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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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[–] h_a_r_u_k_i@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Playstation 4. Huge money went into buying discs and digital games.

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[–] Lord_Logjam@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Running as soon as I discovered the Runningshowgeeks subreddit.

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[–] Azurebalmunk@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Instant (analog) photography and collecting pins and buttons. Turns out film is expensive and buying pins are expensive. Started out with friends giving me pins to stick on my bag and now I have close to hundred pins on my pin wall. At least they look pretty rad.

[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Game collecting

What started out as picking up C64, Atari, and Nintendo games in the 80s and 90s has turned into a collection of thousands of games totalling tens of thousands of dollars...

[–] InactiveBeef@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh boy, I’m not the worst but I’m pretty bad when it comes to “rabbit holes”

Vinyl records and hifi audio, photography (especially film), mechanical keyboards, cigars, old german cars. I just recently got into music production and modular synthesis. Someone needs to stop me.

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[–] jcrabapple@artemis.camp 5 points 2 years ago

Mechanical keyboards

[–] luckyhunter@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hunting. When I was younger, poorer man I used a hand me down lever action rifle and a $5 orange vest to fill my freezer with cheap venison that I would butcher myself. for less than $100 in licenses, ammo and packaging material I could put 3 or 4 deer in the freezer in 1 weekend.

Now, I have multiple gun safes full of various guns, all of them to serve "different purposes" like long range, brush gun, restricted weapons hunting areas, slug gun restricted areas, hunting shotguns, competition shot guns. Then there's the hunting gear, knifes, packs, laser range finders, reloading equipment, hunting lease payments, guide fees, out of state application fees.

Last year I shot 1 deer and paid $140 to have someone else butcher it for me.

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[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

3D printing. Purchased a cheap 3D printer to save money printing things instead of buying things. 5 printer print farm later, no idea why I'm doing this to myself.

[–] Demuniac@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
[–] Zatore@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

For me it's photography. I originally bought a camera and lens second hand. Now over the past two years its become rather a lot of money. I bought a Nikon Z8 last month and it was definitely worth the money.

[–] ikiru@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Cigars.

It was only supposed to be a few of the affordable ones with basic accessories.

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