Your house?
Look at Mr. Fancy pants over here with their own house. Man, that must be nice.
I could pay $1200 for concert tickets or $0 for D&D
Shoutout to 2014.5e.tools (or just 5e.tools if you want the gross new shit)
$0 for D&D
What about the Funyuns and Mt.Dew?
DM and demand tribute
Concerts costing that much are never worth it. I spend ~400$ 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
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?
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.
i think dnd is the one game I’ve spent more money on than warframe.
$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 like ants. I paid 0.30€ per tube and I don’t think I’ll ever need to buy more, I use old plastic food containers, so free, I breed my ants’ feeder insects…
I mean, there are many hobbies that can be dirt cheap or free. Do you like plants? Get free cuttings asking for them to your neighbor or any acquaintance, buy a little dirt and cheap pots. Do you like fishes or crustaceans? You don’t need an expensive aquarium, you just need a really cheap food grade plastic tub. Do you like bikes? My bike is a cheap second hand one. Do you need a house? Forget it, you’ll never be able to pay for one.
I got a lot of my rosemary from cuttings of a bush growing by a car park. Did spend a bit on my bike though as I wanted a reasonably good one, £600 there. I cycle as a main form of transport, few thousand miles a year.
I wish i could endure that. I’d go nuts without my hobby’s i drop the moment they require any effort.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
Borrowing books from the library is free!
Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card
Or ask Anna for them
She has a great archive
So is downloading movies and series, fuck streaming services.
The most fun and properly constructed games these days are cheap indie games and which don’t require expensive gaming rigs.
You don’t need an expensive camera, you can already do decent photography with your phone. Just do a course to learn about tricks and composition. Too expensive you say? Hell no, YouTube offers loads of courses for nearly anything. Hate YouTube ads you say? I get it, just use grayjay app for a ad free experience :) because fuck Google.
You can clone plants, put them in second hand pots. Get some seeds. Grow your own herbs and food.
Get a cheap 3D printer. Can be as cheap as 250 euros. Filament can be as cheap as 8 to 10 euros per kilo. Learn CAD through YouTube, design your own stuff. Maybe tools for other hobbies, like a phone stand for long exposure photos or nice pots for your plants.
Not just books. In some places, DVDs and video games. Some even offer digital services connected to your library card.
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
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.
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.
Wait… Do most bus drivers own the bus?
No, bus drivers don’t own the buses they drive kids around in. Those buses are owned or leased by the district or company they work for. The bus I own I converted into a motorhome, so I couldn’t drive kids in it even if I wanted to (no more than two, anyway, since I do have one passenger seat in my bus).
Yeah no wonder you’re smiling. You have a fucking house.
One of the reasons I’m glad I live in the city. There’re free concerts in the parks. Free movies, sometimes. I can bike or train to the beach. There’re meetups for all sorts of interests. When I lived in the suburbs, it was a wasteland. At best you could drive somewhere interesting.
Seriously. Suburbs are a hell I refuse to return to and which I wouldn’t wish on anyone. They just suck the life out of everything and you don’t even get anything for it. Hell, the houses aren’t even that cheap so you really just get to spend a lot of money on hot garbage.
“Hey, wanna be isolated from all your friends while getting nothing in return except the blandest, cookie-cutter hellscape? Have I got the place for you! And fret not, it’ll still cost you a staggering amount of money for even a small, shitty place so you better be fuckin’ married if you want even a two-bedroom condo!”
I think suburbs is really only for people who have no soul and no creativity in the first place which could get smashed by the blandness of it all. I grew up in a very rural area and i hated it so much, it’s difficult to put into words. I’ll never leave the city again.
Proper rural at least has some advantages, but bland, single-family home suburb whose development was built on what used to be a forest beside a farmer’s field doesn’t count. Like, if someone has a house way out because they just like that kinda thing then I’m still wondering what they’re up to out there, if they’re ok, and what they’re planning on doing if they ever have kids but at least they can actually stay up late with a fire in the backyard. Of course, most of them are too scared of having a septic tank to ever get far enough away to make it worth it.
And yea, trapping your kids far from stuff because you’re anti-social is extra weird.
And yea, trapping your kids far from stuff because you’re anti-social is extra weird.
It’s not weird, it’s just sad, in my opinion. So many opportunities missed out on.
crying in 3d printing
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 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.
I went to a Shrek rave for $20
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.
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.
