Where else does your disposable income go?

CarterQ

CarterQ

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Ok all of love smoking and outdoor cooking. Hard to beat the great fellowship, learning, and fun toys and accessories that go along with this great pursuit.

While smoking is great what other hobbies and interests get your juices flowing?

I'm sure we have done this in the past but there are a ton of new folks around here so I think it will be interesting to do it again. How about you, what are some of the other things you love to do?

For me my latest pursuit has been home brewing, wife got me set up with a "starter kit" for my birthday and I haven't looked back. So far I am having a blast, so many new things to learn and new toys to play with, much like BBQ it is an art and a science. My poor wife did comment yesterday when the UPS man arrived with yet another load of home brew goodies, "Wow this may be worse than when you got a pellet grill!"
 
MossyMO

MossyMO

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I have learned to limit my hobbies as I tend to acquire quite a bit of equipment for the hobby. I have retired billiards and woodworking, fishing is another I haven't done in a while but don't plan on hanging that up; but am still quite active in hunting & shotgun and rifle reloading.
 
fishingbouchman

fishingbouchman

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In the past it was fishing. Purchased a boat and picked up ever wiggle wart I could find as they were going out of buisness. Back fire because someone else picked up the line. Loving grilling and picking stuff up for that but golf is sucking the money out of my pockets. Picked up the golf bug and can't get rid of it. Bandon Dunes here I come in a couple weeks.
 
sparky

sparky

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discgolf. ball golf got to expensive. discgolf if free. alot of fun. plus i won a class A tournament a few years back for my division. only two class A tourn's on the west coast ever year. surfing. don't get to do it much anymore like i use too (use to go surfing 5 days a week when younger) but whenever we go down to santa cruz i always try and swallow some salt water when we are there. gardening. i like getting my hands dirty. roses (8), fruit trees (10), vege's (love heirlom tomatoes) and other green things that grow. ;) i like fishing. get to the river at 5 am. throw line in w/ bobber. kick back, open a FT and have a nice double chateu cigar.
 
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Deb

Deb

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kayaking

I have been looking at the dusty golf clubs in the basement and thinking I need to really learn how to use them
 
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Susan

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Kayaking! I'm so looking forward to zipping up my PFD and paddling. I also do a lot of dog training classes with my boy. Currently he's taking a Nose Works class twice a week where he has to search out a hidden scent (clove, birch or anise) sometimes hidden on a car or in a large room or outside. He's good at this! We're also taking a "free style" dance class twice a week. This is way more fun that it sounds and despite my two left feet the boy is improving, I'm getting some great excersize, building some muscle memory and having loads of laughs with the rest of the class.
 
HogSmoker

HogSmoker

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Like Thom said all my disposable goes to local gas station. Speaking of which the oil companies will be reporting their earnings in the next week or so. Wonder if they have extra disposable left over for hobbies ?
When ( not if ) gas goes to 5 bucks a gallon this country will shut down and sadly the idiots in Washington don't care. ok im done !
 
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So Cal Smoker

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I play tournament poker (Texas Holdum) at our local casinos. It's a lot of fun and a very social game. If you're good at it, you can make a little money for the real important things like smoking cows and pigs. LOL LOL
 
Buffalotom

Buffalotom

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It used to be cowboy fast draw. The most fun you can have in under a half second. But now I am concentrating on getting more BBQ stuff.
 
Jables

Jables

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Try to drown fishing gear whenever possible. I was big into spending on my mustang, but its gonna get sold when I have the time to fix a few things. Good news for us Canucks though. In June we will be allowed to spend 800 per person when visiting the states duty free. I'm sure some of my income might even go to support bp.
 
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cowgirl

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Joe, your kitchen is beautiful!

I enjoy fishing, camping, hunting, playing guitar, the piano, sometimes the fiddle or mandolin. Enjoy my veggie garden. Riding (horses), used to love my dirt bike but did not replace it after the last wreck. lol Also used to play golf...may take it back up in the future. :)
 
TrickyDick

TrickyDick

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I'm the guy with too many hobbies. In no particular order, though my latest and by far most expensive is listed first

Autocross / road racing / HPDE events, home brewing beer, cooking/smoking/grilling/baking , high fidelity audio and listening to music (though would love to learn to play guitar but simply don't have time with everything else), golf, photography, billiards, gardening, computer gaming and sim racing, collecting wine, collecting Whisky (particularly Irish Whisky, though also collect bourbon, and scotch), occasionally I get into a personal fitness kick. Also love building Lego kits with my 7 year old son. Might take up cycling and maybe even tennis. Also enjoy watching college and pro football during the fall.

The funny thing i have noticed is that cooking in any form seems to be the most accepted hobby in terms of your time or monetary commitment. After all everyone needs to eat!



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Bossy J's BBQ

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Im probably a lot like you guys/gals. I work too much to have a lot of hobbies. Cooking, even before BBQ, has always been a part of my family. We are all about the food!!! Always has been. However, i do have a couple of interests outside the smoke ring so to speak. I play guitar (ever since i was 15 or so) im 46 now so i guess its no passing thing. At the moment i have 4 guitars. A strat (Stevie Ray Model w/big frets). A Les Paul (Standard-Cherry Sunburst and she's a beauty!). A Martin D28 (love to fingerpick), and a 20 yr old Charvel Jackson (i never play it anymore). I also have loads of footpedals and some rack gear.
Have 3 kids so i had to pick my hobbies that keeps me at home. Love to get in my man cave and crank it up when the house is empty (which is almost never heh). oh yeah almost forgot, i use EB strings on all my guitars...tried many brands over the years, but always go back to the super slinky's.
Cooking, guitars and family (not nec in that order). Thats all i have time for.
 
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