Help! Any suggestions to help with summer boredom!?

Question

I'm 14, and I live in Utah so it is really hot and smokey outside (from all of the wildfires), and I am very bored. My brothers have a friend to play with so they go play all day and I sit at home and do nothing...I swim from 7-9am in the morning, and after that I just come home and sit. I am taking an online class for school, but I can't move any further in it until more time goes by, and there aren't really any other classes that I can take. I haven't been able to find a job because I'm not 15 or 16. All of my friends are busy with some other activity and my other friend is at home sleeping all day, and she will not do anything with me. I've also been reading, and doing other things, but they are getting really old. Any suggestions of things that I can do to help with how bored I am?

Answer 1

I used to have the same problem! Chores need to be done, but they sure aren't fun and aren't how I'd want to spend my summer. Also, doing the same old, same old can get boring. What I recommend is learning a new hobby such as pottery, crocheting, making friendship bracelets or scented candles, scrapbooking, or quilting through renting books from your library or taking a local class in the community. Also, find a good fiction or mystery book or find topics which interest you (your librarian can make some suggestions) and read for fun! Take up a new sport such as inline skating, soccer, baseball, horseback riding, basketball volleyball, or tennis at you local gym or community center. Volunteer at a local community organization, such as a homeless shelter, humane society, hospital, nursing home, or childcare center. Or get involved and join a hobby club, scouting group, or 4-H club.

Answer 2

Try joining something, the SCA is a good place to meet people of all ages and learn new crafts. Then you can practise them at home. If your parents weren't interested in going along too, you would need some kind of note signed by them. Ask the contact person what is required.
Some info about it to show your parents:
http://sca.org/officers/chatelaine/SCATeens.pdf

http://www.artemisia.sca.org/ is your local "Kingdom." It's a medieval group, so there are Kingdoms, Baronies and all that. Click on "groups" on the left hand side and it should give you a list to look through. There should be a group in your area.

I joined because it was a family friendly atmosphere (there aren't many) and I could learn different things. So far I'm learning to make costumes (not very good, but they are wearable!) I've learned to tabletweave, am about to learn to knit, have tried medieval cooking, tried medieval dancing, learned some stuff about heraldry, made a felt mask, improved my embroidery and started learning rapier. Plenty to fill my spare time (not that I have a whole lot.) It's pretty cool when you've spent hours working on something, to actually have a finished item to show off :) My boyfriend and I are going to use our new skills to make Christmas presents this year.

Answer 3

Wow I am having the same problem!! Me and my mom have been renting movies from Giant Eagle along with getting 3 movies from Netflix. Try to watch movies at your house, if you have any. At my house we have over 100 movies so I have a lot of movies. When I'm all movied out, I go online and try to research one thing I have never heard/seen about. Its actually very fun and guess what...you actually learn something!! You could also join a group online that you have something incommon like iceskating. You could find an iceskating group or website where you can talk to people who have the same thing incommon! You could talk about anything and you might also learning something else new!! You could also research some jobs that you might be able to do next year. Go get a little head start. Instead of reading books, make your own! It can be about anything you want or anything you are interested in like skating or swimming.

Well I hope this helps!! You never know what will help...

Answer 4

scrapbook
exorsize
go running
do some chores around the house(get extra $)
dance
learn to play an instrument
take pictures
listen to music
write a short story
write a poem
practice drawing
write a song
buy a yoga video, and learn some yoga
summer reading
read magazines
get an exorsize video
play video-games
do a puzzle
plan a party (for after the summer)
cook
make your own smoothie recipes

hope my ideas helped you alittle

Answer 5

Here are some things to do when you get bored...
-Make some baked goods(for family or local police department. if you give it to the pd tell them your name or else they won't eat them.)
-beleive it or not, taking a bath in your clothes, it is fun.
-write a letter to your kids in the future. tell them what your like
-plan a pretend vacation.

Answer 6

you can go to the mall, the movies, shop online, go on a diet (it will give you something to focus on), or maybe start going to a summer camp.

Answer 7

shop, find somewhere to volunteer, go to the park, take a class, go camping, go fishing,

Answer 8

let's see,
cut the grass
wash the floors
clean the bathroom
do the laundry
do the dishes
cook dinner
in short get off your butt and do something besides complain, there is alway plenty to do!!!

Answer 9

Go 2 the movies its cold inside there. and ya thats it. oh also the mall.