We are living in busy times so what do you enjoy doing with your time?
What’s Your Hobby?
Ozjoey on 17/02/2023 - 00:16
Last edited 17/02/2023 - 09:29 by 1 other user
Last edited 17/02/2023 - 09:29 by 1 other user
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Video games on switch, miniature painting, gardening. Planning to dabble into cold smoking in winter (bacon and maybe later fish and cheese).
Picked up leatherworking recently, not cheap to set up but I'm having a blast making things!
Fishing and the outdoors is my hobbies 4wding camping.
Learning piano.
Play computer game, csgo.
Roller skate.custom mechanical keyboards
Halmak is where it's at (on pc), qwerty for software keyboards is best.
If you know of a good halmak setup, please fill me in.
Fighting The Matrix
:D
Gaming. Collecting games on steam, epic games, itch.io, indi galha, etc
3d printing, VR, board games.
Making electronic projects eg. remote controlled robot.
My hobby at the moment is menu planning and budgeting. I don’t know why but it absolutely fascinates me.
My meal planning at the moment is to get the most out of the ingredients I buy, so if we have a stew one night with celery in it, something over the next couple of days has to use the rest of the celery.. I’m getting angry seeing how much food gets wasted at my house on a weekly basis.
That drives me crazy too, and the celery mention struck a chord, as I can see a yellowing limp bunch in our fridge. I bought a big tray of mince yesterday to combat this.
Cars
Motorbikes
E-Mountain Biking
Kayaking
Hiking with the dog
Gaming (Company of Heros, Runescape and replaying great single-player games mainly)
Getting lost in beekeeping…
That's awesome!
Learning to fly aeroplanes.
Shit's expensive.
this is someting I want to do, are you aiming for PPL?
Just finished my CPL actually.
Feel free to message me if you have questions about the process.
Nice, congrats mate, will do.
Trance DJing at home and uploading to YouTube
Always wanted to do it, bought the gear before covid but barely found time.. Then finally learnt during the lockdowns
Mind sharing your songs?
Cycling
Music (Guitar)
Computers (General IT related stuff, tinkering, automations)
Video Games (PC / PS)
Audio (headphones / music)
DIY
- Cycling (I have 8 bikes, two of which I just dropped $25k on, it's a hobby out of control)
- Music (piano, guitar)
- Travelling (been to 39 countries, of which 4 I've lived in >= 5 years)
- Languages (I speak English, Mandarin and Dutch fluently, intermediate French, basic Spanish, Afrikaans and German). Part of this is from travelling and you can guess where I've lived in from the list
- Cooking (I think I can cook quite well, but my opinion)
Don't have time to sleep but I also really enjoy sleeping :P
$25k!? What did you get?
Canyon Aeroad and Lux WC, both top specs.
I moved to The Netherlands a couple of years ago and I get a bike allowance (similar to FBT), as well as get paid to ride it to/from work (semi pro now 😉), so I will eventually reclaim the cost back. Can you call this a "high yield investment vehicle"?
Yes I still browse Ozbargain regularly 😁 the Dutch/European equivalent is https://nl.pepper.com/
Epic!!! I've got a Canyon Ultimate, love the Aeroads though.
Very cool about the bike allowance - if only that existed in Aus!
@Tgb: My head says Ultimate but my heart says Aeroad. I just love the shape and the colour (fenix alpecin white/blue). The Ultimate is in every way a better bike though - cheaper, lighter and slightly better handling (wheel depth), but I'm a form over function guy 🙈
Super awesome to hear you've got a Canyon too! Great minds think alike 😁
I'm a master debater.
Scuba Diving, Riding Motorbikes, Judo, Video Games and Programming
Cycling
Driving
Target shooting
Fishing
Watch modding
wasting time is my hobby, and i feel shame abt it
Spearfishing, bouldering, runnings, cycling, listening to music (hi-fi), motorcycling, DIY/tinkering, golf
Building plastic scale model kits. Or to be honest, buying kits and reading about other people building them.
Cycling, mostly indoors on Zwift.
Table tennis.
haven't enjoyed anything since the old days
still getting video games hoping to enjoy it like before.
I get like that too even with video games. It's boredom and too many distractions around me that just drains all my energy.
ordered Yakuza Ishin PS4, gonna play it on the weekends.
- Cycling
- Investing / reading financial news
- Podcasts
- Reading
- Learning (mostly related to hobbies - investing, business, health)
- Making coffee
- Going to the beach
Camping
Used to love video games (PC and various consoles) and while have a semi recent gaming laptop and a desire to play never seem to find the time to play anymore
Experimenting with cooking and remaking food ive had at restaurants. Most of my Youtube time is watching people cook.
Amateur Radio…… if anyone knows what the is.
My partner and I go garage-saleing and trawl marketplace for retro/vintage/antique furniture.
Aiming to pay for our 6-week Europe holiday with it. On track so far!
Home automation. When at home, my phone controls so much of my house it feels like I have magic powers. I especially notice this when we stay at places away from my house and I dont have that level of control or data (what is the temperature in my son's rooms) etc.
My hobby is procrastinating whatever I have to do
How long did it take you to get around to writing this?
FPV Drone Building, flying and everything else that goes with the Hobby.
Rock climbing (indoors and out)
Table Tennis 🏓
What's your RatingsCentral rating? :D
I don't have one yet but I hope to change that this year!
Edit: Have filled in for 3 games, pennant this season & apparently I do have one! 863±79. Check in by end of year to see where it's at!
Awesome, keep on climbing! Send a DM if you're in Brisbane some time :-)
@Doy: Thank you! Give me some coaching and a lot of play time, I'll be down to use my Virgin flight credit to go to Brisbane for TT 🏓😁
Going to House music sets & Comedy shows
Way too many hobbies than i can afford
- Boating and Fishing
- 3d Printing
- Computer nerd stuff - playing with electronics (Rpi, Arduino servo robotics etc)
- Making Arcade machines
- Woodworking
- RC Cars
- 4WDing and car modifications
- Guitars
list keeps on going..
- Boardgames
- Miniature painting (for boardgames)
- Making ice cream / bread / desserts
- Photography
- Videography
- Gaming
- Play alto sax but transcribing sucks, so I stopped
- About to pick up volleyball
Feel free to ask me anything about my hobbies
Using my sling to knock drones out of the sky then replacing the memory card with an album of my best seagulls photos then taking the drone to the police and say I found it in a tree
Gaming with the kids and wife, building Lego, also grow and sell cactus and succulents, and Diamond Dotz for a bit of sorta art therapy.
Playing with Blender - the open source 3D software.
There's always more to learn - modelling, rendering, animation, rigging, simulations etc.
And then if I'm keen I can submit bugfixes or enhancements.Working on maintaining/modifying "older" cars (mostly JDM) - but like everything else, spare parts, mods etc cost a fair bit more than pre covid.
Mechanical keyboards.
Protip: Dont get into mechanical keyboards.
How is this a hobby?.
Like many of the other things in this thread, keyboards can be built and modified. There are a number of types you can get into and then once you have one, you can then swap out switches, stablisers, keycaps and get very VERY custom with it all to change up the look and feel.
Also it gets very expensive.
Discovering a new hobby, buying all the required tools and material and then never actually start doing the hobby itself before moving onto discovering a new hobby etc…
Sim racing. Started in covid when I built my first PC, it's gotten a lot more serious since (and expensive)
surprised there's no beer brewing mentioned, as it can (arguably) save you money…and get you pissed at the same time!
so I'll add - (all grain) beer brewing. fkn ace fun. fair bit of work tho.
mountain biking for the win tho, just upgraded to a Nukeproof Mega Ally Pro and it's siiiiiiiick…
Running - want to do the Run for the Kids fun run in March
Vidya games
4chan/Reddit
Astrophotography*Cooking YouTube recipes.
I picked up deer hunting, camping and hiking. After covid, I just want to be amongst nature and peace.
Where do you go deer hunting?
Mostly around the victorian high country, state forests. Anywhere around Mansfield, eildon is a good start.
Travelling, will hit the 150th country this year. Very expensive hobby, I don't own a property, limited job growth being away half the year.
Hiking
Roadtrips
Fishing
Cooking
Camping (soon)Reading about other peoples hobbies
Neg ppl
What's not my hobby… Woodworking, flying, gaming, archery, 3d printing. Just have work and family taking up my hobby time!
Comping / YouTube comping channel just started
Buying items for competitions,
Two big wins 2023
$3 bandaids into $5000 apple products
$100 worth malfy gin into $7000 vespaLast year $35,000+
I’m planning on picking up DnD again.
Fly radio control planes. It is moderately expensive, but not crazy.
MTBs but recently 4x4 and shooting
Learning to fly.
Not the cheapest hobby (but not crazy expensive either) but super fun. Challenging but rewarding.
The next phase is to build a plane - now that will be expensive.
That would be awesome. What are you going to build?
I'm leaning towards an ICP Ventura:
https://www.icpaviazione.it/flotta/ventura/?lang=enThey are developing a model of the Ventura that will be rated for the new RA Aus higher 760kg weight limit. It will cruise at 110knts+ for 5 hours. It's going to be a beast. It's realistically a 4-5 year project and is a massive commitment because once you start, you can't really stop - and it won't be cheap! There's method in this though because, as with a lot of things, light aircraft are in very short supply and what is for sale is usually rubbish/knackered and/or expensive. By building, I'd get a new aircraft exactly as I want it (engine/colour/avionics etc).
Just got to get my licence now!
Only Fans.
astrophotography and flying (general aviation) both cost a fair bit
At the moment, I am composting.
I just love seeing my plants thrive.Other than that, photography.
I thought you said composing like a musical piece. Then I read it again. Haha
I recently started creating slip cases for books…also started buying a lot more books so there's that too. I've always been a big fan of fantasy. However, I could only afford cheap MMPBs for the most part. I've been spending the last few months updating my library with hard backs and collectors editions. Been expensive, but I am finally in a good spot career/lifestyle wise!
One thing that surprised me reading through this thread…
Nobody mentioned "learning a new language".
Is there some kind of underlying reason for this? Makes me wonder.
DIY maintenance and repairs
playing fingerpicking guitar
helping others where I can