Thanks for your willingness to help. It is very appreciated.
In an attempt to clarify the issue, let me restate it: The issue here is that TurboTax will not let you do that.
As soon as you enter information in Box 7, it generates the Schedule C. If you manually delete the Schedule C, then the income disappears completely. It is impossible to add the 1099-MISC with info in Box 7 without getting a Schedule C.
Are you suggesting we do not actually report the a 1099-MISC and manually put it in as hobby income? If so, is that not likely to result in a nasty letter from the IRS asking why you did not report the 1099-MISC?
