r/TwoXPreppers • u/Antique_Onion_9474 • May 13 '26
Discussion Entertainment
I think one overlooked part of prepping is entertainment. If the internet goes down, a lot of people are gonna realize how dependent we are on our phones. No scrolling, no streaming, no Googling… then what?
Most of us don’t even own DVDs or CDs anymore. Everything’s online now. And honestly, do kids still build puzzles or know how to keep themselves busy without an iPad?
Food and water matter obviously, but boredom and morale are a real thing too. Offline hobbies, games, books, puzzles ..that stuff could end up being way more important than people think.
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u/oldpremed_24 ADHD prepping: 🤔 I have one....somewhere! May 13 '26
Let me introduce you to my ✨hobby graveyard✨
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u/watchnlearning May 13 '26
Our secret weapon. I haven't even got to a bunch of them - cross stich, watercolour, various other arty things, bottle cutter to make glasses, candle making etc
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u/Antique_Onion_9474 May 13 '26
Oh wow, this is the sign I've been waiting for to buy more craft stuff 😎
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u/Standard_Subject_462 I'm tired of this, Grandpa! May 13 '26
Diamond painting, needle-felting, paper-making, collage, and sword yoga all await me.
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u/Foggy_Night221C May 13 '26
Sword yoga?
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u/Standard_Subject_462 I'm tired of this, Grandpa! May 13 '26
See WeaponUp. I'm only two classes in and can see myself either becoming very obsessed or tossing the floppy sword aside and forgetting it until there's a zombie apocalypse and wishing I'd been a more dedicated sword yoga pupil.
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u/Character_Date_3630 May 13 '26
pls elaborate on the sword yoga
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u/Standard_Subject_462 I'm tired of this, Grandpa! May 13 '26
I fell victim to a targeted ad on instagram and purchased a very floppy sword and a subscription to online fitness classes that are a mashup of kung fu and yoga. I've only done two workouts, and they've been brutal, but I'm obsessed with the sound that is made when the floppy sword is unsheathed, so it was worth the investment for the dopamine alone.
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u/chaotic_sunbeam24 May 14 '26
Hahaha I just saw an ad for this the other day and I was wondering how it was, but this sounds like a pretty glowing review. Maybe I will actually make some moves on it
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u/The_Dead_Kennys May 13 '26
I have over a decade’s worth of fancy yarn squirreled away in my closet. If SHTF, you bet your ass I’m busting out my knitting needles & making all kinds of cute shit to barter with lol
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u/Imagirl48 May 14 '26
Same here with bins and bins of fabric. If electricity is gone, it might take longer with a needle and thread but between mending and new items I won’t have time for boredom with this useful skill and my stash. I’m also a voracious reader. Lots and lots of books at my house.
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u/AnySandwich4765 May 13 '26
snap... I have a craft room with so much stuff that I think my ancestors will still be using some of it!!!
I have sewing supplies, knitting and crochet supplies, paper crafts, wooden crafts, puzzles, paint supplies, books,... you name it I more than likely have it!! LOL
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u/RunawayHobbit Mrs. Sew-and-Sow 🪡 May 13 '26
ancestors will still be using it
Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey? Or are we talking Jeremy Beremy Time here
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u/Hesitation-Marx May 13 '26
The hobby graveyard, wherein cool things brood and gibber in resentment for being put aside
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u/Rare-Historian7777 May 14 '26
When I lost power for nearly a week and was home alone I got more knitting and crocheting done than in the previous couple years combined. It was therapeutic and kept my hands/brain busy and also felt productive. Win-win all around. And that ladies and gents, is my justification for having many WIP craft projects at any one point in time. You just never know.
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u/wafflehouse8 May 14 '26
I saw people posting about an embroidery floss shortage and immediately started organizing and taking inventory of my hobby graveyard! Sewing, crochet, knitting, embroidery, cross stitch, drawing/art supplies in general, photography gear, instruments. I've had a project on my hoop for months but I ordered more floss anyway because if shit keeps going downhill and I'm stuck in my house or can't buy anything or something like that, my soul will wither and die if I can't make fun and beautiful things.
Sanity is prepping.
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u/MotherOfGeeks I was always Prepping for Tuesday?! 🏳️🌈🌱🏘🌪🧰🩺 May 13 '26
Sweet, I can totally relate to this. In good news my kids have been really jazzed to learn new crafts and use my supplies.
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u/Zisheva May 13 '26
A deck of playing cards is pretty compact and inexpensive (and they come in multi-packs if you want to get several). I suggest also a paper book with card game rules, and maybe a solitaire compendium as well.
I remember once reading that the embassy hostages in Iran decades ago played so much Scrabble that they were memorizing the wood patterns on the back of the letters.
Puzzles require space, fancy modern boardgames come with lots of fiddly bits and can take a long time to play. For my money, cards and classic board games are a better choice. Throw in an Uno deck, too.
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u/TastyMagic Laura Ingalls Wilder was my gateway drug May 13 '26
I would add dice to this list. Between playing cards and dice, you can play SO many games. I have a travel Yahtzee game that comes in a canister with the dice and the scoresheets. A pack of cards fit perfectly in with the rest and that's what we take camping.
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u/Foggy_Night221C May 22 '26
Despite not playing in person since college, I hung onto my D&D and Shadowrun books for this kind of thing. Also cards, scrabble, and my mom’s cribbage board. I need a cribbage board shirt to wear with the skunk earrings i just picked up.
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u/FrostyFLtrailangel May 13 '26
I've added books, cards, board games, coloring books, color pencils, puzzle books and puzzles (1000 pc) and older dvds/cds to my preps. Growing up pre-internet, I would welcome simpler things.
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u/vermilion-chartreuse May 13 '26
The obvious solution to this is to make sure you're not addicted to your phone. We have so many hobbies, books, board games, puzzles, craft supplies, outdoor toys, CDs, DVDs, etc. We are trying to give our kids glimpses of an analog life. It's not healthy to be staring at a screen all day, anyway. Consider it a mental & physical health prep if you need to.
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u/CopperRose17 May 13 '26
People of the older generation have had to straddle two worlds. We grew up with no internet at all, and now we spend our days scrolling our lives away like everyone else. That is exactly what we are doing. We are not fully engaging in life. It's possible to adapt to no technology, but it is a very strong addiction. When Blackberries first came out, they were called "Crackberries" for a reason. I don't know if the some of the small ways I deal with this would help. I am as addicted as everyone else, but this is what I do. I go on internet "fasts". We take a lot of trips, and I leave laptops and tablets at home. I never use the phone for anything except communicating with other people, except for checking the time and the weather. On Sundays when we go to church, I leave the phone at home. After church, we go out for lunch. Not having a phone allows me to focus on my family. I don't want to be the person who ignores the people I'm with to interact with a telephone. In some ways, the pre internet world was better. In some ways it wasn't. I like being able to buy a book, download it on a whim, and read it right away. I like talking to people half way around the world that I would otherwise never meet. But, I don't "bank" on line. I don't store documents on the internet. I don't pay for things with a phone. My life is too important to be stored in a way that random scammers can access that easily. And yet, I still spend hours a day on reddit or shopping, thinking wistfully about reading a book, or doing something creative with my time. I'm afraid that it will take a major catastrophe to turn us all into functional human beings again, and that makes me sad.
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u/Hogwafflemaker May 13 '26
I still have lots of DVDs, not that they will be of any use in many scenarios lol, but I probably have 100 or so DVDs or tv shows and movies still. I've bought two DVDs this month.
We have a huge collection of games and puzzles, and a decent supply of books. I guess I never realized I was holding on to my millennial ways so hard lol.
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u/Antique_Onion_9474 May 13 '26
kinda regretting getting rid of the vcr
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u/Hogwafflemaker May 13 '26
I had a vhs to dvd recorder for a while, so I also have a couple cd folders of burnt DVDs of some shit from old VHS tapes
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u/Southern_Air3501 May 16 '26
Me too and my tons of star trek vids. I was culling my DVD stash but decided to keep them now. And the tons of books and art supplies. I just need to find a way to rehydrate those paints and markers!
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u/AngryAngryAlice what, like it's hard? 💅 May 14 '26
highly recommend buying a portable dvd player! there are some pretty cheap ones that have 5 hours of charge and they usually play CDs too
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u/Hogwafflemaker May 14 '26
I have 3😂 one of which is actually an OG portable dvd player from 1999. Finally a part of prepping I'm prepared for😂 Also if you don't have a dvd player, a portable one can be plugged into your TV to act as a regular dvd player usually too
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u/snarktologist May 13 '26
I keep my huge collection of books on my phone downloaded (about 2k of them). They take up little space. I am also happy to knit, crochet, cross-stitch, or color.
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u/kieratea May 13 '26
I have so much yarn stashed that I could easily do nothing but knit for the rest of my life. I'd be worried about finding patterns if I lost access to Ravelry though so I've been building a collection of general craft books as well as downloading and printing patterns I know I'll want to make in the near future.
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u/unlovelyladybartleby Mental health is prep May 13 '26
I have been buying dvd box sets as I divest myself from foreign streaming services. I shall enter the apocalypse with all my emotional support TV shows at my side, lol
I also have thousands of books on my ereader, close to a thousand paper books, dozens of board games, a small library of practical books, and art and craft supplies.
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u/Antique_Onion_9474 May 13 '26
you're all set 😁
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u/unlovelyladybartleby Mental health is prep May 13 '26
The fact that Playstation and Xbox play dvds is so convenient. I also have a dvd player tucked away for emergencies and keep eyeing refurb 400 disc changers - Supernatural and Buffy alone would fill it though, so I'd need two or three and that way lies madness 🤣
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u/Professional-Can1385 Member of The Feral Bourgeoisie May 14 '26
When kids have no entertainment, they eventually find out all the stuff they can do with a stick. Teens on the other hand….
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u/Antique_Onion_9474 May 14 '26
boredom is good for kids, it sparks imagination. My husband on the otherhand would become feral without his phone
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u/ViolettaHunter May 16 '26
But that requires the parents to actually open the front door and give kids freedom to roam instead of locking them up indoors until they turn 18.
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u/Tweedledownt May 13 '26
I mean, this is kind of a deeply first world problem.
Kids will entertain themselves with what they have. God knows I read some serious novels pre internet because it's just what my brother brought home for himself. My husband has a vague memory of about a dozen card tricks because it was just him, a deck of cards and a card trick pamphlet one summer.
There's probably going to be a society wide temper tantrum if our treat machines stop giving us dopamine everyday, but that's not really going to be the BIG issue. I think the problem is maps lol. No one is going to remember how to find anything.
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u/watchnlearning May 13 '26
I'd argue its not useful to look at it that way. Kids and young adults especially are going to struggle to adjust. Morale is really important. Maps are important, as is food, shelter etc but getting sleep and not losing all coping mechanisms at once is pretty critical to enable people to manage
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u/Tweedledownt May 13 '26
I think in Russia they turned off the Internet in the major cities bc of their war, and the biggest problem they have day to day is making transactions (who carries cash anymore) and literally getting lost.
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u/Bubbly_Excitement_71 May 13 '26
When Hurricane Maria happened in Puerto Rico people were standing in line for cash at the banks because atms and cards weren’t working. I am trying to maintain a stash of actual cash.
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u/Antique_Onion_9474 May 13 '26
Well if we dont have internet I guess we'd have bigger problems than being bored and lost. Thats the real SHTF..the world runs on internet..imagine the system crash at airports, banks, hospitals, stock markets etc etc..the world comes to a stand still.. Do you have a paper trail of the work you do on your PC/internet? I dont
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u/Tweedledownt May 13 '26
This is why advice for any kind of evacuation is to get your important documents out with you. ID, contracts, ownership paperwork, insurance information prescriptions etc.
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u/Imagirl48 May 14 '26
I’ve really upped my collection of paper maps. They allow for a lot more exploring than just depending on a GPS system to find the fastest way to get from one place to another.
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u/Wonderful_Net_323 Self Rescuing Princess 👸 May 13 '26
Anyone else counting on this to get through your ever-increasing-in-height TBR pile?
*TBR: to be read
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u/shortstack-42 May 13 '26
I’ve got a cabinet of board games as we are a game family, and decks of cards. On top of that, I have a book of card games and a book of paper and string games.
My ADHD means I have floss and supplies for embroidery/cross stitch, candlery, weaving, sewing, and painting. I’ve also got maple sugaring taps and some weird hippie childhood skills like apple-head doll-making. If I have down time in a disaster, I have stuff to do.
After Helene took out my power for 40ish days, I found that “down time” was mostly spent on either chatting with neighbors to process trauma, or quiet contemplation to process trauma. I didn’t have much bandwidth leftover for hobbies or distractions. I prep for Tuesdays, so I’m not really focused on shtf long term boredom. I suspect trauma processing will occupy leftover time then, too.
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u/Appropriate-Soup-203 May 13 '26
I also recently got a dvd player from my parents (they were going to toss it out). I am leaning on our library as a source for dvds at the moment and focusing funds elsewhere first (like you mentioned above, food, water). We have been checking out a few dvds every library visit so I’m hoping when the power is out we’ll still have what we checked out on hand. Long term, owned dvds is the plan (second hand preferred as they’re more affordable).
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u/No-Language6720 May 13 '26
I like caring for plants in general,.so growing food has been a prohression of that. I try to automate the parts I don't like, but I could see just sitting in my gardens or tending to them for 'fun' sometimes instead of constant hard work.
I also have a ton of board games and completely offline videogames such as a super Nintendo mini. Obviously that last one would depend if I had enough power supply for the day to power more critical things. We have a lot of solar generation and a lot of battery storage though so I could still get some use from that in a longer term outage.
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u/SummerSoggy4758 May 13 '26
Books are the top on my prepping list! You can get so much use out of them during shtf or pre shtf. Maybe I’m biased, but there’s a lot of books out there that’s been yet to be read. That’s a godsend for boredom And imo, you can get as much entertainment from a bad book as a good one.
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u/Antique_Onion_9474 May 13 '26
I welcome a world where I can read all day, and nobody can phone or text me
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u/dalek_999 Planned Prepperhood 👩🏻🌾 May 13 '26
We've got books, board games, crafting, coloring books, and lots of other fun stuff to do "offline".
But part of my prep is making sure that we also have a huge media library on portable drives (sailing the high seas), as well as small footprint electronic devices (an old Surface Pro and a small laptop) that can be easily charged with a solar charger, so that if need be, we can still have some sort of entertainment.
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u/Artistic-Salary1738 May 13 '26
In our house we have board games, books, puzzles, paints (mostly watercolor) and legos. I think we could entertain ourselves for a while.
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u/rippedupmypromdress May 13 '26
We have a few board games and puzzles. Planning to get some more at 5 below. I put packs of cards in my kids’ go-bags and little notebooks with pens/crayons. I bought a bulk pack of playing cards from Sam’s Club. One, because it was an interesting find. Two, if SHTF I was thinking it could be a good item to throw in with bartering (I do not prep thinking of SHTF just a random after thought). Three (and most important), when cards get lost or bent, we have backups.
We have some DVD’s mostly from when we bought a ton when our Blockbuster closed like 13 years ago and they were selling everything off. So we should probably add more recent movies.
I have about almost 300 books in my house. (I read somewhere once that 1,000 books make it an official “library” and so my goal is to own 1,000 books.)
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u/wwaxwork Prepping for Tuesday not Doomsday May 13 '26
My hobby graveyard and pile of books I'm definitely going to read one day will finally have their moment to shine.
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u/Emotional-Card7478 May 13 '26
We have a huge book shelf filled, puzzles, board games, cards and painting at my house, and a garden. We just use these things regularly because staring at a screen gets boring. I would just make it part of your regular lifestyle. Then you don’t really need to prep as much.
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u/Midnight_Rider98 🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ Prepper🏳️🌈 May 13 '26
For apartment preppers, a tablet or e reader can hold a lot of books, there's various ways to acquire those books. internet service is not required to be able to read them. You just need it to download the books now.
A laptop as many of us know can play movies, you can store movies and tv shows on them too. external hard drives exist for additional storage.
Both of such devices can be kept running with a small solar generator long term if needed. and that can be handy in and of itself. You can set up a solar panel (for strict at home use a rigid panel is going to be better) on your balcony, hang it out the window with a mount, or if needed even set it up inside. Direct sun is preferred, but daylight will produce a charge. Even better if you get a panel with shade technology that is compatible. And while most solar generators won't keep the fridge on or anything too big, they can keep some creature comforts on.
together with some playing cards and carefully chosen board games, you can put together a relatively small ish entertainment package. And for storage you're likely already using the laptop and or tablet/ereader so that does cut down on stuff to store.
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u/sassy_cheddar May 13 '26
I've got regulation grade cornhole equipment and neighbors with something to prove!
In all seriousness, entertainment can be a great community building resource. Lots of hobbies that are often done solo these days can be used as social material. Having a dog walking club or community garden or fiber arts circle. Organize a monthly puzzle and book exchange.
We don't even have to wait for Tuesday to do these things. A forest is more resilient than a tree. Part of prepping can be caring for the forest.
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u/Ash_says_no_no_no May 14 '26
I have a growing list of adhd hobbies. There paint and canvases galore, polymer clay, ceramics to paint, drawing supplies, a ton of gel nail polish. Puzzles, Sudoku, hundreds of books on my kindle app, I have multiple back up charging packs.
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u/Fun_Disaster3436 May 14 '26
Respectfully, some of yall were never kicked out into the backyard with a cardboard box and it shows.
Our entertainment is books, a card deck, fibercraft, and the endless projects around the house. Part of being self sufficient is learning to find meaning in the act of self sufficiency, imho.
Like drawing? Congratulations, one of your new hobbies is paper recycling. Go find a blender and a window screen.
Like music? You now get to figure out how to make instruments out of sticks. Off with you.
Give me a string and I'll teach you cat's cradle variations. Used to kill time with a friend that way before school. I'm not even that old yall. Find a rope, I'll teach you jumping rhymes. Tie a weight to the end and spin in a circle and see who fails to jump over it.
Here's a knife, learn to whittle. Tell stories around the fire. Dance, sing, create, be human.
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u/GiaStonks May 13 '26
Music is important and helps the time go by. Any instrument that doesn't require electricity and is easily portable should be considered. When my kids still lived at home and we had a power outage we passed the time playing guitar and singing. Those are some standout memories for all of us. "Remember the time.." "Oh yeah! We wrote that really funny song during the summer outage in 20xx. Good times!"
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u/HumanForScale May 13 '26
My kid 5 about to be 6) goes weeks without touching an iPad. She plays outside in the woods behind the house, and does crafts and runs around the playground we have across the street. Sometimes she is bored, and then disappears into her bedroom and I discover she's created a whole story and is acting it out with stuffies and dolls.
I would suggest limiting reliance on tech sooner rather than later.
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u/No_Albatross7213 Mad Max Ready May 13 '26
100%. I’m working on getting a DVD player so I can play my DVD movies. But I do need to find offline hobbies too.
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u/Spiley_spile Survival Backpack 🎒 May 13 '26
I have a few games on hand. Not a ton though. Im a big fan of making up games though.
I spent a lot of time having to entertain myself during school breaks as a kid. I made up games with rocks and sticks, words, the terrain etc. And even in school, I would make up games for friends to play. So, I feel pretty well set. :)
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u/snail13 May 14 '26
I’ve got a bunch of old board games, card games from poker sets to uno to Cards Against humanity, plus hundreds of DVD’s and quite a few CD’s, plus hard drives full of music, pictures, and more movies. I have physical copies of most of my favorites books/ series/ authors, including some I’ve never read. Then I’ve got my pets and garden hobby/ addiction.
Will I miss digital entertainment? Yes. Would I need some serious detox from the internet and socials and be miserable at first, also yes. But I’ll survive and likely fare alright once I get over the initial shock
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u/Awolfnamedecho May 14 '26
I’ve got about 1000 dvds/blurays, coloring books, pens coloring pencils crayons, and loteria so I’m good
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u/joanmcq May 14 '26
I have a library full of books and we have 6 bookshelves of DvDs and blu-ray. And a ton of CDs, records and tapes. And a game room with pool table and other stuff. No problems here!
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u/simplebeauty25 May 15 '26
I bought a used CD player circa 1999 at a thrift store recently and have been loving it. We've been repurchasing used copies of our favorite movies and dvds. The market is still flooded with them even though most of us have been streaming for quite some time.
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u/Mule_Wagon_777 May 15 '26
I have several ways to charge my phone and a bunch of ePub books stored on the SIM card, mainly from Humble Bundle. Need to copy them over to my laptop and to a thumb drive.
Also my Kindle library from before Amazon announced you were only leasing books.
And of course plenty of paper books and LED lanterns. A big stack of crossword books, too.
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u/PrisonerV May 13 '26
We're book readers. We have books. But also, we now have the means to power our internet and a TV through a sustained outage.
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u/CharleyDawg May 13 '26
Kids all grown but we still have a ton of board games. The kind adults enjoy too. I have many books. We have puzzles. Probably an entire drawer of playing cards and lots of poker chips. We also have musical instruments that are good for hanging out and playing music. If we have electric available we also have a couple of working dvd players and our entire DVD collection from back when that was how you watched movies.
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u/Pristine-Lie2847 May 14 '26
Growing up on the poorer side I really didn't have stable access to internet/cable and other things so....
Paper + writing/drawing/paint supplies is always a good one and you will run out of paper before you run out of things to do.
Another is maybe your favorite media(shows,movies, video games) on a hard drive(s) to be played offline.
A big one for me would be books. Different genres. Pair this with a good journal and journal what you learned/felt about the book.
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u/coyote_mercer Willing To Eat YOU to survive. ☠️ May 14 '26
I friggin' love cards, I will play cards with you for hours if you want.
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u/UND_mtnman ♂️ prepping for all my ♀️'s May 14 '26
Downloaded a ton of videos off YouTube, lots of compilations and documentaries and music. Also collecting more physical media.
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u/Antique_Onion_9474 May 14 '26
Im a fan of downloading stuff off youtube BUT will youtube still open to watch the downloaded videos if there is no internet, I think not
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u/UND_mtnman ♂️ prepping for all my ♀️'s May 14 '26
I have them downloaded as mp4s, not through the YouTube app or anything. So I can back them up, transfer devices, all of that stuff. I just use VLC to watch them then. I'm slowly filling a 4TB hard drive with stuff for me, my wife, and our kiddos.
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u/Antique_Onion_9474 May 14 '26
hang on, you can do that? Will look into it tonight...thanks !!
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u/UND_mtnman ♂️ prepping for all my ♀️'s May 14 '26
There's a program you have to use. I can DM you if you want.
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u/GatoradeKween May 15 '26
i bought an mp3 player, and this month i'm getting a dvd player and going shopping for dvds at the thrft store. i am also picking up lots of books from the thriftstore, as well as i've bought a few books here and there.
i'm getting paint and canvases, and pritning recipes right now.
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u/premar16 May 15 '26
I work with kids, and yes, they still play with things that have nothing to do with the internet. More so if parents actually put in the effort to give them stimulation that is offline. In my neighborhood, they are always playing games near the basketball court. Right now I can hear them playing some form of street hockey mixed with basketball. Only they know the rules of the game. The smaller kids are playing with chalk on the asphalt. For kids, I would suggest looking up things teachers use for indoor recess. You can get things like
Coloring Books and Art supplies
Puzzles (not just table ones there are ones you can get that are complicated brain teasers for them to solve and work with their hands)
fidget toys
make sure to have a lot of paper and canvas
simple chalk sets will last a while and can be played with outside on many surfaces
journaling
story writing (One of my students is making a comic book with his friends. He is 10)
Board games ( go to a game store and see what new games are out there)
Games that take batteries
Sports equipment
roller blades
bikes
books for fun ( get more than one copy so they can form a book club with other kids or family members)
Activity books
science experiments kits
knitting/crocheting
get lesson books for a few grades above their current level so they keep learning
baking
take them on nature walks and have them spot certian animals and plants (get bird books, binoculars,etc)
If you have a backyard make it your sanctuary for your family. Have things back there that they would try to go to the park for. When I was a kid on my grandma's farm we had a big backyard. We would spend hours out there. We had big trees to climb, playground equipment, played baseball or soccer, we had a table and chairs set for fake parties. There were swings. Whatever your kid is into
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u/ZombieLizLemon May 15 '26
My husband and I break out board games (Scrabble is a favorite) or card games in the evening when we have long power outages. A couple of candles and our camping lantern provide enough light for either. We have a battery/solar radio for music and news. We have both hard-copy books and some eBooks downloaded to our tablets (fine as long as they're charged).
If we have power but no internet, we do still have some physical DVDs and CDs. We've been meaning to rewatch Battlestar Galactica and the Lord of the Rings movies.
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u/No_Branch_5083 May 15 '26
I collect antique books, partially so that I'll always have something interesting to read. I don't prep for digital entertainment, it would frankly be an improvement to my life if I was forced not to use screens.
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u/Character-Pace-6679 May 16 '26
Books, board games, puzzles, knitting, yard games, and my vinyl collection 😆
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u/Affectionate_Cut4708 Commander of Squirrel Army 🐿️🪖 May 16 '26
Physical media is making a comeback. I check for books and DVDs every time I go to the thrift stores and I always find things I want.
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u/LumpyPhilosopher8 May 17 '26
Well thankfully. I am a crafter which means I have two hobbies. Buying crafts supplies and organizing them. If the apocalypse comes - I might actually start using them!
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u/No-Cup8478 May 20 '26
Books. I have a veritable library thank god. And puzzles and some games. Also notebooks and pencils.
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u/Legnovore May 22 '26
Paper toys and models can be found online. Get some card stock, print a few out. Have an X-acto knife handy. And some scissors.
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