Only certain people will like doing this but I thought I should put it up there just in case. Everyone nowadays uses Wikipedia to gain some extra knowledge, from the chemical composition of salt to the biography of the Marvel villain Thanos, you can find out almost anything and everything you want to know from …
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Everyone likes to watch movies; comedy movies, drama movies, romantic movies, horror movies, action movies, even home movies. Today’s technology has made it extremely easy to make movies, we can make movies on our phones; can you imagine how crazy they would think we were if we went 50-60 years in the past and told …
In this post I am going to be talking about something a little different, it’s called ASCII art. This is a hobby that isn’t that old when you compare it to other hobbies that exist in this world like drawing, reading, writing, etc. but it still involves creativity and hard work. The reason why this …
A while ago, I wrote a post about how reading can help you against stress. I also wrote a post about how finding like-minded people can really help you out stress wise. In this post I am going to be talking about something that meshes both of those things together, book clubs. For those of you …
Hobbies that calm you down: Pen pals In this post I am going to be talking about a hobby almost as old as the postal service itself (well not exactly but close enough), having and writing to a pen pal. It seems a bit outdated nowadays what with the internet and stuff, but there are …
Have you ever felt so down, had such a terrible day that when you got back home you thought to yourself, “Oh man there is only one thing that can make me feel better after the day I’ve had, and that’s watching a documentary.” Have you ever thought that to yourself? I certainly haven’t! I …
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By Adrian Pingstone (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons In today’s digital age, it sometimes feels like people don’t physically write on paper anymore; I know that strictly speaking that isn’t true but it does feel like that sometimes. But for those of us who remember what writing is, we should also remember how …
By Hubert Berberich (HubiB) (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons I have stated time and again how distracting yourself and occupying your brain can help you out when you are stressed out and/or anxious. In this post I am going to be talking about one hobby which really gets those gears turning and pretty …
By Heptagon (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons This is one of the oldest and most well-known types of hobbies that I know of. When I say oldest I don’t mean that stamp collecting is an age old hobby that people have been practicing since the dawn of time, I mean …
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By anna saccheri from Palo Alto, United States (Knitted Dishrags) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons I’m pretty sure everyone knows the stereotype about Grandmothers or old women in general, sitting in the front porch on a rocking chair knitting a scarf or a sweater or mittens or socks for the young ones and themselves. …
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