marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

Motorcycling. Gold Wing is the bike of choice here in Florida with our age group and they can be made into trikes very easily if your health problems affect your ability to ride two-wheeled. There are many clubs to join locally and local chapters of national groups that have annual bike rallies to ride to. Not to mention Bike Week in Daytona every Spring where most any bike or trike brand and bike or trike group is represented.

Restoration of old family photos with post editing software, saving them to hard drive and printing out paper versions for framing and relatives.

Handgun shooting league at a local gun store that has an indoor range. A Ruger .22LR Competition with slabside 8" barrel costs about $500 brand new, a red dot scope for it is $100 or less, and ammo is very cheap in that caliber. Almost no kick from a .22LR with a long weighted barrel, spouses sometimes are interested and can out shoot their husbands, and there are lots of people/couples to meet and build relationships with at leagues.

Write an eBook about whatever field your expertise is in, then publish it for free, and sell it on Amazon. No editing staff required, no rejections, no cost. No expense but a potential of making some hobby money. Write the novel you always thought you had in you as an eBook.

Sell stuff you don't need anymore on eBay or www.yardsellr.com then use that money to find something highly in demand that you can buy and resell on these types of sites. Or take all your stuff to a flea market and set up for a weekend. If you sell stuff, buy more stuff and build a weekend flea market business with a permanent booth location.

Although I don't do it myself, metal detecting on the beach is a really BIG hobby in Florida.

BW326 Loc: Boynton Beach, Florida

Wow, I'm impressed. Here's a small list of some of the hobbies mentioned so far.
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amateur astronomy
antique car & car restoration
aquariums (tanking)
archery
art (painting, pencil art, sculpting, paper mache, etc.)
art collecting
billiards
bird watching
bowling
build custom fishing rods / fishing flies/ etc.
building stereo equipments
camping
canoeing/ kayaking
classical music/audio recording
clubs (men's, women's, senior's, etc.)
collecting (many different type of collections)
computers (programming/studying/learning, etc.)
cuisine(cooking, baking/ deserts)
eBaying
electronics hobbiest
exploring local history
film making/ novel and screen writing
fishing
flying planes (private planes)
foreign languages
gardening
geneaology
general biking/mountain biking/ dirt biking
geocaching (GPS treasure hunting)
gold prospecting
golf
gourd art (pretty cool stuff there)
growing bonsai trees
ham radio
handloading (reload ammunition)
history (reading/learning/ exploring)
ice hockey (refereeing)
jewelry making
knitting /weaving /quilting
Koi (Japanese carp)
metal detecting
mineralology
model airplanes/ model cars / model railroads
model rocketry
motorcycles
music and musical instruments
online poker
pets
philately (stamp collecting)
playing with my blood sugar level
reading
rock climbing
SASS (cowboy action shooting clubs)
scrapbooking
shooting (range/specialty guns)
skeet & trap shooting
stained glass
storm chasing
tennis
trap shooting
travel
volunteering (Salvation Army, VA, etc)
walking/jogging
wood working / wood carving
writing (books/stories/screenplays)

BW326 Loc: Boynton Beach, Florida

So far, the most unusual hobbies I have heard of(at least to my pedestrian mind) have been... SASS ("Single Action Shooting Society) which actually sounds like a really fun and interesting activity and it also sounds like it's becoming quite popular. The otehr most unusual activity "playing with my blood sugar level", sounds a little bit dangerous but no more dangerous than "extreme skydiving" I guess.

Lazy Old Coot Loc: Gainesville, Florida

Bangee5 My wife an I raced a Hobie 16 for several years in Miami in the early nineteen seventies. Sail number 2315. We did fairly well in light to medium air, but she wouldn't get out on a wire so we didn't do well at all in heavy air.
......... Coot

twitcher32 Loc: North Carolina/Costa Rica

Nice entertainment center. My son built a smaller version, but then he doesn't have a lot of TV/HiFi and lives in a small house. Good job

Jim Peters Loc: Pittsburgh

Thanks, Will Try! Sugar Free Pie!

Jim Peters Loc: Pittsburgh

Sounds Like We're A Busy And Fun Group to Hang Out With!

Jim Peters Loc: Pittsburgh

Thanks!!

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

Looks like you've found your own hobby - capturing and organizing lists of unorganized information, which could branch into organizing any sort of items into findable groupings. Maybe become a part time local library volunteer or find a Google research part time job.

pounder35 Loc: "Southeast of Disorder"

Is this all you can come up with? :lol: Does rock climbing include Mt. Everest? :lol:

BW326 Loc: Boynton Beach, Florida

That's interesting that you should mention that. Years ago I used to do things along that line, not in any formal way, but sometimes just when the mood struck me. Back before the days of the World Wide Web, when the only way to acquire archane lists of information was to dig in at the libraries, write letters, make personal contacts, etc.. Now that information is free and instantly at our fingertips (but not necessarily as complete or accurate as one might think) it just seems to have lost its allure for me. Maybe I should look at rekindling that.

BW326 Loc: Boynton Beach, Florida

:lol: No, I consider climbing Mt. Everest, just plain nuts!

I remember back about 20 years ago when I lived in Iowa, there were big stories in the Des Moines Register that were following the progress of a local Iowa guy and his attempts to scale Everest. A group of buddies of mine decided they were going to try to get some local attention by attempting to scale ... the highest point of elevation in the state of Iowa".
They had discovered that that point was a hog lot (at 1670 ft.) in one of the SE counties and they would release notifications to the DM Register along their progress. Their attempt was broken down into 4 stages over different days with the goal being to arrive at a specific tavern at the end of each day, each new base camp closer to "the Iowa peak". They announced that the final day's ascent would likely require "oxygen masks", given the amount of methane being given off by the hogs.

Sadly, the Des Moines Register decided not to cover the brave explorers for the full four days so we never did find out if they made it or not.

(I don't think I'd qualify that as rock climbing either but it sure was an adventure. :lol:

pounder35 Loc: "Southeast of Disorder"

LOL! Sounds like a stunt I would pull but it WOULD be published. At that altitude you could pack in plenty of beer. Not possibe at 10 to 14K in the Rockies. :lol: :thumbup:

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

There was no reason to create a list of the suggested hobbies other than your love of organizing information, so it was clear to me that you enjoy organizing and compiling.

I agree that information on the Internet can sometimes not be as complete or accurate as you desire. The biggest plague is websites who rip segments of info out of other websites, reword it to make it seem original, and pass it off as their own. Every time rewording by an amateur with no knowledge of that information takes place it becomes more watered down and worthless.

It takes the true original input of many to create accuracy. That's why Wikipedia is always a work in progress - a giant encyclopedia of everything on earth read by millions and edited by millions who provide references.

Ponder some ways to make the Internet a better, more accurate, and more complete place to be (within your expertise or at least to achieve a desired goal intelligently) and you will find a following with the same wishes you have. Monetize the site a little with a few specialized ads and you have a hobby that offers a little income for your time and effort. This is commonly known as blogging and there are a lot of successful bloggers out there - if they know their field of endeavor well and can write so that others understand them.

gforce Loc: south carolina midlands

i grow and nurture bonsai trees, everything from japanese maples to chinese elms to many tropical and sub-tropical plants. my wife and i are avid rock-hounders,( we go out and dig for minerals and assorted gem stones ).