Seven household habits of the times of the USSR, which again became relevant during the quarantine
'14.08.2021'
Source: A PIECE OF CHALK
It's time to take Grandma’s advice, writes A PIECE OF CHALK.
Forced isolation is a good excuse for the whole family to acquire new habits. Moreover, if they will definitely please our grandmothers. The course of careful consumption "Now so" recalls the Soviet past and tells how to begin to treat yourself and the world around you more attentively during self-isolation.
1. Menu for the week, product lists and your package
Before going to the market or to the nearest store (always with your bag or shopping bag now fashionable), our grandmothers carefully studied the contents of the refrigerator, examined the kitchen shelves, sorted through books with recipes and made a menu of dishes for a couple of days in advance. This is an excellent solution during self-isolation, when it is best to leave the house as little as possible. Try to write a list of necessary products and buy for the future only what you need, and set an example for the children.
2. Drinks in thermoses
Favorite coffee shops and teahouses are closed, which means it's time to explore tasty and healthy alternatives, for example, boil pots of different compote, which can be poured into a thermos and drunk warm throughout the day. Instead of frozen fruits (after all, not every resident of a metropolis has a kilogram of raspberries in the freezer), you can cook fruits and berries that have slightly lost their presentation. This way you won't throw anything away or go to the store again.
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3. Garden on the windowsill
When spring is in full swing outside the window, do not be sad that you cannot go out, but arrange a green day for the whole family - start a real garden bed on the windowsill. Better if these are vegetables, fruits and herbs that you buy in the supermarket: cherry tomatoes, parsley, lemon and even avocado. Perhaps you need support and sacred knowledge (like the one that dried and crushed shells are nutritious fertilizer for a mini-vegetable garden). Call grandma! She has many more tips.
4. Fix things with your own hands
It will take a long time to take a jacket and jeans in an atelier or to a handy assistant at home. But a torn-off button on a jacket or a hole in a pants, a closet door that does not close to the end, or even a wobbling table is work with our hands, which we often lack in everyday life. Now it is also an opportunity to diversify sitting at home (not all the same to stick in gadgets), and even discover the abilities of a designer. It is possible that you will find yourself and your child a new hobby.
5. Reasonable cleaning
Our grandparents became attached to the things they had. They kept them as a memory, boasted, sorted them out in moments of sadness and went to hand over unnecessary items to recycling centers.
Now this process can be turned into a spring cleaning - open the closets and climb under the beds, get all the things, a little nostalgia and decide which ones you and your children can come in handy for and what you can redistribute or give away (after the official end of the regime self-isolation, of course). You will surely find what you lost a couple of months ago, and the old thing will become new.
In addition, try to cope with pollution grandmother's methods - a mixture of soda, vinegar and citric acid. Such a tool is not only effective, but also gentle.
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6. Morning exercises and physical exercises
Hoops, jump ropes, wheels for rotation - a popular equipment for sports in the average Soviet family. Now, of course, it is more likely to meet fitness gum and two-kilogram dumbbells, but the habit of starting the morning with a light warm-up and then loading the body with simple cardio exercises during the day is exactly what adults and children lack during self-isolation.
7. Disconnection from the world
It's no secret that before there were much fewer sources of information, and there was no desire to check notifications on a smartphone or have fun with games on a tablet. And it seems that during these forced vacations it will be useful to limit your digital consumption - in order to worry less about the news and enjoy the moment more. By the way, doing nothing is even useful and stimulates creative thinking. Try it with the whole family!
