Any other ....hobby "JUNKIES".... in the house?
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Post any hobbies you might have that might compete with your ..coins. 
Coins.... of course.
A lot of time spent on ...bonsai....
Antique toys. (These used to be an avocation as I dealt in them)
Target shooting. Still do this craziness. 
Smoking pipes. (kinda new and I do not inhale, but enjoy a bowl while relaxing and CONTEMPLATING...coins. 
That isn't one I actually ...smoke.. but I thought it was kinda cool. 
Some might say I should include rum and coke.... but ...don't.
So go ahead and let us in on your ...other... vices. 
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Women and booze.
I collect books (history and biography) for reading, and don't often dispose of them.
However, these are not collector's books as in rare and pricey, first editions, etc.
Is buying things out of your budget considered a hobby if you do it often enough?
19th Century wet plate collodion photography!
Collector of randomness. Photographer at PCGS. Lover of Harry Potter.
Collect world globes, check out my avatar.
Also have hundreds of decks of playing cards, mostly with advertising.
What else? PEZ dispensers, vintage Happy Meal toys (pre-2000), vintage milk bottle caps, California Raisin characters, COKE back National Geographic magazines, old Red Books. Did I leave anything out?
Other hobbies include world travel, gold panning, metal detecting, trout fishing and last but not least having fun selling what I've been collecting on eBay.
Also sort of a food junkie and eat out about eight days a week.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
PostWar Lionel trains, Plasticville, and most of all DUST.
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Love for Music / Collector of Dreck
Cool !!!
Are you talkin' to me?
Any Bonsai tree that I've ever owned was dead within months. I'm just terrible at taking care of one.
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Built this today at work, can say I collect joy from a finished project.
I truly love being a Carpenter.
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Love for Music / Collector of Dreck
I have been known to collect a few things, I think I counted over 25 different items I have collected, some would be very small collections though.
Successful BST deals with mustangt and jesbroken. Now EVERYTHING is for sale.
I am a big cigar smoker! So cigars and a good scotch, brandy, or bourbon.
I also love collecting hit and miss motors. Have always enjoyed restoring these and just listening to them run!!!normally while smoking a cigar
HAPPY COLLECTING
My dad had several of those small gasoline engines, maybe half a dozen. When dad was a kid, local farmers used them mostly to pump water.
Dad sold them a few years before his death, except for one that had been rebuilt/restored by the long-time Lutheran minister at our church. My brother owns that one today.
I'm up to 19 of them. I love them. The wife doesnt think I need that many though of course. I hook mine up to ice cream makers at our little local fairs and family get togethers
HAPPY COLLECTING
I love racing motorcycles and racetracks. Been at it for 20+ years.
I've backed off a little, due to age and the time it takes to mend. But the thrill never fades.
Lance.
Men and booze
Just Kiddin' with the above post
@COINS MAKE CENTS My Dad's peak earning years were in the 1970s and partly coincided with the First Arab Oil Embargo. Dad had several restored, smaller engine antique tractors and maybe the small gasoline engines in the event that fuel became extremely scarce and the older stuff would be needed on the farm. Or at least that was his stated excuse for indulging nostalgia.
Hobby metals refining. Mostly karat scrap and gold filled. Also find some really nice vintage jewelry at times, platinum ring weighs over an ounce, not sure if the stone is real. Also love vintage time pieces.
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
Acrylic pencils and Oil mostly.....
Mostly from exchanges from my travel abroad
Exploring slot canyons in the Southwest;
Growing exotic cacti (here, Cereus peruvianus forma mini-monstrose aka 'Ming Thing'):
RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'
CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
Guns, mostly handguns that were made when quality was king back in the 60s'and into the early 70's. They make "some" good guns today but nothing like the quality firearms that companies like Colt, S&W and High Standard made ~50 years ago.
Just a favorite EDC...(well, two of them)....I should post my Colt .45 Custom....but then I would want to post the other 33....then the rifles and shotguns....
I also collect decks of old playing cards (many years ago, they did not have numbers)... and marbles - Guineas, Cobras etc.. Cheers, RickO
I've almost COMPLETELY segued from guns into coins.
Guns are just TOO hard to fuss with all the forms. I used to go to gun shows, plunk my money down, fill out my DRIVERS LICENSE info and go home.
Not that way any more.
California, you know. We don't even get to see the better new guns.
Ah well..... got enough.
Now to get enough coins.
I collect automotive related toys, models, etc. Currently restoring a1957 Chevy Nomad to replicate my Avitar.
My War Nickels https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/nickels/jefferson-nickels-specialty-sets/jefferson-nickels-fs-basic-war-set-circulation-strikes-1942-1945/publishedset/94452
I enjoy hunting these precious agates in the badlands. It’s a physical exercise you don’t know your getting with benefits!! Love the outdoors and get as much in as I can. Phone showed I walked 9.5 miles, 24k steps and 38 floors yesterday and came home with these beauties for the collection.
I also do tie dye. What a blast to come home from rock picking and unwrap and wash out these beauties.
Riding choppers and busin’ in the Westfalia with fam when time permits, never gets old.
Antique silver for me.
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@asheland I 've always thought it was an easy jump (subject-wise) from coins to antique silver. But both can be expensive games and so I focus on just coins.
guilty-toy trains,tropical fish,crusty vechicles
@BillDugan1959 indeed it can. Both have their share of fakes and both can be expensive, depending on that you collect.
The above picture is a very scarce aesthetic movement cream jug by Tiffany & Co. it’s one of my favorites and I believe I bought it right.
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I'm retired, so I have many interests (which I think is very important for retirees). I used to collect antique fishing lures, but stopped and just enjoy what I have now, I golf, I'm a life long pigeon flier (performing Birmingham Rollers - hence the tag of Rollerman), I retired from part time drag racing a '72 Duster and now enjoy my 1940 Ford street rod AND I like to fish! My wife calls me a professional hobbiest!
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I have some Martin guitars, vintage and modern. The two below are from 1908 and 1911, low mintage years, 156 made in 1908 and 210 in 1911 for all Martin models. They actual sound much better than new, they were built very light, and years of ageing of the Brazilian rosewood, mahogany, and Adirondack spruce. The rosewood example was shipped to Eiler's Music in Seattle's Pioneer square in December of 1911, I still have the original case.
And an 1895 Martin it the original coffin case built to withstand a stagecoach ride:
Fishing and both cross country and downhill skiing.
With regards to collecting hobbies, I no longer collect, but enjoy what I have of Ukiyo-e (Japaness wood block prints) and California Plein Aire painting (impressionist paintings of the outdoors from roughly 1915 - 1940).
I still avidly collect space memorabilia, predominantly of the 1960 - 1975 era, but also some stuff up to the current era. Here's the Direct Ascent Chart (DAC) from Apollo 16, e.g. the chart used by the crew of the Lunar Module (LM) when they lifted off the Moon and rendezvoused with the astronaut orbiting the Moon in the Command module (in 1972). It is one of only two DAC's in private hands (out of a total of 4 DAC rendezvous charts in existence). The rest are in museums. You'll note the gray areas of the chart. That is ground in Moon dust.
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I have a pretty decent sized home studio. ABout 100k in vintage and newer synths and effects pedals. Also a small gun collection but nor really hobby level, just to protect the coins and the synths. I buy a lot of technology to tinker with. I have something like 80 computers, laptops, tablets and other devices. But thats my business so I dont really consider that a hobby per se.
I enjoy shooting, camping, cars.....I'm an amateur radio operator.
But, when it gets warm enough, I'm happy to grab a beer with a friend.......
@Nysoto love those guitars! I would consider playing mine a relaxing hobby.
Some great stuff on this thread. Some of my favorite hobbies are doing things outside like hunting, fishing, yard work, biking, camping, shooting and even watching high school football. As far as collecting stuff, coins and precious metals dominates my time. I dabble in old fishing lures, knives, etc. but nothing like coins.