Dying hobbies

[Burghf_er]

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

My boyfriend at the time was flying kites in 1988-1991 in the Seattle parks. He was getting them from somewhere.

 

[3671131]

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

Thanks

Yes including the UK & Germany, they're very lucky. We only have one shop here for the brand I like. I do buy online, but most countries don't deliver to South Africa.

 

[MickeyLee]

When I was but a wee ML a friend of the clan made paper flowers. Not huge tissue paper puffs. Insanity detailed flowers that fooled the eye. I spent many a day at her house learning to parrot what she taught me. Very relaxing from planning to execution, working on such a tiny focal kinda sweeps away all the big stuff that could be distracting.

 

[rbkwp]

cant say i ever had a realithy hobby
unless chasing after the male species is constituted as one
even then,only moderately successful

thank your god on that,tbh
am much relieved and quite, no, more than happy ha
- true


rbkwp
transparency ie total truth
like all politicians WW

 

[HorseHung40's]

Stamp collecting is a dying hobby. I was shocked, when asking a part-time worker to put a stamp onto an envelope, and, mail it. She had never heard of such a thing. My shock subsided when her replacement was just as clueless. It is now a question in the interview process.

 

[Lookinginconshy]

Forgot about slot cars...my brother and his friends filled our basement with track and raced them non-stop. Never into it myself.

Car models was my thing. Still can find them online but the prices...wow. And the cost for paint!

Kites - I love to fly them....WalMart or online usually can find a nice selection and reels. I prefer to construct my own...except newspaper is getting hard to find. There is even a website for kite flyers with a newsletter and tips.

1/144 Scale commercial jet models is my hobby. I got an example of every airline I’ve flown on but oddly don’t have one from the airline I worked for when in my 20s. My wife has threatened to make this space taking hobby of mine disappear with a broom!

Not sure if dead but there was a time in the USA where some people collected beer cans for some reason. Think that has died out.

 

[Burghf_er]

Stamp collecting is a dying hobby. I was shocked, when asking a part-time worker to put a stamp onto an envelope, and, mail it. She had never heard of such a thing. My shock subsided when her replacement was just as clueless. It is now a question in the interview process.

Where do such people think the mail in their mailbox at home comes from, some of which has stamps on it?

 

[HorseHung40's]

Where do such people think the mail in their mailbox at home comes from, some of which has stamps on it?

you would have to ask them.

 

[Taya]

I don't have any hobbies, I like to be unencumbered by possessions, I am a minimalist. My interests are in science, most of that is kept in my head. It varies sometimes I am totally into Paleoanthropology, other times human genetics, finding out about the Kuiper Belt, but collecting things, not really.

The best hobbies are ones that can turn into your vocation, you can enjoy your hobbies and make money or a living out of them.

I beg to differ. People dream about doing their hobbies as their occupation, supposedly enjoying work while making a living.
Based on what I have seen around me, you lose them if you get them mixed up. You lose your hobby if it becomes a business and definitely lose the business if you treat it as a hobby. Contradicting terms in my opinion.

And just like you, I don't have a hobby apart from history research on internet. If that can be called a hobby.
Funny though. I grew up in an environment where family members all had hobbies and they enjoyed helping each other out with them.

Papa collected die cast cars and built sail ships. Mama was a philatelist and a gardener.

My brother collected whatever was in fashion. Footballer cards, marbles, matchbox cars, you name it he got it. Now, he collects, restores and repairs handguns.

Grandpa restored old jeeps, there was no shortage of them from wars and conflicts. Grannie had all kind of sewing and knitting hobbies.

I had none. Just got a scent of DIY from papa but that is it. I would love to do some historical diorama but that would be in the form of assisting someone. I don't have the space, knowledge and sadly the patience.

I feel I wasted life.

 

[MickeyLee]

@TayaK if ya still breathing it's not too late.

Ya like researching history and mention historical dioramas, you could research and sketch scenes. Ya need paper, drawing implement and a spark of inspiration.

 

[Taya]

@TayaK if ya still breathing it's not too late.

Ya like researching history and mention historical dioramas, you could research and sketch scenes. Ya need paper, drawing implement and a spark of inspiration.

And talent which is non-existent.

I love looking at battle paintings to quench my thirst. And some pictures saved from the internet. Sadly any compensation.

 

[deleted15807]

The internet and the cellphone have crushed tons of hobbies and sports.

 

[MurdockPSB]

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.

It sounds like your collection would be right up my alley. Books, particularly on fringe topics, are my weakness. My shelves range from Havelock Ellis to Charles Fort. (I may not have much, but at least I have an interesting library.) I've found some good deals on a lot of unique volumes on a wide range of paranormal topics.

 

[seventiesdemon]

I started a collection of bricks some time ago. Hand made, from about 150 years ago to modern day.

Then lost interest due to marriage breakup etc. Just came across them the other day..........thought I may start again.

Not of interest to many I suppose, but for a guy like me to think a brickie over 100 years ago handled this brick, the guys who slop moulded them....right back to the convict days. Can't help but have a bit of pride in my trade background.

Being a Brickie as well, started my apprenticeship in 1974... I have a few that date back a while...some from old city buildings which were demolished through the years, others from brickworks which have closed down as well. Haven't added any for some time...the oldest is what they called slop molded. Bricks made by hand before machine and pushed out of the mold before firing, The frog in the brick was made by pushing a piece of timber into it.

My Dad had racing pigeons, it was a sport (hobby) here popular in his day and before. Keeping birds and training them now now has become difficult because people are time poor, also new housing blocks are so small that finding room even to place a tiny aviary is an issue.

 

[Llbaker]

It sounds like your collection would be right up my alley. Books, particularly on fringe topics, are my weakness. My shelves range from Havelock Ellis to Charles Fort. (I may not have much, but at least I have an interesting library.) I've found some good deals on a lot of unique volumes on a wide range of paranormal topics.

Yeah, I've always collected fringe books of all types, thinking a major paradigm change might be hidden there, though, obviously, most are likely authored by obsessed crackpots.

 

[MurdockPSB]

Yeah, I've always collected fringe books of all types, thinking a major paradigm change might be hidden there, though, obviously, most are likely authored by obsessed crackpots.

Certainly, some are. (I don't believe any of 'The Life of Little Justin Hulburd' but it's amusing reading about a spiritualist medium claiming to have been sent by Lincoln to spy on the Confederates while dressed as a woman), but works like SPR's many old books and Nandor Fodor's research are more my taste. There's an endless supply of fringe books from the past few centuries from the absurd to the logical.