101 ways to make money from home and things to do at home while you are in self isolation, social distancing yourself or even just things to do while you’re bored at home!!
- Keep a quarantine diary. It’ll be interesting to read in years to come
- Backup/delete the photos on your phone and banish the ‘memory full’ warning
- Bake banana bread
- Download ‘Next Door’ app to see what’s happening in your local area
- Facetime your family
- Start a herb garden
- Download the ‘Houseparty’ app
- Clean your makeup brushes
- Volunteer for the NHS
- Make a fancy dalgona coffee
- Host a virtual trivia night on WhatsApp
- Make funny TikToks
- Clear out your makeup stash and bin things you haven’t used for a couple of years
- Download the ‘Airtime Rewards’ app to earn money off your phone bill. Use my code J3T9YXHF for an instant bonus to get you started. Read more about this here.
- Go for a walk
- Post a care package with a hand written note or card to your family
- Start a blog
- Try out a new recipe
- Write that book you’ve always wanted to write
- Improve your photography skills
- Call a friend you haven’t spoken to in a long time
- Read a book
- Sell unwanted stuff on eBay
- Play a board game
- Redecorate a room in your house
- Learn to meditate
- Start a youtube channel
- Subscribe to my channel while you’re here
- Paint your nails
- Clear out your wardrobe
- Change up your social media bio and profile picture
- Learn a new skill
- Wash your windows
- Sort and organise your old photo albums
- Daily workouts in your home or garden
- Put on a face mask
- Go on an online shopping spree
- Sell your old CDs and DVDs on music magpie
- Paint a picture
- Call your tv/broadband/phone supplier to try and get a better deal
- Create an aesthetically pleasing bookcase by colour coding your books
- Sign up to an online course – there are lots of free ones at the moment
- Have a karaoke night
- Make some inspirational Pinterest boards
- Unfollow people on Instagram who don’t make you happy
- Have a movie marathon day
- Write a bucket list, or a reverse bucket list
- Have a pamper evening with candles, face masks and mani-pedis
- Play card games
- Plan every last detail for a trip you’re going to take when this is all over
- Unsubscribe from all the spam emails you either delete to never open
- Experiment with different makeup techniques
- Learn a new language
- Cut your own hair
- Make a ‘quarantini’ with all the alcohol you have at home
- Check your Experian credit score
- Learn how to juggle
- Do online surveys to earn some money
- Ask your husband to do your makeup
- Google yourself to see what comes up
- Give yourself a pedicure
- Read up about how you can make tax free cash by Matched Betting
- Marie Kondo one of your messy drawers
- Try working in a different room or pretend you’re in a coffee shop
- Declutter your skincare and bin anything you haven’t used in a year
- Untangle all those annoying necklaces
- Learn how to edit videos either for yourself or youtube
- Clean up your phone storage and delete old apps
- Take a virtual tour of the National Galley’s artwork
- Learn a Beyonce dance routine
- Start listening to podcasts while you do most of these other things
- Play games with friends on the ‘House Party’ app
- Sign up to Top Cashback
- Watch a series on your Netflix watch list
- Gather unwanted stuff around the home ready to donate when charity shops reopen
- See if you can get a better mortgage rate while interest rates are really low
- Get dressed in proper clothes instead of loungewear if you want to be more productive
- Clean out your garage
- Start growing your own veg
- Download the ‘Shoppix’ app to scan your receipts and earn Amazon vouchers
- File or shred all your paperwork
- Clean out your car
- Learn calligraphy through youtube tutorials
- While you’re on youtube, subscribe to my channel 😉
- Call your grandparents, often
- Research ways to make your home more sustainable
- Try to reproduce something you’ve seen on Pinterest. And fail. Sorry.
- Experiment with different hairstyles while nobody is going to see you
- Have lots of naps
- Plan some fun trips and days out with friends for when this is all over
- Recreate your favourite takeaways by cooking a new cuisine every week
- Work on your financial planning; ways to save more money in future.
- Shop online for things to entertain your grandparents during this time. I bought mine a jigsaw puzzle
- Get creative with Instagram and change up the way you take or edit photos
- Get your DIY on and fix everything in your home
- Watch John Legend perform a live concert from his home on Instagram
- Learn how to edit photos
- Batch cook meals to freeze
- Teach yourself origami. Or just make paper aeroplanes and see who’s flies longer or further
- Do something you’ve always wanted to do, but have never had enough time for
- Stay at home!
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