Helpful tips and tricks to guide you through the quarantine.

Keep a Routine

Find tasks that break up your day. Instead of that morning team brief or afternoon chat around the water cooler, you’ll need to adapt to the current situation. Have regular conversations with yourself; scream into a pillow till you get lightheaded; or simply stare at the wall for five, ten, fifteen minutes, whatever feels natural to you.

Panic at Home, Not in Supermarkets

Supermarkets will be open throughout the quarantine, so you needn’t panic buy. Consider your fellow New Zealanders’ needs by shopping responsibly, and restricting your panics to your home. Claustrophobia, existential crises, or just general anxieties caused from being stuck indoors are much preferred because they don’t tangibly effect other shoppers.

Give Housemates the Silent Treatment Immediately

Don’t risk an emotional, or even violent, explosion a week or two in. Instead begin giving friends and family the cold shoulder from day one to healthily spread your frustrations at being unable to escape their presence out over the entirety of the quarantine.

Stop Cutting Your Fingernails

It’s just a fun, innocent way to pass the time. See how long they can get!

Hygiene – Kill Germs AND Time

Instead of singing happy birthday when you wash your hands, consider humming Mozart’s Symphony No. 40. At roughly 26 minutes long, after just a few hand washings, the quarantine will be nearly over.





Get Creative with Cooking

Now is the perfect time to attempt some new recipes – try cooking a roast, or baking a flan – and even if they come out subpar, what is your family going to do? Go out for dinner? I think not Mr picky pants! You have them captive.

Alternatively, if cooking isn’t your strong suit, a quick Google search shows that you can survive on common household condiments for a period of time.

And Most Importantly…

Stay positive. This lockdown is temporary. Before you know it, you’ll be back to your exciting 9-5 desk job, and the past month will feel like a distant fever dream.