What is something Hobby or Special Interest related you want

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to buy next?

I really want to get this National Geographic Empire State Building 3D Puzzle. I bought the Sagrada Familia one as a reference for a painting I was doing and it was sooooo satisfying to crack the pieces out of the boards and very easy and fun to assemble and looks beautiful so I am hooked. It was the first 3D puzzle I had done. I am not even all that into the Empire State Building but my fingers just want to assembly again!

I think the cubic fun-brand ones might be a better quality I'm not sure, if anyone is into 3D puzzles let me know!
(But at least they often come with such a price tag I think I will keep to the National Geographic ones unless someone vouches they are worth it lol)

I want an Om Nom T-shirt with my favourite Sweet Pea on it.

A baby grand piano.

I don't really want to buy it, but if I had space and means I'd love decent sim racing setup. Since the main car I race is the same sort of Civic I own it'd be easy to build a partial cockpit with correct measurements. A wheel and pedals would add to the immersion and allow for finer control compared to a gamepad. Fewer hand cramps too.

Even with my subpar setup I've got the field of vision set to exactly match where my eyeballs would be in a racing seat (about 5 cm lower and 5 cm further back from where they are in my regular seat). I just had to take some measurements sitting in my car, apply them to a calculator that can be found online and adjust the seat position (in game) to fine tune it. It's surprisingly accurate considering that I'm just sitting on my bed.

I wouldn't mind another Ibanez ORM-1 guitar. I'd customize it differently than the one I currently own (an EMG 89R instead of an 81). They're like if an SG Junior and a Bronco had a gifted lovechild, with an even better bridge and slimmer neck.

I'd like a ZN6, I don't really care if it's badged as a Scion or a Toyota. I'll take the Subaru version too, but I'd rather the Toyota. Even better if it's just a roller because then I can put a Honda K24 in it. A K-swapped 86 is definitely relevant to my special interest.

A Sgt. Schultz costume to wear to the Halloween dance at my clubhouse.

I work with polymer clay (love to add texture and add mica powder) and i'd love to make jewelry with Cernet translucent clay!! it's kind of expensive but scupley 3 breaks easily

I want to eventually get a proper camera. I take so many pictures and videos of plants and animals (and water lol) with my phone, but my phone camera sucks.

There's a bit of things related to my interests that I want to buy including various music that I cant & a new computer but I cant think of anything specific related to em that majorly stands out. So instead I'll post something for my blade/knife collection that I've been wanting to buy for a while but it would be a long time before I could really afford it

Kit Rae dark Mithrodin sword
https://www.ebay.com/itm/294027827201?h ... R-CZl7vhYA

A proper weaving loom.
I made one myself which is ok for making smaller pieces from recycled material
But I'd like one i could make a proper rug on.
I find it relaxing.
Preparing and sorting the material, matching colours etc., is sensory heaven.

I want to be paid to sit at home and write autobiographies, and also illustrate pictures to go with it. After that, if the autobiographies sell, I'd be rich, with the happiness that millions of teenagers are reading what I'd written (as my autobiographies are about my adolescent years, so teenagers would probably like it read them, although adults will too).

I'd like to have a career like that to be able to afford a nice cottage in its own grounds with no annoying, inconsiderate neighbours making a din around you.

I feel at 32 I don't have much time left to pursue a career like that. Books can take years to be publicised and sold.

A toy German helmet. I'd happily travel back to the 60s to buy one.

While the locals around my area are wearing their headbands and beads, I'm wearing any hat I can get my hands on that looks like a German helmet.

Might buy myself a new winter wetsuit and kiteboarding harness and go get blown before the end of the official season. But time is counting down.. only something like a week left in the season and I didn't prioritize it again this Summer. :/ And I'm stuck in covid jail right now until we all test negative. Soooo, as much as it sucks donkey D, it might just have to wait until Spring to make it worth the $. Maybe. Never know - I might feel up to it and just toss the rest of my gear in my car and rip to Squamish, buy what else I need, throw a sail to the wind and go cruise around Howe Sound with the seals.

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

There's a Kickstarter campaign for a PC game that I would back if I had the money to spare. I was intrigued as soon as I read "Struggling punk rock band" & what I read after seems interesting

Dead Pets Unleashed
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tr ... tter_games

I love all the answers here! Hobbies are so cool. I also would like to try polymer clay sometime and weaving sounds cool! And also I would like a nice 35mm film camera (I suck at taking photos even with camera phone and my instax hah but I would like to learn to be better).

But the next hobby I will probably put my few pennies into after the puzzle is buying some new needles for my sewing machine. I have been trying to learn to sew, and now I got the straight stitch pretty much down and starting to get the hang of zig-zags with cotton, I want to start learning to work with stretch and denim too.

Also I would like to try to learn how to crochet granny squares. I do know how to crochet a little bit but the needle I have is too small for most of the projects I would like to try.