At a show in Australia last night, Chris Martin told the crowd that it would be their “last big show for three years or so.” The band has three more scheduled dates (one in Connecticut on December 29th and two in Brooklyn on the 30th and 31st), but after that, it seems possible that there could be a bit of a Coldplay deficit on our hands.

Before you freak out, we’ve put together a Coldplay recession survival guide that will help you fill your day with menial activities that are almost as bland as listening to Coldplay. See you in three years, ‘play fans.

To fill the Coldplay-shaped void in your life, you could…

Drink a glass of room-temperature milk

2% at the very least.

Count ceiling tiles

The best part is, if you lose count, you can just start over again!

Listen to Keane

Same diff, right?

Switch to margarine

Your doctor will thank you.

Get a jump on your taxes

Crunch the numbers early, so you can spend your tax return on comissioning a life-sized bust of Chris Martin.

Watch DVD commentary for The English Patient

Over and over. I prefer Sack Lunch.

Draw some Coldplay fan art

Like this, for example.

Listen to The Fray

Again, same diff, right?

Read Gwyneth Paltrow’s autobiographical cookbook, My Father’s Daughter

Sorry, Gwen, but I’d rather read (maybe even eat?) the phonebook.

Do a Google image search of “people yawning“

That’s so contagious, it’s downright Coldplay-catchy.