What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?
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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Mechanical pencils. You can go from $6 Kuru Toga Advances to $60 rOtring 800s to $100+ imported Japan region exclusive Kuru Toga Dives
What is that sorcery?!
Clicked that link as fast as I could. I thought it would be cool, but didn't realise it would be that cool. Thank you
Right?? It's the most over engineered pencil and I want 1 of each color lol.
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I love the P200 line, cheap cheap but I have spent hundreds on them already lol.
If you like Pentel, the Nero Orenz is my favorite with the auto lead dispensing. Otherwise I'm a GraphGear 1000 guy myself when it comes to drafting
Wow I love this! When I was in school, you were seen as a cool kid if you had a four-colour BIC pen, but a amazing mechanical pencil like that Japanese one would have been much better!
Why good options you'd recommend in the $10-40 range?
Kuru Togas for sure for their rotating lead engine. The Advanced Upgrade specifically is my daily driver. The Pentel GraphGear 1000 is also a very comfortably hefty pencil. Otherwise the Pentel Orenz Nero and it's auto dispensing lead mechanism is also really cool. Rotring 600 and Staedtler 925-35 are also popular pencils that I've tried and like, but I don't own.
Thank you!
I have the basic like $7 Kuru Togas and am definitely curious what an upgrade would feel like