My hobby costs nothing after that initial ten years and a total of $10k investment in classes & equipment. Now with my own gear I can do it anytime, anywhere in favorable weather plus expending a shit-ton of physical exertion.
…the suspense is killing me! What is it?
suspense
It does indeed involve being suspended in the sky. Aerial Silks.
sex swing, huh? Yeah I remember my first one too
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.
Video games are a cheap hobby they said. So many options they said…
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Games playedStrongly dependent on you. I’m on the other side of the spectrum. I rarely buy full price games and only those with long playtime. Makes a very efficient €/h investment compared to other hobbies.
If you buy every CoD, EA gane or whatever each year and another full price release every month you’re financially screwed though.
To be fair, I rarely buy games over $10, and frequently even that is a stretch. I’ve built my library heavily from bundles. It’s still a decent amount when you look at it as a single lump sum, but it’s also the entirety of my entertainment budget and it’s been obtained fairly steadily over a period of 13 years. Per hour it’s still pretty cheap.
Spending money on hobbies is fine, change my mind.
… so long as it does not materially impact your ability to provide basic necessities for your own wellbeing, food, water, shelter, some level of climate control, etc.
… and you are not directly, indirectly, or functionally spending other people’s money on your hobbies.
No. I agree with you
Spending disposable money on hobbies is fine
no. we must spend money on bills then sit motionless until next shift.
Get into videogames, then you can do both
not with prices about to explode. we will probably have to risk thoughts occurring now.
The only people deserving fun are the billionaires.
Peasants, all of them! You have to be a 5T corporation to afford any fun.
And the only thing they enjoy is our suffering.
Tastes like spaghetti, I hear.
As long as “spending money” isn’t the hobby and you actually use it otherwise it’s a waste of resources.
I’d say spending SOME money and time on your most fulfilling hobbies is damn near a necessity for a healthy existence.
And yeah sure, plenty of people don’t do that, and plenty of people literally cannot afford to do that here in my dear old US of A.
But you know what else I see a lot of people doing in the US? Fighting mental illness and talking ever more openly about the need for revolution and violence.
MTG really fits the shoveling cash into a furnace thing
What did Margorie Taylor Greene do again?
Breathing #1. She should probably stop that.
I consider myself lucky.
When my friends were first trying to persuade me to get into MtG I went to a LGS to get a starter pack.
A guy came in with a sports bag full of ‘his green swaps’ to see what price he could get for them.
That was the point where I realised I’d dip my toe in the water but this wasn’t going to be a serious hobby for me.
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
I’d love to just fall into enough money to:
- Retire
- Pay off my house
- Hire a maid
Then hobbies begin. Options:
- Tabletop games, buy book, gear and host games
- woodworking, furniture
- Backyard forging
- leather working
- make a video game
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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Well if I stop buying fishing gear, at some point it’ll be financially worth it. I mean I’ve already “paid off” the license for this year. Yup… Ignore the brand new rod and reel I got for black Friday, it was on discount. Or the fact that I got a gold membership discount at the local tackle store because I spent enough money in a year.
But think of all the money you saved eating the fish you caught, and other lies we tell ourselves, available 2026
I mean, we did legitimately save a lot of money this summer. Catch of the day in an overpriced seaside vacation area is not cheap at all.
The rest of the year though…
As an amateur radio operator, I can confirm this as factual. Over.
Nothing empties a wallet faster than ‘I’m just trying it out.
…watch collecting, photography, motorcycling, hifi equipment & vintage synths, 😭😭😭
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.
Need… that… new… VPS!!!
My hobby are maths and programming, both fairly cheap. Other than the cost of getting a computer of course (and maybe some maths textbooks if you feel the need)
Looks at the current cost of a PC…
Yooo no man that depends on the hobby completely! Taket it from adhd guy that can optimize hobby skips, you know if a hobby got ya, you can overcome anything and use mostly duct tape, and know to not go for top shelf material the first year. Else, shopping is probably actually your hobby. And that’s not a bad hobby you just gotta start shopping for others and hijack on their signal substances. Many people hate shopping, find the right pers
If that was warhammer they would be shovelling gold bricks
