Dying hobbies

[XXXWolverineXXX]

My hoppy of choice is slot cars and building diorama tracks.

 

[jojolongdong]

Music on 12 inch vinyl or pretty much any other from of vinyl such as 7'' or 10''. As dead as it gets. You could get "booed" for buying anything else besides digital downloads. No unwrapping, no sniffing the packaging... Just click and listen.

It did seem like Vinyl collecting had died out at the end of the previous century but there's been a big revival in the UK in the 21st Century.

I used to collect in the 80's and 90's and still have all my original 12" singles...... in recent years I've been able to add new ones.
It's not just old vinyl that is selling, new records are being pressed too.

Looking for a copy of "Love of the Common People" Paul Young (12" Extended remix.)

 

[ronin001]

LPSG was a major hobby of mine for years

 

[MickeyLee]

LPSG is definitely a hobby. One I spend an obscene amount of time checking in on. Not so much the topic at hand, but the people who make there home here. I look at the posts from favorites. When I am in a pissy mood I click the "show ignored content" option. I mostly try to stay away from purposeful muck racking.

 

[Beedie Tijii]

As long as DJing with vinyl is a thing, vinyl itself is not going anywhere, and nor is collecting it.

 

[Llbaker]

I too used to collect books. Unfortunately, due to a downturn in my personal financial situation a few years ago I had to sell them all. I still miss them. I collected books on lot of fringe topics. I had a huge library of occultism, esoterica, Forteana, the paranormal, UFO's, hypnosis, body energy, erotica, etc. I had a collection of Wilhelm Reich first editions and other rare books. As well as collections of literature, history, psychology and film studies. The first Internet message board I ever joined, in fact, was an old one they used to have at alibris.com. And although I'm not collecting anymore, a good used book store is still my idea of heaven.

I used to be a rather professional, but part-time book dealer, specializing in some of the above. I was totally wiped-out some years ago by the Internet. At first the Internet dramatically increased my business as, suddenly it was cheap to find customers. Then, Ebay and Amazon took all the business through their massive on-line platform investments.

 

[Llbaker]

What do you think happened to this hobby? Why isn't it popular anymore in your opinion?

Leggo?

 

[wallyj84]

Leggo?

Legos are still quite popular.

 

[Llbaker]

Legos are still quite popular.

Yeah. I meant to mean Leggo has replaced model cars, planes,and ships that glue together.

After watching Victory at Sea in the 1950s I was a fan of navy ship models. They actually floated pretty good!

 

[MickeyLee]

Legos are still quite popular.

K'nex for lyfe!

I have not added to the horde in over a decade but I keep my treasures close.

Wood carving/widfling? As in widdling a something from a hunk of wood with a knife. I learned from various relatives. Skills have been refined by practice.

 

[1141702]

Sadly, Ham Radio. I was born in the wrong era. Lol

 

[ronin001]

I have made a hobby of collect debt. I hear it is a popular hobby among many

 

[lellelind]

My hoppy of choice is slot cars and building diorama tracks. View attachment 983191 View attachment 983192

Please, tell me more about diorama tracks.

 

[wallyj84]

Please, tell me more about diorama tracks.

Apparently it is a whole thing.

These Slot Car Tracks Are Functional Works of Art

Pretty cool if you ask me. You know something I would do if I had more space? I would make lego dioramas of superhero battles and post that shit to Instagram. I need a basement for that though...

 

[Burghf_er]

I was teasing. I combined the two examples you gave into one hobby.

Stamp collecting as I understand it is suffering from a lack of stamps. The societal shift towards email and metered mail means there isn't the variety of stamps being produced today that there once was and not as many posted letters being mailed around./

Model trains aren't as popular as they once were, but I think it still has a healthy number of enthusiasts (I don't think this is facing any risk of death as a hobby, it's just not in its golden age).

This is not quite correct about stamps. There are more stamps than ever being issued by governments around the world, but they are being used less on mail. If you collect mint/unused stamps, no problem. If you collect only used stamps, or both mint and used stamps, then there's a problem.

 

[Llbaker]

I collected stamps for quite a few years until 12 or so. . . then, I had my head examined.

 

[XXXWolverineXXX]

Please, tell me more about diorama tracks.

It a fun little hobby it takes up about half my garage.

 

[NCbear]

E. B. White’s 1950s children’s book Stuart Little—about the mouse supposedly born into a human family—included two hobbies that are now rare: (1) building working scale-model gas engines and (2) building and sailing scale-model sailboats on lakes in parks.

And Mary Poppins had kites. I haven’t seen a kite for sale in a toy store for at least 30 years.

NCbear (who turned 50 earlier this year and immediately transformed into a curmudgeonly type often saying “when I was a boy” and other old-man phrases)

 

[3671131]

I collect die-cast 1:500 model airliners, but it's difficult to get them in my country.

 

[wallyj84]

I collect die-cast 1:500 model airliners, but it's difficult to get them in my country.

Cool hobby. I think it is still popular in Asia and the US. How do you get models?