101 WAYS TO AVOID THE STIR-CRAZIES
Zach Atwood - Events & Operations Lead
Some people love being stuck at home while some people hate it, but no matter where you find yourself on that emotional scale, we need to take the wise step and stay home as much as we can to help #FlattenTheCurve. Staying in one place for that long can create some emotional instability, but don’t stress, we got 101 things you can do at home to cure the stir-crazies.
Is anyone’s house this boujee looking? If so, HMU. You need to style my life.
Do your laundry (you’ve let the pile of dirty clothes stack up on “the chair” for too long)
Read a chapter from your favorite book
Organize the infamous junk drawer
Write out 10 things you love about yourself
Go through your closet and Marie Kondo that place
Dust the house
Call that friend you never called back (we all have one)
Download the top game in the app store and veg out for a minute
Reread your favorite childhood book
Write a letter to your mom, cause moms love that stuff
Do 33 jumping jacks
Take the Meyers-Briggs test
Learn to manage your finances (you can take FPU online! So worth it!)
Vacuum your room
Write a short story with this as your launching point, “I jumped on a plane to… “
Move around the furniture in your room #FengShui
Print out a coloring page and get to work
Pick up that musical instrument again
Learn to knit or crochet
Go through the apps on your phone and delete 5 of them
Make your bed
We may be young, but we’re still young adults; make your bed.
Watch your parent’s favorite movie
Water your plants (but if you have succulents, stop watering them every day)
Call your best friend from high school and catch up
Teach your grandma/grandpa how to Facetime/Skype/Google Hangout
Register for a free online class
Create a nightly skincare routine (holler at me for mine)
Write about your most favorite memory from elementary school
Find your old MySpace account
Cook yourself your favorite meal (Don’t have the ingredients? Modify and get weird)
Set up screen time rules for your phone
Go through your bathroom cabinet and throw out the stuff you don’t use
Create and design your own board game
Anonymously buy a friend a meal from GrubHub/Postmates/DoorDash
Text your phone number neighbor (aka your phone number plus 1)
Clean out and organize the fridge
Watch your favorite movie of all time
Doodle for 30 minutes
Write down a list of 101 things you can do in your home
Send an encouraging text to a friend
Sign up for a one-hour prayer slot… cough cough
Do 50 pushups
Bake cookies as a reward for doing 50 pushups
Write a poem
Start a devotional plan on The Bible App
Facebook stalk your frienemy from middle school
DIY a gift for your roommate or neighbor using only the things in your place currently
Create an idea for an app
Learn a magic trick
Finish/start your taxes
Rebrand your Instagram
Have a spa night (even if it’s ghetto)
Clean your tech stuff (cell phone, computer, headphones, etc)
Do an at-home workout with @redrockssports
Use a random generator, put numbers 1-66, read the book of the Bible that corresponds with that number
Learn a TikTok dance
Build a cootie-catcher and tell your friends their future
Take the enneagram test (don’t let the results absorb you…)
Go like all of your best friend’s profile pictures on Facebook (comment on the best ones so they pop up on the newsfeed for the world to see)
Do a DIY hair mask
Plan a party (for after the quarantine)
Catch up on that Bible-In-A-Year plan you’ve fallen behind on...
Put all of your family and friends’ birthdays in your calendar
Relearn that language you were forced to take in high school
At least this time you won’t be surrounded by sweating, weird people this time… well, hopefully.
Google yourself and share the results with your friends, have them send you their results
Develop a morning routine
Go through your pens and throw out the ones that don’t work
Watch an episode from your favorite childhood show
Nap
Alphabetize/organize your bookshelf
Finish that book you started 3 years ago
Facebook stalk your middle school crush
Organize all of your personal documents (insurance info, car info, birth certificate, etc)
Make the best paper airplane
Clean out your car (we see those TacoBell wrappers…)
Puzzle it uppp
Learn calligraphy
Facetime/Skype with a friend and watch a trashy reality show together
Organize the Tupperware mess
Read a magazine cover to cover
Learn some yoga
Build a fort in the living room
Mail a “Quarantine Care Package” to your friend in another state
Organize the photos on your phone and print your favorites
Start a blog on something you’re passionate about
Watch Great British Baking Show (if you’re not into the show, reevaluate your life)
Read a top-10 book of all times
Become the expert on your favorite band
Draw a self-portrait
Train your nondominant hand to do stuff
Learn how to tie 10 different types of knots
Write a song
Build a playlist that includes the best songs from your middle school dayz
Jump rope for 3 minutes (bonus points if you can do tricks)
Reach out and interview someone you admire
Listen to a podcast series
Floss (cause we know you haven’t been doing that since your last dentist visit)
Clean your roommate’s bathroom for them
Make homemade slime
Clean your oven/microwave/stove/toaster
Watch your favorite church message with a friend (virtually)
Again, no matter if you like staying in or you would rather explore the world, this season we are going to be wise and cautious. This is not only to keep ourselves stay safe but to ensure that those around us healthy and well. If you have any ideas on how to avoid the stir-crazies, let us know in the comments below!
We are meeting up tonight @ 7pm @ redrocksya.online.church for church!