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There can be many reasons why you’re avoiding your phone. Maybe you sent a really risque text, maybe your heart is a little broken and the heart-breaker isn’t texting back, maybe you’re being ghosted, maybe you’re on a social media hiatus. Whatever the reason, just turn your phone on airplane mode, put it in a drawer somewhere, and try to forget about it. Here are 40 things that you can do instead of checking your phone:
- Go for a run
- Go to the gym or fitness class
- Go to a donation-based yoga class (Black Swan Yoga)
- Clean your apartment or house
- Call your mom
- Call your grandma/grandpa
- Call your best friend(s)
- Take a really long, hot shower
- Shave everything
- Do your laundry
- Clean out your closet
- Organize your makeup
- Clean your makeup brushes
- Clean your jewelry
- Clean your jewelry case/display box
- Read a book
- Go on Amazon and read reviews for a new book to read
- Clean out your fridge and pantry
- Put on a face mask (skincare one, not a clown mask)
- Take a bubble bath
- Paint your nails
- Watch makeup tutorials on YouTube and try to mimic
- Try on your favorite clothes and have a fashion show
- Go get your eyebrows/mustache waxed
- Go run all of your errands on your to-do list that you’ve been procrastinating
- Throw away your torn/old panties
- Throw away your old, holy socks or socks that don’t have a match
- Clean out your car
- Go get a car wash
- Go to Cars.com and research your dream car or next car that you want (use the filters)
- Hand-write letters to all of your BFF’s that don’t live in the area
- Organize your Pinterest boards and pins
- Check the expiration dates on all your spices and condiments and throw out the old ones
- Wash your couch/throw pillows
- Organize your email inbox and sort everything into folders
- Go on Amazon and fill up your “Wish List” with everything you wish you could buy or stuff that you want to buy soon/later
- Floss your teeth
- Put on a spray tan
- Throw away old nail polishes and other beauty products
- Binge watch a new TV show
Don’t stress about what’s going on (or not going on) with your phone. You have way more important things to do and all 40 of the things to do up there are beneficial to you. So you might as well put the phone down, relax, and start spending your time more wisely! Good luck my friends!
