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What new tasks have you learned during the shutdown?

I'm getting better at doing my own manicure. Will never get a professional nail "fill" again. My poor nails are thin and tear easily after years of being ground down.

Meanwhile, am keeping my nails short to protect them. Once a week, I remove the polish and put Vitamin E oil on my nails, cuticles and hands.

Does anyone else have a nail that splits? I use Super-glue.

Also learned to sew masks for friends and family. Made 20 so far. Today I'm sewing 4 more.

LiterateHiker 9 June 19
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No new skills, actually no changes whatsoever. I live way out in the woods, so nothing has really changed aside from timing my rare trips to town for supplies for the least busy days.. I suppose I could practice social distancing with the rabbits outside. But they tend to keep their distance anyway.

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The only service I've missed have been hair cuts. So now I look like Dr. Emmett Brown.

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Besides forgoing professional manicures and even home nail polish altogether, once the lockdown began, I also learned to cut my own hair as the lockdown was lifted, but I still couldn't get a hair appointment. Can't believe how easy it was, since my hair is long, fine and straight. From now on, I'll be saving $25 every few months. I just held my hair with one hand, and chopped it with the other in one snip with the scissors. Took 2 seconds. Doesn't look any different than my usual salon cut.

Also, my nails have never been healthier, without all that polish and remover. Stronger too, I think. So, learning to do without what I've been led to believe I need to be ladylike. 😉

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You did a pretty good job . You are very generous . I know that your friends appeciated it .

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Learning I do not need to visit the coffee shops as much,doing more gardening, relaxing a lot more and nothing is a rush anymore ,enjoying the little things i do around the house and yard

@RoyMillar

Ah, yes... the Zen of not rushing around.

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I've given myself a couple of haircuts. The first time, I ended up looking like Moe from The Three Stooges, but I'm getting better at it.

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Is not a skill but I use this time to improve my knowledge of Italian.

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I cut my own hair a few weeks ago (both of them. Lol).

It wasn't that much of a huge feat. I've been thinning on top since I was in my 20s and I normally wear it short anyway.

My father 'inherited' a fairly nice set of clippers when my mother died ~10yrs ago and we 'inherited' them when he passed ~5yrs ago.
It's easier to avoid stressing my wife for mistakes if she doesn't risk it -- ha, ha. I just cut the hair out on the porch, felt for missed spots, and she coached. 😎 I imagine there could have been more trauma, but we figured it wasn't worth the effort. 😎

RichCC Level 8 June 19, 2020
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I’m learning body work on my truck. I patched a hole using fiberglass and a lot of sweat sanding it. I’m now of the painting stage. Not great but not too bad

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One can take as many naps and as often as one desires, at least if one lives alone.

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I learned that I don't need my haircuts to be as frequent as I've always done them!

(If it's just the one nail that splits...super glue's a good idea. If it's all of them, be sure you're not sawing back & forth with the emery board. That'll cause splits.)

Surprisingly (and seriously) though, I've learned that, as long as I have email, I'm ok with spending most of the time alone. And...''boy toy'' and I have gotten along better than I might've predicted.

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Not new, but I have honed my skills as a master bator 🤪

@Bobbyzen

What's a "bator"?

@LiterateHiker Say the last two words in my comment out loud without pause 😉

@LiterateHiker Let's say that the biblical Onan got into BIGGGG trouble for doing it.

@Bobbyzen

Hilarious! Got it.

I thought you meant "baiter," as in fishing.

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Learning about covid,volunteering to help

bobwjr Level 10 June 19, 2020
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