What hobbies did you pick up during the pandemic and have you been able to keep them up?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Snorf@reddthat.com⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

I had been wanting to learn how to play the guitar for years, but laziness, i guess, kept me from it. I picked it up with moderate seriousness and am very greatful i did. I wish i would’ve started sooner.

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hubobes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Started bouldering, still at it. It did wonders for my health (was basically a couch potato before that).

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krondo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Chess yes very!

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MooseGas@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I started playing the piano. I have just learned from books and the occasional you tube video. I still practice everyday. I can't tell if I'm actually getting any better, but I do enjoy it.

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- Snorf@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Enjoying it is the point! But I’ll bet that you are better than you were when you started.
  
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RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Pokemon Go, actually.

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- Snorf@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I just recently started playing. It’s definitely something that gets you out and about, which is great!
  
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Nobsi@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Started getting into coffee with all the snobbish attachments of it.
Still enjoy it. But bought a nespresso machine in the meantime. I just wanna have coffee to wake up, not do the whole ritual.

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SillyPuppy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I happened to pick up an interest in DJ’ing right before Covid hit, and I’ve been doing it ever since. Now that things have opened back up, I’ve even had a couple of gigs and made a very modest profit on it. And I still enjoy adding tracks to the catalog, figuring out where I want my cue points and making notes for what works well with what.

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ken_cleanairsystems@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I started making scented candles. I mostly started because I was trying to recreate a particular scent that we don’t seem to be able to find anymore. I’ve gotten sort of close but not, like, super close. I liked experimenting with lots of different types of scents, though, and it’s nice to always have something around to help get rid of cooking odors in the kitchen, freshen up a bathroom, etc.

I haven’t made any in a while – not for any particular reason, though, although it is harder to want to do something that involves being over a stove a lot during the summer. I really should get back to it soon.

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Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I took an electronics class in high school and always thought about getting into the hobby. It took 20 years and a pandemic, but I finally did. Though with the ability of cheap micro-controller dev boards I haven’t gotten as deep into it as I always imagined. Most of what I do is just wiring components to GPIO pins with the occasional pull-up/down resister.

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- Snorf@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I bought my guitar about twenty years ago and probably learned how to play half a dozen chords before the pandemic. So i did nearly the same thing.
  
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Pringles@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I actually stopped my hobby of golfing because the courses were getting overcrowded as golf was one of the few sports you were still allowed to do at the height of covid. Haven’t picked it back up because it’s so time consuming.

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