Quarantine, how much you oblige - a guide to stay at home

• Read

Reading is always good. And isolation indoors can be a great time to catch up on the habit. You have lots of books online that you can buy for free.

Take the time to read books, magazines, blogs or articles. Reading leads to knowledge and high conversations.

• Make a wish list and goals to accomplish

It's time to do what you've always wanted and you didn't have time. Go after your dreams!

Take the opportunity to reflect on life and value small things. Create a list of your wishes and you will see that over time it will give you a lot of pleasure to place a "visa" in front of each one.

Plan everything so you can achieve them.

• Watch tutorials on things you like and explore

Take the opportunity to see toturiais on Youtube or finally pick up the musical instrument you have at home and start using it.

Cooking, makeup, fitness, languages, fashion, sewing, photography, etc. There is certainly an area that you appreciate and you never had time to explore it. That time has come! Don't let it escape, everything is at your disposal.

• Opportunity to learn

Learning what, exactly? Everything you wish, or almost everything will go. It is an excellent time to take an online course, there is a proliferation of these on the internet. Do a quick search for your interests and you will be surprised.

• Exercise

We are not all going to give in to the sedentary lifestyle that our house asks for and eat what we want just because we can and because we can. We can, we don't want to. In reality, we must, for everything, keep the body active, even at home.

We are talking about sport, yes.

It is very possible to perform certain exercises and practice some physical activities such as yoga or pilates, without having to have an elitist at home. Fortunately, there are many videos, on the most varied platforms, that can help us do this with the necessary monitoring and care.

Pay close attention because what you least want is that you get injured or hurt and have to go to the hospital - places to avoid and overcrowded with greater urgencies.

Apart from situations like this, exercising at home is totally recommended. Alone or accompanied makes this mission a fun journey.

• Take care of you

Taking care of you should be a daily task. With the hustle and bustle that modern times demand, this time is not always possible, or when it is, we feel guilty for not doing any other task.

Take advantage of this time for self-care. Use and enjoy all the cleansing gels, tonics, creams and serums you have ever purchased.

Make (many) of those facial masks with straight slices of cucumber in the eyes. Color your hair, shave, take care of your nails, put on makeup - and why not?

Make one of all the multipurpose products you already have at home and surrender to the best beauty tricks when you lack new ideas.

• Listen to music

It is good for the mind, distracting and at a distance from platforms like Spotify or Youtube.

In addition, you can always go to your CD collection and listen to everyone you have at home. You will relive great memories to the sound of your favorite singers and bands.

• Plan your dream trip

Do you know that trip you always wanted to take? It's time to start planning it. You know you can't do it for now, but how about you start organizing what you want to do, visit, places of accommodation, culture, etc. You will see that you will lose more by adding another "visa" to your wish list.

• Visit museums online

How about taking the time to make virtual visits to some of the most interesting museums in the world. They are museums that offer "tours" or that put some of their collections of masterpieces available online.

That's right! From the comfort of home, it is possible to take virtual tours of more than 1,200 institutions around the world.

The official pages of museums and galleries around the world and the Google Arts & Culture portal allow you to conduct visits and exhibitions online. From the Prado Museum, in Madrid, to the Briton, in London, to the J. Paul Getty Museum, in Los Angeles, or to the Guggenheim in New York: this is a good plan without leaving the comfort of the sofa. There are no tickets or queues to enter and it is a great idea to acquire culture and knowledge from the family.

Click here and access the website that allows you to see museums and exhibitions: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner?hl=en

• Organize the house

There are those who say that an organized house is synonymous with mind in order. It may be true or not, but in any case, it is a great pleasure to find a new configuration for those items that were previously disorganized. Truth?

If it's sanity you're looking for, open (for example) your drawers and cupboards and start organizing your clothes.

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If you do this task as a family it will become a lot more fun.

• Watch movies

Do you know those old movies that you always wanted to see or see and you never have time? Well, the time has come.

Also watch some movies that the kids at home like and make some popcorn that they will love the session. Good movie!

• Cook

How about putting the culinary skills into practice? Talk to your mom and grandma and surprise yourself by reproducing those recipes you love so much.

Be creative and take risks without fear, after all you are discovering an area that you never had time to explore. Makes healthy recipes, from simple dishes to more elaborate dishes and desserts.

It involves the whole family in this task, respecting all rules of hygiene and distance.

• Reuse things you don't use

Those clothes that you kept indefinitely, but that you finally decided to take out of the wardrobe, in the throw away. Look at them and see how best to reuse them, you can do cute and original things, and thus spend a good time.

Those who talk about clothes also talk about objects that you have at home and that you are tired of, use them to reinvent yourself and do funny things with the children that you have at home.

• Do teaching activities

There are educational and interesting activities for children. They will be distracted for a few hours and acquire knowledge. From paintings, collages, matching games, paper folding, letters and numbers games, etc. The ideas you have on the internet are immense.

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