For some reason, an unexpected snow day doesn’t fill people with a burning desire to rehab their family rooms. They do tend to wish they had the fireplace sleeve put it, but they don’t actually do something about it. No, they tend to go play in the snow with their kids, drink tons of cocoa and then go off four wheeling with their friends. Two snow days in a row? That starts people thinking. You don’t want to bite off more than you can chew, though. When there are two feet of snow on the ground, you don’t want to have to call in reinforcements. Here are ten snow day activities you can do around your home that won’t have you calling for the plumber if you mess up the repair:
- Check for drafts. A blustery snow day is the perfect time to find out whether windows are well caulked and to discover if the doors need weatherstripping.
- Test how much energy different appliances are guzzling with a watt checker.
- Change out your old light bulbs for energy efficient bulbs.
- Organize your pantry and box up any items that you aren’t going to use that are getting near their expiration date to give to someone else.
- Fix every squeaky door in the house.
- Wax the edges of old fashioned drawers that don’t slide well. Tighten screws on drawers that use drawer slides.
- Mend that pile of broken things you’ve been meaning to super glue together.
- Repair chips in wooden furniture with wood putty or stain crayons.
- Install that safety bolt and a sensor on the door leading to your pool that didn’t get put up last summer. Then, hop online and buy a surface sensor to put in your pool when spring rolls around.
- Sort out your linen closet and give old linens you don’t want anymore but are in good shape to a local charity. Put the ones that are in bad shape in your rag bin.
Still need something to do? Pull out your bread machine if you’re running low on bread and make your own. We made some chocolate bread and are waiting for it to finish up so we can taste it. Hopefully, it tastes as good as it smells.
Photo: K. Thomas
Post from: Blisstree