I like ants. I paid 0.30€ per tube and I don’t think I’ll ever need to buy more, I use old plastic food containers, so free, I breed my ants’ feeder insects…
I mean, there are many hobbies that can be dirt cheap or free. Do you like plants? Get free cuttings asking for them to your neighbor or any acquaintance, buy a little dirt and cheap pots. Do you like fishes or crustaceans? You don’t need an expensive aquarium, you just need a really cheap food grade plastic tub. Do you like bikes? My bike is a cheap second hand one. Do you need a house? Forget it, you’ll never be able to pay for one.
What if your hobby is stealing expensive things from international chains and pawning them?
If you love your job, you never work a day in your life or something
Steve, stop masturbating and go steal some shit
Steve: nut i c-can’t help it
do you have any laptops with the bios unlocked
edit: I am not soliciting stolen goods I am asking a question out of interest
Are they locking down the BIOS on laptops now?
Buddhism has entered the chat!
Learning to sit still, in the quiet, and just being has been one of the biggest improvements to my mental health.
Of course, a bigger improvement to my mental health would be if we had an economy that worked for the people rather than for the rich…
Just reach for that moksha/nirvāṇa to escape saṃsāra: the world is a distraction.
While I agree, there’s certainly a difference between learning to be comfortable with stillness and literally not being able to afford to do anything. I take time for stillness every day but the fact that I can’t do anything else without feeling guilt is the problem.
Also, as much as I know you are trying to be helpful, I’m really sick and tired of being told that I have to make all the sacrifices. Pretty soon the next sacrifice I’ma make is gunna be to Khorne.
There’s a german poem that i find very intriguing:
Still sitzend,
nichts tuend,
kommt der Frühling
und das Gras wächst von allein.It means:
Sitting still,
doing nothing,
comes spring
and the grass grows on its own.It means that in very difficult times, where everything seems dead and hopeless (winter), being patient and doing nothing at all is best, and it will bring you into better times (spring).
One of the reasons I’m glad I live in the city. There’re free concerts in the parks. Free movies, sometimes. I can bike or train to the beach. There’re meetups for all sorts of interests. When I lived in the suburbs, it was a wasteland. At best you could drive somewhere interesting.
Seriously. Suburbs are a hell I refuse to return to and which I wouldn’t wish on anyone. They just suck the life out of everything and you don’t even get anything for it. Hell, the houses aren’t even that cheap so you really just get to spend a lot of money on hot garbage.
“Hey, wanna be isolated from all your friends while getting nothing in return except the blandest, cookie-cutter hellscape? Have I got the place for you! And fret not, it’ll still cost you a staggering amount of money for even a small, shitty place so you better be fuckin’ married if you want even a two-bedroom condo!”
I think suburbs is really only for people who have no soul and no creativity in the first place which could get smashed by the blandness of it all. I grew up in a very rural area and i hated it so much, it’s difficult to put into words. I’ll never leave the city again.
Proper rural at least has some advantages, but bland, single-family home suburb whose development was built on what used to be a forest beside a farmer’s field doesn’t count. Like, if someone has a house way out because they just like that kinda thing then I’m still wondering what they’re up to out there, if they’re ok, and what they’re planning on doing if they ever have kids but at least they can actually stay up late with a fire in the backyard. Of course, most of them are too scared of having a septic tank to ever get far enough away to make it worth it.
And yea, trapping your kids far from stuff because you’re anti-social is extra weird.
My partner can fall asleep at any time of day. I’m jealous. I’d spend a lot more time unconscious if I had the option.
There’s a great poem about this.
A man walked through his life with his Lord by his side. When he died, he looked back and saw that during the saddest and most troublesome parts of his life, he would only see 1 set of footprints, instead of 2. He asked the Lord “why did you leave me when i needed you most?” to which the Lord responded “it was then, that i carried you”.
I think this expresses how besides our emotional side, there is also a much more enduring side inside us that takes over our consciousness when we need it most, so we only see the parts of life that we enjoy.
How is that poem even vaguely related to this?
I think this expresses how besides our emotional side, there is also a much more enduring side inside us that takes over our consciousness when we need it most, so we only see the parts of life that we enjoy.
I’d spend a lot more time unconscious if I had the option.
I play chess online and it only costs me my self esteem.
Oops just hung another queen.
Chess seems unique in the sports/games world because randomness plays absolutely no role in the outcome. It is purely the other person’s brain squashing your brain down into a beige stain.
There are a bunch of No Hidden Informationn / Perfect Information games. The next well known one probably being Go
You got a house? 😭
I bought a used school bus as a hobby. Now I’m a school bus driver so technically I get paid for my hobby. Except that dealing with middle-schoolers is definitely not a hobby.
Wait… Do most bus drivers own the bus?
No, bus drivers don’t own the buses they drive kids around in. Those buses are owned or leased by the district or company they work for. The bus I own I converted into a motorhome, so I couldn’t drive kids in it even if I wanted to (no more than two, anyway, since I do have one passenger seat in my bus).
One of my hobbies is making and drinking cocktails. I’m spending kind of a lot on it and I have a bit of an issue with actually storing all the bottles I buy (see: housing is expensive), but if I was drinking even half of those cocktails in bars I’d be spending several times as much. Drinks in bars are expensive, proper cocktails even moreso, and if you want ingredients that are better than bottom-tier …
I’m introverted and frugal. I sit in my chair and vibrate through realities.
If you’re skilled you can even turn these vibes into reality.
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Look at Mr. Fancy pants over here with their own house. Man, that must be nice.
Your house?
Borrowing books from the library is free!
Not just books. In some places, DVDs and video games. Some even offer digital services connected to your library card.
Or ask Anna for them
She has a great archive
So is downloading movies and series, fuck streaming services.
The most fun and properly constructed games these days are cheap indie games and which don’t require expensive gaming rigs.
You don’t need an expensive camera, you can already do decent photography with your phone. Just do a course to learn about tricks and composition. Too expensive you say? Hell no, YouTube offers loads of courses for nearly anything. Hate YouTube ads you say? I get it, just use grayjay app for a ad free experience :) because fuck Google.
You can clone plants, put them in second hand pots. Get some seeds. Grow your own herbs and food.
Get a cheap 3D printer. Can be as cheap as 250 euros. Filament can be as cheap as 8 to 10 euros per kilo. Learn CAD through YouTube, design your own stuff. Maybe tools for other hobbies, like a phone stand for long exposure photos or nice pots for your plants.
