subject: Hobbyist Shop For Fun [print this page] Most people who have hobbies think shopping for them is fun.
As a matter of fact the Best shopping Fun I ever had is when my Mother and I took a weekend trip to the Tom Bishop Miniature production in Chicago. That was the best two days of fun that I ever had as an adult with my mom.
Wikipedia says that A hobby is an activity or interest that is undertaken for pleasure or relaxation, typically done during one's leisure time.
A hobby can be anything. Some of the biggest ones are Golf, Fishing, Hunting, Cooking, Collecting, Scale modeling or dioramas like Lionel Trains or Ship building, Gardening and Reading. Collecting can be anything from coins to baseball caps to bobble heads and everything in between.
The key is that you do it for pleasure or relaxation. Building things can be real calming for people.
I have the best of both worlds. With miniatures I build with wood, collect the things I don't want to build or is not practical to do so. I get to decorate and play all at the same time.
When Mother and I went on our trip, we flew in from different locations. A limousine picked us up at the air port and took us to the hotel. We shopped for items that we wanted, liked, thought we might want for our houses and shadow boxes.
We were like kids in a candy store. Even though we were adults, we let our little girls out to play all weekend and had a ball doing it.
We had gone to miniature shows before, but they were local. We shopped for a few hours then went home. The Tom Bishop show is like the Super Bowl of miniature shopping.
When you are shopping for your hobby, you know what you have and what you want. You keep your eye out for those hard to get items as well as the one of a kinds. You may have a wish list.
Hobbyist are particular shoppers. They will go from store to store looking for just the right item. With the Internet hobby shopping has allowed hobbyist to search all over the world for specific items.
Some of the most detailed displays are those that are into electric trains or model railroad sets. There are magazines, web sites and classes or lessons in rail car modeling.
For building or modeling hobbies there are the tools of the trade. The tools and custom layouts can get pretty detailed. Then there are the different scales to work with or collect.
A lot of model train set displays are dioramas.
In a nutshell a diorama can be defined as a scene that captures a moment in time. We often think of dioramas as being small in scale but they don't necessarily have to be small scale. Sometimes dioramas are life size as in many museum dioramas.
Since a hobby is something that you do for fun, that brings you joy that you do in your leisure time, it leave the prospects wide open. Some hobbies can be acts like visiting all the museums in a geographical area. Bird watching is also popular.
It does not matter what your hobby is. It is the pleasure of planning and the joy of shopping for it that excites us the most. Coming home to unwrap and display your treasures in their new and dedicated spot also brings joy.
Shopping is Fun and if you have a dedicated hobby, you can always find a reason to shop.
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