Let’s not mince words. We’re swiftly moving into winter, the days are short, and the quarantine is long. I’m comforting myself with the emotional weighted-blanket that it several seasons of Grey’s Anatomy. (I started watching for the first time in August! Wow, what a ride! It’s a soap opera! I didn’t realize! Now I’m addicted! But that isn’t the point of this post!)
Anyway, the point is that 2020 is weird. And sometimes when you’re binge watching, you also need a task to help with the crippling anxiety. We are utilitarian people and we need to feel handy!
As a small child, people tried to encourage me to do puzzles to help with my motor skills or cognitive reasoning or whatever and yet, for DECADES, I have felt that puzzles are unequivocally boring. However, many fellow humans have told me that they’ve found puzzles satisfying during COVID times. So idk, maybe I’ll give them another shot. (But probably not.)
In the event that I decide to give puzzles another go, I did some research on potentially cool ones. I’ve decided to share that research with you in case you do not have the same lifelong hatred of puzzles that I seem to have buried deep, deep within my soul.
Also I wrote a post several years ago about novelty television board games. So if you’re anti-puzzle like me but you love board games (also like me), then might I recommend checking that out for inspiration?
500 PIECE PUZZLES
The Golden Girls “Stay Golden” available for $19.99 at Urban General Store
The Office available for $14.95 at Books a Million
Blockbuster Clueless Poster VHS puzzle available for $10.43 at Hot Topic
1000 PIECE PUZZLES
The Golden Girls “I Heart Miami” available for $14.99 at Target
Friends Milkshake Puzzle available for $19.95 at the WB Shop
Die Hard Nakatomi Plaza available for $29.99 from Target
“The Color of Fun” Crayola puzzle available for $19.95 at The Paper Store
You know what though, the more I think about it…the more I’m like…that Golden Girls “Stay Golden” puzzle is super cute, so maybe I will order that one. I finally came around to cooking in quarantine, so truly anything is possible.
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Ooh, all of those puzzles look so cool! I used to love doing puzzles when I was younger, and I bought a few at the dollar store a few years ago, but I can’t get myself to sit and do them any more. My new quarantine activity has just been endlessly scrolling the new Reels page on Instagram, haha.
The first 8 months of this for me were filled with endless scrolling. I’m desperately trying to turn over a new leaf and read more books for the next portion of quarantine!