Do you have a hobby? If you do, which category in the below poll does it fall under? (We listed as many as we could, but please select “other” if it doesn’t fit into any of the optional categories.)
According to statista.com, the number one most popular hobby in the U.S. is music, followed by food, reading/writing, traveling, video games, health and fitness, sports, arts and crafts, electronics, and gardening (and the list goes on). Do your hobbies align with these, the most popular?
We’ll ask you soon about your favorite hobby. In the meantime, please vote below. Oh, and remember, you can vote up to three times if you have more than one hobby. Thanks!
You really need to expand your categories for a question like this. Photography, woodworking, ham radio, flying, electronics, etc., to name a few of mine.
I do woodworking as my hobby. Nothing better than producing a pile sawdust to make a finished product whether it’s for our own use or as a gift.
I make bowls, clocks, votive candle holders as well as magnetic staple and pin holders all out of various wood and give to relatives and friends. I love creating things with my imagination
Me too. I’m real good at making sawdust.
Ham radio, K9WDB
Me too! – VE3GHP
Hi, David and Garry. 70+ years ago my grandpa’s call letters were K7SD. (I wish my recent memory was a fraction as good as my distant memory!) I had fun watching him quickly tapping out the Morse Code. Have a great day! 😀 –Diane at RVtravel.com
Camping.
DIY Home Automation
I garden and I think you’ll find many other people do as well. I’m surprised that gardening is not an option.
I’m not sure I call everything a hobby. Knitting comes and goes, I don’t call it a hobby. Is reading a hobby, no just something I do. My photography is one. Most “photographers” these days never set foot in a darkroom, but I keep mine. They say if you own a camera (or phone), you are a photographer; but if you own a flute, you just own a flute. Camping doesn’t seem like a hobby, just something I do with the dog for different scenery and trails to walk. I’m outdoors a lot, working on the place, but not a hobby. May as well call watching television a hobby or surfing the internet. I’m not sure what that survey is telling anyone.
Toy trains, American Flyer post war 1946-1962. I have a 24X24 layout running 6 trains at once and have apx 95% of everything they made plus numerous Erector sets and other toys made by Gilbert. My wife calls it a sickness!
Dog trials. Jack Russell Terriers.
I dabble in a number of things but don’t really have a hobby, use to call coin collecting a hobby but it has turned into a every few weeks to yearly event now.
I make hand knitted blankets and yarn gnomes.
Before I started full time RVing, gardening was a major hobby of mine. Now I claim reading as a hobby, as I have ever since I started reading as a child.
My hobby is being lazy.
You left out napping.
I’ve been collecting SNOOPY stuff & related Peanuts items since 1969. WOW way too much but I love them all! Not as popular as they used to be, some of the vintage stuff is not only hard to find but they cost a bunch! I do sometime swap stuff!
Snoopy
Rv’ing, which is actually a two-fold hobby. First, trying to keep our 2020 travel trailer road worthy and secondly, the odd time everythings works, burn gas pulling it.
Fly tying, old fishing lures and old hunting items from guns to old gun oil cans.
Birding! I chase birds anywhere and everywhere.
Geocaching
Not sure it is a hobby since we don’t do it a lot pf the time but both my wife and I do adult coloring books.
I also enjoy coloring books once in a while. I’m currently working on a book of “Mood Enhancing” Mandalas. I don’t think I’ll get another mandala book though, because they are so tedious!
Herbalist! We are full-timers. We’ve eaten organic foods for years and used organic household/body/medicinal products. I decided to take online classes, set up a cabinet with organic herbs, oils, and other ingredients, and recycle jars for containers so I could make our own products. It’s much cheaper. I know the ingredients. I don’t have to go to store when I run out. Most of all it’s healthier and safer.
Other: Home improvement projects, inside and out and mobile ones on the RV.
Too many hobbies, not enough time and money!
When we are at home in the summer, it’s woodworking and doing maintenance/projects on the RV and other toys.
When we are in AZ for the winter, it’s riding the Rzr UTV and metal detecting/prospecting.
We go square dancing! it’s a great way to meet people in new places. We visit square dance clubs wherever we travel.
My wife and I both build and fly model rockets. She just got her L1 high-power certification while I’m still enjoying the smaller rockets. These rockets typically fly anywhere from 300′ to 3000′ high. They get hard to see over 1000′ depending on their size.
Restoring antique Fire apparatus and woodworking
When I approached retirement I was told by a very wise gentleman pouring wine at a Finger Lakes, NY winery that when “you” retire you have to have something to retire to.
Well, my retirement and hobby has been taking care of my various RVs (3 motorhomes) trying to keep them in shape in between uses. That consumes volumes of my free retirement time from yard work, helping my wife with grandkids, planning the next big trip, and hopefully saving a little time to read a good adventure book on the front porch or back patio.
I had some expensive hobbies that I gave up for two reasons. One reason being that my job was an all consuming vampire and I had no time for myself. Any free time I had needed to be spent with my family. Reason two was my hobbies were expensive and as I started thinking about retirement, I knew that I would not be able to afford them in retirement. I consider RVing as a hobby these days. But I spend so much time with obligations that have sprung up, I don’t even get to RV much. Throw in the dramatic cost increase of RVing it doesn’t help any. I hope that we can get back to it soon though.
Rockhounding, lapidary and gold prospecting for me. Yes, it’s heavy, time and space consuming but I can’t give it up 😔😭
Currently, in addition to some of the hobbies mentioned earlier, I make walking sticks from tree branches and driftwood (never lumber). I recently added key racks made from the walking stick leftovers. All gifts, never sold. (I’m doubt anyone would pay real money for them.)
I am the primary cook, not chef! Enjoy making recipes “My own”. Read lots of books, physical books, please. Lots of research on the web. Hunt with firearms whenever I can. Prairie dogs, deer, pronghorn, ducks.
I’m not sure that I still have any hobbies. I ran until arthritis precluded that. I bought baseball cards for decades, but quit doing that about 15 years ago. I collected football cards in the 1960s and into the 1970s, but have not for almost 50 years. I won a guitar in a silent aiction about 20, 25 years ago and have made a couple of starts at learning to play it, but am not currently trying. I have begun recording a “learn to play a guitar” series on a cable channel, but have not watched any of the episides yet. Perhaps I should have voted, “No.” 🙂
Square & Round DANCING
My grand parents did both too, up until their late eighties, and are in the square dancing HOF ( I believe that is what it’s called 🤔)
My biggest hobby is learning. Can not get enough. Have many others.
I play professional shuffleboard tournaments in Florida.Two to three days a week during winter months.I’m 75 years old and a Florida resident.
Hunting
Sports cars (Corvette), classic and modern.
Repairing, improving, and upgrading anything that would improve and make rving just that much more enjoyable is my hobby. I love to improve on manufacture items and accessories that were originally installed or adding additional new items that I just can’t live without…lol
Only 3? That was hard! I think of my Photography as my passion more than my hobby. I’m always looking for something “to do”, so if I’m done with one thing, I find another…Gardening, if it’s too hot out, then come inside and work on a craft. If we are traveling and it includes a new beach, I add the sand to my “collection”, or if I find some really unusual rock somewhere, that gets picked up to add that to that “collection” (at our home base).
I thought that I was the only one odd enough to collect sand.
No one has yet mentioned quilting, but there are many RV’ers who quilt, myself included. Reading, photography, gardening (well I do it, but don’t think of it as a hobby–just something that has to be done), traveling, etc etc. What about volunteering???
Pickelball
We Square Dance.
If I am not on the road and camping, I am researching and planning the next trip.
That’s me too. And, finding good hiking trails when I get there!
Photography. It includes a variety of equipment from phones to drones, point & shoot to pro-level SLRs, digital & film and my favorite – when scuba diving.
Since I can’t take it all every trip, I have to do some planning. Next spring it will be the total solar eclipse as it will track directly over our seasonal RV park before we head north.
Myself as well, Jim! Whatcha got for gear? I have an Olympus em10iv, a GM1, a PEN something or other and an assortment of lenses plus a little Casio and Olympus Stylus 1S.
I ride my bike 3 or 4 times a week. Small woodworking projects, RV repairs/ upgrades, and reading (with rv travel included daily)
Many hobbies. I love collecting gold, cooking is a favorite for sure, obviously RVing and I enjoy dropping the top in the convertible and feeling the airflow over the car while holding hands with my lover, listening to good music and remembering how blessed we are. Giving thanks for another day above the roots and more than anything, sharing our bounty by giving to others.
I had to check other. I have done photography, mostly wildlife and landscape, for well over 40 years. I started with 35mm but transitioned to digital about 20 years ago. My 50 year old daughter still talks about carrying dad’s camera gear in the Great Smokey Mountains and Acadia NP. I still enjoy it today but it has gotten easier because I only carry one camera but it can do the same thing I use to need 4 cameras to do. I can’t even guess how many thousands of dollars I have spent on my hobby.
I also love photography. I bought a small Sony DSC-RX100M3 a number of years ago so I could always take a camera with me. It has 20.1 megapixels and only a
2.9 zoom f=8.8mm-25.7mm; but that’s better than nothing. I still mourn the loss of what would have been some wonderful shots when I didn’t have the big camera with me.
I build, shoot, and hunt with flintlock rifles…think Dan’l Boone, Davy Crockett, Revolutionary War era and earlier. Building these fine handmade replicas of rifles from the 1700’s uses both wood working and metal working skills as well as historical research into various styles of the 18th century masters. I also cast my own round balls and make other shooting accessories like powder measures, etc. When I’m not doing that I’m shooting traditional bows or hiking with my dogs.
Oh…and then there is RVing! 🙂
Turning upright pianos in to wine and liquor bars.
Christmas light display. Trying to improve it every year.
My hobby is getting up in the morning.
I love spending my “ fun tickets” on RV vacations.
Postcard sending, receiving, and collecting.
Ham Radio, working the Maritime nets AH6NR
I read voraciously and
Collect
flasks
Knives
Guns, pistols, revolvers, rifles and shotguns,
gasoline lanterns and shot glasses.
Drag racing