Is your obsession expensive?

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Mine have never been expensive. I'm too worried about going broke and having surprises to even spend the money and I don't want clutter in my home since space is limited.

I never have a lot of money so I can be happy for weeks with a pencil, ruler, calculator and graph paper designing possible extentions to our house. Then I discovered I can use microsoft excel for this by turning it into graph paper by changing cell sizes and using highlighting and merging cells and outlining groups of cells. Then can save a version to simply adjust the next day and print off. Great fun.
My weaving was costing me quite a lot until I weaned myself off ebay and started using up all the wool etc I had already bought.
Which has just given me the idea of using excel to design weaving patterns too
I did once get very interested in collecting jewellry, but I couldn't afford it, so after being disappointed with all the cheap stuff I bought from china I then had two months with limited internet access which combined to wean me off that one.

Depends on what my obsession is. Astronomy can be pretty expensive. Xbox games are if you keep buying loads at £40, usually worse around Summer/Autumn cause the ones I get always come out close together every year. Photography, more so buying new cameras. Currently obsessed with basketball so hopefully that'll be cheap Worst obsession for me has to of been gambling, if I can include that :/ Specifically I love scratch cards and fruit machines. I just love pressing the buttons and the lights and watching the reels spin. I've lost a lot of money on them

Well I have two obsessions. I don't know why, but I have an obsession with stationary. Well okay more closely, I have an obsession with journals. I love writing and I have written short stories and novels before. But I love journals. I buy them based on design, look of paper. And this is usually just my one impulse buy. If I see a new journal with a design on it that I have never before seen and it's just that beautiful that I need it, I'll buy it. Generally it isn't expensive, a lot of the journals I have bought are around 10 to 12 dollars. It's not that expensive. I generally only buy one journal when out because I'm extremely picky about design.

The second obsession is video gaming. And it can be expensive if you're not buying Used. I like to try and buy Used games that aren't quite expensive. But there are the rare times where I preorder a game and buy it at full retail price. But video game companies are making the Used game industry very hard with online passes. You now need a permission card to play online, which I find slightly upsetting.

I've always wanted to be a collector of something, but my interests never last long enough for me to amass many items under a single category. My mom calls them "starter collections" because they're not very big.

Over the years I've had a lot of "starter collections" - DVDs, books, toys (including My Little Ponies), Alice in Wonderland items - and it's cost me hundreds, maybe even thousands of dollars. All of it eventually winds up in storage when I start feeling suffocated by it or lose interest in it, and then I feel guilty and angry at myself because I feel like I wasted a lot of money on stuff I don't want anymore.

Maybe I just have to accept that I'm not cut out to be a collector. As others have observed, I seem to do best when I indulge in my interests on an emotional/imaginative level rather than through physical possessions.

No, I buy all my books second-hand.

I suppose my interest in various animals would be expensive if I was actually allowed to own them (I live in an apartment).

My partner has about 7 guitars that I can play for free.

Without a job, everything is expensive. Video games have been, so it's a good thing I'm more into those that take a while or have high replay value. Readings not too expensive, nor is writing or drawing, really. Almost any show or movie can be found on youtube or hulu or whatever else.

I definitely suffer from expensive obsessions/hobbies.

I started collecting coins from circulation around 1958. Later this morphed into collecting older (expensive) US type coins. Eventually, I became more and more interested in US Gold coins (even more expensive). By the time my main interest switched over to pre-1834 US gold (horrendously expensive back then in 2000, and out of sight now), I realized that I needed to find a new hobby.

I had always been interested in Photography -- the big problem was film. Fortunately, around 2000 digital photography started becoming feasible, and by 2003 I had my first digital camera. In 2004 I got my 1st DSLR, and decided to switch hobbies from coin collecting to digital photography. This was expensive, but nothing like collecting gold coins.

Unforunately, there was a lunar eclipse in the fall of 2004, and I just had to take photos of it. On a whim I swung the camera around, and took a picture of Orion. Maybe you can see where this is heading. The results were good enough to get me hooked on astroimaging, which is an order of magnitude more expensive (and difficult) than regular photography. Eventually this lead to me getting a "summer cabin" up in the Catskills (dark skies for imaging) -- hence the name Semikaatskillian. At least I paid cash for the place, so I'm not saddled with mortgage costs.

Of course, for astro, you need telescopes, and manual focus lenses (AF doesn't work well for astro). After getting a few lenses, my old collector instincts were rekindled, and I became addicted to collecting manual focus lenses, and eventually old SLR cameras that use them. All in all, still cheaper than gold coins, though.

i wasted lots of $$$ on cars a while ago, over a 15 year period when i was making a middle-class income. then i got the digital audio restoration bug, and since i'm a collector of old records, i plunked down a small fortune on audio restoration equipment and computer software. now that i am relatively low on fundage, i'm upset that i wasted so much moolah on cars, but i'm glad that i got the audio restoration stuff while i could afford it.

One of my interests costs a few thousand a year (and about 15hrs a week), my second interest became my current job , and the third interest I am working towards getting the necessary qualifications to work in the area.

No not really. When it comes to my toy collecting I only collect favourite characters. My dvd collection Ive been really taking advantage of the high Australian dollar and ebay.

mostly i just make programs and find exploits in code luckly i dotn need to pay for the computers yet

The music in and of itself isn't overly expensive, but pro audio and DJ equipment adds up very quickly!

As my main one would be history, not really. I like to buy books, but that costs me maybe $100 a year. Mostly, I borrow them from the college library.

For computers, if that counts, I always keep two computers at any one time, + generally one that could work with adequate repairs. In the last year, I bought two, a laptop and a netbook, but that was because two computers failed me. I already have enough mouses and screens for any purpose I can think of. Since I've started paying for my stuff four years ago, I payed maybe $3000 on hardware and $500 on software. I don't think that is too much, especially since I would have needed some of that for school anyway.

Mine can be quite expensive at times but I have nothing else to spend the money on so it doesn't really matter.

Not usually. D&D is pretty expensive, starting out; but those three core books are your main purchase and that lasts you for years. Many obsessions don't involve paying money at all. Even computer games are often not expensive, because it's a one-time purchase and then I'm stuck on it for months. Most of the time it's not even a purchase, to begin with--it's freeware or similar. Latest obsession, Dwarf Fortress--totally free.