‘What habits did you pick up in lockdown that you can’t shift?’ – 21 ways people changed forever during the pandemic

12.

‘Going to bed way past 11pm.’
-Lowly_Elephant

13.

‘Having a lunchtime snooze.’
–-whichwayisup

14.

‘Not fake tanning any more. I used to be so self conscious about being pale and would spend basically all week tanning for a weekend night out – dropped it and not looked back!

Stopped wearing a full face of makeup every day, don’t know how I had the time.

Ironing – used to pay someone to do my ironing. Now I don’t care and have a steamer I use if it’s a formal thing and creases are too bad to pass off.’
–pineapplesuite

15.

‘I literally HATE going out to drink: much rather be at home with my friends drinking with whatever music we like playing and our own alcohol. Haven’t even been to the local club since lockdown and only go out like twice a year max.’
–kiasmith99

16.

‘Wearing a mask. In the hospital pre-Covid it was a rarity to wear a mask for a patient unless they had a known infectious disease. Now I’ll stick it on if I can smell their feet before I bring them in.

A lot of colleagues wear one if they have a tickle of a cold or cough coming too, which definitly didn’t happen before.’
–cactuss8

17.

‘I never wear jeans around the house now. Always in sweats/joggers.’
–batman_not_robin

18.

‘Brushing my teeth properly. It used to be a mad dash to get out the door but with all that time I brushed for a full two mins with each 30sec buzz of the electric toothbrush located to four quarters of my mouth/teeth. It used to be 45-60s.

I continue to work from home so I still don’t have to do a mad dash anymore and even when I do for whatever reason I still make sure I do a full two mins.’
–g_junkin4200

19.

‘I never drove to work anyway as I always walked or cycled… so I ended up replacing my old commute with a pseudo commute. Now I do an early morning walk and a lunchtime walk so I still get at least 7K steps in.’
–w3stw0rld

20.

‘Bulk buying toilet paper. If another pandemic happens I’m ready.’
–Fickle_Hope2574

21.

‘I have become unbelievably tight with money. Great habit really that came out of not having the opportunity to spend and necessitating a quieter social life.

From a financial perspective, COVID completely changed my life for the better. I appreciate this makes me one of the lucky ones. I’m just especially pleased I’ve never reverted to frivolous spending.’
–Jeopardise91

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