I do see a marked difference in the 10s decade before the pandemic and now I'm operating now.
1) I no longer visit a barber to cut my hair, but instead bought a razor from amazon and have been cutting my own hair since and have not lost the habit. Before the pandemic, I'd pay $ 20 and another $ 10 in tips for a simple razor cut for my hair.
Since the lockdowns/pandemic, I bought this razor and I've paid nothing to cut my hair since then (although I have less contact with the opposite sex, some nice ladies who cut my hair and took the money from this particular establishment).
2) Use wipes as well as toilet paper. The pandemic toilet paper shortage forced me to start looking seriously at wipes. Prior to the pandemic, I tried the wipes thing once, but was so used to just toilet paper, I never really used them. Now, I keep using wipes along side with toilet paper and don't feel toilet paper is enough anymore.
3) Stopped visitng restaurants and hanging out with my folks in public. Everything is more isolated in home/car. Less female contact in public and more isolated today.
4) Dramatically reduced visiting the library to borrow books, DVDs, and Blu-Rays. Instead more into streaming services and streaming as all but replaced DVDs and Blu-Rays. The drawback is there used to be some contact with some women working at the library, and it was a nice experience visit the library to return and pick-up things and have ladies working there sort of know something about me and appear happy to see me.
5) Have not visited a cinema since 2019 to watch Star Wars --- whatever that last movie was. First premium rental cinema was Wonder Woman 1984 in December, 2020, second one was that King Kong vs Godzilla in 2021 (movies that were on streaming the day they were released). After the pandemic, if there is a movie I'm itching to see, I may pay the premium cost to watch it rather than visit the theater as the digital release dates are shorter. No interest in re-visiting the real cinema.
6) Stopped visiting church. Look at spiritual content online.
7) Buying items in bulk rather than individual items and rushing to the store before it closes if I'm out of it at the last minute. Don't roam around large supermarkets or malls. Everything is ordered online and may occasionally visit a store if I have to.
8) Used to work in Real-Estate prior to the pandemic. Was free working with lots of clients but didn't make that much money. Work from home operations, like Insurance have been more dominant after the pandemic.
9) Never took a penny of social assistance in my life and felt it's like for those who are down to their last dollar, have a simple lifestyle (ie unemployed and looking for work rather than self-employed and having a slow spot with the business or not being paid enough, etc...). Since I got paid covid-benefits, I enrolled in social assistance once the benefits wore out. Now, it's a top-up income / support income concept if I don't make enough money in insurance sales at any particular month that I never have to worry of having a month of zero income and wracking up credit card debt like in the past.
These are just nine examples of things that I have seen change with my life where I made some adjustments in the middle of the pandemic, and feel that there is no changing from this mind-set or way of doing things any time soon.
Anyone else change since the pandemic?
1) I no longer visit a barber to cut my hair, but instead bought a razor from amazon and have been cutting my own hair since and have not lost the habit. Before the pandemic, I'd pay $ 20 and another $ 10 in tips for a simple razor cut for my hair.
Since the lockdowns/pandemic, I bought this razor and I've paid nothing to cut my hair since then (although I have less contact with the opposite sex, some nice ladies who cut my hair and took the money from this particular establishment).
2) Use wipes as well as toilet paper. The pandemic toilet paper shortage forced me to start looking seriously at wipes. Prior to the pandemic, I tried the wipes thing once, but was so used to just toilet paper, I never really used them. Now, I keep using wipes along side with toilet paper and don't feel toilet paper is enough anymore.
3) Stopped visitng restaurants and hanging out with my folks in public. Everything is more isolated in home/car. Less female contact in public and more isolated today.
4) Dramatically reduced visiting the library to borrow books, DVDs, and Blu-Rays. Instead more into streaming services and streaming as all but replaced DVDs and Blu-Rays. The drawback is there used to be some contact with some women working at the library, and it was a nice experience visit the library to return and pick-up things and have ladies working there sort of know something about me and appear happy to see me.
5) Have not visited a cinema since 2019 to watch Star Wars --- whatever that last movie was. First premium rental cinema was Wonder Woman 1984 in December, 2020, second one was that King Kong vs Godzilla in 2021 (movies that were on streaming the day they were released). After the pandemic, if there is a movie I'm itching to see, I may pay the premium cost to watch it rather than visit the theater as the digital release dates are shorter. No interest in re-visiting the real cinema.
6) Stopped visiting church. Look at spiritual content online.
7) Buying items in bulk rather than individual items and rushing to the store before it closes if I'm out of it at the last minute. Don't roam around large supermarkets or malls. Everything is ordered online and may occasionally visit a store if I have to.
8) Used to work in Real-Estate prior to the pandemic. Was free working with lots of clients but didn't make that much money. Work from home operations, like Insurance have been more dominant after the pandemic.
9) Never took a penny of social assistance in my life and felt it's like for those who are down to their last dollar, have a simple lifestyle (ie unemployed and looking for work rather than self-employed and having a slow spot with the business or not being paid enough, etc...). Since I got paid covid-benefits, I enrolled in social assistance once the benefits wore out. Now, it's a top-up income / support income concept if I don't make enough money in insurance sales at any particular month that I never have to worry of having a month of zero income and wracking up credit card debt like in the past.
These are just nine examples of things that I have seen change with my life where I made some adjustments in the middle of the pandemic, and feel that there is no changing from this mind-set or way of doing things any time soon.
Anyone else change since the pandemic?
