There’s Finally A Word For When You’d Rather Bake Than Do Your Work

Your to-do list is several pages long and you’re being eaten by your laundry pile. Due dates are fast approaching and you haven’t started that project you meant to start three weeks ago. But rather than tackling your priorities, you bake instead. Sound familiar? If so, then you’re a procrastibaker.

Listen, that cake you’ve been craving isn’t going to bake itself, is it? Rather than put your work first, you find time to make cookies, bake up some banana bread, or move around your schedule to incorporate muffin making. And now, you and your fellow bake-happy comrades have a name and can finally form the procrastibaking community you’ve all been waiting for.

The term “procrastibake” has actually been around for close to a decade. It was first posted on Urban Dictionary in 2008 and is defined as, “the practice of baking something in order to put off doing something else you need to do.” Yeah — sounds about right.

Now, thanks to Instagram, the term is getting new life in the form of a hashtag. Procrastibakers everywhere are sharing the creations they made during the time when they should have been writing that essay or cleaning their apartment.

There’s just something about immersing yourself in a complicated recipe that makes you forget about the ticking clock.

And look at all the wonderful goodies that have come out of #procrastibaking. We’re firing up our ovens as we speak.

Procrastibakers, you’re not alone. As long as you get your work done ~eventually~, what’s the harm in whipping up a batch of devilishly delicious cookies, right?