5 Things To Do On A Rainy Day

By Alexandra Brown on April 2, 2015

With winter coming to a close, and spring on the horizon, there has definitely been an obvious change in the weather (at least for most of us).

Colder temperatures are becoming less and less frequent, and it’s starting to warm up on most of our campuses, if it wasn’t doing so already.

We’re soon going to be able to leave heavier jackets at home, along with boots and scarves, and be able to leave the house in light attire. There have already even been a few days where the weather has been nice, but we can’t count on that until it is officially springtime.

With springtime come a lot of rainy days, which can either be spent in bed watching Netflix, or more productively if you so choose.

Here are five productive ways to spend your springtime, rainy days.

1. Reorganize something in your apartment/house.

This might sound like a cliché spring-cleaning idea, but what’s wrong with that? Winter is coming to an end, so why not use a rainy day to start getting ready for the new season?

This reorganization could include switching out your winter clothes, including hats, gloves, scarves, and heavy boots and jackets for much lighter clothing for the summer. Putting all this away for the fall will feel good, and you’ll have much less clutter to worry about.

This spring-cleaning could also include reorganizing the clothes hanging in your closet, or the shoes all laying in a messy pile on the floor of your closet, which were once part of a system that quickly fell apart.

You could even reorganize bookshelves in your apartment or your room, desk drawers that haven’t been cleaned out for months, or other drawers found around your living space that might contain DVDs, notebooks, or other miscellaneous items.

2. Cook for the week.

If it’s a rainy day and you don’t feel like leaving the house, why not spend the day cooking, and get ahead so you don’t have to worry about meals for the rest of the week? This is an especially productive way to spend a rainy day if you’re a college student, since class, extra curricular activities and a social life often get in the way of taking the time to eat right.

Look up basic recipes online, or go by what you’ve grown up with, and prepare meals for throughout the week that you can freeze, and eat as is convenient. This also saves money that you might be tempted to spend eating out during the week because sometimes that’s just easier.

3. Clean out your closet.

This idea goes along with the spring-cleaning theme, but take some time to go through your closet, and get rid of anything you don’t absolutely need, or know you won’t wear because you haven’t in forever.

Make three piles: keep, give away, and toss. With a specific system, you’ll be successful and quick in trimming the size of your closet, and you’ll make use of a rainy day where you weren’t going to leave the house anyway, so why not do something that will benefit you in the long run?

4. Catch up on what you’ve been procrastinating.

We all have those tedious items on our to-do lists that we keep pushing back to the next week because they eventually need to get done, but not for a while, so why not just leave them for later?

Wrong. Especially if you’re a college student, use this rainy day to get ahead on as many things you’ve been procrastinating on as you can. These things could include applying for summer internships, signing up for summer classes online, planning out your schedule for next semester, and catching up on responsibilities you have within the clubs/organizations/extra curricular activities in which you participate.

You might even start thinking about or working on projects or papers that have due dates far in advance.

If you’re not going to leave the house, you may as well be productive on your own indoors. By the end of the day, you definitely won’t regret getting things done and out of the way; you also won’t have to worry about them anymore, and can make way for more things to add to your procrastination list!

5. Set reachable goals.

Spend the day evaluating where you are, and where you want to be. This can be especially helpful as a college student. You could make a plan for yourself, outlining exactly what you want to get done within the next year or two, whether that includes achieving a certain GPA, getting a certain internship, taking certain graduate exams and getting into graduate school, or taking a trip abroad.

Write everything down, with perspective dates, and make an effort to follow through.

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