Bored? Here’s 4 Hobbies You Can Start At Home

When you were younger you probably dreamed of a job that would allow you to spend as much time at home as possible. Days spent with the duvet pulled above your head where you could roll out of bed whenever you wanted and spend your entire afternoon doing all of your favourite things.

The reality though, is that time spent at home can soon become a negative rather than a positive if you don’t have a clear plan of what to do with your time. Lounging about on the sofa binge-watching a Netflix series is all well and good every now and then, but it soon becomes tedious if you’re doing it every day.

In this article we cover some of the most popular hobbies to try at home to fill your time. Whether you’re a new parent finding yourself at home on maternity, a new convert to working from home or just someone looking to make the most of your free time, we’ve got you covered.

Read on to revolutionise your spare time with these 4 hobbies to try at home

Start Yoga

We all want to keep ourselves in peak physical and mental fitness, but with the demands of life, we are often forced to concentrate on one or the other. Yoga is a hobby that kills two birds with one stone.

Not only does it help to get you in to great physical condition, but it is also a fantastic way to keep on top of your mental health. Originating in India, Yoga is designed not only to bring your body into alignment but to still the mind and teach you to adopt a detached witness to thought perspective.

That mind set, of viewing thoughts objectively rather than getting involved in them is taught not only in Yoga, but in meditation and a number of modern psychological treatments like Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). 

If you want to be calmer, less stressed and more nimble, then perhaps yoga holds the answers for you. It’s easy to do from home too, there are a number of great yoga practitioners available to watch for free on YouTube.

Yoga is a great hobby to help relax your body and improve overall fitness.

Play Bingo

The word ‘bingo’ might conjure up images of smoke-filled halls and battle-weary women dabbing their pensions away. Fortunately, though, that’s a dated portrayal of a game that has undergone somewhat of a makeover in recent decades.

Since the mid-noughties, bingo has found a new home online and with it, a younger and more progressive player base. Bingo providers such as Wink Bingo, who were at the forefront of bingo’s technological migration, have thriving communities of young professionals who play bingo online to unwind and socialise.

If you’re looking for shared camaraderie, fun and the thrill of winning money then you can do little wrong with a good game of online bingo.

Gardening

Imagine if you could take a drug that reduces your stress, lowers your blood pressure and improves your mood. How much would you pay for it? A lot right? Well what if we told you that you could get all of those benefits for free by simply stepping outside?

Time spent outside in nature will calm you down, lower your blood pressure and reduce the levels of cortisol and adrenaline in your system. There is also a higher percentage of oxygen outside than indoors, which helps your brain to function optimally.

So whether you’re a natural gardener or not, why not step outside and just try and get started? The Royal Horticultural Society has some great guides on getting started in gardening and you can find YouTube tutorials that will help you to build the garden of your dreams on a budget.

Many women find gardening a good way to de-stress.

Reading

Nothing you are experiencing right now is new or unique to you. That might sound like a frightening thought but when you think about it, it’s actually quite reassuring. 

Whether it is boredom, stress, anxiety, depression or just a feeling of stagnation that you are going through, millions of people have gone through the exact same feelings throughout history. What’s great though is that some of them have written books about it and how they managed to change things for the better.

So for whatever problem you are facing, there is a book out there with the knowledge and information you need to solve it. If you don’t need any answers, then you can avail of the veritable treasure trove of fiction out there.

People who read regularly have been proven to have greater levels of empathy, theory of mind and critical thinking skills. It doesn’t have to be a costly pursuit either, you can get lots of cheap books at your local bookstore, online or in digital format delivered directly to your phone or tablet.