I wish it stopped at $500 😢 hobbies are expensive

too real

I bought a used school bus for $3600 on eBay to turn into a motorhome ("skoolie"). Best $50,000 I ever spent.

vrchat is a free game..... that I have spent over $1,500 on... 😭

I bought 8 + 2 slimevr trackers for ~$450 which are really good but they only track rotation and not position which means it's annoying to get them to match my body. They are releasing a new calibration method as well as focusing on the dongle instead of connecting to WiFi, but i still want something better.

There are alternative tracking methods, the most popular method is via lighthouse tracking which requires base stations to physically see the trackers. I bought used index controllers and 2 base stations on Facebook marketplace for $350. However they occlude very often in my setup, get confused by mirrors, and honestly I didn't find the controllers that good 🤷‍♀️

I then ordered fluxpose trackers for $750 which track position and rotation fully wirelessly with no occlusion. Not to mention how small they are and they have HAPTICS??? they're so small I actually plan on just using skin safe tape instead of straps. Absolutely amazing innovation by the development team. I unfortunately missed the Kickstarter and had to order day 1 which means I'm not gonna get them till 2027. Understandable for such a small team behind it but man it sucks having to wait.

One of the best things is all of the beta testers just going ham testing random shit like a bicycle in VR

I also got a Quest Pro which sells for $1,000 new. But I traded my steamdeck for it... before the prices of steamdecks doubled 😭

anyways here's a gif of me running into my wall as Hatsune Miku

also might as well shout out !VRChat@sh.itjust.works which I made (and haven't posted to in forever...)

Me: I'm gonna take horseback riding lessons! Maybe I'll get my own horse in like five years!

Me two years later: pays at least $350/month on the horse I was given for $0

Also me: I'll never financially recover. Yee haw! 🤠

I got into making and designing small tabletop model steam engines because they are cool. So I needed to buy a small lathe, a mill, a metal cutting bandsaw, and all the tooling each machine needed. So much tooling....That's the part that will break you financially.

And then you discover you need to design and make a jig or fixture to make a special tool to make another special jig and fixture to make a tool to make that one tiny part for that engine. None of which you will probably ever use again. You end up making tools to make tools to make tools. You can spend 6 months to a year designing and building tools just to get to make that one little part.

I've got thousands of dollars and thousands of hours into making engines that I just give away over the years. But I can't stop this hobby. And I have added 3D printing to my list of hobbies as well.

At least it got me away from collecting fine antique shotguns and importing hunting dogs.

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.

Hobby

That's a weird way to spell guitars.

I can tell this is not about Warhammer because it starts impossibly low and ends impossibly low.

I've been watching YouTube videos on diy yacht building. That's not going to be something I can afford

I teach guitar lessons. They're only £15 per hour. But the guitar will cost you £150. And the amp will cost you £100. And being in a band will cost you £10 per rehearsal for the rest of your life. Wanna tour? Bad news, bud. It'll cost ya.

EDIT: Also, the feral cats that hung out in my yard were free, but the vet bills are about to absolutely destroy me

I don't like this "meme". Hobbies are supposed to be fun, it's fine to spend money on things you think are fun as long as that spending doesn't interfere with survival. Just don't spend all your money on something "someone" (ads, influencers,...) told you might be fun.

No need for someone else, I'm going to talk myself out of it.

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!?

I'm just gonna trade in these old guitars, clean up the place a bit, put the money away for something else later. I'm a sensible adult today.

Comes back with a Charvel Pro-Mod DK 24 🤡 I'd've been a sucker not to buy it!

The trick is to be poor. Cos then u don't even have any money to start any hobby to begin with.

This is the way

All good, already spent it 👍

I did NOT consent to being in this post.

Yep. I tried getting into paintball back in 2000, bought a gun of of a friend but never had the opportunity to even shoot it. Kept it through HS, college, and the first 5+ years of work before a friend said he was trying to get back into it. I told myself I wouldn't buy any new gear until we had a few good games. We did a couple 1 v 1 and 2 v 2 and i finally decided to bite the bullet. New mask (custom paint job), new gun (azodin blitz), mechanical hopper, some other accessories, etc etc.

Played once, he got bored with it again, started dating a new girl and disappeared.

What is worse is spending a bunch of money on a new hobby only to get bored with it.

So far I have only spent £200 on 40k because I'm such a slow painter that I'm still on the starter set 7 months later. Procrastinating saves a lot of money.

40K, not even once.

If you’re into dumb shit then it is a lot of fun, though, and a great creative outlet. Expensive as fuck, though.

Not saying dumb shit in an insulting way, my favorite genre of anything is dumb shit.

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.

The dice goblin cannot be satiated. Just a few more....

Thanks for reminding me I need to sell all my diy eliquid flavors

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!!!

Golf was $100 a round then it turned 4k into new clubs. I wish $500 is where it stopped

Oh man I wish any of my hobbies cost onder $20k.

Not me looking at buying a onewheel before I've ever stepped on one....

Damn, mid sentence inflation...

Buy once cry once, then cry again when the landlord asks where the rent money is

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.

You want frustration that you'll pay for? Try gum bichromate alternative photography.

😂 try eMTB...

Ouch! Hey

Ironically, this is a dangerous thread for hobby collectors

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

Leave your job, spend all your time for your hobby

You don't know me, that well.