When boredom hits, there are actually a million and one different things that you can try for a little bit of excitement. You can watch television or possibly a movie, and even read a book... but you'll find only a lot of times you can watch or read the same thing before that too becomes boring. You may play board games or cards... but you generally must have other people playing to make that work. You can go out places and do things... but that will be expensive, you could not want to go out on your own, you might not be convenient to leave the house, or it might simply be pouring down with rain and anchor blowing a gale - not really going out weather!

So what can you need to do then?