no hobbies. sad.
nothing expensive, or with an unreasonable learing curve. something easy to start doing that requires little setup so i can pick it up anytime i want
you guys got any ideas?
Inexpensive, and little setup, with no steep learning curve?
Off the top of my head:
- singing
- drawing
- playing a tin whistle
- dorodango
- dexterity games (card flourishes, astrojax, yoyo, pen spinning, etc.)
- reading
- kumihimo
- customising things with paint markers
- yoga
- whetstoning
- writing (prose or poetry)
- journaling/journalism
- cross stitch/embroidery
- jelqing
- rock/object balancing
- meditation
- knife throwing
- macramé (using beading floss)
- playing the spoons
- whittling
- eating
- scrimshaw
- nålbinding
- henna tattooing
- primping
- cloudgazing
- looking at fucking everything through a high mag loupe
- tarot divination
- contact juggling
- kefir making
- key duplication by hand
- sleeping
- hiking
- floccinaucinihilipilification
- origami
- talking to nearby friendly looking strangers
- polishing
- cleaning
- caligraphy
- drugless hallucination
- soapbox public speaking
- zen gardening
- guerilla gardening
- pitch ear training
- ‘easter egg’ hiding
- local botanical/ecological studies
- flint knapping
- home/interior design (as long as you don’t actually buy anything)
- knolling
- marble running
- solo RPGs like ‘Alone Among The Stars’ (okay this one wasn’t technically off the top of my head. I couldn’t remember the name, so I looked it up.)
triple upvotp 👍 👍
Meditation ( Creative Commons guided meditations )
Hiking ( some old OSM hiking trail maps )
Boardgames and cardgames ( Spiel de Jahres - awards 1979-2026 ) - Game of the year list, any winners or nominated games are excellent
Explore your neighborhood
- geocaching
- contributing to open street maps (Street complete)
- photography with your cell phone
I almost commented earlier and suggested Street Complete myself, on the grounds that if someone is sad, which OP said he was, getting outside and getting exercise can be helpful.
There are exactly zero boring hobbies, through the right eyes or right lens.
boring as you use it, is a term which works best when describing a person. Take from that what you will.
Well you could start drilling a hole down into the earth for fun. That would be a boring hobby…
It would not be boring in any sense of the word when you got close to magma. :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremes_on_Earth#Lowest_artificial_points
It’s boring time, OP
Right? I have loads of hobbies. How the hell am I supposed to know if OP will find the m boring?
you can say what you find interesting i wont flame you bro 👍
What about fixing things? like clocks or small electronics. Lots of places have small community groups now.
Maybe a worm farm?
How about whittling or crochet?
Also cheese making
Electric drum kit is fun, cathartic, and quiet outside your headphones. Chilis are easy to grow, and they certainly entertain the mouth. Running saved my life. Tennis balls from the machine launcher. Rock wall. Skateboard. People love pickleball, but you need friends. Darts. 3D printer. Electric piano. Cooking class you can meet a girl, cook for her, get back rubs. Singing lessons. Fetish exploration. You got this.
Ooh would you have some recommendations or pointers on what to to look at for electric drum kits?
I’ve always wanted to learn drumming but never got around to it
i have an alesis kit my dad got for me through sweetwater, its pretty awesome!!
Zero cost:
- Running
- Yoga
- Bodyweight exercise
Zero cost if you have a library card:
- Reading (fiction)
- Reading (non-fiction)
- Online discussion
Price of pencil and paper:
- Writing (creative)
- Writing (journaling)
- Drawing
Fairly cheap:
- Music (playing)
- Music (listening)
- Painting
Having fun isn’t hard if you have a library card
What hobbies have you liked in the past or have sounded fun? That helps everyone pick a direction.
Geocaching has been fun for me. Gardening but, I’ve gone full !nolawns@slrpnk.net lol, lately I’ve gotten into retro website building in NeoCities.org relearning HTML, CSS and Java script has been fun.
If you have a PC checking the steam sales for cheap games is nice. I just finished my 3rd round of stardew valley.
You can volunteer. If there’s a habitat for humanity near you you can even learn new skills.
You are my spirit animal. Keep up the good hobbying.
Do you compost bro? I have also just started my Geocity journey.
My focus this year has been on self hosting and getting off big tech.
I was just talking to my partner about starting to compost 🤣
Geocaching
heard about it and saw some things about it online. still not sure what it is but at least its outside activty (i think)
Almost always outside.
To me, it frequently gives me reasons to go explore lots of new places/parks/etc. And I treat it as “hiking with a goal” (although definitely not everyone does it that way). And I’ve found a lot of really interesting/cool geocaches that way.
Also will do with my wife, family, friends, or solo. And have made friends that way. There’s ever regular meetups all over for the hobby.
There tend to be a lot of geocaches hidden in places like parking lots and things to but I have less than zero interest in that. It has to be somewhere that I would enjoy going to in the first place.
One was hidden in a book in a public library once (with the blessing of the library), which was pretty cool. Another I had to open a lock after solving a puzzle. Another was in a tree and you had to do something special to lower it down (which was super cool). Most I go to are just hidden in a nice place, though.
This! Very easy to get started (finding maybe not as much) and only costs something if you pay for premium.
Mushrooming. Cuts expenses, and extremely rewarding. Start with one safe type, learn the more toxic ones, and build on that. There are probably organisations or people in your community that can help you get started.
While you’re against boring, have you considered whittling?
Seconded. All you need is a knife, a block of wood and a box of Band-Aids (sticking plasters, or whatever your colloquial term is for small wound dressings).
If you live in a city with a parks and recreation department, check out their website for classes and activities.
If it’s a sport that requires equipment, such as racquets or bats, loaners are usually available from the department or other participants.
You really won’t know what your mind and your body enjoys until you actually try it, so just YOLO random activities, but keep it safe of course. Avoid stuff like highrise roof edge parkour, and you’ll be okay.
aw man those parkour videos look so cool though lol
thanks so much for the suggestions 👍
Also, I hate to say this, but you will likely enjoy something that one of your parents enjoys.
Obviously stay away from genetically disposed addictions like heavy drinking or gambling, but doing the positive hobbies that one or both of your parents enjoy can let you interact with and understand your parents, which is a good thing now and later in life.
If you’re in reasonable shape and have the right attitude, regular parkour can be fantastic. My kids had a blast taking parkour classes at local playgrounds: think “the floor is lava” applied to fences, benches, playground equipment.
You do have to be prepared for some painful falls though, even from ground level.
Those videos do look really exciting, but they almost never show that last attempt. That kind of video gets banned.
thats true
I just want to point out that any hobby you engage in for entertainment without it feeling like a chore is by definition not boring (to you). Personally I couldn’t see myself in a situation where I’d be collecting stamps, because I would probably find it very boring. But others enjoy it, so it’s a valid un-boring hobby, just not for me.
May I suggest simple crafting, like whittling, ancient/native pottery, wood carving, paper basket weaving, origami, crochet (or the slightly more addictive and expensive knitting), braiding, weaving, macrame, yarn spinning, decorative knotworking, flower pressing, dyemaking, hand dying, flower arrangement, make walking canes, etc?
Or maybe an instrument? Someone mentioned guitar, but why not harmonica, ukulele, bongos, simple percussives, or why not take up singing, there’s typically a choir almost everywhere, or you could try solo, or whistling, or yodeling.
Or maybe take up gardening/growing? In pots, hydroponically, maybe on a growing lot, or someone’s yard?
Or take up community projects, like either sanctioned or guerilla gardening, greening, forestry, litter picking, maintaining communal spaces, volunteer, start a community project (pollination diversity, bee keeping, growing lots, food drive, food forestry)
Or take up a cause? Build community, take affirmative action, demonstrate, protest, coordinate, communicate, with an established org, or on your own?
Maybe the outdoors could entice? Take up walking, ornithology, watch bats, discover new insects, take up chabana/ikebana, learn to forage, learn survival skills, go hiking, stack rocks, track animals, learn trapping, get into scouting, make bark boats, learn to skip rocks, climb trees, jump in puddles, pretend (or practice) animistic rituals, feel rain on naked skin, sleep under a bare sky, pick skulls, horns and bones to craft with.
Perhaps create stories, tell stories, write poetry, learn magic, juggle, poi, take up clowning, go swing/country/folk/traditional/ballroom/social dancing, try Butoh, write sketches, join a theatre, start a business, take up decorating, or just embrace whimsy?
I can also warmly recommend trying a new thing every week/month/period and see what sticks and not.
Cycling: Get a bicycle and start exploring your area. It doesn’t need to be a nice bike; check garage sales and Craigslist and get whatever fits comfortably. Wander off your usual routes and you will encounter new corners of your town that you never knew existed.
Music: Pick up a used acoustic guitar, electric keyboard, banjo, or whatever you can find. The world is full of inexpensive books and free YouTube videos to teach new students.
Drawing: Make doodles, little comics, or sketches of whatever is around you. A pencil and paper are all you need. Look up YouTube videos for daily sketching practice exercises.
Amateur radio: An entry-level license involves a basic quiz and a nominal fee. Cheap radios can be had for less than US$100. If you meet an old timer with a garage full of gear they might hand you a pile of old equipment for free.
Of course, any of these can become expensive and time-consuming hobbies if you go down the rabbit hole. But that just means you have found something you love.
