A counter question to the guy who posted a similar question few hours ago, cause most of the answers weren’t helpful for someone like me, who doesn’t have much money😅.

  • sunsofold@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    From a similar post recently:

    Inexpensive, and little setup, with no steep learning curve?

    Off the top of my head:

    • singing
    • drawing
    • playing a tin whistle
    • dorodango
    • dexterity games (card flourishes, astrojax, yoyo, pen spinning, etc.)
    • reading
    • kumihimo
    • customising things with paint markers
    • yoga
    • whetstoning
    • writing (prose or poetry)
    • journaling/journalism
    • cross stitch/embroidery
    • jelqing
    • rock/object balancing
    • meditation
    • knife throwing
    • macramé (using beading floss)
    • playing the spoons
    • whittling
    • eating
    • scrimshaw
    • nålbinding
    • henna tattooing
    • primping
    • cloudgazing
    • looking at fucking everything through a high mag loupe
    • tarot divination
    • contact juggling
    • kefir making
    • key duplication by hand
    • sleeping
    • hiking
    • floccinaucinihilipilification
    • origami
    • talking to nearby friendly looking strangers
    • polishing
    • cleaning
    • caligraphy
    • drugless hallucination
    • soapbox public speaking
    • zen gardening
    • guerilla gardening
    • pitch ear training
    • ‘easter egg’ hiding
    • local botanical/ecological studies
    • flint knapping
    • home/interior design (as long as you don’t actually buy anything)
    • knolling
    • marble running
    • solo RPGs like ‘Alone Among The Stars’ (okay this one wasn’t technically off the top of my head. I couldn’t remember the name, so I looked it up.)
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      5 days ago

      This list is gold. But you’re missing one thing:

      Commenting lists of free hobbies on Lemmy

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        3 days ago

        As others have said, yes, it’s a thing, but for more info, Douglas Rushkoff put out a book on it a few years back.

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        5 days ago

        There a number of breathing practices that claim to be a “DMT release.” Like you have free drugs inside you already, might as well, right?