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Those with NON-gamer husbands
What does your DH do for a hobby? What do you do together as a family? How often does DH spend time on said hobby? I need some good role models for my DH!
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Re: Those with NON-gamer husbands
Hmm, I can't see supporting beer drinking and ESPN lol and I don't see DH taking up the trumpet, D&D or golf. Keep it coming though ladies! These are great!
Porn is apparently another of my husband's hobbies.
Or trying to get laid.
Or trying to get laid.
ROFL.....My DH also attempts to get me in the mood. He hasn't succeeded in 2 months lol. I am sure when DD and I do leave the house and he isn't playing WoW he probably goes to youporn.com
Surfs internet message boards re: cell phones.
Oh yeah, forgot about that never-ending mission to get laid. LOL DHs are all alike
My DH does play some video games (basically just NCAA Football on the XBox) but we also have a Wii. I was the one interested in the Wii, so I have lots of games that we can play together. We also like board games. DH is a great cook, but he works full-time (about 60 hours a week) AND is in grad school, so he's not around much to play with that hobby. He's also really into wine and scotch/whisky, but in a nerdy-wannabe-sommelier kind of way not a just-out-to-get-drunk kind of way!
Hunting and fishing.
He can also fix/build anything so he usually has a project going around the house. When he doesn't he gets so antsy and it drives everyone nuts.
My husband loves to hunt down old guitars and amps (usually on craigslist), buy them for a cheap price, and refurbish them. He claims they're LO's college fund. Whatever. As long as it doesn't cost TOO much money and it makes him happy, then I'm fine with it. The funny part is, he isn't a great guitar player - he just likes to work on them. He's a strange bird!
He also loves telescopes and astronomy. If there's some satellite flying over or something he always makes me go out and look at it. I don't really find it that interesting, but it's endearing how excited he gets about it so I pretend to care.
TV
He also likes to build and construct things in his garage. He comes up with random ideas and goes out to build them. Unfortunately, it doesn't always translate into fixing things around the house. He likes to play with his tools on his own terms. I once told him I was going to sell all his tools so I could afford to pay a handyman to fix everything in the house It is the middle of winter right now and our garage isn't heated, so he doesn't get to work in the garage that often.
My DH is kinda like some of yours... he likes to play with his wood. All day he would play with wood if I let him. LOL, he thinks he's Bob Villas long lost son!! If I gave him a $100 GC to Home Depot or Lowe's he would buy wood to make something... or something to make a wooden something with. He doesn't like sports (or I should say watching them), or partying, or gaming... just let him loose in the garage for a couple days and he's happy as a pig in poop! But... he is also on the eternal quest to get laid so I'm sure there is def some porn going on after I go to bed at night. So see, he does like to play with his wood
Cooking? and some moderate video game playing (maybe 1-2 times a week for 1-2 hours)?
Neither DH nor I have much free time so we usually spend it together as a family. Or we will sit on the couch and watch a movie or tv or sports.
Off to the beach
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my DH is a "serial hobbyist" - he finds a hobby, is really gung ho about it for a year or so, and then goes on to something new. some of his hobbies:
RC planes
ammo reloading
astronomy
gun collecting
target/clay pigeon shooting
collecting toy tractor models
refurbishing his old tractor
collecting/reading about/drinking scotch
soccer (watching, reading about, a fantasy league, etc.)
food (loves food network and reading food books - doesn't cook as much as i'd like, tho!)
house renovation
puttering around outside (he likes to mow the lawn more than he'll ever admit)
searching for the end of the internet/researching any of the above topics (he does this a lot)
things we do together:
traveling and planning trips
camping/hiking/outdoorsy stuff
trying new restaurants
shopping
play wii games
cooking (sometimes!)
some of these thing he does more than others, but if you're looking for ideas, my dh has probably tried it!
Oh my goodness - it's absurd! My H competes in triathlons, so he is currently building his own tri bike. He has been really good about not spending money, but in order to get more competitive he has to upgrade.
OP, my H is very very active, so I don't think my response would very helpful. He swims or bikes almost every day. He is constantly preparing for some race or meet. When he is not working out, he is reading magazines about the sports or researching on the internet.
Trucks and everything truck related. He'll go out and take something apart just so he can put it back together again. We're members of an off road club, so we do that together, and it's very family friendly.
On the plus side, I never need a mechanic for anything. My engine blew last year, and he completely rebuilt it.
The downside of his hobby - $$$$$$$
DH and I both play softball. If he's on the field, I'm keeping book. If I'm on the field, he's coaching or keeping book. Plus we play together too. In the off season we plan the next season (we coach a coed team together). We also both run fantasy football teams/leagues (which I won this year TYVM!). We also golf together and workout together. There's some TV watching in there too and of course, tons of play time with DD!
Needless to say, one of my New Year's Resolutions is to get some me time. I love the guy and all, but I need some time to just do my thing!
He works out. His work schedule is somewhat flexible, so three days a week he gets up around 6 a.m. and goes to the gym before work. He does that b/c working out in the evening meant that he hardly saw the girls before they went to bed.
He sometimes goes to the gym on the weekends as well.
Family time -- we go out running errands together, play with the girls, etc. This weekend we went out for lunch as a family. If the weather's nice, he takes DD1 for a walk or to the park. Or we go to the local rec center pool together or something.
I got him a PS3 for Christmas and he bought one (single player) game. He plays in the evenings for a couple of hours after the girls go to bed, unless we decide to watch a movie or TV together.
DD1, 1/5/2008 ~~~ DD2, 3/17/2010
We are on vacation right now but if we were home this is what DH would also be doing.