How To Pass Time During Social Distancing: A Bucket List

In these early days of COVID-19 social distancing, I’ve been at a bit of a loss as to what content I should share. As an influencer, my job is thankfully relatively unaffected by the working from home advice and economic instability. Let’s be real, I basically socially distance for a living. However, I want to be sensitive to other people’s needs and create things that could be helpful, not just dive into my usual content and seem tone-deaf to what is going on around us.

I was thinking about what might be useful and I came up with the idea of an activities cheat sheet – there are only so many hours in a day and we aren’t used to spending them all indoors. As work slows down and the days feel longer, sometimes it can get overwhelming and we don’t know where to begin. I thought I’d make a “bucket list” of all the things you could do to utilise your time in different ways. I’ve seen a couple of these going round the internet but I thought it might be nice to put my own spin on it!

I’ve shared the graphic on my social media already but here it is in all it’s glory, along with the full list below. Happy distancing!

Social Distancing Bucket List

FOR YOUR BRAIN

• Take a walk
• Listen to a podcast
• Play a video game
• Take an online course
• Meditate
• Clear out your following lists on social media
• Create a social distancing playlist
• Clear out your apps
• Declutter and sort your laptop documents
• Start learning a language
• Give your CV a once-over
• Paint with Bob Ross
• Do some still life drawing
• Build a fort
• Watch a film
• Listen to an audiobook
• Write in your journal
• Start the 1 Second Every Day app
• Watch a livestream
• Watch your YouTube watch later playlist
• Start vlogging/blogging
• Start your novel
• Read a book
• Plan your next holiday
• Do your digital errands
• Start playing that instrument again
• Create a Pinterest board
• Plan some outfits
• Write to your MP
• Clear out your camera roll
• Make your own list of things you’d like to do

FOR YOUR HOME

• Clear out your kitchen cupboards
• Reorganise your wardrobe
• Hoover your flat
• Sort out your underwear drawer
• Organise that cupboard you always put everything in
• Make a Pinterest board of redecoration ideas
• Tidy your room
• Clean your shoes and shoe rack
• Declutter your makeup and skincare storage
• Reorganise your shelves
• Sort through your physical documents
• Revive a dying houseplant
• Batch cook some meals you can freeze
• Look through your cookbooks and find new recipes
• Declutter your office space
• Do some gardening
• Infuse a spirit/oil
• Start microbrewing your own beer

FOR YOUR BODY

• Go on a run
• Go on a bike ride
• Do a facemask
• Follow a yoga or pilates tutorial video
• Culture a sourdough starter
• Make a pizza from scratch
• Slow cook a meal
• Make fresh pasta
• Dance around
• Do a hair mask
• Have a bubble bath
• Do your nails
• Try some new makeup looks
• Perfect your headstand

WITH FRIENDS

• Watch a film together with Netflix Party
• FaceTime your friend
• Call your family
• Play Scrabble Go
• Do a jigsaw puzzle
• Play monopoly with your housemates
• Have a glass of wine together on Google Hangouts
• Restart your Habbo Hotel account
• Have a virtual lunch with a colleague
• Join a Facebook/whatsapp group that is supporting vulnerable people in your neighbourhood
• Play a video game with your friends through WiFi
• Get back on dating apps
• Play Mafia on Zoom
• Send some messages to family members you don’t normally speak to