How will you use your time at home productively?

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Nobody wanted this current situation but if we’re to be stuck at home for the foreseeable future what do you plan to do with that time?

I plan to clean & declutter the house, exercise and lose weight, organise all my papers and files, up my self care routine (currently I don’t have one) read more and take some online classes.

Anyone else have plans?

This thread is great, we’re going to:

Plant some potatoes and carrots (for the first time)
Improve the garden by painting the fences, furniture and decking.
Plant some bulbs (I never get round to this)
Read, game and rest
And I’m going to try and teach DS to read

I appear to have less time, not more. I'm trying to work from home full-time while also entertaining bored children. Which means work takes longer and seeps into evenings. Very envious of those making reading lists, building forts etc. Do enjoy it.

I’ll be working 8 hrs a day, and now supervising ds doing school work.

At the weekends, cleaning & gardening I guess. We’re all going to have very clean houses by the time this is over.

I am currently still working but my husband is retired. If my shop closes we will be decorating and doing all the jobs I don’t normally have time for as I also look after my grandchildren. My husband will hate me as he has taken retirement really seriously and does fuck all every day 😂

So jealous of people’s fun plans! I’ll mostly be working and entertaining a 4 year old! And cleaning as the house seems so untidy these days!

My DH and I are both key workers so our ds6 will be at school 4 days a week I will have one day off a week as I normally do.I will spend that time teaching him as the school aren't doing the national curriculum which is absolutely fine. Rest of the time housework , playing games, spending time with my older dc, will have to walk the dog too. I'm a very sociable person always popping out and about but obviously that has stopped so I do hope to spend that time sorting out our messy garden.

@pumpkinpie01 to you and your DH, and genuine thanks for doing what you do to keep things going. Wishing you well.

Working while entertaining/teaching a 5 yr old.

We've spent today decluttering so the house feels less claustrophobic and DD has more room to run about like a mad thing.

I've also ordered some stuff for the garden as hoping part of her day every day can be spent in the garden, playing and growing some simple fruit and veg.

I run a business from home but it fell off a cliff on Monday so I have:

Got completely up to date with this quarters accounts and filing
Done all my Mum’s filing and shredding
Reorganised my spice rack
Reorganised my linen cupboard
Cleaned out my store cupboard

I need to do all my personal filing

Then I am going to:

Watch all of Giri/Haji
Read a lot
Keep popping to the shops for very elderly friend and take her her stuff
Carry on walking the dog while we are still allowed out
Start baking all our bread and teach ds how to bake bread -show off skill for uni
Sort out the garden

We will be working too so, around that hopefully planting, tomatoes for the first time, cucumbers etc.

Sorting out the garden. General tidying.

I would love to paint but I'm not sure about getting the actual paint now.
Photo books etc.

Maybe teach dd to ride bike

DD11 loves school & thrives on routine ( she hasn’t been officially diagnosed but we suspect she is very high functioning autistic) so we’re adapting a timetable she found on an ADHD website. I think it helps that she found it herself & told me that she wants to base her weekdays on it. Other things to do :-
Springclean
Bag up stuff to take to the charity shop when it reopens
Sort out the incredibly muddy back garden & buy plants for the patio pots ( we don’t actually have a patio lol 😂)
Do up 2 spare rabbit hutches & sell them
Do up the summerhouse to make a den for DD
Play the piano more & encourage DD to practise
Try to do a Davina 7 minute workout daily
Bake & teach DD basic dishes. We made gluten free buns today which were delicious
Spend quality time as a family - DD tends to gravitate towards me & I want her & DH to forge a better relationship
Get in touch with people we don’t normally have much time to contact
Do online karaoke/ dancing
Play board games
Encourage DH to clear the spare room so he has a proper office
Encourage DD to add to her gluten free blog
Read books, although I always find this challenging to fit into my day
Start a blog myself about living through these challenging times
Enter online competitions ( although it might be a while before I can claim the prizes eg holidays, spa breaks etc)
Plan our new bathroom on credit
Get out of the house if we can for walks, bike rides, beach visits etc
Have beauty sessions with DD eg make up, make our own face masks, painting nails, foot spa etc
Planning a holiday for when all this madness is over

I am WAH in the day but had high hopes of repairing and painting the outside of the house over spring in my spare time.

However, very reluctant to spend money at the moment on anything but essentials as we don't know how the economy is going to be after all this ends. So instead I will be sat in the garden a lot instead.

I am still working. Don’t want to be. My son has a crap immune system and if he gets this it will be bad. But I’m self employed and if I don’t go to my job I will not get paid.

@Ninkanink we're not nurses or teachers they are the heroes in all this but thank you. My DH is a prison worker where visits are still being allowed 6 times a week how absolutely stupid is that !

I'm a key worker, DH is not but is still working. So no extra time to do anything. In fact, less time than usual. I'm also waiting to see if my leave over Easter will be cancelled.

Great thread following for ideas

You’re both still keeping the system going. Everyone that does so deserves thanks. ⭐️

If this week is anything to go by, working 12 hours a day, yelling at the kids to get off the Xbox and sobbing. Repeat until September.

I have two small children (reception and year one age) so lots of phonics and sight words etc. Little projects and their work from school. We will do that until lunch. Then go for walk (an hour) and I will do housework or read while they play. At weekends and evenings I intend to go for another walk / run and declutter (though I have been doing a lot since last autumn so I don't have too much to do)

I'm still working but I've bought paint and wallpaper to re-decorate kitchen and dining room. And hall, stairs and landing if feeling brave.

Gardening and making raised beds/veg patch. This was going to be done anyway but with all of us being home together so much it means it's the perfect time to get on with it.

It's a very very old house that needs so much work so we're seeing the silver lining in this. We're getting a whole lot done, even with still working.

Kids hope to keep me busy so I don't attempt to home educate them.

DD14 says she's using the time to learn to knit.

I plan to have a baby sometime in the next 2 weeks. Guess I'll take it from there, lol.

We're still working from home (and I hope that keeps going!) But I also want to tidy out each room - it's not a mess as I'm a big Marie Kondo fan anyway but I like to keep it very neat. I've also cancelled our cleaning company so we have to do that too. But no garden to do (it's tiny and very sparse). I do hope to get a certification for work though and have signed up to an online course. I am a bit concerned as we have two 18 yo DS who were to do A levels and are now a bit in limbo which is hard for them. But I've offered new trainers if they want to run alone, and suggested a futurelearn course related to what they want to do at Uni.

Oh, silversurfer, once The Covid Eclipse moves away from the bright hot light of Brexit, you will find a very different beast emerge.

You will find a population suddenly rather better informed of what actual chaos looks like; what fighting in supermarket aisles looks like; what a present entirely borrowed from the future looks like.

Let me assure you, it will not, and cannot be 'business as usual'. A month ago, the EU was proving less malleable than many had been duped into believing was foregone; a EU struggling to rebuild its own members' economies will give us very short shrift.

Nippy little 'Oh, those Remainers' from you, eh?

Coronavirus has utterly changed that landscape. Somewhat obviously.

Il be working once we are out of isolation. Ds coughed in class and we got sent home. For now though I'm making the most of a simpler life. Iv done the gardening and painted a bedroom. Slowly doing all the jobs I'm normally too busy to do. It also helps with the anxiety of the situation.

Well I work now 4 nine hour nights from home and look after 4 kids in the days which leave little time.

When I not doing that we have been for loads of long walks.
I run.
I've cleared some of the garden.
I will get through all the important / shit loads of improtant paperwork and maybe file them, burn them or shred them.

That's it