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Disc golf.
Discs cost only $15-20 new, used ones can be only a few bucks, you only need one or a few to play, and most courses are free.
In reality, you keep buying new discs. And a bag to carry them. And more discs. And a bigger bag. Then a home basket. And a net to practice in. And more discs. Then a rack to hold the extra discs you canβt bagβ¦. It adds up!
Hobby electronics started cheep, with a crappy soldering iron (a good precision one was the best purchase ever) and some cheep parts, ended up with a room stuffed with a thousand dollars worth or parts and a few thousand more in test equipment.
None of my hobbies are inexpensive (bikes, guitars and parenting)
Every time a friend tries to get me to take up snowboarding or some other gear based hobby I'm like, "are you fucking insane?"
Fishing. Who would have thought it was so easy to get addicted to buying various baits and lures.
Firearms.
It was fairly inexpensive before the pandemic. But since it's been a nightmare of price gouging.
It's also one of those hobbies where buying one thing leads down a rabbit hole of spending.
Rc cars. I got a crappy 1/6 scale truck (newbright) for shits and giggles to see what it could all do before I fried and broke it. Ended up slowly dumping a bunch of crap into it (Batteries, lights, new controller, esc, new brushless motor etc)
Wouldn't have been quite so bad if it was a "normal" scale rc, but parts for something 1/6 scale is pretty pricey. I could have just bought a better machine, but it was still fun and I learned a bit about rc stuff. This is the frankenRC https://i.imgur.com/ey1jJYX.jpg
Camping and camping gear. It can be so cheap and easy, but when you start buying high end gear it adds up quick.
Not to mention the different types of camping, backpacking, car camping, glamping, etc. Car camping βoverlandingβ gear is awesome, but so expensive.
Thinkpads.
Sim racing and Photography
Started with a $200 wheel and pedals setup, now my rig is worth weβll over $2.5k and is basically top of the line. Upgraded parts one at a time over the last few years and itβs now as good as it gets.
Photography has me slowly upgrading lenses and eventually a new camera body. Just upgraded to a 200-500 F5.6 lens the other week for when Iβm going to shoot the Daytona 24 this coming January.
I bought a $20 Stanley sharptooth saw and a few second hand chisels.
See the banner on !woodworking@lemmy.ca
And I haven't even bought any stationary tools π
Beekeeping. It gets expensive very fast and doesn't seem to ease year on year
When I first got into my hobby (DJ) I thought I only needed to pay into the set up cost of buying equipment (turntables, mixer, sound), but I eventually learned that I had to keep buying records because I couldn't just mix the same two recorded forever, and that got expensive.
Knitting/crocheting and cannabis. Not (always) together. Yarn art to pass the time while sitting with my mom - I start a lot of things and always need new yarn, but I never finish anything. Cannabis because I started making candies for a sick friend and it's pretty easy to get caught up in different strains and what's on sale this week.
Coffee for sure, never saw myself owning a $300 coffee grinder a few years ago....
Smart phones and headphones aren't exactly cheap but, I have built a bit of an expensive hobby around collecting them lol
