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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I have autism and ADHD, so all of them:

  • Cycling

  • Bicycle touring

  • Skateboarding

  • Vert Skateboarding

  • Freestyle Skateboarding

  • Retro Video Gaming

  • Drawing

  • Reading

  • Programming and Raspberry Pi's

That's only my 30's which is the last 4 years. Hobbies for me are normally short and fierce obsessions when I start, they eventually slow down into a more 'normal' pasttime that I do sometimes to past the time.

Wait did you start skateboarding in your 30s and skate a vert ramp within a couple years?

Haha no ive been skating aqut 20 years. Vert was most of my 20s until I switched to freestyle after a lot of broken bones

edit: I stll occasionally skate a vert or large miniramp so still grab the occasional shaped deck or slider rails

  • Speed Cubing
  • Aggressive Inline Skating
  • Magic The Gathering
  • Misc. Video Games
  • Self Hosting
  • Historical European Martial Arts (Swordfighting with a Longsword especially)

Those are the ones for me. Yeah turned 30 this year as well. No Autism (probably) but have ADHD.

Programming is my job, so I don't define that as a hobby 😅

LoL I feel that so hard but I'm way to cheap and frugal so everything I do is done used and on a budget to keep me from going overboard so I generally only end up spending a couple hundred max before it turns into a part-time that I pull out on occasion while looking for something to distract me from impending doomerism