100+ Ways to Add Fun to Your Life

100+ ways to add fun to your life Bye-bye, boredom! Here's how to get goofy, act foolish, feel sublime, and keep smiling day in and out. BY MARY ROACH 1. Call your mother and ask her what she really thought of the clothes you wore in high school. 2. Ride the ferry on stormy, rainy days. 3. When shopping at a department store, take a few minutes to try on the ugliest or frilliest dress they've got. 4. Record this on your outgoing answering machine message: "Hello! Hello? Is anybody there?" 5. Defrost bagels in the dryer. 6. Paint your toenails bright orange. Or electric yellow. 7. Go to a live auction, if only to listen to the auctioneer. 8. Stick some bottle caps on the soles of a pair of old shoes and use them to "tap-dance" around the kitchen while you're making dinner. 9. Contract an old friend from your faraway past. 10. Find out if there really are two scoops of raisins in a box of Kellogg's raisin bran. 11. Try a fruit or vegetable you've never heard of before, like a cherimoya or kale. 12. Always greet your doctor with, "What's up?" 13. Try to get lost on your drive home. 14. Hang up a bird feeder. 15. Try on your husband's underpants. 16. Tie some rope up with a more distinctive signature. 17. Listen to an old Bee Gees tape on your Walkman at the gym. 18. Tour some orphanages even if you're not in the market. 19. Test-drive a car you'd never buy. 20. Learn to spell your name in semaphore and sign language. 21. Buy a Lava lamp or an Echo & Sketch at a garage sale. Who's your godfather? 22. Dress up and tie an old clothesline. 23. Try on your daughter's makeup when she's not around. 24. Laminate something silly, like the dic(n) tionary entry of your favorite words. 25. Hire a booker Joe comic, and keep it in your wallet. 26. Read your high school diary. 27. Leave notes in your husband's desk, on his windshield, in his shoe. 28. Jump on the bed (especially when staying in a hotel). 29. Walk backward on the treadmill. 30. Start a food fight. 31. When filling out a form that asks for your phone number, make one up. 32. Hang a pair of fuzzy dice from your rearview mirror. 33. Put glitter in your roll-on deodorant bottle when it gets to almost-empty. 34. Blow bubbles through your straw. 35. Buy striped paper clips. 36. Talk to telemarketers in Pig Latin. 37. Talk to cashiers in a foreign accent. 38. Jump in a leaf pile. 39. Take a drive to a rural county fair. 40. Make a clever anagram out of your last name. 41. Go to a wig store with a friend and try wigs. 42. Always order the 17th item on a Chinese menu, no matter what it is. 43. Teach your dog to use a lesser entertaining trick. I know a Jack Russell terrier who "singers" on command! 44. When writing out checks to pay your bills, use non-colored markers. 45. Go through the car wash with your windows open. 46. Write your initials in wet cement (just don't use your keys to do it). 47. Climb a tree. 48. Choose the foreign language option on your ATM (even better if you don't know the language). 49. Send out a message in a bottle. 50. Ask for rainbow sprinkles on your ice-cream cone. 51. Have back or people hailing taxicabs or flagging down buses. 52. Blow on dandelions. 53. Play telephone at the dinner table. 54. Hold a clothes swap with a dozen of your friends. 55. Carry your lunch to work in an old "Peanuts" lunch box. 56. Read a travel journal from an early trip abroad. 57. Name your own constellation in the night sky. (continued)

A scanned magazine page presents “100+ ways to add fun to your life,” with a playful list of deliberately silly activities such as wearing unusual clothes, talking to telemarketers in Pig Latin, jumping in leaf piles, and ordering a random item from a Chinese menu. The joke is the exaggerated, eccentric self-help advice: ordinary boredom is treated as a reason to behave absurdly and impulsively. It is shared as a humorous reaction to boredom or as a tongue-in-cheek list of ridiculous life advice. EN: A scanned magazine page presents “100+ ways to add fun to your life,” with a playful list of deliberately silly activities such as wearing unusual clothes, talking to telemarketers in Pig Latin, jumping in leaf piles, and ordering a random item from a Chinese menu. The joke is the exaggerated, eccentric self-help advice: ordinary boredom is treated as a reason to behave absurdly and impulsively. It is shared as a humorous reaction to boredom or as a tongue-in-cheek list of ridiculous life advice.

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