Unusual Hobbies? This is one of mine..

[Stuart G]

I reuse old calendars....I started collecting them to learn photograpy..You know the nature pics, rainbows, sunsets, on the trail, lighthouses etc..I guess I never threw them out..In case you are wondering...............

for 2013, You can use..1985, 1991 or 2002..
If the year is not printed on each month..no one will know the difference..thank you..

[Downwinder]

1. Is there a formula?

[Wounded Bear]

3. It's about every 7 or 8 years, I believe....

Leap year kind of skews it a bit, though.

The calendar rotates through the days of the week as to when Jan 1 is.

[Stuart G]

4. except when there is a leap year..then things are thrown off...

It is an odd hobby. When I was teaching..I'd put up an old calander..no year..no one knew..except when I showd the class.

Once...someone took the calander I put up, and I was so mad..so I put up another one..and then when I was showing a movie in the dark...are you ready... the teacher..who I was showing the film with..went up and took the calander down..and was ready to walk away with it, when he realized I was in the room too, and I complained to him about "someone taking my calander"..and that is the truth.

[Wounded Bear]

6. You're a teacher, and you can't spell calendar?.....

Sorry, had to go there.

[Stuart G]

9. Always the spelling police..just always..

Yes...I was a history teacher and couldn't spell....
...I am much better now..yes...if the word does not look correct, I check it right away, cause of the spelling/ grammar police here. calander ..just looked ok ...ok..you got me again..........

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[Denninmi]

2. My weird hobby I used to do -

Since I'm a weather geek, I used to take photos of the cloud patterns of every remnant of a tropical storm or hurricane to make it to Michigan. Some of the spiral band cloud patterns were still apparent.

[rug]

5. Crap, I thought I found a kindred spirit.

Each one IS different, one might even say precious, my precious . . . .

[BainsBane]

7. they make great pictures

frame them and they look fantastic. Or use them in paper crafting. I save them too!

[OswegoAtheist]

8. Two of them

I take pictures of cheap knockoffs which skirt (or blatantly cross) the line of trademark infringement. I find it hilarious when a product needs to ride the coattails of another more popular product in order to get sales.

One example:


Another is that I'm collecting sports team ballcaps with just one letter on the front. I'm planning on collecting 26, one for each letter. I have I for Iowa U., S for Syracuse U., R for Blackburn Rovers, etc. Q will probably be the most difficult one to find.

Oswego "X marks the bald spot" Atheist

[Chan790]

11. I can give you a lead on Q.

I haven't seen one for a while but NASCAR Quaker State (Oil) Racing did at one point put out a cap with just the Quaker State stylized Q without the rest of the logo text on the front, I believe the car number was on the back. The hat was green, maybe they'll release one again.

I looked on Google for a pic but no luck.

[frogmarch]

10. One of my hobbies is

to collect the sandy material from small ant hills, put it into jars and freeze it (to make it safer to handle), and then later pick through it to look for garnets, tiny rodent teeth and bones, and other interesting objects the ants had gathered.

I used to pick through owl regurgitated pellets to see what they’d eaten. I think that numerous fossil rodent teeth found together in a small area could be remnants of ancient owl regurgitated pellets.

[Chan790]

12. I'm learning to sew.

Not like froofy pillows and shit. Costume and garments. Lots of people used to sew, now nobody sews; it was a bastard and a half to find instruction to learn.

I guess that's my unusual hobby. It's only unusual because I'm a 33 year old hipster kid and my peers don't sew, though some knit.

I just want to be able to own nice properly-fit pants without spending a fortune for them. Fabric is cheap. I just hand-sew now so I'm limited to small things and repairs...once I get a machine, I think I'm going to do a duvet cover I think.

I do a mean sarong though. Mostly that's just edging so the edges don't fray.