It is no surprise to me that retail outlets catering to home improvement projects have been doing well during the pandemic and various iterations of stay-at-home orders. The sudden 'found' time of folks who might normally spend time on other endeavors is suddenly focused into projects around the house. To some degree this is the same here...
Personally, the time of stay-at-home hasn't necessarily been working through a backlog of projects, though there definitely have been a few. It's been more of an opportunity to lazily work through some of the things that just need to be done. Combined with the springtime normalcy, it's been as good a time as ever to work on some projects while it's still cool(er) than the summer...and definitely while it remains more or less bug-free.
In no particular order, a few of the pandemic projects I've worked on include:
I'm sure there's something I've missed in that list, and there are other projects on a soft 'to-do' list moving forward. But it's good to finally get through some of these projects. It has been especially rewarding that, save for a single trip to the local hardware store (totaling about $40 in parts), I did all of these projects with materials I already had on hand or otherwise repurposed.
I call that winning.
So go forth and make home improvements. Maybe you'll learn or hone a new skill along the way!
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