Came to say this. I enjoy hunting and outdoor activities so I have a multitude of gear. What I use depends on where I am going, who is going with me, and what activities we plan on doing. Such as:
30ft Toy Hauler Camper
UTV and flatbed trailer
Truck bed Tent
Tents of various sizes and various types of climates
Sleeping bags for various climates
Hiking/Hunting clothes and shoes for various climates
Binos and Spotting scopes of various styles
Backpacks… So many backpacks
Rifles of various calibers for hunting different game and environments and various fishing poles
Hiking. You start out with what you got. Then on the first few hikes you find out what gear you absolute have to bring with you. Then when you have a fine little gear stash, you begin adding things from the never ending “nice to have” list. Then you go to outdoor stores just to have a look around… HA!
Magic the Gathering, eletronics (repair/modding), retro video games, mechanical keyboards, coffee, board games, even cooking… I wanted to fix my Switch because I didn’t want to pay $120 for the repair and I definitely already paid more than $120 in tools. I will use them for other repairs and modding things so it isn’t that bad.
All I need is a soldering iron… well of course it needs to be digital! I also need a DMM for troubleshooting, as well an ociliscope. Guess I should also pick up a bench power supply so I don’t need to run everything through two leads of the DMM to find the amps. A couple years laterWell this is a surface mount issue, I need a reflow heat gun.
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.
If you get good at it and if you run enough hives each year, it does, eventually, start making money though! Which is almost more frustrating, because every dollar you spend on it could come back some day in honey sales… but will it?
My oldest tree is a 15-year-old Japanese black pine purchased from an authentic bonsai nursery in nipomo California. The owner is a second generation bonsai artist and very kind person. Most of the fun for me is in turning young nursery stock into starter bonsai material. It’s easier than you might think, and I’m not doing this competitively so I don’t really mind if it’s not absolutely perfect.
I just had to replace the body/sole of my father’s old Stanley Bailey smoothing plane, because the cast iron got brittle in England’s winter chill and as I picked it up one morning it fell and smashed in two 😭
Was surprisingly easy to find replacement original Stanley Bailey parts cheap though, so I got it fixed up good as new :-D
I carve wood, so I was buying wood blanks to carve. Then my father in law said “oh, you use basswood, I’ve just cut down a whole bunch”, so he chainsaws some and mills it down to size and drops it off, but now my garage is full of basswood logs so I need to buy a new saw to rip it into smaller pieces to work with. But while I’m at the store a chisel set would be great for learning woodworking, and maybe a hand planer too since I don’t have space for power tools. I got a cope saw as a poor man’s bandsaw, for shaping, but now that I’m doing bigger pieces I could really use those Dremel tools…
Lol… Those tools make a fool of you. But my advice is “buy once, cry once”. If you need a bandsaw a coping saw ain’t gonna do. Even a small 9" wen bandsaw will do more and will just sit on the end of your bench.
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 i.imgur.com/ey1jJYX.jpg
It’s funny because you can go buy an old rugged K-1000 with a basic 50mm prime lens for under $100, a couple rolls of film for less than $20, and the developing costs you can put off until later. That’s still about a tenth of the cost of a good new digital camera and this thing is built like a tank and forces you to learn the fundamentals. Very quickly, you’ll discover that your film and developing costs will quickly outpace the initial investment on a digital camera. Moreover, you’ve discovered that finding good glass to match you camera is no cheaper and a lot more difficult than finding lens for that sexy new digital camera that was outside your budget initially.
I ended up having a lot of GAS. So I now have tons of bodies and lenses in 35mm and 120… I’ve spent more obsessing over film stuff than I ever could have with digital.
oh, I haven’t tried this developer on this film yet. Guess I have to go shoot a $10 roll. 😅
It does make you think twice before hitting that shutter. Lots of life lessons when shooting film, such as learning to appreciate a lot less instant gratification.
Instant (analog) photography and collecting pins and buttons. Turns out film is expensive and buying pins are expensive. Started out with friends giving me pins to stick on my bag and now I have close to hundred pins on my pin wall. At least they look pretty rad.
Would I be correct that this hobby, if it’s not just having a nice thing for everyday use, does it eventually lead into: calligraphy, fancy stationary, special vellum papers, custom wax stamp seal kits, grinding your own ink, etc?
For me it was Badminton. You can start off with cheap $15 rackets and plastic shuttlecocks. Now my racket is $260 and I play with feather shuttlecocks which are about $2 a piece and only last a few rallies.
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