These are serious, concerning, depressing, and anxious times. As we all stay at home trying to do our part, it’s important to take a break from the chaos of the world to laugh, relax, or get our energy out somehow to avoid throat-punching our partners or roommates (or yourself, if you live alone). This is especially important in the Bay Area, where many of us live in tiny apartments, and our work spaces are now our kitchen tables shared with four other people and a cat.
The Bold Italic is working hard on many stories on how to help and give back to our community during this tough time. We also want to be there for you individually and bring a little levity to our lives, as we’re known to do.
So here, we present a guide to keeping San Franciscans busy in their 400-square-foot apartments—or, really, anyone trying to stay the hell away from people for the sake of humanity.
- Solve a puzzle
- Bake cookies
- FaceTime friends and family, wine in hand
- Play Gin rummy
- Go through your stuff and donate it when we can leave our homes again
- Play your favorite song and dance around
- Change your hair
- Spring clean
- Set the mood
- Write a real letter
11. Pop some bubble wrap
12. Learn the harmonica
13. Do a TikTok Challenge
14. Cut shit up
15. Watch puppy videos
16. Do a cleanse
17. Grow shrooms
18. Lift cans for weights
19. Hunt ducks
20. Bedazzle something
21. Meditate
22. Build Ikea furniture
23. Learn a new language on Duolingo
24. Swipe on Tinder
25. Paint your walls
26.Take a shot when you hear “corona”
27. Start a new beauty routine
28. Practice knife throwing
29. Masturbate
30. Netflix and chill (Pandemic, perhaps?)
31. Roll jays and smoke them
32. Write your neighbors a note
33. Practice bird calls
34. Make Jello-O
35. Play strip poker online
35. Pull weeds
36. Wii!
38. Start a podcast
39. Do tarot
40. Sew a new wardrobe
41. Make a piñata out of Amazon boxes
43. Donate money
44. Do a crystal grid
45. Learn to make origami
46. Knit something
46. Blow bubbles
47. Play MASH
49. Play dominos
50. Ferment something
