Beat it 🍳🍆

Cooking. Plan a meal and take a day to make it. Like last night I took a chicken out of the freezer. In the morning I cooked the stuffing and choppped the veggies. In the afternoon I stuffed it. Then I put it in the oven a couple hours later and I’m about to eat it soon

I end up doing chores.

Build and paint models. Play with the dog. Go for a walk. Tend the garden. Clean the car. Read a book. Sleep.

Good suggestions here. If nothing seems to interest you, you might be experiencing anhedonia, inability to experience pleasure. Often goes with depression.

Code, play computer games, read, browse Lemmy.

Read. I honestly don’t think life would be as enjoyable if books didn’t exist. And thanks to libraries, you can read them for free.

Unlike movies/TV/games, they’re entirely portable without loss of quality, so you can take a book with you on a walk, to the pub, to the coffee shop etc.

Crafting. I’m making RPG terrain out of discarded cardboard, plastic, hot glue and acrylic paint. Haven’t cut myself yet. I’m mildly proud of that, given how clumsy I am.

I wish I had time to be bored. How does one go about getting this time?

How do you get bored at home?

I would saying trying new recipes to cook or bake. Everyone always appreciated something new and tasty to eat. Sitting and listening to music exclusively and actively hearing it rather than is being a source of background noise.

• Playing/Learning a musical nstrument
• Reading books
• Cooking
• Throw a party for friends or host a board game/poker night
• Any number of hobbies one could take up (woodworking, coin/stamp collecting, models, knitting/crocheting…)

I cook. I never thought I’d take up cooking as a hobby: it was always kind of a chore. but since i bought a house that has a full kitchen (as opposed to the 8sqft of counter space in my 500 sqft apartment), and i started drinking soylent, i find that when i have TIME to cook its a lot of fun and then i get to feed my wife and friends n stuff so that’s pretty cool.

and it’s pretty cheap as hobbies go if you go for that full scratch cooking because you are basically always just buying ingredients like flour and eggs and heavy whipping cream and then like one or two items for the specific dish (i do a lot of baking), then relying an the arsenal you’ve built up over time.

I like to make wire puzzles from junk material. I give them away to kids and addiction treatment facilities.

Sewing, learning to draw, knitting, reading, macrame, playing with my dog, video games, pottery. Maybe go to thrift shops and look for hidden gems that you can fix up?