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Please tell me what your hobbies and passions are

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JapaneseBirdPainting · 08/08/2019 21:30

I do not have any passions. Everyone around me seems to! DH loves buying old furniture and restoring them and then selling keeping them.

DS1 is a board game and number freak. His joy and pleasure is to wacth Countdown, Deal or No Deal and any other tv game show(he is aged 11)

DS2 is deeply fascinated by books, watches, makeup and nailpolish (he is 9)

I am utterley bereft of anything that gives me pleasure. (I like looking at style blogs. I am fascinated by how other cultures feed their children. I love to travel but never get the chance).

I need inspiration!

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BG2015 · 08/08/2019 22:05

Reading
Walking
Zumba/Spinning/Gym
Researching holidays/Travel
Theatre
Gigs

Kneehighinshit · 08/08/2019 22:12

-Reading- usually psychology and neuroscience
-Aquariums and tropical fish keeping
-Running, yoga and strength training
-Every now and again get a bit beauty obsessed with nails and skin care
-Geocaching

I didn't have any hobbies a few years ago but dabbled in a few things that interested me. Some have stuck and others didn't!

IamPickleRick · 08/08/2019 22:24

Crochet
Reading
WW2
Cycling
Open water swimming
Geocaching
Journaling
Cake making

Always had interests and hobbies but I am very poor at things like tidying up or making decisions as to what things to put on the walls/ornaments/finishing touches

cantfindname · 08/08/2019 22:52

Horses. I don't ride but have two. So pp, you could still have a horse, they don't need to be ridden.
Reading, usually two books on the go at once.
Cooking, particularly baking.
Thinking about taking up crochet again.
Drawing, but very out of practice.
And a strange one, I used to paint eggshells with acrylic paints. Hens eggs or goose eggs, though the big ones are a bugger to blow.

LynetteScavo · 09/08/2019 11:10

Nothing. I literally have no passions or hobbies.

I go to work, then cook bake (quite well) because I need to feed my family.

For a few years I was in a very limited amount of money, so spending on anything for myself for "fun" just was t going to happen as I chose to spend it all in my DC and their hobbies so I've got into that rut. I read a book occasionally, watch a film occasionally, but mostly I'm too busy living/maintaining the house/garden/shopping (for clothes that I'd rather not spend money on, but I feel I need to be fashionable).

I think I spend most of my life just trying to fit in with what's normal.

I could be passionate about travel, but actually travelling isn't going to happen before the dc are grown up.

Atropa · 09/08/2019 15:48

@LynetteScavo That is a sad thing to read. You need to carve some time out for yourself, being a mum with the associated responsibilities won't last forever and you might feel quite lost once yours are old enough to fly the nest.

Mine are arts - they vary, but currently 3D pictures, sewing dolls, patchwork stuff and watercolour painting.

I used to read loads, but, lacking time, am now focusing on crosswords and code breakers.

Also cooking and baking, with the aim of trying out one new food a week.

AragonsGirl · 09/08/2019 15:55

Cross stitch
Reading
Baking/cooking - doing, reading about and watching programmes about
Harry Potter!

DefConOne · 09/08/2019 16:05

Singing in an a Capella chorus. I’ve been going for 3 years and love pushing myself to improve all the time. We are pretty good and perform publicly and enter competitions. Anything else music related, dance, folk, alternative rock, punk. I go to a dance fitness class that plays really cool music and it’s the only exercise I enjoy.

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