Personally: Hiking, biking, photography, DnD, and fixing things.
It sounds like a lot (because it is lol) but with ADHD having a group of hobbies I can orbit around (especially if they can overlap (like these ones))can help me avoid diving into too many new hobbies.
My hobbies are making things, growing things, and learning things.
It’s the only way I can keep it to only 3 hobbies.
Making things, mostly.
Lots of crafts like knitting, crochet, cross stitch, sewing, felting, origami, faffing about with clay, etc etc. And gamedev which I basically think of as the same sort of hobby because it’s just making a different sort of thing.
Making YouTube videos about all of the above, in defiance of the algorithm gods.
Reading any and all scifi I can get my hands on, plus the Discworld series just over and over again endlessly on a loop.
Also the amount of time I spend on Mastodon and Lemmy probably means it counts as a rather lame hobby at this point…
I start a lot of knit and crochet things but never finish anything. Excitedly start something, work on it diligently for the first half, begin to hate it, rip it, decide it was the yarn that i hated, buy more yarn, start over on another project. How do you avoid that cycle?
I think we all do that a bit, tbh. But when I get to the “rip it” stage I just put it in a timeout box instead, work on a new thing, then usually the desire to get back to the original thing will return eventually! If it really doesn’t I’ll also frog but that’s relatively rare.
Bonus of having so many craft hobbies I guess, there’s always some other WIP to switch focus to!
For years my main hobby was guitar but in the last year I started cross stitching and I am now hopelessly addicted to it lol! I never would have guessed that would be a hobby I’d take up but I saw a pattern I liked and decided to try it once and have been doing it ever since!
D&D, 3d printing, pen turning (making pens from wood and resin, not flipping them around on my fingers), MTG, and I dabble in woodworking and occasional metal working.
FYI: 3d printing pairs really well with D&D - minis, scenery, accessories, etc. Start with a cheap SLA resin printer to print minis on, then expand to filament when you’re ready to do scenery too. I have a resin printer and two filament printers.
3d printing is useful for almost any hobby if you try hard enough!
We got really into making handmade dice for a while there, and used our resin printer to make custom master dice with our logo on. And I’ve used it to print out useful bits and bobs for cross stitch too. Someone I follow on Mastodon 3d printed a sock knitting machine, that was very cool.
Truly 3d printing is the hobby that keeps giving!
3D printing is great and pairs well with all my hobbies. I’ve currently got 3 printers: 2 filament printers and 1 resin printer.
It’s been quite the struggle resisting getting a small CNC at this point but the biggest hurdle is space and thankfully I haven’t fixed that hurdle yet.
Ah, good to hear! I bought a tiny desktop cnc from microcenter for like $150 and apart from setting it up and doing a test cut, I haven’t used it once. Makes me a bit sad actually.
Hell yeah that’s a damn good deal on a desktop CNC
Which one did you get?
Same as yours, but instead of cultivating them, I spend my time doomscrolling.
