What's your most expensive interest?

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DON'T get scared but my obsessions is with firearms and the Second Amendment, i own 3 currently a Reminington 870. a Bushmaster AR 15 and a Taurus PT 1911SSAR and i hope to collect many more firearms over the years. so ANYONE who wants to debate that autistics SHOULDN'T own firearms is MISINFORMED in MY book.

The cost of ALL THREE was about 1800$+ MINUS the ammo i have for them! lol

in a period of my life when i temporarily inhabited the middle class, i spent an insane amount of $$$$ on audio equipment and music software.

Probably books. They aren't THAT expensive, but the cost quickly adds up, and the ability to instantly get a kindle book doesn't help. And god forbid when I travel, I remember I had to ship back home a bux full of books from Germany, and it was almost as expensive as the books themselves.

My most expensive interest is definitely "The Sims 3" and buying extra outfits, furniture, Sim Points, etc for my Sims.

It's hard to say exactly how much I've spent on obsessions because I don't keep track of my finances (my parents do), but I've wasted quite a bit of money on things that, 9 times out of 10, wind up either sitting on my shelves collecting dust or being taken to Hastings or a thrift store because I suddenly don't like it anymore. What can I say? My interests are like the weather in my state - constantly subject to change.

DVDs - Most of which I legitimately do enjoy (especially my collection of favorites, which are proudly displayed on my bookshelf) but I don't get much use out of them (too restless/can't focus)

Novels - which I also never use because I'm too restless/can't focus. Though I am thinking about investing in short story collections, since the one book I have gotten a ton of use out of has been my joke book, which I habitually read every night while in bed.

Toys - It started when my Nana gave me a teddy bear as a gift 3 years ago, which I became addicted to sleeping with, and then it grew into a desire to "rescue" plushies from thrift stores, and then I got into My Little Pony and other animated shows/movies... Now my room looks like a 5 year old's, covered wall-to-wall in toys. My most expensive one was about $32, though I'd say most of them never cost more than $10.

My interests, filmmaking and horses are equally expensive. My film equipment has cost me thousands of dollars as have my horses.

Books and magazines on long time loves like art, architecture and computer code ££££

Architecture and craft model making materials materials £££ most which remain unopened including a beautiful Modern Miniature Doll House at £400, this was my most expensive single purchase.

2nd Most expensive single purchase was my Craft Robo machine £295 and barely used in real projects, but I do like to watch it do it's thing from time to time. I have always struggled to understand those who do not marvel as they watch it cut and slice. If I had a spare £10,000 I would defiantly buy the laser version.

As a teenager I had a obsession with nail vanish, but never wore the stuff. I had hundreds of bottles so if amount spent was relative to income then probably that. Lord knows how much I would have spent if I had know how easy it was to get blueprints from the archives library.

Art supplies. Although I do not buy overly-expensive grade stuff, it accrues with time. I have three sets of oil pastels two sets of soft pastels, four sets of colored pencils three sets of charcoal two sets of graphite, tons of sketchbooks. A set of watercolor paint, watercolor pencils, acrylic paints, brushes, erasers, kneaded erasers, mechanical pencils, carrying cases, . . . digital tablets and programs . . . Yeah its a sinking hole. This art obsession.

Edit: I should add books to the mix, paperback novels mostly. I had the entire Anne Rice Collection and also the P.N. Elrod series of the vampire detective when I lived with my mom aside from about 15 other novels under Amanda Quick and Jayne Ann Krentz I lost those when I left home mom refuses to send them to me.

I got a big collection of books now, mostly historical romances from Jayne Ann Krentz got a plethora of classics such as Grimm fairy tales and the Lovecraft collection,as well as a vast collection of pagan books (aka earth spirituality) and other spiritual books such as the Cabala,

Mine is taking photos in Europe, so your hobbies are all cheap in comparison.

Pretty much my only interest, metalworking. The tools, machinery, metal all cost a lot of money.

Mine are books,minerals,and my perfume collection.

Jeeps, telescopes and gaming PCs, oh and hifi stereo equipment, are my big high dollar interests, and I don't do anything half way, but I don't spend near as much on my interests as I would like to be able to.

He's a youtube of my old 06 Jeep Liberty CRD which just had to have, but then I had to sell it because I could not afford it.
http://youtu.be/_yxQtAWINWg

I'm going to edit this post and expand on my interests a little:

Jeeps: I love off-roading, its my skill and the capability of the Jeep, pitted against nature in an epic face-off, I am not satisfied until I am either stuck or broke, if I can drive over it, its too easy, if I do get stuck then I need, a. more lift, b. larger and more aggressive tires, c. more power, diff locks, super low gearing, more flex in the suspension, and lots more money.

Telescopes, there is no such thing as a telescope which is too large or an eyepiece with too wide of a field of view, or the opposite would be the telescope I have which is of the highest quality I can afford but it only has an 60mm aperture, I hate cheap telescopes, but I am happy with the one I have and besides I don't have the room to store or the means to pay for a larger telescope.

I love gaming, especially MMOs, but I am never happy with the computer hardware I can afford because I want to play everything at max settings and with 100fps, right now my computer has a 3.4 Ghz PhenomII X4 cpu, and two Radeon HD4850s in crossfire, the problem is that the current top of the line nvidia gforce 690 cost a grand a pop, here's an example of what I have in mind on ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/Liquid-Cooled-I ... 0492823211 the seller is asking $6,777, but I just configured a similar rig on newegg based on a AMD 8 core FX 4 Ghz cpu and a ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z mobo for around 4 grand, or if I built the same system with a pair of Radeon 7970s I could cut that down to 2 grand, and thats a computer I could live with.

I don't even know where to begin with my stereo obsession except that I basically memorized Radio Shacks How to Build Speakers manual by the time I was 15, I have built several very nice speakers, I have owned a Carver pre amp, an Adcom amp, several Polk's back when they were still made in the USA, including a pair of Polk SDA 1s, I had a pair of Magnapans for a while and now I have a Yamaha YSP-4000 Digital Sound Projector and a Velodyne SPL-800R 2000 watt subwoofer, I love to feel the base, when the mood strikes me.

My problem is that I don't do anything half way, but they wouldn't call it "obsessive" otherwise, oh and I possess encyclopedic knowledge about all of these topics, and I didn't even mention space technology!

Gunsmith stuff. I don't usually have very expensive interests. I've spent around 600$ on parts for my Ruger 10-22 that started out as a piece of crap and now it's just beautiful. I just need to buy a scope for it now XD. Runner up would be chemistry, when I was 12 I spent around 150$ on stuff to make electrodes, and mixtures.