To just be SO BORED in the evenings?

[Athenaena]

As title.

DH and I have just ended up going to bed every night at 9/9.30 the last couple of weeks (even on the bloody weekend!) we struggle to find things to watch on TV that we both enjoy. We’ll find a series and then binge watch because it’s something that we both actually like. Then we’re back to square one.

Honestly, I’m just so bored in the evenings now. I’m fed up of winter, at least if it was summer we could be sat out in the garden with the chimnea of an evening, or go for a nice evening walk somewhere, or if in normal times, out to dinner/ cinema/ have friends over.

I’m just so fed up of sitting in every.single.evening. It’s like Groundhog Day. We’re both fed up and by the time 9pm comes round we don’t have anything else to say to one another as neither of us are really doing anything/ seeing anyone atm, therefore going to bed just seems like the best option.

Anyone else starting to feel similar?

No because we both game.

We also play board games, we have an online board game session with other family members every Sunday evening.

But we are very competitive so enjoy trying to beat each other at scrabble, Yahtzee etc.

I read if there's nothing on

I’d love to sit and watch tv in the evening. Instead I have to look after a non sleeping child, deal with screaming and running round refusing to lie in bed, sometimes until midnight. Watching tv is literally my dream.

Since the first lockdown my DH have spent two evenings a week in different rooms watching our own stuff and this has broke the weeks up a bit. We also watch films a few nights a week, although now feel like we’ve run out of films to watch.

Oh and yes I do feel the same way.

We’ll find a series and then binge watch

This made me giggle. They're showing the original series of All Creatures Great and Small on BBC 4 and DD was horrified the next episode isn't on until next week 😂

You're going to get a lot of sanctimonious posts from people telling you that either 1) they don't have that problem because of how hard their life is, or 2) they have a very specific hobby which does not involve in person contact and that they are happy to do every single day. You're not allowed to be bored on mumsnet, this thread has been done before....Fact is life is really fucking boring right now. And I read and proofread documents all day, no way am I reading a book.

Yes, I'm really bored too. Can't seem to concentrate on reading, am fed up of Netflix etc. Hopefully the brighter weather will change things.

I find watching foreign box sets with subtitles is good. Then I can’t be on my phone and the same time so I do relax a bit more as I also have found concentration hard at the moment.

@JamesAnderson
You'll find all 7 series on catch up.

See you July 😂

I know how you feel. Dh and I are both wfh, we can't get away from each other. and have run out of conversation!

Every two or three weeks we do a jigsaw now, which sounds really boring but actually is great as we interact without having to make conversation! I guess its a bit like those colouring books but its something we can do together.

We have a bike turbo trainer and each spend an hour or so on it in the evenings two or three times a week, listening to podcasts. So that gets us out of each other's hair.

We also try to go for a socially distanced walk with a friend at weekends. So again, there's a couple of hours where we are away from each other and seeing different people.

I'm looking forward to lighter warmer evenings. I'm also looking forward to the gym reopening. Before Covid i went to the gym 3 evenings a week, and dh used to play tennis and badminton with friends. So we probably only spent a couple of evenings each week together, and now we are with each other 24/7. It's hard going.

And yes, I know that it's shit for people who live alone, or who don't have access to a garden or countryside, or who have lost their jobs. And I try to remind myself that we are very lucky in that respect. It's still hard though!

Yabu, tv is not the only thing to do. Get a hobby, read a book, play a game, learn a language/skill etc. We have no tv and aren’t bored! We read, play instruments, do exercise, I’m doing an online course, we zoom friends etc.

Yeah, I'm bored too and I have lots of hobbies.
I never thought I would get bored.
It's because of lack of human company (single, hardly seen any of my friends for a year).
Can't go to any of my musical groups so I'm practising my music at home on my own and while it gives me something to do I'm still bored because music needs other people!

Can totally understand you being bored but some people will come on here and flame you. "We're in the MIDDLE OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC". "First world problems" "At least you haven't had COVID and been stuck on a ventilator. Then you'd be bored".

I'm bored of Netflix too.
I read a lot in the evenings and zoom chat with people but none of us have anything much to say as nothing is happening.
But a lot of the time I just sit around spaced out waiting to go to bed and trying not to have a panic attack.

Same, but I avoid going to bed early because I'll just wake up mega early and have the same problem in reverse. Life is so boring at the moment. I long to pop to a friend's for wine and a chat of an evening.

I sometimes do yoga on YouTube, but honestly when I'm not in a class I'm really lazy with it – there's no element of being watched/competition.

Same. We’ve watched everything we want to watch on Netflix and longing for summer evenings when I can be out more instead of tv every night

I'm not. For some reason I seem to end up having a lot of Zoom meetings in the evenings. I love it when I can just chill out reading, watching TV, crocheting, etc.

Oh OP, please move in with me and I’ll give you plenty to do! 9pm is when most of my daily tasks begin - batch cooking, cleaning (except hoovering which happens during social hours), ironing, I then spend about 1-2h doing emails and other work stuff... the list is endless. That’s when I’m not at work in which all of this gets pushed to 11pm Please come here, life will never be tedious again I promise.

Yep i see that so trying to find things to watch, i like to walk in the evening or go for an evening walk with my nocturnal teen. As per my other post I wait till dh goes to bed, the kids clear the lounge and its me time, pour the wine, get my snacks out and watch the tv i like and dh hates!! (22 kids, 3 day Nanny lol)

Have you tried podcasts? I've discovered LOADS during lockdown and have been really surprised at how 'into' them I get!

I’m so bored. All I do is watch tv at night. I have zero motivation

I usually go to sleep about 8pm at the mo. I am working from home alone, don't really see anyone so by that time I'm pretty fed up and have done all the reading/tv/hobbies I can think of.

I'm not looking forward to the clocks going forward and the days/evenings being even longer!

Same. My biggest fear in life was to end up as someone who just sits on the sofa in their house every evening watching their life go by...and here I am! At least I only have to experience it for another couple of months.

You are not alone. We have binge watched everything from The Good Wife to Ozark. Currently rewatching The Americans.
I knit, a lot, and read, but some evenings I just can’t be bothered with that either. I think we will all feel better when things open up and we can take a walk to the pub and sit outside with a drink, resume our classes and rediscover the pleasure of life.