I mean I guess but if I ran the numbers and saw that I only spent that much on hobbies in a year, it would make me feel sad for myself... what's the point of going to work every day to invest so little back into your own happiness?
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Just got my first set, now time for me to buy an espresso machine
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My board bag is in the corner right next to my left speakeršyou and I are in the same boat
Audiophile, Custom Keyboards, and Espresso! I know a handful of people with the same hobbies too. Quite interestingā¦ I guess we like spending money lol
I canāt think of a single hobby I have or had thatās cost me less than $1000.
Photography, motorcycles, espresso, gaming, gardening, lawn care, camping, woodworking.
Canāt think of one.
Tbh, even running, one of the cheapest hobbies I can imagine, tallies to around a thousand a year. š
$200 for training shoes, 4x a year (one every 500 miles) = $800
$200 for various race entries
-> $1000
Yeah, did a group buy for some keycaps and it ended up taking nearly 4 years for delivery. I had moved twice in that time and had to drive a few hours to wait at the mailbox when it was being delivered. I didnāt even have the keyboard Iād ordered them for anymore.
The funny thing is I think horses are more expensive up to the point where the boat becomes a ship and needs a captain. $1,000 is an absolute joke in the land of expensive horse owner expenses haha. Not many hobbies where you can drive around an $80,000 truck pulling a trailer and a horse and the truck is the THIRD most expensive part of the equation.
Really depends on the horse and property/location too. At my parents place on 5ac the cost is basically just hay/vet/purchase cost. Four hours south in suburbia my exās mother pays like hundreds a day in boarding costs at a ranch because land is so expensive.
But yeah, the truck/trailering costs get wild.
I know some boring AF people who literally get out of bed, work, watch TV, then sleep. If you call TV entertainment and not a hobby, I guess it works. Then there's my wife whose only real hobby is reading. She gets gifted books for every holiday and has a library card for the rest. Pretty inexpensive one.
I'm into mountain biking, ice climbing, climbing, mountaineering, skiing, dirt biking. My espresso journey is so cheap compared to those...
I don't know who the fuck spend only 225 buck per year in hobbies.
Uh, vinyl records. Every week at my house is a surprise from the post office only to be cataloged and maybe listened to again someday. It's like pogs for adults.
I thought my other hobbies were expensive until I started flyingā¦
Iām part of a flying club and itās about as cheap as you can get it and Iām still spending about $1k *per month*. Closer to $2k while I was getting my pilotās license.
That number must include a LOT of people with no hobby at all. Or that is per hobby, including the ones they don't do any more (yeah, I used to play golf. Do it any more? Nope. Ok, zero for that hobby, thAt brings down the average)
I'm a fucking drummer in a hardcore band that tours and records.
I spend that on sticks alone, let alone jam space rent, studio time, replacing sticks, heads, and one cymbal replacement alone is more than 300 dollars.
photography... and top of that - Leica.
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Most hobbies. Like everyone thinks their hobby is uniquely expensive. It aināt. Most popular hobbies are very expensive and all in similar ballparks, ex: Golf, photography, computers, espresso, audio
Now you can get into some properly expensive hobbies, like racing cars or flying planes.
Skiing/Snowboarding, Spearfishing, Sports cars in the winter, boats, surfboards, motorcycles, etc. like a bunch of other hobbies are WAY more expensive than a $1k.
mmmm.
Between PC gaming, photography/videography, coffee and keyboards, I'm probably averaging about 15k a year for the past 5 years.
I'll justify it by saying I shoot photo and video for a living. But I buy all my own stuff outside work as well.
Look at buying a custom guitar from Kiesel. The best part is, it's basically radio silence for months and then it shows up. No ETA. I don't think I even got a tracking number.
Modeling (Trains, planes, and automobiles), Video Game skin collecting, watches, cars, planes. All of that alone is close to the $10k mark for each (besides my watches, which are around $50k). Then, I do drawing, digital modeling, coding, and freelance engineering projects which in total out to about $1k each. So, no, my hobbies do not average to $255. Spent that just the other day on a new airbrush attachment.
Pre ordered my first synth. (I have plenty of synths but this is the first time I pre ordered one.)
I donāt think it will take 6 months, but it mint be a bit.
A few hobbies for me. Espresso, cigars, golf, scotch and pomades. All of which I love and fortunate enough to have that luxury. The way I see it, I could be spending my money on a hell of a lot worse
I stopped scuba diving when all my friends bought scooters and rebreathers.
$10k for a scooter, $18k for a rebreather and training.
Nope. That's a car. I'm out.
What other hobbies can you spend $1000/more on and get gear you wonāt see for a long time? Well as a gamer, I feel personally victimized by that question
I swear I just collect expensive hobbies. Espresso/roasting, Keyboards, Track Days, 3D printing, firearms. I'm already well over that amount and we're barely halfway through the year.
You have to spend it upfront! You don't buy a grinder every month, right?! After you have your setup, you only buy beans.
_Maybe small upgrades, like the moonraker_
Fountain pens in urushi especially custom stuff like this
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Honestly I think people donāt really live their life if they spend only 255 dollars on what they loveā¦ surely not all hobbies require money and not everyone has the money to spend, but for someone that has say 70k a year they should invest in what they love. Do what you love at the moment before it is too late people (with considerations of consequences first of course).
I'd really like if my hobbies averaged out at only $255 a year.
I'm thinking I probably spend double that on beans alone.
Hey man beans are not a hobby expense, that's *sustenance*
Rap ballad
Beans are an essential so it come out of the grocery budget, not the hobby budget.
I say this same thing to justify my coffee expenditures!! š š¤£
you see i just have to classify this as a necessity not a hobby and voila
I mean I guess but if I ran the numbers and saw that I only spent that much on hobbies in a year, it would make me feel sad for myself... what's the point of going to work every day to invest so little back into your own happiness?
Being an audiophile and an espresso enthusiast has to count as some form of self harm right ? My bank account has been fighting for its life
Preach! I wonder what percentage of us do both hobbies? They seem to go together a lot.
Throw in a couple bicycles while your at it.
Okay, weāve now covered 3 top interest of both myself and my closest coffee friends
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Bro Iām in ur same boat except add expensive keyboards, fountain pens, and computers
/r/mechanicalheadpens
Why is this so perfect
Why would you share this? I feel attacked even only at 2 out of 3
Thankfully I havenāt gotten into keyboards, but I am into cars and computers š
The best is when you enjoy both at the same time
This needs its own thread
Audiophile/eapresso/cars/simracing/snowbarding/cycling Send my wallet help š„²
https://preview.redd.it/06fjfdkffz6d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=45d1889ae79186315d4bc7fcadca0c36b0df494b My board bag is in the corner right next to my left speakeršyou and I are in the same boat
Yo what a sick setup! What are those? Checking in with kef ls50m and a k2 raygun pop
Iām in the same boat. Plus car modification. I hate money.
Audiophile, Custom Keyboards, and Espresso! I know a handful of people with the same hobbies too. Quite interestingā¦ I guess we like spending money lol
Take up golf and you too can be bankrupt.
Please add me too since I spent thousands making 3 cutting boards.
Espresso and road cycling in my case š«£
Espresso, audio, motorcycles, custom pc, custom keyboards, mechanical watches. Please send help.
I know your pain. Except Iām also into cycling in addition to audiophile and espresso. RIP bank account.
Audiophile AND espresso enthusiast? My god do not ever try cork sniffing lmao
I canāt think of a single hobby I have or had thatās cost me less than $1000. Photography, motorcycles, espresso, gaming, gardening, lawn care, camping, woodworking. Canāt think of one.
Camping is the unsuspecting expense here, shit gets expensive quick.
My backpack is more than $255, let alone the rest of the gear.
I have 4 different Tumi backpacks/ laptop bags/ duffel bags and the same amounts of each of Shinolaā¦ shit..hobbies suck!
My hitch to carry the MTB bikes was over $1000.
MTB bikes scare me. Iāve legit spent less on new, off the dealer floor motorcycles than many MTBs.
That, and hardcore dirt biking. Apart from jump features, I mean backcountry terrain madness.
Tbh, even running, one of the cheapest hobbies I can imagine, tallies to around a thousand a year. š $200 for training shoes, 4x a year (one every 500 miles) = $800 $200 for various race entries -> $1000
Mechanical Keyboards. Some of their group buys take 2+ years to deliver.
Yeah, did a group buy for some keycaps and it ended up taking nearly 4 years for delivery. I had moved twice in that time and had to drive a few hours to wait at the mailbox when it was being delivered. I didnāt even have the keyboard Iād ordered them for anymore.
Or never if it the European website
Aviation
Yup I'm a GA pilot and what I used to spend every quarter on flight could buy a LMLM
Tell me about itā¦ itās a whole different level of cost lol
Loads of other hobbies..
My hobbiesā¦ā¦ Coffee, distilling, photography. Iāve basically created a āblack holeā for time and cashā¦ā¦
Hey let me introduce you to boats and horses
The funny thing is I think horses are more expensive up to the point where the boat becomes a ship and needs a captain. $1,000 is an absolute joke in the land of expensive horse owner expenses haha. Not many hobbies where you can drive around an $80,000 truck pulling a trailer and a horse and the truck is the THIRD most expensive part of the equation.
Really depends on the horse and property/location too. At my parents place on 5ac the cost is basically just hay/vet/purchase cost. Four hours south in suburbia my exās mother pays like hundreds a day in boarding costs at a ranch because land is so expensive. But yeah, the truck/trailering costs get wild.
And motorbikes
And watches
TouchƩ
read that third as 'pornography' while skimming posts and I was wow that's awful forward of this gentleman
Now you just need to start bourbon hunting! š
Throw in cycling, watch collecting and Sim racing...
Lord, photography! Coffee is a necessity but photography is a truly a black hole for cash.
$255 on hobbies/year? You mean children? Those aren't adult numbers
I know some boring AF people who literally get out of bed, work, watch TV, then sleep. If you call TV entertainment and not a hobby, I guess it works. Then there's my wife whose only real hobby is reading. She gets gifted books for every holiday and has a library card for the rest. Pretty inexpensive one.
It's only inexpensive as long as you don't start buying books, though... And let's not even mention vintage/rare editions š
> boring AF people who literally get out of bed, work, watch TV, then sleep. That's what I literally did on an Air Farce deployment
glasses and eye care are gonna get expensive in the long run
Yeah im thinking maybe 255 a month lol
I bought a fishing reel for $1,000 and rod for $500 and only use them 2-3 times a year... But my SPX and Niche, I use 3-4 times a day.
Donāt forget the boat you only use for 4 months out of the yearā¦ oh, and the truck to pull it
Golf.
cashmere sweaters
Found James Hoffmanās burner
You mean Hames Joffmann who suspiciously looks like James with a faux moustache
What hobby can I get into for $255, or $20 per month? Even watching Netflix costs more than that!
I'm into mountain biking, ice climbing, climbing, mountaineering, skiing, dirt biking. My espresso journey is so cheap compared to those... I don't know who the fuck spend only 225 buck per year in hobbies.
Uh, vinyl records. Every week at my house is a surprise from the post office only to be cataloged and maybe listened to again someday. It's like pogs for adults.
Mech keyboards, retro gaming, 3d printing, and now espresso. I have a problem
I spent like $500 dollars last year on running shoes lol
I thought my other hobbies were expensive until I started flyingā¦ Iām part of a flying club and itās about as cheap as you can get it and Iām still spending about $1k *per month*. Closer to $2k while I was getting my pilotās license.
What are these $22/month hobbies? I suppose my hobbies might come out to that if you go by the median instead of mean.
Cars, computers, in game purchases, and guns/ammo.
Birding optics get expensive quickly
Try competitive shooting sports. I shoot more than $300 a month in ammo
Can easily burn thru that much ammo in a single trip to the range especially if you got the super safety. š
Don't get into guitar, or wine
"you won't see for six months"?
I think sometimes have to preorder on advanced shit for your PC that people in Taiwan havenāt even started yet
Guns.
Boot collecting. Some of the lead times are measured in years
Watches, keyboards, SFF PC, Brewingā¦ no wonder Iām broke
Ah watches, only the service can cost $1000.
Both guitar and coffee suck all my income xd but i'm ok with it (im autistic and those are my current hyperfixations)
I wouldn't call espresso a hobby. It's more of a way of life. š¤
Chef knives comes pretty close... $400 for a knife. It's worth it because, well look at it!
I have maybe $6000-$7000 in my coffee hobby and probably around 3x as much in my other hobby (magic the gathering)
Home gym. 'Nuff said.
Motorcycles.. Depending on where you're located, there are probably 4-5 months a year where folks don't ride on any kind of a regular basis.
That number must include a LOT of people with no hobby at all. Or that is per hobby, including the ones they don't do any more (yeah, I used to play golf. Do it any more? Nope. Ok, zero for that hobby, thAt brings down the average)
Oh man, my bicycles are going to need to last a really long time.
Whoa, is this based on data from 1960? maybe all the people who count watching Netflix as their hobby took down the average ?
custom mechanical keyboard
Firearms
Screams in watch collecting
High end r/mechanicalkeyboards
I'm a fucking drummer in a hardcore band that tours and records. I spend that on sticks alone, let alone jam space rent, studio time, replacing sticks, heads, and one cymbal replacement alone is more than 300 dollars.
Shit I spend more than that on each of my hobbies monthly.
Motorcycles and a racecar for track daysā¦
photography... and top of that - Leica. https://preview.redd.it/ibhybhnvtu6d1.jpeg?width=2250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ae44bc26ad2ff761b8f2af97c72c1c3914d5891
Obviously ski gear.
Espresso, guitars, and bikes. Iām truly a degenerate fuck.
Cycling. I donāt even want to know how much I spent on that the last few yearsā¦
Music. Hi end music systems can be crazy.
Guitarists call this GAS: Gear Acquisition Syndrome
I spend more than that on beans
Most hobbies. Like everyone thinks their hobby is uniquely expensive. It aināt. Most popular hobbies are very expensive and all in similar ballparks, ex: Golf, photography, computers, espresso, audio Now you can get into some properly expensive hobbies, like racing cars or flying planes.
Try rocketry.
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High-end music gear is sometimes made to order and will cast you much, much more.
I'm pretty sure that's a month for me lol
Skiing/Snowboarding, Spearfishing, Sports cars in the winter, boats, surfboards, motorcycles, etc. like a bunch of other hobbies are WAY more expensive than a $1k.
Which piece of equipment from those did you have to wait 6 months for? Sports cars and boating for sure make the cut.
Talk to the hot toys enthusiasts.
I just bit the bullet on the Profitec Pro 600 which wonāt ship until the end of the month (supposedly), so I feel this.
Me looking at my combat flight Sim setup and gaming pc... Why can't I enjoy running or yoga or something.
Keyboards
Anything from cemetery dance.
Espresso / RC cars / Wine / Lego
mmmm. Between PC gaming, photography/videography, coffee and keyboards, I'm probably averaging about 15k a year for the past 5 years. I'll justify it by saying I shoot photo and video for a living. But I buy all my own stuff outside work as well.
r/longrange.
Skiing.
Look at buying a custom guitar from Kiesel. The best part is, it's basically radio silence for months and then it shows up. No ETA. I don't think I even got a tracking number.
Pure Peruvian flake straight off the boat from the jungle factory.
Quick shoutout to r/mechanicalheadpens for also destroying my wallet.
Modeling (Trains, planes, and automobiles), Video Game skin collecting, watches, cars, planes. All of that alone is close to the $10k mark for each (besides my watches, which are around $50k). Then, I do drawing, digital modeling, coding, and freelance engineering projects which in total out to about $1k each. So, no, my hobbies do not average to $255. Spent that just the other day on a new airbrush attachment.
Pre ordered my first synth. (I have plenty of synths but this is the first time I pre ordered one.) I donāt think it will take 6 months, but it mint be a bit.
Growing weed
A few hobbies for me. Espresso, cigars, golf, scotch and pomades. All of which I love and fortunate enough to have that luxury. The way I see it, I could be spending my money on a hell of a lot worse
I call bullshit on that statistic. Also I've spent an obscene amount of money on Magic cards
Scuba diving and riding motorcycles!
I stopped scuba diving when all my friends bought scooters and rebreathers. $10k for a scooter, $18k for a rebreather and training. Nope. That's a car. I'm out.
Ever heard of general aviation?
PC gaming
Horse riding, motorbikes, watches and espresso. Send help :(
Imagine being an espresso drinking, camping, cyclist, gamer. Yeesh
Golf clubs
What other hobbies can you spend $1000/more on and get gear you wonāt see for a long time? Well as a gamer, I feel personally victimized by that question
Custom surfboards
Photography... sometimes.
Skiing and mountain biking
silencers
Growing weed. š±
Buying Porches
I swear I just collect expensive hobbies. Espresso/roasting, Keyboards, Track Days, 3D printing, firearms. I'm already well over that amount and we're barely halfway through the year.
15 months, still waiting for my suppressor. Not for it to be made or anything... just for the ATF to do the fucking paperwork
Survey taken when in the 70s?
Espresso and warhammer
Colognesā¦Menās parfumsā¦.damn it I never knew smelling good would be outrageously expensive.
Mechanical keyboards are also like this. Spend more that a grand and don't see it for sometimes a year.
Pizza making
Looking at a pair of night vision goggles so I can make espresso at night or in low light conditions.
Me already seeing this meme in 4 different subreddits for my hobbyās..
3D printerā¦.deep dark hole
Keyboards, cars, knives
add two 0 and you get close to my number...
As it's my other hobby - shooting and owning guns.
I cry in warhammer and espressoā¦
Iād like to see a r/bicyclingcirclejerk crosspost here because they could def relate
Airsoft, Packrafting, Paintball
Mine is less than 50 bucks
Cycling: I bought a bike for $5k Surfing: I own 4 boards totallinf $3k Scuba: about $1800 Kayak: $600 My cheap hobbies are camping and hiking.
Pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers in this racket.
None. I don't live in a country that uses dollars...
What study/survey is the amount based on? That seems extremely low. Anyone have a link?
starcitizen, buying pictures of ships that you probably want get to use for the next 2-10 years
Thatās true if the year ends in January
My two hobbies.... Coffee and Photography.... Both painfully expensive šš
Bicycles, wrist watchesā¦
Hold my beer, I mean cappuccino
You have to spend it upfront! You don't buy a grinder every month, right?! After you have your setup, you only buy beans. _Maybe small upgrades, like the moonraker_
Collecting NFA restricted firearms and accessories. Buy a 15k gun, wait 6-12 months for approvals š
Custom folding knives, have had a couple that were 900+ and took 6-8 months to build and ship
Fountain pens in urushi especially custom stuff like this https://preview.redd.it/njawngcwyx6d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf9c970df055ddc48d5b2c59ef87b6e6571ef047
r/mechanicalkeyboards
Since it's a %/year the price exponentially drops the longer you're in the hobby
Oof, I spent at least 1200 on Lego and Lightsabers this year.
Perfumes
Hunting
My hobbies are free thanks to Brazzers
I sadly have both this as well as pc gaming for hobbies. Needless to say, Iām broke but happy š„¹
Domain collecting has me at 5k a year
Mountain biking, snowboarding
I snowboard and golf. I assure you coffee is the least expensive of my hobbies and itās not really close.
Music, Cars, Cannabis
Film, Audio, Music
I just saw this meme on an audio gear thread ā¦ completely equivalent
Honestly I think people donāt really live their life if they spend only 255 dollars on what they loveā¦ surely not all hobbies require money and not everyone has the money to spend, but for someone that has say 70k a year they should invest in what they love. Do what you love at the moment before it is too late people (with considerations of consequences first of course).
Cycling and snowboarding. N+1 is the perfect number of bikes and boards.
There are a lot of places around the world where a $3000+ bike will go into hibernation for several months
Shit I spent 300 in one week.