What's the best thing to do during the holidays?

Well, knowing that the obvious “spend time with family” doesn’t really apply after you are stuck with them for the holidays, I would suggest discovering new things to try out. Maybe do something you don’t usually do; you may end up liking it!

What I do when I’m extremely bored during the holidays with nothing to do, I look for creative ways to entertain myself and I usually involve my favorite websites for that; there is always something to do!

Stuck at home?!? You say that like it’s a bad thing. Oh, the possibilities!

Watch cheesy movies, not just holiday movies; find the cheesy movies on random channels and enjoy. Make sure you don’t take them too seriously.

Take a walk on a crisp winter day, assuming you are in a colder location.

Need to get rid of things, maybe clutter? Doing this before the new year. It’s another burden to free yourself of junk! Start with a fresh, clean slate.

I don’t know how “stuck” you are, I mean are movies an option? Check out some movies. Try a genre that you wouldn’t normally watch. You never know, you just might find a new interest.

Read a book. Excellent way to have a homebound adventure.

To enlarge upon and supplement @cak‘s great suggestions,

—Watch a bunch of vintage movies, black-and-white classics from the 1940’s and 1950’s, such as Liz Taylor and Bette Davis pictures. Plenty of cheesy options available, too. Accompany them with a good supply of popcorn or make some dip and plow through a platter of carrots and celery—or, of course, a bag of Ruffles.

— Take that walk in a picturesque place, a park or hiking trail or an old part of town or a university campus or whatever you have nearby.

— Get yourself a challenging jigsaw puzzle (but not excessively challenging, like 1000 pieces of snowy branches, unless you’re really into it). I happen to be in love with the wooden jigsaw puzzles you can get here if you can afford to splurge. The “standard” (large) size ones, 450 to 500 pieces, are ideal, if you ask me. (Oops, they’re not shipping any more until January. Is that too late? Well, you can probably buy puzzles at card shops and toy stores as well.)

— Learn a craft: go to Michael’s and browse until you see tools or media that really look like fun to you, whether they’re a hot glue gun and a bunch of wooden bits or beads and wire or felt and glitter or whatever strikes your fancy.

— Bake some things. Cookies, all kinds. You can freeze them in batches of a dozen or so and break them out during the year, or give them to an older relative to stick in her freezer so she can serve homemade cookies when she entertains, especially if baking has become hard for her.

— Volunteer someplace. Usher at a children’s theatre performance. Read to folks in a nursing home. Collect used books for delivery to an institution. There are lots of needs, especially at holiday time.

— Write notes by hand to people you care about, telling them what they mean to you.

sit by the fire and love on the dog
clean house
baking, eating, drinking
DANCING

Eating, drinking, eating, eating, eating, drinking, cookies, pies, presents! lol

I love buying presents ( I was once a professional personal shopper, so that’s what I enjoy, and a retail buyer) I love giving the perfect gift for someone and spending quality time with friends and family. I also get really into wrapping (In a OCD kind of way) Now that I think of it I enjoy every bit of the holidays. Making fudge… The decor… People getting together.

and good Sales… (just saying)

Go to a coffee house and sit and watch the world go by a while.

Call a friend.

Go out and look at holiday lights.

Cool, gonna try it all except making cookies because I can’t cook or sit by a fireplace since it doesn’t snow in Indonesia :)

hide from the snow inside while gettin fat and arguing with your significant other.

I don’t know where home is but my favorite Christmas time thing to do when I’m home is to take the train into Penn station and walk around in the city… enjoying all the holiday decorating and cheer.

Do you mean literally stuck in your house, or just stuck in your town?

If it’s the latter, then I would say go ice skating at the local rink, go see a movie, eat out somewhere that you’ve been wanting to go for a long time, go check out the pretty Xmas displays at the mall, see if there is a holiday home tour in your town, drive around at night and look at the lights, go to a midnight mass, bake some really decadent stuff and eat it.

If you have to stay in your house, then rent some great movies, order in some take out, read some books that you’ve had waiting, write a real letter to your best friend or favorite relative, invite some friends over, bake some really decadent stuff and eat it.

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@Kardamom I’m generally stuck in town. I think I’m just gonna learn how to cook…

@cak thanks!

@sahuleka546: Learning to cook is a great way to spend time. I have made many horrendous things…and a lot of wonderful dishes. I don’t take it too seriously, and I enjoy being in the kitchen. Play some good music and have fun. :)

@cak cool, I’m just gonna try cooking hamburgers, but I think I’d fail :p

@sahuleka546 Cooking sounds like an excellent idea. It’s one of my favorite things in the world. Unfortunately my stove is in the middle of my living room right now due to a water leak in the kitchen. So I’ve been eating microwave food for a week. But I’ve decided that in January, after the house is back to normal, I’m going to present my friends and relatives with all the baked goods that I couldn’t make for Xmas. That should be a nice surprise.

If you need any ideas for what to cook let me know. : )

Today, one of the best things is waiting for a little team of helper elves that are on their way to do yardwork…lol

@Kardamom thanks! I’ll be sure to let you know. By the way, sorry about the microwave foods, I’ve tasted them and they mostly taste like dirty feet :p and good luck with surprising your friends and relatives

@coloma lol, I hope I can get “elves” too