Add two more shovels and you have home ownership
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I'd love to just fall into enough money to:
- Retire
- Pay off my house
- Hire a maid
Then hobbies begin. Options:
- Tabletop games, buy book, gear and host games
- woodworking, furniture
- Backyard forging
- leather working
- make a video game
Piracy saves money if you're already paying for subscriptions. Self hosting adds another way to save money.
But I can't pirate salt water aquarium fish and corals.
yet
i thought you wrote "self hosting ads" which would be an interesting choice
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
Warhammer 40k has entered the chat.
I live in Canada, do you know how much the standard video game costs here now? Like $90.
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If that was warhammer they would be shovelling gold bricks
My hobby is buying materials for projects and then not doing the projects.
Ah, a fine hobby indeed! I have so many arduinos, pis, and various modules strewn about with little to show for it.
Cries in synthesizers.
At least there are a bunch of great budget options these days. Still not cheap though.
I play Star Citizen. My wife has no idea the cost. I have no regrets.
"Turn your hobby into a business!", they said. "It'll be fun!", they said.
Coffee beans take up 12% of my grocery budget :(
It's delicious though.
Conlanging is a very cheap hobby. Quoth Tolkien in A Secret Vice
It is incidentally one of the attractions of this hobby that it needs so little apparatus!
That's why I won't start painting 40K minis, even if I'd love to. I wouldn't even want to play. Besides, I wouldn't have anyone to play with, anyway.
Og dawn of war with unification is fucking awesome. It's not entirely like the tt game, but I personally think it's better.
DoW is what got me to 40k in the first place! After all these years I'm still not interested in playing the TT. I just read the books and play the video games. But I imagine painting the minis would be therapeutic.
Feels like I'm reading myself typing.
Yooo no man that depends on the hobby completely! Taket it from adhd guy that can optimize hobby skips, you know if a hobby got ya, you can overcome anything and use mostly duct tape, and know to not go for top shelf material the first year. Else, shopping is probably actually your hobby. And that's not a bad hobby you just gotta start shopping for others and hijack on their signal substances. Many people hate shopping, find the right pers
Pssh, only if you aren't turning all your hobbies into side-hustles.
What are you afraid of, besides completely burning out and probably still losing money anyway?
Craft beer for me.
That's how expensive skydiving hobby is. Unless you're an instructor. Then you get paid to skydive.
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I barely spent any money on my hobbies this year. I'm not some kind of sucker!
I merely spent thousands of dollars on materials and tools to build the supporting infrastructure for them!
I also have some very expensive computer parts waiting to be assembled. But they aren't for any hobby of mine! They're for the kid so we can play stuff without him using a computer twice as old as he is. 😉
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