Not meeting up with your family and mates is becoming pretty weird now, right? It’s becoming almost normal to stay indoors at all time to help prevent getting COVID-19. If you’re in desperate need of a pick-me-up, fear not! We’ve put together 5 simple things you can be doing to make self-isolation a little easier.
Attend an Online Festival
Yeah, you heard right! This year attend your very first online music festival, they’re a thing now. Stay At Home Fest is a virtual calendar to let you know what’s on. We all know that the best thing we can do to slow down the spread and save lives is washing our hands and staying at home. Because of this, artists are losing gigs and income that they depend on. We’re all sitting at home, looking for ways to connect. So, tune in for an epic, open-source online music festival schedule, and you’ll find artists hosting their own cool shows!
Download TikTok
You might have heard that TikTok is a load of rubbish, but you should never judge anything unless you’ve tried it yourself. This app is beyond addictive and not soul-destroying one single bit. There are tons of videos on there, so much – in fact, you might find yourself jumping on the band-wagon quicker than you thought you would; get learning one of those infamous dances! Exercise is key right now, dancing is fun for the mind and releases endorphins!
Make Your Own Hand Sanitiser
If you’re down to your last drops and you don’t fancy paying what the shops are charging, it’s quick and simple to make your very own hand sanitiser! This DIY hand sanitiser spray by The Merry Thought is very easy to make – it’s only three ingredients, but can be made with just two if you leave out the essential oils! This homemade hand sanitiser uses rubbing alcohol (or isopropyl alcohol), vegetable glycerin and essential oils. The rubbing alcohol is what sanitises. The glycerin (or you can substitute natural aloe vera gel if you’d like) is used to protect your hands from drying out too much from the alcohol.
Supplies:
- 3/4 cup 91% isopropyl alcohol*
- 20 drops essential oil, optional
- measuring cup
Keep Calm and Download Zoom
With everything that’s going on in the world, you have every right to feel stressed out, but it’s no good going to bed feeling like this. Yoga instructors from all over the world are now on Zoom, so you can do a class in your bedroom, living room, or even the kitchen! There are so many online yoga classes right now, being led live or you can find plenty of workouts on YouTube. Here are 10 reasons why you should take up a bit of yoga right now.
Create an Instagram Account for your Pet
This may sound crazy and people often ask me how I got my French Bulldog 38k followers on Instagram but I’m here to tell you how that came about. I’d just moved to London into a brand new apartment building, and it didn’t have the internet. I thought I would completely go out of my mind. Who doesn’t have Wifi these days? I had to wait a whole month for the engineer to come out and install it. I got so bored, all I did was take cute pics of my dog all day long. Then it happened, I created an Instagram for her. I stopped spamming my friends and my mum and decided to post there instead. I posted a ton of photos, daily. As creepy as it sounds, I took cute photos when she was sleeping, I made videos of her learning a new trick. I even got mad creative and made her a sleeveless denim jacket with custom patches all over it. Of course, I had to take a photo of her in that too. You have so much time on your hands, it’s the perfect time to bond with your pet even more.
