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 wish it stopped at $500 😢 hobbies are expensive
What hobby do you do?
Violin is a very expensive hobby. So are harps. Such beautiful instruments though
Everything that sounds fun! Haha but a lot of different craft type things (cross stitch, crochet, quilting, etc), Lego, and rock climbing to name some recent interests lol
Which have you spent more on? Lego or rock climbing?
Def Lego. But I really just do indoor rock climbing currently at a local gym. Could see that being more costly if I went outdoors
Ahh yeah indoor rock climbing is wayyy cheaper
So what do you crochet?
I’m just learning crochet, have made a couple amigurami so far
The trick is to be poor. Cos then u don’t even have any money to start any hobby to begin with.
What is worse is spending a bunch of money on a new hobby only to get bored with it.
Yeah what’s more common for me is spending the initial money and then losing interest :/
I’ve been watching YouTube videos on diy yacht building. That’s not going to be something I can afford
I bought a used school bus for $3600 on eBay to turn into a motorhome (“skoolie”). Best $50,000 I ever spent.
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.
