Pastimes, waste-times?

[UTUSN]

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My #1 has been the internet discussion board. In my retirement years I thought I was very *active* almost all the time, but in a late moment of insight I figured out that all this activity consisted of my sitting while boarding it and emailing - FOOLED me! At the same time I've pooh-poohed all the socialization activity my elder sister participates in at her independent living place - all the dining room meals, "book club," holiday events, church services, all the things she has always done that I've always mocked as "busy work." As a secular humanist, am automatically out regarding holidays and religious events.

***ON EDIT: Not to be interpreted as a/my presumption in judging the self-defined activities of others.

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	Sports-watching (on the couch or attending)
	0 (0%)
	Internet discussion boarding (ahem)
	2 (50%)
	Movies, music, art
	0 (0%)
	Entertainment in general (non-existential)
	2 (50%)
	Religious activities
	0 (0%)
	How do people spend so much time at gym, walking the dog?
	0 (0%)
	Something else?
	0 (0%)
	Whups, (conveniently?) forgot "happy" hour. How con-VEE-nient!
	0 (0%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[debm55]

1. But I also walk the dog and do crafts.read books.

[AllaN01Bear]

2. i play with model trains etc. so?

[debm55]

5. There are more things in the poll, that I could of answered as I do different activities. Wasn't trying to be snarky.

Sorry it it came across that way.

[AllaN01Bear]

8. no worries no offence given , no offence taken. i love your posts . dont quit.

[debm55]

9. And I love you and your love and knowledge of trains.

[quaint]

3. Cooking, cleaning, eating, yard work consume most of my free time.

When I read or stream I stand up and walk and wiggle in place. A book shelf is the right height for my phone and tablet which saves my neck.

[UTUSN]

4. Yip, I forgot (my) yardwork (of the totally BASIC kind, mowing, not "gardening").

[quaint]

6. I prune trees, weed whack, as well as mind my vegetable garden.

I dance a lot (with drapes closed) while listening to music.

[UTUSN]

7. You do lots more *useful* things than I do. I included pruning & weed wacking in my yardwork category.

But I'm in my late stage of things. That is, in the earliest stage everything was included - planting bushes and trees, raking, push mower. In the next to last stage, narrowed it down - tried a self-propelled mower, deleted the trees that caused raking, moved to evergreens, tried a riding mower (didn't work out). In this later stage deleted *ALL* bushes and trees to make the mowing as easy as possible - little to no around them with the mower and weed eater. Am going to be 77 and am strategizing to do my own work as long as possible, meaning an hour at a time and 5 hours recuperating, scattered over a week or two. With the final stage being paying others.

As for all that jumping around, got to be 77 as not my thing, just not. Yet have considered myself "active" scores of years. Well, I worked assiduously in my day!

[quaint]

11. Hah! I do necessary, not useful.

I'm 74 and my goal is the same. Stay here and do as much as possible for as long as possible.
My sister is 77 and lives alone on nine acres in the middle of nowhere.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. None Of Your Choices

In retirement, I "spend" time on:
• Golf (a lot)
• I play guitar, piano or both every day.
• Take the dog to the dog park.
• Pretend I'm a chef in the kitchen.
• Substitute teach science & math.
• DU
• Watch the Food Network, often with my wife.
I'll let you decide which are past-times or are "waste-times"

[Elessar Zappa]

12. Watching pro-wrestling and professional sports, probably.

I enjoy it but I’m sure there’s more intellectual things I could be pursuing instead lol.