General Chat

I never bothered with crafts at all when I was younger, preferred to be outdoors
playing and enjoying the freedom and fresh air. :-D :-D <3 <3 I always loved reading when growing up and still do now but not to the extreme of how I used to. I
should do really and make more time for something I thoroughly enjoy and also
love to know what others are reading.......

I am guilty of not going onto the hobbies threads and must try harder in going on there and posting.

Edit....will say I have a new lease of life on my family history and local history and thoroughly enjoying it.....


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Did you not collect anything when you were little Det?

Yes I will read everything and anything as well. And one of my main interests now is photography, forgot to mention that. :-)

Nothing really to add! 2 of our adult children don't have time for outside interests or hobbies & we don't have youngsters old enough to collect things.
The OH of 1 adult children is very much into board games. They hold 'gaming nights' at their home for similarly interested adults. They're all too complicated for us!

I'll read the back of a cereal packet if there's nothing else around. OH has several interests - photography, electronics & carpentry/joinery. He did look into doing an OU degree in physics but decided it was too expensive & too much like hard work.

Strange, 16 people viwed. 16 people with nothing to add??? :-S

Just sitting here scrolling through old threads on this and the Hobbies board. It made me wonder. Do children and adults still have hobbies and interests outside of technology (internet Xbox etc)?

I was thinking back to when I was very young and there would be collecting crazes. In the 40s one I remember was collecting beads, we’d all (well the girls not the boys) have tins with beads in, which we took to school to swap with friends in the breaks. Oh the excitement if we swapped for a ‘crystal’ bead. Then some of us would collect stamps and cigarette cards, match box covers, even cigarette packet fronts, marbles, conkers (in season of course), photos of film stars from magazines like Picture Post. All these were such simple pleasures, mostly inexpensive to collect. Stamps and cigarette cards did cost money and I for one used to send for sample packets of stamps.

I suppose our collecting habits became more sophisticated as we got older. I still have a stamp collection and a first day cover collection, although that stopped when the Post Office caught on and it got expensive. I have other collections as well: Aynsley china, Button hooks, 3 wise monkey ornaments.

My interests of course became more craft orientated, card making, scrap booking, adult colouring, having passed on the way, knitting and cross stitch.

I have probably forgotten a few, but what started me off thinking was, we have a hobbies board that for a long while has hardly been used. Do people check it out or is it largely ignored? Since Greaders finished the board hardly moves.
:-) :-)