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Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I bought a used school bus for $3600 on eBay to turn into a motorhome (“skoolie”). Best $50,000 I ever spent.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This post is meaningless without pics of your build
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well OK, but it will take awhile …
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
vrchat is a free game… that I have spent over $1,200 on… 😭
tyranny@crazypeople.online 2 weeks ago
that’s what i call a hobby! thanks for the detailed insight
dismay3915@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’re cooked dude.
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Me: I’m gonna take horseback riding lessons! Maybe I’ll get my own horse in like five years!
Me two years later: pays at least $350/month on the horse I was given for $0
Also me: I’ll never financially recover. Yee haw! 🤠
janus2@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
honestly in terms of monthly cost to coolness ratio that aint the worst deal
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh no, I’m really lucky. Most places cost at least $500.just to keep a horse in a stall.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I got into making and designing small tabletop model steam engines because they are cool. So I needed to buy a small lathe, a mill, a metal cutting bandsaw, and all the tooling each machine needed. So much tooling…That’s the part that will break you financially.
And then you discover you need to design and make a jig or fixture to make a special tool to make another special jig and fixture to make a tool to make that one tiny part for that engine. None of which you will probably ever use again. You end up making tools to make tools to make tools. You can spend 6 months to a year designing and building tools just to get to make that one little part.
I’ve got thousands of dollars and thousands of hours into making engines that I just give away over the years. But I can’t stop this hobby. And I have added 3D printing to my list of hobbies as well.
At least it got me away from collecting fine antique shotguns and importing hunting dogs.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This sounds more like skills than hobbies. You might not get paid for it but you totally could. What you are making is valuable to someone
Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I was a toolmaker for a while. So there is more than a little skill and knowledge. But I had issues doing that kind of work and had to find another career.
Some people love woodworking. I love working with steel and making tools.
villainy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
NGL making tools to make tools to make tools scratches a persistent itch in my brain. That all sounds very satisfying.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It is very satisfying. That’s why I was a toolmaker for a dozen years or so until I got so cranky and pissed off angry I had to find a new career before I DID skin some idiot alive and nail their hide to the wall.
But I do enjoy the process of making a good and accurate tool. The problem is, I tend to be a perfectionist. And when I realize I’m on the third iteration of a tool that really isn’t that important, it can be hard to pick up the old thread again. But I do enjoy it.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve realized my hobby is optimizing my space to do my hobbies. If I ever get my workspace just like I want it for projects, I won’t know what to do with myself. The workshop is the project.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You ain’t the only one in that boat. And there is nothing wrong with that either.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I never need another plant, but I’ll always get one on a bad day. Plus, I love learning how to care for different kinds of plants.
Syndication@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Plants are the best hobby cause you can essentially just keep making your own copies!
nycvin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You wouldn’t download a plant.
Sabata11792@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Do not propagate? Challenge accepted.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I tell myself that they will pay for themselves because I can eat them. After a few more years if I can work out what grows well that mat actually become true…
Found some cheap beetroot seeds yesterday, pack of 4 different colours of beetroot and I have 1800 seeds for £1.50, so that will almost certainly pay for its self as long as at least like 5 of them grow to a decent size.
Most of the wasted cost is in stuff I buy that fails. But if you measure it on a per plant basis my most successful has been rosemary. One of my oldest plants and propagated so much from a single plant. “Do not propagate” sticker on it when I bought it was taken as a challenge. I now have about 12 of them. Mostly use it with sage and dehydrate them to mix with salt, goes great on roast potatoes.
Kuma@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I know you are joking but I wanted to add that a hobby isn’t a hobby if you earn money (that is a job) because the real reason you do it, is because of brain stimulation or even meditation, I think going out with friends is also a hobby (less structured), and alcohol is never a net plus but we do not think we need to earn money when we go out it is the happiness it brings we pay for.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hobby
That’s a weird way to spell guitars.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
My condolences
Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Huh, never heard cameras called that before…
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I got one of them.
I want another one of them.
But my guitar money only goes so far.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’ve been watching YouTube videos on diy yacht building. That’s not going to be something I can afford
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That entirely depends on your tolerance level for debt, lots and lots of debt.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I teach guitar lessons. They’re only £15 per hour. But the guitar will cost you £150. And the amp will cost you £100. And being in a band will cost you £10 per rehearsal for the rest of your life. Wanna tour? Bad news, bud. It’ll cost ya.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I can tell this is not about Warhammer because it starts impossibly low and ends impossibly low.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I don’t like this “meme”. Hobbies are supposed to be fun, it’s fine to spend money on things you think are fun as long as that spending doesn’t interfere with survival. Just don’t spend all your money on something “someone” (ads, influencers,…) told you might be fun.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What new hobby? Oh, that? Yeah, I’m kinda over that. Anybody want to buy a $500 thing, barely used once?
Fine, I’ll take $75?
Fine, $20!?
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It’s worth €2000, most of it is never used. I’ll list it for €1000, only pickup possible due to vast size and weight. Only serious offers please. (I’ll take any offer over €750)
Average offer: €50 including shipping.
Fuck it, I’ll just store it with the collection of other old hobby stuff.
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
No need for someone else, I’m going to talk myself out of it.
ShaggyBlarney@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You won’t even miss that $1800. It’s well worth the investment.
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When you break it down by hours of enjoyment and accomplishment, that $3k is really nothing.
Jubei_K_08@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m just gonna trade in these old guitars, clean up the place a bit, put the money away for something else later. I’m a sensible adult today.
Comes back with a Charvel Pro-Mod DK 24 🤡 I’d’ve been a sucker not to buy it!
cojo5@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
well yeah, a guitar like that could do the job of two of your other guitars.
not that you’re going to sell those two other guitars, it’s just you told yourself you would, to justify the new one
bridgeburner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The trick is to be poor. Cos then u don’t even have any money to start any hobby to begin with.
janus2@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
instructions unclear, spent very little money but an absolutely disastrous amount of time
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep. I tried getting into paintball back in 2000, bought a gun of of a friend but never had the opportunity to even shoot it. Kept it through HS, college, and the first 5+ years of work before a friend said he was trying to get back into it. I told myself I wouldn’t buy any new gear until we had a few good games. We did a couple 1 v 1 and 2 v 2 and i finally decided to bite the bullet. New mask (custom paint job), new gun (azodin blitz), mechanical hopper, some other accessories, etc etc.
Played once, he got bored with it again, started dating a new girl and disappeared.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
BoosBeau@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I did NOT consent to being in this post.
vinsombra@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The dice goblin cannot be satiated. Just a few more…
Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Gotta love the shiny click clack rocks. Such an easy rabbit hole to fall into.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was successfully able to limit myself to just a single color, so I could satiate my dice goblining with just red dice.
Until I saw some teal ones which were sick af. Now I only have red sets and teal sets. And haven’t played in 3 years 🫤
vinsombra@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My favorite system only uses d10s, and they should be color coded. 9 colors are assigned, and you always have to have a random, and frequently you will need to roll two of the same color, but you also have to keep track of which color was for which effect… And as I introduce more players, I usually end up giving them a set to play with… I’m sure I’m well over $2k on this over the entire life of the hobby.
fork@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
All good, already spent it 👍
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What is worse is spending a bunch of money on a new hobby only to get bored with it.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Yeah what’s more common for me is spending the initial money and then losing interest :/
Lon3star@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is the way
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
40K, not even once.
If you’re into dumb shit then it is a lot of fun, though, and a great creative outlet. Expensive as fuck, though.
Not saying dumb shit in an insulting way, my favorite genre of anything is dumb shit.
arudesalad@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
So far I have only spent £200 on 40k because I’m such a slow painter that I’m still on the starter set 7 months later. Procrastinating saves a lot of money.
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thanks for reminding me I need to sell all my diy eliquid flavors
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Good luck selling that.
I would not be comfortable buying used.
The nicotine is the worst to dispose of, especially if you spill it
titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Literally just did this tonight. My gf wanted a button maker, so we bought a 40$ one on Amazon. Opened it up. Looked at it, packed it back up and did a return to buy a 70$ model.
fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
don’t call me out… i spent around $150 to not have to spend $200 on a new controller… AND i can reuse it for other stuff! leave me alone!!!
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Golf was $100 a round then it turned 4k into new clubs. I wish $500 is where it stopped
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Oh man I wish any of my hobbies cost onder $20k.
DrBanjo@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I wish it stopped at $500 😢 hobbies are expensive
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
What hobby do you do?
the_wonderfool@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Yes
rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Violin is a very expensive hobby. So are harps. Such beautiful instruments though
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have 7 guitars, a bass and 6 3d printers
My wallet is tired boss
DrBanjo@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Everything that sounds fun! Haha but a lot of different craft type things (cross stitch, crochet, quilting, etc), Lego, and rock climbing to name some recent interests lol