A hobby of collecting hobbies
For a while I've had a habit of collecting hobbies and moving from one thing to another. Sometimes I stay in the hobby for a long time, but eventually I move on. Even within a hobby I have some subhobbies that I move between (in TCG's I've moved from MTG to Flesh and Blood to now Riftbound, but I'll still jam some MTG games too of course). I used to be more into weightlifting, now I only go to the gym for chest day because I've been doing rock climbing for a year and have recently picked up archery.
For people who kinda do similar things, what's a favorite hobby you've collected? Have you dropped it or pulled back from it once you found a new hobby? What's your latest hobby that you've been into? Do you still keep your old ones, and how do you balance everything and find new hobbies to try?
I just allow myself to enjoy what I love while I love it and don't feel guilty when I'm ready to move on. I find most of my hobbies are just the natural evolution from past hobbies. Sometimes I feel like going back, and I do, but not always.
What's been your latest hobby that you've enjoyed?
I've shared recently that I've started to learn English Paper Piecing, a form of quilting. It's not a big leap from sewing to quilting, especially since I'm doing it with scraps from past projects.
My hobby order is:
FIBER: crochet > knitting > spinning yarn > mending by hand > machine sewing > embroidery > EPP
ART: coloring > sketching > inking > illustration > watercolor > digital sketching > digital illustration/sticker design > designing my own tattoos
Edit: and while cooking has always been a way of sustenance, it's also a hobby I grew up with. I cook and bake for fun, not just to eat. Every weekend, I do a project cook or bake where I make something new, or big, or special, or batch make. This weekend's batch cook didn't turn out because the ADHD monster got the better of me and I forgot I had something in the slow cooker on high....
Ive been really into coins since I was a small child and lately Ive had to reign it in a bit because the price of bullion is starting to affect the price of coins.
I did manage to find what I was looking for at a reasonable price at a coin show a few weeks ago, its really only dollar coins and gold coins affected right now.
Rip my tiny gold coin obsession though. Gonna be a while before I can dive into more of those.
my grandpa was actually really into collecting coins and stamps too actually! (in taiwan and china though so i don't know too much about that) I was thinking of looking at some of them to try and honor his memory but maybe pokemon cards are the stamps of our generation or something.
How do you usually find coins and how did you get into it? Have you found something to replace that hobby now that it's more expensive?
My dad is also a coin collector, he used to travel for work and when he got home he would give me his exotic pocket change. I loved it!
Ive just moved to collecting smaller coins, they’re the same price as they were five years ago, especially at coin shows. To get into coin collecting Id definitely just look up the next coin show in your area and meet all the local vendors there. If they’re there and selling coins, they’re legitimate coin dealers who wont just look up the price on Ebay and charge you that.
I wouldn’t ever buy a coin from a pawn shop and I wouldn’t ever buy a coin from Ebay.
This is completely off-topic and please don't take it personally because everyone does it, but a silly linguistic thing I enjoy is when people have a typo or swap homophones but the sentence still kind of makes sense with the other word. If you are getting something under control you would be reining it in, like pulling on a horse's reins, but coins have historically been marked with a reigning person so it still kind of makes sense here.
Back on topic, what are some of the coolest parts of your collection?