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🚹Trapped Indoors? Fight Boredom Like It Owes You Money

No more pacing like a caged mountain lion—get your grit back.

🚹Trapped Indoors? Fight Boredom Like It Owes You Money

PLUS: No more pacing like a caged mountain lion—get your grit back.

đŸšȘCrack The Cabin Or Crack Your Sanity—Your Choice 😈

🚩Bear’s Been There—And He Ain’t Proud Of What Happened

I once spent 17 days socked in during a whiteout storm up near the Divide. Couldn’t hike out, couldn’t radio, and sure as hell couldn’t stand one more can of creamed corn. Around Day 10, I started naming the cracks in my cabin walls. Day 14, I arm-wrestled my woodstove. Day 17? I was halfway through writing a musical about possums.

Point is: sheltering in place ain’t just about keeping the wolves from the door. It’s about keeping the wolves outta your head. Cabin fever is real. And it don’t care how tough you are—if you let it set up shop in your skull, it’ll chew through your peace, your prep, and your people skills.

🧠 Know The Enemy: What Cabin Fever Really Does

  • Messes with your sleep schedule

  • Tanks your motivation

  • Warps your sense of time

  • Makes you irritable, jumpy, or depressed

  • Sparks dumb ideas like cutting your own hair with a hatchet

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đŸ› ïž How To Combat Cabin Fever—Bear Style

1. 🎯 Lock In That Routine

Routines aren’t just for corporate robots. Every damn day needs a mission.

  • Morning: Physical—Push-ups, log tossing, air squats with a pack on.

  • Midday: Mental—Practice knot tying, reread that survival manual, make a to-do list for TEOTWAWKI.

  • Evening: Reflect—Sharpen tools, write down your wins, talk to your family like you're not a grizzly in human form.

2. đŸ§č Clean Like You’re Expecting Your Ex’s Judgmental Uncle

Resetting your space resets your brain. Reorganize your gear. Sort supplies. Patch that busted tarp. Even sweeping builds sanity.

3. đŸȘ“ Build, Carve, Forge

Idle hands breed crazy thoughts. Whittle a spoon, build a snare, or hell—design your dream bunker on a napkin. Just create.

4. đŸ„” Break A Sweat Or Snap A Synapse

Every single day. If you can’t go outside, go up and down the stairs in your bug-out boots ‘til your legs bark.

5. 🧠 Learn Something Weird

  • Make a DIY oil lamp from bacon grease

  • Practice fire-starting with steel wool

  • Build a “mind map” of local water sources
    Keep the grey matter doing front flips.

💎 Pro Tip: Your Shelter Ain’t A Prison—It’s A Fortress

If you see your walls as a cage, you’ll start pacing like a dog in a vet’s office. Shift the mindset: your shelter is your HQ. Fortify it, honor it, own it.

đŸ€˜Bear’s Last Words On The Matter

Cabin fever don’t fight fair. It sneaks in through boredom and slinks out with your sanity. But if you stick to a routine, keep your mind and body fired up, and treat your shelter like a sacred post—hell, you won’t just survive. You’ll come out sharper than your best damn knife.

Stay Moving, Stay Savage,
Conrad “Bear” Becker

P.S. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve done to keep your sanity during lockdown? Hit reply—I need a laugh.

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