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50 Things For You To Do While Sporting Events are Suspended

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: Mar 13th, 2020 · 9:00 AM EDT

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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:

1. talk to your spouse
2. play with your children
3. call your parents on the phone
4. clean up around the house
5. pick up trash in the neighborhood
6. go outside and play sports with other people, throw a football, toss a baseball, etc
7. take the dog to the park (dogs can’t get Coronavirus)
8. exercise
9. organize your email inbox
10. gather unwanted clothes to donate to Goodwill or local thrift store
11. read a book
12. read CrossingBroad.com
    
13. play a sports video game like Madden or FIFA
14. listen to a podcast
15. sweep your front porch
16. ask neighbors how they’re doing and check on elderly folks in the area
17. waste your time on the hellhole known as “Twitter”
18. argue about politics on Facebook
19. take an Instagram selfie
20. record a TikTok video
21. update your Linkedin profile and resume
22. sleep
23. shred old paperwork you don’t need
24. meditate and/or do yoga moves
25. play a musical instrument, draw a picture, or do something creative
26. call 94 WIP or 97.5 the Fanatic and share a sports opinion
27. watch old games on ESPN Classic
28. argue with co workers on Slack
29. compile a list
30. do your taxes
31. send story ideas to local writers (kevin@crossingbroad.com)
32. look through those photo albums you told yourself you’d definitely look through and never have
33. take all of the pictures and videos off your phone and put them on your laptop or desktop
34. 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
35. Netflix, Hulu, etc
36. plant a tree
37. identify things to sell and put them up on Ebay or Craigslist
38. volunteer your time
39. cook dinner for the family
40. get absolutely wasted
41. answer your 10,000 unread text messages
42. delete apps on your phone you aren’t using
43. go through your bank statements and see where you can save money
44. manscape
45. watch old concerts on Youtube (starting with Live Aid 1985 in Philadelphia)
46. go to the grocery store and buy all of the toilet paper, then hoard it
47. play a board game
48. Check out the online offerings of your library. Most offer free digital downloads of books, movies, comic books, etc.
49. reinstall Diablo 2 and play with friends (I’ll be online later tonight)
50. 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