COVID-19

From Beards To Bin Nights, The New Rules For Your COVID-19 Life

From binge watching to beards, houseparty to bin night parties, here’s the new rules we all seem to be living by now.

Look, things have changed. COVID-19 made sure of that. The way we are living now is vastly different to the way things were a couple of months ago, but one thing is for sure. We’re all in this together, and there’s a number of things that are emerging as common ground…

  1. Shoes are now optional
  2. Active wear is acceptable for lower half work wear 
  3. Beards
  4. Zoom etiquette is King 
  5. It’s time to grow your own food
  6. Binge watching everything online is fine
  7. Sliding down stairs on mattresses is exercise 
  8. Chalk exercise courses for kids is a thing
  9. Quarantine dress up fashion is worth paying attention to 
  10. Bin night is a national pastime 
  11. Paying tribute to your pets in video and photos has taken on new significance 
  12. Photos of home cooking are the new smashed avo insta post 
  13. Having a huge number of charging devices in your home is key 
  14. Ordering online has become an extreme sport 
  15. Knowing your supermarket and Dan Murphy’s limits is basic education now 
  16. If your favourite cafe isn’t a green grocer now, what even are they?
  17. 10,000 steps a day seems like a fucking lot
  18. We all ride bikes now 
  19. If you own a business, you’re now working 10 times harder for 1/10th of the money
  20. Houseparty or die
  21. Saturday nights are for live streaming DJs and virtual dinner parties 
  22. What day is it?
  23. Caterpillar kits are the new family bonding activity (and you’ll love it more than your kids)
  24. If your kids were ever gonna be YouTube/Roblox/Minecraft/Tik Tok stars, now is the time. 
  25. We all love ‘Nat’s What I Recon’ cooking classes.  
  26. Buying direct from our favourite restaurants and producers is now a thing, and it’s amazing 
  27. You have a new level of disdain for those who break social distancing rules. STOP IT KAREN. Stay home.
  28. Now might be a great time to learn how to make pasta. Or beer. Or anything. 
  29. We’re all pissed at the irony of having the cheapest petrol ever and nowhere to go 
  30. Every hour seems to be happy hour 
  31. Yes, I’ll be home to accept that delivery. Always. 
  32. You thought we could wear pyjamas all day every day & forget about make up, until Microsoft teams, Zoom & Houseparty ruined everything  
  33. Speaking of which, every person you’ve ever known wants to catch up on video chat now and it’s exhausting (but also pretty lovely).
  34. Knowing where to get toilet paper, hand sanitiser, face masks, plastic gloves and baby chickens puts you top of the food chain. 
  35. Your vocabulary needs to expand to use key words like pivot, Covidiot, and Quarantini.
  36. Reading conspiracist theories on Bill Gates and 5G are part of book club. 
  37. Everyone’s new common ground is Tiger King
  38. Facebook life hack videos are actually useful 
  39. Let me check my calendar to see if I’m available…. not wait… I’m always available. 
  40. Fake eyelashes and manicures are a thing of the past, and regrowth is to be embraced. Who knows. You may even save some money here…
  41. People with fringes have a difficult decision to make. To grow or to cut it themselves. If they attempt the chop, they’ll join a growing legion of DIY haircuts that will give us endless memes and tragic Insta stories.
  42. Indoor plant parenting has skyrocketed, and if you haven’t bought 30 pot plants from Bunnings, do you even love plants?
  43. There’s 1 million ‘at-home’ workouts, and you’re not doing any of them.

Stay safe everyone.

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