Redditor DeepFriedAnxiety218 wanted to chat about the activities that cost a pretty penny the more you get into them. They asked:
"What hobby gets more expensive as you go?"
I tried fencing for a bit. You don't want to know a weekly payment plan.
Too Late
driving fast and furious GIFGiphy"Cars. After you've bought a classic car, it's too late."
GuyWithVolga
"Not just classic cars, all cars."
Rronde
Snapshot...
"Photography. A camera body is one thing, but then you start piling on lenses and lights. Oh boy..."
dontgoforthe1
"And monthly subscriptions to software editing too. That adds up."
"Though I'll throw out depending on where you are, look to see if you've got state parks. Texas has some wonderful dark sky parks and an annual membership you can get that get you in the park for free and gets discounts on camp sites. And at least precovid they would host dark park viewing nights for people to come out with cameras and telescopes."
misoranomegami
Wild
"Horses. Oh good lord. Buying the horse is the cheap part."
MorbidMunchkin
"Man, I live in an area now with a lot of horses, and was always a horse girl growing up (took lessons, dragged my dad to the races all the time), and my inner child is SO MAD at me that I don't have a horse. I literally pass a wild horse adoption place every single day. But they are just so damn expensive and adult me can't justify it."
ribbons_undone
Pricey Sounds
"Definitely music the amount I've spent on instruments is wild."
Defnoturneighbor
"Yep. I just now did my best to estimate how much I've spent in the last 22 years (ever since I started playing guitar or anything else), just on guitars (not including too many accessories, like capos, cables or what ever), I estimated $6,250."
"I've never had a very good, high income, so always having to save for the next thing, which now I've got my mind set on a Fender Jaguar in the future (custom or special order; I do not want the current Kurt Cobain model or the p-90 ones). I also spent $500 on drums and cymbals some years back."
"I actually never use them, so wanting to sell, but no idea what price to ask and what they're worth, or HOW I would ship them (older, possibly 1992 to 1993 era Tama rockstar kit, refurbished, and cheap $300 box of Zildjian cymbals; my uncle sold me the drums and only asked for $100, but I gave him $200)."
RhoadsOfRock
Addictive
Hissy Fit Reaction GIF by Hyper RPGGiphy"You perhaps wouldn't believe it, but modern board games can add up so quickly, and the fact that most modern games come out via crowdfunding, FOMO can really kick in. Addictive and expensive hobby."
dabruuzer
Cars are fun. Cars are expensive. And that's before gas.
In a Bowl
fun fishing GIFGiphy"Fishkeeping. One day you get your kid's a betta and stick it in a bowl, the next day you find out that's not proper husbandry and correct it, and then one day you wake up with 7 aquariums in your house. It all happens so fast."
Fair_Warning19
$15
"Washi tape collecting during the pandemic was fun. At first, it was all about finding deals- how many tapes could I get for a dollar, three dollars... what does this set of twelve tapes go for? One day I scoured the internet to find the most expensive washi tape. How expensive could this get? A whopping $15 for a single roll was what I found. And it was a nice roll. Less than the price of a movie ticket. Not bad."
-Firestar-
Plastics
"My brother and I got back into building plastic model kits (primarily sci-fi subjects). Getting all the right paints, glues and accessories to have good results can really put a black hole in your wallet."
TonyDP2128
"All of my Mr Color and Hataka Orange paints 'disappeared' during my last move. I'm not destitute, but it's been six months and I've still not been able to replace the ones I use most often let alone all. Then there's buying my son all of his crap as well... yeah. And you really need a spare bedroom to use and it goes on and on."
daviepancakes
Listen
"High end audio."
turnstiles
"I'm just starting to go down that slippery slope. Good thing I stopped collecting watches and cameras. No time to take pictures and develop film all day, and no need for more watches, but there's always time to sit down and listen to a record."
Rob_V
"You can put together a great audio setup without spending a stupidly large sum. Beyond a certain price range you’re just another sucker spending money for prestige."
BrianOllocks
How Much?
Awesome The Lego Movie GIF by TrolliGiphy"Lego."
sorryforbeingac*nt
"I was going to buy a Lego kit until I had a heart attack looking at the price! It’s insane!"
Crashgirl4243
Good luck on the fun for all of us.
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Cats. Why is that still thing? And I'm sorry but Les Miz... too depressing.
Not so Pretty...
Julia Roberts Shopping GIF by SundanceTVGiphy"Worst is so hard to narrow down. Right now I'm going to say Pretty Woman or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
yabasicjanet
Bad Bullets
"Bullets over Broadway. Got discount tickets and still wanted my money back. Although close tie with Paramour. That show had a lot of potential was the writing was so messy it brought the whole thing down."
herbiepunchbuggy
"I also saw Bullets Over Broadway and consider it one of those 'certainly not the best I’ve seen, but far form the worst.'. I’m actually a little surprised by the level of hate it’s getting in this thread!"
"I mean I’m certainly not going to defend it, and I basically remember nothing about it, but I feel it was more meh than godawful (for me personally the godawfuls are Dr Zhivago, Finian’s Rainbow, and Dear Evan Hansen). One of the stars of Bullets Over Broadway, Nick Cordero, was a very early-on and really very tragic casualty to Covid."
FancyPigeonIsFancy
"threesome with conjoined twins"
"It might have been the theater being cramped and me being tired, but Side Show was not a good time for me. All I really remember is the opening song (which had some actual cool makeup) and the 'threesome with conjoined twins' sequence."
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was also pathetic, besides Christian Borle of course. Never getting over the set of the chocolate river being stuck inside a giant tiny glass cube instead of being an actual set."
hyperjengirl
No Shade but...
"Spider Man in previews. I was working it—handing out marketing surveys—so I got to slip into an empty seat once I was done taping all the surveys to seats. I felt sorry for anyone who paid for those seats. No shade to Reeve Carney or Patrick Page; they did what they could with horrendous material."
smol_lydia
Never Again
Robert De Niro Yes GIF by Tony AwardsGiphy"A Bronx Tale made me rethink my love of theatre."
svtxcvnb
"Didn’t love it, but in retrospect, I’m glad I had a chance to see Nick Cordero. He was great in it."
skymasterson2016
Thankfully I skipped all of those shows. I heard the same word of mouth.
this is a war GIF by All SaintsGiphy"War Paint. 100% the only show I've regretted paying to see."
IceCreamAttachment
Bad Jazz
"I had some friends visiting from Chicago, and I took them to see... Chicago with Christie Brinkley as Roxy Hart. IT WAS SO BAD. I mean Chicago isn't like Shakespeare or something, but the music is good and it's pretty unoffensive. This made me actively mad and embarrassed that this is what my friends saw on their first trip to Broadway!! I still feel so angry about it when I see Christie Brinkley on TV lol. She played Jerry's wife on Parks and Rec and it totally ruined the joke for me!!"
Mean-Responsibility4
“use your imagination.”
"The Bye Bye Birdie revival with John Stamos and Gina Gershon. Man was that just jaw-droppingly bad on so many levels. Allie Trimm as Kim was the one good thing about it. But I just felt terrible for everyone else, including the audience."
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory too - mostly just the massive letdown of what could’ve been a production spectacle for the ages, and instead was 'use your imagination.' I also really loathed Hand to God and could not figure out why people around me were laughing. I thought it was so stupid."
At_the_Roundhouse
And yet...
"'In My Life' was astonishing. I saw it with some other actor types in an almost empty theater and it beggars description, it was so terrible. And yet... There was a sweet moment where the characters were in a recording booth that actually worked. The show was idiotic, the plot was insane, none of the characters made any sense but there was still this one lovely moment. If was definitely the worst show I've ever seen, but even the worst show had one magical thing in it, which is kinda wonderful."
gideonsean
Well everything, everytime is not gonna be a hit. And more often than not we'll never understand why something was a hit.
But please keep supporting the theatre!!
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