I've been working from home for a few days and I'm already bored out of my mind. So to help us both, here's a list of 69 things *yes I'm a child* you can do at home to, with any luck, prevent stir craziness while in self-isolation or practicing social distancing. We've got everything from getting drunk to cleaning out your toaster so get ready for a wild ride.
- Send messages to friends you haven't spoken to in a while
- Clean out your fridge
- Write a bucket list
- Organise the junk drawer I know you have
- Do some online crossword puzzles like a modern senior citizen
- Clean out your pantry
- Build Pinterest boards full of things you're never going to actually do or have! Woo.
- Get some paints and paper/canvas and hold your very own sip and paint event at home
- Clean the inside and outside of all your kitchen cupboards and drawers
- Colour code your bookshelf
- Create a budget/savings plan (check out our guide to saving $5k extra this year)
- Grab some sugar soap and a bucket and wash all your walls. It sounds boring as fuck but it's actually very satisfying, especially if you have white walls. This kept me entertained for a solid 2 hours.
- Play 100 shots in 100 minutes with your housemates
- Polish the grout in your kitchen and bathrooms with baking soda, vinegar, and a toothbrush. Cinderella mode activated.
- Wash all the windows in your house
- Vacuum your upholstery and lamp shades
- Sweep outdoor areas
- Join some random Facebook groups. My current favourite? A group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony. It's pure wholesome gold.
- Weed your garden
- Clean your vacuum cleaner
- Polish all your cutlery
- Wash your makeup brushes
- Make a throwback playlist with all the emo shit you used to listen to in high school
- Clean out your wardrobe: fold and organise, colour code that shit
- Get stuck into Reddit - there are discussions for EVERYONE. And also memes.
- Go through the stack of random papers and digitise/shred & recycle what is no longer needed
- Laptop organisation - clean up your wild ass desktop and create a digital filing system like a god damned adult
- Meal prep
- Phone organisation - delete apps you don't use, arrange them by colour or usage or type. Get rid of all those screenshots you don't need. Back it up for the first time in 6 months (guilty)
- Clean out your makeup/skincare and reorganise
- Read about how eco-friendly your favourite recreational drugs are and then go do some
- Clean your oven
- Make your way through IMDB's list of 40 movies you must see before you die
- Clean your toaster. It's a crumby job but it's gotta be done. Hahaha. Help me.
- Home workout. YouTube some yoga or HIIT sessions. Or just run up and down your stairs a bunch of times. You do you.
- Learn a language
- Get flexible: take advantage of having no commute to add stretching to your morning and evening routines
- Hair mask, face mask, mani/pedi, the whole nine yards.
- Download a mindfulness/meditation app (and use it)
- Take cute selfies
- Iron all your clothes now instead of 10 minutes before you need to leave the house wearing them.
- Cook fancy ass meals, maybe even ones out of those recipe books you have and never use?
- Reread your favourite books
- Clean your room
- Watch documentaries on YouTube/Netflix instead of binge watching mindless crap
- Listen to some podcasts
- Jump on Wikipedia and choose the 'Random Article' link over and over again
- Buzzfeed quizzes. Obv.
- Play board and card games (Solitaire if ur sad and alone)
- Build a Rube Goldberg machine
- Scroll through all the photos on your phone/laptop from beginning to end, reminiscing on simpler times when social interaction and travel were possible. Sigh.
- Press the Bored Button
- Log onto old games you used to play and let extreme nostalgia wash over you - Neopets, Runescape, etc etc.
- Hunt down your old social media accounts and have a cringe party! MySpace, Tumblr, Bebo, whatever you can find.
- Make like me and my housemate and spend 20 minutes trying to throw practice golf balls into a mug (....this is more entertaining than it sounds ok)
- Get really drunk
- Do a puzzle
- Get on Hinge and message some hot people of your choice
- Cry in the shower
- Learn a new skill - thanks to the internet this is easy. This Buzzfeed article has some ideas.
- Get onto TripAdvisor and make lists for all the places you want to visit. Eventually.
- Make an obstacle course in your home and see which of your housemates can do it the fastest.
- Leave a comment on this post with your other ideas for home entertainment
- Read some books on OpenLibrary.org which has hundreds of books you can read online for free!
- Take apart your fan and clean all the dust off of it
- Clean the tops of things - the top of your fridge, cupboards, all those places you never see or touch and normally pretend don't exist :]
- Browse the ABS website and learn some interesting stats about Australia
- Marie-Kondo your entire house
- I hate to say it, but if you get REALLY REALLY BORED, download TikTok? I haven't done it yet coz I'm too scared to feel old and Gen Z seem INCREDIBLY cringey.
And that's the lot! As always, if you have more suggestions, leave them below. Lord knows I'll need them.
xoxo E.M.
