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re: Is It Possible to Have Too Many Hobbies?
Posted on 7/19/26 at 12:33 pm to shutterspeed
Posted on 7/19/26 at 12:33 pm to shutterspeed
Trad climbing, whitewater canoeing, backpacking, sailing, and way too much acoustic guitar.
Depends on how good you want to get at any one hobby. Unless you're naturally gifted, thick skinned enough to be mediocre, or possess the yen to remain terminally single.
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Is It Possible to Have Too Many Hobbies?
Depends on how good you want to get at any one hobby. Unless you're naturally gifted, thick skinned enough to be mediocre, or possess the yen to remain terminally single.
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Posted on 7/19/26 at 12:40 pm to Fat and Happy
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Being curious about something and trying new things isn’t a hobby.
A hobby is something you do in your spare time regularly
Hobbies begin as curiosities. Some stick and become regular things. Some eventually run their course and are replaced by new ones. Some get put aside temporarily and later returned to.
Posted on 7/19/26 at 12:42 pm to shutterspeed
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How many and what hobbies do you currently have?
I HAVE TREE FIDDY HOBBIES BITCHE
Posted on 7/19/26 at 12:45 pm to shutterspeed
Mine get get out of control. I like the learning process so once I think ive gotten good at something I tend to lose interest and move on to something else. The only constant one is hunting. Pretty much everything else gets set aside come October. My wife is pregnant with our first so I've been selling off all my shite that I won't have time for anymore.
If your hobbies aren't destructive or keep you from your wife/kids too much i dont think there could be too many.
If your hobbies aren't destructive or keep you from your wife/kids too much i dont think there could be too many.
Posted on 7/19/26 at 12:59 pm to shutterspeed
I’m sure it’s possible to have too many hobbies. But I do firmly believe everyone should have at least one. Doesn’t matter what it is, as long as thy have something constructive and engaging to do where they can totally unplug from the worries and stress of everyday life. Everyone needs needs somwtihgn like this.
For me, it’s building scale models. For others it could gardening, woodworking, fishing, hunting, hiking, or restoring an old car, etc., etc.
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For me, it’s building scale models. For others it could gardening, woodworking, fishing, hunting, hiking, or restoring an old car, etc., etc.
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Posted on 7/19/26 at 1:24 pm to shutterspeed
For some years I squirrel and deer hunted,fished mostly for bass,and had beagle rabbit dogs.Spread myself. a little too thin.Had enough success to keep me from getting discouraged but never excelled at any of them.
Posted on 7/19/26 at 1:30 pm to shutterspeed
Search out hobbies until you find something that is your natural draw. Experiencing new things at the very least gives context to complexity and benefits. Plus learning is always better than not learning.
I am getting back into fitness which lessens trivia nights at bars and have lessened traveling for football games with hunting and hiking. Looking to take up SCUBA and learning radio, but still trying to find the true passion. Maybe I never will find it, but I will do interesting things in the quest.
I am getting back into fitness which lessens trivia nights at bars and have lessened traveling for football games with hunting and hiking. Looking to take up SCUBA and learning radio, but still trying to find the true passion. Maybe I never will find it, but I will do interesting things in the quest.
Posted on 7/19/26 at 2:01 pm to shutterspeed
It is possible to have too many. Available time is finite.
Currently I enjoy recording and editing audio. I have a huge playlist of original and cover songs performed by very talented but mostly obscure singers and musicians. Still do a little photography and creative photographic art, but that's become much less frequent.
In earlier days it was physical competitive sports when the body was younger and able, and collecting art until I no longer had walls to hang it or space to store it.
Currently I enjoy recording and editing audio. I have a huge playlist of original and cover songs performed by very talented but mostly obscure singers and musicians. Still do a little photography and creative photographic art, but that's become much less frequent.
In earlier days it was physical competitive sports when the body was younger and able, and collecting art until I no longer had walls to hang it or space to store it.
Posted on 7/19/26 at 2:04 pm to GRTiger
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Depends on how expensive they are. Being into guns, golf, poker, and bourbon is a bigger problem than being into volunteering, reading, jogging and bird watching.
Book collecting was my most costly habit for a while. Had to get out of that.
Posted on 7/19/26 at 2:25 pm to shutterspeed
Have you been diagnosed with ADHD? Collecting hobbies is a classic symptom.
I live with someone like this. There is easily 100s of thousands of dollars in discarded hobbies at my house. Reef tanks, guitars (amps, and other equipment stacked everywhere), mountain bikes, pizza ovens, cheese making equipment, wheat grinding equipment, remote control cars, a room filled with discarded canvases/paints/easels, workout equipment…….
He is 100% ADHD.
I live with someone like this. There is easily 100s of thousands of dollars in discarded hobbies at my house. Reef tanks, guitars (amps, and other equipment stacked everywhere), mountain bikes, pizza ovens, cheese making equipment, wheat grinding equipment, remote control cars, a room filled with discarded canvases/paints/easels, workout equipment…….
He is 100% ADHD.
Posted on 7/19/26 at 2:34 pm to shutterspeed
Read this post subject when next to another one “Man surfs naked on train”.
Another potential hobby for you…
Another potential hobby for you…
Posted on 7/19/26 at 2:42 pm to shutterspeed
I'm busy as hell. Once I'm done with work, teenager and house responsibilities, all I want to do is sit on my arse.
Posted on 7/19/26 at 2:49 pm to shutterspeed
Yes, you can have too many hobbies. Mine included music (writing, recording in a 64 track home studio), surfing, SCUBA, fishing, firearms and shooting, woodworking, and fly fishing. It got to the point that they were interfering with each other. Had to trim it back to fly fishing, firearms, and woodworking. (I may have to switch from woodworking back to the music studio though. I miss that more than I thought I would.)
Posted on 7/19/26 at 2:54 pm to TigerBaitOohHaHa
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Have you been diagnosed with ADHD? Collecting hobbies is a classic symptom.
I have not. I don't tend to quickly adopt and discard hobbies though. I tend to stick with most I take on--at least for some length of time.
Posted on 7/19/26 at 3:00 pm to shutterspeed
I happen to be big into cars and model trains. Neither are cheap 
Posted on 7/19/26 at 3:01 pm to shutterspeed
I have too many hobbies. I don't have time to get to most of them
Posted on 7/19/26 at 3:10 pm to eitek1
I used to be that way… then I started a business. Now I’m a burnt out shell of a man. I’d love to get back to too many hobbies instead of none.
Posted on 7/19/26 at 3:36 pm to SATNIGHTS
I included bourbon & cigars as one, I won’t do one without the other…
Posted on 7/19/26 at 5:41 pm to shutterspeed
I have several hobbies ranging from pickleball to road trips. I also am a collector and my collecting interests keep expanding. Home now looks like a museum. Plus the cost of framing and preserving my collections is getting expensive. Hate to think my relatives will trash it all when I die
Posted on 7/19/26 at 6:00 pm to RichJ
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I only have 2; 1) motorcycles 2) bourbon & cigars
You should try math as a hobby
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