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Find Yourself a Hobby for 2020

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Re: Find Yourself a Hobby for 2020

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Post by pjmorris »

thdrdt wrote: post #27

Help the elderly, visit the lonely, feed the hungry. Maybe it's because I'm in my midlife crisis, but as I think how much time I put into hobbies I wonder how much good I could have done in the same time. But creating music, build scale models, growing cactuses, watching movies is a lot of fun. And people need time to relax and enjoy life.

And you can combine these things; I've got a musician friend who organizes musicians to go to the local VA hospital once a month to play for the patients. It does everybody a world of good.

My family makes a point to look after others in the church we're part of, generally by inviting them over for dinner and/or by bringing gifts of food.

Music-making and cooking are two hobbies that share really well, but you can do just about anything together.

Re: Find Yourself a Hobby for 2020

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Post by evanb »

lb1lf wrote: post #23
simonw wrote: post #19

Visit tiny museums. I stumbled across this hobby a few years ago. Whenever I'm in some place new, I run a search on google maps for "museums" and try to find the smallest, most niche topic possible. It's a pretty small time commitment - a small museum can often be explored in 30-60 minutes - and it's incredibly rewarding. The smaller the museum is, the more likely you'll meet the person who set it up. And that's guar…

I second this. Just about any subject matter is interesting if presented by someone who cares deeply about it. That being said, I believe it is fair to say that I had a better experience than wife+kids at two of my favourite niche museums - the Grimeton spark gap transmitter in South Sweden and, all-time favourite - the museum of submarine cable in Porthcurno, Cornwall, UK. Everybody loved the Ramones museum in Berli…

That museum in Porthcurno is SO INTERESTING. History and hands-on demos and then bam! here's how the big boys did it during the war. Industrially. In a cave. Very neat.

Re: Find Yourself a Hobby for 2020

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Post by Cougher »

type0 wrote: post #7

Learn knitting and allow yourself to be meditatively bored instead of always opening HN for something to read.

Yet opening HN for something to read may be a hobby in itself because it opens doors to all sorts of interests. Including this thread and all of its useful ideas.

Re: Find Yourself a Hobby for 2020

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Post by bad_alloc »

Haven't seen metalworking on that list. It's amazing how far you can get with a vise, saw, files, drill and pliers. And it's also amazing how quickly you feel then need for actual machines and order a lathe and mill :|

If you are space-constrained you can also make jewelry, which can be a lot like machining, just a lot smaller. Also it's amazing how your view of metal als "very solid" changed once you take a graver and move it around by hand.

Re: Find Yourself a Hobby for 2020

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Post by trombonechamp »

simonw wrote: post #19

Visit tiny museums. I stumbled across this hobby a few years ago. Whenever I'm in some place new, I run a search on google maps for "museums" and try to find the smallest, most niche topic possible. It's a pretty small time commitment - a small museum can often be explored in 30-60 minutes - and it's incredibly rewarding. The smaller the museum is, the more likely you'll meet the person who set it up. And that's guar…

Have you considered adding a map of all the museums to your site? I don't want to share my location and I don't necessarily want to look for museums in my present location, but I would love to see what is cataloged and look for museums near future travel destinations.
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