More often than you like to admit, you wake up wishing we could settle in the warmth of your duvets and cotton sheets between the four walls of our apartments and do absolutely nothing for as long as you desire. Unfortunately, the rent that you pay to ensure that those same sheets don’t turn into the walls of your apartment and your addiction to Thai food delivery and overpriced cocktail hour requires that your make your way to an office and do something productive for a vague corporate entity from the hours of 9:00 to 5:00; however, once in a blue moon, there’s a chance to bring this dream of exceptional sloth-like living to life.

At the crack of 11:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning - when you feel the pains of the night before, an overwhelming exhaustion from the workweek, and the cold that Sally from two offices down has been nursing for a month - hits you all at once, it suddenly dawns on you that this urge to cancel the day can easily become a reality. Your success is solely reliant on a few necessities, power moves, and a simple state of mind. Canceled means canceled; if you’re going to do nothing, you might as well do it right.

1. A companion

Step “A” of the day is rolling over to search for your phone under the mess of your bed so you can quickly alert your roommate on the other side of the wall to forget any plans they may have to leave the apartment. Sure, you could easily be the cover girl for lethargy and indolence alone, but any day of laziness is better spent with a fellow sluggish human (although extended invitations to canines and felines are encouraged as well). However, there is one requirement that they must uphold on all accounts: to never ever, not once, ask you to do anything, unless that something is going to answer the door and get your pizza from the delivery guy. But honestly, if they’re closer to the door, it’s their responsibility anyway.

2. Easy access to greasy food from surrounding hotspots

Thank you smartphone gods for the blessings of GrubHub, Seamless, and Postmates. Canceled days would be a mere unicorn of a legend without them, and for that, you are forever grateful. If your pad see ew, tandoori chicken, and bacon egg and cheese isn’t coming to your door, you would spend the day living off turkey slices, protein bars, and microwavable IKEA meatballs, which is never terrible unless they’ve been in your freezer since the day you moved in three years ago. There is no way you’re expending any energy to cook, so unless you plan to starve, these apps are the game changer of all game changers. Time becomes a non-factor, and you can order any strain of sustenance whenever your heart desires from the same device you use to waste hours playing Candy Crush and reading celebrity Twitter rants. You’ll find yourself happily lost in an episode of What Time is it Anyway?: the day where the food comes to you, and the calories don’t matter.

3. HBO Go/Netflix/Hulu/Amazon Prime/a computer that can illegally stream without crashing

Pick up your laptop off the floor and lose yourself in a world of endless entertainment on demand. Re-watch When Harry Met Sally for the fifteenth time, binge the newest season of OITNB, schedule your own Harry Potter Weekend, and get around to watching the classic your co-worker made a reference to that you nervously laughed off but totally didn’t understand and all the rom-coms that came out last year that looked hilarious in the previews but got less than 30% on Rotten Tomatoes so no one would see them with you. Feeling a little guilty for not expanding your mind or experiencing the beauty of your neighborhood and the general outdoors? National Geographic and the Travel Channel have brilliant programs to allow you to encounter the streets of your city without stepping foot outside your building. Documentaries are all about learning without needing to pick up a book. Seize the subscription.

4. A comfy nest to lounge in for the next 12 hours

You need a place of residence, whether it be your bed, the couch, or a fort of blankets and pillows on your living room floor for the young-at-heart. This will be your home away from home within your actual home for the entirety of the day, so post-up with your softest linens and bedside necessities to allow for maximum relaxation and minimum movement.

5. Semi-valid excuses on the ready for when anyone who hasn’t canceled their day asks you to experience the outside world with them

Unfortunately, the world remains turning around you and those go-getters who wish to move will hit you up for plans and adventures. Normally, walking around and living your life would be an ideal activity, but you’ve committed to canceling, and once you’ve canceled, there’s no turning back. Don’t let the seven-hour itch of cabin fever stop you from the full experience. Today you are hungover, sick, swamped with “work”, “laundry”, or “cleaning”, etc. ~ anything to get you out of being a person. Pick a story, stick to it, and get back to your Friends re-runs so you can finish Season 4 before your garlic rolls arrive.

6. The “Will Not to Move”

The most important overarching theme of this entire day is a guiltless craving to do as little as possible. You work hard in your everyday routine and invest most of your free hours running errands, attempting to stay fit, and spending time with the people you love. Life is beautiful, but it can be utterly exhausting in more ways than one. Canceling your day is about recharging and giving yourself a much-needed break from the stress of society. It’s the physical and mental vacation that will allow you to be much more driven to carpe diem (and leave the apartment) in the coming week. Enjoy every minute of nothingness for all the draining minutes of the future morning commutes, 2 p.m. slumps, evening rush-hour traffic, and late work nights. Eat, sleep, and watch embarrassing amounts of television, no regrets mandatory.