What are your hobbies?

[Big_D]

I like to play guitar and am now in the midst of building a guitar. Really just started purchasing the parts. The build will probably take a few years and won't be started for awhile. It'll be a slow go. Research and development. Not a speedy process at all. lol This will be my tribute to EVH when it's all done. That's is my current hobby occupying my free time. And I like to read. Mostly historical fiction. With the pandemic reading has been on the back burner. Tough to concentrate these days.

 

[kskboys]

Poker. Casinos. Fishing and hunting. Friends.

 

[BigStar]

Poker (all sorts), 4-wheelin/riding dirt bikes, retro sneakers (95-97 air max, Air Penny guy), DC rap scene, video games, and of course watching reruns of Sunny in Philly/Martin (at a weird rate lol).

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

Is being an azzhole a hobbie? Cause if so, that's my 100%.

 

[Birch_Wood]

Recently took up woodworking, great hobby. I pictured myself having down time in my shop, enjoying working on my latest project at a snail's pace. But instead my daughter's and wife have backlogged me with multiple orders, headboard, bookshelves, night stand, canopy bed, hahaha who knew. The other enjoyment I get out of it, is looking for new tools. I just bought a new Wahuda 8" jointer. Took me hours to read and watch youtube videos to decide which one to purchase. I think it must be a growing Industry based on the amount of how to videos available.

 

[Birch_Wood]

This may have been done before and I didn’t see it through the pages I looked through. Many of us are obviously here on this board and we recognize each other’s handles. Do you have another hobby that you deep dive into or go in message boards about?

Mine is a little strange but it’s cologne/scents. I have worn cologne since being a kid...Polo in the 80s and remember my Dad wearing it in the 70s. At 87 he still does now. I always get strong scent associations so in 2008 I started looking for a new cologne besides Cool Water, anything Armani etc that you smell on everyone. At first it was Google searches. Then it led me down a million rabbit holes where I got on a website..basenotes.net. Then I started learning about all kinds of brands that are niche etc. Started sampling from websites. I never found my one but now have about 5 random bottles I rotate snd change. Everything from a $400 bottle to cheap stuff. It drives my wife nuts as I’m always looking for my next score or something different. So we are going on 13 yrs of the hobby and still posting on that website. You would be amazed at the money some of the people sink into this. Collectors with 100s, maybe 1000s of bottles on the far spectrum

I use to wear cologne when I was single and dating my wife. When we got married she told me she had some kind of allergies to any kind of cologne. What? We dated for 3 years and she never said a word. My dad always wore aramis . Even recently he was looking for a certain kind of aramis and it took him awhile to find it. I miss it, I tried many different kinds. But I learned something today, had no idea there was a forum for scents.

 

[nobody]

I use to wear cologne when I was single and dating my wife. When we got married she told me she had some kind of allergies to any kind of cologne. What? We dated for 3 years and she never said a word. My dad always wore aramis . Even recently he was looking for a certain kind of aramis and it took him awhile to find it. I miss it, I tried many different kinds. But I learned something today, had no idea there was a forum for scents.

To be fair, those kind of allergies can develop and get worse as you get older. Most scented things didn't used to be problem for me when I was younger but steadily got worse the older I got.

 

[CouchCoach]

Recently took up woodworking, great hobby. I pictured myself having down time in my shop, enjoying working on my latest project at a snail's pace. But instead my daughter's and wife have backlogged me with multiple orders, headboard, bookshelves, night stand, canopy bed, hahaha who knew. The other enjoyment I get out of it, is looking for new tools. I just bought a new Wahuda 8" jointer. Took me hours to read and watch youtube videos to decide which one to purchase. I think it must be a growing Industry based on the amount of how to videos available.

Ya see, you screwed up and got good at it. If you were bad at it, no one would ask you to build them anything.

That's been my philosophy. Don't ever get good enough at anything that people feel they can impose on me and ask me for anything. They need something and go down their list of friends and I show up on that list, I get worse at that right away.

I make it a practice to let everyone know I am the unhandiest man they ever met. My honey do's were "please, NO's!!!!" And I am proud of that.

 

[Jammer]

I don't really have hobbies, but one thing I like to do is sharpen knives. I want all my knives razor sharp. I love when I volunteer to sharpen my friends' knives and after I sharpen their knives the look on their faces when they use the knives afterwards is pretty cool. Usually then never knew how dull their knives were before.

 

[CouchCoach]

I use to wear cologne when I was single and dating my wife. When we got married she told me she had some kind of allergies to any kind of cologne. What? We dated for 3 years and she never said a word. My dad always wore aramis . Even recently he was looking for a certain kind of aramis and it took him awhile to find it. I miss it, I tried many different kinds. But I learned something today, had no idea there was a forum for scents.

I didn't know people collected them. When I wore it, I had some different ones for variety that my wife liked and Aramis was one of them along with Faberge Woodhue and Ralph Lauren.

I hear the word cologne and gag remembering the halls of my high school when Brut, Canoe and Hai Karate were the thing. Although, I always liked English Leather as a teenager.

Now, I just ingest the alcohol that I would splash on my face and neck and let it seep through my pores like a pheromone. I find that the cheap slutty ones like the top shelf liquors as much as the refined hoity toity hot to trotters. I sip some Pappy Van Winkle and I have to beat them off with an ax handle. And I never leave home without one. I collect ax handles.

 

[InTheZone]

I recently just got back into RC cars/trucks. I used to race them in the 90s. Otherwise, I do design (my job really), wood working, photography, video etc.

I've never lived near a track growing up, would always read r/c car action mags and towerhobbies catalogs as a kid. Was always into store grade slot cars, r/cs, plastic glue models, hot wheels/matchbox.

After moving to new Orleans there was a hobby store that had a ton of traxxas r/c, hobby grade gas powered helos and planes, and a ridiculous slot car track along with a slot drag strip. After moving back to NC I was on my search for other hobby stores and found hobbytown USA. Of course for my birthday or christmas I asked for a hpi nitro rs4 2 (kit version), luckily I was able to get one for Christmas (made a deal with my parents to forfeit my Thanksgiving birthday).

A couple of years later I moved to Ohio and convinced a friend to get a nitro rc, he ended up with a traxxas nitro 4Tec. I got myself my 2nd rc before moving again, an hpi savage ss (kit version, not assembled).

To this day I still have both rcs, but theyre completely upgraded from stock. 2 years ago, after a 10+ year break, I got back into buying some parts for the savage that were upgrades from the XL chassis, but theyre discontinued so I bought some spares that I could find to the wear and tear items. And since I had the itch to build another r/c I got myself an electric x-ray 1/10 touring car and rwd stadium truck.

Some time later I'd like to get myself an x-ray nitro touring car and either a nitro or electric 4wd buggy. I've always enjoy the looks of these high grade r/cs, reminds me a lot of designs that go into paganis and koenigseggs. I still dont drive these as much as I'd like, but I dont have a problem admiring them on my shelf either lol.

 

[kskboys]

I use to wear cologne when I was single and dating my wife. When we got married she told me she had some kind of allergies to any kind of cologne. What? We dated for 3 years and she never said a word. My dad always wore aramis . Even recently he was looking for a certain kind of aramis and it took him awhile to find it. I miss it, I tried many different kinds. But I learned something today, had no idea there was a forum for scents.

The wifey and I go to the outlet mall in San Marcos when we want out old timey scents. Might want to try something like that in your area.

 

[kskboys]

To be fair, those kind of allergies can develop and get worse as you get older. Most scented things didn't used to be problem for me when I was younger but steadily got worse the older I got.

I can't wear underarm stuff, mostly, though I do get by w/ the Ivory all natural.

 

[nobody]

I can't wear underarm stuff, mostly, though I do get by w/ the Ivory all natural.

Yeah, I have to use Speed Stick Unscented Antiperspirant/Deodorant.

 

[morasp]

I used to be an audiophile but now I collect DVD and Blu ray copies of TV shows and Movies.

 

[kskboys]

Yeah, I have to use Speed Stick Unscented Antiperspirant/Deodorant.

I can't use antiperspirant. And frankly no one should. I break out badly.

 

[Montanalo]

Is being an azzhole a hobbie? Cause if so, that's my 100%.

More of a vocation... but, what do I know?

 

[Montanalo]

I am an avid scuba diver... and, as a matter of fact, I am a certified instructor (my retirement play job). My mantra used to be, "dive anywhere, anytime". Now it has evolved to, "dive anywhere the water is bathtub warm".

 

[Vtwin]

Funny story about perfume. A few decades ago I was working in the kitchen of a newly opened, higher end type of restaurant. A young couple had opened the place and the very beautiful wife ran the front and served as the hostess.

I ran the kitchen during dinner service. One day I came in and kept smelling this strong chemical type scent that smelled to me like some type of bug/rodent repellant or poison. I searched high and low for the source of this smell with no success. This went on for a few days. It was driving me nuts. Can't have pest control poisons being used indiscriminately in a kitchen.

Three or four days in to this mystery the hostess came into the kitchen to get something to eat and brushed up against me reaching for something. Turns out the scent I had identified as rat poison was a VERY expensive perfume worn by the hostess.

 

[CouchCoach]

Funny story about perfume. A few decades ago I was working in the kitchen of a newly opened, higher end type of restaurant. A young couple had opened the place and the very beautiful wife ran the front and served as the hostess.

I ran the kitchen during dinner service. One day I came in and kept smelling this strong chemical type scent that smelled to me like some type of bug/rodent repellant or poison. I searched high and low for the source of this smell with no success. This went on for a few days. It was driving me nuts. Can't have pest control poisons being used indiscriminately in a kitchen.

Three or four days in to this mystery the hostess came into the kitchen to get something to eat and brushed up against me reaching for something. Turns out the scent I had identified as rat poison was a VERY expensive perfume worn by the hostess.

Wasn't the dead rat necklace she was wearing a giveaway?