1. Gardening
Eating lots of fruits and vegetables is good for your body, but buying them? Not so good for your wallet. Tend a small garden plot or container garden in your spare time, and enjoy the fruits (and veggies) of your labor.
2. Letterboxing
Up for a treasure hunt? Then, give letterboxing a try. Visit letterboxing.org for a list of letterboxes hidden in your area. Choose a box to hunt, and follow the clues to its hiding spot. Easy, free and fun!
3. Reading
Become a bookworm on a budget. Libraries, used bookstores and book swaps (both online and off) make it easy to feed a love of words for less.
4. Sewing
Learn how to sew, and you can use your free time to make clothes, quilts, gifts and other items that you would otherwise have to buy.
5. Crafting
Turn crafting into a money-saving hobby by using your skills to make gifts, home décor items and jewelry for a fraction of what you'd pay in stores.
6. Baking/Cooking
Turn meal prep into something that you look forward to. Try out new dishes, take up home preserving, make your own mixes and ingredients. Then, sit down, and savor the results.
7. Entering Sweepstakes
Like to dream about winning a large amount of money? Take up sweepstaking as a hobby, and you can increase your chances of making it happen.
8. Photography
Digital cameras have transformed photography from a very expensive hobby to a very affordable one. Fill up a memory stick with loads of pictures. Then, print the ones you like, and delete the ones you don't.
