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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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[–] retrolasered 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] retrolasered 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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 😅

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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