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I need some hobby ideas

p_xavier

p_xavier

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Since I finished renovating my house and I'm now broke as a result, I need to find some activities or hobbies that I can do alone on my free time. I'm legally blind in one eye and can't drive as a result. I usually got drunk/high from 6pm until I passed out but my body can't handle that anymore. Thus I need things to do, hopefully free.
 
BadBurger

BadBurger

Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
Gardening. If you shop right everything you need is cheap. Setting up a pleasing garden to your liking can take weeks, even months, just for the setup. Then comes the daily caring and tending for years. All together it can be time consuming, you're working with your hands, you'll need to learn the ins and outs of botany as it relates to gardening, and it will bear literal fruit (or whatever you decide to grow). A small vegetable garden with an array of herbs and a few seasonal fruit bushes is a good start. Then you can add things like a patterned moon garden. Maybe install a koi pond. Whatever.
 
Pejo

Pejo

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Punished Miku said:

List of hobbies - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

My girlfriend is considering taking up bee-keeping. I'm extremely unenthusiastic about it. She literally has no hobbies beyond cleaning, which she somehow enjoys.
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My father took up bee-keeping after he retired, and absolutely loved it. My mother and I weren't too happy about it at the time, but the fresh honey was cool and the bees mostly kept to themselves. I didn't get stung a single time from them. There's a whole community out there for beekeeping, but it's mostly old dudes.

I also got to witness a "swarming" where the queen leaves the hive and then all the bees congregate onto her in order to protect her. We had a new tree started in our yard that she landed on, near the upper middle of the tree, and it was approximately a 3-4 inch diamater at the base. There were so many bees that it buckled the tree over in a U shape. We had to call a professional in for that one to get her back into the hive.

Anyways, helping the bee population in and of itself is a good thing right now since everything is killing it.
 
lachesis

lachesis

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I'd also say cooking. One has to eat anyway - and when the $$$ is short, eating out should be first thing to go.
You can cook up great amount of nutritious and delicious food at the fraction of cost you pay outside.
On top of that, I do find the restaurant food is just too overloaded with fat/salt/sugar/carb with very little protein.
 
S

Star-Lord

Member
lachesis said:
I'd also say cooking. One has to eat anyway - and when the $$$ is short, eating out should be first thing to go. You can cook up great amount of nutritious and delicious food at the fraction of cost you pay outside. On top of that, I do find the restaurant food is just too overloaded with fat/salt/sugar/carb with very little protein.
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Basically what I said but 100% better. Home cooking is such a fantastic way to lose weight, as you have completed control over salt, sugar, fat, etc. And, as you mentioned, it saves a ton of time and money, especially if you start cooking in batches and freezing the portions for later dates. It’s what I do on Sunday nights, to save me time throughout the week.
 
Cutty Flam

Cutty Flam

Banned
Dancing, Hiking, Lifting, Basketball, Boxing, Swimming, Gardening, Sprinting, Climbing, Tennis, Frizbee, Chess, Reading, Creating Music

Those are all a lot of fun
 
jufonuk

jufonuk

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Learn a language (language transfer offers free audio courses)
Take a free online course to programme
nationalcareers.service.gov.uk

The Skills Toolkit | National Careers Service

nationalcareers.service.gov.uk nationalcareers.service.gov.uk

Try a MOOC
listen to audiobooks
Archive.org is a great place to look (if not allowed as link I’ll remove) youtube has some as well

walking is free

www.lifehack.org

Bored? 50 Inexpensive Hobbies You Can Start Right now - LifeHack

Do you want to find a fun and exciting hobby that's also educational, fulfilling and will enhance your life? There are tons of mental health benefits
www.lifehack.org www.lifehack.org

Calisthenics
Improve your drawing
 
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IDKFA

IDKFA

I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Reading.

Even if you're broke, you can still get books from a library.

Some may say this is a boring hobby, but they just don't understand the health benefits and life improvements gained from reading books. This goes for fiction as well as nonfiction.
 
p_xavier

p_xavier

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Pejo said:
My father took up bee-keeping after he retired, and absolutely loved it. My mother and I weren't too happy about it at the time, but the fresh honey was cool and the bees mostly kept to themselves. I didn't get stung a single time from them. There's a whole community out there for beekeeping, but it's mostly old dudes.

I also got to witness a "swarming" where the queen leaves the hive and then all the bees congregate onto her in order to protect her. We had a new tree started in our yard that she landed on, near the upper middle of the tree, and it was approximately a 3-4 inch diamater at the base. There were so many bees that it buckled the tree over in a U shape. We had to call a professional in for that one to get her back into the hive.

Anyways, helping the bee population in and of itself is a good thing right now since everything is killing it.
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I'm allergic to bees though lol. But good enough.
haxan7 said:
start a side business
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Actually the only answer here which I can apply a solution. Will probably do that. I love doing taxes paperwork, was thinking of doing a degree in that.

I really am respectful of other posters ideas but I already do my own garden, do all my meals, work out 2h a day but still am bored to death. I wrote and published 3 books, two in gardening and one in aerospatial engineering.

Basically what can I do as a hobby to be relaxed and happy would have been a more appropriate topic.
 
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Dark Star

Dark Star

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Reading books is actually a really cheap hobby. You can find paperback books for only a few bucks on eBay or at a local halfprice books store or thrift store.

Hiking is great. I like being outdoors. Skateboarding/longboarding and bike riding aren't crazy expensive hobbies, but you might have spend a couple hundred to get set up, then it's just slight modifications like changing bearings or whatever.

Same thing with playing guitar, you don't have to spend a lot of money on an acoustic (like you can find one on Amazon for less than a hundred bucks) and it's a great way to pass the time, learn your favorite songs, good creative outlet.
 
p_xavier

p_xavier

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Dark Star said:
Reading books is actually a really cheap hobby. You can find paperback books for only a few bucks on eBay or at a local halfprice books store or thrift store.

Hiking is great. I like being outdoors. Skateboarding/longboarding and bike riding aren't crazy expensive hobbies, but you might have spend a couple hundred to get set up, then it's just slight modifications like changing bearings or whatever.

Same thing with playing guitar, you don't have to spend a lot of money on an acoustic (like you can find one on Amazon for less than a hundred bucks) and it's a great way to pass the time, learn your favorite songs, good creative outlet.
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It's like I put additional goal posts where I wish there was none, I can't use my left hand properly so musical instruments I can't do, but did wrote trance songs years ago.
 
p_xavier

p_xavier

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BadBurger said:
Gardening. If you shop right everything you need is cheap. Setting up a pleasing garden to your liking can take weeks, even months, just for the setup. Then comes the daily caring and tending for years. All together it can be time consuming, you're working with your hands, you'll need to learn the ins and outs of botany as it relates to gardening, and it will bear literal fruit (or whatever you decide to grow). A small vegetable garden with an array of herbs and a few seasonal fruit bushes is a good start. Then you can add things like a patterned moon garden. Maybe install a koi pond. Whatever.
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I started mine yesterday with my uncle actually. This is what I worked on with my mom a decade earlier.

I started a Japanese garden, got a geniune bronze temple bell.

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catvonpee

catvonpee

Member
Learn to code. Jk

Actually learn the program Blender... you don't even need any artistic ability, just an imagination. I'd suggest learning zbrush but it is very expensive. Blender is free. Pixologic has a free version of zbrush called core but it is not as robust.
 
BlueAlpaca

BlueAlpaca

Member
If I'm not misreading your posts you're some sort of engineering genius prostitute? Write a screenplay based on your life, pitch it to Netflix.
 
Lupingosei

Lupingosei

Banned
If gaming is your thing, building fpv drones maybe. You have to check if you don't get motion sick or if you see enough, because they can move quite fast.

But it is fun to build, fly, and crash them

 
killatopak

killatopak

Member
Modeling stuff. Though that will probably cost some amount of money. I do Gundams though and it's pretty relaxing and zen like once you get a flow of things.
 
IDKFA

IDKFA

I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Just thought of a bonus hobby.

Practice the "Grasshopper", which is having a Tommy tank, but by using your feet instead of your hand.

You're welcome.
 
p_xavier

p_xavier

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jufonuk said:
Wow. That’s flipping amazing.
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Started mine like I said yesterday. I'm happy with all the responses. Will probably start my own consulting company and will do the best garden I can with my land. I never knew how to relax so it would be counterproductive for me to do things that's not work. I don't know how to relax.
 
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Algan

Algan

Member
You can join the Fishkeeping hobby and become an aquarist. It's a hobby that requires a little study until you start putting it into practice, but it seems very fun and relaxing.
I'm sure there are several discussion forums and videos addressing this hobby on the internet.
I hope you like marine life.

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p_xavier

p_xavier

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Algan said:
You can join the Fishkeeping hobby and become an aquarist. It's a hobby that requires a little study until you start putting it into practice, but it seems very fun and relaxing.
I'm sure there are several discussion forums and videos addressing this hobby on the internet.
I hope you like marine life.

fishkeeping-734168.jpg
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Will have a koi pond eventually, love fish.
 
p_xavier

p_xavier

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Artoris said:
Here is one I have been looking into growing mushrooms for food there is some good stuff out there information wise
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The issue is I don't drive and am in a rural area. Many ideas are good but I can't have wood delivered here. Mushrooms grow on wood. Same for woodworking which I enjoyed.
 
S

Star-Lord

Member
Not a hobby as such, but you could take up learning a new language. I’m using Duolingo to learn how to speak French first, then I may move on to others.
 
Artoris

Artoris

Gold Member
p_xavier said:
The issue is I don't drive and am in a rural area. Many ideas are good but I can't have wood delivered here. Mushrooms grow on wood. Same for woodworking which I enjoyed.
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Some mushrooms you can grow on boiled cardboard which is wood but what better way to recycle
 
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