Subj : Re: Good grief, even hobbies are expensive nowadays!
To   : Arelor
From : Dmxrob
Date : Mon Aug 11 2025 15:01:34

BY: Arelor (954:200/1)
|13On |11Monday,August 11, 2025 at 04:16 AM, |14Arelor (954:200/1)|13 wrote:|07


|11A|09> |10>|07
|11A|09> |10> Hobbies were supposed to be fun... and now they are just getting|07
|11A|09> |10> expensive!|07
|11A|09> |10> :-(|07
|11A|09> |07
|11A|09> |10I guess it depends on the hob|07bies?|07

Even gardening, the most basic for most people of hobbies, is just 
increasing in price.  Thankfully I have become pretty good at saving seed for the next year, and things like that.


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|11A|09> |10What bothers me is that there is nothing like a casual hobby anymore.|07
|11A|09> |10These days it looks like you need to go all-in in order to enjoy it.|07

I think this is driven by the pure profit mentality.  I got swept up in the laser engraving/cutting craze a few years back.  Spent a lot of money on something that just sits here and never gets used.  I even have accessories they swore "I had to have" that have never been out of the box. 

|11A|09> |07
|11A|09> |10But as for price... well, tooling has become a bit more expensive over|07
|11A|09> |10the years but it is not too bad yet. I mean, if you are into|07
|11A|09> |10homesteading, power tools and fuel are more expensive but the whole|07
|11A|09> |10operation can still run for dirty cheap.|07
|11A|09> |07

For me, and I think most others, we need to buy off-the-shelf parts and pieces and that is where it is going bonkers.  The tariffs are really hitting hard on some items.  I can't even get a specific LED tube anymore because I would pay almost double with tariffs. It's only made in the UK, and there are absolutely no manufacturers in the US or anywhere else making it.

|05-dmxrob|07

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