
50 Things For You To Do While Sporting Events are Suspended
Lock it down.
We’re going nowhere and doing nothing for the foreseeable future. No sports, no school, no concerts, but a lot of free time around the house and in our neighborhoods, so long as we practice appropriate social distancing and wash our hands.
If you’re at a loss and wondering what to do with your free time, I’ve compiled a list of 50 ideas that can hopefully help:
- talk to your spouse
- play with your children
- call your parents on the phone
- clean up around the house
- pick up trash in the neighborhood
- go outside and play sports with other people, throw a football, toss a baseball, etc
- take the dog to the park (dogs can’t get Coronavirus)
- exercise
- organize your email inbox
- gather unwanted clothes to donate to Goodwill or local thrift store
- read a book
- read CrossingBroad.com
- play a sports video game like Madden or FIFA
- listen to a podcast
- sweep your front porch
- ask neighbors how they’re doing and check on elderly folks in the area
- waste your time on the hellhole known as “Twitter”
- argue about politics on Facebook
- take an Instagram selfie
- record a TikTok video
- update your Linkedin profile and resume
- sleep
- shred old paperwork you don’t need
- meditate and/or do yoga moves
- play a musical instrument, draw a picture, or do something creative
- call 94 WIP or 97.5 the Fanatic and share a sports opinion
- watch old games on ESPN Classic
- argue with co workers on Slack
- compile a list
- do your taxes
- send story ideas to local writers (kevin@crossingbroad.com)
- look through those photo albums you told yourself you’d definitely look through and never have
- take all of the pictures and videos off your phone and put them on your laptop or desktop
- watch all those videos you filmed at concerts that you said you’d go back and watch only to realize the audio quality is terrible and you weren’t really that close
- Netflix, Hulu, etc
- plant a tree
- identify things to sell and put them up on Ebay or Craigslist
- volunteer your time
- cook dinner for the family
- get absolutely wasted
- answer your 10,000 unread text messages
- delete apps on your phone you aren’t using
- go through your bank statements and see where you can save money
- manscape
- watch old concerts on Youtube (starting with Live Aid 1985 in Philadelphia)
- go to the grocery store and buy all of the toilet paper, then hoard it
- play a board game
- Check out the online offerings of your library. Most offer free digital downloads of books, movies, comic books, etc.
- reinstall Diablo 2 and play with friends (I’ll be online later tonight)
- write shitty blog posts
I have given you 50 things to do. No excuses now. The world is yours.
*Craig, Coggin, Mike, and Phil contributed to this post