101 Things To Do When Social Distancing & Bored At Home

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!!

1. Keep a quarantine diary. It’ll be interesting to read in years to come
2. Backup/delete the photos on your phone and banish the ‘memory full’ warning
3. Bake banana bread
4. Download ‘Next Door’ app to see what’s happening in your local area
5. Facetime your family
6. Start a herb garden
7. Download the ‘Houseparty’ app 
8. Clean your makeup brushes
9. Volunteer for the NHS 
10. Make a fancy dalgona coffee
11. Host a virtual trivia night on WhatsApp 
12. Make funny TikToks
13. Clear out your makeup stash and bin things you haven’t used for a couple of years
14. 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.
15. Go for a walk
16. Post a care package with a hand written note or card to your family
17. Start a blog
18. Try out a new recipe
19. Write that book you’ve always wanted to write 
20. Improve your photography skills
21. Call a friend you haven’t spoken to in a long time 
22. Read a book
23. Sell unwanted stuff on eBay
24. Play a board game
25. Redecorate a room in your house
26. Learn to meditate
27. Start a youtube channel
28. Subscribe to my channel while you’re here
29. Paint your nails 
30. Clear out your wardrobe 
31. Change up your social media bio and profile picture 
32. Learn a new skill
33. Wash your windows
34. Sort and organise your old photo albums
35. Daily workouts in your home or garden
36. Put on a face mask
37. Go on an online shopping spree 
38. Sell your old CDs and DVDs on music magpie
39. Paint a picture
40. Call your tv/broadband/phone supplier to try and get a better deal
41. Create an aesthetically pleasing bookcase by colour coding your books
42. Sign up to an online course – there are lots of free ones at the moment
43. Have a karaoke night
44. Make some inspirational Pinterest boards
45. Unfollow people on Instagram who don’t make you happy
46. Have a movie marathon day
47. Write a bucket list, or a reverse bucket list 
48. Have a pamper evening with candles, face masks and mani-pedis
49. Play card games
50. Plan every last detail for a trip you’re going to take when this is all over 
51. Unsubscribe from all the spam emails you either delete to never open
52. Experiment with different makeup techniques
53. Learn a new language
54. Cut your own hair
55. Make a ‘quarantini’ with all the alcohol you have at home
56. Check your Experian credit score
57. Learn how to juggle
58. Do online surveys to earn some money
59. Ask your husband to do your makeup
60. Google yourself to see what comes up
61. Give yourself a pedicure
62. Read up about how you can make tax free cash by Matched Betting 
63. Marie Kondo one of your messy drawers
64. Try working in a different room or pretend you’re in a coffee shop 
65. Declutter your skincare and bin anything you haven’t used in a year
66. Untangle all those annoying necklaces
67. Learn how to edit videos either for yourself or youtube
68. Clean up your phone storage and delete old apps
69. Take a virtual tour of the National Galley’s artwork
70. Learn a Beyonce dance routine
71. Start listening to podcasts while you do most of these other things
72. Play games with friends on the ‘House Party’ app
73. Sign up to Top Cashback
74. Watch a series on your Netflix watch list
75. Gather unwanted stuff around the home ready to donate when charity shops reopen 
76. See if you can get a better mortgage rate while interest rates are really low
77. Get dressed in proper clothes instead of loungewear if you want to be more productive
78. Clean out your garage
79. Start growing your own veg
80. Download the ‘Shoppix’ app to scan your receipts and earn Amazon vouchers
81. File or shred all your paperwork
82. Clean out your car
83. Learn calligraphy through youtube tutorials
84. While you’re on youtube, subscribe to my channel 😉
85. Call your grandparents, often
86. Research ways to make your home more sustainable
87. Try to reproduce something you’ve seen on Pinterest. And fail. Sorry.
88. Experiment with different hairstyles while nobody is going to see you
89. Have lots of naps
90. Plan some fun trips and days out with friends for when this is all over
91. Recreate your favourite takeaways by cooking a new cuisine every week
92. Work on your financial planning; ways to save more money in future.
93. Shop online for things to entertain your grandparents during this time. I bought mine a jigsaw puzzle
94. Get creative with Instagram and change up the way you take or edit photos
95. Get your DIY on and fix everything in your home
96. Watch John Legend perform a live concert from his home on Instagram
97. Learn how to edit photos 
98. Batch cook meals to freeze
99. Teach yourself origami. Or just make paper aeroplanes and see who’s flies longer or further
100. Do something you’ve always wanted to do, but have never had enough time for
101. Stay at home!

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