3D printing. Purchased a cheap 3D printer to save money printing things instead of buying things. 5 printer print farm later, no idea why I’m doing this to myself.
Oh boy, I’m not the worst but I’m pretty bad when it comes to “rabbit holes”
Vinyl records and hifi audio, photography (especially film), mechanical keyboards, cigars, old german cars. I just recently got into music production and modular synthesis. Someone needs to stop me.
It looks like there’s no better time than now to be getting into production though tbh. You can get cheap equipment now that perfectly recreates the effects of stuff that would literally burn a £5000 hole in your wallet before.
Scale modeling – you can pick up a cheap kit at a big box craft store with some paint and glue for $40. Before you know it, you’re importing specialty kits from Japan, rigging up a spray booth in your basement for your airbrush, and taking trips to air museums to get reference photos of the zinc chromate primer for a cockpit interior.
It’s something you can do for free, and I started decades agp when I was broke. But over time I started paying for a domain, and then hosting, and then mire domsins, and after 25 years that builds up.
That moment when your hobbies are most of the comments. Running, biking, camping, computers and photography (haven’t spent any money on this yet so we good) :/
I will buy a Ubiquiti edge router to move away from the consumer grade network gear, turned into just one more $500 server to complete my homelab cluster. Oh who am I kidding the homelab is never “complete”.
Gaming consoles and all of the parts for fixing and modding them. Got an OG Xbox that crashed, so I bought new caps, then I needed a soldering iron, then I got an Xbox 360 so I needed a modchip and a flasher as well as a 4TB harddrive and then I got a FAT PS3 with broken SMD caps so I needed a preheater and a hot air station and then I needed to get all of these controllers which are worn out so I needed potentiometers, thumbsticks…
I do play my PS2, PS3, Xbox, 360, One etc. all the time (they don’t just sit in my room to look pretty) but yeah, I 've probably sunk thousands of euros into maintaining them. 😅
I use the equipment to repair other things I get for free or very cheap, so it’s not just a money sink…or at least that’s how I rationalize my hobby. Repaired a Nikon camera with it…then I bought lenses…just another rabbithole!
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