We all have those weeks where it seems like the list of things you need to do is never-ending, and ironically, the more you have to do, the less you do. I then normally am racked with guilt for my sinful procrastination and then do even less work. So I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place, because there’s no way I’m actually going to be productive, so I either procrastinate by scrolling on instagram and every other social media or I procrastinate by doing absolutely nothing. It was during one of these procrastination binges that I realized what I really needed was a guilt free way to procrastinate. And thus the idea for productive procrastination was born.

Productive procrastination is more or less doing things that need to be done, but that have no real due date in the near future. And here are 47 examples to help you get the picture:

Take a shower

Clean your room

Watch the Colbert Report

Wash the dishes

Make your bed

Organize your binders/folders that you use for classes

Clean out phone storage

Scavenge at Good Will for some nice deals

Paint your nails

Make a resume or update the one you have

Get into a social justice debate with your friends

Plan your meals for the week

Go for a run or work out a bit

Do your laundry

Read up on social justice issues; get a new perspective

Make a to-do list

Create a birthday wish list on Amazon

Go grocery shopping

Make a new playlist—Or 12

Respond to emails and clear up your inbox

Journal

Unlike all those stupid posts from 2009 on Facebook

Vacuum

Organize the files on your laptop

Research things you’re interested in but that aren’t vital to any assignment you may have

Check out and download new apps

Look up cool tutorials and maybe try some out

Make a countdown until spring break

Take out the trash & recycling

Call your family

Stretch or do some yoga

Power nap time!

Look up good study habits

Start a Bullet journal

Plan fun activities for the weekend

Read up on current events

Unfriend offensive people on Facebook

Sort through your clothes and donate ones you don’t wear

Find new recipes

Get lost in the How-to section of YouTube

Update your tinder profile

Clean your car

Pluck your eyebrows

Get your flu shot

Make a budget

Fix the hole in your leggings (don’t scoff; you know you have one in one pair…)

Do assignments that aren’t due for months

Watch a documentary

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