Kate Hackett
Oh boy, it’s time to share all of our shame. We’ve had a full year-plus to hide out in our houses and absolutely go to pieces socially, so that means we’ve also had a year in which to develop the weirdest new quarantine habits.
So when TikToker @moneyintheblank asked “What is the most benign and mundane, yet absolutely unhinged thing that you started doing during the pandemic?” we all knew we were in trouble and about to get SEEN.
TikTok responses started with @moneyintheblank herself; she said “Every night at sunset, I eat a pickle. And it’s my sunset pickle.”
And then the responses poured in!
TikToker @kayteenesmith told the world she fills a jug with water and must finish it before bed each night — okay, not so weird… But then at the end, she yells “FULLY HYDRATED!”
“I bought my cat and I matching red silk robes and I put it on us on Sundays and watch real crime shows,” wrote @uhohmomfoundmyurl.
@kath.smith has an app with all the planes currently flying, which she now checks every time she hears a plane overhead.
@annaleezerr and her boyfriend “run to the window at 4pm to see a squirrel come home who we named Jerry. Sometimes he has leaves so we say, ‘busy day at the office.'” (which, oh my gosh, is adorable.)
Another user bought cowboy boots to wear while watching horse shows on Netflix (@crunchy_tx) and @anacond.a wakes at 3am to eat a croissant on her nightstand she left for this purpose.
@fallingfullcircle (seen above in a family meeting during quarantine) said that she and her family treat a plastic duck figure as a family member and take turns shuffling it around the house.
“I learned what all the birds mean according to native mythology and now I use them to predict the weather,” said @dadelikemiami.
“I put my stuffed animals in chairs and give them mugs so it feels like I’m working in a coffee shop when I’m actually desperately alone,” from @hannahgw17.
@ngoesrogue told people she now has three types of socks — going out socks, walking around the house socks, and going to bed socks (quarantine is so weird). @maedowell alerts her cat to when she feels a sneeze coming on so she “doesn’t scare him”.
“I started leaving peanuts out for squirrels,” normal, “but since then I have bought them a little picnic table to eat them on,” said @glampingalltheway. Oh.
@justalibit87 is using this time productively: she is going to watch all the movies on Disney+ in alphabetical order. Currently? she’s on H and 311 films in!
“I tell my dog everything about my life. And when I feel like she has done her fair share of emotional labor for me, I go to my rabbit and I tell him stuff as well,” wrote @sweetbabycarl1.
User @mermaid_hales shared a video that she’s just letting one eyebrow hair that grows “super-long” grow out. “I just love it,” she concluded.
@candicegreat shared a video in which she admits that she just flat up does not eat the cream in the middle of Oreos anymore. She saves them… in a huge ball… of cream.
