Good hobbies that don't cost the earth.

@SW-User Do you keep an art journal for your doodles? I thought that might be fun and creative.

@cherokeepatti I have so many sketchbooks and journals. It's madness 😂

@SW-User you know I’m the sort of person that loves to look through such things. It’s great when you have a creative outlet like that.

Oh come on. We can start over and be friends. Hi purple you are a lot less ugly than your personality today😂@Purplerain78

@Batman You're really not selling the whole friendship thing 🤨

My apologies Purple I was being an ass @Purplerain78

@Ontheroad I have started writing a book. I am on chapter 3 now.

@icedsky Barite roses. In some areas in this county and the next county they find large clusters of them. Farmers plowing their field would find them. Had to be vein running through the property though. . One old farmer in the 60’s and 70’s set up a stand and was selling them for side money. He had some huge ones that had perfect petals on them that my aunt bought. There was another farmer in the next county that we got pecans from on the halves…he sold these barite rocks that were clusters of big bubbles. My aunt bought some of them from him as well.

@cherokeepatti Some of those do sell for big bucks. As they are getting rarer. Not any barite roses here in this neck of the woods. Barite crystals are common though. Blade shapes and some cubes.

@icedsky yes. I heard a local story and don’t know if it was true or not. In the late 1960’s a man drove from Oklahoma to California. He didn’t pay for gas. He would take a larger rose rock…sit it on the car dash and ask for a fill up. The attendant or owner would see that rose rock and ask about it and eventually it would be traded for a tank of gas. There was a small gift store in Noble, Oklahoma that sold rose rocks and rose rock decorative sculptures, t-shirts, and all kinds of rose-rock gifts etc. It stayed in business for 30 years until the owners retired.

@Purplerain78 Ahhhh, so potentially in the dark!!
Planet Fitness comes to mind and it is only $10/month.

@Teslin You appear to think I need to keep fit, lose weight or something 🤔

@Purplerain78 No, you asked for inexpensive hobbies. This is what came to mind.

@Teslin Not really the right time of year and where I live it's flat, no hills! 🤣

@NerdySoph Ah no. Not really something that interests me I'm 45 with three kids lol. Happy to watch my kids game but that's as far as it goes

@pdockal I never had it before my relationship break down. Tend not to when you have kids, especially if they have added needs to.
Learning to give myself care/attention and me time is very strange. I'd rather have my kids with me all the time if I'm being honest.

@Purplerain78

I understand
But it was in response to your question and situation
Maybe consider "ME" time from now on

@Musicman I second this. I've been a photographer since high school and it's still a satisfying hobby