Give me some ideas please. I have 2 more windows to wash, and that’s it!!
Too bad you’re not closer to me. I have to work, and would be happy to pay someone to clean my windows, blinds, etc.
Start baking? Learn how to knit / crochet / play a musical instrument?
Did you take everything out of the kitchen cupboards and clean them?
Organize every drawer in your house. It took me 3 days to do it.
Go through old magazines. Cut out interesting articles and pictures or recipes you want to keep. Organize them in a accordion file. That took me a whole year to do.
Learn origami. Paper is cheap on Amazon.
I’m getting to the end of my to-do list, as well. Here are a few remaining items, and maybe it’ll give you ideas on what you can still do:
Today I plan on figuring out how our cheapy printer/scanner/copy machine works, because I have receipts to scan and email to my medical flex plan for reimbursement.
Then I’ll go mail a nasty-gram snail mail letter to the California EDD begging them to fix an error they made on my unemployment account so I can actually start getting unemployment. Pleas sent through the website so far have done nothing.
Then I’ll get out the Webster cobweb duster and get down all the cobwebs from all the ceilings in the house.
Then dust/clean the outsides of the doors to the front and back yards. Sweep the front porch and shake out the welcome mat while I’m at it.
Using the awkward, hard-to-use attachment, vacuum the carpeting on the stairs.
Then unscrew the little screens in the bathroom faucets and let them soak in Descale It for awhile. They’re getting clogged with calcification.
Well, maybe I won’t do everything on this list today. But I’ll do a couple of the items, at least.
Got hardware to sort? Tools to organize on a pegboard? Maintenance to perform on your lawn mower etc.? Don’t forget your outdoor items or garage if you have one. Trunk of your car?
Start a garden, even in a window box.
Learn to sew and start making masks (there is, or will be, a group organized to distribute them to those who need them most in your area).
Read a more challenging book.
Tutor someone online in something you know how to do.
Grab your N95 mask and come to my place, I’ve got some chores for you
This… I’m working from home, which means more dirty dishes. (less laundry, though) And my housekeeper is sick, so it’s just me. (the cats are no help at all)
I’ll even pay you
You need some dogs. They’ll dirty up your place in a jiffy!
You have too much stuff. Start selling it on eBay! You need:
- An eBay and a PayPal account
- A camera
- A kitchen scale
- A measuring tape
- Shipping tape
- Boxes and/or poly mailers
- A printer and labels
Once you got all your supplies, start taking pictures of your stuff and selling! If you measure and weigh the stuff before you list it, you can have the buyer pay for exact shipping. While “Free Shipping” is very attractive to buyers, there’s a huge price difference depending on the distance it’s being shipped so you’ll make out better if you just let people pay their own shipping.
I’m the opposite. I had grand intentions of using the enforced time at home clean and organize things. Mostly I’ve just spent a lot of time on the internet or watching Netflix. I’ve made a little progress on the household chores but not much.
Have you budgeted out your future?
Have you planned out your meals for the week, created a shopping list, and done prep cooking?
Have you figured out how to do a healthy variety of exercises with the materials you have at home?
Obtain a musical instrument. Practice. In a closed room, preferably. Have mercy.
The hard thing has been the family photos going back to my great grandparents. Carefully put in albums by my mother. Somehow I became family archivist but 2 super sized Home Depot tubs and 2 large boxes was just crazy. Talked to the sibs, and now I am down to one super tub. Removed every single damn frame and tossed them so when the shit is over, I can mail photos off.
The fucking thing about all these damn pictures is no one can throw them away. I would be astonished if my sibs kids want any of them, and my sibs say they do, but realistically they’re going to stay in bins until someone dies. And whomever is left will toss them out.
My Dad, who was in the CCC, Navy during WW2, worked for the CIA and was an attorney and in politics his whole life, made a history of his life book shortly after becoming diagnosed with ALZ. It is fucking amazing, from the Depression and on. Who the hell am I to throw something like that away, with letters from Buckley and Reagan? My fella’s Dad saved every letter my guy wrote to him from Nam. How can you throw that away?
Ugh.
I’ve cleaned and vacuumed my trunk, and interior of the car. I read until my back gets stiff. Meal planning, totally. Yard work up to date, my patio planter is amazing, but it’s desert landscape here.
Sorry, nothing to sell on Ebay, but I 2 contractor trash bags ready to go to charity when they open. I’ll be making another I guess.
Helluva thing to stress over.
This is the answer: digitize them. Then you can mail off a DVD containing all of them to all of the relatives.
Yeah, and I hear you, but tossing those photos will tear a hole in my heart, you know?
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I’m running around in the woods around my house, picking up dead sticks and stacking them neatly. I’ve become the Lady Macbeth of kindling.
I do as little as possible anyway. Why should I change now?
Same here, I wasted another weekend.