How expensive are your interests, how do you support them?

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I've gotten by on my guitar fetish mostly from gifts, saving random parts and building other ones from those parts, selling others for a good price and buying others for a bargain. I estimate that with everything I have at current, I probably have about $8000 lying around, not that I've actually paid that much for it all. Most of them are not name brand but are functional. I had a few gems I let slip through my hands too though

Then I have a scooter project I'm perseverating on. I recently totaled up everything I spent on it to date, and I came out at the same I could have gotten a completely restored vintage Vespa with an extra complete engine for. That one I ended up funding from the sale of 2 of my other bikes, but when I think of how that interest started with a bike somebody was throwing away it's not all that bad

My special interest costs me about $300 a year.

I'm planning on finding a job that has more hours.

Writing songs cost about £20 a year; paper and pens.

Mild interests. Origami, computers, photography. Thus far this year I've probably spent $50.

Most costly interests have been curbed as I lost a few thousand pounds worth of stuff and most of my treasures too. Unfortunately I can still spend£35 a day on a habit.. And tend to, every time. :/ otherwise I could afford to see or buy a movie every day. My own fault tho

There are a lot of interests I would like to take up, and many have persisted as dreams since I was young and poor...since I've reached a stage in my life where I can afford to do some of them, I have mostly exercised restraint as a practice of being responsible

I have allowed myself to indulge in a motorbike, and I have allowed myself to order a second one, but they are transport as well as an interest...so I'm allowed? Aren't I?! Yes...yes I am! (continues to tell himself that).

I have a strong suspicion that if I had the means to indulge in any interest I wanted to, I would be literally surrounded by half finished projects

Mine don't really cost me a thing. I am too cheap. I use Bookmooch and have been mooching books based on my interest. Plus I have internet where I can read them. I thank oliveoilmom for telling me about bookmooch and letting me use her points to get some books and I started to mooch my own so I can have my own points than using hers.

But I spend very little money on it. I did spend some money on them this year but not much.

Plus if we want to count internet, we pay about $65 a month for internet so times that by 12 and that is $780 so I lied, I do spend money on my interests. I use the internet and that is my interest. I need it for it.

Also maybe I should count electricity I use to listen to my music based on my interest. But that doesn't cost me much.

Mine only costs me $2.50 per day...

It varies per person, Some people can pay up to $21 per day.

Lego is unfortunately rather expensive. With all the lego Ive got, retail value is around $15000 I think, over a period of about 4 years. However, since I buy a lot of stuff used/on sale/as contest prizes/etc, Ive probably only spent 5000 or so on it. Im considering opening a store on a lego selling site, to sell parts I dont have any use for and unwanted minifigures, which Ive calculated could pay for a significant portion of the expenses.

My interest in books can be expensive. I support it with the money I get paid every two weeks.

I have to satisfy my knitting craving by surrepetitiously knitting under my desk at work and furtively cruising free pattern sites to learn new lace patterns. I like using lace-weight yarns partly because I need the complexity of lace to keep from being bored and partly because it's pretty and partly because you can buy 5,000 yards of lace-weight yarn for the price of 1,000 yards of worsted weight. I find sweaters at thrift stores and unravel them for nicer quality yarns, and have bought undyed silk and wool yarn by the cone when we get our income tax refund and dye it myself with Kool-Aid. If I'd known that you could dye your hair with Kool-Aid when I was a teenager, my life probably would've been very different. I tried to sell my stuff in an Etsy store but knitting is so slow and I don't have a lot of time at home, what with a 3-year-old probable Aspie and a husband who somehow dirties 75 dishes at home all day with him. Also, I don't have enough time to photograph all my stuff in decent light and don't have any friends to model it, and I'd model it myself but I'm extra un-photogenic and I don't have internet at home, so never mind the Etsy store.

I've gotten both Portal games for free.

My most frequent interest costs me nothing but calories, because its walking :)

I can't legally buy one of my interests just yet. There's always the black market but no. And my state is too restrictive to even own legal ones. (DAMN)

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Computers: Shell out at least $600 USD for a new one. Parts go for at least $150 (ie Hard Drive). I know (though I may have forgotten) how to remove viruses using CDM Can;t really do it without help of antivirus software which is at least $40 for a good one.

RC aircraft: They cost money as well as flying space. (But this interest is only 3 months old)

Video Games : at least $200 for a 360 (borderline fanboy ) and $60 for a new game at Gamestop. Luckily I only got disappointed once.

and some TV shows : Free (not counting the cost of Satelite)

research fulfills my needs and i need not buy books- i can borrow from the library. if you count overdue fines though... oh unless you count gardening. i occasionally buy plants. $20 every few years?

i have probably spent about $35 this year so far on my special interest and made a little of that money back by selling my key chains i make (check out my thread Handmade Key Chains)