• Eq0@literature.cafeEnglish
    11·
    14 days ago

    “Kid” arts and crafts. Pick whatever you have lying around and make something cool out of it.

    I hoard delivery boxes because the possibilities are endless. I love making temporary furniture out of them. A chair for a couple of evenings, a play house for my kid, an absolutely massive advent calendar for my partner. I did bookshelves, display cabinets, I am planning a kid couch.

    I also hoard old fabrics, t-shirts and linen mostly, to turn into whatevers. A book sleeve, a mask, a cake transport bag…

    I love the creative process of fixing a problem first with ingenuity then with my hands

  • maisouinon@jlai.luEnglish
    11·
    14 days ago

    Junk journaling. The amount of free paper in life is still kinda astounding. Get some crappy book about how to become an overnight billionaire and wreck it with art. Make a collage in it with paste and scrap paper, sales papers, business cards, packaging, etc. Badaboom.

  • Valerie Ashborne@feddit.orgEnglish
    9·
    14 days ago

    Contirbuting to open-source, open data and so on!

    For example, why not contribute to OpenStreetMaps? You will help others and also will be going around your city more, possible discovering more interesting stuff :)

    Or why not contribute to OpenFoodFacts? Adding prices, updating data, fixing wrong data - so much fun! And useful.

    Or did you know that there is open review system, including places on openstreetmaps, companies, books? https://mangrove.reviews/ It is notably used in CoMaps. You can check plaes that you had been in and inform people about good/bad aspects of said place!

    And more! Making world a slightly better place together.

  • myyass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    14 days ago

    Harvesting components and metals from broken electronics, if you can’t fix them.

      • myyass@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        13 days ago

        Depends on how involved you want to get. The best is getting all the gold, you can use a air soldering gun to make it fairly easy or just pliers. Then capacitors and silicon chips. The older the tech them more value. You would likely be best off selling that to someone that specializes in recovering the metals. The gold you can look up and see the chemical process to purify it and melt it into a chunk. If you’re not into it, you can sell because it’s a bit dangerous lol

  • thru_dangers_untold@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    14 days ago

    Birding! Super chill and costs nothing to get started. Even beginners can contribute to citizen science projects. Being out in nature has been shown to improve mental health.

    • Tinks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      Related to this, hiking! It’s free, is good for your health both physically and mentally, and accessible to most people.

  • Noah Snedden@aussie.zoneEnglish
    3·
    14 days ago

    Unicycling. A good bit of fun once you get the hang of it a bit, and good exercise too. It can be a bit hard at first, but it’s worth the time if you have it.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      14 days ago

      Honestly, I’m amazed that smartphones haven’t given rise to a ton of people using trackers or synths and whatnot. I remember going and looking on F-Droid and being a bit surprised that there was limited tracker software, often ports of old stuff.

      Okay, you need headphones, but it seems like the kind of thing that generally, one could do in bursts while riding mass transit or waiting in line or whatever, and where smartphone hardware isn’t a really limiting factor.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    14 days ago

    Acting! Sign up for an evening acting class at a local community college. Don’t have ambitions of stardom, just join in. I did this in my late 20s. Besides being extremely fun, it really raised my confidence level and almost instantly gave me a thriving social life. And you can use the skills you learn in acting training to cope with difficult life situations.

    For example, I learned to eliminate stress in job interviews by reframing the situation - it’s not even an interview, I already work there and it’s my first day back after being away for a while. I love the work and the people in the group, our manager is awesome, it’s going to be so great to see everybody again! So when I walk into the room I genuinely feel like I belong there, which projects 100% culture fit right away. Another example, one time when I went out with a couple friends to an Irish bar on St. Patrick’s Day, the place was jam-packed, and I’ve never liked crowds. So I quickly got into the character of somebody who LOVES crowds, who revels in swimming through that sea of people. I had a great evening, and even met a woman I ended up dating.

    Anyway, take an acting class - you won’t regret it.

  • sbird@retrofed.comEnglish
    21·
    14 days ago

    Listening to podcasts! It’s the best of all worlds in terms of media consumption

      • sbird@retrofed.comEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        Well, it would depend on your interests. I’m into astrophysics, so I listen to Astronomy Cast (hosted by Fraiser Cain and Dr Pamela Gay, this one is probably my favourite), Ask a Spaceman! (hosted by Paul M. Sutter), StarTalk (with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice, often there’s other presenters too), the Supermassive Podcast (by the Royal Astronomical Society), and the NASA ones too (like Curious Universe and Houston We Have a Podcast)

        If you’re not as into space stuff, I know the Lateral and the Technical Difficulties are great if you want more nerdy stuff from Tom Scott and co. There are plenty of awesome ones out there (as long as you avoid the sketchy political commentary, manosphere, or similarly awful sort)