If you want to save money, don't get into bird photography as a hobby. Gear Acquisition Syndrome is fatal to your wallet. 
Oh no, the birb left a leg on the beach. Gotta buy a new lens to do better next time.
Please no. I like my kidneys. The next lens up in quality is over $15,000.
That's why you steal someone else's kidneys!
Of course, then you'll need to develop a collection of surgical gear, and likewise you would want to improve that with time...after all, why not take pride in your work?
My ex decided to take up photography. She's now essentially semi-pro and it was a terrible financial decision for all involved.
Christmas lists started to get reeeal aspirational. No, you are not getting a lense that's the financial equivalent of a decent used car for Christmas. Go shoot more gigs and weddings.
Spending money on hobbies is fine, change my mind.
no. we must spend money on bills then sit motionless until next shift.
... 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.
Software development is cheap, if you already own a PC, which is the most expensive part if you go with open source tools.
It's free until you start wasting money on hosting and domains, for websites that no one will ever visit.
I don't want to know how much I would be paying, if I didn't have a home server with fiber internet.
My hobby is buying materials for projects and then not doing the projects.
Ah, a fine hobby indeed! I have so many arduinos, pis, and various modules strewn about with little to show for it.
I've been into calligraphy for years now - it's a wonderful hobby with anywhere between absolutely none (pseudocalligraphy with a pencil/bic) and a very low cost to entry (blackletter with a parallel pen) that I seriously encourage anyone to try out! Just be warned that it's a gateway drug to the fountain pen hobby, which uh.
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quickly becomes a not-cheap hobby. Good god.
My friends and me with magic the gathering
I got into self hosting a while back
EOL enterprise equipment can be very thrifty. But if you ever need something specialty that isn't available in the second hand market, good luck.
And watch that electricity bill, adding a bunch of hardware to play around with and your utility company suddenly thinks there must be an additional person living there...
I used to run a grow room in my basement, with about 4kw of equipment, so running my systems all hooked up through a 2kw PSU is actually a step back in cost. lol
As an amateur radio operator, I can confirm this as factual. Over.
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)
programming
... (please expand if you have any ideas)
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. Ask me how I know.
As someone who owns a spinning wheel, you can dye and spin yarn at home to make the money pit even wider and deeper!
Isn't spinning your own yarn an amount of work that you should be saving money? 😂
Drawing (we should stop pretending one need expensive material do draw nice things, pencils and erasers are the only requirement, and a good sketch book can be found for less than 15 bucks)
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, they're dirt cheap, and they're classics for a reason.
Not no-cost but cooking, gotta feed yourself anyway might as well have fun with it
Cooking is cost negative relative to eating out. You just need a decent kitchen and plenty of free time
"needles/yarn after cheap"
That's a lie. My wife is into knitting and crochet, I've seen $300 purchases for yarn only, for just one dress. Not to mention $50-100 needles or swifts or yarn caking tools
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.
Drawing, pencil and paper for start and drawing tablets are not that expensive for starter ones and there's free open source drawing software.
Cooking is basically better than free.
Yes, ingredients and equipment cost money, but the end result averages out to be cheaper than if you didn't know how to cook. And even if you take on more expensive ingredients or tools, you're probably offsetting even more expensive restaurant meals that you would've eaten.
Have you considered flying a black flag?
Piracy saves money if you're already paying for subscriptions. Self hosting adds another way to save money.
But I can't pirate salt water aquarium fish and corals.
yet
Doing historical reenactment can be done in two ways:
spend an absolute fuckload of time on everything.
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.
"Turn your hobby into a business!", they said. "It'll be fun!", they said.
Warhammer 40k has entered the chat.
Pssh, only if you aren't turning all your hobbies into side-hustles.
What are you afraid of, besides completely burning out and probably still losing money anyway?
If that was warhammer they would be shovelling gold bricks
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