Jim's Cafe - Saturday, May 31, 2025 - "how to fill the day"

[Angie]

Hello SF family, I hope this finds you well as can be.

Today I'd like to open a conversation about time. I believe many of us have time on our hands.

What do you do with your free time?
Do you have hobbies?
Are you trying to cut down on screen time? (I've been avoiding the great sucking vortex that is social media lately)
Do you feel productive with your free time?

 

[puffymilk]

Thank you for opening the cafe Angie! Nice topic

What do you do with your free time?
I listen to music most of the time, but I've been watching movies lately

Do you have hobbies?
Lately I've been exercising, does that count? lol

Are you trying to cut down on screen time? (I've been avoiding the great sucking vortex that is social media lately)
Yes. I've been doing pretty good with my social media screen time, and I kind of want to cut down my internet use in general as well

Do you feel productive with your free time?
Not really, but it's good to have my free time at the moment

 

[JMG]

Hey Angie, thanks for posting this cool cafe for today, I’m ok thanks, hope you’re well too

What do you do with your free time?
Do you have hobbies?
Are you trying to cut down on screen time? (I've been avoiding the great sucking vortex that is social media lately)
Do you feel productive with your free time?

1. Most of my time is free time, and a huge chunk of what I do is play some games on my phone, watch shows or movies, read and also I try to go for walks sometimes too (need to do that last one a lot more, working on it).

2. I consider playing games and reading to be hobbies, other than that, well sometimes I do random sketches, haven’t done that for a while though.

3. Somewhat, I know I should definitely be on my phone/playing games less. I used to go on Facebook every day, several times a day, now it is very rare that I go on there, so I definitely get it about social media.

4. Not sure if I’m ever all that “productive”, but I like to think I at least make a good effort to enjoy whatever I’m doing as much as I can, and to be “in the moment” with it.

Some tags: @Witty_Sarcasm @Lisa the Goatgirl @Kiwi2016 @FFurry @Inastorm @Baywasp @cymbele @KM76710

 

[JMG]

 

[puffymilk]

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Hope everyone's having a great weekend!

 

[cymbele]

Happy weekend! I'm waiting for a friend to go see a Makerspace - a place ike a club where they have all the equipment and space to do crafts and stuff like 3d printing. It's priey but I have all the woodworking gear - well amost - they have. But they do stuff like make electric cars for fun but it seems like a lot of retired men engineers hang out there and I probably do not need another hobby.

What do you do with your free time? Most of the time I honestly surf the web. I I work 45 hour weeks and don't do much when I come home because I am so tired. On the weekends though I do chores hopefully a little woodworking, walking, and tai chi classes.
Do you have hobbies? too many which is why I need to cut back but am afraid all I would do is surf the web some more.
Are you trying to cut down on screen time? (I've been avoiding the great sucking vortex that is social media lately) I haven't because on facebook I am members of groups that do crafts and I learn a lot from it.
Do you feel productive with your free time? No but probably am too productive some days so it may be ok that i am not productive sometime

 

[Inastorm]

Thanks for opening the cafe @Angie and thanking for tagging me @JMG.

What do you do with your free time?
At the moment, as I have brought a house. I am spending all my time working on it. I have lots to do.

Do you have hobbies?
Hobbies I do, tend to be what I spending my free time on. My hobbies change very often. So at the moment, my hobby is DIY.

Are you trying to cut down on screen time? (I've been avoiding the great sucking vortex that is social media lately)
I don't have many friends, and I only use Facebook for market place. But I do go on SF every day.

Do you feel productive with your free time?
I am very impatient, so I would say no. But I tend to work all the time on things.

 

[Licorice]

What do you do with your free time?
Take exercise, go for long walks in the countryside, cook, read, pursue my hobbies, clean the flat

Do you have hobbies?
Writing is the main one but I also like to draw, sew, bake, and learn languages

Are you trying to cut down on screen time? (I've been avoiding the great sucking vortex that is social media lately)
Well no because I write on the laptop

Do you feel productive with your free time?
Often

 

[SillyOldBear]

What do you do with your free time?
Am retired and have more time than I know what to do with. I read, build jigsaw puzzles, knit, attend church.

Do you have hobbies?
Main hobbies these days are reading, knitting, jigsaw puzzles, sleeping.

Are you trying to cut down on screen time? (I've been avoiding the great sucking vortex that is social media lately)
Only have basic cable for tv. Anything more costs too much. Don't stream either. Only social media I use is SF. I don't trust it. I really don't like computers, or our high tech age.

Do you feel productive with your free time?
Not usually.

 

[cymbele]

What do you do with your free time?
Am retired and have more time than I know what to do with. I read, build jigsaw puzzles, knit, attend church.]

Having too much time is what worries me the most about retirement. But as I get closer to it more people are retiring so I'd have some people to play with.

 

[Lisa the Ferrociraptor]

Thanks to @Angie for opening and @JMG for tagging me.

What do you do with your free time?

Mainly just play video games, watch tv/movies, and read sometimes. I want to get back into walking around for exercise, but it's hard to motivate when there's nowhere to go.

Do you have hobbies?

I'd consider my game playing and the achievement hunting i do to be hobbies. Some people collect stamps, i collect as many achievements as i can, ideally every one a game has.

Are you trying to cut down on screen time?

I mean, i'm trying to coax myself into getting out and doing other things, but otherwise no. I think it's a misconception that time spent away from a screen is inherently better than time spent looking at a screen. I think they're of equal merit. Agreed about social media though, i basically cut it out entirely years back, and i'm much better off for it.

Do you feel productive with your free time?

I'd say so. By my own standards anyway. Don't think i'd meet most people's definition of "productive", but i meet my own, although i'd like to be productive in more constructive ways.

 

[Fbr27]

What do you do with your free time?

I listen to music, play guitar, study, watch the stars and stare at the celling.

Do you have hobbies?

Playing guitar. Reading books (?).

One day I will sure get into cooking as a hobby. Or stargazing.


Are you trying to cut down on screen time? (I've been avoiding the great sucking vortex that is social media lately)

Sort of. Years ago I had an Habitica app account, and it really helped me to built up a routine around things that I wanted to do instead of bed rotting.

But besides that I just spend my free time on Reddit, Twitter and here.

Do you feel productive with your free time?

Not really. I feel like my problem is more of motivation of what to do instead of procrastinating.

 

[JMG]

Some more pics, wishing everyone a nice day, today and always

 

[Witty_Sarcasm]

Thank you for the cafe @Angie and the tag @JMG

What do you do with your free time?
Writing, reading, music, movies, shopping, and word puzzles.

Do you have hobbies?
Basically same as stated above. haha

Are you trying to cut down on screen time? (I've been avoiding the great sucking vortex that is social media lately)
Yes, because I haven't even gone to sleep yet.

Do you feel productive with your free time?
Not really, but I'm working on being better at that.

 

[puffymilk]

Some more pics, wishing everyone a nice day, today and always

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Beautiful colors

 

[FFurry]

Thanks @Angie @JMG !

What do you do with your free time? Sleep 💤👍
Do you have hobbies? Sort of, but my work is my hobby, at least if I were still employed 😂
Are you trying to cut down on screen time? (I've been avoiding the great sucking vortex that is social media lately) Not exactly, there's a time for the screen and a time for everything else 🤣
Do you feel productive with your free time? Certainly, that's when memory solidifies and the brain rewires itself 👍

 

[JMG]

Beautiful colors

Glad you enjoyed that art puffy, I found it all online, didn’t make any of it :p

You’re so welcome for the tags Inastorm, Lisa the Goatgirl, Witty_Sarcasm and FFurry

 

[KM76710]

What do you do with your free time?

I do a fair amount of reading, which can include looking up things online. The amount of information is great but at times weeding out of the great amount of opinion can be interesting and/or irritating. I do admit that many pastimes I do less as I get older and lazier.

Do you have hobbies?

Carpentry and amateur astronomy are two favorites and it great just to explore whether the cosmos or creating or fixing furniture, doing mending and manufacturing both as they strike my fancy.

Are you trying to cut down on screen time? (I've been avoiding the great sucking vortex that is social media lately)

Mine is probably the same fi not even more, but I have so much entertainment: books, music and film both TV and movies that I do access from one of any of the PCs here. I do much prefer watching a TV show say on a 40" screen that is two feet away. As far as anything socializing, social media I have never done much of that online.

Do you feel productive with your free time?

I normally do but I have always had more of a guided style of doing things. Everything well planned out so that things move along like an assembly line. Thorough and efficient.