Anyone else have ridiculously expensive hobbies?

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Journer

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cars...putars...music equipment...the old lady...gah...i need to hurry up and get rich :/
 
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Computers and Bowling for me. In the last year I've dropped about 3k on a couple laptops, and another $350 on bowling equipment, plus the USBC fees and league dues, then practice games, it's fun but it can be expensive when you first get into it. On top of buying a ball and getting after it, you learn more, you get stronger, you start requiring different balls for different conditions.....time for a money sink.
 

DaiShan

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If you can call tuition, books, rent and LSAT classes hobbies, then yes I have some ridiculously expensive hobbies. For instance I just spent $1100 for lsat class, $1500 for tuition, and $460 on rent...today. I celebrated by eating 6 week old hot dogs sans buns (who eats 6 week old hotdog buns, thats just gross!) and washed it down with milk that expired last saturday.
 

NaOH

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audio
video
cars
cameras
snowboarding
computers
Girlfriend
 

uncleezno

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My SCUBA habit isn't as expensive as, say, the faberge egg habit above, but customization of gear gets pricey. I'm from the Northeast, which means if I dive at home, I'm using a drysuit, which costs a ton to maintain. My regulator was a couple hundred bucks, my fins were about $200, my mask and snorkel were about $100, my BCD was about $300, my dive watch cost about $800, and each dive (in the US, from a boat, with a divemaster) set me back about $75-100. Whenever I get new certs, though, I do it somewhere nice and warm and non-english speaking (read:indonesia) so the classes are cheap and the dives cost no more than $35. Oh, and the flights to good dive destinations aren't cheap, either...
 

bennylong

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Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Originally posted by: bennylong
Strippers are my hobby. Very expensive

How much does he charge an hour?

Roberto charge $300. He used to charge $250 when he used to be Roberta. Said the rate increase was to pay for his operation
 

JulesMaximus

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Originally posted by: Mrvile
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
I have quite a collection of hobbies actually...

I have 12 guns...3 surfboards...2 Nitro RC cars...1 RC heli...1 RC airplane...2 really nice road bikes...oh, and I'm looking into getting a motorcycle. We won't get into the computer hardware or the DVD collection. :p

Are RC cars and planes and stuff expensive? For a uh..."decent" setup, what price range are we looking at?

<---not interested in getting into it, just curious.

I have about $600-700 into the cars but only went entry level into the flying stuff...cheaper electric. Still, I've got easy $400 into that.
 

JulesMaximus

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Originally posted by: mugs
I don't but my wife does... she has about $10,000 worth of photography equipment.

But if she turns it into a career when we have kids, it'll be worth way more than that.

Ooh, forgot about the photography equipment...There's another $3-4k easy.:roll:
 

YOyoYOhowsDAjello

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I have a hometheater instead of a car.

EDIT: I'll admit it would be a pretty sh!tty car though
 

CTrain

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Yeah its called snowboarding and I've lived in Florida all my life.

I've been going to Colorado at least once every year for 10+ yrs now.
First it was skiing and now its exclusively snowboarding.
Even moved to NorCal for a yr so I can go snowboarding regularly.

Yeah and I play golf alot too.
I need to stop doing the expensive sports.
 

spidey07

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Originally posted by: z0mb13
Does golf count?

it does. But I've found that the more you play, the less expensive it gets. you're just paying greens fees once you're setup.