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What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Electronics repair and projects

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I first got into my hobby (DJ) I thought I only needed to pay into the set up cost of buying equipment (turntables, mixer, sound), but I eventually learned that I had to keep buying records because I couldn't just mix the same two recorded forever, and that got expensive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me it was Badminton. You can start off with cheap $15 rackets and plastic shuttlecocks. Now my racket is $260 and I play with feather shuttlecocks which are about $2 a piece and only last a few rallies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Instant (analog) photography and collecting pins and buttons. Turns out film is expensive and buying pins are expensive. Started out with friends giving me pins to stick on my bag and now I have close to hundred pins on my pin wall. At least they look pretty rad.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Coffee for sure, never saw myself owning a $300 coffee grinder a few years ago....

Smart phones and headphones aren't exactly cheap but, I have built a bit of an expensive hobby around collecting them lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Knitting/crocheting and cannabis. Not (always) together. Yarn art to pass the time while sitting with my mom - I start a lot of things and always need new yarn, but I never finish anything. Cannabis because I started making candies for a sick friend and it's pretty easy to get caught up in different strains and what's on sale this week.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Fountainpens. Started with some cheap Chinese pens. Now I have multiple vintage pens and a Montblanc that I love writing with.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Collecting military surplus/old random military shit. Helmets, great coats, radios, a field phone, ww2 machete. Ya get the idea.