This is the time for us to just sit in the home and save the world by maintaining social distancing. It is the better thing we can do to flatten the curve and stop spreading the disease. I hope you too are doing so for everyone’s better future.
But just not neglect the fact that sitting in the home all the time is super boring.
so, here are few things you can do from the home. Some are useful to kill the time and some are useful to lead life. This might be a really strong statement, but I can guaranty you that at least you won’t feel bored when you start the following something on the list.
100 Things to do while you stuck inside the home
Instead of boring you with obvious stuff like watch movies, spend time with your family, play games, etc. Here is a few other stuff which might be useful for you. This is a pretty long article, reading just heading can make your read easier.
1. Start your own blog
Starting a blog is nothing but taking a topic which you are interested in and writing articles about it. Solve the problems or even entertain the people within that topic. Apart from that, you can even earn money.
Though it may take time to get money, it can be entertaining if you are interested in Writing. Creating a website these days is pretty easy that you don’t need any coding or technical knowledge.
2. Download Duolingo to learn new languages
In our busy schedule, we don’t have time to learn new languages. But if you are interested in learning, why not use this time to do so. If not a new, language, you can even improve English speaking and Grammar skills.
3. Learn Video Editing
Video editing is something which I am working on in this quarantine. If you are also interested in editing like me, I suggest you start with Premiere Pro, so that you can easily learn any editing software later.
Anyhow, if you have a Mac, Apple is giving you Final Cut Pro for free for 90 days due to COVID-19. If you are interested in starting any YouTube channel, learning editing is the first step you can make today.
4. Music instruments will never bore you.
I don’t need to give a special introduction to say how awesome the music is. If you have any instruments like Guitar, Piano, etc lying around. start learning them. Just go to YouTube if you are entirely new, you can find great tutorials for free.
For Guitar, I can suggest you this playlist course by Andy Guitar channel. It is quite informative and perfectly best for beginners.
5. Start writing a movie story
Writing Movie Scripts is amazing. You may not write an Oscar-winning story, but that’s ok. Just start your story with the genre you like. It will be really fun to keep thinking about it and improving it day by day. Once your story got a good shape, it will be quite satisfying.
You can do this, even though you don’t want to be a story writer, because anyone can write stories and it is mindful of work to do.
6. I don’t know what can be an even better time to message your Ex if you want to.
If you have an ex, I think this is the best time to message her/him. You both might not have leisure time like this again and again.
7. Learn about Space
Space is one of the mind-blowing subjects. If you are also curious about things like space like me, you can start Googling or YouTubing about it. Or you can start your journey from the video below.
Not interested in Space? Sports, politics anything works.
8. I don’t know what can be an even better time to build your body.
If you are into Workouts, Yoga, etc unlike me, this time will be even more helpful to you. But if you wanted to start something like that, you can start out from today.
9. Watch cat videos ( Dogs, Horses, Tigers, Pandas etc anything will work )
If you ask me, watching dogs, cats, monkey videos are the best way to kill time. They should be ranked as “Number 1 way to kill time”.
10. Learn Calligraphy
If you looking to make your handwriting look great, learning calligraphy can be your first step. You can check out classes on YouTube, but if you are serious about it, you can check out best Calligraphy courses on Udemy.
11. Checkout Free Paid Apps on the Play Store due to Corona Virus.
Due to the Corona Virus, few companies are giving away their paid apps for free. The best part is, you can use these paid apps for free for a lifetime not just for a few months.
Here is the list of apps that you can download for free right now.
12. Clean your room or the entire house for god sake.
Clean even the deep places which you don’t clean generally. The result will speak for all your hard work.
13. Try out all your clothes and find your best style.
As you have a good amount of time now, try out every dress you have and find out what kind of dresses suits you better. Try out different combinations which you generally don’t. You may end up bringing the best style out of you.
14. Starting watching the list of 1001 movies to watch before you die.
Did you know, there is a Wikipedia Page which has listed 1001 best movies to watch before you die. If you are really into movies, I highly suggest you to start watching the movies on this list. It’s a great watch.
15. Customize your Android home screen setup
If you have an Android phone, you can always have fun by customizing it. Try installing themes, launchers, or you can go all out by installing custom rooms. But be careful to not brick your phone, it will be even hard to live in this quarantine without a phone.
16. Learn drawing and sketching
Just like Calligragraphy, you can also concentrate on drawing or sketching. Or if you are already an artist, try out something which you have felt hard before. The world is saying “you have all the time in this world” right now.
17. Learn cooking
A wise man once said Cooking is an art and passion. If you feel connected to that statement, start cooking something and show the magic in your hands to your family.
18. Spend more time in the bathroom ( A perfect place to get a peace of mind )
I think you must be getting my point if you really need it.
19. Do you like making TikToks?
If you like making TikTok videos, you should be already busy with the thing you should be doing. Just get back into it.
20. Share your Playlists
Everyone has their own playlist of songs, I liked some of the songs from my friend’s playlist. If you are also looking to find out new songs, you can share your playlists or more like get song suggestions from your friends.
21. Start repairing something in your home which is lying around
There is some weird fun in opening things and repairing them. If you have such ideas, you can check out something which is not working in your home. Bring it, remove it and repair it.
Caution: you may end up making them even worse if you don’t know what you are doing.
22. Play Flames involving all your crushes
You mush have already know what flames mean, if you don’t, try Googling it. That’s it from my end, list out all your crushes and play flames. Time for many blushes to come.
23. Interview your Grandparents
Or else you can use this time to sit with your grandparents and interview about their childhood. They may not stop saying, so it is kind of caution to you.
24. Organize photos in Google Photos
If you use Google Photos or any cloud storage app for photos, try organizing your photos. Google photos, in particular backs up every pic on your phone and saves it in its ever ending storage.
You can sit and clear out all of them. The lockdown time may not be sufficient for you.
25. Watch Movies and Play games related to the virus.
I said I will suggest watching movies, but this is a bit different. right?
Movies on Viruses will be even more amazing now. Try out Contagion which has a similar story that is happening right now. Even you can type Corona Virus Movie and Google shows you about this movie.
26. People say Novels are better Movie, let’s check them out.
Reading Novels is a great time pass, which must be quite obvious. They also improve language skills, which is quite good.
But people who read More books say Novels are better than Movies. If you haven’t read any Novels before, check out whether that statement is true or false. Start with this best 10 Novels of all time.
27. DIY can even kill 100 years of time
DIY is a creative skill that can even kill 100 years. Just try out making best out of waste if you are really into DIY. Also, check out, how you can make money with your DIY Skills.
28. Write a song for your loved once. Hard but worth trying.
First of all, you may not be good at poetry to write a song. Just start like that. By the way, you can take a tune from your favourite song and write your lyrics for that. Just don’t upload it on Youtube or any platform, it might get copyright claims.
29. Hide something in your room and ask your pal to find it out.
To be short, you can play a treasure hunt game in your home. Just hide something and ask others to find it. You can even give clues in the middle if it is a hard place.
30. Train your dogs to do new tricks
If you have a dog, you can train it to do new things which it cannot do before. If you are getting started, check out this Youtube called Zak George’s Dog Training Revolution. It is a pretty good start training your dog.
31. Create a bucket list or make it even bigger
Do you have a bucket list to do in your life before you die? If not, create one right now with all the things you want to do in your life. Already have one, make it even bigger and even spicier.
32. Learn new dance moves from YouTube
Interested in Dance? instead of doing something you are already good at. Look at some new movies you have never done before. Or you can take entirely different kind of dance from Break to classical.
33. Build your house in Minecraft
Minecraft is my most favourite PC game which I go back to it every now and then. Just mine the minerals and craft them. It is an art form more than just a game.
Try building your home in Minecraft, it can be a good experience in this free time.
34. check out what’s your typing speed? improve no matter how good you are.
Check out your Typing Speed. No matter how good you are, you can practice to even make your skill better. These days, typing skills are one of the most useful skills.
35. Origami is a really big subject than you think.
I am not good at Origami to suggest any channels. But I think you can Google out that part.
36. Talk to your plants. They are considered as a living organism.
There is a study that talking to plants help them grow faster. You can’t deny it. It’s science.
37. Become a beatboxing Champaign
BeatBoxing is bigger than you might think. It even has worldwide Beatbox Battle Championship. (Wikipedia)
38. Just sleep happily. You may not get a time like this again.
Sleeping a minimum of 8 hours is good. But you don’t need such useless facts to enjoy sleeping for even more time.
39. Try to do things with the left hand ( use a right hand if you are left-handed )
It should be fun, but using your opposite hand also will be helpful to mind. I too don’t know, but this article said so.
40. Throw out all the waste and expired products from your home.
Your room or your home might have so much waste and expired products, you can slowly check and throw them in the dustbin. It is an easy task, but if you can go deeper into checking everything, it can be interesting and also a frustrating task
41. Watch Satantango ( An 8 Hours long movie )
Are you a movie lover? Then this movie can be a new experience for you. But keep in mind that it’s a pretty boring and dragging movie. But still a great watch.
42. Track movies in Trakt
Wanna track all your watched movies in one place, then let me introduce you an app called trakt. You can list of app the apps you have watched, create a watch list with all the apps you want to watch.
43. Solve Rubik’s cube without using formulas
Many people solve the Rubik’s Cude, it’s not a big deal anymore and even not entertaining when you do that with formulas. But if you try to solve the Rubik’s cube without any formula, it will be entertaining. You may not solve it that easily, but you will love the every stage while solving it.
Or you can improve your speed by knowing new formulas and shortcuts.
44. Get free PornHub
Pornhub is doing its part to make people stay home. You can just click on this link to sign up. No credit card required. If it is blocked by your network provider, you should need a VPN to access it.
45. Build something with playing cards
People even build castles with the playing cards, it’s hard, but you can try building a small hut. This just may take a lot of time but not an impossible task.
46. Learn card shuffling
Most people are playing cards with their families or friends at this time to spend time. But you can try out different types of shuffling, these techniques look cool. You can check different kinds of cards shuffling here to start your shuffling hobby.
47. Learn about different cultures in places.
Again going back to googling and Youtubing, learning about different cultures is quite an awesome way to spent time. Or you can even check out why Chinese eat bat soup.
48. Check out 500 hours of HBO for Free.
Due to corona issues, many companies have been giving free offers and HBO is giving you 500 hours of watching for free. But this option is only available for the US. But you can follow this guide to use it even from India.
49. Sit for hours in a single place without uttering a single word
On other words, you can call that meditation. Download the Calm app your phone. It is available both on Play Store and App Store. One of the best apps I choose when I think about meditate.
50. Learn Tailoring. Just in case……
Tailoring might sound like an old fashioned thing, but learning it can be useful to get into your new style. To be frank, creating a new style for you is not that hard.
51. Keep track of statistics of Corona Virus cases.
There are many websites where you can track the data about Corona Virus. Here is the data directly provided by the Indian Government. Here the data provided by Google.
Or you can check out other websites and YouTube videos you normally trust
52. Get into the share market. A better time for investment if you ask me.
The market is down now, and people say its bad which I too agree. But if you want to invest, then this is perfectly the right time. Once all the Corona issues are gone, these companies will rise back as fast as possible. They will be active like never before. Thus making it the correct time to invest.
But before investing, think multiple times on which company you are investing into.
53. Use Google Earth to visit places.
You cannot plan for trips now, it’s obvious. But you can use Google Earth for it. Just type the name of the place and enjoy the 360-degree views of it. Every Place may not support the feature, but most of them do.
54. Check out mars in 360 degrees
Did you know, you can see Mars that in 360 degrees. It is not just computer-generated mar but it is made with photos taken by the lander landed on Mars.
55. Learn to code ( New? Start with HTML )
Programming or coding is just like learning a new language. If you are just starting, Learning HTML is better as it is easy and also useful build websites. If you are going start learning HTML, you can choose W3schools as your priority.
56. Teach Chess to someone who doesn’t know.
Chess has its name for being the master game of mind games. Teaching it to kids or even someone who doesn’t know kills time and also makes your game even better.
57. Explore Africa with African Wildlife camera
Wanna she Africa, yeah you can watch on Youtube, but there are even better info and videos combined at a single place in this website
58. checkout live telecast from International Space station
Check out this live video from Nasa, where they provide live video of earth from the ISS continuously.
59. Watch Interviews of celebrities
You must have already watched your favorite actors, politicians or whatever interviews. But for a change, just watch the interviews you have never watched before.
60. Explore youtube to find many Youtubers
Youtube itself has many genres like Vlogs, Informational, Gaming, Theories, Tutorials, Tech, Animals, Short Films, etc. Just check out other YouTubers in the genre you like. You may find many good YouTubers.
61. Check out all the products killed by Google
Google is just great at killing the products. Check out all the products killed by Google until now. Popularly knows as Google Graveyard.
62. Start a laughing club in your home
Laughing is good for that. That statement is enough to just a club in the home.
63. Write a message for your future self and store it in a private space.
Write down your feeling or thoughts about something in a paper, book or digital format. Keep it in a place where you don’t get into normally. Burring down in the ground is one good way to do so. Keep a reminder to take it out either 5 or 10 years later.
It does make nothing for now, but it would be amazing for your future self to look at those.
64. Swipe right on Tinder. Just do as much as possible.
Or else just open Tinder and start swiping right, if you are lucky enough, you can get a match. If you don’t like anyone nearby, not a problem. Tinder is proving Tinder passport for free. Which means you can get profiles from a different location or even country as you like without going into that location.
65. Check out Biographies – Hitler to Elon Musk anyone as you wish
Whether you prefer reading, watching or just listening, you got biographies in every form. Just choose the one you like and consider as inspiration and start knowing about them.
66. Check out a useless website called useless web
Useless Web is a Useless website which shows you many useless websites. This is considered a time-killing website. I think you might need it now.
67. Check out Nikon School Video Courses
Nikon is providing professional-level DSLR learning courses for free due to the present issue. You can check out their website for more information.
Maybe a better time to learn photography. Or you can choose this Udemy class, which you can get for a 95% discount at present.
68. Search about you, your family, friends, etc on Google.
You might have already searched about you on Google. Now as you have a lot of time, search about your family and friends too.
69. Rearrange the furniture in your home.
Rearranging furniture makes your home feels like a different space. Yeah! It’s in Science.
70. Don’t forget to learn small things like tieing a lace, tie.
OK. We have been concentrating on soo big things, but in case you have problems with small things like tieing a lace, common clear it now.
71. Get in contact with everyone you know.
If you are an extrovert, this is one of the best options for you to choose. You can either message, call or even video call, whatever feels nice for you. And that all the people includes your classmates, college mates, etc.
72. checkout Aarogya Seth
Aarogya Seth is an app made by the Government of India for the people’s protection from Corona Virus. This app alerts you when you are in close proximity to a patient in the last 14 days. It is also made to educate people about the Corona Virus and also
73. Check out all the products from Adobe and start learning something
Did you know that there are more than 50+ adobe professional services? You can check out them from the video below. And start learning something which you feel so.
74. Check out the new Disney+ Hotstar to watch cartoons again
Watching cartoons again is a good nostalgia, may its time for you to go back in time again.
75. checkout your old Facebook posts
Another kind of nostalgia is checking out your old Facebook posts. Sometimes I feel like I was dumb then, but still, a nice experience to get into and pass the time.
76. Create a calendar with all your family and friends birthdays and other important days
Facebook used to notify me about all the birthdays, but as I stopped using Facebook these days, I need some alternative to notify me about birthdays.
If you are also like me, you can use this time to save your relatives and friends birthdays into Calendar.
77. check out your horoscope
There are many online Horoscope websites and YouTube channels, you can just search for them and check out your horoscope.
78. Take a picture of yourself that can replace all your DPs
You can try to make the best pic of yourself in this quarantine that can replace all your existing Dp’s. It might sound like an easy thing, but keep the expectations quite high, so that it can become hard and also gives you the best pic of you ever.
79. Take a look at your Childhood Album
Not interested in taking any pics now? Just sit down and look at your childhood album.
80. Sleep on your terrace and look at the sky.
That’s it. Heading should say the feel of it. Anyhow, I am not talking about the afternoon. Night, Evening, Early morning anything can work.
81. Take a Udemy or Skillshare course.
Most of the tips on this list is about learning something. And to take courses for them to start over, the best option is to choose either Udey or Skillshare. In fact, there are many courses which are on huge discounts now.
82. Easily create music with Madeon
Not interested in learning Music, then you can directly create one easily using the Madeon Website. seriously, you are going to spend a lot of time on this once you started using this adventure machine.
83. Checkout Kickass app website to play a game of destroying any website
Did you know this website called Kickass app which kicks the ass of every website by destroying it? You can even destroy my website, it’s all up to you. Works great on desktop.
84. Try different lipstick and nail polish.
Because it’s better to try out new things when you are at home than you need to go outside. This is sometimes when no one comes or you go outside.
85. Feed dogs, cows and birds. It is also a hard time for them to find food.
If you are an animal lover, you can just step out of our house and feed the animals. I advise you to not go too far, just a few steps from your home and don’t touch anything. Just a safety precaution.
86. Create a themed Instagram account, take a topic and post pictures related to that topic.
Instagram is also a platform to earn money. But not with your account, unless you are a model. You can create themed Instagram account, post on it and make the channel bigger.
For example, let’s take dogs as a topic, post pics of dogs and some useful info about them, later you can make money by advertising products related to dogs. There is a bit of learning curve to it, not a hard task. Also, remember there is good competition for this.
87. Clean up your device storage and cloud storage.
Your storage may become full anytime, so instead of waiting for it becomes full, you can clean out the junk in your storage.
88. Analyse the pros and cons of you and work on them
Analyzing yourself without Bias is hard, but not impossible. Be fair in analyzing you, consider anger, laziness, thinking style and everything, Work-around on them and make your self better.
89. Make a list of 20 things you will do after the lockdown.
You cannot do many things now, but definitely, you can later after the lockdown. Sit down and list out the list of things you wanted to do after the lockdown. It can something small like eating ice cream to something big like starting your startup.
90. Read Mahabaratha, one of the best story worlds has ever created.
Mahabaratha is an amazing story with many twists and even elevations. Try reading it fully, it can be even better than your favorite movie.
91. Imitate actors and other celebrities.
Another best way to pass the time is to imitate others. You can either do it with celebrities, or you can do that with people you know.
92. Just wanted to watch movies and enjoy? Then take niche or genre and watch them one after another. Or watch some TV Shows.
If you need is to sit and watch movies, instead of watching some random movies. Take a genre and start watching only the movies in that genre. Language doesn’t matter, genre on;y does.
93. Check out other articles on my website
HAHA, just kidding. But you can really check them out one and give me feedback for this website to [email protected]
94. Have a business plan? Start making your plan practical and plan to how you can start it.
People have startup plans, but they never start them. In case, you have something like that in your head. Try to make it practical and plan for it to make it real. Learn about it and check out who can invest in your plan.
95. Check out Online Survey Sites, one of the ways to earn money from online.
You might have already known that there is something called survey sites which pay you for participating in the surveys. You can check out them to earn money. But the only problem is there are many sites and few of them are scams and few don’t pay a good amount of money. Anyhow, I have listed various survey sites which are best to earn money from them in India.
96. Create subtitles for Youtube Videos, Movies, Tv-Shows, etc.
If survey sites are too boring for you, you can write subtitles to Youtube Videos or even movies. This is possible by an app called Rev. You can check out the process here.
97. Teach online to earn money
Another way to make money is by online classes. If you are good at subjects or languages or any skill, you can teach others in online classes. As everyone is inside their home now, you have even more chances of getting some students to teach and earn money. Check out this article to start making money by teaching online.
98. check out best apps to earn money in 2020
If none of these earning ways interested you, then you can go with this classic way of making money from the apps. As said with survey sites, there are many scan apps and many apps don’t play well.
But here are a few apps that really pay you and also pay you well.
99. Check out Fan Theories.
Fan theories are amazing, sometimes they are cringy and sometimes they are even better than the movie or TV show. If there are any favourite movies or TV shows, I will also check out the fan theories later. In case, if you are also like me, you can check out fan theories in this quarantine period.
100. Decide what to select from this list and start doing.
Now, you may have a lot of things to do and don’t know what to start with. List out all of them and strike them off one by one which you feel are not much important. The one which you feel important until the end is the most important thing. Start working on it and make yourself busy.
