What new hobby? Oh, that? Yeah, I'm kinda over that. Anybody want to buy a $500 thing, barely used once?
Fine, I'll take $75?
Fine, $20!?
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It's worth €2000, most of it is never used. I'll list it for €1000, only pickup possible due to vast size and weight. Only serious offers please. (I'll take any offer over €750)
Average offer: €50 including shipping.
Fuck it, I'll just store it with the collection of other old hobby stuff.
The trick is to be poor. Cos then u don't even have any money to start any hobby to begin with.
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too real
I never need another plant, but I'll always get one on a bad day. Plus, I love learning how to care for different kinds of plants.
Plants are the best hobby cause you can essentially just keep making your own copies!
Do not propagate? Challenge accepted.
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I tell myself that they will pay for themselves because I can eat them. After a few more years if I can work out what grows well that mat actually become true...
Found some cheap beetroot seeds yesterday, pack of 4 different colours of beetroot and I have 1800 seeds for £1.50, so that will almost certainly pay for its self as long as at least like 5 of them grow to a decent size.
Most of the wasted cost is in stuff I buy that fails. But if you measure it on a per plant basis my most successful has been rosemary. One of my oldest plants and propagated so much from a single plant. "Do not propagate" sticker on it when I bought it was taken as a challenge. I now have about 12 of them. Mostly use it with sage and dehydrate them to mix with salt, goes great on roast potatoes.
I know you are joking but I wanted to add that a hobby isn't a hobby if you earn money (that is a job) because the real reason you do it, is because of brain stimulation or even meditation, I think going out with friends is also a hobby (less structured), and alcohol is never a net plus but we do not think we need to earn money when we go out it is the happiness it brings we pay for.
More justifying it because I spend less money now on seeds than I would have on the food produced from it later. Food quality is also quite an important one and makes the effective value of the produce far higher too. Its not making money directly, but saving money.
Although the best value would then would be my foraging. Got a bag of plums in the freezer that I picked recently and plan to make a fruit mead with.
Yes i read your comment as such so it wasn't aimed at you, it was aimed in general at any one who feel ashamed for spending money on a hobby.
I think everyone needs one and it is great when you really found that one hobby that makes you happy. Sounds like you found yours and i am happy for you!
Gardening is really nice especially the feeling you get when you eat your own grown food. I tried growing mushrooms for the first time, it was the tastiest mushrooms I have eaten, and it was definitely mostly because I had cared for them for a month haha
I can recommended it if you like mushrooms, grey oyster mushroom is really easy, forgiving and grows fast.
don't call me out... i spent around $150 to not have to spend $200 on a new controller... AND i can reuse it for other stuff! leave me alone!!!
Literally just did this tonight. My gf wanted a button maker, so we bought a 40$ one on Amazon. Opened it up. Looked at it, packed it back up and did a return to buy a 70$ model.
No need for someone else, I'm going to talk myself out of it.
You won't even miss that $1800. It's well worth the investment.
When you break it down by hours of enjoyment and accomplishment, that $3k is really nothing.
Now we'r getting into PC gaming territory.
That's almost enough for a stick of ram.
All good, already spent it 👍
Ouch! Hey
This is the way
Golf was $100 a round then it turned 4k into new clubs. I wish $500 is where it stopped
Alternatively if it's a hobby you do at home, realize that nearest big library has all those niche equipments lying somewhere and you can borrow it for a month + 3 extension months twice a year.
This is why I try to stick with "hobbies" that only use things I already have access to, like pencils & paper, computer & internet, the outdoors, my own body, etc
Before you know it, you're buying fancy pencils & paper from some specific town in Japan that has been making them for 500 years. Your computer is getting too weak for your hobby so you need to upgrade. The outdoors are nice... But they'd be even nicer in those new Mammut boots and Arcteryx shell.
And body? Well, eventually you'll start buying sports medicine because of these stupid bodies being single-use only.
(I'm joking, of course, that is a great approach)
You joke but I do look at the fancy stuff from time to time... So it's not like my approach is immune to the corrupting influences of consumerism 🙈 haha
😂 try eMTB...
Nah normal mountain bike and cancel the gym
Leave your job, spend all your time for your hobby