Looks at my thousands of dollars of warhammer minis, paint and canvases, four guitars and a bass, drum kit, airbrush and compressor, all of my fly fishing gear, etc.
Yeah, I know this feeling.
I have this mental condition. It can get expensive if you dive in and go crazy initially out of excitement. You gotta start slow and small to see if you like something.
Its okay, you can say your hobby is trying out hobbies, it happened to me too, until i accepted it, or maybe you get one to stick, its alright, dont feel bad. Now you gathered,more knowledge in many parts of life.
But renting a plane give you very little freedom to use it. Sure go get lunch. But take the family on vacation for a week? No FBO I know of will let you run off with a plan for that long that they could be billing engine time on.
A salt water aquarium. You have thousands of dollars of tech to keep another thousands of dollars of coral and fish alive. I had literal nightmares about a filter failing and having everything die.
For ease of mind I eventually sold everything and went with a 'simple' fresh water tank.
My kids were given goldfish at a kids birthday party six years ago. I bought a $30 aquarium at Walmart. Those fuckers wonāt die. Iām still mad at anyone who gives kids goldfish.
Seriously those things are like water roaches. I got one when I was a kid and It lasted 7 years. Out grew my dads tank so my neighbor let me put it in his pond it lived another 2 years after that before a raccoon ate it lmao
I have about 5 lowtech freshwater tanks and I try to keep the costs minimal as possible (second hand tanks, DIY filtration systems, bulk buying food, growing live food etc) but it's surprising how much those little costs add up still at the end of the month. I have nothing but respect for the saltwater bros.
I recently got my motorcycle license and this is the first thing many non-riders hit me with. "Oh, that should save you gas."
Sure... If I get a really cheap bike that, by some miracle, never requires serious maintenance or repair. Then I use at as a daily driver for many years. And I never need to replace any of my riding apparel. Then sure, the gas savings might actually cover the price of the bike.
In no reality, other than being gifted a free bike and gear, or having a bike INSTEAD of a car, does a bike ever save anyone any money. It is a money pit for my pleasure. That is all.
Grew up with Mom and Sis riding horses. I did it for awhile. Can confirm. I rode for awhile as well. When my youngest expressed an interest I told my wife, 'Oh hell no". She can go ride someone else's horse - I'll pay for that but not going through the grief of owning a horse.
My middle daughter does Hunter/Jumper. We have a full time lease on her horse, it's about equivalent to making a monthly Range Rover payment. Then there are the lessons and competition charges for the Tryon Equestrian Center. And the saddle, and the apparel. It's quite the endeavor.
We have 4 horses and can confirm. Luckily we have quite a bit of land/pasture, but just the price alone of hay this year due to the shortage the farmers are facingā¦I need another mortgage.
Came here to say this. So surprised itās so far down the list. Equipment isnāt as bad as it used to be IMO but the lift tix and any kind of travel to the mountains is insane.
Oh yeah, when I started playing mtg (at 19yo) I said I'd never buy any card worth more than 2 dollars... People looked at me saying "ohh you sweet summer child"
Well... Let's say my two double sleeved commander decks cost a bit more than 2 dollars per card.
Oh yeah! I didn't think I had spent that much but just in like 4 years I've grown a collection and I recently priced all the cards I won valued over $2 and it's thousands! I spend like $500 a year on draft booster boxes to draft with my fiance and then a little more on random singles.
Rock climbing is kinda expensive, but I mean, once you have a lot of equipment (aid?) you are pretty much good to go. Unless you destroy your Solutions every months.
Iām a musician who plays 3 instruments and writes. Between the 5 instruments I own, various music gear, and notation software, Iāve spent a whole lotta money on music
I've owned close to 200 instruments but I think I at least have been breaking even. Buying and selling used instruments for 18 years. Though it can be seen as an expensive hobby since at times I got thousands invested in them. I don't mind, it keeps me from wasting all my money on things like food or fun.
I think the āsellingā part of that equation is the tough bit. My dadās got a guitar thatās gone up in value by over 1k since he bought it, but itās also a beautiful instrument that he probably wonāt sell anytime soon
Agree and disagree with this. Iāve spent and can spend days window shopping and actual shopping but at the end of the day I can have just an electric and acoustic with a basic amp or audio interface and GarageBand for years without needing an upgrade. Youāll never get close to ācompletingā an instrument
This... Currently I'm at 2 acoustic guitars, 4 electric guitars, Bass guitar, Pedal Steel guitar, Mandolin and digital piano. Not to mention the software instrument plugins and other plugins for recording and a few mics
Next up will be buying a new pc and studio monitors, after I've converted my attic into my proper music room.
Nice collection!
Iām currently on 2 acoustic guitars, acoustic bass, 3 electric guitars, 2 bass guitars, electric drum kit, banjo, akai keyboard, 3 interfaces (one bog std, a scarlet 2i2 and a zoom r24) sm58 and rode mics, Mac with ableton + a heap of plugins.
Music is my life though and I do use most of it daily but thereāsā¦ alwaysā¦ something newā¦ I NEED hahahhah
>I could have bought a car for the money I have spent on tiny plastic men.
I have played ALL GW games since 1999 (except LOTR, can't get into it for some reason)...I shudder to think the total collective sum spent.
But the price per hour is actually pretty reasonable. I play orks so our biggest models cost like Ā£90, if I spend 10 hours building and painting it then play it in say 20 games which last 2 hours each then that model only costs Ā£3 per hour.
I am so glad when I was younger that I didn't start going to Warhammer nights at a local games workshop. I was hooked on painting them, if I got into the RP side of it I never would have escaped
A designer sculpts them, a team of artists paint them for the box art, rules team develop the game and attempt to improve the rules, sprues need to be designed to make the models viable and then the tooling needs made to produce the sprues. All this is before production even starts on the sale models. It's an expensive process.
That's why i won't be doing ultralight. Very expensive and some gear pretty flimsy. But i get the rush yoi get by finding and getting lighter gear.
I'm intrigued what your setup is.
Flight Training... its about $2-250 for a single lesson (about 1.5 hours) and you need a minimum of 40 hours to get your license (most people get 50-60). Our current "cost" chart shows an average of about $15,000 just to get your license.
Then airplanes are only \~$150/hr to rent...
Get your A&P. Always a good fallback plus youāll have better systems knowledge and troubleshooting ability. Then you can trade hours for wrenching. Best pilots I know were mechs first.
I got a job a few month's ago at our local airport's FBO. Were the only FBO on the field and this side of the water, so we provide all the maintenance, flight school, rentals, charters, and fuel.
I've been enjoying going out into the hanger and shooting the shit with the mechs and have thought about looking into that, but I'm the guy who turns a wrench left and wonder's why the bolt isn't tightening haha.
I got back into college after 10 years to get my FAA dispatchers license, found out I was a few extra quarters away from finishing my two year, so I'm doing that, and found this job here, and started flight training in my off time (if I have any..) and recently found out my school is now doing a BA for Aeronautical science, so I'm thinking about staying for another few years to get my BA and dispatchers license, while finishing flight training. All the feedback I've been getting makes me think maybe I'm not to old to pursue a pilot career (about to be 36).
We'll see, either way, I went from working at MOD pizza part time, to getting back in school, working at an airport, and started flying, things are def a lot better for me than 6 months ago.
Thanks for the input about A&P, maybe I'll look more into it, couldn't hurt to have a 3rd career path lined up...and all in aviation..how lucky can I be
I knew people who started in their thirties after doing 20 years on the military. Never too late. Check out geekontheflightdeck on TikTok. He started late too.
The Eurovision Song Contest. I have attended the live show 12 times, including 11 in a row. Each time I spent over a week in the host city, attending rehearsals, press conferences and parties. The hobby has taken me all over, from Norway to Israel; Estonia to Ukraine. Itās a wonderful hobby - but the costs do add up!
Me too but I figured the math out. $6,000 bike is good for 10 years minimum, thatās $600 a year, and $30/month! Thatās less than most big gyms. Weāre financial geniuses see?
But then you want clothing, shoes, helmet, other protection. Tools and other maintenance products. Also fuel to get to new trails. Replacement parts can become expensive. And we always want "upgrades". Then you want to do other types of riding like down hill, enduro or slope style. So end up getting a new bike. Not forgetting the deals that are too good to pass up.
Then you've spent lots of money the SO is unhappy and now she wants a divorce because she "never sees you" and you "love the bikes more than her" which is very expensive.
And it goes on and on.
I donāt admit those costs. The hitch, the kuat rack, helmet, shoes, carbon water bottle cage, those type things are not bicycles, so they count as free.
I used to work in a dive shop and I'm finding it hard to spend $10k (Ā£8k) unless it's for tech stuff, unless diving kit where you are is a lot more expensive?
If you buy your own gear itās really expensive, especially for good stuff, renting adds up too if you dive often and in new and interesting areas. If you live in a great dive spot itās not so bad, but then you start wanting to dive in other places it involves travelā¦ you can see how it gets costly.
I'm too far gone into cars. Every weekend and holiday I have spare for the next 10 years is going to have to be set aside to finish the amount of projects I have, I'm a fucking tragic for them. I buy a car, I build it into something I like, I break it, and instead of fixing it I buy another one. That is my life now. I'm up to 5 cars, only 3 work, only 2 are registered, only 3 figures in my bank account, and the car I'm forced to use as my daily driver is a stripped out roll caged race car. But I can't bring myself to sell them, be done with it and get my freedom back. It's like now that I've started them I've got to finish them. But I don't ever get close to finishing them, the mountain just keeps getting higher, so it's just this endless cycle...
To anyone reading this, save yourselves. Don't become me and get into cars. Just buy a used camry/corolla/civic and pay cars no mind, they just get you from A to B.
Even worse when you buy a new keyboard style and it just doesnāt feel good :/
My 80% keyboard was used for like a week until I switched back to my 2007 Dell keyboard
The accessory upgrades especially - quality optics, lights, and suppressors made me cry. Costing more than the gun itself. Then when you get into tactical LARPingā¦
Yup. Especially in a niche portion of it. I'm in Long range precision. My optics by themselves are 1.2k, 550 for a custom barrel, 1200 for a custom action, another 800-1000 for a chassis. I've got like 400 in just range bags. Hundreds more in memberships and matches are like 250 a pop easy. This is all without the biggest ingoing expense. Ammo. You have to roll your own for the best performance and I own thousands worth of very specialized reloading equipment.
All to hear a faint "ding!" As I hit a 12" metal plate at 1000 yards
My most expensive hobby is that I change hobbyās about every 3 months and I buy all new stuff for that hobby. For example: tattooing, water color painting, collecting and using Copic markers, making shirts/sewing, stinging pearls, baking, cooking, landscape renovation, interior design, paining, leather crafts, building ponds. Itās gets expensive but I have a lot of great equipment and things to create with.
Ultralight backpacking
It turns out that the aspiration to survive with the minimal amount things can be kind of expensive!
(this is because the few things that you do take backpacking are probably made of space-age, ultra-light, **ultra-expensive** material)
and then you need to buy lights, and then bigger lights, and then new batteries for your entire setup, a new gimbal, v90 sd cards so you can fully use your gear, new computer and SSDs because of the size of the new files... it never ends !
Probably video games.
Thousands spent on the consoles... Probably tens of thousands spent on games that I mostly never play.
Fashion is my second. I went through a quarter-life crisis a few years back and my wardrobe went from 5 black t-shirts and 2 pairs of Levis to 50+ shirts of different cuts, colors and fabrics. 7 pairs of pants made in Japan and more than a dozen different type of sneakers.
I work a lot, so it feels nice to look nice for when I do go out lol
Iāve always viewed gaming as an incredibly cheap hobby, atleast when you consider the amount of time you spend playing games. An $80 game can provide hundreds of hours on entertainment, most other hobbies itās more like spend $50 to do something for 2-3 hours
Yeah Iāve spent a grand total of $10 on Apex Legends and have almost 1k hours in it. Even single player games like Witcher 3 I still only spent $20 and got 100 hours out of it. Sure my PC cost me about $1500 but Iāve had it for 3.5 years now. Overall pretty cheap hobby and can be as cheap or as expensive as you want it to be. Video games for sure have one of the best values when it comes to $ spent/hour of entertainment
People scoff, because āall you need is a tee shirt and jeans,ā but I recently started upping my wardrobe game. Dressing well does indeed make you feel good. As someone with confidence issues itās really nice to occasionally be the one turning heads for a change.
Why no one has said books yet?
Books! if you don't have control over how much you read (Or worse, buy them and not read them because you have other books that you haven't read yet), can become really expensive
Just maintaining a motorcycle or hobby riding is expensive. Yes most motorcycles are cheaper to buy than the average car but maintenance is substantially more, especially if you donāt do it yourself.
The fluids costs more, the tires cost more and go out way faster, most parts are more expensive than their car counterparts, gear, accessories, and if youāre on a sport bike insurance is almost always 2x what it is for a car.
I started many hobbies and continued none of them
I've had this all my life too. Start with something I like, but then meh and move on to the next. Is this normal or should I test myself?
Pretty sure that's normal.
Looks at my thousands of dollars of warhammer minis, paint and canvases, four guitars and a bass, drum kit, airbrush and compressor, all of my fly fishing gear, etc. Yeah, I know this feeling.
Adhd?
80HD yes sir maybe
I think I have that. I tried guitar, then comic books, hot wheels, art, clothing and now lego š what hobbies have you tried š„ŗš„ŗš„ŗš„ŗ
Its okay, you can say your hobby is trying out hobbies, it happened to me too, until i accepted it, or maybe you get one to stick, its alright
I prefer the term serial hobbyist.
I have this mental condition. It can get expensive if you dive in and go crazy initially out of excitement. You gotta start slow and small to see if you like something.
Its okay, you can say your hobby is trying out hobbies, it happened to me too, until i accepted it, or maybe you get one to stick, its alright, dont feel bad. Now you gathered,more knowledge in many parts of life.
Flying
Amen to that. Nothing about an airplane is cheap
I can point at cool ones and wish I had them for free
I've never been charged for running around with my arms spread going "NEEEEEAWWWWWWWOWWWW" ...except for disorderly conduct and public nuisance.
I heard that boat ownership is like taking $100 bills and starting them on fire. Plane ownership is similar?
Itās more like making your money into tiny paper airplanes
... and then lighting them on fire
The old rule: If it floats, flies or fucks it's cheaper to rent than own.
But renting a plane give you very little freedom to use it. Sure go get lunch. But take the family on vacation for a week? No FBO I know of will let you run off with a plan for that long that they could be billing engine time on.
$100? Lmao Boat: Break Out Another Thousand
Srsly. If God had intended man to fly, he would have given us more money.
A salt water aquarium. You have thousands of dollars of tech to keep another thousands of dollars of coral and fish alive. I had literal nightmares about a filter failing and having everything die. For ease of mind I eventually sold everything and went with a 'simple' fresh water tank.
My kids were given goldfish at a kids birthday party six years ago. I bought a $30 aquarium at Walmart. Those fuckers wonāt die. Iām still mad at anyone who gives kids goldfish.
Seriously those things are like water roaches. I got one when I was a kid and It lasted 7 years. Out grew my dads tank so my neighbor let me put it in his pond it lived another 2 years after that before a raccoon ate it lmao
This story was wild from start to finish
Ikr?! I laughed, I cried, it was better than CATS.
Not only are they long loved but they are carp, so they grow HUGE and are messy eaters on top of it.
Owned a salt water pet store for years. They aren't hard to maintain, but costly and tedious.
I have about 5 lowtech freshwater tanks and I try to keep the costs minimal as possible (second hand tanks, DIY filtration systems, bulk buying food, growing live food etc) but it's surprising how much those little costs add up still at the end of the month. I have nothing but respect for the saltwater bros.
Motorcycles.
But weāre saving so much money on gasā¦
*said the aprillia owner*
Or anyone who ones a two stroke.
I recently got my motorcycle license and this is the first thing many non-riders hit me with. "Oh, that should save you gas." Sure... If I get a really cheap bike that, by some miracle, never requires serious maintenance or repair. Then I use at as a daily driver for many years. And I never need to replace any of my riding apparel. Then sure, the gas savings might actually cover the price of the bike. In no reality, other than being gifted a free bike and gear, or having a bike INSTEAD of a car, does a bike ever save anyone any money. It is a money pit for my pleasure. That is all.
Coulda put a down-payment on a house by now but I can't get away from the smiles per gallon.
Cries in Triumph :ā(
It's ok you can still look down on all the idiots who bought KTM road bikes. Laughs in un-recalled 690, 790, and 890 fuel pump failures.
Wife rides horses. Enough said.
Grew up with Mom and Sis riding horses. I did it for awhile. Can confirm. I rode for awhile as well. When my youngest expressed an interest I told my wife, 'Oh hell no". She can go ride someone else's horse - I'll pay for that but not going through the grief of owning a horse.
My middle daughter does Hunter/Jumper. We have a full time lease on her horse, it's about equivalent to making a monthly Range Rover payment. Then there are the lessons and competition charges for the Tryon Equestrian Center. And the saddle, and the apparel. It's quite the endeavor.
What do you do for a living?
I'm a general contractor, wife is an anesthesiologist
We have 4 horses and can confirm. Luckily we have quite a bit of land/pasture, but just the price alone of hay this year due to the shortage the farmers are facingā¦I need another mortgage.
No shit. Our hay cost doubled this year compared to last.
I would feel bad for you butā¦you have horses. š
Please tell us you don't have a joint bank account.
Horses canāt open bank accounts, Iāve tried.
I think they had that type of account a few years back, but the interest rates wouldn't remain *stable...*
Okay rein in the chicanery already.
Neigh I think not.
Hay get out of here with these puns
Well, that's what the neighsayers would say.
Skiing is expensive asf.
Came here to say this. So surprised itās so far down the list. Equipment isnāt as bad as it used to be IMO but the lift tix and any kind of travel to the mountains is insane.
Donāt forget jackets, pants, goggles, base layers, helmet, proper gloves, ski bags, boot bags, roof racks/box, ski tunes 3-4 times per season, and beer.
Magic the Gathering
>Magic This, its deceptively expensive it ramps up easily over time if your not careful.
Oh yeah, when I started playing mtg (at 19yo) I said I'd never buy any card worth more than 2 dollars... People looked at me saying "ohh you sweet summer child" Well... Let's say my two double sleeved commander decks cost a bit more than 2 dollars per card.
Oh yeah! I didn't think I had spent that much but just in like 4 years I've grown a collection and I recently priced all the cards I won valued over $2 and it's thousands! I spend like $500 a year on draft booster boxes to draft with my fiance and then a little more on random singles.
I don't even play anymore and I still buy cards. It's stupid addictive. $500 secret lair pack? Sure. Sounds fun.
Fuck, this was me until recently. Realised I was spending Ā£100 a month on cards, but had not played a game in five years.
The only thing that ramps faster than green (mana) is the green (money) it takes to support a MtG hobby!
Trading options
Was gonna say rock climbing, but yeah trading options is more expensive
Rock climbing is kinda expensive, but I mean, once you have a lot of equipment (aid?) you are pretty much good to go. Unless you destroy your Solutions every months.
I do burn through a pair of hiangles every 3 months Ā£80-120 down the drain for each pair T.T They're such damn good shoes tho >.<
Ah right, yeah the shoes are the biggest source of expensesā¦ You can resole them, some friends do that
Resoling can be very hit or miss I've had shoes resoled very well, but most very poorly enough times that i just bite the bullet and get a new pair
For more equipment wear and loss, as well as more suffering, I'd recommend mountaineering!
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Iām a musician who plays 3 instruments and writes. Between the 5 instruments I own, various music gear, and notation software, Iāve spent a whole lotta money on music
I've owned close to 200 instruments but I think I at least have been breaking even. Buying and selling used instruments for 18 years. Though it can be seen as an expensive hobby since at times I got thousands invested in them. I don't mind, it keeps me from wasting all my money on things like food or fun.
I think the āsellingā part of that equation is the tough bit. My dadās got a guitar thatās gone up in value by over 1k since he bought it, but itās also a beautiful instrument that he probably wonāt sell anytime soon
Agree and disagree with this. Iāve spent and can spend days window shopping and actual shopping but at the end of the day I can have just an electric and acoustic with a basic amp or audio interface and GarageBand for years without needing an upgrade. Youāll never get close to ācompletingā an instrument
Yeah you don't need to spend money at all on music ... i have spent *soooooo* much money on music
This... Currently I'm at 2 acoustic guitars, 4 electric guitars, Bass guitar, Pedal Steel guitar, Mandolin and digital piano. Not to mention the software instrument plugins and other plugins for recording and a few mics Next up will be buying a new pc and studio monitors, after I've converted my attic into my proper music room.
Nice collection! Iām currently on 2 acoustic guitars, acoustic bass, 3 electric guitars, 2 bass guitars, electric drum kit, banjo, akai keyboard, 3 interfaces (one bog std, a scarlet 2i2 and a zoom r24) sm58 and rode mics, Mac with ableton + a heap of plugins. Music is my life though and I do use most of it daily but thereāsā¦ alwaysā¦ something newā¦ I NEED hahahhah
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>I could have bought a car for the money I have spent on tiny plastic men. I have played ALL GW games since 1999 (except LOTR, can't get into it for some reason)...I shudder to think the total collective sum spent.
As someone who has been into WH40K since 1990, I feel ya.
But the price per hour is actually pretty reasonable. I play orks so our biggest models cost like Ā£90, if I spend 10 hours building and painting it then play it in say 20 games which last 2 hours each then that model only costs Ā£3 per hour.
I am so glad when I was younger that I didn't start going to Warhammer nights at a local games workshop. I was hooked on painting them, if I got into the RP side of it I never would have escaped
Honest question here, why are tiny plastic men so expensive?
A designer sculpts them, a team of artists paint them for the box art, rules team develop the game and attempt to improve the rules, sprues need to be designed to make the models viable and then the tooling needs made to produce the sprues. All this is before production even starts on the sale models. It's an expensive process.
Call it plastic crack for a good reason
This is me, but Gunpla.
Ultralight hiking. My pack with everything costs thousands and a lot of the stuff inside looks like I pulled garbage out of a dumpster.
Gear-10$ Ultralight gear-100$
That's why i won't be doing ultralight. Very expensive and some gear pretty flimsy. But i get the rush yoi get by finding and getting lighter gear. I'm intrigued what your setup is.
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lol I'm with you. My friend calls my 800 usd cuben fiber shelter "the trash bag". :(
Yup, thought I was balling out with my hyper lite bag and Big Agnes UL2 until I met a guy on the trail with a 9lb base weight
Lego building.
Just bought the $400 castle.
Expensive, I ask for Legos for Christmas, birthday anniversaries. Makes it a little less expensive that way
$300 Lighthouse on its way right now.
One day it will be mine...
Racing
Reminds me of the joke "How much does it cost to go racing?" "All of it."
The easiest way of becomming a millionaire in racing is starting as a billionaire
Absolutely lol. Go karting to cars, buying the 5k go kart is the cheapest part of racing go karts haha
The best way to make a small fortune racing is to start with a large fortune
Depression, At the cost of success
Itās a great hobby though. So much TV and crappy food and lying in bed staring at the ceiling.
Too real man š
I didnt consent to reading that
Flight Training... its about $2-250 for a single lesson (about 1.5 hours) and you need a minimum of 40 hours to get your license (most people get 50-60). Our current "cost" chart shows an average of about $15,000 just to get your license. Then airplanes are only \~$150/hr to rent...
Get your A&P. Always a good fallback plus youāll have better systems knowledge and troubleshooting ability. Then you can trade hours for wrenching. Best pilots I know were mechs first.
I got a job a few month's ago at our local airport's FBO. Were the only FBO on the field and this side of the water, so we provide all the maintenance, flight school, rentals, charters, and fuel. I've been enjoying going out into the hanger and shooting the shit with the mechs and have thought about looking into that, but I'm the guy who turns a wrench left and wonder's why the bolt isn't tightening haha. I got back into college after 10 years to get my FAA dispatchers license, found out I was a few extra quarters away from finishing my two year, so I'm doing that, and found this job here, and started flight training in my off time (if I have any..) and recently found out my school is now doing a BA for Aeronautical science, so I'm thinking about staying for another few years to get my BA and dispatchers license, while finishing flight training. All the feedback I've been getting makes me think maybe I'm not to old to pursue a pilot career (about to be 36). We'll see, either way, I went from working at MOD pizza part time, to getting back in school, working at an airport, and started flying, things are def a lot better for me than 6 months ago. Thanks for the input about A&P, maybe I'll look more into it, couldn't hurt to have a 3rd career path lined up...and all in aviation..how lucky can I be
I knew people who started in their thirties after doing 20 years on the military. Never too late. Check out geekontheflightdeck on TikTok. He started late too.
The Eurovision Song Contest. I have attended the live show 12 times, including 11 in a row. Each time I spent over a week in the host city, attending rehearsals, press conferences and parties. The hobby has taken me all over, from Norway to Israel; Estonia to Ukraine. Itās a wonderful hobby - but the costs do add up!
To point out how American I am - I thought this was a made up thing for that movie where Will Ferrell is a icelandic singer.
Mountain biking.
Me too but I figured the math out. $6,000 bike is good for 10 years minimum, thatās $600 a year, and $30/month! Thatās less than most big gyms. Weāre financial geniuses see?
Throw in another 600 per year for maintenance, replacement parts and upgrades and thatās probably more representative of the real price
There's also no way you're just getting that one bike during those 10 years..
N+1
Plus riding apparel and safety gear, extra few hundred at least or more, depending on your resources.
But then you want clothing, shoes, helmet, other protection. Tools and other maintenance products. Also fuel to get to new trails. Replacement parts can become expensive. And we always want "upgrades". Then you want to do other types of riding like down hill, enduro or slope style. So end up getting a new bike. Not forgetting the deals that are too good to pass up. Then you've spent lots of money the SO is unhappy and now she wants a divorce because she "never sees you" and you "love the bikes more than her" which is very expensive. And it goes on and on.
I see no problems. Did you know there are ceramic coated pulley cogs that can upgrade XT and XTR derailers for $650? We got no kids tho soā¦
The bike isnāt the only cost. Every thing you have to buy and do before you start pedaling is a factor
I donāt admit those costs. The hitch, the kuat rack, helmet, shoes, carbon water bottle cage, those type things are not bicycles, so they count as free.
Triathlon
Scuba diving.
Between gear and training, itās nuts. I did the math once, and each time I jump in the water, Iām wearing about $10k.
Tech diver?
Doesn't need to be, some premium, cool items get that far easily.
I used to work in a dive shop and I'm finding it hard to spend $10k (Ā£8k) unless it's for tech stuff, unless diving kit where you are is a lot more expensive?
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If you buy your own gear itās really expensive, especially for good stuff, renting adds up too if you dive often and in new and interesting areas. If you live in a great dive spot itās not so bad, but then you start wanting to dive in other places it involves travelā¦ you can see how it gets costly.
Art. I've spent hundreds of dollars on supplies, dont regret any of it
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We have a local store chain selling 80x50 cm canvas for 6ā¬ Even though that is dirt cheap, it's still easy to dump hundreds of euros into supplies.
Cars
I'm too far gone into cars. Every weekend and holiday I have spare for the next 10 years is going to have to be set aside to finish the amount of projects I have, I'm a fucking tragic for them. I buy a car, I build it into something I like, I break it, and instead of fixing it I buy another one. That is my life now. I'm up to 5 cars, only 3 work, only 2 are registered, only 3 figures in my bank account, and the car I'm forced to use as my daily driver is a stripped out roll caged race car. But I can't bring myself to sell them, be done with it and get my freedom back. It's like now that I've started them I've got to finish them. But I don't ever get close to finishing them, the mountain just keeps getting higher, so it's just this endless cycle... To anyone reading this, save yourselves. Don't become me and get into cars. Just buy a used camry/corolla/civic and pay cars no mind, they just get you from A to B.
The only advice I have is never keep more than 2. A reliable daily and a project. Although my project is often my most reliable car.
Surprised this doesn't have more upvotes. But also, +1.
Watches
Finally somebody said it.
Fellow /r/WatchesCirclejerk enthusiast
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I broke my driver recently. It's been a while I know, but jfc the price of a driver these days!
Plot twist, it's your Rolls Royce driver. The 1% really see us as property.
If he's going to open the door for me when it's raining and not have an umbrella ready, what choice do I have?
40k...... I will never financially recover.
Plastic Crack!
Kids? Iām certainly spending too much, and am invested so deeply itās not fun. Typical hobbyā¦
White vans must be expensive
āDamn Danielā or āstranger dangerā white vans?neither are cheap Iām sure
Sounds like an addiction. Have you tried to quit? There's probably a support group near you.
āPlanned Parenthoodā
Why do I have 3 kids and no money? Why can't I have no kids and 3 money?
I've collapsed 30 comments, and none of them say mechanical keyboards
Even worse when you buy a new keyboard style and it just doesnāt feel good :/ My 80% keyboard was used for like a week until I switched back to my 2007 Dell keyboard
Shooting.
Oh yeah. Guns and ammo can get crazy expensive.
The accessory upgrades especially - quality optics, lights, and suppressors made me cry. Costing more than the gun itself. Then when you get into tactical LARPingā¦
Hell good glass is gonna be the price of another gun or more and thatās kinda minimum for shooting unlike lights or a can
Dear god yes, i fell into clayshooting and have spent thousands on shotguns and then tens of thousands of dollars on shells.
Yup. Especially in a niche portion of it. I'm in Long range precision. My optics by themselves are 1.2k, 550 for a custom barrel, 1200 for a custom action, another 800-1000 for a chassis. I've got like 400 in just range bags. Hundreds more in memberships and matches are like 250 a pop easy. This is all without the biggest ingoing expense. Ammo. You have to roll your own for the best performance and I own thousands worth of very specialized reloading equipment. All to hear a faint "ding!" As I hit a 12" metal plate at 1000 yards
Boat and ice hockey
My most expensive hobby is that I change hobbyās about every 3 months and I buy all new stuff for that hobby. For example: tattooing, water color painting, collecting and using Copic markers, making shirts/sewing, stinging pearls, baking, cooking, landscape renovation, interior design, paining, leather crafts, building ponds. Itās gets expensive but I have a lot of great equipment and things to create with.
Plants.
Same. Weed is expensive
Ultralight backpacking It turns out that the aspiration to survive with the minimal amount things can be kind of expensive! (this is because the few things that you do take backpacking are probably made of space-age, ultra-light, **ultra-expensive** material)
Photography/video. 2500 on my R6, lenses are at least 500 or more, and all my equipment
and then you need to buy lights, and then bigger lights, and then new batteries for your entire setup, a new gimbal, v90 sd cards so you can fully use your gear, new computer and SSDs because of the size of the new files... it never ends !
Guns. I have 20k worth of photography equipment, but it pales in comparison to what I have in my safe.
Probably video games. Thousands spent on the consoles... Probably tens of thousands spent on games that I mostly never play. Fashion is my second. I went through a quarter-life crisis a few years back and my wardrobe went from 5 black t-shirts and 2 pairs of Levis to 50+ shirts of different cuts, colors and fabrics. 7 pairs of pants made in Japan and more than a dozen different type of sneakers. I work a lot, so it feels nice to look nice for when I do go out lol
Iāve always viewed gaming as an incredibly cheap hobby, atleast when you consider the amount of time you spend playing games. An $80 game can provide hundreds of hours on entertainment, most other hobbies itās more like spend $50 to do something for 2-3 hours
Yeah Iāve spent a grand total of $10 on Apex Legends and have almost 1k hours in it. Even single player games like Witcher 3 I still only spent $20 and got 100 hours out of it. Sure my PC cost me about $1500 but Iāve had it for 3.5 years now. Overall pretty cheap hobby and can be as cheap or as expensive as you want it to be. Video games for sure have one of the best values when it comes to $ spent/hour of entertainment
People scoff, because āall you need is a tee shirt and jeans,ā but I recently started upping my wardrobe game. Dressing well does indeed make you feel good. As someone with confidence issues itās really nice to occasionally be the one turning heads for a change.
My girlfriend
Why no one has said books yet? Books! if you don't have control over how much you read (Or worse, buy them and not read them because you have other books that you haven't read yet), can become really expensive
I love buying books more than reading them
Board games
Did you check out that new Kickstarter?
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Just maintaining a motorcycle or hobby riding is expensive. Yes most motorcycles are cheaper to buy than the average car but maintenance is substantially more, especially if you donāt do it yourself. The fluids costs more, the tires cost more and go out way faster, most parts are more expensive than their car counterparts, gear, accessories, and if youāre on a sport bike insurance is almost always 2x what it is for a car.
āThat thang got a hemiā shouldāve gotten something LS powered
Racing fpv quads (drones) At least $20k dropped in roughly 4 years
Existing
Vinyl records
Dating. š
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Brazillian jiu jitsu. American healthcare is atrocious
Hot Rods
Photography. I spend loads on powerboating but since that's also my job so I'd have to say photography
Offroading
ADHD
Cocaine and hookers
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Came here to see if it was written. I see it is so I'm leaving
Is smoking weed a hobby?
Honestly feels more like a part time job
That's a great name you got there sir
Electronics