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36 Ways to Productively Completely Waste Your Time Over Winter Break

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Holy Cross chapter.
  1. Netflix.
  2. Make multiple email accounts to get discounts for online shopping.
  3. Get a pedicure.
  4. Reorganize your closet.
  5. Make cookies. EAT them!
  6. Go for a walk, to a food store.
  7. Write thank you letters for stuff that you got like years ago.
  8. Make jib jab videos.
  9. NAP. Never will you ever regret this.
  10. Make tea.
  11. Drink a whole box of Capri suns.
  12. Brush your dogs teeth, while you’re at it paint your dogs nails.
  13. Go for a run or… don’t.
  14. Make an online dating profile for your best friend.
  15. Re-download tinder.
  16. Fall in love.
  17. Buy socks.
  18. Go see movies, ask mom for money.
  19. Learn to make the perfect pancake…and omelet.
  20. Stalk your crushes on Facebook.
  21. EXPLORE PAGE ON INSTAGRAM, get into that.
  22. Make a Webkinz.
  23. Privnote.com
  24. Pet your cat.
  25. Take your grandma out to lunch.
  26. Search Pinterest for DIY projects and attempt to do them yourself.
  27. Like old pics of your friends on Facebook.
  28. Go on brunets.com and look at all the flavors you didn’t know existed.
  29. Rekindle things with your middle school boyfriend.
  30. Stare at the sun.
  31. Try to get tan from windows in your house.
  32. Get an easy bake oven and make things for your neighbors.
  33. Put makeup on your brothers.
  34. Drive your parents to parties they get invited to and you don’t.
  35. When in a movie, see how many movies you can stay in the theatre for until you get kicked out.
  36. Cry yourself to sleep about how bored you are and how much you miss your bffs at Holy Cross!!!
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Meg Ayers

Holy Cross

Orca whale enthusiast. Lover of stars and glitter. Blogger and eater.
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Evan Grogan

Holy Cross

Evan Grogan is a senior at the College of the Holy Cross who is studying abroad for the year at the University of St Andrews. She is an English and Art History double major and eventually hopes to attend graduate school for journalism and write for The New York Times. When Evan is not busy with school and writing for both Holy Cross' newspaper and Her Campus, she loves to read; go for runs; and spend time with her friends. She is obsessed with the color navy, rainbow sprinkles, and anything involving glitter.