What hobbies do you totally not understand people partaking in?

Chris wrote:Stamp collecting seems like more of an odd compulsion than an actual hobby. I don't find the idea of it the least bit interesting. Another one I don't get is skydiving.

thepossiblepolice wrote:

Chris wrote:Stamp collecting seems like more of an odd compulsion than an actual hobby. I don't find the idea of it the least bit interesting. Another one I don't get is skydiving.

I don't get that either, although like the ones I mentioned, I'm sure it's fun for adrenaline junkies...I just am so not that way.

Chris wrote:Stamp collecting seems like more of an odd compulsion than an actual hobby. I don't find the idea of it the least bit interesting. ...

I think it's for people who have some sort of chronological order, or 'series,' fetish. The same people who collect collect stamps probably have every episode of all the Star Trek series, and listed by production date.

OK, now y've done it.

I was just keeping quiet while everyone here was dissin' my hobbies of coin and stamp collecting, but my Star Trek collection?

DO NOT GO THERE!

Shale wrote:

Chris wrote:Stamp collecting seems like more of an odd compulsion than an actual hobby. I don't find the idea of it the least bit interesting. ...

I think it's for people who have some sort of chronological order, or 'series,' fetish. The same people who collect collect stamps probably have every episode of all the Star Trek series, and listed by production date.

OK, now y've done it.

I was just keeping quiet while everyone here was dissin' my hobbies of coin and stamp collecting, but my Star Trek collection?

DO NOT GO THERE!

Supernova wrote:I actually collect the rare and foreign and bent coins.


I don't get people who collect stamps, do people seriously do this?

alan smithee wrote:

Supernova wrote:I actually collect the rare and foreign and bent coins.


I don't get people who collect stamps, do people seriously do this?

Come on Supernova. Are you really going to say you collect bent coins and then ask if people are serious about stamp collecting? I'm not writing this to put down what you collect, to each their own but as the saying goes, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

To answer the question, I've toyed with the idea of brewing my own beer but haven't taken that first step.

thepossiblepolice wrote: When people found out I liked elephants, they started buying them for me and I ended up with a huge collection of them. I finally had to tell people NO MORE ELEPHANTS

thepossiblepolice wrote:

alan smithee wrote:

Come on Supernova. Are you really going to say you collect bent coins and then ask if people are serious about stamp collecting? I'm not writing this to put down what you collect, to each their own but as the saying goes, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

To answer the question, I've toyed with the idea of brewing my own beer but haven't taken that first step.

Personally I think collecting ANYTHING is kind of weird. When people found out I liked elephants, they started buying them for me and I ended up with a huge collection of them. I finally had to tell people NO MORE ELEPHANTS unless it's something that I otherwise like/use like clothing or something. No more elephant statues or knick knacks.

My husband is going to brew his own beer, I bought him a book and all the stuff already

Supernova wrote:

thepossiblepolice wrote:

Personally I think collecting ANYTHING is kind of weird. When people found out I liked elephants, they started buying them for me and I ended up with a huge collection of them. I finally had to tell people NO MORE ELEPHANTS unless it's something that I otherwise like/use like clothing or something. No more elephant statues or knick knacks.

My husband is going to brew his own beer, I bought him a book and all the stuff already

I don't know, I think it depends on what you collect. My mother, well she doesn't COLLECT, but we buy Coca Cola dishes whenever we find any that look good and yeah we do have a bit of a 'collection' of the Coke glasses, they're the right size and not that heavy awkward glass like other kinds. My mother also collects things with butterflies on them because she likes butterflies. And when my brother was a kid, he used to collect all the red caps off the milk jugs, he would have large popcorn canisters full of them, hundreds of milk caps, and to this day I don't know why he did it but he had fun doing it.

alan smithee wrote:
To answer the question, I've toyed with the idea of brewing my own beer but haven't taken that first step.

alan smithee wrote:

Supernova wrote:I actually collect the rare and foreign and bent coins.


I don't get people who collect stamps, do people seriously do this?

Come on Supernova. Are you really going to say you collect bent coins and then ask if people are serious about stamp collecting? I'm not writing this to put down what you collect, to each their own but as the saying goes, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

To answer the question, I've toyed with the idea of brewing my own beer but haven't taken that first step.

Shale wrote:When I was an adolescent I collected coins and stamps. It started from art appreciation.

Had a 2K year old Roman copper coin.

Stamp and coin collecting can be quite interesting. I gave away both by 1970 but still have a type collection of coins from the late 19th to mid 20th century (my birth year). It could be a compulsion for order in collecting anything. A focus on one specific item that can make a little order in an otherwise chaotic world. Or, just a fascination with the art.

I once had a small gun collection. Had a flint lock pistol, cap & ball revolver, .44 magnum and .22 cal. matching Western style revolvers, .22 automatic that looked like the old .45 auto. Got rid of those by 1970.

Now I collect DVD's - Got about 600. I know if I watched movies for 8 hours a day it would take me half a year to see them all - so why do I hang on to all of them? Guess just to have them available IF I wanted to see them. Why do ppl keep libraries of books that would take more than a lifetime to read them all?

My sister collected elephant knick-knacks. I even bought her a couple. My wife was into butterflies so we had that motiff in our house. Collecting is so common that it probably suits some psych need in humans that goes back to putting the environment in order.