--- title: Megan Mullally's 15 Ways to Digitally Detox description: The actress offers advice on stepping away from it all canonical: https://time.com/3660284/megan-mullally-digital-detox/ author: Real Simple article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-08T21:18:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:33.669Z og:title: Megan Mullally's 15 Ways to Digitally Detox og:description: The actress offers advice on stepping away from it all. og:url: https://time.com/3660284/megan-mullally-digital-detox/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2a0eeb77ab61d191/698778f85f570f9b89b1495d/megan-mullally.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Actress Megan Mullally on the Tonight Show on Dec. 12, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Megan Mullally's 15 Ways to Digitally Detox twitter:description: The actress offers advice on stepping away from it all. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2a0eeb77ab61d191/698778f85f570f9b89b1495d/megan-mullally.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Megan Mullally's 15 Ways to Digitally Detox > Sponsored content. 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It may seem weird at first, but it should all come back to you. **4.** Feed your hands to a wild animal. **5.** Tell a close friend to spray mace in your face every time you check your phone. Eventually, you will associate the pain with technology. Or with your friend. So let’s give this one a 50-50 chance of success. **6.** Become Amish. **7.** Build a time machine. Go back to the Ice Age. Become part of a Neanderthal family. Settle down. Destroy time machine. **8.** Buy 1,000 Taco Bell Burrito Supremes. Never stop eating them. **9.** Punch a cop in the face. Go to jail. Good luck getting on the Internet now, idiot! **10.** Glue your iPad to your butt. Or, better yet, to a stranger’s butt. **11.** Make a rule that before you do _anything_ technological, you have to explain how Twitter and Foursquare work to your parents. Yeah. That should do it. **12.** Try to remember that before there was an Internet filled with adorable kitten pictures and videos, there was an actual world filled with adorable kittens. **13.** Go to sleep. Don’t wake up until after the Rapture. **14.** Start a zombie apocalypse. **15.** Destroy all technology. 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