confinement

100 cool things to do at home to keep yourself busy during confinement period

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The Editor

1. Do the cleaning (we see you)

2. Sort out your clothes

3. Get back to playing The Sims (just with this point, you can easily survive 3 months of confinement)

4. Cook those recipes saved in your Instagram for years that you've never tried

5. Learn a foreign language

6. Watch this movie that you pretend to have already seen in front of people you want to impress, when in reality, you haven't

7. Do your grocery shopping online

8. Take an online fitness class

9. Dust off your old guitar

10. Start doing watercolor painting

11. Draw landscapes from your distant memories

12. Give advice to your friends about symptoms

They think they have:

13. To lie in bed and reflect on the meaning of life

14. To call their parents/grandparents

15. To learn to play an instrument

16. To sew

17. To do yoga

18. To beat their friends' high score in Mario Kart

19. To meditate using Petit Bambou or Headspace

20. To ask the neighbor if they need help with groceries (by leaving them at their doorstep)

21. To plant flowers on their balcony

22. To do puzzles

23. To relive childhood and start coloring again

24. Play tennis with your neighbor

25. Follow a cooking recipe (hoping you've done enough groceries)

26. Do your own laundry

27. Make love

28. Have drinks with friends via Skype

29. Enjoy free Pornhub in France

30. Play a delayed game of Battleship with your friends

31. Take advantage of unlimited lives offered all week on Candy Crush (yes, yes)

32. Redecorate by fixing what is broken and pimping objects we no longer like

33. Learn divinatory tarot

34. Discover your horoscope and understand that "it's normal for things to be a mess right now with Mercury in retrograde"

35. Don't watch the news

36. Reread all the Harry Potter, because there's no age limit for a good old Harry Potter

37. Take inventory of the items you've never used and do something with them, once and for all

38. Binge-watch The Office again

39. Find your old Skyblog and those of your best friends and bring back the memories

40. Catch up on all the sleep you've been missing since 2013

41. Get lost on YouTube and discover new music

42. Make Quarantinis: same recipe as a bar Martini, but alone at home

43. Learn how to recognize valuable vintage items

Eat edible plants and mushrooms that heal, learn how to make fire, learn how to live in the forest. Finally, put up that shelf that has been waiting behind the kitchen door for weeks. Spend a month's salary on online video games. Host a themed "Almost Perfect Dinner" party via video conference, where everyone rates each other's dishes and table decorations while recording themselves with a sign in the bathroom. Rediscover the art of origami. Transform your bathroom into a spa. Do lots of exercise, lots of facial treatments, and pamper yourself to prepare for when you can go out again. Make a big funny banner to hang on your window to make passersby laugh. Quit smoking. [Embedded video]Of course! Here's the translation:

52. Make your own organic and homemade cosmetics using coffee grounds, shea butter, and more!

53. Find a neighbor with a dog and offer to take it for a walk, so you can enjoy some fresh air for a good hour.

54. Pretend to be athletic and try going for a run for the first time in your life, just to get outside (if your neighbor doesn't have a dog).

55. Offer to go grocery shopping for the elderly people in your building.

56. Have a distance conversation with the caretaker of your building like, "Did you see? 14 days of lockdown!" "But we all know it will be extended, right?"

57. Call all the people you know, even those you never talk to.

58. Rethink your showering system, because no need to worry about running late now.

Environmentally friendly, sustainable and economically viable.

59. Weigh everything in your apartment.

60. Refresh your emails in vain and realize that they are all stuck in quarantine.

61. Create your own mask.

62. Read everything you can find about the Italians' lockdown to try to reassure yourself.

63. Stand by the window and awkwardly smile at your neighbors on their balconies.

64. Repair and sew all the clothes that you no longer wear because you've worn them out at parties.

65. Make pasta with toilet paper following the super recipe from Ouai j'vois Ouai.

66. Meet all the other people in quarantine on Chatroulette

67. Read all the volumes of the French Encyclopedia

68. Wash all the things that you're not (too) used to washing: scarves, blankets, pillowcases, underwear...

69. Learn all about Daniel Radcliffe's life on Wikipedia

70. Roller skate in your living room like a merry-go-round

71. Smoke a big joint to be super paranoid all day

72. Finally find out the answer to this question: "What the hell does my cat do all day?"

73. Leave a love note on your neighbor's door, ring the bell, and run away

74. Learn to pronounce "Aya Kanamamunara" perfectly and very quickly

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94. Have a party on your balcony

95. Telecommute (occasionally)

96. Worry because you think you're sick when in fact you're fine

97. Stretching

98. Look at your old photo albums, the ones on Facebook "visible to me only" and full of juicy stories

99. Start singing, with the window open, hoping that your entire building will join in and you'll all sing together to lift your spirits

100. Turn off your phone, shut down your computer, look out the window, and take a deep breath

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