caz223
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I tend to get 'tired' of hobbies and go in 7 to 10 year cycles, something like this:
1. Realizing how much money I spent in one particular hobby (That could have been used in another!).
2. Realizing that if my entire expenditure had been in the other hobby category, I would have completed that phase of that hobby, and progressed in a different direction.
3. As seasons change, forcing near stagnation in one hobby, the other hobby would have been at it's peak, screaming for my attention.
4. My income decreases, my hours decrease (Giving me more spare time, and less money to work with.), or conditions at my job change, making me unusually tired, sore, or fatigued, too fatigued to enjoy all of my hobbies at once, forcing me to choose between them.
My hobbies are alll expensive, and all comsume lots of my time.
They include computing: (Building computers, overclocking, downloading, googling, hotrodding friends' computers, at last count I had 5 computers, 3 of which I actually use.)
Reptiles: Turtles, snakes, etc. I have many turtles and snakes, and have been trying to downsize my collection, am down to a dozen turtles, and a dozen snakes. However, that is not a very good description of how much time they take. I have, for example, a sulcata tortoise that will eventually get to 200+ pounds, eat me out of house and home, and require desert conditions in michigan (Or wherever I choose to live), year-round. As you can assume, care for this magnificent member of God's creation takes much of my time.
Guns, shooting, reloading, etc
I have a nice collection of rifles, shotguns, revolvers, and autoloaders that get shot regularly, and need to get fed regularly. Making another of my hobbies, reloading, absolutely necessary, my dillon gets the least of my time of any of my hobbies, and that's why I have it. I'd rather be shooting.
I have recently added up the money spent in reloading, shooting, and acquiring my collection, and am absolutely amazed that I'm not bankrupt at this point.
Drinking: Honestly, a hobby, but my least expensive one lately, I constructed a refrigerated keg system at home to save time and money.
Foosball: I have a tornado table, and play regularly, but have fallen out pf practice lately. I used to be good.
Add a new one, hovercrafting.
I build a hovercraft when I was 19 or so, in conjunction with a technical school program.
My goodness that was fun. My teachers provided the materials, and I did the research, and assembled it. It was a piece of junk, and I wasn't allowed to keep it, but I shure did have fun flying it around for a few weeks.
I recently remember having fun building it and bombing around in it.
It occured to me recently that the amound of money I spent in the last two years alone on guns and reloading, I could have constructed a hovercraft 10 times more expensive, and better, and flew, stored, crashed, repaired, and maintained it for at least a year.
It looks like all my current hobbies are going to get evaluated and re-assigned a priority.
At very least, it will be a temporary re-assignment, at most I would quite possibly only buy other guns by selling current unused pieces, but I feel the winds of change starting to make themselves known.
Anybody else going through this?
One of my goals in life has been to keep it simple, yet it is getting very complicated.
Sorry for the long post, but it seems that I am going through a turning point.
Please feel free to repond to this, even if you think that you haven't anything to add, I am looking for input, and feel that just about everybody would have gone through something similar at least once in their lives.
How to restore balance, or branching out into other hobbies.
(BTW, I do feel that this is gun-related, even though maybe not as specifically as gun-related as most postings.)
1. Realizing how much money I spent in one particular hobby (That could have been used in another!).
2. Realizing that if my entire expenditure had been in the other hobby category, I would have completed that phase of that hobby, and progressed in a different direction.
3. As seasons change, forcing near stagnation in one hobby, the other hobby would have been at it's peak, screaming for my attention.
4. My income decreases, my hours decrease (Giving me more spare time, and less money to work with.), or conditions at my job change, making me unusually tired, sore, or fatigued, too fatigued to enjoy all of my hobbies at once, forcing me to choose between them.
My hobbies are alll expensive, and all comsume lots of my time.
They include computing: (Building computers, overclocking, downloading, googling, hotrodding friends' computers, at last count I had 5 computers, 3 of which I actually use.)
Reptiles: Turtles, snakes, etc. I have many turtles and snakes, and have been trying to downsize my collection, am down to a dozen turtles, and a dozen snakes. However, that is not a very good description of how much time they take. I have, for example, a sulcata tortoise that will eventually get to 200+ pounds, eat me out of house and home, and require desert conditions in michigan (Or wherever I choose to live), year-round. As you can assume, care for this magnificent member of God's creation takes much of my time.
Guns, shooting, reloading, etc
I have a nice collection of rifles, shotguns, revolvers, and autoloaders that get shot regularly, and need to get fed regularly. Making another of my hobbies, reloading, absolutely necessary, my dillon gets the least of my time of any of my hobbies, and that's why I have it. I'd rather be shooting.
I have recently added up the money spent in reloading, shooting, and acquiring my collection, and am absolutely amazed that I'm not bankrupt at this point.
Drinking: Honestly, a hobby, but my least expensive one lately, I constructed a refrigerated keg system at home to save time and money.
Foosball: I have a tornado table, and play regularly, but have fallen out pf practice lately. I used to be good.
Add a new one, hovercrafting.
I build a hovercraft when I was 19 or so, in conjunction with a technical school program.
My goodness that was fun. My teachers provided the materials, and I did the research, and assembled it. It was a piece of junk, and I wasn't allowed to keep it, but I shure did have fun flying it around for a few weeks.
I recently remember having fun building it and bombing around in it.
It occured to me recently that the amound of money I spent in the last two years alone on guns and reloading, I could have constructed a hovercraft 10 times more expensive, and better, and flew, stored, crashed, repaired, and maintained it for at least a year.
It looks like all my current hobbies are going to get evaluated and re-assigned a priority.
At very least, it will be a temporary re-assignment, at most I would quite possibly only buy other guns by selling current unused pieces, but I feel the winds of change starting to make themselves known.
Anybody else going through this?
One of my goals in life has been to keep it simple, yet it is getting very complicated.
Sorry for the long post, but it seems that I am going through a turning point.
Please feel free to repond to this, even if you think that you haven't anything to add, I am looking for input, and feel that just about everybody would have gone through something similar at least once in their lives.
How to restore balance, or branching out into other hobbies.
(BTW, I do feel that this is gun-related, even though maybe not as specifically as gun-related as most postings.)
