I barely spent any money on my hobbies this year. I'm not some kind of sucker!

I merely spent thousands of dollars on materials and tools to build the supporting infrastructure for them!

I also have some very expensive computer parts waiting to be assembled. But they aren't for any hobby of mine! They're for the kid so we can play stuff without him using a computer twice as old as he is. 😉

Between photography, motorcycles, and tools (woodworking/metalworking/automotive) this does seem accurate for me - I have ended up spending a fair chunk of money between these over the years. The tools do mean I can do stuff myself though rather than paying someone else so they at least are less of a money pit.

Every now and then I think paragliding would be an interesting thing to try but I have to tell myself another expensive hobby is hard to justify when I'd like to actually own a place to live some day.

Not in America! My hobby is my second job

Conlanging is a very cheap hobby. Quoth Tolkien in A Secret Vice

It is incidentally one of the attractions of this hobby that it needs so little apparatus!

Craft beer for me.

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

Looks at ever growing pile of retro handhelds, tabletop miniatures and BDSM gear

Surely, it cannot.

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

I live in Canada, do you know how much the standard video game costs here now? Like $90.

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?

Add two more shovels and you have home ownership

That's how expensive skydiving hobby is. Unless you're an instructor. Then you get paid to skydive.

My hobby is burning other people's money.

That's why I won't start painting 40K minis, even if I'd love to. I wouldn't even want to play. Besides, I wouldn't have anyone to play with, anyway.

Hobbies be like: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ( free :P )

Coffee beans take up 12% of my grocery budget :(

It's delicious though.

Cries in synthesizers.

At least there are a bunch of great budget options these days. Still not cheap though.

I play Star Citizen. My wife has no idea the cost. I have no regrets.

My hobby of flipping antic gold coins into ponds cost me pretty penny but it's so rewarding! Once I'm good at it I'll turn it into a side hustle and it'll have paid for itself in no time!