May 29, 2025 • 5 mins
Need a new hobby? Apparently these ~grandma hobbies are GREAT for your mental health.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Heart podcasts, he more Kiss podcast playlist and listen live
on the free iHeart app. Now, Britt that why does
this sound so serious and very ominous? You have been
giving me shtick about something for shtick. You give me
shtick about something for almost a year now almostly.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
It could be a multitude of things.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I took on a hobby. I don't know where it
came from. I don't know what sparked it. But about
a year ago I got really into house plans. Did
you got this?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It started slow to be fair, like get little few
plants crept in, and then you're like, oh, let me
try and see if I can cut a stem and
propagate and neck minute your house is a jungle.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
So I got so deeply obsessed with house plans and
like doing the best by my house plans that I
went online one night. It was a late at night
and an ad popped up on social media, and it
was an ad for It's called an indoor forest and
it has like all the right lead lights that like
produced the right amount of you know, the right amount
(01:09):
of light to have in your house to keep their
plants healthy. But it's a vertical thing that you install
from the ceiling to.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
The floor and I haven't even seen this.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, I know, I bought it. Okay, it arrived. I'm
embarrassed to say how much it cost. And my husband
saw it and he was like enough. He's like, you
can't buy things that take up a whole space in
our house.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Give me like ballpark figure. Nah, No, barrel under.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Cost me nine hundred dollars. It was Oh my god.
I am dedicated to the house plants. Okay, I love them.
I care about them. I often on a weekend sneak
out and buy more houseplants. Okay, it's that make you.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Send it back?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
No, he let me keep it, but we haven't installed it.
He's like, there's not anyway. It's not what I'm talking about.
We should be doing. We should, we should, but we won't. Now.
I love my house plants. I love how therapeutic it
was for me that I discovered this, that it brings
me just so much joy. It's probably the only time
when I'm at home on a weekend and I'm doing
(02:06):
my house plans that I feel as though my brain
is at peace, genuinely, and I think that that's why
I love it so much.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I'm happy for you. I'm confused where this is going,
but I'm glad you found your piece.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Well. I came across a study recently and it was
there was an article about it, and it's called grandma hobbies.
And I think I slot, I slot hardcore right in there.
But grandma hobbies are making a comeback. And I'm talking
things like bird watching and clay art and crocheting, things
that you would have thought are uncool because your nana
would have done them back in the day. All the
(02:36):
cool kids are doing him now. And guess what one
of them is, house plants. I'm sorry, Can I tell
you what my grandma used to do? She didn't crochet,
she didn't nit, she didn't do any of that. She
just gray whiskey.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
No, she raced pigeons. When I used to love going
to Grandma's house because at the back she had a
full avery of homing pigeons and you would race them.
They would have to do a job, like deliver a
letter or something, and they'd race and then they'd have
to come back to you. So like I was never
exposed to those grandma hobs.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That feels way more niche than like knitting. For example,
you're making doilies or whatever. My other one was a
race car driver. She'd fully like I had hectic Where
did you grow up? Well?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I grow up important quarry, but they didn't. I hadn't
had a very adventurous family. But please please go forth.
What else is coming back?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Okay? Well, my parents, like my mom and my grandma,
crocheting big in our family. We were a big family
of crochets. Pottery. You know how everyone these days like
signing up to go and do pottery classes where you
sit there and spin a wheel.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Ah love that.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
But also if you're someone who's been taking on grandma hobbies,
there is now studies and proof to say just how
good that is for your mental health. So you don't
let anyone like Britney hockleypoop poo it. Okay, I'm going
to tell you that it is a good thing. You
could be going out drinking on a Saturday night, or
you could be at home knit in a blanket.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Okay, hear me out. I'm not against it. Pottery I
could do. I tried to learn crocheting ones when I
was young. I don't have the patience for it. I
just can't sit still long enough. But one thing that
I found so funny and I hope no one takes
offense by this. When I met my fiance Ben, I
would look at Ben and think it was really cool, right,
(04:08):
Like I was like, okay, he's a giant, Like he's
really big, he's an athlete. Is I got a perception
of what I thought he would be and it was
it was not reality. And in the early days he
told me, like growing up, one of his favorite hobbies
and something that he's really proud of now is is
bird watching. Like he banned. My fiance is a birdwatcher.
He loves watching birds. He used to in his spare
(04:30):
time read bird books, and he has bird books. He
knows every bird, he knows their call, he knows what
he's got all these facts because.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
He let go out on like an exhibition of bird watching.
He doesn't take binoculars with him. Of what level of
bird watching are we at? Are you going on birdwatching
holidays when you're overseas?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
It has died down a little bit.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I don't know if he's trying to bury it for me,
but I think it was because after you.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Guys are married, birdwatching is very normal.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
He learned it from his grandma, So he was raised
a lot by his grandma, and it is a grandma hobby, right.
They used to go out and watch a birdwatch and
he learned to love it. So he learned everything through
his ground and then when she passed away, he just
kept watching.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Oh, I just think it's it's beautiful. Yeah, I agree.
I think that's so sweet. I do think that there
must be an age where most of us hit when
bird watching comes into the sphere, because like, I know
so many people who enjoy it. I'm waiting for it
to hit me now that I'm like, now that I'm
deep in the gardening, bird watching is only a hop
skip away.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh you should see how excited he is by the
Australian fauna and flora, like, oh, it's a whole new
world we have. You know, the Kooka burrough that was
mine blowing for him. It's been a real adventure, it is.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Okay, here's my one and only trivia fact that I know.
If you ever have me on your trivia team, I'm
actually terrible at it. But one I do know is
guess what the kooko barra is the world's biggest kingfish.
There you go, everyone, don't say you don't come in
to learn anything.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It's a kingfisher.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Kingfisher, you said, kingfish, which is a fish in it.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I love that fact so much.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
That's our headline. It is the world's biggest one.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Though you were right, don't ever have Laura on your
trivia team. You heard to hear first
Heart podcasts, he more Kiss podcast playlist and listen live
on the free iHeart app. Now, Britt that why does
this sound so serious and very ominous? You have been
giving me shtick about something for shtick. You give me
shtick about something for almost a year now almostly.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
It could be a multitude of things.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I took on a hobby. I don't know where it
came from. I don't know what sparked it. But about
a year ago I got really into house plans. Did
you got this?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It started slow to be fair, like get little few
plants crept in, and then you're like, oh, let me
try and see if I can cut a stem and
propagate and neck minute your house is a jungle.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
So I got so deeply obsessed with house plans and
like doing the best by my house plans that I
went online one night. It was a late at night
and an ad popped up on social media, and it
was an ad for It's called an indoor forest and
it has like all the right lead lights that like
produced the right amount of you know, the right amount
(01:09):
of light to have in your house to keep their
plants healthy. But it's a vertical thing that you install
from the ceiling to.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
The floor and I haven't even seen this.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, I know, I bought it. Okay, it arrived. I'm
embarrassed to say how much it cost. And my husband
saw it and he was like enough. He's like, you
can't buy things that take up a whole space in
our house.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Give me like ballpark figure. Nah, No, barrel under.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Cost me nine hundred dollars. It was Oh my god.
I am dedicated to the house plants. Okay, I love them.
I care about them. I often on a weekend sneak
out and buy more houseplants. Okay, it's that make you.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Send it back?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
No, he let me keep it, but we haven't installed it.
He's like, there's not anyway. It's not what I'm talking about.
We should be doing. We should, we should, but we won't. Now.
I love my house plants. I love how therapeutic it
was for me that I discovered this, that it brings
me just so much joy. It's probably the only time
when I'm at home on a weekend and I'm doing
(02:06):
my house plans that I feel as though my brain
is at peace, genuinely, and I think that that's why
I love it so much.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I'm happy for you. I'm confused where this is going,
but I'm glad you found your piece.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Well. I came across a study recently and it was
there was an article about it, and it's called grandma hobbies.
And I think I slot, I slot hardcore right in there.
But grandma hobbies are making a comeback. And I'm talking
things like bird watching and clay art and crocheting, things
that you would have thought are uncool because your nana
would have done them back in the day. All the
(02:36):
cool kids are doing him now. And guess what one
of them is, house plants. I'm sorry, Can I tell
you what my grandma used to do? She didn't crochet,
she didn't nit, she didn't do any of that. She
just gray whiskey.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
No, she raced pigeons. When I used to love going
to Grandma's house because at the back she had a
full avery of homing pigeons and you would race them.
They would have to do a job, like deliver a
letter or something, and they'd race and then they'd have
to come back to you. So like I was never
exposed to those grandma hobs.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That feels way more niche than like knitting. For example,
you're making doilies or whatever. My other one was a
race car driver. She'd fully like I had hectic Where
did you grow up? Well?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I grow up important quarry, but they didn't. I hadn't
had a very adventurous family. But please please go forth.
What else is coming back?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Okay? Well, my parents, like my mom and my grandma,
crocheting big in our family. We were a big family
of crochets. Pottery. You know how everyone these days like
signing up to go and do pottery classes where you
sit there and spin a wheel.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Ah love that.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
But also if you're someone who's been taking on grandma hobbies,
there is now studies and proof to say just how
good that is for your mental health. So you don't
let anyone like Britney hockleypoop poo it. Okay, I'm going
to tell you that it is a good thing. You
could be going out drinking on a Saturday night, or
you could be at home knit in a blanket.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Okay, hear me out. I'm not against it. Pottery I
could do. I tried to learn crocheting ones when I
was young. I don't have the patience for it. I
just can't sit still long enough. But one thing that
I found so funny and I hope no one takes
offense by this. When I met my fiance Ben, I
would look at Ben and think it was really cool, right,
(04:08):
Like I was like, okay, he's a giant, Like he's
really big, he's an athlete. Is I got a perception
of what I thought he would be and it was
it was not reality. And in the early days he
told me, like growing up, one of his favorite hobbies
and something that he's really proud of now is is
bird watching. Like he banned. My fiance is a birdwatcher.
He loves watching birds. He used to in his spare
(04:30):
time read bird books, and he has bird books. He
knows every bird, he knows their call, he knows what
he's got all these facts because.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
He let go out on like an exhibition of bird watching.
He doesn't take binoculars with him. Of what level of
bird watching are we at? Are you going on birdwatching
holidays when you're overseas?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
It has died down a little bit.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I don't know if he's trying to bury it for me,
but I think it was because after you.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Guys are married, birdwatching is very normal.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
He learned it from his grandma, So he was raised
a lot by his grandma, and it is a grandma hobby, right.
They used to go out and watch a birdwatch and
he learned to love it. So he learned everything through
his ground and then when she passed away, he just
kept watching.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Oh, I just think it's it's beautiful. Yeah, I agree.
I think that's so sweet. I do think that there
must be an age where most of us hit when
bird watching comes into the sphere, because like, I know
so many people who enjoy it. I'm waiting for it
to hit me now that I'm like, now that I'm
deep in the gardening, bird watching is only a hop
skip away.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh you should see how excited he is by the
Australian fauna and flora, like, oh, it's a whole new
world we have. You know, the Kooka burrough that was
mine blowing for him. It's been a real adventure, it is.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Okay, here's my one and only trivia fact that I know.
If you ever have me on your trivia team, I'm
actually terrible at it. But one I do know is
guess what the kooko barra is the world's biggest kingfish.
There you go, everyone, don't say you don't come in
to learn anything.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It's a kingfisher.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Kingfisher, you said, kingfish, which is a fish in it.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I love that fact so much.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
That's our headline. It is the world's biggest one.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Though you were right, don't ever have Laura on your
trivia team. You heard to hear first
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