Reply To: Are we old codgers with weird hobbies?

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GerateWohl
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The definition what is an actual hobby is interesting. What is the hobby aspect in collecting certain items? Just buying regularly certain items doesn’t make it a collecting hobby. Then a newspaper subscription or my regular food shopping at the supermarket would qualify as a collecting hobby, too.

It is about hand picking and hunting for rarities. But also that I would hardly call a hobby. The hobby aspect is more about dealing with the subject intellectually. Becoming knowledgable about it, growing an educated opinion. Things like that.

If I should name my hobbies, it were always these: drawing, writing (poems, short stories etc.), making music, writing songs. I used to do impro theatre and had a reading stage with some friends once per Month in a bar. But those times are gone.
In the past few years I became a little rusty with all of this.

Since I was a teenager I was collecting records and CDs. Never saw that really as a hobby.