Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

That's a chunky pickerel. I to am counting down the days until 3rx week in March. Last few seasons I've been strictly a muskie guy,even though I've only caught 5 in over a year the hunt and thrill of having a 3-4ft long water wolf missile come in following you're lure in knee shaking . Here are a few screenshots from the videos I managed to take. Hoping to hop up into a new boat this year as well. Fish on

 

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Very nice ship model, Julius Germanicus!

When my kids were growing we built a lot of things with Lego blocks, but It never occurred to me to build ships with them.

Your models are amazing.

 

Many of them do swim on their own and can be motorized so my kid likes them also! Here is my first icebreaker prototype during it´s virgin cruise:



And here is my little working paddle steamer:



My "Stettin" (1:50 scale 1933 German steam icebreaker) uses an original LEGO radio control system and might be the only swimming and radio controlled ship ever built which consists of nothing but original LEGO parts.

 

I take vintage old pocket knives, and bring them back to original condition.
Harder than it sounds, but enjoyable....

 

Lionel model trains also keeps me busy. Coin and train hobbies both have a lot in common including the challenge of how to stimulate the interest in the next generation to continue the legacy...

 

oddly, the sport of bowling is experiencing the same atrophy

Bowling alleys are being torn down, kids aren't bowling as much

all of our hobbies are seemingly dying, I hope that we have a renaissance, and soon

 

As much as technology is nice it cuts in many ways and the sad part is when it is all done gaming a big one you have nothing to show for it.I have my wood work,planes.ships,coins etc as proof of my time invested.

 

isn't the idea of a hobby to pass time and have fun, though?

Maybe learn something?

 

Yea it is Mike maybe I am antiquated I just like having something to show for the fruits of my labor.I do have some memories of one game "Army Men" it was on Nintendo or something but the memories only exist for the fun my son added at the time.

 

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest".

I don't know who originally wrote the quote but it is listed on the February 2017 calendar in my meeting room. The quote reminds me of this thread.

 

"Only"? Seems to me memories of fun with the kids dwarf the "value" of anything material we collect...

 

Yes, hobbies overall are dying (but I dont think will ever be dead). They are changing and evolving. There are plenty of old cliches that we can invoke: "When I was a kid", "you whippersnappers", "in my day"....humanity has changed so drastically and quickly the last few decades those of us who are say 45 and older have a hard time relating. I dont understand my kids, who spend enormous amounts of time on Youtube, looking at what I consider nonsense. And the attention span is in seconds. I watch my daughter click on a video, watch it for a few seconds, then change to another, then another and another, never watching anything to the end. Its just the way they are now. Such ideas as coins are completely alien to them. It is truly a generation of attention deficit disorder. Nearly all of them have it.

I suspect that in the future when the younger generations get a bit older, are more stable in life, have more disposable income, etc., they will eventually have hobbies. But the days when a kid got started with a hobby when they were say 10 are gone. They likely wont start until they are 30, 40, 50.

 

Yea the game was really a sidebar in that it helped to add a memory much like when we fished,go shooting,museums etc.My son and I always saved our stubs from the museum events much like I have all my fathers day cards,birthday and anniversary probably as a reminder and reflection at times.Memories can fade one needs something tangible to bring them back into context.

 

All collecting hobbies as I defined them when I was a kid are suffering. I believe this is because they morphed from collecting thing that were interesting in their own right to things made to be collected interesting only because someone told us they were worth something. Coins certainly made this move when kids stopped filling penny books and started buying proof sets. My wife collects bells but is in the minority who collect bells made to be used as bells rather than things made to sell at souvenir shops inscribed with the name of an attraction mounted on a worthless bell.
Baby rattle with two bells

Many people now collect music and videos in numbers beyond what they can watch in their remaining life time. I have about a thousand CD's but listen only to what fits on a smallish USB drive I have in my car (perhaps 300 songs). The rest are a collection of things waiting for the last player capable of reading the format and someone who wants to listen to the worst, outdated music of the 20th century. Are my Roman coins waiting for the last collector of such dinosaurs? How many coins will that collector want in the last collection?

 

What a window into who we are and what we cherish. Imagine the knowledge we all have inspired by our curiosity.

Last year I invited all of the members of our coin club to bring to the meeting what they collect, or are interested in outside of numismatics. It was amazing. They ranged from bottle openers to gems, and so on. Two folks ended up collecting old bottle openers. What fun, and thanks for asking the question. The response is fantastic. This is my hobby, I do it for fun. Cheers to all.

 

Oh yeah, I also collect Humpty Dumpty so that the Grandkids have something to talk about and play with...

 

Old shark teeth, Medal Detecting, Fishing, Hunting, and Gold panning.

 

Much luck at that panning?

 

Cicadas

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Shot 290 last night, but not the way most do it...

I had the first 11 strikes and then threw a gutterball

Oh, the humanity!