What hobby would you get into if time and money weren’t an issue?

I would have a book/tea shop that backed on a conservation/park area with a small lake. Helpers for lifting the books which will be in alphabetical/genre order. A supplier that finds books for me and a baker that supplies small tasty goodies to go with the tea. I will have 2 cats in the bookstore and 2 dogs to walk with in the park. My 4 bedroom house will be within walking distance. Did I miss anything?
 

Gaer said:
I would sculpt all day, every day. Bronze sculptures are expensive to create. That's the only thing holding me back.
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Use sculpty clay and the gray clay you can get at Michaels art and craft store. I bought these for my granddaughter years ago and she did great with them. I ended up giving a large chunk of the professional sculpting to my friend. I had bought it and never used it. But if you dont have to funds for bronze you can still use other affordable materials.
 

hawkdon said:
Radio Control flying...have stuck my toe into it several times,
but didn't have adequate training nor the money to afford
the hobby, unfortunately....:confused:
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Tried that quite awhile back. Don't remember how much power the fuel glow motor had just remember the plane my son & I built had a 6ft. wing span & weighed 7lbs.
Like you no training so the 1st. experience didn't go well. Got that monster in the air & it climbed vertically like a rocket. Then when leveled out it was headed towards a road full of trucks & cars. It wouldn't turn so the only thing left to do was to try nose diving it.

That worked. It worked so well the wings shredded, the body disintegrated all the way beck past the cockpit. The motor shaft bent. !st. & last attempt at that as a hobby.

I think now an herb garden & using the green house I just built will be the hobby with the least chance of failure.
 
AnnieA said:
You beat me to it! A lifelong dream. In addition to time and money, I'd also need a health reset.
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Sailing is lot of fun. Biggest issue is the time and being local to a great sailing area. I had friend with a Catalina 22 back in the 80’s and lived near a prime sailing area. We’d go out in the late afternoon and sail by a full moon, had a small kicker when the wind died. Sailboats aren’t for everyone, they’re not terribly expensive in comparison to a power boat, but it’s almost a requisite to have moorage. They are a pain to launch.
 
Knight said:
Tried that quite awhile back. Don't remember how much power the fuel glow motor had just remember the plane my son & I built had a 6ft. wing span & weighed 7lbs.
Like you no training so the 1st. experience didn't go well. Got that monster in the air & it climbed vertically like a rocket. Then when leveled out it was headed towards a road full of trucks & cars. It wouldn't turn so the only thing left to do was to try nose diving it.

That worked. It worked so well the wings shredded, the body disintegrated all the way beck past the cockpit. The motor shaft bent. !st. & last attempt at that as a hobby.

I think now an herb garden & using the green house I just built will be the hobby with the least chance of failure.
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RC pilots call it planting a balsa tree. I flew RC pattern back in the 70’s but my reflexes aren’t up to flying now nor the cost. I seldom spent more than $100 on mine in the day. Now it’s more like $2000 to $5000.

High quality multi rotor drones ($600) are fun and will return to base automatically. Much easier to fly and don’t require the fast reflexes of flying a fixed wing. You can see where you’re going via the camera using your phone.
 
Nathan said:
My son just finished the training for skydiving, I said I would but
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Back in my 20's a good friend of mine was all excited about a skydiving introduction meet and he begged me to join him. I remember in the Army how they tried to get us to sign up for jump school but I wasn't interested. Anyway, I promised to go along with my friend. We drove to the airport where the Skydiver's Club was based. We watched the planes go up and circle round and the parachutists jump and did their thing. Neither my friend nor I said a word and when the last jump had been made we got back into his car and drove home. He never mentioned it again and I never reminded him of it either.
Nathan said:
I don't believe in jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft.
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JB in SC said:
RC pilots call it planting a balsa tree. I flew RC pattern back in the 70’s but my reflexes aren’t up to flying now nor the cost. I seldom spent more than $100 on mine in the day. Now it’s more like $2000 to $5000.

High quality multi rotor drones ($600) are fun and will return to base automatically. Much easier to fly and don’t require the fast reflexes of flying a fixed wing. You can see where you’re going via the camera using your phone.
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That sounds like something I could really get into. Any suggestion or web sites I could look into?
 
Nathan said:
My son just finished the training for skydiving, I said I would but I don't believe in jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft.
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My thoughts exactly. Seems insane to jump out of an airplane with a bag of rags strapped to your back. Not so much the trip down it's that hard landing when the chute doesn't open.
 
If money was no object I would have a little driving pony and keep it at a nice full service stable where everything would be done for me (grooming, training, harnessing, cleaning pony afterwards) and all I would need to do is show up and drive my pony through beautiful trails.
 
Since I enjoy snorkeling, I think I would really enjoy scuba diving. #1 I don't really live in an area that has much scuba diving going on so to do it I would have to travel and the equipment would be quite expensive as well.
 
I love horses and at one time had started learning to ride, but the place closed down and
all other options were too far away. Having moved to a different location now and if there was
somewhere I could go - I'd love to go back to horse riding. :)
 
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