Things You Can Do While Quarantined At Home - San Francisco's Shelter-in-Place
If you’re like most people, you started this year off with high hopes for 2020. No one could have imagined where we’d be today, three short months after New Year’s Eve as the world deals with the Coronavirus outbreak also known as COVID-19. As the Coronavirus continues to infect what seems like an exponential number of lives, governments all over the world including locally here in San Francisco have ordered a version of a shelter-in-place, lockdown, quarantine, or martial law. As people all over the world face some form of self-quarantine, social media continues to burst with helpful methods to pass the time while at home during this shelter-in-place. Here are out top 5 favorite things you can do while at home during this quarantine season:
Digital Group Gatherings
As government leaders call on influencers and world event organizers to lead the way, festival organizers like Insomniac’s Beyond Wonderland and SiriusXM’s Ultra Virtual Audio Festival are hosting virtual Rave-A-Thons where rave goers can participate from the safety of their home during shelter-in-place and quarantine mandates. If you enjoy dance parties, raves, or nightclubs, a virtual festival or rave-a-thon streamed from your living room could be the at-home solution you need to getting your music needs filled while getting some good exercising time in.
Corporate platforms like Zoom, Skype, Facebook’s Portal, and Google Hangouts are seeing a sharp rise as users seek to maintain their connection with friends, family, loved ones, and colleagues. Scheduling a virtual happy hour or game night with friends through a free digital hangout platform like Zoom streamed to your big screen TV could be the interim solution to your socializing needs.
Summer Body Ready
With only 2 months to go until summer, now’s the perfect time to develop some new workout habits with all the extra free time you have on your hands. While there are a ton of paid subscription services you can register with for daily workout routine like Obe Fitness , Blogilates, and Sworkit , you can also find nearly as many free ones uploaded to YouTube. You can find everything from at-home yoga to stretching for beginners and at-home HIIIT workouts. Most of these at-home workout videos are shown using nothing except your own body weight. For those who like the added weight and are used to dumbbells, kettlebells, or other weights, you could easily replace them with everyday household items like a jug of bleach or 1-liter soda bottles or your favorite tequila bottle, just make sure it’s still full for a good workout! For those with infants who can’t be put down, you can find many workout videos for new moms that include your infant in the workout.
Hobbies
With the extra time on your hands, it is the perfect time to start learning or working on the projects you’ve been setting aside. A few great at-home hobbies to develop or learn might include cooking, baking, painting, learning a new language, DIY home gardens, or finally finishing those books you’ve been meaning to get to.
Meals and Household Items
To minimize your potential exposure to COVID-19, many households in the San Francisco Bay Area have stocked up on supplies and non-perishable groceries to last them for up to a month. A fun, time-consuming project you might consider doing is developing an at-home quarantine 2020 food menu of all of the meal possibilities you can make from the items you have in your home. If you want to make it look professional, signup for a free Canva account and utilize one of their many Menu templates! This could make mealtime a fun time for you and your family as you replicate an at-home restaurant experience, making the most of the Coronavirus stay-at-home mandates.
Aside from cooking and mealtimes, being at home for a long period of time makes for a good reason to do that deep Spring cleaning. As you and members of your household go in and out, even if minimally for only essential reasons and essential necessities, every outdoor excursion is another chance of being exposed to the Coronavirus. The most essential thing you can do to protect yourself is to keep your home clean. With only a few household items, you can even make your own DIY hand sanitizer and DIY kitchen wipes.
Quality Time with Loved Ones
In a world with such advanced technology, people are overstimulated with technology. Some might even say people are addicted to technology whether that’s a smartphone, tablet, or other devices. People are constantly checking emails, text messages, social media statuses, and notifications. Most first-world countries have developed a mindset of working longer means working harder. This has led to more time at work, more time thinking about work, more time stressing, and less quality time spent with family, friends, and loved ones. It means less time spent taking care of oneself. As many companies and jobs are impossible to do while being self-quarantined at home, this is the perfect time to cherish time with those you love.
We all know, self-quarantine is not easy but it is the only sure way that to keep you protected from Covid-19. We hope you do what’s responsible and stay at home.
While you may find some real estate agents still agreeing to meet you privately for an open house or showing, we here at CKW Real Estate care too much about your health and safety to put you in a compromising position. Not to mention that Governor Gavin Newsom and the State Public Health Officer together released an announcement on March 22, 2020 requiring all Californians to stay home except as needed to maintain continuity of operations in 16 infrastructure sectors. Therefore, any realtors agreeing to do private showings or open houses are doing so illegally.
Send us a message with any questions or comments! We’d love to have you stop by one of our open houses once this shelter-in-place is lifted!
About Our Founder, Crystle
As the CEO of a San Francisco founded, global tech startup, Crystle understands from experience what it takes to succeed. Her real estate experience spans from successfully managing multiple properties over the last decade including residential, commercial, and mixed-use, as well as her time spent actively investing in flipping properties, tax liens, tax deeds, and other property types. Crystle shares her firsthand experience and knowledge with clients through the process of buying or selling your property.
You might ask yourself, “What does a tech startup have to do with real estate?”
Good question! Everything about Crystle exudes intention. Her ultimate goal is to grow her tech company so that she can utilize its philanthropic arm to fund micro-housing for the homeless in partnership with key, long standing and successful social services organizations in San Francisco. Real Estate gives her the ability to network and learn about developing land to purchase in the future to develop the micro housing. Her time serving on boards for these non profits gives her the knowledge of what these organizations really need to be able to get more people off the streets for good.
The same cornerstones that drive success in her tech company are the same cornerstones that make her the best real estate agent to work with: honesty, transparency, integrity, and a relationship- focused mindset toward life.
Crystle was born and raised in San Francisco’s Inner Richmond district and continues to choose to establish her future life in San Francisco as well. She is a woman of her word. She not only financially supports several not-for-profits, but also regularly serves in her community helping the homeless, youth, and those in poverty.
In her spare time, she is an active and current member of the Board of Directors of Lutheran Social Services of Northern California and the APA Heritage Foundation Committee of San Francisco. She has previously and faithfully served on the Board of Directors for Zion Lutheran Church and School of San Francisco, the Board of Directors for Designing a Difference, the Board of Directors for APAPA San Francisco, a member of the Friends of Smuin Ballet, and as a Co-Chair for the Princess Project.