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Honestly I just wish i had the energy to take up learning another instrument. Like I could start taking violin lessons again, or I could seriously devote some more time to the guitar, and that would be really awesome. As is I barely have the energy to drum daily and I average only 1-2 sessions a week at best. Music is hella rewarding though, so the more ways I have of making it the better in my book.
Not go to work and not die.
I do whatever the fuck I want
I wish I could afford the really good RC aircraft. Not even, like, modern quadcooter drones, but a nice gas powered replica of a plane.
Or maybe just have a gnarly sim center for space and flight sims. Like one of those big gyroscopes with your chair and all the controls in it, and the controls are like real aircraft shit.
Depends on your budget, but… discovery flight lesson doesn’t cost a whole lot for an actual aircraft.
And if you know someone with a 3D printer, an RC aircraft can be built relatively cheaply (working on this myself, but I already had the radio and receiver)
because lack of time or money or talent?
Artisinal napping
Bespoke meandering
Daydream stylist
Metalworking. It’s not so much beyond my ability so much as it’s out of my price range to get into it. I just don’t have any of the necessary tools nor an appropriate workspace, and I’d basically have to build a workshop and start from the literal ground up.
I have a halfway decent woodworking setup, plus a 3D printer and a cheap laser, but metalworking is just not really an option. The space dedication, plus the oils and the fire hazards and the scraps/shavings/slivers/chaff/god-knows-what-else all being completely incompatible with sharing a space with the rest of it. Sigh, just not likely to happen until and unless I can get in with the makerspace mafia. I am thinking of trying to figure out designing for mills and using metal-bending workbenches in CAD, though, and sending more designs off to be fabbed.
Yeah, I may have to settle for woodworking. I could set that up in my basement safely enough but definitely can’t be welding or have other fire hazards.
Only limitation with woodworking in insufficient ventilation if I want to paint or varnish or something.
Whittling? Even lower equipment requiremets. Could be interesting to add a bit of wood burning in there too.
Basic metalworking needs a stick welder (£50-150), angle grinder (£30-80), mask (£20-100), other safety gear (£20-100), assorted hand tools (£20-200) and a dry workspace with light, power and ventilation.
You can setup a simple workspace in any room with some basic protection for your fixtures and fittings. Or you can get popup workshop tents you can put in your garden.
You can get all your metal precut and drilled, even folded in a brake when you order it and get it delivered to save costs on drills and saws.
There’s always lots of cheap tools and things around if you look at online listings locally especially since it skews older as a hobby so lots of house clearances selling good quality tools.
This is exactly how I started!
Also, if you want to do blacksmithing you can get started with a 12" long piece of railroad rail as the anvil, and you can make a gad forge for under $100
As ridiculous as it sounds: Hunting.
But it gets expensive fast, I would need a lot of rifle practice, and most hunters I know are pretty rough people.The combination of all that makes entering the hobby fairly undesirable.
Obviously a lot of location factors are at play, but a crossbow is relatively inexpensive, has plenty of ability to humanely kill a deer (if that’s your intended target), and the bolts and broadheads are recoverable.
Smaller game can be taken with a .22 or .25 cal air gun, which can be far more cost effective than a standard firearm, depending on if it is a spring, piston, or pre-charged pneumatic model. Side note, Lewis and Clark brought air rifles on their famous expedition.
Check your local hunting regs for legal options!
I had envisioned hunting deer but smaller game would be much more reasonable and easier to get into. I think I should look into that.
Awesome, hope you enjoy it!
My dad picked up bow and arrow hunting for a few years. He never snagged a deer, but I’m sure he spent a lot of pleasant time smoking weed in the woods with his buddies.
In the UK you also need permission from the wealthy to do it on their land.
Same in the US unfortunately. The few public lands that you’re allowed to hunt in are overhunted
We have so many deer they cause problem, grey squirrels resulted in the native reds being almost driven to extinction. But normal people can’t just go and eat them.
If it was a safety concern with guns, what about how hunting? No that is universally illegal because that is for poors.
Cobbling and machining. Basically, I would do these things if I had the start up funds and time and space.
Play the violin
Yep, learning an instrument would be mine as well
I’ve dabbled in so many that I wish I could choose a couple and ditch the rest. Just don’t know which ones to pick.
Don’t you have a recurrent one? For me was origami, I tried dozens of hobbies over the years but origami was one that got my attention every few years and never disappeared entirely.
Horseback riding. It can be expensive and I can’t risk injuring myself, if I don’t work I don’t eat.
I would really like to learn to snowboard/ski. I’m learning to drive soon and I’m hoping I’ll be able to take some time to go to the mountains in the winter. That costs money though.
Sewing or gardening. I was taught both, but can’t keep two pieces of fabric together or a plant alive to save my life.
At least my little fuzzballs scream at me when they want food, lol. That’s much more doable.
Grow rosemary. Drought tolerant shrub and just stick it in the ground somewhere. Does depend where you live but a lot of places you can do absolutely nothing and it will keep on growing just fine.
cobbling, the construction and repair of shoes
