For most of the country, it’s the time of year where snow days become a sad inevitability - and for the rest of the country, wow, must be nice.
Winter bitterness aside, snow days tend to be a mixed bag of blessings. It’s nice to get out of work early (or not have to go in at all), and if you’ve got kids they’re bound to be in good moods, but they can be...kinda boring sometimes, can’t they?
But they don’t have to be! After you’ve finished off your hot chocolate and caught up on Netflix, we’ve got a few easy chores you can take a stab at while you wait for the roads to clear!
Start those smaller DIY projects: If you’re going to be stuck inside, you might as well start making those little changes you’ve been pondering. Get some wallpaper or shelf liners to decorate those shelves and cabinets! Hang those shelf brackets you’ve had in the basement all year! Assemble that coffee table you bought but got too intimidated to finish! You don’t have to totally repaint the entire living room, but for all those projects you ‘needed a whole afternoon for’, now’s your chance!
Clean those hard-to-get-to areas: During your usual cleaning binges you probably get the big obvious stuff: the living room floor, the dirty laundry, so on and so forth. With the extra time afforded by snow days, you get a good chance to do some of the oft-neglected cleaning tasks such as:
- Replacing light bulbs
- Cleaning high windows
- Dusting high areas - above cabinets, the top of the fridge, etc
- Washing light fixtures