What Are Some Practical Indoor Hobbies to Keep You Busy?

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The discussion revolves around suggestions for practical indoor hobbies that can keep someone engaged. Participants explore various creative, entertaining, and useful activities that can be pursued over time, with an emphasis on affordability and the potential for creating tangible items.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants suggest woodworking, such as carving wooden bowls, as a hobby that can produce useful items.
  • Others propose making quilts or Christmas ornaments, noting the seasonal utility of such crafts.
  • Paper modeling is mentioned as an accessible hobby requiring minimal materials.
  • Fiction writing is highlighted as a creative outlet that can be pursued indoors.
  • Chain mail armor is suggested as a unique and intricate hobby.
  • One participant mentions the idea of maintaining a reef tank, describing it as expensive and time-consuming but rewarding.
  • There are suggestions for mechanical or electronic projects that are useful and can be built over time without high costs.
  • Puppetry is proposed as a fun activity, especially for those with children.
  • Some participants discuss the idea of creating and selling handmade items online as a potential hobby.
  • Learning to make musical instruments, like guitars, is suggested, with some expressing interest in the creativity involved.
  • Genealogy is mentioned as an engaging hobby that can connect individuals with their family history.
  • Participants reflect on childhood hobbies and suggest updating them for adult interests.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants present a variety of competing views on what constitutes a practical indoor hobby, with no consensus on a single best option. The discussion remains open-ended, with multiple suggestions and personal anecdotes shared.

Contextual Notes

Some suggestions depend on personal interests, available resources, and the time commitment one is willing to make. The feasibility of certain hobbies may vary based on individual circumstances.

Who May Find This Useful

This discussion may be of interest to individuals seeking new indoor hobbies, particularly those looking for creative, entertaining, or useful activities that can be pursued over time.

  • #61
Danger said:
Just in case this suggestion involves the 'electro-ejaculator', I'm going home now...
Was that featured in a Woody Allen movie?
 
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  • #62
Danger said:
Just in case this suggestion involves the 'electro-ejaculator', I'm going home now...

did she ask for it back?
 
  • #63
No, that was the 'Orgasmatron'. Jees, I'd expect an old perv like you to have a better knowledge of space porn. :rolleyes:
 
  • #64
rewebster said:
did she ask for it back?

She did, in fact, recruit the sheriffs of several jurisdictions to aid in it's recovery. They were of no help. An on-call emergency proctologist, on the other hand, proved to be my Waterloo. :redface:
 
  • #65
Danger said:
Stop sleeping with porcupines and get yourself a human female. :rolleyes:

hard thing to give up after porcupines
 
  • #66
rewebster said:
hard thing to give up after porcupines

Well, I'd never turn back, but Woolie is a bit of a wimp in these matters.
 
  • #67
wolram said:
I was going to call my movie (The silence of the rams).
:smile: Love it!

And yes, my victims *do* become accident prone. :smile:
 
  • #68
Danger said:
Just in case this suggestion involves the 'electro-ejaculator', I'm going home now...
I remember that. :biggrin: Wasn't there also "Rhino love"?

<sniff> Those were the days. You, Doc Toxin, Artman, Moonbear. Those are classics. It was all Doc Toxin's fault, he led us down that path. I never knew what a merkin was. :-p
 
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  • #69
I'll (maybe) answer that after I get home.
 
  • #70
I saw this post the other day and was going to offer to send Wooly the stamps I have been collecting for the last 40 years and recommend that he try auto-philatio; the collecting of stamps by ones self. But I was like, oh my god, that is so base...

But after reading the last few posts...

Wooly? Can you organize my stamps for me if I send them all to you? There are only about 10,000 or so.

Thanks,

Om
 
  • #71
got any black jacks?

(I didn't ask about the 24 inverted)
 
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  • #72
OmCheeto said:
recommend that he try auto-philatio

Unfortunately, his lips aren't long enough, and your spelling sucks...
 
  • #73
Evo said:
I remember that. :biggrin: Wasn't there also "Rhino love"?

<sniff> Those were the days. You, Doc Toxin, Artman, Moonbear. Those are classics. It was all Doc Toxin's fault, he led us down that path. I never knew what a merkin was. :-p


Two Merkins escaped from London zoo last year, there are thousands of them running wild now, when they attack they attach them selfs to any exposed flesh, removing them is said to be very painful.
 
  • #74
Danger said:
Unfortunately, his lips aren't long enough, and your spelling sucks...
:-p

Whoa, do NOT google that other word.
 
  • #75
I knew I should not have kept that thought in my head...

Bad Om! Bad. Bad!
 
  • #76
lol @ this thread
 
  • #77
BryanP said:
lol @ this thread


All ways the same, if it is not Danger cocking my threads up, it is MoonB fannying around with them.
 
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  • #78
Poor, poor Wolly{no, I'm not laughing}, all he wanted was a hobby. And to his humble request he gets...{ok, I'm laughing my a$$ off} a auto porcupine electro-ejaculator.

Wolly have you looked at this site befor?
http://www.rocketstore.co.uk/
 
  • #79
wolram said:
All ways the same, if it is not Danger cocking my threads up, it is MoonB fanying around with them.

would have never known

moonbear is such a 'gentle' sounding username!
 
  • #80
Yes, she is a Moonbear is sheeps clothing.
 
  • #81
hypatia said:
Poor, poor Wolly{no, I'm not laughing}, all he wanted was a hobby. And to his humble request he gets...{ok, I'm laughing my a$$ off} a auto porcupine electro-ejaculator.

Wolly have you looked at this site befor?
http://www.rocketstore.co.uk/


Now look here Hypatio.
 
  • #82
hypatia said:
Yes, she is a Moonbear is sheeps clothing.
Definitely the leader of the pack, or would that be flock?
 
  • #83
BryanP said:
would have never known

moonbear is such a 'gentle' sounding username!


MoonB is very gentle, it is her instruments that hurt.
 
  • #84
:biggrin:
BryanP said:
moonbear is such a 'gentle' sounding username!

Just ignore the 'moon' part of it for a dose of reality. :biggrin:
 
  • #85
Danger said:
:biggrin:

Just ignore the 'moon' part of it for a dose of reality. :biggrin:

Yep, I can look all cute and cuddly, but still have a full set of claws and fangs. :biggrin:
 
  • #86
Just the way I like my women...
 
  • #87
Wow, this deteriorated...a LOT...
 
  • #88
binzing said:
Wow, this deteriorated...a LOT...

You were expecting otherwise? :rolleyes:
 
  • #89
Sure...hobbies and stuff...not bestiality and sex toys...
 
  • #90
binzing said:
Wow, this deteriorated...a LOT...

It's just a hobby of ours to see how far we can derail threads in GD. :biggrin:
 

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