Spending money on hobbies is fine, change my mind.
surely your hobby can't be that expensive
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zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
umbrella@lemmy.ml 26 minutes ago
no. we must spend money on bills then sit motionless until next shift.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 15 minutes ago
The only people deserving fun are the billionaires.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
No. I agree with you
zebidiah@lemmy.ca 19 minutes ago
…watch collecting, photography, motorcycling, hifi equipment & vintage synths, 😭😭😭
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 40 minutes ago
Doing historical reenactment can be done in two ways:
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spend an absolute fuckload of time on everything.
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spend an absolute fuckload of money on everything.
The former is more historically accurate, but I completely understand not wanting to pick up flax farming as a side hobby.
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IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
there has to be a list of hobbies one can try that cost practically nothing:
Solving Rubik cubes (a high quality speedcube is about 20$)
Crocheting/stitching (needles and yarn after cheap)
Writing (free)
… (please expand if you have any ideas)
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 15 minutes ago
IMO piracy and self hosting has great cost benefits.
Sure it costs money to buy a mini computer and a hard drive, but after, you can spend a long time building that library and it won’t cost you a dime.
And the computer and hard drive is more like an asset, you don’t really lose money when you buy it.
And it kind of pays you back, eventually you get a little tired of building your library but then you can use said library and integrate it into your lifestyle while you get a new obsession.
Rinn@awful.systems 1 hour ago
Crocheting/knitting is cheap to try out but once you really get into it (and start worrying about yarn quality and so on), the money pit opens.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 45 minutes ago
As someone who owns a spinning wheel, you can dye and spin yarn at home to make the money pit even wider and deeper!
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour ago
My wife has enlisted friends to help me sell her yarn stash if she dies before me. There’s probably 10 large worth of high value lines sitting in bins around me. Her work includes a $200/month yarn shop stipend, and has for many years now.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
ok but that’s in you for getting expensive yarn.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Yep. Often when I wear a new jumper or whatever around people who know I knit, I get asked ‘oh, that’s pretty, did you make it?’
Lol no, that would have cost me like 5 times more. I couldn’t afford to make it myself.
CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Not no-cost but cooking, gotta feed yourself anyway might as well have fun with it
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Cooking is cost negative relative to eating out. You just need a decent kitchen and plenty of free time
Emi@ani.social 1 hour ago
Drawing, pencil and paper for start and drawing tablets are not that expensive for starter ones and there’s free open source drawing software.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
D&D costs $90 for the hard cover core book set and $0 for the pirated pdfs.
Biking can have a high upfront cost, but I’ve been using the same bike for 20 years with tune-ups and replacements running in the low three figures over that time.
I’m a big fan of podcasts, particularly ones that cover old movies. Criterion collection films are everywhere and they’re classics for a reason.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
There are cheaper and better TTRPGs.
Asetru@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Hiking? I mean, the world is just out there.
Other outside activities that need minimal equipment come to mind. You ever played discgolf? Or went running? Or geocaching?
But yeah, lots of activities aren’t expensive. Draw something. Paint something. Sing! Or do some sports! Yoga only requires a mat if you do it naked.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
although the entry bar is theoretically non existent. practically? not really.
Skipcast@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Software development is free if you already have a computer
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 hour ago
Writing (free)
Maybe if you only write in dirt with your finger. Orherwise you need writing implements and something to write on.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
If you’re reading this in a computer, then you already have what you need. otherwise, it’s like you said, the cheapest thing on the list
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
Walking.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Ceramics is stupidly cheap to get into. All the tools can be replaced with your hands and a needle, finding workable clay in nature is stupidly easy if you know what to look for and even the garbage clay can be made usable. Most ceramic shops let you rent a shelf on the kiln for like $5. Your first ceramic statue is literally 2 hours of research and $5 away no matter where you are in the world.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 43 minutes ago
finding workable clay in nature is stupidly easy if you know what to look for
Workable clay may be hundreds of kilometers away, depending on where you live.
I mean, I’m in the Netherlands, i literally can’t avoid the stuff, but not everyone lives in a giant river delta.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
MTG really fits the shoveling cash into a furnace thing
ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Unfortunately yes. I used to play many years ago, loved (and still love) the game format. But after the release of modern masters at the price they did, I knew things would never get better. Wizards and Hasbro are in on the card evaluation market. They could, at ANY time, squash it. They decided to foster it
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 hour ago
Thankfully my hobby is video games so I really only have to buy something to play them on and then I can search for the One Piece if you catch my drift.
KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
It only feels that way because corporations and their billionaire leaders keep eroding our ability to afford anything beyond basic requirements and decreasing the amount that they pay for labor. Working 40 hours a week should give you enough money to survive and have a couple of hobbies, at a minimum.
annoyed_onion@lemmy.world 13 minutes ago
As an amateur radio operator, I can confirm this as factual. Over.