What Are Your Hobbies?

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This is a spinoff from pansmama’s post.

Do you have any hobbies? How did you get into this hobby? I don’t mean just something you like to do from time to time, but an actual hobby. I used to joke that nobody between the ages of 7 and 70 actually had a hobby, but I don’t think that’s true anymore and I’ve become really interested in what other people do for a hobby.

My husband has called himself a man without a hobby. He has tried to get into golf, but says there isn’t enough time (even though I tell him every weekend to go to the driving range).

I cook. I cook enough that I think I can safely call it my hobby. I subscribe to several cooking magazines as well as a subscription cooking website. I DVR several cooking shows that I watch late at night while looking for recipes on pinterest.

When the Cooks or Williams Sonoma catalogues come to the house I put them aside to read the way some people would with a new bestseller. I have a kitchen full of specialty cooking items and assorted gadgets.

I started gardening a bit this year. Maybe by next year I can call it a hobby depending on how well I keep it up. Right now it’s just a thing I did. It dovetailed nicely into my cooking hobby because I have been able to use my garden harvest for edible purposes!
 
PhiloMed said:
This is a spinoff from pansmama’s post.

Do you have any hobbies? How did you get into this hobby? I don’t mean just something you like to do from time to time, but an actual hobby. I used to joke that nobody between the ages of 7 and 70 actually had a hobby, but I don’t think that’s true anymore and I’ve become really interested in what other people do for a hobby.

My husband has called himself a man without a hobby. He has tried to get into golf, but says there isn’t enough time (even though I tell him every weekend to go to the driving range).

I cook. I cook enough that I think I can safely call it my hobby. I subscribe to several cooking magazines as well as a subscription cooking website. I DVR several cooking shows that I watch late at night while looking for recipes on pinterest.

When the Cooks or Williams Sonoma catalogues come to the house I put them aside to read the way some people would with a new bestseller. I have a kitchen full of specialty cooking items and assorted gadgets.

I started gardening a bit this year. Maybe by next year I can call it a hobby depending on how well I keep it up. Right now it’s just a thing I did. It dovetailed nicely into my cooking hobby because I have been able to use my garden harvest for edible purposes!
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Very nice!

I wanted to say I don’t have any hobbies (I mostly just hover around other family members’ hobbies–and we do have a lot in our family), but then you mentioned cooking and I realized that I have a somewhat similar relationship to home decor. That’s how I feel about the IKEA catalog, I get at least one home design magazine a week, I usually have a couple of subscriptions, and I own a shelf full of books and have lots of opinions on the subject. Unfortunately, although we have decorated two children’s rooms pretty well and done up a play room, the pace of being able to make progress elsewhere in the house is pretty glacial, given that we have college savings to consider…

But, if I have a hobby, that’s it.

(I am very proud of Middle Kid’s room, which was our most recent effort. It’s got dark brown IKEA furniture, robin’s egg blue paint, a Pier 1 papasan with a big fuzzy chocolate brown cushion, a photo mural of a castle on a wall, and a coat of arms with crossed decorative swords that my husband made. But that wasn’t just me–this was a joint effort between me, Middle Kid and husband.)

Family hobbies at our house include: archery, amateur astronomy, indoor rock climbing, ukulele, horses and cake decorating.
 
I scrapbook…everything…

As for a Catholic Hobby I would say it is teaching. I love to put together a lesson complete with activities and crafts to tie it all together. I Pinterest tons of cool things I want to do with the kids I teach, and I spend an unusual amount of time planning the classes. I have a fifth and eighth grades this year.
 
Well, I’m a youth, so I cannot drive myself anywhere. 🤷

I like to ride my bike or scooter around when it’s warmer out to keep in shape, I like to play certain online games, and I’ve been going here on CAF more and more. I swear, every day I learn something on CAF! I like to read, though the Internet is usually my means of doing that.

I also watch the news often when it is on to keep up with politics, despite how it makes me frustrated at times simply because many politicians ignore the will of the people.

Prayer is perhaps my nighttime “hobby,” oftentimes for the intentions of people on CAF.

That’s about it for my activities. Nothing all that interesting, but I’m glad that I have the capacity and will to do them! 🙂
 
After pondering this for a little while I suppose I have to say I am without hobby or hobbies.
 
I am a senior, senior citizen now, and my favorite hobby is making pictures (no larger than 12 x 14 inches)
with cut up pieces of various kinds of mosaic material. I have done this for fifty years, although there was a few years when I concentrated on calligraphy.

I also like to press flowers and then make my own generic greeting cards, gluing them on cards I buy from craft stores for that purpose. My friends very much like getting those cards for birthdays, anniversaries, and various other occasions. Sometimes sparkles and pieces of ribbon are glued down as well.

There are so many different kinds of hobbies that we can be creative with!

They are also very relaxing.
 
I have too many… 😦

Vexillology — the study of flags — is one of my hobbies. It started back in the late 60s when my grandmother gave me the book “The Ladybird Book of Flags”.

I also collect and study military badges. I have a nice-sized collection, but limited financial resources means I am now limited to “collecting” them online via Pinterest. I started collecting pins and buttons as a kid (Dad would get them from trade shows and conventions), then a friend of mine gave me some cadet badges, and then I joined the army and went nuts. :rolleyes:

I used to collect matchbooks and matchboxes, but since St John’s and Toronto — my two stomping grounds — banned indoor smoking in public, it’s pretty much impossible to go any further. My most prized one, though, is from the World Trade Center in NY.
 
I’ve always enjoyed playing video games, but I’m not a hardcore “gamer”; I generally prefer off-beat stuff. 🙂

I play the guitar and have been known to induce a thunderstorm by doing so on one occasion. 😉

When inspiration is upon me, I write (and write, and write). What I can’t do is go back and edit; instead, I just store what I’ve written on my computer, and read it on a rainy day. 😛

I collect Bibles, a hobby that started when I got my first paycheck from my first full-time job and bought a New Jerusalem Bible with it. 👍

I enjoy reading, though it’s mostly non-fiction (particularly Catholic books) these days. 🙂

A search through the darkest corners of the Internet will reveal that I’ve tried my hand at making computer games, but without much success… :o

I’ve also been a chess player, though they had to invent a rank below “patzer” for me. 😊

These days, though, my main hobby is playing with RPR Junior. Much more fun. 🙂
 
I do genealogy which becomes more than a hobby but I love it! I also crochet which I have been doing for over 40 years.
 
My hobbies include:

Paintball.

Following and the Boston Red Sox, New England Patriots, Boston Bruins, Boston Celtics, and the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team.

Reading. Especially Stephen King and military history.

Catholic studies. Learning about the Faith is pretty fascinating to me.

Hiking. I don’t do enough, but I love it.

Lionel electric trains. O/027-guage.
 
Hiking, reading, gardening.

Sometimes it takes a while to find a hobby you enjoy but I think it’s worth it.
 
I like to go running, currently signed up for two half marathons in September and want to attempt a full one in 2017.
 
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Hiking. I don’t do enough, but I love it.
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You should read “A walk in the woods” by Bill Bryson if you haven’t already done so - one of my favorite books, about when he and a friend walked that apalation trail. Very funny and inspiring book.

Michael
 
John_Lazarus said:
I have too many… 😦

Vexillology — the study of flags — is one of my hobbies. It started back in the late 60s when my grandmother gave me the book “The Ladybird Book of Flags”.
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Ok, so far you get the award for most obscure hobby(hobbies).

I bet it would have been fun to watch the opening ceremonies of the Olympics with you. My husband and I were commenting how many flags looks alike and we were wondering why. Assuming there must be some common thread (pun intended) between some countries.
 
My favorite hobbies are to cook and photograph food, play music with my family, and run long distance. 😃
 
Everything’s on hold for a while now that I have a four month old who still nurses every hour and has recently become clingy and refuses to nap without being attached to me, but my hobbies are:
  • writing (I do manage to get some of this done during naps)
  • cooking/baking (limited to crockpot for the most part these days, plus our apartment’s kitchen is tiny and so most of my gadgets are sadly boxed up in the closet)
  • genealogy (on hold as I had to give up my paid membership and also due to learning very uncomfortable truths)
  • knitting
  • archery (hopefully I can pick this up again in a few months!)
 
Military History, especially aviation history. That is followed by books about the immediate post-World War II era and technological advances, especially to the end of the 1950s.

Ed
 
Running, which I really got into after my second son was born as a weight loss and maintenance tool, and now it helps me keep my sanity; 😃

Reading, anything and everything. I maintain a list on Goodreads and the librarians know to start checking the hold shelf whenever I walk in the door (interlibrary loan is a wonderful thing);

Couponing/frugal stuff. I love getting deals on things. It used to be that I did it because we absolutely had to, but now I enjoy it. It’s like a big puzzle to me - hm, what sales and deals can I combine to get the best price on this thing ever? 😛 I like to do it for donations, too, since pretty often I can get free toothpaste, shampoo, or other toiletries.
 
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