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about 100 nights at the cheapest campsite i know of that takes caravans

or about 17-20 nights at some of the more expensive ones

about 360 ESP32 microcontroller boards

A Prusa or 76 spools of ASA or PETG from my local supplier.

Maybe an okay desktop tower on sale to use headless for rendering

A thousand euros in airsoft will get you a high-quality gun or two, depending on what you're looking for and where you're getting it from. Generally, replica pistols and "standard" rifles tend to be cheaper than anything heavy or exotic.

And you'll probably have plenty of cash left over, for things like safety gear, special clothing, and gun-related accessories like slings and holsters.

The most expensive gun in my collection, a replica of the pistol from Kingsman, was €430. I spent about another 100 on spare magazines, shotgun shells, and a custom holster. My next-priciest gun cost less than half that, even after acquiring similar accessories

I haven't put any money into modifying any of my guns, since that's an entire other can of worms I don't feel like opening. Most guns will be perfectly playable out of the box, rarely needing more than heavier BBs or a hopup adjustment to be improved.

A few large sets, amounting around 12000 bricks, or a random assortment of up to 20000 bricks if acquired in bulk ( or like a bathtub of bricks if acquired second-hand )

Not much. My main interest is digital privacy. Perhaps 10 years of service with Proton.

A practice pin, a new cart, and about 30 new discs!

... Or about one graphics card...

I would probably buy a really nice Pechauer pool cue. Or another premium brand as quality equipment is pretty important for pool players.

Imagine how much SALE steam games I can collect!

All you need to start playing Standard, Pioneer and maybe Modern in Magic the Gathering. Or like maybe half a Legacy deck.

In my other hobbies which are rebuilding with old lego by hand and imagination, baking and reading a grand will keep me good for a year. Or 5. Depends on motivation and how many free books I pick up.

I could get a copy of the original "White Box" Dungeons & Dragons set, although not an actual first print run copy, because those go for $20k. But I'd probably buy the last few Planescape products I'm missing, which are also unreasonably expensive for rpg books but not in the same league as the original dnd sets, and much more enjoyable to read.

Dnd A shit load of dice.

Bjj six months membership and the gi that comes with it.

Whilst my grow light is rather good, there are upgraded options I could take advantage of. For my small sized grow area I could try my hand at a small rDWC setup, a new light, and an automated system for persistently maintaining VPD (perhaps one of those ACFinity ones with the app, or a similar sort of thing).

Homebrewing. Either everything you need to get started and going for like €100. Spend the rest on tools and equipment and ingredients as you go and learn what you need and why you need it.

Or, as it seems to me is the middle aged man thing to do¹, buy everything for a complete microbrewery and insist it is absolutely necessary with the best of laboratory grade equipment for your first batch of IPA that will taste like anybody else's first batch of IPA and the only solution is to keep spending another €1000 when you got it on better equipment and gadgets and dodads and quirkmaflixers in magical materials and still nobody will be impressed but that's just because you didn't have the correct temperature to the third decimal and dear we absolutely need to take a small loan on the house no listen this is an investment when I get this going hey baby wait listen...

¹ I'm a middle aged man so I'm allowed to use these words.

A mid-range direct drive simracing wheel, or a very nice ukulele.

An absolute shitton of indie games

A lot of yarn. A few motorcycle jackets and pants. ALL of the video games. A lot of yoga accessories that I've ogled but never bought.

Depending on how much people think they're worth, I could probably overhaul and mod 6 iPods.

My other hobby is my little radio show. €1000 would set me up with a nice new controller/mixer, a half decent new second display, and a bunch of sound proofing for my studio. And that would be nice. I'm happy enough with my mic and headphones that I already have.

A nice OLED TV. I love watching movies.

Edit: Holy cow OLED is still very expensive. I've changed my mind: projector.

Two new hobbies to keep me in the reality^tm^.

That's at least like... Ten crunchwrap Supremes!

On raves...? 😵‍💫

Infinite library cards!

With tabletop role-playing games (I don't play D&D), a thousand bucks and you're pretty much set up for life. You can get a huge range of beautiful dice in all sizes, a nice deck of cards, a variety of tokens and you can skip miniatures to invest in bits that are more flexible. Speaking of flexibility, a big ebook reader allows you to enjoy tons of published games and only get physical box sets or books if you really desire them as artifacts. Another big advantage is that you can spend your money slowly and just enjoy what you have first.

Maybe a third of a used or import lathe or mill.

Machining is super expensive as a hobby to get started.

Which is why I'm slowly upgrading my cheap CNC router to be more rigid and capable, bit by bit. Machined stainles for the first time last week. though i'll never get close to a 'real' machine, in hobby machining, everything is a finishing pass…

Had to do a quick conversion search to make sure roughly how much that would be, and I could have a day like the fairly recent day I bought a pawn shop acoustic guitar, pack of picks, and a guitar stand maybe around 10 times.

I could also, probably, head over to a CD shop I really like and buy probably close to 100 CDs ( probably much less than 90 because tax, but that's still a lot ).

I could go to an electronics shop and get their opinion and help on upgrading my desktop motherboard, alongside upgrading to a used, few years older ( probably 2020-21 because I don't do much that would kill it ) model graphics card if I could find a good one somewhere like eBay.

I could try to collect a physical copy of every single non-arcade, launched in America Sonic game on console. Console not included for some of them because they're too expensive or I don't care about them for the case of anything past xbox360 or ps3. Though, I imagine the Master System titles would be pretty expensive, so IDK how that would go.

Either that, or I would love to cheap out and just pay some people who are willing to do a copyright infringement by making some Tails plushies based on his SatAM/Adventures cartoon design/personality. Would probably be a lot cheaper and just as cool. Fulfills my hobby of having a ton of plushies/stuffed animals and be Sonic related, so bonus points to me.

I could wait for the next Steam sale and get tons of games to add to my backlog but never actually get around to. Even with my somewhat picky nature, I'm fairly certain I'd find tons of games to purchase.

I could probably get even better headphones than my already pretty good quality beats to really up my music listening. Pair that with a pretty good audio playback device and I'd be in heaven... or accidentally make myself deaf and wanna die.

I could get the remaining manga from the Bakuman series I like and, depending on price and volumes, probably get the remainders of Soul Eater ( I think I've only got maybe volumes 1-2 ).

I could buy a metric ton of snacks and foods from a nearby import store and an Asian market.

Hell, I could probably take a couple lessons for that guitar I bought so that way I can learn the proper way to play.

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I could also expand my dice collection and playing card collection. I would love to have a ton of decks of cards. Especially some ones where the cards are different shapes, like these little leaf shaped cards I currently own.

A suit of plate armour, and maybe a shield or a weapon.