Anonymous wrote:Pottery and gardening.

Where do you fire your pottery? This is an expensive hobby.

How about extreme couponing?

It's funny how people say they aren't artsy, but you might surprise yourself. I haven't really been that artistic either. I started with adult coloring books just to relax. I also did a paint by numbers years ago. We had an unused "How To Draw Cartoons" book, so I started tracing a few cartoons each day. I also tried drawing faces. Then I tried to copy a couple animal photos, and surprisingly some of my drawings were pretty good (better than if I tried to draw from my own imagination). Next I might try painting them. Just start doing something or dabbling around. Even if you think you're not interested or not good at it, you might develop an interest. The point is to get interested. You don't develop an interest by writing off entire categories of hobbies you're convinced you'd be bad at.

I don't have any hobbies, but I greatly enjoy trying to be frugal, spending less and living on less. I love watching youtube videos about it and collecting new ideas. I've read all the books and it started ca 2008 during economic crises.
Unfortunately I'm not artsy or handy which cuts out a lot of hobbies.

Anonymous wrote:I have too many interests and hobbies! As a result, if the hobby requires developing a skill, I never get to expert level at anything. But I’m decently good at lots of things.

This is what I’m currently the most into:
Gardening - intermediate
Knitting - beginner
Sewing - beginner
Baking - intermediate
Birdwatching - beginner

Are you me? Trade sewing for quilting and this would be my list too (though I'm more intermediate in the knitting and quilting).

Thank you for the suggestion. I’m really struggling trying to find a hobby. I’m not into crafts or art and already exercise. Nothing else really looks fun. I experienced a traumatic event that has really shaken my life. I think the distraction of a hobby would help give me something else to focus on. I’m going to try to remember what I liked to do as a kid.

My most consistent hobby is reading. I also like cooking/baking, trying new recipes, reading about it etc.

I enjoy hiking and biking too. And, when it's not covid-times, I sing in a choir.

Others come and go over time. I like needlecrafts and used to sew a lot but it takes more space/set up than I can handle right now. Tried knitting and didn't like but have now started learning to crochet and I like that more.


If you want to establish a hobby and are having trouble thinking what you'd want to do, one piece of advice a read a while ago was to think back to what you liked to do when you were 10 years old and go back to that. That's definitely true for me -- at 10 I spent most of my free time reading, playing piano and singing, riding my bike, and doing arts and crafts and baking when my mom let me. All of those except piano are still the things I come back to as favorite ways to spend my time.

Knitting! I've gotten really into the sourcing of the yarn, hand dyers, that it's a woman-majority community of small business owners, even the history. I'll pop on an audible book or podcast, or half-watch a movie and just veg with my yarn. It's calming and productive, and there is something really satisfying about how tactile and colorful knitting is.

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Anonymous wrote:Home dec kind of sewing.
Upholstery (took a class a few years ago)
Gardening/yard work

Where did you take a class on upholstery? That sounds awesome!

Just saw your question. I don’t live in the DC area, but I found my class thru the Community College extension classes (non credit). This is a fulfilling (and money saving) hobby. Lots of YouTube’s available now too.

Anonymous wrote:Do you have friends or neighbors that you can talk about this? I find that sharing a new hobby with others helps. This is how I started swimming.

Where do you swim? I do it on my own but would love to swim with others.

Tennis, by accident.

At the beginning of the pandemic, DS decided he didn’t want to do tennis anymore, but didn’t tell me until I’d re-upped his pack of private lessons. So I started going instead. And found I loved it! I still have a lot to learn, but happy to be out & exercising and slowly getting to be actually good a sport.

Paint by number kits!! I literally do them by the hour, and it's like meditating...with art at the end. GREAT way to unwind.

Same OP, but over the past year I've gotten into hiking (w/the kids) and I love crafting w/my Cricut. I view hiking more as an activity than a hobby. My hobby is crafting. Wish I had more time for it though.

I used to run marathons but got old and fat and needed a new hobby during quarantine and tennis lessons were available through the county and I am HOOKED!

I also love to read, bake, and drink wine.

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Anonymous wrote:I have multiple hobbies. You don't have to "find one", just try to learn to do various things. Can't knit? Can't draw? Can't speak a foreign language? Can't play a musical instrument? Try them. That's how you get a hobby. You don't have to be good at them. You don't have to keep doing the same ones. You can try one, stop for a while, try something else. Eventually you get good at some of them. When those get boring, try something else. If they are still interesting, keep doing them.

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That’s what’s awesome about hobbies. You’re the boss. You can start, you can stop, you can change - it’s what you want to do.

Hobbies I have had over my lifetime:
Making miniature rooms - paint chips were the walls, I’d draw tiny windows, doors into other rooms, make furniture out of clay
Quilling
Ribbon embroidery
Freehand embroidery
I’d call it quilting, but that’s a bit grand.
Sewing clothing (I’ve never trusted myself with the swathes of fabric needed for home decor sewing. Good on the pp who does!)
Drawing floor plans for houses and apartment buildings, especially to replace crap I don’t like.
Making up imaginary cities
Foreign language learning
Perfume smelling
Drawing
Painting
Gardening
Collecting foreign coins

I mean you can be as into or out of a hobby as you like. It’s awesome.

I'm kind of intrigued as to how you make 'perfume smelling' into a hobby. I understand it is fleeting opportunistic interest if you are passing through a department store. What dos it comprise as a hobby?

She does it for pleasure on a regular basis in her leisure time....hence a "hobby".