My passion is horses and horseback riding, but it’s dangerous and expensive so I don’t recommend it to folks unless they have money and are into taking risks lol.

I love cross stitching and writing as well.

Cheap:
Felting is unexpectedly fun but probably not rest of your life fun.

Mid: Cooking, delving into other cultures dishes, learning to replicate a meal you eat out. If can be fun, but has an upfront learning curve. on the upside, you need to eat anyway.

Expensive:
RC drones/Planes are fun and get you outside.

Reading. It’s always nice to stumble into a new book while browsing around the store. I generally go for science fiction or fantasy but really just go for what interests you.

Mechanical design and 3D printing. I’m mechanical engineer so it goes well with the hobby. I often end up making simple tools for things needed around the house. Making glow in the dark tooth brush stands that fit neatly in a sink nook, coat hangers, and replacement parts for knobs that break can help save you a little money (if you ignore the obvious cost of the 3D printer and filament).

Building Gundam model kits is also quite entertaining. I’m getting close to finishing all the models I want though so it might be a waning interest.

Archery is one of my latest interests. It can be rather cheap in the long run because every piece of equipment is reusable with proper care. It also overlaps neatly with my 3D printing hobby as I make quivers and vambraces to save a little more cash.

Lastly is video gaming. I go on just about any platform and even pirate but lately I’ve been buying DS/3DS cartridges because there’s something fun about the ritual of inserting a cartridge to original hardware to start a game. It makes it like you’re invested in the title you have unlike scrolling around a library list and launching it from there.

Gardening (veges!), musical instruments (currently guitar), vidja games, cooking, bread baking, self-hosting, paddle boarding, wood working, and a life-long hobby of trying new hobbies.

There are thousands of hobbies out there. You never know which ones will click with you. Try as many of them as you can! If something looks interesting, go for it! Look for the least expensive entry point. If it requires equipment, rent, borrow, or go super cheap. Unless its safety equipment… Then don’t go cheap.

A fine example is guitar: don’t spend more than $100 on a used acoustic. If you stick with guitar long enough, you’ll eventually be able to make that shitty guitar sing while also understanding exactly how it’s holding you back so you’ll know what to look for when upgrading to something intermediate.

Also, “earning the right” to get better equipment is a badass feeling.

Apply that to any hobby that requires investment. If you invest a small amount of money and realize the hobby is not right for you, you didn’t lose much but gained a lot of insight about yourself.

I tried starting with making stuff out of paracord. Bracelets, key chains Relatively inexpensive as you need paracord, storm lighter and some clips.

Lots of tutorials on youtube.

I enjoy cooking. Finding recipes by reading and watching shows. I initially a bit expensive to get all the stock spices and ingredients. Also a decent knife and pans. But rewarding as you get to eat it. Also a path to a healthier life with less processed food (less salt among other things) and more greens. Can be an incentive to socialize more as well if you want to.

I also play Flames of War and Team Yankee. Building models and then painting them. Can be done with podcasts and shows on in the background. Bonus is that you can play with them.

My hobbies boil down to doing things that I have enjoyed enough to put in time and effort into them, with little regard for it beyond working out for me. I could go into more detail, but at the core it is all about it has to do with how I experience the world and how I engage with it, and that these hobbies enhance how I do that and thus make the time spent on them enjoyable, ensuring thus I keep doing them.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of things I do:

• Reading, which the to read pile keeps growing.
• Writing, both non-fiction and fiction
• Video games.
• Tech stuff in general
• Every now and then I bike around, because I just enjoy it
• Photography, every now and then

Why did I get into them? Because I enjoy doing them!

I like reading, because it’s fun to read a story, and because it’s fun to read about others perspectives, and because it is fun to learn. I like **writing **because I like putting my thoughts in order, and it helps me think, and it helps me communicate. I like being able to share something with someone else and feel like I managed to get something across. **Photography **also fits into this because it is a way for me to capture what I see (and often, what I don’t see) and share it with others. And, often, it serves as a way to focus me onto what is around me in ways that I never would have otherwise.

Tech stuff? Well, I like gadgets and machinery. In another life, I would have delved into hardware instead, making weird gadgets and one offs. Instead, computer and software are my thing. Video Games are

Biking: because I get to go fast and be active. More engaging than walking. Not as awful as running.

I also recently took a look at Meshtastic, though that has been burning along in the background due to physical constraints. Radio things are fun, though in this case the driving factor was… worries about the world at large.

Modding ipods and game boys, Collecting vinyls, firefighting in my community, biking in the mountains, I’m trying to learn how to properly swim a croll this year, roller skating is fun, boxing, and running outdoors are my current options. Hope something inspires you!

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Birding. Gets you outside and is healthy for mind and body. To get started, download the Merlin app and walk outside. If you start getting into it, maybe buy or borrow some cheap binoculars. Meet up with a local Audubon group for a social outing with some generally chill people. And your observations can help gather data for science using eBird from the Cornell lab of ornithology.

Gloryhole visiting. Not saying you have to participate, but maybe check off on a map all the holes you visit. Some shops may even have a stamp or something you could get as a souvenir. I’m sure it would be a memorable and rewarding endeavor, either way. Or, you know Pickleball is really picking up steam.

retro video game collecting just a warning it’s expensive as shit be ready with your wallet

Crafting, mainly stained glass and sewing

growing succulents, specific the less common ones(not the ornamentals you see in peoples front yard like aeonium, pig ears cotyledon, jade plant,etc), not brought from stores. like lithops, or similar species, or some unusual echeveria, without killing it. also orchids. there doesnt seem to be much in orchid variety as most wild species are likely hard to grow in horticulture, or impossible(due to thier emphermeral nature, and rarity, specific habits, they are all mycoheterotrophic to various degree, fully MF is not likely to be seen in the near future of ending in someones garden.) ive seen people in my neighborhood did try to grow it outside, but they stopped because either neglected or it become too much maintenance/hard to grow them, mostly due to neglect.

Dude I have too many. You asked for it:

• Balisong flipping
• Begleri
• Yoyos
• Airsoft
• Watching hockey (go Ducks) and do a little ice skating
• Archery
• Rock climbing
• Hiking/backpacking
• Scuba diving
• Geocaching
• Kite flying
• Rubiks cubing
• CS:GO
• Linux and FOSS stuff
• Other tech related things
• 3D printing
• Good quality pens and pencils
• Lockpicking
• Disc golf
• knives and metallurgy