That’s how expensive skydiving hobby is. Unless you’re an instructor. Then you get paid to skydive.
Same with motorcycling, unless you get paid $13/hr to be an MSF instructor.
Motorcycling is cheaper than driving tho? I mean if you’re driving like a $40,000 bike and then still paying for a car, sure.
If you can get away with being car-free and using the bike for the longer trips around town, it’s cheaper than a car. However, since I have a 20+ mile commute to my job currently in an area where it rains a lot and can get cold, that’s a no-go.
Have you considered flying a black flag?
I love that band, but their albums cost $$$
My brother gifted me his old motorcycle. I know it is gona try and kill me. Spent more money on safety gear that what it would have cost to buy the bike. Then there is tires, $300 to 500 Chain and sprockets $250ish Then I need a adapter to fix the speedometer $200ish And then and then then… Not complaining but man this is either a hobby or a car that needs way more maintenance
Craft beer for me.
Looks at ever growing pile of retro handhelds, tabletop miniatures and BDSM gear
Surely, it cannot.
Got a 3d printer mainly for map elements, but the YouTube channel “tomb of 3d printed horrors” helped me get damn near resin quality from my pla guy. And I’m lucky I stopped with the r36s. Thing plays up to Dreamcast & some psp without a hiccup. Anything more advanced I got my steam deck for.
I really like the form factor of handhelds. For some reason game companies have stopped making them alltogether, and deck pcs are too bulky for me to carry around.
For me it’s been mechanical keyboards as of late.
Maybe I should start stocking up on GMK sets - those seem to resell nicely.
My friends and me with magic the gathering
I thought it said what having a hobby does to a MILF.
“Turn your hobby into a business!”, they said. “It’ll be fun!”, they said.
For over a year I’ve tried to sell jewelry I made mostly because the proper materials cost so much, but there isn’t any-fucking-where where you can sell crafts without being a professional for a fair price that covers all materials and gives tiny compensation for the time and work.
You may have already looked into it and I’m not sure what the farmer’s market scene is where you are but I often see small scale makers selling wares at mine!
Hmm… Well I could look into markets, but I’m not sure how hard it’s going to be to get a table.
Another idea could be to see if local small businesses would be willing to sell your wares! I’ve seen stuff like handmade earrings and trinkets for sale at the register at small coffee shops in my town, plenty of other businesses also have paintings and photographs by local artists on the walls for sale. I have no insight on those agreements are made but I’d imagine they would ask for a commission.
Choose a cheap hobby. I do art journaling - everything except the glue is free.
My hobby costs nothing after that initial ten years and a total of $10k investment in classes & equipment. Now with my own gear I can do it anytime, anywhere in favorable weather plus expending a shit-ton of physical exertion.
sex swing, huh? Yeah I remember my first one too
Outdoors??
…the suspense is killing me! What is it?
suspense
It does indeed involve being suspended in the sky. Aerial Silks.
Nothing empties a wallet faster than ‘I’m just trying it out.
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Software development is cheap, if you already own a PC, which is the most expensive part if you go with open source tools.
Until you get into embedded programming and electronics…
And here’s me thinking software development is a career 😭 good for you though. How did you get into it as a hobby?
Learned it in college, first hated it because Java + webapps + PHP, then I discovered system programming through game development.
It’s free until you start wasting money on hosting and domains, for websites that no one will ever visit.
I don’t want to know how much I would be paying, if I didn’t have a home server with fiber internet.
I got into self hosting a while back
EOL enterprise equipment can be very thrifty. But if you ever need something specialty that isn’t available in the second hand market, good luck.
And watch that electricity bill, adding a bunch of hardware to play around with and your utility company suddenly thinks there must be an additional person living there…
I used to run a grow room in my basement, with about 4kw of equipment, so running my systems all hooked up through a 2kw PSU is actually a step back in cost. lol
hold on I need to self host amethyst beads and brass wire
As an amateur radio operator, I can confirm this as factual. Over.
