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Sunday, December 13, 2020

2020 was the year we redefined 'essential'

2020 was the year we redefined 'essential'

Essentials Week spotlights unexpected items that make our daily lives just a little bit better.


What is truly essential? What remains when the nonsense is stripped away from our lives? A year of constant crises on all fronts is certainly one way to find out. 

As millions of people adopted a socially-distant, work-from-home lifestyle, behavioral change awaited. Some of them may last, into 2021 and beyond, even once we find some semblance of normal in a post-vaccine world. 

Below is our list of the major revelations — the stuff we thought mattered, and the stuff that really did. We haven’t included changes that are overly obvious (not essential: jeans, essential: sweatpants), likely temporary (grooming only the part of ourselves visible on Zoom is a thing, but will likely come to a crashing halt as soon as we meet in person again), or too localized to be generally applied (during California’s extended wildfire season, air purifiers — and constantly checking Purple Air to see if we could breathe outside — was clearly essential). Otherwise, here are the discoveries that mattered most.  Read more...

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