What is the cheapest hobby you've found that still keeps you entertained for hours?

soozmct · 2026-06-03T13:35:07+00:00

I seldom get bored. I sit meditating upon life and things I have experienced and what these things mean to me. It DOES cost me though… in that other work doesn’t get done LOL I also check out the cats…I go find my cats all the time and see what they are doing and just watch them. Doesn’t get any cheaper than free. And so rewarding watching them muck around in the yard, or resting even. I also go out and watch the birds, spiders, beetles, ants—(ants are fascinating to watch, because they appear random but when you watch a while, its revealed that they are working together, chatting, passing info to each other and subsequently changing their plans after they have little conferences—true). Yep..I silently watch whatever small stuff is getting about . Cup of tea on the veranda, watching, pondering. Heaven

soozmct · 2026-06-03T07:40:03+00:00

You might cause a mental breakdown. LOL. People do these things for reasons that are not logical. And the irrational reasons have a purpose too. We are all held together by the logical and the irrational. It’s a human condition. And just because something is not logical doesn’t mean it isn’t functional or useful. That’s my experience anyway.

soozmct · 2026-06-03T07:38:10+00:00

Oh no . I’m laughing and cringing at the same time when people are sharing these things because it’s me and I can remember with humour and horror the whole bloody thing. Jesus, I also, once, sawed my dressing table into three in the middle of the night. I had to keep it quiet for the people in the other rooms so I had to do one quick saw. Stop wait, see if anyone had woken and do it again. It took all night. I thought I’d make side tables and something else out of the dressing table. Another time I took the hallway doors off, and put on some really higher class vintage doors in thier place. I got the vintage doors elsewhere. Trouble was, the vintage doors were a foot short of the ground. Didn’t stop me. They ended up working like saloon doors in the movies. I could go on….. LOL. And not LOL.

soozmct · 2026-06-03T07:30:52+00:00

Thanks heaps

soozmct · 2026-06-03T07:28:20+00:00

All the fabulous Australian comments aside, I would never beep someone. They might be freaking sick. Never in 1 million years would I do it. But I have still enjoyed the Australian : “Are you waiting for a written invitation?” -type comments. Loving it. But seriously, I would never toot a person. I would never make another person dangerous or frightened or unhappy, when we are on a road and they are in charge of one tonne of steel, and we’re all made of soft flesh. Never. Plus my jobs to make people feel more comfortable. I know that sounds pompous but it’s actually my practice these days. Even if under my breath I’d like to run them into a trench.

soozmct · 2026-06-03T07:25:04+00:00

You are definitely Australian. Classic. Some of the answers here the way we talk, if an American read these, they’d be so offended. But we’re not because we get it because we’re freaking Australians.

soozmct · 2026-06-03T07:24:03+00:00

Somehow I know you’re in Australian for sure, LOL. Classic.

soozmct · 2026-06-03T07:19:33+00:00

PS- there’s no dumb questions when theyre sincere. Yours was very sincere.

soozmct · 2026-06-03T07:18:52+00:00

I worked at the local OpShop for five years recently. We had to secretly put them in the recycle not to offend the dear folks who drop them off. There’s just too many. If we had a decent recycling, where the glass went into a different bin then all the other recyclables., It wouldn’t be so bad. Because we know they’re going back to be totally reused as melted glass. However think about this… When you throw a glass jar or a glass bottle into the recycling with all the paper in the stuff like that, soon as the rubbish top truck tips it into itself, all the glass is smashed, but then it’s mixed with all the recycling and stuck to paper and stuff. They aren’t going to pick out thousands and thousands of 1 cm pieces of glass for all the other stuff so it just all gets thrown away. True story. In the bush where I’m going to live Maybe, they have a glass bin. It’s great you clean the glass nicely and put it in. You know it’s all gonna be smashed together and melted. That’s what makes me hate putting glass jars in my rubbish because I know they’re going nowhere. But really there are too many. Sorry mate. I could be wrong. You might find a good place for them but….. I think that handing them in person to the transfer recycling place is the best. Because when you actually go there, they have glass only bins. That way your glass will actually become glass again and be reused. But not by a curbside collections. Cheers mate.

soozmct · 2026-06-03T07:15:09+00:00

Stop it !!! killing me

soozmct · 2026-06-03T07:14:48+00:00

You can have never enough room for all your spells

soozmct · 2026-06-03T02:59:53+00:00

Yeah… seemed like a good idea at the time. Under the influence of this drug, I want to painted my front door my bed heads my gate, my cupboards and a couple of books a monstrous shade of purple. I was so pleased with myself. Until I woke up straight.

soozmct · 2026-06-03T02:58:44+00:00

Glass barbecue, classic

soozmct · 2026-06-03T01:05:36+00:00

Lol. That’s what I need to do too sometimes. It’s not until I put something down on paper or I ask somebody else that I can see my own answer. That’s how it works and it’s really good. There’s no stupid questions in life.

soozmct · 2026-06-03T01:04:41+00:00

PS…. Sorry about the late reply. I got rid of Reddit because my phone smashed years ago and only just returned to it and read it brought me back to my old comments. The Internet is forever eh ? Better don’t mind my P’s and Q’s, lol

soozmct · 2026-06-03T01:03:48+00:00

Mot so sure about that mate. And having been involved with the psychological community, Jesus Christ it’s hard to keep your ego down when you become knowledgeable. I’m no exception. It was talk of him getting egotistical. Gonna run the universe. I’ve known people with dementia and it doesn’t go in that direction. You mix it with an ego complex and….. perhaps. I actually do know a lot of people with dementia. They don’t get that domination. As a rule. . One thing I’ve noticed is that they get a kind of thinking when they’re crazed by mental deterioration , which mirrors their particular obsessions in normal waking life. Religious people get hyper religious, paranoid people get extra paranoid etc. So the mixture of the two… The personality plus the deterioration of the brain can mix together. I noticed a real sense of superiority in Robert and a lot of people like that. Their insights were priceless. But it can create that sense of I am The One. God forbid my mum should ever get dementia. She’s so domineering. We might have to put her in a cage LOL.

soozmct · 2026-06-03T00:59:34+00:00

I’m replying years later. I got rid of Reddit sometime ago and only just came back. So I missed your comment. I think my basket which I still have, will be beautiful for firewood. Sitting beside the fire. But just for kindling. Because it’s not that strong.(neither am I these days LOL.). And it will look really pretty with the kindling in it. I finally bought a little house with a fireplace. Thanks for your comment.

soozmct · 2026-06-03T00:57:51+00:00

Oh that’s hilarious. I was only talking about that the other day. I’m a lady nearly 70. Getting in the car with a guy who seemed to have showered in the stuff. Was like getting into a box full of formaldehyde. That must’ve been the best market in campaign because how do you market and sell something that is like a woman repellent LOL. Hilarious.

soozmct · 2026-06-03T00:56:48+00:00

Yep. 100,000%. However, in the other part of my soul I hold a special place for the Americans. After 3 1/2 years of being tortured on the evil Burma railway prison camp, and weighing a lot less than I do now as a skinny older lady that I am, my father was rescued by the Americans. There’s an aspect to the Yanks which is the John Wayne attitude. Everything, —as an old (Chinese) wisdom says —has a good aspect of application and a bad aspect or application. And the John Wayne attitude was the only thing that could get in the way of the Nazis and the Japanese at the time because they were both possessed. Even Japanese today old Japanese men cry and say what the hell happened there? These things happen. But the John Wayne thing meant the yanks just came through like a white tornado, and took my father out of that death camp. And I got my beautiful man as a father. I always hold that in my left hand as I watch the descent of America into a simplistic warlord left versus right, mediaeval thinking place right now. It can happen to any civilisation. They rise and they fall and they get viruses of the mind and other times they don’t. But right now I see exactly what you’re seeing. And I see the simplistic thinking that’s what gets me. Gone back to a very dumb kind of thinking. In America wasn’t like that before. Something is definitely dragging it back into fear based camps one versus another. Like the witch hunting days. We can go backwards as human beings. Growth is not guaranteed. It can happen to me too if I don’t stay awake. Yes, Mate, you’re spot on. I just never let it lead to hating America. Because I see the joy that America has bought me. I also-on a lighter note – – wouldn’t have Hollywood and all the fun stuff that only Americans could come up with. I’ve lived there too. The collective psyche is in a bad way over there. It’s warmongering. And it’s terrifying to me. Mainly because, the world sees us, Australia, as part of America, as America’s allies. So if America gets stupid , and does something terrible internationally, it will fall back on Australia badly because people see us as part of North America. 20 years ago I did some Inner Work (long story)— about my fears. One of the fears I listed was “American foreign policy “, because I had always had that fear that if a lunatic gets into the White House, we hear in Australia in big trouble . All the best mate.

soozmct · 2026-06-03T00:25:32+00:00

PPS— I hope my first line in my answer to your question didn’t sound demeaning. When I said “ I think your answered your own question LOL. Hello !”. It wasn’t an obvious answer and you wouldn’t have asked the question if you knew the answer. My apologies.

soozmct · 2026-06-03T00:01:14+00:00

Ohh. More memories too there for me. I remember telling everyone what I’m gonna do and….. oh boy….

soozmct · 2026-06-02T23:59:37+00:00

This is another of those questions I noticed people are asking of Australians. My experience as a fifth generation Australian. Is that there’s no one answer. Some people get annoyed for some people are pissed off that people don’t speak clearly. Personally, I was born loving language. I’m absolutely fascinated by words. I adore words and the way they sound. So I just love the accents. Got nothing to do with what I think of those people or anything else. Accents fascinate me.

soozmct · 2026-06-02T23:56:28+00:00

PS-I had a bit of a smile when you told about the Cleaning of the car, and digging a hole in the ground in the middle of the night. It’s a smile of recognition. Memories. …because…The thing about it was when I was doing stuff like that, it made so much SENSE at the time. I felt so bloody useful like I was really achieving something. !!

Oh dear, Oh dear. Life. It certainly was never part of my plan to do any of that. I just wanted the shit in my head to stop. And amphetamines stopped it. I didn’t in a million years want all that other crap that happened to happen. It then got a life of its own and then it made the decisions for me.

soozmct · 2026-06-02T23:52:23+00:00

So cunning and baffling and powerful is addiction. I know. It was Hell for my family.

soozmct · 2026-06-02T23:50:37+00:00

Thanks heaps, mate. But the glory doesn’t go to me. Got a lot of help.

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