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what can one do when they have nothing to do after work?
Read a book, go to a class.
LEarn Torah, be maavir sedrah, learn a mishna a day, learn an amud a day mishna berura, u can get all this in small size, with English translation, it’s all available!!
Please come and help me with some housework…
Seriously now, why don’t you take a course that you might enjoy?(Baking, dancing,hair cutting, etc.)
What happened to women running to do chesed?
I like to read or listen to music.
Health- please don’t forget that chesed begins at home, even though it feels like a bigger mitzvah to help out others.
go on yeshivah world;] jk get a facebook…but if you really have time go learn..say tehilim?
To SC,
People who are doing chesed at home aren’t posting that they are bored/ free time!
If you live in the brooklyn area, go to Ohr Naava, if not there are definitely Shiurim you can get online (theShmuz.com, Torahanytime.com)
Take out cookbooks from the library and try different recipies, or get a book on different crafts.
See if theres an organization like Tomchei Shabbos in your neighborhood that may need volunteers to help pack boxes of food(or if there are any clothing drives, toy drives etc)
Take up piano lessons (or a different instrument).
Why not offer to tutor kids that can’t afford to pay for tutors. The school year is half gone and high school students will be studying for the regents and SATs. Parents these days can’t afford to hire tutors especially if it is for more than one child and it is the children that lose out by experiencing low self-esteem and no self confidence when they need help and they can’t get it. Help kids realize achievement and success.
1. Go to an old age home and adopt one of the patients
2. Help a family with a special needs child and give parents some respite
3. Join a bikkur choilim rota and go visit the sick.
4. Are there any elderly people who live near you who could benefit from your visiting?
5. Go learn first aid
Good Luck. I think it is important for you, to find something to do that appeals to you so that you will enjoy your free time!
Estherh: I like what you wrote about going to learn first aid/cpr. I think this is really a must whether one has free time or not.
I’m waiting for the day that they will make it a requirement by law. Maybe then our world will be a bit safer.
Help me clean for Pesach. If that is not a fun idea for you, how about helping watch some nice lady’s kids for an afternoon so SHE can clean, or get her hair cut, or take a nap. The nursing home visit is a GREAT idea – or maybe a children’s ward in a local hospital (with permission, of course) where the kids are not contagiously sick, but injured or such).
Grab a sefer. What about an artscroll tanach? An english mishnayos? Chofetz chaim, a lesson a day? Not to intense, and a great way tpo occupy their time.
for men or women? for men so many people finished shas in “5 minutes” learning on the train,on line at the store. just don’t waste your time, you have less than you realize!
i dont even understand the question. who has free time?
find something quick to keep yourself busy with, its never good to be bored. it usually leads to doing not such good things.
what can one do when they have nothing to do after work?
Learn
Read a book
Volunteer
Say Tehillim
Spend time with family members
Develop a hobby
Learn a new skill that may be useful in your career
Learn a new life skill
Read business literature relating to your industry
Organize a community event
Write
Clean for pesach
Clean (in general)
The Wolf
Make your own cheese. It’s cheaper than buying it. It’s fun. It’s tasty.
Hang up a heavy bag and go a few rounds with it every night. Good for the body. Good for the brain.
Volunteer with a charity or for a political cause.
Write poetry.
Cast pewter on your stove.
Make a built-in bookcase.
Plant kitchen herbs in a window box.
Brew wine or beer, well not beer around Pesach.
Dance with your spouse.
Dance with your spouse.
Might lead to mixed dancing. 🙂
The Wolf
And for the love of all that’s Holy, never EVER complain to the Almighty that you’re bored. Cautionary tale here….
An old Turkish friend of our family won’t let anyone say the “B” word in his house. He was visiting family in Turkey a few years ago in a village so far up in the mountains they had to bring in daylight twice a week by donkey train. After a few days of this he got tired of it.
No sooner were had a heartfelt “Oh, G-d, I am so bored” left his mouth than the police knocked on the door. Some German tourists had been robbed. Nobody in the village spoke German. They didn’t speak Turkish. But they did speak English, and he was the only English-speaker around.
So nothing would do but he had to go along with the police. They chased the robbers (who had the Germans’ sportscar) over unimproved mountain roads in a rickety police Fiat for four days. Didn’t catch them. But he did end up with a bunch of premature gray hairs. And he wasn’t bored.
So if your spare moments lack excitement make your own. Remember that sometimes prayers ARE answered. And if you can’t think of anything worthwhile to do with the time you’re given Someone may decide to help you out with that little problem.
FWIW, my kids already know to *never* complain to Eeees or I that they’re bored. We can always find something for them to do. 🙂
The Wolf
does anyone know of any chessed opportunities on the upper west side? thanks
i DON’T AGREE WITH ‘ARIES2756’ ABOUT TUTORING. ALL YOU SHOULD BE DOING IS LEARNING, LEARNING, LEARNING, LEARNING, LEARNING!!! DON’T COMPLAIN TO G-D THAT YOU’RE BORED!!
*VAS1820*
vas1820, Welcome to the Coffee Room. Please don’t use caps
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