe you could get famous from it (if you want to that is). -Make it look pretty (I know his blog isn't that pretty but I will work on it).
Wheat pasting is a form of street art, you make paste from wheat and you stick pictures up around the place. This is possibly illegal in your country. And yes it is the paste you used in kindergarten and yes that's how out door posters are stuck up.
Number of people: 2 - 3 people best but I would recommend no more than 5, as it gets obvious when you have 5 people pasting things up.
Time of day: night time activity
Duration: 1 - 2hrs+
Budget: $5 -$20 starting
Equipment: (all rough estimates)
~3/4 cup of wheat flower - though rice flower works too
~6 - 7 cups of water
~1 teaspoon of Sugar
A house pain brush or paint roller - a half size paint roller works best from my experience
Printed pictures you want to put up - they should be printed by a laser printer
A Small bucket - make sure your roller can fit inside if your using a paint roller
An Open hand bag - the cotton ones that shops gives out are best or the cotton reusable grocery bags
A Bag for your designs - we use a paper bag
Steps
1. Make your design, draw it on computer or by hand. (a black and white/grey scale picture will be cheapest)
2. Print your design out with a laser printer (a photo copiers is a laser printer) if you print it on a inkjet printer(most home printers) the ink will run, if you drew it by hand you can photo copy/scan it, if you don't have a laser printer (most people don't) you can take your design/poster/picture to a printing shop or photo copying machine, usually about 20c per A4 page and colour copies will cost more. Note, half a A4 page is about best size for your design for ease of finding places to put them, but making big ones are also fun, and you only need about 10 - 40 copies a night before your legs get tired.
3. Cut around your design so there's a small white boarder around it, it just looks better after you put it up.
4. Put the flower into a medium-large size bowl, add about 1 and a 1/2 cup of cold water and start string till there's no more lumpy bits (or close enough). If you use boiling water to open it it'll cook the wheat and makes it go lumpy as.
5. Pour the mixture into a pot with a little bit of boiling water, add the sugar and slowly add boiling water while cooking and string the mixture. Don't add too much water it shouldn't be runny (better to be too thick than too runny). Just experiment with water to Wheat ratio as I've never noted it down. The first time you do this you should test it on something at home before you go out. (this video might help)
6. Once your mixture is ready pour it into your bucket and your ready to go.
7. Find a flat wooden, brick, metal, plastic etc surface that you want to put your wheat paste on, paint/roll the paste onto the surface, slap the design on then paint/roll the paste over it again this water proofs it. The paste needs to cover the whole design to water proof the whole thing. This should be done when no one or not many people are watching/around.
Please be curtest and not wheat paste on people properties as that's just sad. Stick to street signs, lamp post, transformers etc usually where other wheat paste have already been done, another word government property. If you see places where there have been wheat paste pealed off or painted over then they clean that area regularly and its a bit of a waste of your time pasting it there as it'll get taken down or painted over straight away. An untouched wheat paste can last a few years. Try making different designs, different sizes to change things up a bit, write a message if you feel the need to educate the world. The CBD's the best place to wheat paste.
Remember this is illegal in most countries, look out for cops, security guards, street cleaners and CCTV cameras!
