• 📓 Buzzfeed has a post on “26 Hairstyles for Shoulder-length Hair” that mostly require bobby pins (if you can find them), mini hair elastics and clips. <br>
• 📓 Verily Mag has “10 Quick and Easy Hairstyles for UpDo Newbies” <br>
• 📓 Learn the classical braid with Cosmopolitan’s “How To Braid: 17 Easy Braid Tutorials for Beginners.”

• Products
  • 📓Apartment Therapy | How To Make Homemade Citrus Cleaner
  • 📓Wellness Mama | Natural Homemade Baby Wipes
• Body
  • 📓Hello Glow |11 Ways To Make Homemade Body Wash
  • 📓Pronounce Skin Care | Effective, Easy Homemade Deo Recipe
  • 📓Faceonomics |Messy DIY Honey Mask
  • 📓A Beautiful Mess | Homemade Bath Bombs
  • Wholefully | Body Scrub

• Write a letter, or if you feel a bit more creative – why not create a collage or postcard.
• Create a playlist of all your favourite songs or songs that you keep in your memories. Check out one I made here.
• Create a gift box – if they’re overseas pals, send them something you can only get in your home country.
• Send your favourite novel to someone (as long as you know you’ll get it back.)

Mostly you think the videos are a bit too much – but you’ve got all the time on your hands, right?!

• PINTEREST | “Cool Things to Make at Home“
• 📓 Make some play-dough, some fake snow,
• 🖥️YOUTUBE | Make a flower out of wool and a fork or some paper flowers | 10 DIY with stuff you already have (maybe)
• Make a Collage using things you have around.
  • 10 Practical Tips by Nat Girsberger
  • 7 things to consider when creating a collage
• Try out Calligraphy, write some notes to people.
• If you’ve got wool/yarn you can learn to finger knit and crochet if you don’t have the tools. Check Buzzfeed 28 Super Easy Yarn DIYs

• 📓 One Good Thing | 63 Brilliant Re-purposing Ideas That Will Save You Money
• 📓 Bored Panda | 30 Creative Ways to Re-purpose & Reuse Old Stuff
  • Turn an old ladder into a bookshelf, bottles into brooms, TP rolls into organizers, bottle caps into tea lights.
• 📓 DIY & CRAFTS | 100 Ways to Re-purpose and Reuse Broken Household Items |
  • Photo frame into an earring holder, lotion bottles into charging stations
• 📓 LifeHack | 30 Easy & Awesome DIYS
• 📓 Expert Home Tips |31 Terrifically Thrifty Ways To Use Your Old Bed Sheets
  • LEARN TO SEW! – you can make tote bags, aprons, napkins etc.
• 🖥️YOUTUBE | Take a look at MissDebbieDIY who have ideas on cardboard boxes, tin cans, toilet rolls etc.
• Try Weave Newspaper into Boxes with this tutorial.
• Try Paper Cutting to make cards / postcards etc. Guide

• 📓GH| What Is a Bullet Journal?
• 📓Bullet Journal| FAQ Beautifully Organised Show & Tell
• Look on Instagram under #BuJo for inspiration or on IG accounts such as YikesJournal | plslars |journalwithrae
• Learn some ‘faux calligraphy either by a blog post or a video

• 📓Happy Feed| What Is a Gratitude Journal?
• 📓Positive Psychology|67 Templates, Ideas & Apps

• Take a look at Better Homes & Gardens : Know These Garden Basics as well as learning how to water indoor plants is also probably a good place to start.
• ECO Outdoor | Top 8 Must-Have Herbs to Grow at Home.
• Learn to make a Terrarium

ECO-FRIENDLY

• 📓 Frankie Mag | Gardening for Climate Change: handy tips for an earth-friendly backyard.
• Heritage Fund | 10 ways to help make a difference to the natural world
• If you have a garden, consider making bird feeders & baths. Video: how to make a feeder from a plastic bottle.
• 📓Learn how to start Composting

APARTMENT

• 📓 The Spruce | Apartment Gardening for Beginners (herbs & veggies)
• YOUTUBE: 10 Garden Hacks for People who Don’t have a Garden.
• 📓 AirTasker | How to grow vegetables in your apartment
• 📓The Good Trade | 6 Tips For Sustainable Gardening In Small Spaces

Memrise

💰Free – Annual Subscription is $95.99 USD but often have 50% off (subscribe to the emails to receive the offers)
🔗 GooglePlay 🔗AppStore

“Watch and learn real conversational language from native speakers. Get a personalised learning experience that gives you just the right level of challenge to keep you motivated. We use a variety of fun and proven memory techniques that will speed up your learning.“

Memrise is my go-to language app. Everything I’ve learnt from Memrise I still remember. It’s pretty much a gamed flashcard app. It tracks what you’ve learnt, mistakes you make and re-does them. You learn via visual and audio questions. 

Coffee Break Languages

💰Podcasts Free | Lessons: $104  USD / £80 GBP
🕒Podcasts: 25 mins | Lessons: 15-20 minutes
“Listen to our free podcasts and learn English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish or Chinese on the go, where and when it suits you.”

Sign Language [Auslan]

There are so many great resources out there but I suggest taking a look at Hello Asphyxia’s Australian Sign Language Online Course which is filled with not only videos but also little snippets of information.

Google Arts & Culture offers over 2000 museums* you can look through. Take a peak at their “top 10 museums you can explore right here, right now” – Some of them included are the four below;

• The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia
• The Guggenheim in New York, United States.
• The National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, South Korea.
• The Smithsonian in Washington, DC, USA.

Many also offer their own videos and tours.

• THE LOUVRE: Virtual Tours. & Videos (requires Flash Player)
• The British National Museum: huge online collection.
• The Vatican Museum & Sistine Chapel (requires Flash Player.)
• The Women’s History Museum offers online exhibits from The Women of Nasa, Parading for Progress and Civil Rights Movement.
  • – a full twitter thread by @schenior here.
• The National Gallery of Victoria

• National Parks in NSW, Australia is offering a range of Street View virtual tours from Kosciusko National Park to walking tracks along the South and West Coast.
• Explore 5 famous American National Parks with tours by some park rangers!
• Watch some videos about Shipwrecks with Biscayne National Park, Florida.
• You can actually use a method of Google Street View (the yellow little person) and 360* degree photos to experience trails such as Valley of the 5 Lakes, Canada, Crater Lake, USA, Devil’s Peak – South Africa, Alto Cruz De La Demanda Spain. Mt Everest Base Camp, Nepal.

• NASA schedules coverage of different exhibitions on certain days. Check out the schedule here.
• Check out News, I Didn’t Know That and Short films over at the National Geographic.
• The Smithsonian Magazine showcases great videos from “Nasa’s First Chimp in Space” to “Inside Look at the Mars Simulation Project.”
• Take a look at Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre with Google Treks.

• The Metropolitan Opera from 7:30 p.m. EDT until 6:30 p.m. Check out the instalment schedule here.
• Nugs.net offers you over 15,000 full-length recordings from up to 40 years ago. Feel like you missed out on something? Watch it! You get 30 days free, and after that $12.99/month.
• Vimeo: “get lost in inventive music videos, interesting music docs and epic live music performances”

• Sacred Heart, an AU second hand shop has an online store on both Instagram & eBay (electronics) so perhaps stores in your area do too.
• Depop: Buy, sell and discover fashion
  🔗 GooglePlay 🔗AppStore
• Facebook Marketplace: Categorise into Home & Garden, Clothing, Hobbies.
• Etsy: Vintage to Handmade items from Jewelry to Toys to Art and Craft Supplies.
• Mottainai [AU] Australian second-hand items with free shipping.

• Listen: Stream online for local bands, listen to podcasts by local cities.
• Buy: Do your essential shopping, and try to buy national made. If companies are still open, think of Gift Cards. Get delivery from the main website.
• Share: bands you like, cafes you frequent and re-share Instagram posts.
• Online: A lot of local businesses are offering online classes, courses

• 🖥️ YouTube | SarahBethYoga | YogaWithAdriene
• Free Trials: Gaia + YogaInternational

• 🖥️ YouTube | Dance Your Pants Off! (1996) & Sweatin’ to the Oldies
• 🎧 Listen to the podcast; Missing Richard Simmons. It not only goes into who Ricard Simmons is, because you may not know him.

• 📱 APP | 7 Minute Workout
  Based on HICT (high intensity circuit training), proven to be the “safest, most effective, and most efficient” way to improve your muscular and aerobic fitness, and make you healthier. 12 exercises for 30 seconds, 10 second break between.
• 🖥️ YouTube | 7 Minute Workout Song w/Timer

• 🖥️ QLD Gov Healthy/Happier : No Running Cardio No Sweat Lunch Break
• NBC News | 30 Day strength Training
• ACE |25 At – Home Exercises
• YOUTUBE |
  • MadFit Song Workouts – workouts to pop songs
  • The Fitness Marshall – teaching you dance moves to songs.

• A man called Mike trolls people on classified adverts here.
  • You can read the best page in the universe which is where soe guy just writes about stuff that pisses him off.
• This is Why I’m Broke – essentially the internet’s mall. They have things from $1.00 (pessimistic balloon) up to $2,300,000,000.00 (it’s a submarine super yacht)
• Postsecret is an art project of strangers secrets that are updated each Sunday.
• Lamebook.com has 2,258 pages of funny posts from social media.
• Read about Movie Mistakes made.
• Read people’s love letters here.
• Ethical, no but you can read someone’s housemates’ diary.
• You can read about someone’s Hunt for the Death Valley Germans if you’re into crime and mystery this is it.
  • If you’re into true crime – try Famous Trials which has the Trial of Joan of Arc, Galileo, Clinton Impeachment etc.
  • Into Urban Legends? Try The Ghost In My Machine
• BLOGS
  • Cabin Porn: Inspiration for your quiet place somewhere.
  • People of Walmart : the people of Walmart
  • Texts from Last Night similar: IG: awardsforgoodboys

• Geoguessr.com takes google maps, and then you need to guess where you are. It’s legit time-wasting, hard and you can do it every 8 hours for free.
• Pretend to be a DJ and pick any two songs in the world to mash together with RAVE.DJ
  • Think you’re good with song lyrics – try write the lyrics with the song and see how you go here.
• Take Me to a Useless Website (how it sounds)
• Learn about how trust (verb) was formed here.
• Weave Silk:  create your own artwork with different colours and shapes of using rotational symmetry lines.
• Art Breeder: Any shared image can be used, edited or mixed.

• Learn english vocabulary and also donate rice with Free Rice.
• Help Research with Zooniverse such as translating, photographs or identifying things in paintings!
• The Prepared is a “collection of free, obsessively-researched reviews of the best prepper gear and skills so you can protect your life, family, and home in an emergency.”

• r/PublicFreakouts
  • A subreddit dedicated to people freaking out, melting down, losing their cool, or being weird in public.
• /r/WatchPeopleDieInside/
  • People dying – but on the inside
• r/legaladvice
  • A place to ask simple legal questions, and to have legal concepts explained.
• r/AmITheAsshole
  • A catharsis for the frustrated moral philosopher in all of us, and a place to finally find out if you were wrong in an argument that’s been bothering you
• r/subwaycreatures
  • A subreddit devoted to all the weird shit you see on public transit.
• R/Internetisbeautiful
  • This is a subreddit based around sharing awesome, usually minimal and single-purpose websites and webtools.
• r/ShittySuperPowers
  • Post your favourite shitty superpowers that will help you save or shit on the world that needs us!
• R/Unexpected
  •  unexpected twists in videos and gifs

• Unroll some toilet paper here
• Make a landscape with different variables here. You’ll think “neat but kinda boring” and proceed to spend 30 mins on there.
• Try to draw the perfect circle here and they’ll analyze it.
• Images of people pointing to your mouse here.
• Spend Bill Gates’ Money here
• Read misheard lyrics here
• I think this is just a game with the same map and over to fill out
• You look for an invisible cow.

The information provided on this blog is general in nature only and does not constitute personal financial advice – please consult independent legal, financial or taxation advice if needed.

• Investigate cheaper interest rates for your loans and credit card. Consider bundling your credit cards into a personal loan to have one monthly payment and one interest amount.
• 🖥️ Tax, Super & You (Australia)
  • I’m not probably going to spend my time doing this, but if it’s always been at the back of your mind, and you’re sick of paying someone to do it – now’s the perfect time to learn.
  • There are plenty of different super accounts out there so try looking for ones that give best returns over the long term.
• Create a budget.
  • The Balance: Make a Personal Budget in 6 Steps
  • Reddit: What are some of your budgeting tips?

• HOUSE 📺 Netflix | Tidying up with Marie Kondo
  • You ask yourself whether or not something holds joy. Although some of the things I don’t agree with (getting rid of books) others hold value.
• CLOTHING 📓 The Reverse Hanger Trick
  • You essentially take all your hanging clothes, face them outwards and then in 3,6,12 months you come back and see what you wear.
• KITCHEN 📓CLEAN MY SPACE | Declutter Your Kitchen: 10 Things to Toss Today 📓MONEY CRASHERS| How to Declutter Your Kitchen in 5 Easy Steps to Save Money
• WORKSPACE something as simple as a table tray to lift your computer up can do wonders. Take a look at ABC’s hacks about working from home here.

• Dedicate some time in the shower. Wash your hair, exfoliate your face & body. Moisturize and do a face mask.
  • Try an afternoon shower beer. I’ve also heard of people eating oranges.
• Run a hot bath with a bath bomb or epsom salts. light a candle, read a book, drink a g&t.
  • apply a messy face mask; palmful of raw honey, tsp turmeric, 2 drops of lavender/tea tree.
• Take a nap. Put on some fresh sheets, play a relaxing podcast or music, diffuse some oils, light a candle and set a timer.
• Try Yoga in the morning, meditation at night. Listen to a mindfulness podcast.
• Open some windows and get. some fresh air inside. Water plants if you have any.
• ARTICLE: The Best Ways To Wind Down Before Bed

• If you don’t know what to make with what you have on hand, SuperCook is a great resource. It’ll tell you a range of options you can try.
  🖥️Supercook | 🔗Apple | 🔗Android
• Watch Julia Child, the famous french chef on youtube. Following that, eat your meal while watching the movie Julie & Julia on Netflix.
• Remember Ready Steady Cook? It was always on when you’d pulled a sicky from school/work. May as well as re-live those days. Also, it was a four-time Logie Award Nominated show.
• Learn to bake! The BBC has a great introduction called “Baking for Beginners”.
  📓 Bustle| 30 Things to Bake When You’re Bored
  📓Taste of Home | 33 Basic Cookies to Make
• Make Smoothies / Cocktails. Okay, technically not cooking but you’ll be chopping, mixing and blending so same/same.
• 📓 SELF | 15 Classic Dishes Every Adult Should Know
  

• Clean the forgotten; Fantastic Cleaners | The things we don’t clean at home but we should.
• ARTICLE | NBC | Why the 20/10 Method can change the way you clean your house.
• Book: UnF*ck your Habitat: You’re better than your mess.
• ARTICLE: The Ultimate Cleaning Schedule for Your Day, Week, Month & Year
• Learn how to fold a fitted sheet.

• SPOT IT
  • One, and only one, matching symbol between any two cards. Got it? Now all you need is a sharp eye and a quick hand to play all five party games packed into the grab ‘n’ go
• SUSHI GO :
  • As you see the first few hands of cards, you must quickly assess the make-up of the round and decide which type of sushi you’ll go for. Then, each turn you’ll need to weigh which cards to keep and which to pass on. The different scoring combinations allow for some clever plays and nasty blocks. 
• CODENAMES
  • two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board.
• BANANAGRAMS
  •  Players and their opponents aim to use all of their letters to build a word grid in a race to the finish. The first player to use all of their tiles is crowned “Top Banana”! It’s kind of similar to scrabble but no pencil, paper or board is needed.
• TICKET TO RIDE
  • Players collect cards of various types of train cars they then use to claim railway routes in North America. The longer the routes, the more points they earn.
• CATAN
  • Each settlement is worth 1 victory point and each city is worth 2 victory points. If you expand cleverly, you may be the first player to reach 10 victory points and thus win the game!
• CLUEDO
  • Reclusive millionaire Samuel Black’s been murdered in his mansion. Now it’s up to you to crack the case. Question everything to unravel the mystery. Who did it? Where? And with what weapon? Ransack the mansion for clues, ask cunning detective questions and leave no card unturned. Solve the murder first to win! 
• MONOPOLY + MONOPOLY DEAL CARD GAME
  • Fast-dealing property trading game. Choose your token, place it on GO! and roll the dice to own it all! 
  • It comes with 110 cards. Be the first player to collect 3 complete Property Card sets in different colours to win

• P U Z Z L E S
  • 💰Free | 🖥️Jigsaw Planet | Jigsaw Explorer
  • Make one out of photos you have with Zazzle
• S U D O K O
  • Genina|play four difficulty levels
    🔗 Android 🔗Apple
  • Puzzazz| crosswords, cryptograms, and other puzzles.
    🔗 Android 🔗Apple
• ABSTRACT
  • Chess: play online here.
  • Backgammon: play online here
  • Checkers: play online here
  • Battleship: play online here
• CROSSWORDS
  • Send a postcard to your friend here
  • The NYT Crossword Mini

• T E E T H
  • There are so many alternatives of this, but you can pick a fruit, vegetable or animal. You say “Elephant Elephant to Rabbit Rabbit” That person then follows on with “Rabbit Rabbit to Bird Bird” and if you want to make it harder, you can make sure to start the last letter as the first letter.
  • Want inspiration?
    🖥️ Youtube | Don’t Show Keith Your Teeth game
• WOULD YOU RATHER?
  • Pretty straight forward, you pick two insane problems and discuss which one you’d rather do. Here’s a list of 100 to get you started.
• STORY: Fortunately Unfortunately
  • You take it in turn telling a story, starting with a premise it changes each time to “fortunately this happened” but “unfortunately they ran into this” and keep it going until you’re sick of it
• CATOGORIES
  • pretty much scattergories but no bored. Pick a theme/category “types of beers” “breakfast foods”

Someone, somewhere usually has a deck of cards. Perhaps not all 52, but you can work with that. You can play anything with a deck of cards.
Don’t have a deck? Play by yourself online at CardGames.10

MY FAVOURITES: to play with 3-4 others – links to Wikipedia how to play.
• Yanev
• Kaboo / Cabo
• Shithead
• Spit / Speed (2 players)

• The Wikipedia Game : it’ll give you a start page, and where you need to end up. The goal is to get from A > B in the shortest amount of clicks.
• Online Cards Against Humanity
• Online 2040 Game. Aim: join numbers to get the 2048 Tile.
• Guess how much antique art is worth here.
• Test your brain for averages here.
• Bouncer: a game where you bounce a ball against another ball.
• A website where games have been put into maths games and brainteasers.
• Diplomacy Online: Players compete with tactics, strategy, and diplomacy in a game of cooperation and conflict where chance plays no role.

• Frankie Magazine
  • Australian magazine with all the latest news, trends and events in fashion, travel, food, music, craft, art and more.
• Bust
  • News, entertainment, celebrity, lifestyle, and fashion from a feminist perspective.
• YEN
  • Music. Art. Fashion. Home. Travel.
• Monocle Mag
  •  global briefing covering international affairs, business, culture and design.
• National Geographic
  •  incredible photography, astonishing science news, and inspiring travel stories for over 125 years.
• TIME
  • Politics · World · Business · Tech · Health · Entertainment · Science · Newsfeed · Living · History · Ideas

• NEOPETS
  • Our aim is to keep adding new and exciting games, puzzles and activities daily and hopefully keep you all entertained!!!
  • I used to play this so much as a kid and teenager. I wish I could get back into my account.
• THE SIMS
  • You can get it on PC (the best) or Mobile. You can play isolation – in isolation! Or you know, go on adventures, woo-hoo with people and learn new skills.