Yep, I vote for needlework as a highly time-consuming hobby. I do needlepoint and knit. One nice thing about those things is that they are really cheap on an cost-per-hour basis. The materials can be very expensive, but projects take so long to do that it works out to be cheap. (I obviously don’t do “quick” type prjects.)
And I watch TV while I do them.
My ex girlfriend once said “you seem to think that hashing is a lifestyle. It’s just another hobby”. Maybe that is why we split?
Everquest. The most time-consuming addictive game I’ve ever seen. I could easily spend all my free time playing. Only thing that keeps me grounded in reality is having to go to work everyday, and Mr. Athena who growls at me if I play too much.
“An angry spouse looks at you, ready to attack. What would you like your tombstone to say?”
Woodcarving. My husband carved a rocking horse for our son and I think it took him 300 hours. It’s beautiful, though. When you’re not carving, you have to sharpen your tools and stuff, so that’s more time.
To get into it in a smaller way, there is Chip Carving, which is making geometric cuts into wood to make cool designs. It’s cheaper (by far) and there are some pretty interesting projects to make.
Correcting the spelling & syntax of one’s fellow posters can take up a lot of time, too.
Tatting is good. Very cheap (for the basics). Makes nice christmas presents. And you can spend hours and hours and hours and hours and still be only a quarter of the way into making something.
Or other needlework. Knitting/crochet/needlepoint/cross stitch/quilting.
Do you play Warhammer?
My hobbies include computer gaming, mapping for said computer games, roleplaying, and fencing in the SCA. And I’m going to finally drag my lazy butt to weapons practice next Tuesday. Really! Now let’s see, the pointy end of the sword goes where?
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Hashing isn’t a hobby, it’s a state of mind. (Also known as: a bunch of drinkers with a running problem.)
Hobbies that take up a bunch of time:
[li]Organizing every single computer disk/CD neatly. (Hobby? Well, I’m stretching the definition here a bit. Have to do this after every move.) Keep in mind I have computer stuff from the late 70’s/early 80’s —> present time hanging around.[/li][li]Sewing, by hand because I’m too lazy to use the machine. (?!)[/li][li]Re-reading a favorite series from start to finish.[/li][li]Meandering through the local library looking for interesting books.[/li][li]Dancing, and making the costumes for dancing.[/li][li]Puttering about on-line. (RP, etc.)[/li]
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Another vote for EverQuest, I spend way to much time(30+ hrs/week)in Norrath. I also like to design and build vehicles to lob small payloads thousands of feet in the air and return safely back to earth(High power rocketry). My 67 Mustang also eats a bit of my time/money as does gardening and of course my girls play Basketball, Soccer and Dance.
YES! I’m just waiting for the last batch of Hash Trashes for tomorrow’s hash to go through the copier and then I’m off to the Ox. 
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Fencing, attending events, getting prepped for the next event, armoring, etc. etc…
I will be attending fencing practice myself, this very evening.
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Also known as Lord Daffydd ap Gryffn.
I don’t do it as much as I used to (which translates to about once a month, if that), but BMX racing takes up a plethora of time. See, there’s the races themselves which are usually a couple of hours (not the actual racing, but waiting for your turn to race).
The bulk of the time, however, goes to devoting time to the hobby – riding around the city destroying private property, that is, grinding on stair rails, jumping off of curbs and landing on bus stop benches, and building dirt mounds in vacant lots for more jumping.
I don’t race anymore, nor do I do any of the city stuff. The extent of my riding is going out to the driveway and just doing basic freestyle stuff.
I’ve raised a number of tropical plants from seed. That takes a lot of patience. I’m telling ya, some of those things spend as much as two years as a little twig before they start growing big.
i play darts, hanging around in the garage while drinking beer. this takes up whole weekends. then, there is the fleet maintainence…
try this: buy one of the following; 70’s Jeep, 70’s Harley or maybe something English, if you like sport cars. Determine that this will be your only transportation. Buy lots of tools.
Presto! not only do you not have spare time, you will most likely not have money, friends, social life or a job (due to not showing up/being late etc).
you may want to keep something reliable around if you just want to make this a hobby…
Not only lots of time involved - but in such interesting places!
Libraries!
Churches!
Cemeteries!
(If you’re lucky and have grand-parents/aunts/uncles still alive) Nursing homes!
Courthouses!
(Did I mention way-out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere cemeteries?)
It’s also VERY detail-oriented & involves a HUGE paper trail. Plus analytical thinking and lots of squinting at old handwriting.
Mr. Pol doesn’t understand the appeal at all - “too much like studying”. And his college major was accounting - you’d think he’d be right at home!
Sigh … when you get right down to it - they’re all still dead anyways.
Yeah, SCA here too.
And painting (getting into watercolor landscapes, though right now they look like impressionistic abstracts).
another vote for Everquest
No, I actually picked up tatting just this year, so I’m not really gonzo into it yet. (So many fibers, so little time.) I’ve just banged up a couple of little doilies for Mother’s Day presents and stuff, which I didn’t take pics of, and I used to have a bookmark, but I think I lost it. 
Oh, well, I did it in craptacular size 10 crochet cotton, so I think I could redo it much more nicely in some good thread.
I end up throwing out half of what I do because I make stupid mistakes, and I have not yet unraveled all the mysteries of . . . of . . . unraveling. 
I do fish taxidermy (no other animals though). That can be a bitch for time. Until you get good, several hours to get the thing ready and stitched onto it’s body. Then it’s a couple weeks (if you have a $10,000 freeze-dryer), or more likely about 3 months before you can do anything else. Several more hours on fin/body repairs, and waiting again. Then time to paint; you know how fast careful detailed painting goes, especially with some species that you have to individually paint each scale. But doing it yourself is better than paying some redneck $10 per inch to do it for you. The worst was when I worked at a salmon hatchery and came home with 3 or 4 20lb coho. They wouldn’t fit in the freezer, so I had to skin them ALL that night. Time to set up, 45min/fish, find someplace to store 60lbs of fish guts (NOT in the house, yet NOT outside because the bears would greet you the next day), then time to clean up… hit the hay at 2am. And that’s only the begining of the process.
aol chat rpgs
everquest
any type of computer games
I also read something like 2 books a day when i have the books
the internet and this board
wow johnny ya live in landscatter ca also ? who did ya po to end up here ?