Trying My Childhood Hobbies 🧒🏿🎹🎨
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Since turning my biggest hobby into my job, I'm determined to find other activities that I can do for fun! In this video, I try my childhood hobbies to see if I wanna pick them back up as an adult.
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Any piano kids in the comments? Did y’all randomly have recitals in department stores too?! Please say yes lol
Keyboard kiddo here! Had to learn music theory in my household:)
My son is having recitals in department stores, even Costco! and the local airport. It's still a thing!
I still have mine it’s a Casio lighted keyboard unfortunately it’s been in storage. I haven’t played it in years.
EXXX piano and violin kid here, no departments stores but i had to do a little sumtheen sumtheen for when it was our turn to host family get togethers 😭
I had a Yamaha, AND a Casio, sis! Hahahaha! Y'all remember them songs like Oh Danny Boy?! 😅😅😅
Yoooooo, Addy from American Girl?! I had saved up my money from babysitting to buy her! Hahahahaha! 💖💖💖 My mom and Evelyn's mom must have been related, because, dang!
But play is something that we (black folks) were always told to "stop playing" (recalling Wanda's most recent stand up comedy show). It's important to never lose that inner child that helps us cope with adulting.
I've been reading more (physical) books, going outside, bouncing my basketball, playing beach volleyball, and smiling more because of it.
Go out and play today! Thank you Evelyn, this video was/is much needed!
"No one cares about your life the way you do."
That hit me straight in the ribcage.
I am saving this under powerful TedTalks
You've just smacked me in the face with this drag of not having any actual hobbies. I gotta do better.
TheResidentLesbian same, sis!
Right!! Lol time to re-evaluate 😂
preach! I'm trying to think back to my childhood, but all I remember is making shitty dolls from my torn clothes and drawing (turns out, I don't have an imagination anymore lol)
I feel so put on the spot. Like... I love reading and writing. Does that count? 😭 I have no musical talent and I tried sewing and I don't have the patience.
me too!!
Evelyn is the most relatable person 💜
She really is. I'm calm and smile while I watch her.
I also converted my hobby into a job.. those ppl who told us that it is the happiest ppl have their hobby as their job were lying.. we got PLAYED!
Nuha E. H I’ve always heard the opposite? 😂😂
Evelyn: “yayyyy I can’t wait to color!”
~*proceeds to use $2,000 MacBook Pro as a craft table*~
😭😭
"Did I get played?" Girrrlll 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
My sister and I had an elaborate, drama filled, and complicated cartoom series that was based on the narrative we had created with our baby dolls.
Same! But with my brother lol.
We also invented world wars and incorporated celebrities into our takes lol.
Same
God, I'm like 3 minutes into this and I feel this so hard: I'm basically doing everything I want right now and I feel nothing but burned out and stressed out, which feels... wrong? Like, I'm so privileged to be here, but I'm also a neurotic mess because literally everything I have goes into my work every single day, and I feel like I have nothing left for myself.
what I'm saying is you knew the perfect time for the right video to my heart. okay, now to watch the rest.
Also, I think it's really funny that you're making a video about this when that's also the stressor. But I guess that's kinda your thing too.
I'm crying at the. "favorit" and rour 🤣🤣
"I used to make videos and burn them on DVD's "
I. Feel. So. Old.
I'm from the days before videotapes.
Before videotapes? Are you speaking of BETA? I grew up on VHS
Ha! I remember my dad had one homie with a big camera 🎥 on his shoulder and he would record our pool/super bowl/birthday parties! I feel old too!
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Yeah. That was called a videocamera. I remember those too. My dad and I watched Boyz n Da Hood and King David together many times on VHS in the mid 80s & early 90s.
I have decided that these tech changes don't mean we are old in any way. Rather they are a reflection of how quickly things change and our beautiful ability to remember. We're still young. I know I am! 😂✌🏼
I'm so happy my mom introduced reading to me as a kid. I use to read Sweet Valley High, Judy Bloom, The Babysitters Club, R.L. Stine and so forth. I eventually graduated to historical romance novels...(because that's the only books my mom read lol), but now I read some of everything. Self help, paranormal, novels, classics...it's the best hobby ever. It's like an escape from my everyday life.
I loved all those books. 😭😩 They were the best.
Yes to R.L. Stine and those good ol' Goosebumps also Agatha Christie and her mysteries. There were others just cant think off top at the moment. Highlights magazines and read a thons etc...
Sweet valley high and the hardy boys! Oh the good old days!!
Yes I ❤ R.L. Stine!!
I'm 19 and I also have no hobbies and I feel so miserable because I'm always doing school related things or I'm wasting time on my phone. We sometimes overlook the importance of doing something outside our regular rutines just to enjoy it.
YES!!!
When I was a kid I wanted to learn about other cultures and I signed up for this letter exchange program(this was in the 80s) and I ended up writing to this other kid in France for 5-6 years I had so much fun finding stationary and buying stamps it was .50 cents back then to send something overseas. Sigh memories.
That's sounds so precious ♥
That sounds great. I'm sure there's an online version of international penpals. 🙂
I had a few penpals back in the olden days. There used to be listings in the last pages of Black Beat magazine and I would pick ppl to write to. None of these "friendships" last that long though.
I have a tear in my eye 😢
I learned a few years ago, that if I wanted more happiness, I just needed to "revisit" my favorite hobbies more FREQUENTLY! Just working and working can be so draining...😓
as someone who was always told to not have hobbies unless it produced something useful, it was really nice to watch someone indulge in themselves and focus solely on bringing back their hobbies. it's motivation to find something I can do for fun without thinking I'm silly :')
Silliness is a virtue not a fault anyways
As someone who has had many “dream jobs,” I feel this 😭
I think having a hobby that REMAINS a hobby is key. People said “ohhhh your photos are so good, you should do this and that and get paid”. That wasnt the move. #perfectionist Haven’t touched a camera in a year bc it came with too much baggage BUT this inspired me to pick it up again and keep it just for fun 📸
Childhood hobbies: collecting rocks 😩, reading (this was major) , coloring, taking photos, rearranging and decorating my room 🤷🏾♀️
I wouldn't mind a T-shirt with your sayings on it Evelyn "If you will" . Lol love that . " Know what I'm saying. (That's another one lol )
Practicizing, if you will!
I agree all my nieces and nephews know Evelyn catchphrases cuz I'm always saying them lol we need t shirts for sure
I want that drawing of the tiger on a tshirt 😂
When I was a kid I did this weird thing where you put lots of beads onto this frame and then ironed it and then you had this ironed plastic...thing. I also did the thing where you made beads into animals and braided plastic into lanyards. My childhood hobbies were manipulating colorful plastic and reading now that I think back on it. Very strange. Good video!
Yes! I did both of those too. I think I did the ironing of the beads more. So much fun! What is it called? I wonder if they still sell them.
I made the braided plastic lanyards too! That was so much fun. Now I also want to buy string. lol
Jessica Lister perler beads. I swear I was vacuuming those up 15 years later in my childhood bedroom.
@@themollygrove yes perler beads thank youuuuuu
I'm screaming because I loooovvveddd making things out the beads and ironing them. Anything that had girls on a box smiling and having fun I wanted it lol making bracelets and all . I used to make tree houses with popsicle sticks, and take a part my Barbie bicycle from the dollar store lol
I remember “LET’S GO”!!!! That was wayyyyyyyyyy back in the day when you used describe your hair as “Shine-T” when you did the product reviews!!! You were loved then, and are loved now, Ms. Thang!!! I appreciate you sharing your gift (or hobby, once removed) with the internets! 🤗👍🏾
Sigh, my dream friend.
The way you unevenly folded that paper rumbled my anxiety a liddle.
Evelyn, you're one of a kind. ♥
As a child, I collected pencils. After school, when all my classmates were outside and I was waiting for my parents to pick me up I would go back into my classroom and collect all the pencils that were on the ground from that day. I even got a few of my friends into doing it lol
That is so strange... and it sounds straight from a wes anderson movie 😂
I’ve been trying so hard these last few months to find something I enjoy doing just for fun. Hobby? Who is she? Don’t know her.
I just kindly left the song I was listening to as soon as the notification came in.
Edit: we got a 19min video out of you yes gawd!!
Lol same here
I started knitting again! My grandma taught me years and years ago and I decided to pick it up again. It's incredibly relaxing and I only try to do it when I feel like it, it's not something I force myself to do as a chore.
This makes me want to go to Michael’s Arts and Crafts Store buy out the whole store while doing cartwheels down every aisle!
That random people ZINE took me out... 😂🤦🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I’m proud of you cousin... for getting back to yourself and things you like to do! Very inspiring... 🤔
The American girl books were my childhood too!! I think it took me like 2 months to get through all 4 chapters of “Meet Josefina” and I was so proud of myself when I did, lol
When I was a kid my favorite hobbies were cutting up my big sister’s clothes to make doll clothes. As I got older I learned to sew on the machine and then discovered the fabric store. Man I miss that. Reading and playing the cello were my other favorites. Unfortunately, my cello was a rental and The “hard times,” ushered in by Reagonimics meant an end to rental $$$. I was just starting to learn the Bach Suites. Yes, even in the ghetto we learned Bach 😂. Good times. Good times *sigh*
This totally reminds me of when I used to love, LOVE , drawing and art as a child but then I did art as a subject in high school. As soon as exams came in, it totally killed it for me. Determined to get back into though
This is my story regarding art as well! Exams totally killed it
Lucille Comm I never took art in school just for that reason, then took graphic design classes in college a couple years ago...haven’t drawn since lol
The Addy books gave me such nostalgia. I miss reading for funsies
Damn your brother grew up since those post college vlogs 😱🤯😱
I don't have any hobbies either and that's why I'm always mentally drained
Right!! We have to do something for ourselves once in a while. Daily, if we can!
@@CecileVeillard yea I just don't know what to do or I'm to tired or depressed to do anything
@@mangomania7321 I feel you!! To be honest I had the same problem until I started doing Noom. It's a weight loss program & it's not for everybody (especially if you don't need to lose weight!) but it's been helpful for me because it's holistic & it teaches you to take care of yourself beyond "how to eat right." It took me through the steps I needed to figure out HOW to take care of myself. It made me set GOALS for how to take care of myself. Like instead of my goals being all boring "adulting" stuff ("Pay my taxes," "Clean my house,") I started setting goals to do the things I wanted to do: Go see the beach, pet the dogs, paint my nails, buy art supplies, treat myself to a coffee & sip it in peace without looking at my phone for 15 full minutes...From the little things to the big things. It's made such a huge difference in shifting my focus from life being one huge chore to actually making time to enjoy things. (The chores still get done, but they don't run my life.) Hoping some of this helps cuz I'm only just recently starting to figure this stuff out!! ❤
@@CecileVeillard that's amazing. I hope I can do it one day
I collected rocks and shells, star gazed, and did “science experiments” with my science kit that my 3rd grade teacher gifted me for my birthday (thanks Ms. Emmanuel). I also remember really liking to explore.
Hey, Evelyn. Just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy you.
15:08 the pure joy when u open that gluestick lol
I realized I don't have any hobbies last week this video just made me realize I'm bored lol
My childhood hobby was basically archiving. I would spend hours downloading music files back when you could use an iPhone as a flash drive and I’d compile the whole album from scratch, put in the cover art, the song info, and then catalog my music library all on my own.
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my hobbies were painting , making books, creating wacky clothes by drawing, cutting and painting on them. Now that I'm older, I only paint every blue moon but I still enjoy it 😊
This brings me back to growing up in the 90s. I didn't have a Nintendo or Sega. I had Barbies, Casio piano and coloring books. 😌 Those were the times.
Yes Addie American Girl books! I had the WHOLE set. Most of my childhood weekends (after morning chores were finished) were spent reading those and excessively replaying the Cinderella soundtrack on my dad's record player. Cinderella on Vinyl! Child, I don't even know where it came from but to this day I know every single lyric.
“rour” 😂
This gave me a case of the smiles🤗😄😊☺️🙂😀😁
When you mentioned the comet in the bath tub and having to give your stuff to your cousins, I felt that 😣
Evelyn playing the keyboard made me smile😭 and I can relate with parents giving away toys to lil cousins, the betrayal😪💔 edit** this vid has encouraged me to find a hobby..unless binge watching TV shows and eating counts as a hobby 🤷🏽♀️😂
This might be the most innovative self care
video I’ve seen on RUclips
I appreciate this. I started an entire company to afford a camera, to make videos, for fun. It's an expensive hobby but I refuse to let filmmaking be my job
You’re so right. I used to have hobbies and I don’t now! Adulting!
We need to make hobby-building part of adulting! But it's so hard when life is stressful.
It never fails to amaze me how in-tune and on-time my favorite youtubers are.
I've been thinking so much about my childhood lately (therapy, therapy, therapy) and one of the things I had been thinking about was how I spent my free time as a kid. I grew up on an old dairy farm with my little brother and one neighbor close to our age...we played soooo many imaginary games. The barn was our hospital, school, grocery store, restaurant.... I miss that creativity.
Your videos always make me smile A LOT! Like A LOT!! I heart you!!!
I enjoyed finding very old and or odd random pieces of factory equipment or just weird looking “artifacts” I don’t know how else to describe it lol. I would just observe them for however long it took trying to figure out what they were once used for. I remember how happy and excited i felt inside lol.. Just imagining the possible uses for these things and how old they were fascinated me...
I enjoyed writing silly stories.
Drawing houses with lots of trees.
Exploring and getting lost in the woods.
I enjoyed breaking things a part and putting them back together trying to figure out how they worked.
Reading!!!! Everyone wanted a piece of my book collection...
Oh Evelyn, thank you for this.🤗
i've always been the kind of person who has too many hobbies - i get enthusiastic about things pretty easily. As a child: dancing, theatre, reading, sewing, drawing, playing the clarinet etc etc, as an adult: bouldering, dancing, yoga, knitting, drag shows, cooking, hiking, painting....
Knitting and photography!!! When I get bored I break out the knitting needles and some yarn. Old lady gang 👩🏿🦳. Photography helps me look up from my phone and observe what is going on around and above me. I also play escape room games as a hobby.
I could not possibly love Evelyn any more than I do - she's INCREDIBLE!! Always making the things I didn't know I needed and making it so obvious! ❤️🌟
That smile when you figured out Für Elise 🤣 #thatwasme
Little Evelyn was ADORABLE!😍😍😩
Wow this video is so timely! My therapist recently told me that I need to "play" so I can discover my passions. Some of the hobbies from my childhood that I want to explore again are writing (for fun) and studying languages. I'm definitely gonna check out skillshare to help with this. Thank you, Evelyn!
Hobbies included: reading, baking without recipes, journaling, coloring, making greeting cards, jewelry making, playing guitar, bassoon and clarinet, writing lyrics and poetry, riding my bike...wow! This was helpful (and depressing) for me to write out!
PLAY NEVER FELT THIS WAY EVELYN! I was just listening to it the other day!
Collect rocks with pretty patterns, I hoped to find a gemstone.
Now I like archery.
Hi Evelyn, I can’t remember my hobbies. Did I have some, I don’t know. I do remember taking piano lessons and hating it. I read lots of books now (nothing thought provoking or would make a great impact on my life) but to release the stress of a job I put too many hours into each day. I’m a new subscriber, you help with the stress by making laugh. Thanks
Seeing your book with Heidi sent me right back to when my cousin and I would play “fanclub” and make books with drawings of our favorite cartoon characters and try to write the names of every family member we could think of.
Yep! So many of my childhood joys are now my occupation. Which is a step up, and I am proud of myself. It took me a minute, to reorient my life, so I was doing more fulfilling work. Now I got to find that balance, and get back to creative play.
As a child, I would make up skits, and improvise entire scenes with recurring characters. I used to make up songs and record those. Make up dance routines, or spend hours learning the dances from music videos. I would cut up socks, and make outfits for my dolls. I would drape sheets over myself and my sister, and we would make outfits for ourselves. I would go "exploring" through my neighbor hood: translation- trespassing into yards, fields, and woods that didn't belong to me. AND just like internet cousin, making books, doodling, and reading.
I've started doing this recently (or at least attempting to). I'm just to reconnect with my inner child and give her a chance to dream again, you know?
How are you SO incredible!!? Love your vids! Childhood hobbies? Hmmm... as a child of the 70s (not a typo ;-)), learned to crochet (still do) and knit, macramé and every other thing to do with yarn or those strips of fabric used to (basket)weave into potholders! Definitely a reader (then and now) and... gasp! I remember... my sister and I used to write skits and act them out! haha! Most of my real fun came from playing outside. LOVED finding creeks, woods, trails, etc.. I wasn't really an indoor person - only doing those indoor activities in bad weather! In any event, thoroughly enjoyed your photos and hobbies! Your family is great! God bless you all and cannot wait until your next vid!
I love anything arts and crafts. I have a craft bag to make stuff. I paint, make slime with my niece, and other random things. These things make me happy and I def agree with PLAY! P
HIGHKEY, this really encouraged me to actually redo my old hobbies, and get my life together and start a schedule. I’ve made plans to wake up at lik 9:30 tomorrow will I? 🤷🏾♀️ but it’s the thought that counts😅
My main hobby as a child was playing with dolls and making them clothes. I still make clothes but for myself. Keeping up a hobby is a learning curve but the pride and joy will hit different. It’s worth it.
When I was a Lil', if you will, I drew constantly, on any scrap of paper I could find. I drew little comics of me and my friends. I read like crazy (American Girl books too! I only had 2 Addy books, but mostly Felicity). Roald Dahl was my favorite. I had wanted to meet him and found out he passed away, so I drew a picture as tribute: my fourth-grade self sitting under a tree, eyes closed, with a book in my lap, and the sun shining with titles of his books in each sunbeam. I collected rocks, neat-looking bottles, stamps, keys. I was a bit like Baby Evelyn in that I also always wrote things down: journals, diaries, poems, short stories, somewhere I even have a few cassettes I made as audio journals! Thank you for this inspiration to not lose our curiosity, Evelyn!
I used to play the piano too. My go to hobbies are reading, going to the movies, journaling, going to thrift stores and book stores and going on walks :)
I had piano lessons but didn't stick with it because I really wanted to play the drums but my mama wasn't goin for having all that noise lol. I did do ceramics and jewelry making. Now I customize sneakers and am tapping into photography. I still read constantly!
One my hobbies was to read the dictionary and try to make lists of: the Royalty from different countries, figures from different mythologies, and words with specific endings like -cide, -phobia. I would also watch and learn musicals (my fair lady ❤️), practice my viola, and read way too many books about serial killers. Lol! Good times
making "high fashion" clothes out of literally anything, especially old plastic bags and (when I was at my grandmas) banana leaves
Childhood Hobbies - ALL forms of dance. Coloring w/colort pinnceeells ( i need to get back to that!), baking w/Grandiva (kiss to the sky), and hmmmm I know there was more. Thanks for this reminder, Evelyn the Great!
Hey Evelyn #InternetCousin!!
When I was younger I played thw flute, clombed trees, preached sermons to my stuffed animals, made jewelry, and ran a kitchen that served mud pies!! I was a handful back then. Now I would like to try my jsnd at glass blowing!!
OMG! I remember Addy!!! Ahhh the nostalgia!
Kk, Jasmine, and Tony🤣 10:00 I hollered out loud! You have inspired me to get organised and give back things I have borrowed in the past.
My hobby as a kid that I just got back into this past January was video games. I stopped in college only because I didn't want to bring expensive game systems to school but I just never got back into it. It's been really great because now I have something that I get excited about that isn't tied to my value, productivity, skill level, or anything else I overthink.
This is the exact reason why I decided to do something that isn't my hobby as my job and eventually learn to love it. Cuz my personality is the type that can't always create when I want to since I get artist blocks a LOT
Gurl, I was the queen of the Exacto knife. I would collage new cassette (...yes, I wrote cassette) and CD covers for my favorite artists, and design/write/draw my own books. It's amazing you posted this video. My therapist asked me a few weeks what I do just for my fun and I couldn't think of a damn thing.
My number one hobby for nearly 20 years now: playing sims. can't beat it! 😁
I certainly need a hobby! You read me for filth, cousin. I also used to collect rocks and sticks, so much so, my grandmother brought me back a bag of rocks from her trip to Jamaica 🇯🇲
I love to read for “funsies “. I read before I go to sleep. That’s how I squeeze it in.
I love Evelyn! I’m actually about to put my two weeks into my job now to focus on school. We’ll see how “funemployed” goes lol!
I have absolutely no hobbies. Used to read, play guitar, write songs, write poetry, make funny videos etc. Just fell out of touch with everything. Adulthood hit REAL hard. This is inspiring though. Gotta get back to doing what makes me happy 😁
Honestly. This is my favorite video you have ever made. I use to play the saxophone and pretend to own a restaurant. I would make fake menus and come up with creative names for my dishes. I would use up all my Nana’s napkins and a plastic forks. I really need to tap back into that.
Where have you been all my life?! Love you 😍 lol not the Comet in the bathtub ! Lol 😂
Evelyn is my spirit animal. I hate that I am old enough to be her auntie and she gets in my head! I played piano for fun as a kid. I was horrible but I enjoyed it.
I played tennis on my high school team but now do it from spring to fall because it's a fun way to get in exercise without feeling like you're working out. I still read for fun, though not as much as I'd like because I am in school. But when I find myself scrolling mindlessly through social media, going down the youtube rabbit hole and/or flipping channels, I'll pick up a book and read because that means I obviously have the time. The only habit I've lost and want to possibly get back to is writing-I used to write poems and stories but fell out of habit once I graduated high school.
We had almost the same hobbies! I didn't play piano, I played violin. I loved reading. I mostly just read for school now, or listen to audiobooks. I also made my own books when I was a kid! I have made zines as an adult and it is so fun to channel the activities that gave us joy as kiddos.
That Comet on the bathtub🤣🤣🤣 took me out
I had lots of hobbies as a kid. I danced (hip hop, tap, jazz, ballet, modern), baking(is now my job), reading, cooking(also kind of my job), piano playing, and probably some other things I don’t remember at the moment.
Is movie and series binging a hobby??? That’s EXACTLY what I love doing. I also love furniture shopping, watching the food and property channels. Basically as a self employed adult, I enjoy doing things that don’t need me to do anything, things that are colourful and creative and help me leave my world of responsibilities and feed my soul... I really enjoy that! I think these are my hobbies...P.S I’d like to read like I used to when I was a child, because I worry about my vocab!
I love how down to earth you are, wish i had more close friends like you Evelyn 😄
Lots of love from N.Y.C
Give it up for Addy errybody!!! That was the ultimate throwback book!
Good to be raised wealthy and supported by your family.
I also used to love playing with dolls and legos (and when my brother played with me, he added his Bionicles). I also used to play teacher with my stuffed animals and American girl doll. *sigh* Those were the days...
Omg those American girl series!! I forgot about those wow. 😂
I still have hobbies (in college right now so don’t have much to do) but they’re all kinda old school: lots of knitting, sewing/making plushies, playing a couple instruments very poorly (but having fun!). The one hobby that’s always stayed with me is drawing. I’ve liked it since I was a kid and I never stopped even now. I try to keep my hobbies and fun separate from my work and study goals because I want it to stay a fun time and a refuge from stress