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TLDR: DND, PUTTING IT AWAY IN A DRAWER, DELETE APPS, INDULGING IN BOREDOM

first, i think it’s important that your phone is never the first thing you dive into when you wake up and it should not be the last thing you see before you go to sleep. set aside at least 30min-1hr when you wake up/before you go to bed without any screen time. you can read, do morning exercise, go for a walk, theres a lot you can do that would be better than being on your phone. i think it’s also really helpful to turn off all notifications and turn dnd on at all times. might be overdoing it, but any little bit helps. i’ve deleted any and all apps i don’t deem ABSOLUTELY necessary to be on my phone. social media apps esp, if you have a computer just log in using that whenever youre home and wanna check or post something. fourth and maybe most importantly, be okay with the idea of being bored without your phone! explore the idea of going out without it, just raw dogging life.

@jeannedielman

Jun 12, 2025

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What to do when there’s nothing to do

We’ve all been there before: I’m in line to renew a car tag, I’m waiting for my to-go order, I’ve sat down in the classroom waiting for the professor to arrive, etc. I’ve noticed all of us (myself included) can tend to reach for our phones, but I’m fighting against that urge!! A few years ago I developed the phrase “practice being bored.” As a true Millennial, I have lost some tolerance for boredom that I used to possess. “Back in my day” (lol) I remember not having the option of looking at a phone (but boy did I play some Snake once I got one!). So when I say “practice being bored,” I mean that literally. I try to just sit, wait, and do nothing. I look around and watch others, observe details in the environment, day dream. But what do I do if the urge is too strong? I have developed a few ideas for when the boredom is impossible to beat (inspired by my mom’s bag of tricks she would bring around with us as kids to keep us occupied). - Rubik’s cube: I taught myself how to solve it in high school via YouTube (so many videos available now, but the series I used is by user Dan Brown). Not only is the cube a great party trick, but it acts as the ideal fidget spinner. Even if you want to raw dog trying to figure it out, it’s a good way to pass the time. - Book: Breaking News, local girl recommends reading to solve all of life’s problems! I get it, yet another person on the Internet telling you to “pick up a book.” But like drinking water and exercise, unfortunately the experts (me) are right about this one!! Once my mom said “I own all of the books in the world, the library just stores them for me,” and I encourage you to check them out (literally). - Notebook: the MAGIC of a notebook, I am in awe. So many great solo and team activities you can do with some paper and a pen. Make lists (that you can post later here, see what I did!), draw objects or people around you, scribble circles and then fill them in a la Mircrosoft Paint style. There’s also a fun game you can play with another person that I call the “Dot Game” where you draw rows of dots, and you and the other person take turns drawing lines connecting the dots to make square boxes. If the line you draw makes a box, you put your initial in the box. The goal is to make the most boxes. - Clean out bag/purse/wallet: I like to use “in-between time” to “get my life together” by cleaning out all of the random receipts, lipgloss, detritus of my life from the various bags I carry around with me. I’d love to know what you may do to fight the Phone Urge as well!

@kreid

Mar 23, 2025

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Boredom

Realizing it's been so long since i last felt truly bored. Kind of want to get rid of most of the infinite digital distractions available on my phone in order to feel truly bored again sometimes

@livrock2

Jan 27, 2024

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going somewhere without your headphones/earbuds

it actually isn't that bad! for a recent assignment i had to go out and draw people in public - just simple gesture drawings, nothing major. and kept forgetting to bring my earbuds at first. i'd get frustrated, yeah, but not enough to go back in and grab them. so i dealt with the silence, and it actually wasn't that bad at all? i mean, i was going to cafes a lot so that helped, but also libraries? places specifically meant to be quiet? and it was great, to the point where i purposefully left my earbuds at home to finish my assignment today. consider: going places without your earbuds/headphones on purpose

@ittybittykittycommittee

Jun 9, 2025

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the library

seriously, if you haven't gone to your local library yet, you're missing out! i try to go every couple of weeks to return books and get more. while i love owning my own books as well, borrowing them from the library is great as well! not to mention what they do for ur local community, the resources they have, etc. all of this to say: go visit your local library!!!

@ittybittykittycommittee

May 29, 2025

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be bored baby!

seriously! like put on some background music and just sit there with your thoughts. see what comes up. draw weird doodles, make a world for them, sing to them, whatever. just be weird and bored. to go directly against what i just said, i have a small pocket notebook i collect quotes/thoughts/jokes/poems/etc that i enjoy, and i go through it sometimes instead of scrolling. it takes a little time to get it to a point where it's useable like that, but it's worth it! bonus points if you print photos out and put them in too, make it like an inspiration notebook.

@ittybittykittycommittee

Jun 10, 2025