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The Age
29-06-2025
- Lifestyle
- The Age
All year, I've tried to find a new hobby. One major problem is crushing my efforts
What do you enjoy doing in your spare time? Do you have a hobby? While it wasn't a New Year's resolution per se, I decided at the start of the year to launch a dedicated mission to find myself a hobby. An activity that I could do regularly, on weekends or in my spare time, one that was distinct from work, would also bring me joy, and make me sound a bit more interesting in the process. While some people can rattle off several pastimes with which they fill their weekends, I've never been able to respond with a hobby that I truly enjoy. But I decided this needed to change. More fuel to my fire was the proven benefits of hobbies: for a person's mental health, including finding purpose and reducing stress. However, nearly six months into the year and despite my efforts, I am still hobby-less. And it all comes down to one unexpected, yet critical issue: I simply can't afford one. My earnings, $1975.80 per week, are about average according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. But, due to the increase in living costs, which rose from 2.4 per cent in March 2024 to 3.5 per cent by March 2025, there's virtually nothing left over by the time my bills and living expenses are covered. And this is one of the fundamental issues with trying to find a hobby in 2025: even those you'd assume to be affordable aren't actually all that cheap. Loading According to an April survey by Statista, one of the most popular hobbies among Australians is cooking and baking – an option, I thought, that would be much more affordable than more obviously expensive choices like cycling, golf, pottery classes or photography. However, after researching introductory online cooking classes, I quickly realised that it isn't as modest as I thought. Classes start about $100 and reach into the mid-hundreds. Even if I tried to learn for free via YouTube, equipment and ingredients quickly add up. While a basic benchtop mixer from KMart will only set you back a $79, the oh-so-Instagrammable KitchenAid model is $499, for example.
Sydney Morning Herald
29-06-2025
- Lifestyle
- Sydney Morning Herald
All year, I've tried to find a new hobby. One major problem is crushing my efforts
What do you enjoy doing in your spare time? Do you have a hobby? While it wasn't a New Year's resolution per se, I decided at the start of the year to launch a dedicated mission to find myself a hobby. An activity that I could do regularly, on weekends or in my spare time, one that was distinct from work, would also bring me joy, and make me sound a bit more interesting in the process. While some people can rattle off several pastimes with which they fill their weekends, I've never been able to respond with a hobby that I truly enjoy. But I decided this needed to change. More fuel to my fire was the proven benefits of hobbies: for a person's mental health, including finding purpose and reducing stress. However, nearly six months into the year and despite my efforts, I am still hobby-less. And it all comes down to one unexpected, yet critical issue: I simply can't afford one. My earnings, $1975.80 per week, are about average according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. But, due to the increase in living costs, which rose from 2.4 per cent in March 2024 to 3.5 per cent by March 2025, there's virtually nothing left over by the time my bills and living expenses are covered. And this is one of the fundamental issues with trying to find a hobby in 2025: even those you'd assume to be affordable aren't actually all that cheap. Loading According to an April survey by Statista, one of the most popular hobbies among Australians is cooking and baking – an option, I thought, that would be much more affordable than more obviously expensive choices like cycling, golf, pottery classes or photography. However, after researching introductory online cooking classes, I quickly realised that it isn't as modest as I thought. Classes start about $100 and reach into the mid-hundreds. Even if I tried to learn for free via YouTube, equipment and ingredients quickly add up. While a basic benchtop mixer from KMart will only set you back a $79, the oh-so-Instagrammable KitchenAid model is $499, for example.
Yahoo
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Parents Are Sharing The Most Embarrassing Things Their Kids Have Ever Said Or Done, And Honestly I'm Laughing My Butt Off
Recently, Reddit user FarmhouseRules posted to the popular ask subreddit to ask people, "What's the most embarrassing thing your kids have ever said or done?" She shared her own story first, writing, "Once I was shopping at the grocery with my 5-year-old son in the cart. As we were going down the aisle we passed a woman going the other way. Right after we passed her, my son said, 'Mom that's the ugliest man I've ever seen.' I was mortified." NBC Other people shared some pretty legendarily embarrassing stories, too, and I was honestly cackling. Here are some of the absolute best: 1."I was at checkout in K-Mart with my then 5-year-old daughter. I was buying her purple marshmallow Peeps. She told the cashier that purple was her favorite color. I said she had a new favorite color every week. This embarrassed my daughter, who said loudly, 'Mom, you have a new favorite boyfriend every week!'" "I was mortified and tried to assure everyone in line that I'd been with my boyfriend for three years." —u/tlk2mch 2."'MY MOM LOVES COCK PORN.' (He meant popcorn.)" ABC —u/milkandsalsa 3."My wife, my son, and I were at Disneyland. My son was 3 at this point. He had finished potty training just a few weeks prior to this. During potty training, we would use positive reinforcement, elling him that he was doing a good job, etc. etc. One of the things I told him was that he was pooping Iike a man now." "So anyway, my wife and I both had to poop at the same time. And we both really had to go. There was no waiting happening here. We couldn't leave my son alone, so I took him with me. I picked the big stall so we would both have some room. So I started to do my business, and my son loudly says, 'Ewww Daddy, that's a man poop daddy. That's a man poop.' I'm trying to get him to be quiet, but he just keeps going: 'Good job on the poop, Daddy. But Daddy, it smells. That sure is a man poop, Daddy.' Everyone in the bathroom was snickering, and I was sitting there mortified. It's hilarious now, but not so much at the time." —u/rodimus147 4."My 2-year-old son and I were in line at Kohl's and the woman behind me had vitiligo (a condition that causes the pigment in your skin to discolor, completely resulting in very blotchy skin). My son looked at her and gasped and said, 'Oh wow, I LOVE your polka dots!'" "Fortunately, she laughed and was so kind and said, 'Why THANK YOU!' She was so gracious and what could have been embarrassing became such a sweet moment. Hilarious though." —u/Donut_Interesting 5."We were at the zoo when my son was probably 5 or 6. He had run ahead to look at the zebras. He turned around and screamed, 'Mom, you won't believe how big this zebra's dick is!' I deeply considered walking past him with no acknowledgment." —u/raven_darkseid 6."Took my 3-year-old in to work with me on a Saturday when the office was closed. My coworker was there. I introduced him to my daughter. She recognized his name from me always complaining about him, looked him in the eye, and asked him, 'Are you the one who doesn't know what he is doing?'" "So embarrassing! He wouldn't talk to me for weeks." —u/CatsRock25 7."We were on a trail in the Smoky Mountains and a park ranger with an eye patch was talking to us about bears. Right when we finished the conversation and started walking away, my son said, 'Mommy, we just talked to a pirate!'" —u/sweetpea813 8."Not my kid, but it was said to me. I was riding the elevator up to the OB/GYN floor with a very pregnant woman and her about 3-year-old son. He looked at my belly and excitedly asked if I was going to have a baby, too. His mother was 14 shades of red with nowhere to hide! I told him no, I was just fat. He gave me a sad face and said, 'Well, next year.'" —u/PhoneboothLynn 9."When my oldest was about a year and a half old in the grocery store, he pointed to a baby and said 'ugly baby' clear as day and very loud." —u/Slag_Queen_Tsunade 10."My son told my daughter that her penis fell off and that's why he was a boy and she was a girl. She was upset for weeks." —u/Big-Kaleidoscope-192 11."When my son was little, we took him to mass with us. When the priest was consecrating the communion wafer, my son loudly and clearly said, 'Hey, I want one of those potato chips!'" Quim Llenas / Cover/Getty Images, Fox / Via —u/grannygogo 12."My son, bless his heart, waited until everyone had bowed their heads to pray but before the priest started the prayer, and in that moment of blessed silence, piped up 'I gotta poop!' as loud as he could." AMC —u/Imcbmc 13."I was waiting in the crowd for my number to be called at the deli counter with my 5-year-old. It was National Dairy Month, and the grocery store had a huge inflatable cow suspended from the ceiling above us. My daughter looked up and announced at the top of her lungs, 'Look, Mom, that cow has four penises!' The crowd roared." —u/VicePrincipalNero 14."My daughter announced to her whole class that girls get brains and boys get a penis. That was a whole parent/teacher conference." —u/SatanicWhoreofHell 15."I was the mortifying kid: in the middle of a Catholic mass, during one of the silent parts, I looked up at a man next to us. I looked back at my mom and loudly said, 'Mom, why does his forehead go back so far?'" HBO / Via "I'm sure I was a blast to raise. 💀" —u/Gold_Bug_4055 16."We were at my grandfather's funeral with my then 3-year-old son. We had told him that great-grandpa was really old and that's why he died. We met my grandparents' neighbor, who I knew growing up, and she is about 90. When she walked away, my son said, 'She's really nice. It's too bad she'll be dead soon.'" Disney Channel / Via —u/Historical-Stop5083 17."When my son was 3, we lived in a pretty rough neighborhood. His favorite thing was just riding his tricycle up and down the sidewalk, completely safe. One day I heard him greeting people in the manner that people greeted him when they walked by. He said, 'Hey, motherfucker!'" Warner Bros. —u/miseeker 18."Around Thanksgiving, we walked past a very old woman and the 5-year-old stopped to ask her about conditions on the Mayflower." NBC —u/Samiru27 19."This is about me at 5 years old in 1975. My mom used to tell this story. My dad at that time liked to listen to Deanna Durbin records on the living room stereo. Her picture was on the fronts of the albums, and he liked to tell me he was listening to his 'girlfriend' singing." "My mom took me shopping at a department store. We were in the elevator when a lady came in. I looked at her and said, 'You look just like my dad's girlfriend!' My mom said she was really embarrassed. The lady gave her a funny look." —u/Alman54 20."My kid was 5-ish and had started calling hot dogs weiners. At the grocery store, she said, very loudly, 'Mommy likes wieners!'" BBC —u/tallant13 21."Our oldest was about 3, my wife was pregnant with our second, and we were at dinner with friends who had a toddler in a high chair. Said toddler had food everywhere!" "My child looked at me and asked if our baby was going to be like that baby because 'this one makes me gag.' There is no way out of that awkwardness!" —u/st_nick5 22."About 20 years ago when our son was 2, we were having a small dinner party with friends at our home, and he went into our bedroom closet and found one of my wife's (adult) toys. He came running into the living room and started banging it against the coffee table." NBC / Via —u/Proper_Actuary8980 23."My kid, at 4, could burp like a truck driver. Sitting in a restaurant, she let out this massive burp, dove under the table to hide, and 25 strangers turned around to stare at me with mild disgust." Bon Appétit —u/Witty_Jello_8470 finally, "My lovely 3-year-old likes to yell 'HELP ME!!!' at the top of her lungs when she doesn't get her way, and she tends to not get her way and yell that in grocery stores and other public places." —u/CrockyCroc Okay, IDK about you, but I'm laughing my ass off at some of these. Tell me what you think in the comments below; or, even better, divulge your own embarrassing kid stories! They're so funny, I love to hear them. If you want to share but want to stay anonymous, you can always write into this anonymous form! Who knows — your comment could be included in a future BuzzFeed article.
Yahoo
08-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Archives: March 2025
"The new Republican-led Congress promises major changes in 'welfare'—giveaways to the relatively destitute. But the federal government is equally adept at throwing other people's money at those who haven't even a surface excuse for needing it. The recent 'Mexican bailout,' $25 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to help keep Mexico solvent so it can eventually pay off its debt, is a good example. In essence, that move aided American banks improvident enough to toss good money after bad at the Mexican government. If the new congressional regime wants to prove that they mean an end to business-as-usual, they must cut off federal cash flow to the influential as well as the marginal. But contrary to [Labor Secretary] Robert Reich, who has taken to railing against 'corporate welfare,' letting corporations keep their earnings isn't 'welfare'; giving them other taxpayers' money is." Brian Doherty "Bad Influence" "Too many of freedom's defenders are uncomfortable with earthbound humanity. They are afraid the stuff that dreams are made of can be had too easily at K Mart or Bloomingdale's. They find those dreams banal. But human life and human longings are precious. And, contrary to the caricature of liberal capitalism retailed on the nation's opinion pages, those longings include more than the desire for blue jeans and consumer electronics. Man does not, in fact, live by bread alone—at least when allowed to choose how to live. Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society." Virginia Postrel "The Banality of Freedom?" "One of the hottest ideas in Washington is that we should retaliate against protectionist countries by raising our own import barriers against them. We will remove our restrictions only when they remove theirs, the theory goes, forcing these countries to negotiate with us to eliminate all trade barriers. 'Retaliation' is the rallying cry of a new economic nationalism that has gained support from powerful Republicans and Democrats alike. But it doesn't work." Jim Powell "Forget the Crowbar" "There is little doubt that Marxism-Leninism has long been discredited. The challenge before us is to rescue from under the rubble of its fatal misconceptions a philosophical base strong enough to see the long-mutilated nations of Central Europe emerge into Western civilization once again. For the logical leap from repudiating Marxism to defending capitalism is not apodictic." Juliana Geran Pilon "After the Fall" "Getting a wider range of opinion and a more-informative range of facts across the airwaves to American TV and radio audiences would be worthwhile for that audience and gratifying for those who have felt excluded from access to those media. A liberal bias does prevail, but, from an insider's standpoint, there are ways to get other viewpoints heard or seen. The most important consideration is the nature of the broadcast media bias: it is not primarily political. Instead, it is a bias in favor of action, hubbub, noise controversy, and familiarity in ideas. Kinetic excitement coupled with familiar slogans and premises warm the hearts of those who decide what does and what does not get air time. There's no point in offering ideas at a soporific press conference, when across the street a 'welfare rights' organization is demonstrating on behalf of another handout." David Brudnoy "How to Use the Media Before the Media Use You" "The decade has dawned with a brutal Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. With planes, tanks, 90,000 troops, and a hand-picked dictator, the Soviets are proceeding to occupy and subdue the country, despite the valiant resistance of 'rebel' groups who had been on the verge of ousting the previous Communist regime. Whatever else the invasion does, it should put to rest the naive notion of the USSR as a basically peaceful State whose foreign policy is characterized by defense of its territory and traditional sphere of interest." Robert Poole Jr. "Post-Afghanistan Foreign Policy" The post Archives: March 2025 appeared first on
