Thread by @USATODAY

Staying indoors?

We've compiled 100 suggestions to help make your time quarantined as interesting – and perhaps even as productive – as possible. 👇

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1. Complete a puzzle. The more pieces the better! 🧩

2. Start a journal or blog. ✏️📖

3. If it won't bother your neighbors: Dust off that old instrument and practice. 🎸🥁🎺🎷🎹

4. Write poetry. For example:

Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
Stay an informed citizen,
by reading the news.

5. Watch all of the really long movies you’ve been avoiding. 📺

6. Teach yourself a foreign language. 🌎

7. Finally read “Infinite Jest,” “Les Miserables” or even “The Stand.” Go all in and read “Ulysses.” 📚

You got this.

8. Meditate!🧘

Try lying down with your eyes closed, palms up and while focusing on your breath. Or spend 20 minutes sitting crosslegged and repeat a soothing word to yourself in your head.

9. Look at pictures of puppies, like these 14/10 doggos from Puppy Bowl XVI! bit.ly/38VyICc

10. Take note from "Tangled" star Rapunzel, who has an entire song dedicated to how she's spent her days alone in a castle. 🏰

Activities include: Ventriloquy, candle-making, papier-mâché and adding a new painting to her gallery.

11. Write letters to family and friends. 📬

After that? Write thank-you notes to service people who went out of their way to help you.

12. 𝐿𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓃 𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁𝒾𝑔𝓇𝒶𝓅𝒽𝓎. 𝒴𝑜𝓊𝒯𝓊𝒷𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓅.

13. Finally read the rules to those long and intense board games that you never played with the family. 🎲

Encourage the family to play. Do not fight with the family over said intense board game.

14. Put on a soap opera. Mute the sound. Create your own dialogue. Example:

Character 1: Did you read the news today?
Character 2: Sure did.
Character 1: *gasps* Me too!

15. Have a kitchen cabinet where all of the extra dishes go? Organize it.🍴

16. Try on all your clothes and determine whether they “spark joy” á la Marie Kondo. 👚👗👖

17. Cook all the things.

🥗🍞🥐🥖🥨🥯🥞🧇🧀🍗🍖🥩🍤🥚🌮🥪🍝🍕🌭🍔🍟🥓🍳🌯🥙🧆🍜🥘🍲🍚🥧🧁🎂🍰
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18. Watch the films that won Oscars for best picture.

Watch the films that won Independent Spirit Awards for best picture.

Watch the films that critics say should have won those aforementioned awards.

19. Knit or crochet. 🧶

Not sure how? Teach yourself!

20. Use Skype, FaceTime, Google Hangouts or Zoom to video chat with your long-distance friends.

Video chat with your neighbors, even! 💻

21. Try at-home aerobics or yoga videos.

Consider downloading a fitness app with curated workout playlists.🤸🧘‍♂️🚴‍♂️

22. Take a bubble bath. With lots of bubbles. 🛀

23. Shower. Even if you haven't left your home in a week.

24. Coloring books: They’re not just for kids. 🖍️

25. Take time to reflect: What have you accomplished in the last year?

What goals are you setting for yourself in the next year?

26. Write a short story.

Or, perhaps, get started on that epic novel. ✍️

27. Actually try to reproduce something you see on Pinterest.

Probably fail.

Try again. And again. And again.

28. Camp indoors with blankets, popcorn and scary movies. You can even microwave some s'mores. ⛺️

29. Finally get around to fixing that broken door knob and loose tile or cleaning scuffed up walls.

Or just clean. Sure your floor doesn't look dirty. But it probably is.

30. Look at a photo from every day in 2019. Just because. usatoday.com/pages/interact…

31. Or go through your own camera roll, pick your favorite pictures from the past year and make a photo book or order framed versions online. 📸

32. Start a podcast.