25 Tips and Tasks To Do During Quarantine

Hello Friends!

I hope that you are well! I’ve been reading a lot lately and I thought that I’d share some of the best ideas I’ve come across to be productive, stay positive, and feel accomplished during quarantine.

Here’s your printable list with links!

• Read a new book or finish one, and please leave a review! As an author I can tell you that those reviews matter!! Here’s a link to my newest book:

❤️Laurel’s Love ❤️.

• Reorganize a room in your home. I updated the seating area in my bedroom by moving the furniture and getting a new rug for the space!

🛋Check out these Great  Rugs Under $60!

• Take an online course to learn something that you’ve never had the time to before. Maybe a new language or a creative writing class.
• Try new recipes. I’ve been using sourdough again for the first time years!

📗This is a link to an easy guide to Sourdough  Baking!

• Delete unneeded apps, photos, and documents from your phone to free up memory.
• Clean up your computer desktop, back up important files, and defrag your system so that it runs more efficiently.
• Write out a list of 4 things you’re grateful for in your life and put it where you will see it every day. Rewrite this every week, it’ll surprise you how it changes!
• Find a new blog, podcast, or YouTube channel to enjoy. Remember to ‘like’ and leave reviews!
• Reconnect with family and friends on social media. This is a great time to catch-up and build stronger relationships!
• For mental health, try yoga or meditation for 15-20 minutes each day. Here’s one to try:

🧘🏻‍♀️Beginning Meditation  and Easy Streching

• Work out for 30 minutes a day. Try:

🏋🏻‍♀️Beach Body 21 Day Fix with Equipment🏋🏼‍♂️

• Make sure to get some fresh air. Staying home doesn’t have to mean stay inside!
• Try your hand at planting and gardening, either inside or out! Here’s a step-by-step guide:

🥬Container  Vegetable  Gardening Made Easy🍅

• Snow peas are a fast growing edible that are easy to grow in pots or outside. You can try these:

🌱Bush Variety Sugar Snap Peas are Great for Small Spaces🌾 

• Fill in your planner with reminders, to-do’s, and lists. I love checking things off a list, it makes me feel accomplished! Clever Fox has all you need to get started in a fun and versatile style!

📆Clever Fox Premium Planner

• Write in a journal to document this historic time. Someday people are going to want to know the personal accounts of this time. This kit has everything that you need to create a wonderful and illustrated journal!

📚Bullet Journal Kit🖌

• Vacuum your entire living space.
• Dust furniture, ceilings, and those hard to reach spaces that you don’t get to as often.
• Sort out your personal files, recycle or shred old papers and receipts.
• Learn a new skill, or brush up on an old one, like crocheting, sewing, or knitting. Creative and productive!

🔵Learn to Crochet with Supplies

⚫️Practical Sewing Projects 

🔴Knitting Kit with Beginners Patterns

• Do a DIY project, like fixing an appliance, painting a wall, or updating a piece of furniture. I like this book by Home Depot, it has easy to follow directions with illustrations!

🛠Home Depot Home Improvement 1-2-3🧰

• Try a puzzle, challenging our minds in a different way is healthy and relaxing!
• Sort and organize your closet, get things ready to donate when this is over.

🧺Affordable Closet Systems📦

• Clean out your refrigerator and take inventory of what you have in there so that you can better utilize what you have!
• Clean and inventory your pantry and cupboards, look up recipes on Pinterest to use some of the odd-ball items that we all end up with!
• Try fostering a pet. Pets give us someone to care about and someone who cares back. That’s a recipe for happiness and comfort!

Be Safe and Healthy Friends!

Dottie Lake