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Look up Paul Sellers on YouTube. You'll have to pull up his backlog, cause he's pretty old and doesn't do as many project videos anymore. There's also a ton more "hand tool only" woodworkers on youtube, but I found that he's an easy one to watch.

He shows you how to bootstrap a workshop from nothing with just hand tools that you can ebay for not much.

You can start with smaller projects that you can not worry about much, and then work your way up to "dining table for life"

Just build a small box with a couple drawers out of the hobby boards at your local hardware store. Try to stick with harder woods like poplar, oak, walnut, etc. They're a little more expensive, but they're easier to work with cause they don't smoosh so much when you try to cut them, and building small things doesn't take a lot of wood.

You'd be surprised just how accessible woodworking is. You just have to be ok that it's going to take a lot longer if you don't have a giant workshop full of high end, expensive machines.

Mood. I'd love to do some woodworking but I don't have the space

It's not as hard to get into as you'd expect. Right now** is a great time to get into it. There are a lot of instructors right now trying to build hours waiting for the airlines to hire again. You can find higher quality instructors for cheaper than normal

My instructor works for free. He's just glad to be getting free flight hours. I wouldn't recommend doing a formal flight school unless you have money to burn. If you're good at self-study, get Sporty's or another online course. Few hundred dollars for the ground school. Then rent a plane to do your hours in

**Huge asterisk here due to gas prices being elevated. It's not too hard to find cheap 100LL/UL, but that window is closing. As long as the war in Iran is ongoing, higher fuel prices will be a concern. That being said, my Cherokee gets 16-20 MPG equivalent

The new sport pilot rules may be for you then. There's also Ultralight aviation or powered paragliding.

There's probably diving in your local area. You'd be surprised, but almost everywhere has at least a few good diving spots. Quarries and lakes are common dive spots

I do a lot of diving in the midwest. Water is cold, but otherwise it's got some good diving. Ship wrecks are especially cool since cold, fresh water will preserve them for an extremely long time. Once you get drysuit certified, the cold water isn't much of an issue too

It's really cool how friendly and curious most life is underwater, and being able to move in 3 dimensions will always be amazing to me

sewing is a fun hobby. I started when the world was shut down. watched a bunch of youtube to learn how. Sewing machines are intimidating but really not that hard once you get into it.

Every 5 years go so I think about getting into powered paragliding. It looks amazing! Inevitably each time I find youtube videos talking about how much progress has occurred in the industry...and a heartfelt eulogy about a wildly experienced paraglider pilot that died recently while paragliding. I always turn away with the same thought: "If the very experienced people are dying like this, it is far riskier form me to try."

I have a halfway decent woodworking setup, plus a 3D printer and a cheap laser, but metalworking is just not really an option. The space dedication, plus the oils and the fire hazards and the scraps/shavings/slivers/chaff/god-knows-what-else all being completely incompatible with sharing a space with the rest of it. Sigh, just not likely to happen until and unless I can get in with the makerspace mafia. I am thinking of trying to figure out designing for mills and using metal-bending workbenches in CAD, though, and sending more designs off to be fabbed.

I LOVE counting money

In the UK you also need permission from the wealthy to do it on their land.

My dad picked up bow and arrow hunting for a few years. He never snagged a deer, but I'm sure he spent a lot of pleasant time smoking weed in the woods with his buddies.

Obviously a lot of location factors are at play, but a crossbow is relatively inexpensive, has plenty of ability to humanely kill a deer (if that's your intended target), and the bolts and broadheads are recoverable.

Smaller game can be taken with a .22 or .25 cal air gun, which can be far more cost effective than a standard firearm, depending on if it is a spring, piston, or pre-charged pneumatic model. Side note, Lewis and Clark brought air rifles on their famous expedition.

Check your local hunting regs for legal options!