What are your other hobbies?

I'm a musician, so I play, teach, arrange, etc. I also collect musical instruments, but they can get awfully expensive sometimes. My ophicleide set me back a bit, but I'm proud of it.

 

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In addition to coin collecting, I enjoy rock tumbling and polishing, guns and reloading, fishing, reading about history (especially WWII) and playing real-time strategy games on the PC. Most of all I enjoy spending time with my two boys ages 6 and 9 and teaching them to enjoy all of these things.

Andy

 

I collect vinyl records.
I'm reading my way through all the winners of the nobel prize for literature
I've watched every film that won the oscar for best picture, now I'm watching every nominee

 

Right now, there isn't enough time in life to pursue any other hobbies, and not really enough time to even properly collect coins. That's why I prefer internet purchases, but that has limitations.

 

junk collection

Ive collected so many different things, but coins are the only thing i will always collect.
I have a Bullet collection lol:high5:

 

Forgot to mention my Comic n toy soldier collection, plus my 2mm scale WWII tank collection oh and a few 25/20mm ones LOL

 

in my years of collecting i have collected many things. i bought basketball cards from 1990-1999, I have 300 different Jordan cards, i bought hot wheels from 1997- 2004, i have 700 different ones . i bought dragonware miniatures from 2000-2005. i have a Avon cologne or after shave car bottles about 40 different ones , i have about 100 different wade England little animals 1999-2003, but now my main collections and only collection are coins and notes oh and fishing i love fishing , OK i don't know if it is a collection cus i don't buy them, but in my home town in Mexico i would go out and find arrowheads ,

 

I also collect Hotwheels.
But I also enjoy playing video games, reading, and science stuff.

 

I LOVE the oscar idea !!!!!

 

Collections

My first collectibles were anything miniature.
Second, filling my scrapbook with newspaper cartoon strips of Snoopy.
I tried a collection of stamps, but it got too expensive for a 10 year old.
Metal horses I would win at the county fair while playing the horse race
game at the carnival.
Then nothing until I was able to afford it.

Collecting rocks and making jewelry, and rock tumbling. (rock tumbling requires a bit of knowledge and the right slurry to get the job done best).
After that, Batman and genealogy. (yea, I can't figure out how those go together either). I have about 30,000 people in my genealogy database that covers both sides of my family.
My Batman collection got totally out of control. I used the spare bedroom to display all the items, from ceiling to floor , on every wall, and even the bed linen. It sure freaked out our guests.

Mechanical music boxes with unusual tunes.
Crystals of every shape I can find. There are about thirty different styles of crystals that I have hung in the top windows of our living room. When the sun comes up and during part of the day, all the of first floor rooms are filled with rainbows.

There are a few others, but I won't bore you with all of it.

Now, coins...

The problem is, I have only myself to blame for it all...

jeankay

 

I'd recommend it! There are a bunch of forgotten greats out there. You'll really notice things slide downhill in the 1990's though. 50's are the best decade IMO.

I've watched the winner and all of the nominees for about 35 different years now. Turns out the academy got it right about 50% of the time, other years the best film clearly wasn't the winner.

I printed out a spreadsheet with all of the winners and nominees and have it taped on the wall over my TV. When I watch one I color it in. I can e.mail the file if you'd like

 

backpacking
model trains
railroad photography
bicycles
electronic music
bee keeping
ham radio

but the bulk of my time is spent raising two sons.

 

Well, I don't think of them as hobbies per se, but here goes :

providing for my wife (what a babe)
fathering two remarkable children (forever)
prison ministry (absolutely amazing)
whitewater kayaking + rafting (16 day Grand Canyon run coming up !)
gardening + landscaping (now that kids are grown)

 

I'm chiming in on Miniature trains also! N gauge here.
4x4 and OHV (an expensive hobby) 82 Toyota rock crawler, 85 4Runner, and my fully restored 1966 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ45. Sweet!
and the coins.

 

OK, you Hot Wheels guys. I have my original Hot Wheels from when I was a kid in the mid- to late sixties. I'm sure they are the original cars. Of course, they were 'well-played' with, so they aren't in the best of shape. Is there a market for them? Where is a good place to get information? Thanks. David.

 

Postage stamps, many, many political reference books, two sports cars (Corvette and Firebird), talk radio, music, newspapers and Internet research.

 

I'm not really so much a coin collector as a collector of things that are commonly collected. Marbles, Bibles, Signed 1st editions, Militaria, Presidential, old maps,.. mostly items on the cheap side.

got a convertible camaro that's been driven hard (and wrecked once) on a half dozen roadcourses and dragstrips this side of the mississip. Built it all myself... fuel injected 400 SBC/6-speed. Working on a backwoods budget frame-up resto of my 66 malibu. It'a in 400 pieces right now. Honestly it's over my head but I'm not giving up. No streetracing though.. in fact I campaign against it.

 

I used to travel pretty extensively, and I "collected" states... I've set foot in all fifty.

My main hobby (sorry) is model trains, N Scale (hi there TRT) and I write a monthly review and commentary on one of the major manufacturers in the scale-- hence my handle, "UMTRR" stands for "Unofficial Micro-Trains Release Report". I have been building the current iteration of my model railroad, the Wilmington and New York, since early 1997. Maybe I'll get it done this year, though a model railroad is never truly finished, just as a coin collection isn't...

I also write on non-model railroad subjects when I have time and put these "installments" on my website. It's not a blog-- I post way too infrequently to warrant that term.

I'm not sure if posting my website here is "legal" so I've added it to my profile if you want to have a look, or just Google "UMTRR" and you'll find it.

 

Here are mine

1.Antique bottle digging
2.Building model aircraft
3.Metal detecting
4.Attempting to make my own aircraft cards.
5.Fishing
6.Drawing and Photographing aircraft.

 

Rats, you beat me.
I've only got 48.
Missing Wisconsin and North Dakota.

But I do have 6 of the seven continents.
Missing Africa.
My wife beat me; she's got all 7.