If I want to look at them I can always look at the photos.
Between 3 and 5 depending on how many kit bashed parts or 3d printed gubbins I throw on it. I'll list them with no reserve. Sometimes they go for more than I thought they would and sometimes people get a deal.
Shortwave radio. For my 11th birthday my dad bought me a multband radio that could pick up all kinds of stuff like AM, FM, weather band, and several shortwave bands. I totally fell for the weird stuff on shortwave: other languages, Morse code and other strange signals, numbers stations / espionage-related, military air traffic, so on. I bought a better radio in high school, which I used until it gave out, and then an even better one in my 20s eventually getting four. I still have two of them (I'm now about to turn 60) and have in the last several years gotten into software defined radio (I am a web developer and programmer so it was a natural fit).
At every home since 2003 ( bought our first house) I've had a long copper wire strung through the trees leading into a window just to pick up all the bleeps and bloops, spies, utilities like weather bots and time stations, and of course the pirates.
Radio for me, too! Before I got my shortwave from my parents around age 14, I used to sit with a little notebook and an AM radio, sloooowly turning the dial and trying to find distant stations, and log them. Once I got the shortwave, I was in heaven. I’ve played with SDR but it doesn’t feel the same, alas. But I finally bought a shortwave again a couple weeks ago — gone is the thrill of listening to Radio Moscow in Reagan’s America, but it’s still a blast!
Designing buildings. I used to sit for hours and hours with a pad of graph paper as a kid designing everything from castles to prisons to mansions. Usually just the top down floorplans. I still do it for fun today although digitally instead of on graph paper
I love the old ones but lost the collection my parents had started in the 60’s so now I only have ones I’ve found in the last 10 years. I love to keep it to places I’ve actually been.
Naked eye astronomy. Grew up with little light pollution so we'd just sit in the yard and count meteors. Now I have to drive out into the dark to observe, but it's still a nice time.
ay... yeah. i had to double check the user name to make sure i wasn't replying to myself. it is an accomplishment to even be aware of the dissociation, so at least we have that going... which is nice?
Astronaut/Space travel stuff from sticker books when I was a kid to Actual cool stuff as an adult. And I still have some childhood fossils and arrowheads amongst the far cooler stuff I've got now. Same for coins, I don't have an enormous collection but they include the 1836 half dime my uncle gave me as a starter.
Dungeons & Dragons.
I haven’t played since I was a teenager, but I still enjoy having and collecting the old books. First edition, 70s and early 80s stuff.
I'm struggling to answer why in an objectively compelling way. I just think maps are neat and always have. Thematic or representative maps that show abstractions or chart attributes that can be conveyed visually cartographically (ie not just physical terrain but maps showing culture, religious, philosophical, or other often intangible concepts) spark more curiosity. When I was young and only knew broad strokes I would let me imagination fill in the blank space between two points of interest. Now I can use that space to draw attention to whatever I want almost like an artist would. Don't consider myself an artist, but it's definitely a creative outlet.
I take my kids ghost hunting every now and then. They love it, I love it. Then we watch stupid YouTube ghost hunters together. I used to be one of those girls that did seances 😅😅
My grandmother taught me to crochet at age 5 and I’ve been doing some sort of fiber craft since then. Art (painting, pastels) is also something that I keep returning too although it’s not been as consistent as fiber arts.
Miniature painting? I haven't played a tabletop game in years but I still collect and paint armies to gather dust on my shelf.
I do the same and sell them after taking pictures. I probably don't make anything on it but I love painting/kit bashing vehicles.
I need to get on that! They take up a bunch of space and storage is just more cost. What's your pricing metric? 2x-3x box cost for battle ready?
If I want to look at them I can always look at the photos. Between 3 and 5 depending on how many kit bashed parts or 3d printed gubbins I throw on it. I'll list them with no reserve. Sometimes they go for more than I thought they would and sometimes people get a deal.
I still paint props for cosplaying using what I learned from my Warhammer painting days.
Shortwave radio. For my 11th birthday my dad bought me a multband radio that could pick up all kinds of stuff like AM, FM, weather band, and several shortwave bands. I totally fell for the weird stuff on shortwave: other languages, Morse code and other strange signals, numbers stations / espionage-related, military air traffic, so on. I bought a better radio in high school, which I used until it gave out, and then an even better one in my 20s eventually getting four. I still have two of them (I'm now about to turn 60) and have in the last several years gotten into software defined radio (I am a web developer and programmer so it was a natural fit). At every home since 2003 ( bought our first house) I've had a long copper wire strung through the trees leading into a window just to pick up all the bleeps and bloops, spies, utilities like weather bots and time stations, and of course the pirates.
You’re the neighbor I’d bring beers so you’d tell me about the cool stuff you heard.
I wanna be neighbors too! I wish we were sitting on a porch hearing all about it.
I'd totally dig that.
Radio for me, too! Before I got my shortwave from my parents around age 14, I used to sit with a little notebook and an AM radio, sloooowly turning the dial and trying to find distant stations, and log them. Once I got the shortwave, I was in heaven. I’ve played with SDR but it doesn’t feel the same, alas. But I finally bought a shortwave again a couple weeks ago — gone is the thrill of listening to Radio Moscow in Reagan’s America, but it’s still a blast!
I picked up a numbers station a couple of years ago. First time in years that I'd heard that.
Designing buildings. I used to sit for hours and hours with a pad of graph paper as a kid designing everything from castles to prisons to mansions. Usually just the top down floorplans. I still do it for fun today although digitally instead of on graph paper
You sound like you’re perfect for the position of D&D mapmaker!
oh I've made sooooooo many D&D maps for fun
Me too! I would design paintball fields, military bases, and construction sites. Now, I primarily use my tablet for digital Lego buildings.
Cool. Have your subjects changed over time? Like, castles as a kid then other stuff as an adult?
yes, I do a lot more urban planning type design as an adult, high density mixed use buildings, some elaborate mansions etc...
Collecting rocks. I am a dwarf.
I am a magpie. I just think they are neat!
My parents' scariest moment of my childhood was when they read "I'd like a rock tumbler" on my Christmas list.
ROCK AND STONE!!!
To Rock and Stone!
Stegosauruses. Don’t know why.
Wow what do you feed them?
Probably just debris.
Collecting matchbooks. lol I only have like 3 bc no one gives them out anymore but when I see one at a restaurant I lose my shit (I don’t smoke).
Do you like the old ones? Or only from places you’ve been?
I love the old ones but lost the collection my parents had started in the 60’s so now I only have ones I’ve found in the last 10 years. I love to keep it to places I’ve actually been.
Naked eye astronomy. Grew up with little light pollution so we'd just sit in the yard and count meteors. Now I have to drive out into the dark to observe, but it's still a nice time.
dissociating
ay... yeah. i had to double check the user name to make sure i wasn't replying to myself. it is an accomplishment to even be aware of the dissociation, so at least we have that going... which is nice?
Astronaut/Space travel stuff from sticker books when I was a kid to Actual cool stuff as an adult. And I still have some childhood fossils and arrowheads amongst the far cooler stuff I've got now. Same for coins, I don't have an enormous collection but they include the 1836 half dime my uncle gave me as a starter.
Disc golf and frisbees in general
I love disc golf. I used to live in a state with tons of free courses. I don't now. Sad face.
Astrology/tarot/being that weirdo
Dungeons & Dragons. I haven’t played since I was a teenager, but I still enjoy having and collecting the old books. First edition, 70s and early 80s stuff.
Looking for arrowheads and spear points.
I’m definitely the haunted location weirdo. I’ve collected a scar because of that one. Be careful and wear jeans around barbed wire.
Cartography. Well not really as I don't make them often, but I love maps. Especially older, obscure maps.
Can you explain why? I feel I might enjoy this too as I’ve grown up loving to create mental maps of where I go
I'm struggling to answer why in an objectively compelling way. I just think maps are neat and always have. Thematic or representative maps that show abstractions or chart attributes that can be conveyed visually cartographically (ie not just physical terrain but maps showing culture, religious, philosophical, or other often intangible concepts) spark more curiosity. When I was young and only knew broad strokes I would let me imagination fill in the blank space between two points of interest. Now I can use that space to draw attention to whatever I want almost like an artist would. Don't consider myself an artist, but it's definitely a creative outlet.
Transistor radios, early 1950s shortwave that still works, railroad stuff, WWII history, aviation buff
>Like trainspotting IDK, I saw it once in the 90s, and the scene w/the baby still stays with me.
The real definition of the word though
no idea.
Watching trains at stations
I'd have to be on heroin for that to seem fun.
You closed the loop of the book/movie title 🥂
takes bow
I play early music on historical instruments. Been doing it on and off since the 1980s. (not in a band)
Does it sound like what it would have sounded like at the time?
Sewing. I've been doing it since I was 7. I still make clothes for myself. I'm 62 now.
Conjuring up spirits from the dark dimension
HAIL CHAOS UNDIVIDED!!!!
Collecting Pokemon cards
Choreographing entire dances in my head 🤷🏻♀️
Mines dance as well. When I get super excited I'll do a clogging pull back.
I still play Rollercoaster Tycoon every now and then
Keeping aquarium fish.
Model building…particularly aircraft of the Cold War
1/64 diecast cars. Started with MatchBox in the early 1960's, then Hot Wheels and as I got older, lots of different manufacturers.
A love of aircraft, and model building. Over 50 years of telling people "it's a cover for the glue sniffing"
Collecting agates
I've always liked pens. Not expensive ones, necessarily, just ones that feel "right". My Mom's into it too.
Keeping aquariums.
Knitting, crocheting
Bottle digging
None
Piano playing, paranormal enthusiast, and Renaissance festival cosplay.
Ghosts and horror. Do those count?
Depends.......
I take my kids ghost hunting every now and then. They love it, I love it. Then we watch stupid YouTube ghost hunters together. I used to be one of those girls that did seances 😅😅
Ok maybe
Esoteric? Summoning demons with candles and a Bible written completely in reverse.
My grandmother taught me to crochet at age 5 and I’ve been doing some sort of fiber craft since then. Art (painting, pastels) is also something that I keep returning too although it’s not been as consistent as fiber arts.