Choose Your Own Hobby

Looking for a new hobby? We recently checked out Get a Hobby!: 101 All-Consuming Diversions For Any Lifestyle by Tina Barseghian. For those of you who, like us, love to take personality quizzes, this book should prove useful and illuminating! The in-book quiz, "What's your hobby personality?", asks you questions about your lifestyle - cooking, present-wrapping, the role of music, where you like to walk, your attention span - to come up with 19 possible traits that you can string together to discover your hobby personality. Their examples include:

Are you artistic, dexterous, and meticulous?
You might like beading, model ships, or silk-screening.

Are you independent, nature-loving, and outdoorsy?
You might like birding, fly-tying, or mushroom hunting.

You'll have to get a copy of the book to take the quiz, but if you think you already know your most prominent characteristics, here are a couple of hobby ideas from Tina Barseghian's book for you to take on! Click on the trait list that best describes you to find a hobby-related item from our catalog. You might find you have an aptitude for something unexpected!

Is your hobby personality:

• artistic, crafty, dexterous, extroverted?
• history-loving, sporty?
• artistic, crafty, dexterous, independent, meditative, patient?
• animal-loving, epicurean, nature-loving, nurturing?
• artistic, crafty, independent, meditative, meticulous, nature-loving, nurturing, patient?
• crafty, history-loving, independent, meticulous?
• crafty, dexterous, outdoorsy, sporty, technical?
• dexterous, extroverted, independent, social, technical?
• adventurous, artistic, extroverted, technical?
• nurturing, patient, social?
• animal-loving, dexterous, independent, meticulous, outdoorsy?
• artistic, crafty, meticulous?

For more hobby personalities, you'll have to check out the book!