Ironically, this is a dangerous thread for hobby collectors

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.

What is worse is spending a bunch of money on a new hobby only to get bored with it.

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.

Oh man I wish any of my hobbies cost onder $20k.

I wish it stopped at $500 😢 hobbies are expensive

too real

I bought a used school bus for $3600 on eBay to turn into a motorhome ("skoolie"). Best $50,000 I ever spent.

vrchat is a free game..... that I have spent over $1,200 on... 😭

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! 🤠

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.

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.

Hobby

That's a weird way to spell guitars.

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.

EDIT: Also, the feral cats that hung out in my yard were free, but the vet bills are about to absolutely destroy me

I can tell this is not about Warhammer because it starts impossibly low and ends impossibly low.

I've been watching YouTube videos on diy yacht building. That's not going to be something I can afford

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.

No need for someone else, I'm going to talk myself out of it.

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!?

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!