Subj : Good grief, even hobbies
To   : ARELOR
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Wed Aug 13 2025 07:54:08

  >  Re: Good grief, even hobbies are expensive nowadays!
  >  By: Dmxrob to All on Sun Aug 10 2025 05:31 pm

DM> Hobbies were supposed to be fun... and now they are just getting
  > expensive!   :-(

AR>I guess it depends on the hobbies?

AR>What bothers me is that there is nothing like a casual hobby anymore.
  >These days it looks like you need to go all-in in order to enjoy it.

I think, as you stated above, it depends on the Hobby and, maybe
more important, your definition of what constitutes a 'Hobby'.

Many things you can do to fill time cost little or nothing. I do a
lot of reading and get most of my books from the Library and my
brother and his wife are into Jigsaw Puzzles they get used from
the Thrift Stores quite cheaply.

I play guitar which after a moderate outlay to buy one can fill
a lot of time and be somewhat rewarding if you get good at it.
Lessons can be costly but there should be books to get you
started on the basics and, in my case, after a few lessons, I
learned a lot more on my own faster than I would have from a
teacher I'm sure. I went very quickly from doing scales and
plucking out very basic juvenile songs in the books to playing
in a group and writing my own music within a year or so after.

Creating things by hand, be it art work or building small things
like bird houses don't usually cost much in tools or materials.
That's more food for thought rather than a suggestion.

But you can always go all out on any sort of hobby and end up with
something expensive and probably more time consuming than you hoped
for when you started it.

Years ago I got into custom painting motorcycles, which may
be considered a Hobby, as in it wasn't my full time job.
Equipment and materials were a little costly but I got good
enough at it that people would pay me to do their bikes which
turned the expense into a profitable part time job. It also
saved me the cost of paying someone else to do my own bikes..

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