Coffee, journalling, riding a push bike, cats, yoga, low budget travel, long distance urban walking, growing vegetables, holotropic breathwork, cigars and pipes.
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Rumph pottery 
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I collect electric guitars of certain types and black powder revolvers of the Colt and Remington design. I spend way too much money on both.
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Wet shaving, craft beer, edc items in the pocket. Hunting and fishing.
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@basement_shamanĀ I do love my Griswold & Wagner Ware cast Iron collection , I have quiet a lot of GriswoldĀ a few Wagner Ware Pieces. I am also a herbalist of sorts & Encapsulate my own herbs/medicine , I also have quiet a few tinctures that I make and use. I also have quiet a few recurve bows & a large collection of military rifles , although with my health these days, I have resorted to selling off some of the guns as much as I hate to but I donāt want to pass on and leave my stuff to these idiots around here LMAO. GāDay
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@TigerJackshereĀ I have a few hunting guns. I plan on going dove hunting soon. And I also love to cook. Hate cleaning up. If I didnāt own a house Iād live in a cave. We are kindred souls. Made mushroom soup in the Wagner dutch oven . And it is sure tasty! I save all my onion & garlic skins when the bucket gets full I cook them down discard the skins and make Ice cubes to use as stock. I also dry shiitake mushroom stems and grind them up to add to soups. Sorry for your idiots! 
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Another wet shaver. Iāve only been at it a year but have enough stuff to last a few. I was kidding myself thinking Iād be saving money switching to a DE from cartridges. Next up is learning how to hone. I have four straight razors I have to maintain now.
I started getting into pipes and pipe tobacco but Iām scaling back on that and upping the snuff intake.
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I also wet shave āwhenā I shave that is, I have about 20 DE razors , I also like to make a batch of ale from time to time & Hard cider along with hard ginger ale once in awhile, I donāt make as much as I used to for health reasons but I do enjoy home brewing. GāDay
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I collect old dusty vinyl records
Disability and lack of income has stopped me falling down rabbit holes any more. Iāve consumed all my pipe tobacco, and have enough pipes to last me as long as I and tobacco sales continue. I have sold off a lot of the non-essential stuff too, though I still have some to offload. My world has become more streamlined and focussed, but also a lot āsimplerā (though not easier) as a result.
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@50ft_trad I hope you have some success coming your way, I know how you feel. The company I worked for closed down and just this week my cars engine died, so need to cut back on non-essentials ( canāt really think of where to cut back though ). Happily snuff isnāt that expensive and I usually sell half of my order to friends and I price that is enough to cover most of my snuffing.
@TigerJackshere Care to share a recipe for hard ginger ale ? Ā I used to love a really spicy ginger ale that I had in the US, but sadly the only brand that they have here is Schweps.Ā
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@yisraeldov Thanks mate. Itās going to be several months before thereās any glimmer of hope of any meaningful change. Iām hoping to get some extra benefits in line with my disability, Iām having more tests next week to see if they can identify route cause of the problems, and when health permits I am doing the only productive thing I can think of in this condition - writing a book. Hopefully this time next year Iāll be a published novelist.
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I hear you guys on stuff breaking down and the cash flying out of your handsā¦Iām right there with ya. Ā It seems the more I work and the older I get, the less I have. lol
My honda died earlier this year and it was good for about 300k miles. But now I have to ādowngradeā into a little 2000 toyota pickup that barely goes 70mph. haha. Ā But hey, itās all I could afford right now. Ā As for the wetshaving. It has saved me money. Unlike others, I have 1 quality razor that was 16 bucks and a travel razor for about 11 on flea-bay. Ā The blades are cheap as all get out and when you get samples and pucks from companies, they usually last me a long time. Ā I just have to watch the aftershave purchases. Ā I love aftershavesā¦
Went dove hunting a couple weekends back when the season opened. Did real well with my 20g. Side by side. Ā Bummer isā¦I broke the trigger activating mechanism, and I am going to need a good gunsmith to make me one. (Shotgun is an oleā Springfield 511). So, more cash out the pocket! lol
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What other rabbit holes? Well, rabbit keeping for one, lol. Knives, tobacco, Mmorpg, coffee brewing, miniature war gaming.
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Fountain pens and inks, Magic The Gathering, retro gaming and a little modern gaming and books. Lots and lots of books. I cant stop.
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These days itās really just work (lucky enough to have turned a childhood hobby into profitable living), high performance and way over the top custom cooled computing, and snuff. In the past itās been, as a very small survey ā¦ gardening, tuning race cars, foraging, hacking, modifying video games, competitive video games, ancient history, fishing, yoga & martial arts, tortoises and turtles, ecigs, rebuilding lionel trainsā¦ I have to be very cautious engaging in any potential new hobby because I know, like snuff here, that itāll take an inordinate amount of time. And being married with children my job already takes so much time away from them I have to be tactical with my hobbies to accomplish my strategic goals for those I love.
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i put that on my banner, i put that on my family, watership down represent adress me as your majesty
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My first hobby love was knives, and they still take up a lot of my earnings. Other than that, militaria, weaponry, tobacciana, pipe smoking, watches, EDC gear, books, fountain pens, ink, pencils, good boots, denim, amateur radio (Amateur Extra here), CB radio (which was my first foray into HF while I was studying for my General and Extra tickets, so I have a soft spot), Magic the Gathering and possibly some tabletop RPGs in the future (trying to teach myself RMSS, my friend group plays a lot of D&D so Iām gonna have to be the GM for Rolemaster).
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