What is everyone's favorite retirement hobby?

[Moemg]

reading
swimming
remodeling house
trying new recipes
selling on ebay
travelling
taking classes
things to try
yoga
elderhostel
tap dancing

 

[W2R]

We're loving our library, where we go a couple of times a week for new release books we don't have to buy, to read magazines we don't have to subscribe to, to borrow videos we don't have to rent or order by mail, to borrow books on tape for our road trips, music CDs to burn copies.

We also enjoy their in-house programs and events, seminars and exhibits, civic meetings. Can volunteer, donate our outgoing books and tapes for the fund-raiser book sale, can request titles I need via the website and they are send to my neighborhood branch.....on and on....good stuff happening at your neighborhood library.

Also a good social setting with like-minded readers and researchers, families, civil service staff. We are regulars now, so see many people on regular basis, get to talk books and recommendations with them. It's all good!

I'm not retired yet, but doesn't this sound like fun? I think "starry night"'s retirement sounds ideal.

 

[Dawg52]

Golf.

 

[Eyerishgold]

I still have many years to go before I RE. However, I know exactly what I'll be doing. I'll be painting. It might even turn out to be a source of income for me as I just sold my first painting.

Aside from that, I'll be riding my bike, kayaking, hiking, lying on a beach, taking day, week, or month long trips anywhere I see fit.

 

[ijuba]

-Dad
-Girls soccer coach
-Exercising / lifting
-Web surfing
-RVing/camping/travel
-Gardening
-Watching sports: College football, Nascar, pro football
-Investments
-Honey do's

 

[ScottFromUtah]

I've always been a big hobby guy. I'll do some of my hobbies more, and some of them less when I retire in 10 months.

Marathons.
Cycling centuries (100-milers).
Photography and travel.
Writing (not exactly a hobby because I write textbooks).
Classical music.
Spanish language.
Missionary work.

 

[HFWR]

Writing/composing/recording music
Playing guitar
Cabinetry
Photography
Cooking
Putzing
Napping

 

[dumpster56]

Part time teaching Elementary Physical Education 3 hours a day two days a week. Coaching a High school Cross Country and Track Team, Oh I get paid to Run my workouts with the team.
Run 10 miles a day
Make Nords and others so nuts that they put me on ignore here on the forum.
I am such a bad socialist and that I guess bothers some.
Read Read and then Read some more.
Learning to make Jewelery
Getting involved with social causes to improve society
Being true to myself and honest to all

 

[lightspeed]

I'm a runner (a marathon a year) in my working life. When I RE, I'd like to do international and exotic marathons-- Antartica, Paris, Tokyo, etc...

I'm a skier. I plan on buying a ski press and making my own skis.

My wife's family lives in Germany. I'd like to learn German.

I can probably think of a few more things, but those come to mind.

 

[EngineeringMyFinances]

I'm not retired yet.

But my Dad's hobbies are:
-- Listening to mainstream AM talk radio (right wing)
-- Playing solitaire on the computer

I expect to do a lot better when it's my turn.

 

[Salaryman]

Not there yet, but I can see myself being a:

-Mr. Mom to my three kids (I'm sure I can do a better job than Michael Keaton could in that movie Mr. Mom with Teri Garr)
-full time best friend to my three kids
-ski bum in multiple countries (kids optional )
-perfect my spanish and learn to dance the tango in b.Aires (DW is Argentine)
-read all the books that I can handle (my favorite BatMan character is BookWorm)
-spend the rest of my time helping out the less fortunate in my church/community

wishful thinking...

Salaryman

 

[Grizz]

Not there just yet, but here's the loose plan....

ATV/snowmobile/jet ski

remote control stuff

week long road trips with DW

work on/shine/show off classic car more

play my harmonica more

skiing

more exercise

develop my lake lot

investing

 

[kjpliny]

Napping

Yes!

 

[Chonder]

I am buying my mom's place, with several acres nestled in the middle of nowhere in the appalachian hills.

-Family time. Friend time. Volunteer time.
-Target shooting...pistol and bow
-Gardening
-Ginsenging, root digging
-Making our house ultra-hedonistic, with lots of places to relax,nap, swim, walk, read, etc, etc.
-Making an art studio, wife and I are very eclectic, need a place to splash clay, paint, and shavings.
-Setting up a glassblowing and blacksmithing studio
-An outdoor hottub of native stone
-Firepit for dancing around naked at full moon time
-Perhaps build a machine that makes beer non-alcoholic!
-Raise my kids with a modicum of self-sufficiency.

You know...the usual stuff.

 

[TargaDave]

Not quite ER'd yet either (actually semi-ER for me) but plan and residence are both in place;

Play on the water during the day
Monitor the view from the deck at the end of the day

 

[ScooterGuy]

Retirement hobby is ...

Chasing DW around the house until she catches me ... and then trips me, and beats me to the floor!

 

[haha]

I am buying my mom's place, with several acres nestled in the middle of nowhere in the appalachian hills.

-Firepit for dancing around naked at full moon time.

Unless the Appalachians are really different from before, better watch this one!

-Perhaps build a machine that makes beer non-alcoholic!

Won''t your neighbors think you are running this process backwards?

Ha

 

[tednvon]

1. Officiating high schools sports in Iowa and Florida
2. 3 months in Florida next to Disney (spouse works 1 day a Disney World, I work 2 days at big golf course for small $$ and free golf)
3. Grandkiddy stuff

 

[kumquat]

1. playing the index market (buy and forget)
2. fixing/buying/selling/driving old British cars.
3. Getting out of Canada for Jan. and Feb.

 

[tryan]

Not in any order:

woodworking
skiing
golf

(gave up running ... knees can't take it)

 

[Wags]

What everyone's favorite retirement hobby?

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[buz14260]

I am curious, for those of you who are retired or plan to do so in the near future, what do you plan to do with your free time? Your advice is appreciated as always.

Before I retired the only thing I could cook was oatmeal and coffee. We had our kitchen remodeled before I retired, now I am taking up cooking. I really enjoy being in the kitchen and preparing healthy food. The internet is a wealth of information with recipes available everywhere. I am putting my favorites into a recipe book. I am very partial to Indian food and fortunately I am able to get all the spices I need locally. I have really surprised myself with some of the meals I have prepared. I never thought I would be able to do this, but everyone should learn to cook.

 

[Khan]

Before I retired the only thing I could cook was oatmeal and coffee. We had our kitchen remodeled before I retired, now I am taking up cooking. I really enjoy being in the kitchen and preparing healthy food. The internet is a wealth of information with recipes available everywhere. I am putting my favorites into a recipe book. I am very partial to Indian food and fortunately I am able to get all the spices I need locally. I have really surprised myself with some of the meals I have prepared. I never thought I would be able to do this, but everyone should learn to cook.

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