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What if your hobby is stealing expensive things from international chains and pawning them?
If you love your job, you never work a day in your life or something
Steve, stop masturbating and go steal some shit
Steve: nut i c-can’t help it
do you have any laptops with the bios unlocked
edit: I am not soliciting stolen goods I am asking a question out of interest
Are they locking down the BIOS on laptops now?
Yeah no wonder you’re smiling. You have a fucking house.
I play chess online and it only costs me my self esteem.
Chess seems unique in the sports/games world because randomness plays absolutely no role in the outcome. It is purely the other person’s brain squashing your brain down into a beige stain.
There are a bunch of No Hidden Informationn / Perfect Information games. The next well known one probably being Go
Oops just hung another queen.
OTOH, if you can afford basic necessities, hobbies are just a rounding error on top of them.
Kind of depends on the hobby, for example if you live in a country with some mountains and you like hiking than it’s a negligible cost, if you like skydiving then I am gonna go out on a limb and say that costs quite a but more.
And if your hobby is warhammer 40k or MtG then just pickup a cocaine habit instead to cut costs.
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Unless it’s motorsports. Then the necessities of life are the rounding error. 🤣
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I think concert tickets are expensive only if you listen to pop music. I recently went to a concert with line up of Cannibal Corpse, Mayhem and two more bands and the tickets were just $50.
It will primarily depend on the venue. Ticketmaster/Live Nation managed venues will be far more expensive, and they now operate ticket sales for basically all of them
Yeah, but even then, it’s still true that non-mainstream artists’ show tickets are cheaper than a mainstream pop one. A metal concert ticket would be anything between $45 and $125 depending on where you sit. While a kpop concert ticket can cost $80 for nosebleeds.
I went to a Shrek rave for $20
Classical music is even a better deal. I was in the 2nd row to see Augustin Hadelich play Mozart and the tickets were less than $30. Lucky for me I’d rather see that than any pop music.
To start drawing you need a pencil and some paper. It costs almost nothing to start and it can be very rewarding.
I started doing junk journaling. It’s cheap but very satisfying…. Although that got me interested in geli printing so now I’m painting, and of course I had to also get acrylic markers… but the ones that I got are too thick for the detail I want. So now I have to get a 2nd set… not to mention the stamps. Never mind. Don’t start a hobby. No matter how cheap it sounds.
I realized recently that like 90% of my things that my mom considers “junk” are art supplies of some sort. (The other 10% are various stim toys.) Yarn, sewing patterns, possibly a million bottles of paint, brushes that are broken on the handle but still have the best bristles for certain effects, a tub of beads, reams of drawing paper (because I always forget about the packs I already have), I could go on and on.
The problem is, I’m shit at organizing. My ADHD brain gets overwhelmed and I never end up succeeding. Besides, I cycle through hobbies but there’s no clear cut-off for when some interests change. I may keep out a crochet project because I had the steam to get halfway through, and I want it nearby so I can pick it up and add a few stitches when I feel like it. But then I decide I want to paint something, so I take out my paint supplies. Before that interest cycles completely out, I start wanting to mold something from clay…
And yeah. It gets out of hand sometimes, especially when I re-buy things I already had because I forgot I already had them. The chaos breeds more chaos. However, having to put away everything just to take it back out a few hours later sounds equally absurd. I know that’s the habit we’re all supposed to do, but for me if something is out of sight for too long, I could forget what I was even trying to make. I only complete projects that I keep coming back to, and any hinderance to that is like stepping on a banana peel on a stairwell, as far as my executive functioning is concerned. It makes it so much harder to arrive to the point where I’m actually done.
“Good paint pens” are so expensive… Also they go through standard printing paper so they need expensive special paper…
That being said, i don’t draw/paint, so i don’t understand the appeal of these special pens.
Start with a basic HB pencil. Costs under 1 dollar/euro.
If you want to add colour, get some basic coloured pencils or soft pastels. Pastels will need, in general, better paper.
Want to ink them? Go for some cheap black fine lighter pens at different widths.
This progression alone can take years and is enough to get decent at drawing, learn the fundamentals, etc. Good materials and tools are useless if you don’t know how to use them properly, so don’t spend too much on them too early.
something that’s true of most hobbies I’ve looked into: always start with the cheap shit tools/materials because you won’t really understand why the expensive shit is good until you’ve had some experience.
At my level of experience (essentially none) I’d get similar results if I was using copic or crayola.
To anyone who doesn’t think they have any talent for drawing, but who wants to try, I’d recommend starting with simple shapes. I know, I know, it sounds childish, but I’m going somewhere here.
Start with simple shapes on their own. Then start adding simple shapes to each other. Connect them, overlap them, make some of them squiggly or unusual. Do whatever feels right.
Then, look back at the picture and really look at it. What else could it look like? If you showed that picture to a child, what would they think it was? (Go ahead and ask a child, if one is around. They are really good at this.) Look at those shapes and imagine something new growing out of it. If you must, put the picture down and go do something else for a bit. When you come back, your fresh eyes may see something that you didn’t see before.
Then, add on whatever you imagined, bit by bit.
Not only does this help hone the hand-eye coordination and fine motor control needed for drawing, but it exercises your imagination and teaches you how to perceptualize more complex images (by being able to break them down to simpler parts.) It blends seamlessly in with Bob Ross’s approach of using mistakes to enhance a work, too. Mistakes will happen, nobody’s perfect. Being able to turn a random paint smear or inkblot into something that would fit in with a work can take you far.
Some hobbies can be really cheap. Just bought a bow and arrow set for $150 and an archery range nearby only costs $5 for the whole day.
Just found out there’s a well-reviewed archery range 9 minutes away from me. Thank you for the suggestion, I’ll definitely be checking it out!
I’m introverted and frugal. I sit in my chair and vibrate through realities.
If you’re skilled you can even turn these vibes into reality.
Ditto, but I also hate being inside. That’s why I spend every waking second itching and shaking waiting for my next chance to go to my local public observatory. Nothing hut introverted nerds out there in the middle of the pitch black night
Bonus points if you like hearing people infodump, these mfs LOVE telling you about their mirrors and eyepieces and accessories and shit
People that don’t have to pay rent every month have the luxury of pursuing expensive hobbies. Housing is so expensive that permanent homes are so far out of reach for many workers…
My mortgage costs more than when I was paying rent, though I do get more space. A whole 60m²! No longer confined to just a bedroom that you can touch both walls at once.
I take my daughter out to lunch and I just don’t eat now. $18 for a bowl of spaghetti bolognese, I’ll just drink water while she eats thanks
I ain’t tryin’ to blame ya, just to be clear but:
- Bahn Mí is way cheaper and way more fun.
- Shawarma is usually pretty cheap and if it’s still $20 for a plate you best believe you’ll have a meal to share.
- The last tip could probably work for a whatever burrito place’s big burrito. They always got a really big one on the menu somewhere.
Italian food from a restaurant is such a ripoff. I can make a way better pasta with some ground beef or pork, store-bought sauce, and some random pasta, and I get the option to add other vegetables that they either don’t include or have in pathetically small amounts.
Holy shit that is more than I spend on food in a week per person.
I could pay $1200 for concert tickets or $0 for D&D
Concerts costing that much are never worth it. I spend ~400$ for 2 nosebleed SZA tickets for my wife 2 years ago. We were watching the jumbotron the whole time.
My birthday shows this year are 30 and 50 a ticket and we can actually be see the musicians. I know I’m being a dumb hipster, but its so hard to justify ticket prices for large artists. What’s the point of going to a football stadium to listen to live music. You could get a decent home sound system for the same price
We have a local place a couple cities over (013 in Tilburg) tickets usually are like €32 and large beer is €6 (i usually do well on 2) so that makes it €44 for a live performance from a band i actually enjoy (some pretty big names show up here).
Now of only i could still function for the two remaining workdays after a concert there, i would still go there.
But i’m probably getting old because it completely cripples me until after the weekend. Which is too high of a price as it puts my job at risk.
The cheap tickets could be better than close seats anyway. It’s easier to hide a joint when you’re sitting amongst a chaotic sea of blankets in the lawn section. Oh yeah, and you get to lie down on a blanket.
I can’t imagine close seats could match the experience of either dancing freely without seats getting in the way, or lying back on a soft blanket, stoned with your friends, as one of your favorite artists performs live music nearby. Why would I spend more money to throw those perks away?
Shoutout to 2014.5e.tools (or just 5e.tools if you want the gross new shit)
Watch it, we’re people too
$0 for D&D
What about the Funyuns and Mt.Dew?
DM and demand tribute
$1200! I could buy like 2 snowboards for that(1 split board), or another bike. Are concerts like a status symbol now?
Nah, ticket sales & venues are largely a monopoly in the US and we’re seeing the impact of that on our live event costs.
i think dnd is the one game I’ve spent more money on than warframe.
I bought a used school bus as a hobby. Now I’m a school bus driver so technically I get paid for my hobby. Except that dealing with middle-schoolers is definitely not a hobby.
Going to concerts is not a hobby. That’s an entertainment expense.
Activity participation can be a hobby
Buddhism has entered the chat!
Learning to sit still, in the quiet, and just being has been one of the biggest improvements to my mental health.
Of course, a bigger improvement to my mental health would be if we had an economy that worked for the people rather than for the rich…
While I agree, there’s certainly a difference between learning to be comfortable with stillness and literally not being able to afford to do anything. I take time for stillness every day but the fact that I can’t do anything else without feeling guilt is the problem.
Also, as much as I know you are trying to be helpful, I’m really sick and tired of being told that I have to make all the sacrifices. Pretty soon the next sacrifice I’ma make is gunna be to Khorne.
There’s a german poem that i find very intriguing:
Still sitzend,
nichts tuend,
kommt der Frühling
und das Gras wächst von allein.It means:
Sitting still,
doing nothing,
comes spring
and the grass grows on its own.It means that in very difficult times, where everything seems dead and hopeless (winter), being patient and doing nothing at all is best, and it will bring you into better times (spring).
Your house?
