50 Things To Do During Home Quarantine
Mandatory quarantine increases the chances of sensory deprivation and can be overwhelming if you are not ready for it. Symptoms from sensory deprivation, often include anxiety, sensory illusions, or even distortions of time and perception. In animal experiments, solitude has been shown to cause psychosis. The best chance to avoid this is by knowing how to keep yourself busy.
Here’s a fact you want to know: if a fast-spreading disease infects enough people in a population there are laws and executive orders in place to govern the control of contagions, thus allowing the government to force you into quarantine.
If this phenomenon occurs, it’s important to keep yourself busy because your mental health could be affected. Mandatory quarantine increases the chances of sensory deprivation and can be overwhelming if you are not ready for it. Symptoms from sensory deprivation, often include anxiety, sensory illusions, or even distortions of time and perception. In animal experiments, solitude has been shown to cause psychosis. The best chance to avoid this is by knowing how to keep yourself busy.
If you are unfortunately exposed to a contagious disease and are quarantined, prepare yourself for the possibility of being in complete home isolation for 21 days. Now is the time to plan on what you will do during that time because you don’t want to be stuck twiddling your thumbs for that entire time.
Here are 50 things to do after you have napped and watched movie marathons.
Set up your isolation or sick room
Organize your preparedness supplies
Start a hobby (learn to knit, make survival bracelets, draw, paint, etc.)
Take a few online courses or get an online certification. Some are even free!
Read The Prepper’s Blueprint or the other books you haven’t had a chance to read
Make some natural household cleaners
Organize the house
Finally, get around to the honey-do list and fix things around the house
Make some freezer meals
Write a book
Watch documentaries or movies
Start a daily journal
Document your struggle against boredom and take a picture every hour
Rearrange your house
Practice yoga
Exercise
Meditate or pray
Talk to friends and family
Learn how to play an instrument
Play a joke on other family members and swap their closet contents with yours
Make homemade yogurt
Cut your hair
Make a trash can a basketball hoop and throw crumpled up paper for baskets
Make a bucket list
Plan your next season garden
Create your own language and then write a dictionary
Play board games, legos or cards
Make crafts out of wine corks
Film yourself cooking and talk like Julia Child
Relearn the art of the handstand
Make homemade cards and write a note to family member and friends
Organize old pictures or make a scrapbook
Have spa day
Make a battery out of pennies
Practice martial arts
Play hide and seek
Master dance moves
Upcycle mason jars into home decor
Memorize your favorite quote or poem
Plan your next trip or vacation
Start a Pinterest account
Learn about photography and take photos
Start a blog
Make survival preps out of unused household items
Learn the Cups song from Pitch Perfect
Learn how to play chess
Karaoke like a rock star
Have a Nerf gun battle
Take a nap
Make a list of things to do after your are not quarantined
