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?

  • sunsofold@lemmy.zip
    7·
    6 days ago

    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.)
  • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    7 days ago

    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?

  • borderstolutenfolk@lemmy.wtf
    3·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 days ago

    Soap making.

    Some silicone molds, lye, measuring cups, cooking thermometer, and cooking oil is all you need to get started. And after a while you will be making awesome smelling soap.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    8 days ago

    That’s very little to go on, so my suggestively is reading.
    Very cheap to get into as well as something that’s is easy to pickup and let rest. Plenty of free options around too.

  • Otter@lemmy.ca
    40·
    8 days ago

    Explore your neighborhood

    • geocaching
    • contributing to open street maps (Street complete)
    • photography with your cell phone
    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      13·
      8 days ago

      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.

  • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
    34·
    8 days ago

    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.

  • SGGeorwell@lemmy.world
    26·
    8 days ago

    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.

    • whimsy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      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

    • SkaraBrae@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      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).

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    8 days ago

    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
  • EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.appEnglish
    16·
    8 days ago

    Bird-watching or star-gazing or both. A pair of binoculars is all you really need for either. You can print some stuff off online if you wanna get fancier with it.

    • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
      3·
      8 days ago

      I would add bug watching as well, and using an app like iNaturalist.

      It will help you identify living things and you will help documenting your environment.

  • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    14·
    8 days ago

    Origami. Very cheap to begin with, still cheap when you’re deep into it. Unless you got so deep that you’re travelling the world to go to conventions but that’s another story, the biggest expense is buying books once you decide to have them physically.

    Don’t use printer paper, kraft paper is cheap and works perfectly. Only down side is having to cut it.

  • Brainsploosh@lemmy.world
    13·
    8 days ago

    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.