Old School Hobbies.

[Dark Agent]

I just got my first LaserDisc today!

 

[RisingThumb]

1&2: Rommel's diaries in French. By far the books in the worst condition I ever had. The online store delivered it neatly packaged and fixed in place with rubber bands, but the moment I took them out, they started falling apart. Very much rotten. I'll have to cut out a paper cover and stick the falling-apart original cover on it. I got them for extremely cheap. Probably would be over 600 liras if they knew how rare they are. I gave like 60 for both back in the day.

You probably already know, but do some research into book restoration. There are professionals out there who specialise in restoring books to a good quality. I have a wonderfully printed and typeset copy of Paradise regained I was going to get restored but never got around to. You probably already know, but take care the place you put them doesn't have high humidity/moisture to avoid mould, and keeping the space clean to avoid silverfish. If your space is very nice, you can probably adorn it with some flowers of Lavender or the like which Silverfish do not like.

Also based hobby

 

[VaporwaveHistorian]

You probably already know, but do some research into book restoration. There are professionals out there who specialise in restoring books to a good quality. I have a wonderfully printed and typeset copy of Paradise regained I was going to get restored but never got around to. You probably already know, but take care the place you put them doesn't have high humidity/moisture to avoid mould, and keeping the space clean to avoid silverfish. If your space is very nice, you can probably adorn it with some flowers of Lavender or the like which Silverfish do not like.

Also based hobby

Thanks a lot! Yes, I really want to get deeper into book restoration instead of just amateur things. Perhaps follow the paths of a professional I'm lucky that my hometown isn't humid at all, so I never had the problem. My books smell so much of cigarette though lol, the bookstore owners always smoke in the shop so that's the only thing they got, but through years they'll wear out!
Lavender is a great idea, I've never considered it before! Definitely will do it, thank you!

 

[weather1]

Sharing music files on Soulseek is my fav hobby rn. I love when someone is downloading them and idk really why lol. I trying to improve my collection (13k) but I have only 500gb of space on disk. Besides I love second-hand bookstores and thrift shops in general. I have some issues of 90's polish magazine for kids Kwak. I would love to collect old books, comics, magazines, CDs etc. more seriously but it's kind of expensive.

 

[Dark Agent]

Sharing music files on Soulseek is my fav hobby rn. I love when someone is downloading them and idk really why lol. I trying to improve my collection (13k) but I have only 500gb of space on disk. Besides I love second-hand bookstores and thrift shops in general. I have some issues of 90's polish magazine for kids Kwak. I would love to collect old books, comics, magazines, CDs etc. more seriously but it's kind of expensive.

Sadly CD prices are going up, they are the "new" vinyl. The Beatles reissues of the Red and Blue album cost together 56€!!

 

[eve]

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its like i can smell them thru the screen ...

Sharing music files on Soulseek is my fav hobby rn. I love when someone is downloading them and idk really why lol. I trying to improve my collection (13k) but I have only 500gb of space on disk. Besides I love second-hand bookstores and thrift shops in general. I have some issues of 90's polish magazine for kids Kwak. I would love to collect old books, comics, magazines, CDs etc. more seriously but it's kind of expensive.

wuts ur slsk username ?? >w< i love checking out ppls libraries :3 mine is frost_xyz ^w^

 

[Mеченый Яков]

I do drugs.

hobby as old as time itself.

 

[stonehead]

My actual old-fashioned hobby is cross-stitching. I've always liked pixel art, and one day, several years ago, I noticed that the cross-stitched pillows my grandma had were basically analog versions of pixel art. You fill out a bunch of 'X's in a fabric, and when you're done, it looks like a bunch of little squares. So I ordered a beginner's kit, and copied a few of my pixel art pieces over to pillows to give as gifts to family.

Much less old is Stepmania, which is like an open-source ddr clone. I don't think it would qualify me as an "old soul", but it's definitely not a modern hobby either. It's always the first thing people bring up when they visit my place and see my giant home pads, and not once has anyone ever said they play too.

Fellow walking enjoyer, I feel besides old people no one really goes on walks anymore.

I used to collect older (dumb)phones along with my old man, had a pretty sizable collection but had to sell them off a few years back for an emergency. Been wanting to get into collecting again maybe old Militaria from the region or stamps.

Maybe it's a local thing, but tons of people walk where I live. I don't have a car, so when I'm walking to work or a grocery store or something, I usually see a few other pedestrians out. When I go to any nearby park though, it's always filled with people. Maybe "filled" is an exaggeration, but if you walk for an hour in one of these parks, you'll probably meet 10 or 20 other people hiking the same trail in the other direction. I'm not a huge fan of walking through dense cities, but if the weather is nice, I'll walk 3 or 4 hours in wildlife preserves and state parks.

 

[imnotdeadyet]

Maybe it's a local thing, but tons of people walk where I live. I don't have a car, so when I'm walking to work or a grocery store or something, I usually see a few other pedestrians out. When I go to any nearby park though, it's always filled with people.

People walk in my small town too but it's rarely for relaxation purposes or enjoyment mostly to get from a to b. My generation doesn't get out of cafes, pubs etc. and usually get to them by car (which is blasphemous to do in such a small town). There's plenty of people in parks though luckily but it's mostly the 35+ crowd and their kids, very late millennials and early zoomers are very hard to come across.

 

[together]

I also like walking a bunch and listening to music. I find that it's the best time to get through an entire album front to back while doing something that isn't really distracting. Really thinking about picking up some sort of MP3 player for my walks so I don't keep opening random stuff up on my phone whenever I feel "bored"

I'm having to do it indoors on a treadmill right now though so it's not as fun. Arthritis in this cold weather is beating my ass and I still need to buy a new pair of gloves ;-;

 

[Boxerdog]

So I ordered a beginner's kit, and copied a few of my pixel art pieces over to pillows to give as gifts to family.

This is the coolest thing, you should sell your art ill buy it

 

[stonehead]

This is the coolest thing, you should sell your art ill buy it

Thanks! Unfortunately it takes me probably 40 or 50 hours to finish a small pillow, so I'd have to sell them at absurd prices for it to be worth my time. I didn't realize it until just now, but I don't actually have any of them in my own place. I've only ever made gifts, so I can't show any photos. I can search my grandparents' house this Christmas to look for one.

I can at least share the patterns though, this one is my favorite:

My grandma loves angel decorations, and I love swords, so it worked out great for both of us.

 

[VerityClariece]

Not sure if this would count as an old school hobby necessarily, or a hobby that is just embracing the old school.

I tend to watch old news broadcasts from the 1960s to 1990s. I don't doubt many people back then would have been intrigued with the news, and even doing the same with the resources they had available to casually look back at older newspaper clippings, and later VHS recordings and the like. Many also probably got engrossed in the news as the only way to really understand what was going on and it's interesting to me that still holds true for me today; helping me to understand the differences between our times and cultures, and a better image of the possibilities we face today.

This is not just to try to get a better understanding of the past though, I want to go beyond just the culture, and sometimes the resources I go through feel just as archaic to even try to get better understanding of those small moments that really catch my attention. I enjoy listening to even the basic mundane news about church events, fundraisers, but then it always get spiced up with a unique story or two. I never know what I'm going to see or hear, no fucked up politics generally unless it was at election time, and some of these stories have been heartwarming, and some grueling.

I have noticed that mental health was called out just as it was for violent criminals, and for lack of a better term, the entire vibe feels local and fundamentally a bit more important to the development of the world we see today. It just seemed more sensible, grounded, not so....volatile? I guess is the best word? In your face, constant bombarding you with catchy headlines and all this other crap that has turned every news station today into hot garbage.

One example that stands out to me was a farmer in January 1983 in Ohio, who had previously gained around 2000 acres of family farmland. He was being pressured with general debt on the property and local legislation made it harder. The forced sale of land which reduced crop yield didn't make it any easier, and eventually when down to $400,000 in debt and 400 acres of land; him, his brother, and 100 other farmers marched on the court house to protest and fight for the farm. In the end, they failed. He lost everything and very soon after lost his car.

However, this man I was able to find out, is alive and well living it up in Oregon. He was able to turn his life around, and if nothing else that's the type of shit I like to see and hear that just isn't on the news as much as it once was; the story of resilience, uplifting resolutions to local gripping tales, a more personal approach where you're reaching out to 10,000 and not a million.

For some reason, just strikes a chord with me. Tells me that even at our shittiest times, we're probably gonna be here tomorrow......and we're probably gonna do alright in the end.

Hope you find some enjoyment in the hobby as well, NewsActive3 on Youtube is a great archive to start with, local libraries tended to document important dates, and most newspapers if they were able; and online archives of news clippings for many of the cities mentioned can be found and navigated with ease.

Would love to hear some interesting stories you guys stumble across as well.