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đšTrapped Indoors? Fight Boredom Like It Owes You Money
No more pacing like a caged mountain lionâget your grit back.
đšTrapped Indoors? Fight Boredom Like It Owes You Money
PLUS: No more pacing like a caged mountain lionâget your grit back.
đȘCrack The Cabin Or Crack Your SanityâYour Choice đ
đŠBearâs Been ThereâAnd He Ainât Proud Of What Happened
I once spent 17 days socked in during a whiteout storm up near the Divide. Couldnât hike out, couldnât radio, and sure as hell couldnât 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 ainât just about keeping the wolves from the door. Itâs about keeping the wolves outta your head. Cabin fever is real. And it donât care how tough you areâif you let it set up shop in your skull, itâll chew through your peace, your prep, and your people skills.
đ§ 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
đ ïž How To Combat Cabin FeverâBear Style
1. đŻ Lock In That Routine
Routines arenât just for corporate robots. Every damn day needs a mission.
Morning: PhysicalâPush-ups, log tossing, air squats with a pack on.
Midday: MentalâPractice knot tying, reread that survival manual, make a to-do list for TEOTWAWKI.
Evening: ReflectâSharpen tools, write down your wins, talk to your family like you're not a grizzly in human form.
2. đ§č Clean Like Youâre Expecting Your Exâs Judgmental Uncle
Resetting your space resets your brain. Reorganize your gear. Sort supplies. Patch that busted tarp. Even sweeping builds sanity.
3. đȘ Build, Carve, Forge
Idle hands breed crazy thoughts. Whittle a spoon, build a snare, or hellâdesign your dream bunker on a napkin. Just create.
4. đ„” Break A Sweat Or Snap A Synapse
Every single day. If you canât go outside, go up and down the stairs in your bug-out boots âtil your legs bark.
5. đ§ Learn Something Weird
Make a DIY oil lamp from bacon grease
Practice fire-starting with steel wool
Build a âmind mapâ of local water sources
Keep the grey matter doing front flips.
đ Pro Tip: Your Shelter Ainât A PrisonâItâs A Fortress
If you see your walls as a cage, youâll start pacing like a dog in a vetâs office. Shift the mindset: your shelter is your HQ. Fortify it, honor it, own it.
đ€Bearâs Last Words On The Matter
Cabin fever donât 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 postâhell, you wonât just survive. Youâll come out sharper than your best damn knife.
Stay Moving, Stay Savage,
Conrad âBearâ Becker
P.S. Whatâs the weirdest thing youâve done to keep your sanity during lockdown? Hit replyâI need a laugh.
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