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10 Ununsual Hobbies
10 Ununsual Hobbies
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Ever fancied going on the trip of a lifetime? Well, how about letting
your toy go instead? (Image: Getty)
The basis of this is to send your toys off on a potentially world-wide
adventure. The website, ToyVoyagers, lets you choose a temporary
home for your toy, wherever you please around the world, and off they
go.
You can use the travel log to write to your toy, as well as send and
receive pictures from them. Once you want them back, you just contact
your toy's hosts and ask them to return them to their rightful owner.
2. Extreme Ironing, UK
Extreme ironing
A poodle creatively groomed into Eor from children's book, Winnie the
Pooh in United States
A poodle creatively groomed into Eeyore from the children's book
Winnie the Pooh (Image: Ren Netherland / Barcroft)
This, as you might imagine, involves grooming your dog in the most
eccentric way you can. While this hobby takes a lot of time, if you're
successful enough, you can win up to $30,000 from a single event.
4. Mooing, USA
Who knew that resembling this could net you some cash?
In Wisconsin, USA, a competition takes place in which competitors
must do their best impression of a cow. The latest winner was a ten-
year-old boy named Austin, who received $1,000, a cow print jacket,
and a golden cow bell among other prizes.
5. Train Surfing, Germany
Hair strands
This may be one of the strangest hobbies in the world. (Image: Getty)
Australian man Graham Barker has been collecting and storing his navel
fluff since 1984. With his hefty collecting now weighing in at 22.1
grams, this is arguably the most bizarre hobby of them all.
9. Ecstasy Collection, Netherlands
Ecstasy-pills (Image: Reuters)
In 2009, a man phoned the Dutch authorities to report the theft of his
ecstasy collection. This included over 2,400 tablets, which he kept in
coin folders. Though he knew that this was illegal, he reported them
missing as he was concerned that the collection could be very
dangerous.
10. Collecting In-Flight Sick Bags, Singapore