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What are your other “Active” hobbies?

JJMJJM Posts: 7,933 ✭✭✭✭✭

For me it’s

•Saltwater/Reef Aquarist (35+yrs)
•Bonsai (1yr)

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  • DoubleDimeDoubleDime Posts: 615 ✭✭✭

    Boy Scout items and some First Day Stamp Covers.

  • DCWDCW Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Classical piano

    Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
    "Coin collecting for outcasts..."

  • bronzematbronzemat Posts: 2,570 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Comic Books, Autographs, Action Figures/toys, Stamps.

  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hiking, rock climbing, biking, and shooting sports...

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

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  • WCCWCC Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have a sideline collection of Union Castle Line maritime memorabilia. It operated under contract to transport mail between Britain and South Africa until going out of business in 1977. My family were passengers on the RMS Windsor Castle when we left South Africa on November 6, 1974.

  • ironmanl63ironmanl63 Posts: 1,955 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BryceM said:
    I've been big in the aquarium thing too, but I got too close to the sun and burned out on it a bit. At one point I was the admin of a planted aquarium forum, doing a small column for Tropical Fish Hobbyist, buying and selling rare aquatic plants, and breeding new-to-the-hobby West African Dwarf Cichlids.

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    I'll come back to it someday. The tanks are still set up, but they're only a dim shadow of what they used to be.

    More recently I've gotten into woodworking, jewelry boxes and a bit of furniture.

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    You should make some coin cabinets. :)

  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 1,746 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very dark chocolates.
    Cooking.
    Photography.
    Sport touring motorcycle.
    Colorado things.
    Reading.
    Real life poker tournaments (we'll get back to those at some point!)
    Plants.
    Learning Japanese.
    Job hunting.

    Coins are Neato!

    "If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright

  • privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,001 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bowling.

    Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kurisu said:

    Learning Japanese.

    very dark chocolates

    Translation results
    非常にダークチョコレート
    Hijō ni dākuchokorēto
    :)

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    zero down

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  • P0CKETCHANGEP0CKETCHANGE Posts: 2,058 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You guys have other hobbies!?

    Nothing is as expensive as free money.

  • pointfivezeropointfivezero Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @2dueces said:
    My true passion. R. Atkinson Fox 1866-1935. I own 21 original oils and have my eye on another as we speak. Very famous in the ‘20’s and will become one of America’s favorite again. The art world is very fickle.

    @2dueces - how about adding a pair of Snake Eyes to your collection?

  • Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 7,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 27, 2021 12:17PM

    Gaming - GTAO, Model Railroading, Strip Club VIP, Astronomy

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  • spacehaydukespacehayduke Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gravel.......


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  • dagingerbeastttdagingerbeasttt Posts: 784 ✭✭✭✭

    Guitar, singing/songwriting. Drawing/shooting

  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 27, 2021 2:01PM

    @lkenefic said:

    I'm sitting here looking at the forum right now with 2 year old Hydrantette Jenny by my side. She saw the above picture and said, " Papa! Look! A gun. I like it!" My kind of girl....... We do our best the raise them right here on ranch.

  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,630 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Repairing old tube radios and electronic equipment with tubes.
    Gambling at casinos.

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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 27, 2021 6:00PM

    Wine
    Whiskey
    Orchids ( don't judge me)
    Yoga
    Peloton
    Gardening

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    This just rolled in today. The oldest aged Canadian whiskey I've come across.

    Walker Proof Digital Album
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  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Pretty mundane, actually. Stamps, currency, novelty playing cards such as those issued in conjunction with expos and fairs, and portraying military caricatures, Pan American items, constantly updating my book on Buff 5c abraded dies among other things.

  • Tom147Tom147 Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Do grandkids count. If I knew how much fun they were, I'd have had them first. Handgunner, shooting & reloading, Rappelling ( I teach rope rescue ) swiftwater rescue ( which I also teach ) Also nuisance control trapping and furbearer trapping. Controversial but not going to debate it here. The science supports it. Nuff said.

  • yosclimberyosclimber Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 27, 2021 5:36PM

    Not sure what "Active" means, but I spend most of my time:

    • researching seated half dime die varieties
    • cleaning up family trees on familysearch.org
    • working - econometric and database programming
    • a little bit of rock climbing and bolt replacement
  • TunisTunis Posts: 418 ✭✭✭✭

    Fossil hunting-Texas
    Artifacts
    Baseball autographs
    Basketball autographs
    1933 NY Giants

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  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,589 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’ve been playing keyboards since 1986. Played by ear until the early 90s and took music theory classes to learn the language of music. Also took up guitar about 5 years ago but I’m not as proficient on it as I am on the keys.
    I’ve also been studying up on old vinyl. My father has been collecting records since he was 17 years old and I’ve already been asked to become the caretaker of his collection when he is gone. I’m honored to do it.

  • mirabelamirabela Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Running, hiking, skiing, paddling, fly fishing & fly tying, five-string banjo, gardening.

    mirabela
  • matt_dacmatt_dac Posts: 954 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 27, 2021 6:07PM

    These days it’s flying my paragliders and sport touring motorcycle trips.

  • android01android01 Posts: 306 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Restoring vintage Matchbox cars.
    Playing/writing music.

  • bearcavebearcave Posts: 3,993 ✭✭✭✭✭


    Ken
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    In ascending order, by order of the Chihuahua:

    Now riding the swell in PM's and surf.
  • ReadyFireAimReadyFireAim Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I started figure skating in 2018 as a way to stay active in the winter (6hrs/week)

  • DavideoDavideo Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭✭

    Ice hockey (playing and coaching), running, backpacking

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