Jeremy Collins, a U-Haul representative, said that “for serious conditions in the world, we’ve typically offered people a free month of storage.” (Storage rates for a 5-by-10-foot unit typically start from $99.95 per month).
Virtual Karaoke, Bingo and Trivia
The six-year old Gaythering hotel in Miami, which caters to the L.G. B. T. Q. community, has taken its weekly karaoke, bingo and trivia nights online.
The drag queen Karla Croqueta hosted a virtual karaoke night on Instagram on Monday, March 16 from 8 to 10 p.m., which drew 485 viewers. “We sang Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ and Salt-N-Pepa’s ‘Shoop’ and we could have kept going,” the co-owner Alex Guerra said. Virtual Trivia nights are on Wednesdays at 8 p.m., and Bingo nights are on Thursdays at 9 p.m., on the property’s social media channels.
Virtual travel stories for children
“When kids are stuck at home, they can still travel the world through storybooks,” said the author Sucheta Rawal, who has written a series of five “Beato Goes To” books, in which the main character, an explorer cat, visits places from Greenland to Japan.
Children around the world are invited to join 30-minute-long live session to “meet” the author and listen to a book reading; sessions are held on her Facebook page.
Culinary lessons and wine tastings
Silvia Grossi, executive chef of the 44-room villa, Il Salviatino, in Fiesole, near Florence, Italy, has taken to social media to host cooking lessons from her own kitchen.
She said that these are “easy recipes that can be created with ingredients most people already have in their homes — flour, spices, canned foods and eggs, for example.” Her Instagram stories are conducted in Italian and have had an “uplifting response,” she said. “It’s incredible how connected we are, even when apart.”