Before I was subjected to Nicole I was living happily, puttering about and casually enjoying a bit of crochet or mending a sock here and there. Now I'm fully infected and waist deep in staymaking, silk ruffling and cobbling. It's a desperate life, feverishly clawing after more information and delving deep into history for techniques to learn, and I have little hope of there being a cure.
There is no cure! And the worst part is,all those around us and the culture itself seem to want us this way. Otherwise, why would they keep encouraging us?❤️🐝🤗
Ah yes, the old "turn your hobby into a paying career, and you'll never work again" saw. Which in reality usually just becomes "turn the thing you do for play into a job and you'll end up with all work and no play - and often end up hating the thing you used to love, to boot."
So _that's_ why school feels to so many like just preparation for the workforce. "We can't have them notice they never get to rest, so let's allow them to enjoy their work as a treat."
Three related stories, from when I taught English in Japan (30+ years ago): * In class, I routinely introduced words not usually taught in school. One day it was “hobby,” and each student had to describe their hobby. One student happily said, “My hobby is taking a bath.” We all laughed, and I asked some questions to make sure that it fit the definition of hobby. It was true - taking a bath was, by any definition, his hobby. 🤣 * When I was there, schools were introducing two free Saturdays a month. My adult students were very concerned about their kids, and were all asking me, “What do American kids do on weekends? What activities do the parents organize?” Like those writing articles you cited, they couldn’t imagine the children themselves coming up with ideas for what to do. * One of my adult English Conversion students was having her kitchen remodeled, as a gift from her husband, because she was undergoing cancer treatment. But, though she begged, he wouldn’t let her have a dishwasher (just then becoming trendy). He said, “If you have no dishes to wash, what are you going to do all day?”
The threat of lower class free time was that they would get involved in politics, activism and unions. So pushing hobbies to keep people entertained and thinking they were happy was a way to control workers. Back in the mid 70s i was supposed to hire people, my boss who had an MBA gave me a text book on interviewing and analysing people. One of the things they warned about was to reject people who had hobbies like photography or art because they would waste their creative skills and passion on these hobbies instead of work.
In the 90s, we'd ask our manufacturing managers to hire older women with needleworking skills. They'd never listen. Those skills translated well into building small, intricate electronic modules.
Yes, creative fire is notoriously compartmentalized. Allowing someone to live joyfully outside of work surely never beneficially affects their work quality as an employee. /s This sounds like something that could be in the CIA "How to Sabotage Your Workplace" manual.
I think the thing is that those used to be very decent careers. Sewing was a base skill that with training paid a decent living. The industrial revolution changed that, took away the enjoyable part of work, and returned it to us packaged as a way to fix how depressed we were from boring work- in our own free time.
As somebody who works 12-hour shifts, getting tired after 8 hours is real. We tolerated it for the overtime pay and three-day weekends every other week. My mother was a stay-at-home mom in the 1960s and early1970s who did sew some of our clothes. She went back to work gradually as we entered school until she was full time by the time we were in junior high and high school. In retirement she now has gardening as her hobby and doesn't sew anymore.
This post reveals such a new view to my life! I was in high school in the 60's, knew my grandparents and some of my great grandparents. Everyone was industrious; it was definitely a virtue at that time. My mother stayed at home and taught piano at home. We were always occupied and aimed at getting a university education. I was the last person who could stay at home during my marriage because of economics. I would say that my parent's generation was the last to have a comfortable middle class life in that they had enough money with which to enjoy life, including hobbies; they worked at one job and made enough money for us to feel very comfortable. They would have retired with enough to live comfortably through their days as many of the middle class in their generation. I'm very sad to see that today's generation will not have that level of security. I doubt that many will be able to afford a hobby, let alone a house. This is a very timely post. (I think it deserves the qualification of lecture, as so much thoughtful research and knowledge goes into every one of your posts!) I love this channel as it really makes me think. Thank you so much for your efforts Nicole.
A lot depends on how deep you get into a hobby and how deep you want to get into one. RUclips and social media have made it aspirational to be at the top of any hobby - which, like the top end of sports - is expensive. Some hobbies - like reading - only require a library membership or a computer with internet access
@@charlibrown7745 I would never assume that I was so special that I could to tell someone else how to think. We are all allowed to express and have our own opinions. I've never assumed that I could speak for everyone and I am aware that there are different levels of economic ability.
"stop trying to be woke" lmfao you could have left that bit out and your comment would have been normal are you so jaded that anyone expressing a heartfelt opinion automatically becomes "woke"? just say you think they're lazy or whatever you were really thinking instead of tacking on a cry for attention. Woke doesn't even have a solid definition in this context, i could ask ten different people that use the word and recieve ten vastly different answers. Just say what you mean in words that leave no room for misinterpretation.
Or her discussion with Edith, about what the latter might do to occupy herself with, after the war. Wasn't it something like: 'Gardening? Surely you can't be that desperate??' 😆 Maggie Smith, what an icon. She made us laugh, she made us cry and I will cherish her memory forever.
I had the scene in front of my inner eye when Nicole mentioned the worries of the Upper Class how workers might handle leisure time. Rest in Peace, Maggie!
As a child growing up in the ‘60’s you never told your parents you were bored unless you wanted to be threatened with them finding something for you to do. 😃
I grew up in the 60s and yes this was done to me. I also did it to my children. Funny how they never complained of being bored, as they knew I would find them a job to do. 😂
Italians say, “Il dolce far niente” (“that sweetness of doing nothing”), which encapsulates Italian (and Mediterranean) philosophy and approach to life. It is a stark contrast to cultures based on Protestant values, where even free time must be somehow productive because -canonically- idleness was considered sinful and only “work” was pious. Mediterranean cultures, by comparison, see it as a necessity of life to give yourself to delicious idleness: watching the world go by, sitting with others, contemplating, and “being” with no rush, no purpose other than enjoyment, and no concern for the outcome.
Oh no, those poor women, if they have time to sit down and think or talk to one another, they might start to think about vo--I mean, get really depressed!!!
I always thought part of the reason that the "working" class, as it were, was kept busy by capitalists was to make them too exhausted to do any organizing and unionizing 😅
I think in Europe things were a bit different in the first half of the 20th century. Because of WW1 and WW2 it was an important factor to be able to clothe your family yourself or feed them with your own garden. Only in the 50ies and 60ies this changed again. When I was born in 1967 my mother sewed or knitted a lot of my clothes because it saved money for the young family. She was born in the middle of ww2. You saved money and spent on a little comfort.
The brain requires the things to do. The brain needs to change the thing often. Now there are many things I know how to do that I don't do right now because other thing needs to be learned 😊
I’ve been infected since childhood. I have a large room so full of art and craft supplies I can barely walk, and still I buy or collect more from nature. My only hope is to come into enough money to build onto the house lol❤️🐝🤗
I’m related to people who collected as hobbies in the late 1800s. We have a small box of snuff boxes. Lots of random stuff. Obviously the collections have been split up over time between people. Someone bought Napoleon’s brother’s doorknob (I believe from his New Jersey house. It’s such a weird thing to buy). And also scrapbooking
I am honestly surprised that the fear of free time was that people would be bored and depressed and not that the people who weren't rich white men would get ideas and have time to start trying to change the social order.
What they say in print vs. what they think. Every social concern has a false front that actually sounds good in theory. There's definitely hints of the "who knows what they'll do!" in there. But frame it as "we're just worried about YOU" and they have a moral high ground. Ugh.
@@NicoleRudolph Look, had I known the worry was less about overall well-being and more about the possibility of labor/other agitation, I'd have brought my knitting needles to the party in honor of Madame Defarge and others like her. I still have yet to learn knitting in the round, but I daresay hats, gloves, and other small wearables would be a useful contribution to the various protests.
After WWII in the UK everything was rationed and beautiful fabrics and exquisite goods were sold in Liberty’s and other stores for American export only. Our Dad who came home from the war made our clothes from discarded clothes as his mother had been a seamstress and he never used a pattern always hand sewn with smocking or embroidery and they were beautiful even though the fabrics and colours weren’t the norm. Mum knitted our vests and swimming suits with again wool she unraveled from other clothes and they were so sweet with little chicks or bunnies or flowers she knitted into the items. At school we had Domestic Science and the first thing we cut, sewed and embroidered was a tray liner, darning socks and stockings.
My Nana used to work at a `fashion house ‘ in Manchester as a cutter, her best friend Aunty Amy was a seamstress, between the two of them, my sister & I (& Amy’s daughter) were well dressed from the fabric remnants. My Mum and Gran were knitters, so cardigans, jumpers, mittens, & scarfs were made from either purchased wool, or `recycled’ wool from older woollen items. Nothing went to waste. I don’t remember any of them having `idle hands’, even chatting or watching the TV there was the click/click of the needles The first `domestic’ projects I did at school were a stuffed felt duck, a square with various stitches & and knitted (from string) dish cloth as a gift for my mum 🙄. When we moved to Canada we didn’t touch `domestic science’ until grade 7.
Thank you for infecting me. Before I stubbled upon your channel and Abby’s channel, I knew next to nothing about sowing, and nothing at all about shoe making and fashion history. Your videos are always really interesting ones! The ones where you make things (clothes or shoes) are so relaxing to watch. I watch them on the week-end with my 8 year old as my 3 year old is taking a nap. It’s our nice quiet cuddle time.
I was wondering why the heck they had a class called Games in school. It all makes sense now. AND, it has spilled over into the animal kingdom. People who care for animals are encouraged to give the animals something to do, to stimulate their minds and keep them from being destructive or getting depressed.
Before we had radio we had books and these were considered dangerous as well since like Radio and all that came after they were not active and books could rot your brain. On another note we need to bring back more hands on classes in schools. Learning how to make clothing, work with wood, metal or glass. Learning about growing plants, working with animals, survival skills are all great things to teach in schools as students can learn how to practically apply what they learn in academics.
From Aotearoa. We had 40hr weeks in the 19th century due to a carpenter in Wellington, and the slogan " Eight hours work, eight hours play, eight hours sleep, and eight bob a day." Eight bob is eight shillings. Another rabbit hole for you.
As a teacher in Tāmaki Makaurau, I’m every day doing my best to protect my free time after work. Often though, I end up feeling that work is “suffering” (but I’m doing my best to let it be). How are you managing with that balance? 😊
"And if thats the case, I'm petty sure my channel would qualify as a super spreader. I apologize if you're now infected." Who me? Naaah. Just ignore the measurements spreadsheet I'm currently working at, for the dress I'll be making for my sister, the new gorgeous fabric I just washed and prepared for a skirt for myself, and the embroidery work I have literally in front of me, for my partner's shirt. Naaah, don't worry, I'm not infected aaat aaaalll..
With seniors you have to play the okay are they sick, bored or depressed (yes, specific illness) because they live alone, no friends or children, and coming to the doctor is like going to the cinema…. Or any given combination?
I'm amused with the scaremongering by the rich that the working class will do bad things, if they get a day off. May day is a hard won bank holiday in the UK. And the traditions we have is; Morris dancing, maypole dancing, sports games, egg and spoon races. And outdoor fares where people sell cakes and jam. 😆 The rich seems to think we're a lot wilder than we are.
I don't know which working class stereotypes these rich people have been frightening themselves with, but clearly I could have been indulging in riotous living and labor agitation instead of knitting and modern dance (to name two of my hobbies). Well, it's early days yet. 😂
ik i was really excited to watch this one but i have a policy of not watching vids sponsored by this notoriously bad company (not saying the name in case it's been blocked on thia channel, which i.... wouldn't be too surprised unfortunately) one more and i'll have to fully unsubscribe, at that point it's intentional
I'm 30 and I literally remember back when 6 day work week was the norm. I went to school on saturdays when I was in elementary school! It's crazy to think that my parents worked 6 days and had the energy to play with me and my sister. I could never😂😂
"You're depressed not because you don't have a job or money but because you don't have anything useful to do" is a sentiment I have been told multiple times in my life as well. And then told to help out in the soup kitchen. As an autistic person with social anxiety and chronic pain. Yes, I'm sure that would have cured my depression for good.
8:55 there's a french magazine for young girls that, in its 1840s issues, had entire articles on how to make dresses. From what notions to buy, which thread to use where, there's 7 pages on sleeves alone! And the author mentions at the beginning that it would be inappropriate for the eldest daughter of a family to spend all her time doing leisure activities like embroidery, when their economic situation and the number of sinlings she has might mean she needs to work more. This magazine also routinely had patterns for clothing all throughout the 1840s (but afaik not in their 1830s ones)
Strange. My dad grew up in the depression (was a teenager then) and spoke extensively about it. I don't believe he ever mentioned boredom. There was always something to do. Most people had backyard gardens and chickens to provide food. But because everyone was broke, there was lots of community things like cheap or free dances with live bands. Often payment was bartering. Sports were very popular like soccer, rugby, or baseball where equipment was inexpensive and joining was free and no rent for the fields. No.....Dad never mentioned boredom and I believe there were more community based events then than what we have now in the same town he grew up in.
I grew up believing that all my hobbies needed to be productive. I feel like baking? Dad can use some cookies to take to work. Embroidery? Your aunt is redoing her downstairs bath, why not make her a set of guest towels? Outside? We have a half acre of garden that always needs something done. I'm still like that. I don't sew unless I'm making clothing or something else useful, I get my cooking desire out by doing the family food provision from store to plate, and I like to read non-fiction. I don't know that that was a helpful thing for my family to do.
I work from home (mostly with spreadsheets AND I belong to a union) so I have no commute. I only have to clean up after myself, so I find I have a LOT of leasure hours. So I have hobbies. During the pandemic, I painted rocks. I have so many painted rocks! I finally had to stop because I didn't want to let go of them, but didn't have room to keep them. Then I took up sewing again. I've had to pause that because I have more than enough clothes right now. So my latest endeavor is loom knitting. I cannot bring 2 sticks and 1 yarn together in any way, shape or form. Though I do crochet. So I bought a kit aimed at kids and sucessfully made a hat! Now I'm experimenting with a different weight of yarn but the same stitch. I may even try my hand at making socks with the sock loom I bought over a decade ago. Gotta love the hobbies!
Look at Continental knitting. Instead of "throwing" the yard with the right hand, you hold it in the left like crochet. It just clicked for me (a crocheter).
I find it an interesting fact, that the derivation of the word "hobby" in english is tha same as in german. I actually learned the word "Steckenpferd" at some point during my childhood, but nowadays the english word is completely taken over into the german language.
I would definitely have clean coffe cups! I always prioritize my hobbies in the little free time I have (to keep depression at bay), so more free time would mean more time to cook, clean and maybe see some friends!
Well, when this depression passes I need to sew a base for a capsule wardrobe, sew a Christmas dress and finish my first knitted sweater. Because I’m retired.
I'd be sewing a lot more, and drawing, and gardening. Not much different from the early hobbies I see xD Oh and maybe I'd actually have time to clean the house.
I wonder: even today, it’s assumed that women’s hobbies will involve making things (quilts, knitted things, cooking, sewing, embroidery, etc), whereas men’s hobbies will be purely relaxation (watching TV or playing sports). You can see it in things like man-caves full of pool tables and TVs, and she-sheds full of sewing machines or paint and canvases or yarn or whatnot. Even manly hobbies that create things (smithing, woodworking, etc) tend to be ones that are often monetized. Is this a direct development of everything you talked about here?
Interesting. Common women were expected to sew, do needle point, knit and/or crochet, quilt, as well as sing and/or play an instrument (church duties), etc. So these aren't "hobbies" they're domestic expectations.
I remember daydreaming as a child about being able to learn basket weaving at the local community college when I grew up, the last such program closed my 11th grade year, Im now over 40 and Im still mad
Okay but can we talk about 22:09? Not only does it look like a mixed college, but a mixed varsity team WITH a female player and mixed coaches! I don't know the history behind it, but 1925 doing stuff like that? 🤯
I love your rabbit holes! I learn all sorts of interesting things. That said you’re definitely a super spreader well honestly the whole RUclips is! Now I want to learn about and try all the thread working crafts! I’m sure I can figure them out! Oh and the historical crafts. I really want to try to do cutwork. I need to improve my button hole stitch…. Yeah I’m hooked sadly I can’t blame you I’ve always been drawn to arts and crafts. So many things so little time!!
In Melbourne Australia we have a statue to the 8 hour working day. On 21 April 1856 stonemasons downed tools and walked off the job in protest over their employers' refusal to accept their demands for reduced working hours. This brought the employers to the negotiating table and led to an agreement whereby stonemasons worked no more than an eight-hour day. This later spread across other jobs in the city.
My hobby is hobbies :) I have only monetized one though and that was a very deliberate decision. It is honestly hard today to keep hobbies and work separate.
It seems to me that there is this big disconnect between people who think the arts are a waste of time, resources, and money in education. They constantly cut arts programs and budgets in schools, but fail to recognize that every single advancement people have made has been the result of a creative mind that has saw a solution to a problem that is outside of traditional thinking. Every thing is connected. Creativity drives progress. Very cool video. This isn’t something I’ve thought about a lot, and I have many hobbies and special interests.
J'adore absolument l'outfit d'aujourdhui Mme. Rudolph ! That looks like something I would wear to go to work myself. Bow tie and pearl necklace is such a winner combo.
The phenomenon of boredom is one that I did never experience a lot. Not as little child and not as adult woman. I somehow always do something I like with my free time - sometimes I simply enjoy to do nothing at all. Shocking, I know. 😂 Can‘t wait to retire. Give me what many people might call boredom. It’s actually what keeps me healthy and sane.
My mum always told me “boredom is the mother of creativity”. If we complained about boredom we were given chores so I became very good at entertaining myself 😂 As the oldest girls my neighbour and I were often responsible for the other neighbourhood kids so we had to keep them happy and busy too! If they caused trouble it was always our fault somehow 🙄 We usually had fun and we learnt a lot from it though 🥰
i am currently ill, on strict nothing strenuous, i am bored, i have hobbies, but am too tired to enjoy them. i should have the surgery this side of Christmas- i hope, i just need to be able to do somthing
As someone who has been out of work for a while due to chronic illness I can confirm a huge cause of my low mood is boredom and not doing anything purposeful, I have hobbies but am limited by my symptoms, so maybe the people had the right idea about people being depressed because of boredom and lack of hobbies lol
15:20 of course they are concerned. Free time to be bored encourages reflection, which triggers philosophy and thinking about morals, justice and power. One moment later, you have a new political party. So you need to present something stimulating to distract the minds of the middle and working class but not stimulating enough to illuminate them with true empowering knowledge.
My latest new hobby is crochet ❤ I've been interested since I was a teen but it wasn't until my kids wanted to learn that I finally started crocheting!
I just started, too. There's so much more you can do with crochet, than I would have thought. So many stitches! So many patterns! I'm glad though, I don't really enjoy sewing by lamplight, so crochet is a great additional hobby during the winter months.
Another issue with labor organizing is the threat of exporting that labor to a country with lower labor costs, and no money to live on. Don't jump ship if it's still seaworthy and there's no lifeboat to take you to shore.
Im sorry, WHY can't you unionize "people who work on spreadsheets"? Where I live almost all state workers participate in AFSCME. Clerical workers and tech workers included.
As Pearl Bodine would say: “look at them BORED, RICH young’uns” 😂 I remember vividly on the Beverly Hillbillies, once they became rich there was an episode where they were obligated to adopt “appropriate” hobbies, befitting of millionaires 🤣
I don't know anyone that works on spreadsheets everyone I know is blue collar and they do have the power to affect change in things like wages, hours, benefits and workplace safety
Nicole - I think you out did yourself here! Incredible and very interesting essay. This made me laugh tho - I grew up in a very old German, old Lutheran family, who were farmers and even in the late 20th C,. Their home was still firmly stuck in the 19th C (out back dunny until 1993!!). ANway, moving in to the real world as an adult gave me a rather humorous retrospect of this. Having told ppl I was raised in a very devout "Old Lutheran" home, I came to realise that there were really only 3 deadly sins. This makes ppl REALLY curious waiting for the reply. The first deadly sin is "To sit still and to do nothing, (the moment I could use a knife and fork, I had a needle and thread in my hand), the second - to pay someone to do something you should be doing yourself, and the third - do something different for the first time. We did the same thing in the same month and same day every year". Yet there are so many ppl who grew up where this resonated so deeply, the guilt of sitting still pushes us to exhaustion and a constant drive to be productive. Im not sure if its a good or bad thing, but one thing was certain, relaxation had to produce something, either something physical or intellectual.
I find it very hard to just sit and watch TV or a movie. I have to have some project going in my lap. Otherwise, I'm wasting time. I'm not sure how this mindset set became so ingrained. "Idle hands are the devil's workshop" must be so ingrained in our society that it's ground in even when you're raised in a non-religious household.
That comic strip about knitting... oh my god it's me. I wonder what they thought the downsides to 'hobby obsessions' were exactly - would it have just been considered immoral?
I think it's just one part excuse for not wanting to hear about someones hobby, and another part concern people would put their enjoyment ahead of their "responsibilities"
I believe some people still had “hobbies” before the 1880’s and that’s where folks followed their interests and made a little side money. Many of my female ancestors were midwives, sewed clothes for others, or sold eggs. The men fished, hunted, and made boats aside from their regular farming duties. My great grandfather played the fiddle for social gatherings; he was paid with beer. 🍺
Oh, agreed! I just don't think those activities were framed as hobbies to fill free time to avoid boredom. Just things that needed to be done, but were enjoyable. 19th century industrial jobs sucked the enjoyment part out of work. I obviously love sewing, but when I worked in a mass-production warehouse situation for a couple of years I did not enjoy it.
It was considered a hobby because he never sold anything, but check out the Ernest Warther Museum and Gardens, located in Dover, Ohio. Hand carved, articulated scale models of steam locomotives and other various carvings. Also included is his wife's extensive button collection.😊
Me again. Nothing to do with this video but just how my brain works. I picked up the container of salt from the floor and suddenly flashed on one of Abby's videos where she and Chrissy (is that the right person?) got into an argument over which was the right kind of salt....The way Nicole looked at the camera 😂😂😂
Can I say , your very relaxed and beautifully spoken in this video, and love all the giggles and laughs, (understand it can be fur baby behind camera casting a cloud of awesomeness) lol have a beautiful and blessed week, see you next month, would love a simple happy Halloween video maybe with just casual spooky sounds and handing out candy ❤🎉
Omg please pay me to teach children how to have hobbies. I would love to be the hobby teacher. I would thoroughly corrupt their minds (in the eyes of the kind of people who came up with this) by teaching them about hobbies from around the world haha.
Ahhh, turning your hobby into a business. You'll never believe the subject of the ad RUclips put at the start of this video. Some things just never change.
As usual, interesting, fun, and useful, like a good hobby. I would like to take exception, however, to the psychiatrist referenced by the Chicago Defender, 22-1-76. We Americans all had plenty to be depressed and alienated about just then, young, old, etc. We were still reeling from Nixon, scarred by Viet Nam. The cold war was still on. We were half a decade past the first Earth Day, no one cared, and it was clear we were all going to die with Gaia. . . soon. If we didn't blow ourselves up first. Which seemed likely. Oh, and we were in a recession. I know. I graduated into it that year. So I would just like to say to Mr. Psychiatrist, I bite my thumb to you. You do not deserve to be called "sir". And if the "youngsters" (rhymes with "gangsters", how appropriate!) of whom he spoke were 10 yo, I can only say that kids get it. They know when their elders are freaked, even if they don't understand all the whys. Of course, from the perspective of 50 years later, this all seems so obvious. Thanks. Love your channel. Keep on keeping up that history hobby. [no, really/ i understand it's your job. i just can't resist me some alliteration.]
15:28 they were very much afraid that the workers in their free time will start to read socialist texts and get organized in unions demanding things that's why they prefered alcohol their moralism was in their pockets
1980's women ■ became board with their large homes and small children; they would say they were smarter than the demands of domestic skills, so they accepted jobs away from their homes to feel accomplished. M
Before I was subjected to Nicole I was living happily, puttering about and casually enjoying a bit of crochet or mending a sock here and there. Now I'm fully infected and waist deep in staymaking, silk ruffling and cobbling. It's a desperate life, feverishly clawing after more information and delving deep into history for techniques to learn, and I have little hope of there being a cure.
All we can do is treat the symptoms (buys more wool)
There is no cure! And the worst part is,all those around us and the culture itself seem to want us this way. Otherwise, why would they keep encouraging us?❤️🐝🤗
Definitely a super spreader!! Maybe I should buy more wool!
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Ah yes, the old "turn your hobby into a paying career, and you'll never work again" saw. Which in reality usually just becomes "turn the thing you do for play into a job and you'll end up with all work and no play - and often end up hating the thing you used to love, to boot."
So _that's_ why school feels to so many like just preparation for the workforce.
"We can't have them notice they never get to rest, so let's allow them to enjoy their work as a treat."
Turns out the grindset isn't new, its just awful.
Three related stories, from when I taught English in Japan (30+ years ago):
* In class, I routinely introduced words not usually taught in school. One day it was “hobby,” and each student had to describe their hobby. One student happily said, “My hobby is taking a bath.” We all laughed, and I asked some questions to make sure that it fit the definition of hobby. It was true - taking a bath was, by any definition, his hobby. 🤣
* When I was there, schools were introducing two free Saturdays a month. My adult students were very concerned about their kids, and were all asking me, “What do American kids do on weekends? What activities do the parents organize?” Like those writing articles you cited, they couldn’t imagine the children themselves coming up with ideas for what to do.
* One of my adult English Conversion students was having her kitchen remodeled, as a gift from her husband, because she was undergoing cancer treatment. But, though she begged, he wouldn’t let her have a dishwasher (just then becoming trendy). He said, “If you have no dishes to wash, what are you going to do all day?”
The threat of lower class free time was that they would get involved in politics, activism and unions. So pushing hobbies to keep people entertained and thinking they were happy was a way to control workers.
Back in the mid 70s i was supposed to hire people, my boss who had an MBA gave me a text book on interviewing and analysing people. One of the things they warned about was to reject people who had hobbies like photography or art because they would waste their creative skills and passion on these hobbies instead of work.
That's depressing. I guess I have another thing to lie about in interviews. 😂
In the 90s, we'd ask our manufacturing managers to hire older women with needleworking skills. They'd never listen.
Those skills translated well into building small, intricate electronic modules.
Yes, creative fire is notoriously compartmentalized. Allowing someone to live joyfully outside of work surely never beneficially affects their work quality as an employee. /s
This sounds like something that could be in the CIA "How to Sabotage Your Workplace" manual.
I think the existence of hobbies that are basically just work that we happen to enjoy is interesting. For example, sewing, knitting, or gardening.
I think the thing is that those used to be very decent careers. Sewing was a base skill that with training paid a decent living. The industrial revolution changed that, took away the enjoyable part of work, and returned it to us packaged as a way to fix how depressed we were from boring work- in our own free time.
As somebody who works 12-hour shifts, getting tired after 8 hours is real. We tolerated it for the overtime pay and three-day weekends every other week. My mother was a stay-at-home mom in the 1960s and early1970s who did sew some of our clothes. She went back to work gradually as we entered school until she was full time by the time we were in junior high and high school. In retirement she now has gardening as her hobby and doesn't sew anymore.
This post reveals such a new view to my life! I was in high school in the 60's, knew my grandparents and some of my great grandparents. Everyone was industrious; it was definitely a virtue at that time. My mother stayed at home and taught piano at home. We were always occupied and aimed at getting a university education. I was the last person who could stay at home during my marriage because of economics. I would say that my parent's generation was the last to have a comfortable middle class life in that they had enough money with which to enjoy life, including hobbies; they worked at one job and made enough money for us to feel very comfortable. They would have retired with enough to live comfortably through their days as many of the middle class in their generation. I'm very sad to see that today's generation will not have that level of security. I doubt that many will be able to afford a hobby, let alone a house. This is a very timely post. (I think it deserves the qualification of lecture, as so much thoughtful research and knowledge goes into every one of your posts!) I love this channel as it really makes me think. Thank you so much for your efforts Nicole.
Time for a wealth tax so those with great amounts of money start paying into the society again!
A lot depends on how deep you get into a hobby and how deep you want to get into one. RUclips and social media have made it aspirational to be at the top of any hobby - which, like the top end of sports - is expensive. Some hobbies - like reading - only require a library membership or a computer with internet access
There are so many hobbies that are free, low cost, save money and make money. Stop trying to be woke.
@@charlibrown7745 I would never assume that I was so special that I could to tell someone else how to think. We are all allowed to express and have our own opinions. I've never assumed that I could speak for everyone and I am aware that there are different levels of economic ability.
"stop trying to be woke" lmfao you could have left that bit out and your comment would have been normal
are you so jaded that anyone expressing a heartfelt opinion automatically becomes "woke"? just say you think they're lazy or whatever you were really thinking instead of tacking on a cry for attention. Woke doesn't even have a solid definition in this context, i could ask ten different people that use the word and recieve ten vastly different answers. Just say what you mean in words that leave no room for misinterpretation.
Honestly, "riding" a hobby is way more accurate to how it feels to get into something.
This reminds me of “Downton Abbey,” and Violet Crawley asking “What is a week-end?”😮 (Rest in peace, Maggie Smith).
Or her discussion with Edith, about what the latter might do to occupy herself with, after the war. Wasn't it something like: 'Gardening? Surely you can't be that desperate??' 😆
Maggie Smith, what an icon. She made us laugh, she made us cry and I will cherish her memory forever.
I had the scene in front of my inner eye when Nicole mentioned the worries of the Upper Class how workers might handle leisure time. Rest in Peace, Maggie!
As a child growing up in the ‘60’s you never told your parents you were bored unless you wanted to be threatened with them finding something for you to do. 😃
Same!
I grew up in the 60s and yes this was done to me. I also did it to my children. Funny how they never complained of being bored, as they knew I would find them a job to do. 😂
If my kids in the late 90s early 2000s complained that they were bored, I would send them outside to pick up sticks in the yard.
Italians say, “Il dolce far niente” (“that sweetness of doing nothing”), which encapsulates Italian (and Mediterranean) philosophy and approach to life. It is a stark contrast to cultures based on Protestant values, where even free time must be somehow productive because -canonically- idleness was considered sinful and only “work” was pious. Mediterranean cultures, by comparison, see it as a necessity of life to give yourself to delicious idleness: watching the world go by, sitting with others, contemplating, and “being” with no rush, no purpose other than enjoyment, and no concern for the outcome.
Being Protestant you are right. I have recently tried to stop calling myself lazy when I'm not doing anything.
Oh no, those poor women, if they have time to sit down and think or talk to one another, they might start to think about vo--I mean, get really depressed!!!
I always thought part of the reason that the "working" class, as it were, was kept busy by capitalists was to make them too exhausted to do any organizing and unionizing 😅
The "I've about McFreakin Had It" smile on your face while relating the supposed ills of less work is so relatable 😂
20 hour working week? full time education for all up to the age of 25? no war, disease, or famine? GOD I WISH
I think in Europe things were a bit different in the first half of the 20th century. Because of WW1 and WW2 it was an important factor to be able to clothe your family yourself or feed them with your own garden. Only in the 50ies and 60ies this changed again. When I was born in 1967 my mother sewed or knitted a lot of my clothes because it saved money for the young family. She was born in the middle of ww2. You saved money and spent on a little comfort.
3:17 Why do people still take sponsorships from this awful company? Really disappointing :/
Because money talks, bs walks. But that's youtubers for ya. That's my guess.
Me and my AuDHD special interests feel very called out. 😂
The brain requires the things to do. The brain needs to change the thing often. Now there are many things I know how to do that I don't do right now because other thing needs to be learned 😊
When I saw that collecting was the main early hobby my first thought was autism 🤣 (I’m audhd too)
I’ve been infected since childhood. I have a large room so full of art and craft supplies I can barely walk, and still I buy or collect more from nature. My only hope is to come into enough money to build onto the house lol❤️🐝🤗
i really, really _don't_ like how relatable this post is
@@technopoptart We can only hope a cure is found in the future.🐝❤️🤗
I’m related to people who collected as hobbies in the late 1800s. We have a small box of snuff boxes. Lots of random stuff. Obviously the collections have been split up over time between people. Someone bought Napoleon’s brother’s doorknob (I believe from his New Jersey house. It’s such a weird thing to buy). And also scrapbooking
It used to be the thing to collect famous peoples body parts, so a doorknob seems perfectly normal.
@@NicoleRudolphok WHAT, that was a thing? I just thought that they were weird! Thank goodness there are no body parts
I am honestly surprised that the fear of free time was that people would be bored and depressed and not that the people who weren't rich white men would get ideas and have time to start trying to change the social order.
What they say in print vs. what they think. Every social concern has a false front that actually sounds good in theory. There's definitely hints of the "who knows what they'll do!" in there. But frame it as "we're just worried about YOU" and they have a moral high ground. Ugh.
Once our heads come up, their heads come off ...
I feel like this is very much implied. That "bored and depressed" thing is....camouflage.
@@NicoleRudolph Look, had I known the worry was less about overall well-being and more about the possibility of labor/other agitation, I'd have brought my knitting needles to the party in honor of Madame Defarge and others like her. I still have yet to learn knitting in the round, but I daresay hats, gloves, and other small wearables would be a useful contribution to the various protests.
After WWII in the UK everything was rationed and beautiful fabrics and exquisite goods were sold in Liberty’s and other stores for American export only. Our Dad who came home from the war made our clothes from discarded clothes as his mother had been a seamstress and he never used a pattern always hand sewn with smocking or embroidery and they were beautiful even though the fabrics and colours weren’t the norm. Mum knitted our vests and swimming suits with again wool she unraveled from other clothes and they were so sweet with little chicks or bunnies or flowers she knitted into the items. At school we had Domestic Science and the first thing we cut, sewed and embroidered was a tray liner, darning socks and stockings.
My Nana used to work at a `fashion house ‘ in Manchester as a cutter, her best friend Aunty Amy was a seamstress, between the two of them, my sister & I (& Amy’s daughter) were well dressed from the fabric remnants. My Mum and Gran were knitters, so cardigans, jumpers, mittens, & scarfs were made from either purchased wool, or `recycled’ wool from older woollen items. Nothing went to waste. I don’t remember any of them having `idle hands’, even chatting or watching the TV there was the click/click of the needles
The first `domestic’ projects I did at school were a stuffed felt duck, a square with various stitches & and knitted (from string) dish cloth as a gift for my mum 🙄. When we moved to Canada we didn’t touch `domestic science’ until grade 7.
Thank you for infecting me. Before I stubbled upon your channel and Abby’s channel, I knew next to nothing about sowing, and nothing at all about shoe making and fashion history. Your videos are always really interesting ones! The ones where you make things (clothes or shoes) are so relaxing to watch. I watch them on the week-end with my 8 year old as my 3 year old is taking a nap. It’s our nice quiet cuddle time.
I was wondering why the heck they had a class called Games in school.
It all makes sense now. AND, it has spilled over into the animal kingdom. People who care for animals are encouraged to give the animals something to do, to stimulate their minds and keep them from being destructive or getting depressed.
Please give us another capsule wardrobe video it’s been a long time since you did one😢
It's coming soon!
Before we had radio we had books and these were considered dangerous as well since like Radio and all that came after they were not active and books could rot your brain. On another note we need to bring back more hands on classes in schools. Learning how to make clothing, work with wood, metal or glass. Learning about growing plants, working with animals, survival skills are all great things to teach in schools as students can learn how to practically apply what they learn in academics.
From Aotearoa. We had 40hr weeks in the 19th century due to a carpenter in Wellington, and the slogan " Eight hours work, eight hours play, eight hours sleep, and eight bob a day." Eight bob is eight shillings. Another rabbit hole for you.
As a teacher in Tāmaki Makaurau, I’m every day doing my best to protect my free time after work. Often though, I end up feeling that work is “suffering” (but I’m doing my best to let it be). How are you managing with that balance? 😊
"And if thats the case, I'm petty sure my channel would qualify as a super spreader. I apologize if you're now infected."
Who me? Naaah.
Just ignore the measurements spreadsheet I'm currently working at, for the dress I'll be making for my sister, the new gorgeous fabric I just washed and prepared for a skirt for myself, and the embroidery work I have literally in front of me, for my partner's shirt. Naaah, don't worry, I'm not infected aaat aaaalll..
With seniors you have to play the okay are they sick, bored or depressed (yes, specific illness) because they live alone, no friends or children, and coming to the doctor is like going to the cinema…. Or any given combination?
I'm amused with the scaremongering by the rich that the working class will do bad things, if they get a day off.
May day is a hard won bank holiday in the UK. And the traditions we have is; Morris dancing, maypole dancing, sports games, egg and spoon races. And outdoor fares where people sell cakes and jam. 😆
The rich seems to think we're a lot wilder than we are.
I don't know which working class stereotypes these rich people have been frightening themselves with, but clearly I could have been indulging in riotous living and labor agitation instead of knitting and modern dance (to name two of my hobbies). Well, it's early days yet. 😂
Oh no! I'm infected! Bring me needles! Bring me thread!! I need my sewing machine, stat!!!😁
3:32 NOOOOO
My heart dropped
ik i was really excited to watch this one but i have a policy of not watching vids sponsored by this notoriously bad company (not saying the name in case it's been blocked on thia channel, which i.... wouldn't be too surprised unfortunately)
one more and i'll have to fully unsubscribe, at that point it's intentional
@@quietcorvidae i was just thinking the same thing, it was pointed out for sure the last time it happens again i'm unsubbing and blocking
I'm 30 and I literally remember back when 6 day work week was the norm. I went to school on saturdays when I was in elementary school! It's crazy to think that my parents worked 6 days and had the energy to play with me and my sister. I could never😂😂
"You're depressed not because you don't have a job or money but because you don't have anything useful to do" is a sentiment I have been told multiple times in my life as well. And then told to help out in the soup kitchen. As an autistic person with social anxiety and chronic pain. Yes, I'm sure that would have cured my depression for good.
8:55 there's a french magazine for young girls that, in its 1840s issues, had entire articles on how to make dresses. From what notions to buy, which thread to use where, there's 7 pages on sleeves alone! And the author mentions at the beginning that it would be inappropriate for the eldest daughter of a family to spend all her time doing leisure activities like embroidery, when their economic situation and the number of sinlings she has might mean she needs to work more. This magazine also routinely had patterns for clothing all throughout the 1840s (but afaik not in their 1830s ones)
Strange. My dad grew up in the depression (was a teenager then) and spoke extensively about it. I don't believe he ever mentioned boredom. There was always something to do. Most people had backyard gardens and chickens to provide food. But because everyone was broke, there was lots of community things like cheap or free dances with live bands. Often payment was bartering. Sports were very popular like soccer, rugby, or baseball where equipment was inexpensive and joining was free and no rent for the fields. No.....Dad never mentioned boredom and I believe there were more community based events then than what we have now in the same town he grew up in.
I grew up believing that all my hobbies needed to be productive. I feel like baking? Dad can use some cookies to take to work. Embroidery? Your aunt is redoing her downstairs bath, why not make her a set of guest towels? Outside? We have a half acre of garden that always needs something done. I'm still like that. I don't sew unless I'm making clothing or something else useful, I get my cooking desire out by doing the family food provision from store to plate, and I like to read non-fiction. I don't know that that was a helpful thing for my family to do.
I work from home (mostly with spreadsheets AND I belong to a union) so I have no commute. I only have to clean up after myself, so I find I have a LOT of leasure hours. So I have hobbies. During the pandemic, I painted rocks. I have so many painted rocks! I finally had to stop because I didn't want to let go of them, but didn't have room to keep them. Then I took up sewing again. I've had to pause that because I have more than enough clothes right now. So my latest endeavor is loom knitting. I cannot bring 2 sticks and 1 yarn together in any way, shape or form. Though I do crochet. So I bought a kit aimed at kids and sucessfully made a hat! Now I'm experimenting with a different weight of yarn but the same stitch. I may even try my hand at making socks with the sock loom I bought over a decade ago. Gotta love the hobbies!
Look at Continental knitting. Instead of "throwing" the yard with the right hand, you hold it in the left like crochet. It just clicked for me (a crocheter).
I find it an interesting fact, that the derivation of the word "hobby" in english is tha same as in german. I actually learned the word "Steckenpferd" at some point during my childhood, but nowadays the english word is completely taken over into the german language.
I always love it when you fit a bit of labor history into your video topics.
What would you do with your free time if you only had to work 4 hours a week instead of 40 for full pay?
nap😂
Probably read even more
I would definitely have clean coffe cups! I always prioritize my hobbies in the little free time I have (to keep depression at bay), so more free time would mean more time to cook, clean and maybe see some friends!
Well, when this depression passes I need to sew a base for a capsule wardrobe, sew a Christmas dress and finish my first knitted sweater. Because I’m retired.
I'd be sewing a lot more, and drawing, and gardening. Not much different from the early hobbies I see xD
Oh and maybe I'd actually have time to clean the house.
I wonder: even today, it’s assumed that women’s hobbies will involve making things (quilts, knitted things, cooking, sewing, embroidery, etc), whereas men’s hobbies will be purely relaxation (watching TV or playing sports). You can see it in things like man-caves full of pool tables and TVs, and she-sheds full of sewing machines or paint and canvases or yarn or whatnot. Even manly hobbies that create things (smithing, woodworking, etc) tend to be ones that are often monetized. Is this a direct development of everything you talked about here?
Grandpa's hobby was gardening. Dad's was working on his car. Mom sewed, knitted, crocheted...
There's never enough time to do all the nothing I want to do - Calvin & Hobbes
i never knew the hobby horse came before the hobby etymologically! how interesting
Had to puase to say the gentleman on the left at 1:09 is truly a fashion icon. We need someone to recreate this!
Very enlightening! Fantastic work as always!
Interesting. Common women were expected to sew, do needle point, knit and/or crochet, quilt, as well as sing and/or play an instrument (church duties), etc. So these aren't "hobbies" they're domestic expectations.
I remember daydreaming as a child about being able to learn basket weaving at the local community college when I grew up, the last such program closed my 11th grade year, Im now over 40 and Im still mad
Would a man be infinitely free if he had the whole of his time at his disposal? YES!!! You literally just described freedom!
Okay but can we talk about 22:09? Not only does it look like a mixed college, but a mixed varsity team WITH a female player and mixed coaches!
I don't know the history behind it, but 1925 doing stuff like that? 🤯
They're both from Howard University! (found on the NYPL digital collections)
I love your rabbit holes! I learn all sorts of interesting things.
That said you’re definitely a super spreader well honestly the whole RUclips is! Now I want to learn about and try all the thread working crafts! I’m sure I can figure them out! Oh and the historical crafts. I really want to try to do cutwork. I need to improve my button hole stitch…. Yeah I’m hooked sadly I can’t blame you I’ve always been drawn to arts and crafts. So many things so little time!!
In Melbourne Australia we have a statue to the 8 hour working day. On 21 April 1856 stonemasons downed tools and walked off the job in protest over their employers' refusal to accept their demands for reduced working hours. This brought the employers to the negotiating table and led to an agreement whereby stonemasons worked no more than an eight-hour day. This later spread across other jobs in the city.
My hobby is hobbies :) I have only monetized one though and that was a very deliberate decision. It is honestly hard today to keep hobbies and work separate.
It seems to me that there is this big disconnect between people who think the arts are a waste of time, resources, and money in education. They constantly cut arts programs and budgets in schools, but fail to recognize that every single advancement people have made has been the result of a creative mind that has saw a solution to a problem that is outside of traditional thinking. Every thing is connected. Creativity drives progress. Very cool video. This isn’t something I’ve thought about a lot, and I have many hobbies and special interests.
i like a book from this time "on the right to be lazy" it has many great points
11:08 I WANT THAT QUOTE ON A SHIRT SO BAD!
And thank you for your part in infecting me with historical costuming hobbying!
While their reasoning was a bit silly, I'm glad I had art and music classes in school.
In French, hobbies are called Passe-Temps, which is litterally to pass the time.
J'adore absolument l'outfit d'aujourdhui Mme. Rudolph ! That looks like something I would wear to go to work myself. Bow tie and pearl necklace is such a winner combo.
Sir, what are you Professional skills ? : well, I'm a gardener, a visual artist and a stylist ! Sir, these are not skills, these are mere hobbies.
The phenomenon of boredom is one that I did never experience a lot. Not as little child and not as adult woman. I somehow always do something I like with my free time - sometimes I simply enjoy to do nothing at all. Shocking, I know. 😂
Can‘t wait to retire. Give me what many people might call boredom. It’s actually what keeps me healthy and sane.
My mum always told me “boredom is the mother of creativity”. If we complained about boredom we were given chores so I became very good at entertaining myself 😂
As the oldest girls my neighbour and I were often responsible for the other neighbourhood kids so we had to keep them happy and busy too! If they caused trouble it was always our fault somehow 🙄 We usually had fun and we learnt a lot from it though 🥰
I remember thinking while watching Pride and Prejudice 95.. for the 5th time, how very bored they seemed to be..
i am currently ill, on strict nothing strenuous, i am bored, i have hobbies, but am too tired to enjoy them. i should have the surgery this side of Christmas- i hope, i just need to be able to do somthing
As someone who has been out of work for a while due to chronic illness I can confirm a huge cause of my low mood is boredom and not doing anything purposeful, I have hobbies but am limited by my symptoms, so maybe the people had the right idea about people being depressed because of boredom and lack of hobbies lol
Great content! Thank you!
15:20 of course they are concerned. Free time to be bored encourages reflection, which triggers philosophy and thinking about morals, justice and power. One moment later, you have a new political party.
So you need to present something stimulating to distract the minds of the middle and working class but not stimulating enough to illuminate them with true empowering knowledge.
My latest new hobby is crochet ❤ I've been interested since I was a teen but it wasn't until my kids wanted to learn that I finally started crocheting!
Have you begun the adjacent hobby of collecting yarn yet? Lol. I have way too large a stash for someone who only occasionally crochets nowadays.
I just started, too. There's so much more you can do with crochet, than I would have thought. So many stitches! So many patterns!
I'm glad though, I don't really enjoy sewing by lamplight, so crochet is a great additional hobby during the winter months.
Another issue with labor organizing is the threat of exporting that labor to a country with lower labor costs, and no money to live on. Don't jump ship if it's still seaworthy and there's no lifeboat to take you to shore.
Im sorry, WHY can't you unionize "people who work on spreadsheets"? Where I live almost all state workers participate in AFSCME. Clerical workers and tech workers included.
People I knew used to read and collect things, nowadays they spend a lot more time scrolling on the internet
I watched this after coming back from a SCA event. i.e. adults playing dress up and doing hobbies together. 😂
As Pearl Bodine would say: “look at them BORED, RICH young’uns” 😂 I remember vividly on the Beverly Hillbillies, once they became rich there was an episode where they were obligated to adopt “appropriate” hobbies, befitting of millionaires 🤣
Wait....
That new hobby, hobby horsing, is like actually the original......
Wild
I don't know anyone that works on spreadsheets everyone I know is blue collar and they do have the power to affect change in things like wages, hours, benefits and workplace safety
Nicole - I think you out did yourself here! Incredible and very interesting essay. This made me laugh tho - I grew up in a very old German, old Lutheran family, who were farmers and even in the late 20th C,. Their home was still firmly stuck in the 19th C (out back dunny until 1993!!). ANway, moving in to the real world as an adult gave me a rather humorous retrospect of this. Having told ppl I was raised in a very devout "Old Lutheran" home, I came to realise that there were really only 3 deadly sins. This makes ppl REALLY curious waiting for the reply. The first deadly sin is "To sit still and to do nothing, (the moment I could use a knife and fork, I had a needle and thread in my hand), the second - to pay someone to do something you should be doing yourself, and the third - do something different for the first time. We did the same thing in the same month and same day every year". Yet there are so many ppl who grew up where this resonated so deeply, the guilt of sitting still pushes us to exhaustion and a constant drive to be productive. Im not sure if its a good or bad thing, but one thing was certain, relaxation had to produce something, either something physical or intellectual.
I find it very hard to just sit and watch TV or a movie. I have to have some project going in my lap. Otherwise, I'm wasting time. I'm not sure how this mindset set became so ingrained.
"Idle hands are the devil's workshop" must be so ingrained in our society that it's ground in even when you're raised in a non-religious household.
So one of my hobbies is horses. And there is a yellow hobin out in my pasture. So tickled at that.
not me, watching a video about the history of using your free time productively while doing my hobby... making things...
That comic strip about knitting... oh my god it's me. I wonder what they thought the downsides to 'hobby obsessions' were exactly - would it have just been considered immoral?
I think it's just one part excuse for not wanting to hear about someones hobby, and another part concern people would put their enjoyment ahead of their "responsibilities"
I believe some people still had “hobbies” before the 1880’s and that’s where folks followed their interests and made a little side money. Many of my female ancestors were midwives, sewed clothes for others, or sold eggs. The men fished, hunted, and made boats aside from their regular farming duties. My great grandfather played the fiddle for social gatherings; he was paid with beer. 🍺
Oh, agreed! I just don't think those activities were framed as hobbies to fill free time to avoid boredom. Just things that needed to be done, but were enjoyable. 19th century industrial jobs sucked the enjoyment part out of work. I obviously love sewing, but when I worked in a mass-production warehouse situation for a couple of years I did not enjoy it.
Don't worry, I have yet to start making shoes!
It was considered a hobby because he never sold anything, but check out the Ernest Warther Museum and Gardens, located in Dover, Ohio. Hand carved, articulated scale models of steam locomotives and other various carvings. Also included is his wife's extensive button collection.😊
I loved the video. For whatever reason RUclips like button isn't working on tablet or phone and I am signed in
Dave Barry said, "There is a very thin line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness.'"
Me again.
Nothing to do with this video but just how my brain works. I picked up the container of salt from the floor and suddenly flashed on one of Abby's videos where she and Chrissy (is that the right person?) got into an argument over which was the right kind of salt....The way Nicole looked at the camera 😂😂😂
I came very close to buying a shoe last (sp?) because of your channel 😅 Before finally deciding I probably have enough money sucking hobbies
Can I say , your very relaxed and beautifully spoken in this video, and love all the giggles and laughs, (understand it can be fur baby behind camera casting a cloud of awesomeness) lol have a beautiful and blessed week, see you next month, would love a simple happy Halloween video maybe with just casual spooky sounds and handing out candy ❤🎉
Binge watching RUclips videos is my hobby.
Poor people aren't worked hard enough, lets fund more universities for idle rich kids!"
Super interesting!
It is all too easy to be ridden by your hobby! 😄
Fascinating
Omg please pay me to teach children how to have hobbies. I would love to be the hobby teacher. I would thoroughly corrupt their minds (in the eyes of the kind of people who came up with this) by teaching them about hobbies from around the world haha.
Ahhh, turning your hobby into a business. You'll never believe the subject of the ad RUclips put at the start of this video. Some things just never change.
im always happy to relearn that the soothsayers of every generation are the most out of touch clowns in a society
Honestly, for once the Victorians were actually kind of right on a mental health matter: hobbies really are good for it!
6.25 they may be playing cards, but don't they look like cell phones? ;)
Gotta by stuff to hobby with. All sounds like capitalism to me
As usual, interesting, fun, and useful, like a good hobby. I would like to take exception, however, to the psychiatrist referenced by the Chicago Defender, 22-1-76. We Americans all had plenty to be depressed and alienated about just then, young, old, etc. We were still reeling from Nixon, scarred by Viet Nam. The cold war was still on. We were half a decade past the first Earth Day, no one cared, and it was clear we were all going to die with Gaia. . . soon. If we didn't blow ourselves up first. Which seemed likely. Oh, and we were in a recession. I know. I graduated into it that year. So I would just like to say to Mr. Psychiatrist, I bite my thumb to you. You do not deserve to be called "sir". And if the "youngsters" (rhymes with "gangsters", how appropriate!) of whom he spoke were 10 yo, I can only say that kids get it. They know when their elders are freaked, even if they don't understand all the whys. Of course, from the perspective of 50 years later, this all seems so obvious. Thanks. Love your channel. Keep on keeping up that history hobby. [no, really/ i understand it's your job. i just can't resist me some alliteration.]
15:28 they were very much afraid that the workers in their free time will start to read socialist texts and get organized in unions demanding things that's why they prefered alcohol their moralism was in their pockets
and now the humanities are dead to fund the football stadiums. How the hourglass turns, I guess.
1980's women ■ became board with their large homes and small children; they would say they were smarter than the demands of domestic skills, so they accepted jobs away from their homes to feel accomplished. M
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