How many random new hobbies can one person pick up before it becomes silly and possibly stupid?

…asking for a friend…

Me. I’m asking for me.

In the last few months (and frankly, even BEFORE the whole COVID quarantine nonsense got started – like even as far back as a year ago) I have started re-picking up old half-started hobbies I had tried out as a kid, or dropped because of grad school, and picking up brand new hobbies that I had always wanted to try.

These new and renewed hobbies include:
1) puzzles (I am slightly addicted)
2) drawing (I have always wanted to be an artist but never had the talent or the patience to keep practicing)
3) cross-stitch (as mentioned before)
4) junk journaling
5) making miniatures
6) stamp collecting (I tried briefly as a kid because my dad was a bit of a philatelist, but it didn’t last, and I just randomly started buying bundles of stamps again a couple months ago because I totally have loads of surplus cash lying around… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Some other random hobbies I have thought about picking up:
1) I have always wanted to learn how to do paper quilling
2) making zines (as mentioned in my previous post)
3) sewing/making cosplay (I have always wanted to and I just recently started planning a cosplay outfit for the first time ever!)

And all of this is on top of my reading and writing habits I’ve been trying to reinvigorate the last 6 months or so…. (And on top of my day job…)

I just wish most of these hobbies didn’t cost quite so much money! Why must most hobbies be so damn expensive???

Ok, back to your regularly scheduled program. (I’m almost done with Charmed Life and will hopefully post a review later this week!)