HOW TO FEEL LESS USELESS AT HOME if you live with your parents edition

I’ve been doing so much monolog dalaman lately, so I decided to write after a long time. For future references it’s raya ke-5 and my family already started Puasa 6 since second Eid coz it’s PKP so there’s nowhere we can go. While scrubbing the toilet just now, I talked to myself way too much so I narrow down to one topic which is HOW TO FEEL LESS USELESS AT HOME. This topic closely related to me in so many ways coz it’s a ‘been there done that’ thing. I’ve been working from home for past few months now and I’ve been reflecting myself through this epidemic. Let’s go straight to the topic.

I believe everyone have their own rezeki and my rezeki is having a job and still staying with my parents. There’s pros and cons but I can’t feel grateful enough. What you can do if you are an adult and still staying with your parents?

1.       Make yourself useful at home

Pick one or more chores in the house that you are the one who in charge of handling them everyday and become good at it at some point. I find scrubbing toilet is therapeutic. There’s daily, weekly and monthly chores so make sure you do at least one in each category.

2.       Be sensitive

Don’t stuck in your room all day and only out n about when you are hungry and please use electricity wisely (coz your parents pay the bills).

3.       Be there for your parents

You are so lucky to be around your parents, use this time to get to know them better by discovering what can you do for them everyday.

4.       Take care of yourself

It’s a way to make you feel less useless to yourself by exercising, learn new skills, having a well schedule daily routine or pick a new interest. Set achievable goals for yourself.

5.       Declutter

Currently there’s a viral case about sharing spaces with things in the house or not having your own personal space. Now is a perfect time to Marie Kondo-ing your space. Help your parents to declutter the whole house. Imagine we keep on buying stuff but didn’t let anything go so no wonder we have limited space in our house, don’t you think?

I shared 5 ideas only coz I don’t wanna sound too goody2. Btw it is excused if you have to work from home but outside office hour you still can be useful. You can online gaming or K-Drama all you want but it’s good to have a schedule. Having a daily schedule is actually good for your mental health. I’m sharing this with the intention of making you feel better while stuck in your house, actually I’m telling myself too. Have to work does help me obeying my own daily schedule tho.

*OMG my writing sounds juvenile