Finding A Hobby: Let's Have Fun AND Make Money!

What are some of the ideas for hobbies are oput there? A listing that is NOT conclusive is listed below:

Arts and Crafts

Wood Working
Patchwork
Quilting
Basket making
Sewing
Drawing
Oil Painting
Pottery
Multimedia
Upholstery
Jewelry Making
Needle Point
Dressmaking
Candle Making
Soap Making
Whittling
Beadwork
Crochet
Knitting
Build your own kite
Paper mache
Rubber Stamping
Mosaics
Stain glass
Furniture restoration
Sculpting
Weaving

Collecting

Stamp collecting
Train spotting (collecting train numbers)
Collecting Staffordshire figures
(People have collected, Literally, ANYTHING!)

Around the house

Gardening
Garden Design
Grow your own vegetable ideas
Bird Watching
Plumbing
Flower arranging
Fish keeping
Interior design
Hair dressing
Model Railroads
DIY

Food

Wine tasting
Cooking
Foreign foods - Indian/ Chinese/ Italian
Baking
Mushroom collecting
Cake decorating

Electronics and computing

Amateur Radio
Radio Controlled Vehicles
CB
Electronics
Photography
Computer programming
Computer graphics
Web site design

Language and literature

Learn a language
French/ Italian/ Spanish/ Mandarin/ Welsh/ Gaelic/ Latin/ Greek/ German/ Arabic/ Russian /Bulgarian
Join a literature group
French literature
Sketching
Creative writing
Lip reading
Sign language

Other

Dancing
Astronomy
Origami
Magic
Drama
Join a local operatic society
Scrapbooking
bonsai trees
Motorcycles
model airplanes
building birdhouses

History

Genealogy
Local history
Trace the history of your house
Stone circles
Discovering Ley Lines
Restore old photographs

Sports

Scuba diving
High Diving
Fishing
Swimming
Judo
Tae Kwon Do
Hill Walking
Trampolining">

Many of the hobbies that people have can be made into a money making endeavor!

I think you (probably) know a few people that have gotten into the hobby of Jewelry Making, maybe just for the fun of it and then they decided that, "Hey, I think I can put some of these things up for sale at a Flea Market!". That is all it really takes.

What about that person you know that has a very extensive Coin Collection? I bet he (or she) probably got quite a few of those really nice coins by buying and selling other coins! There you go!

A list of Hobbies that can be easily made into a paying proposition?

Take the List that is printed, above. If the hobby is creating something, that something can be sold!

AND, any Hobby, whether you are making something, or whether it is a research type, such as Genealogy, Gardening or anything else that does not produce something that you would want to deal with as far as delivery or mailing you can sell your consulting skills. You can train others to do what you do!

Think about what your hobbies are, OR take up a NEW Hobby, sell things you make, SDell information about that Hobby to help other people.

Everybody is an expert on something!

How many people do you know who can write? I am not talking about people that simply know how to put a few words together, I am talking about people who can WRITE for others.

There are a LOT of need for people to write content for websites, Blogs and even for Squidoo Lenses!

Do you have what it takes to write things such as:

Articles to promote programs and/or services?
Sales Pages for websites?
Simple Blogs for an entire host of things?
Quick 100 - 250 word blurbs for Build My Rank advertizing?

Take a quick look at any website, blog or Squidoo lens and see if you could do this.

After you have done that, get ahold of some of those same sites and offer your services!