"I'm stuck in a doomscrolling loop again. My algorithm drags me down the rabbit hole of videos people posted to social media to declare 2026 as the year they ... get off social media. I see more and more videos with mass declarations to " go analog" and focus on screen-free activites. The irony is thick, but with the world on fire around me the sentiment has appeal."
"When I share this idea with my husband, he brings up the idea of buying paint-by-number kits that are designed for adults. It's far out of our comfort zone. But before either of us have a chance to talk ourselves out of this, we pop into an art store. We both decide to buy larger canvases mostly to have a longer-term project, not because we are certain we have the right abilities. About $30 later, we're still wondering what we are thinking."
"When we get home, we bring down a folding table from our office. It's just the right height to share as we sit on our loveseat, water, brushes, and paper towels between us. Keeping our paints separated, we turn on reruns of "New Girl," grab our reading glasses and glob the colors on our canvases - him a streetscape of Brooklyn, me a skyscape of London - both quietly hoping they'll be nice enough to hang on our bedroom wa"
A person and their spouse try adult paint-by-number kits to escape doomscrolling and reduce social-media use. Social-media trends and a desire to go analog prompt the search for an offline hobby. The couple buys larger canvases and sets up a shared workspace with separate paints, brushes, water, and reruns of New Girl. They paint different scenes—a Brooklyn streetscape and a London skyscape—hoping the pieces will hang in their bedroom. The shared activity creates a feeling of lightness and reconnects them, evoking earlier, easier times in their marriage while providing offline creative time.
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