Comments on: Besides stamps what other hobbies do you have?

By: David

David — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:20:13 +0000

Food, definitely food. I’ve been called a “foodie” more than once. Wine of course goes right along with that. I used to have a really nice wine collection in my basement, but since having kids it has stopped growing. In fact it has shrunk considerably (imagine that). Wine collecting is one of the few hobbies where it is more fun to “lose” an item than to gain one I would say my wine collection has been reduced to a wine label collection.

I was into baseball cards as a kid, had a small coin collection, and a huge Star Wars collection but stamps are the only childhood hobby that has stuck with me.

Photography is another that I enjoy. I garden as well, but that is to my supply my food hobby.

By: Carol Ligda-Wong

Carol Ligda-Wong — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:47:37 +0000

Reading, writing, photography (mostly nature, some portraiture), jigsaw puzzles, gardening, walking/hiking, hanging out with friends, visiting galleries and museums. I enjoy grocery shopping and cooking, but it’s more of a responsibility than a hobby. Volunteering, but that’s not a hobby, either. My husband has an old comic book collection and likes to collect little rocks for his pockets.

By: Pablo (yo)

Pablo (yo) — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:26:28 +0000

I’m also a banknote collector, besides stamps.
In my free time, I like playing Diplomacy (mostly online) or running.

Best,
Pablo.

By: Keijo

Keijo — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:41:22 +0000

Greast story Linella… Piggy banks bring a lot of good memories as in my childhood the Finnish Postal Savings Bank had a “Golden piggy club” for child and youth members of the bank. It was hugely popular at the time with monthly club magazine, competitions, annual greetings postcards etc. Nowadays these piggies (and related memorabilia) are of course collectors items.

By: Linella G. Cuevas

Linella G. Cuevas — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:12:23 +0000

As a child I was taught to save coins in a “piggy bank” so I had lots of coin savings. Sometimes I would come across unfamiliar old or demonetized coins which I would place in a separate container. As I grew older, I came to realize that it was more fun collecting these unfamiliar stuff than the ones in circulation. Such is the beginning of my coin collection. It was a fun way of learning history, geography and culture. A coin from some foreign country would make me run to the library to learn more about that country. This was when internet has not even been dreamt about yet. This also led to stamp collecting.