5 Things to Do at Home on a Rainy Day

With rainy days in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere, many of us can look forward to quite a long string still of rainy days. When it’s cold and wet outside and you just can’t

be bothered to leave the house,

use your time inside well. Here

are five ideas beyond “Netflix binge,” although

you might do it a bit still, to keep you busy in the

rainy days:

Water Your (Indoor) Plants

So, this task probably won’t take up an entire rainy afternoon (unless you happen to live in a greenhouse), but this is a great rule of thumb: When Mother Nature is feeding the plants outside, you do the same for the ones inside. For someone who pretty much ignores her houseplants, rainy weather is just about the time to give the greens a drink.

Clean or Organize Something Really Well

This isn’t the most fun suggestion of the bunch, but it’ll make you feel great afterwards. A few hours of enforced indoor time is the perfect opportunity to scrub your kitchen cupboards, sort through the linen closet, or apply the Dewey Decimal System to your home library.

Exercise

This one probably goes against everything your gut tells you about rainy days: you should be chilling out, not working out! But on a day when you’d prefer to be outside but just can’t face the weather, an hour of yoga, a quick exercise video, or just some dancecleaning (it’s a thing nowadays) can help keep cabin fever at bay. Stock Your Freezer

Rainy days are made for the kitchen, and a full freezer of meals and to-go snacks will make the nicer days ahead that much more enjoyable. For example, make and freeze unbaked scones and cinnamon buns for morning emergencies and trays of mini frittatas for workday lunches.

Start a Rain Project

What’s a rain project? Something you’ve always wanted to do that you can work on incrementally with no time limit. It can be home-related or not, anything from stripping wallpaper in the spare room to coding your first website. Whenever it rains, you’re gonna work on it; you might even find yourself looking forward to the forced productivity.