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

plactagonic@sopuli.xyz to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 705 points –

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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Pc gaming. I started off with a refurbished HP omen, but now I'm wanting something more. I'm aiming for a custom built and that has led me to the discovery of companies like Digital Storm, System 76, and Falcon Northwest.

Torrenting and data hoarding are also hobbies of mine. Every so often I'll buy an external hard drive once I max out the storage on a current one. One hard drive failed a while back and now I'm looking for data recovery companies, but their services are a bit pricey.

Ugh, tell me about it. I just replaced my server. New machine has 128tb at half capacity. My family is starving