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What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by plactagonic@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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[–] Osprey@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Gardening.

Containers are surprisingly expensive. And you need a lot of soil to fill them, which gets expensive too. Then it's impossible to only buy the seeds you need, when there are so many cool varieties...

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

The rabbit hole opened for me too.
Even started with growing cacti with seeds I foraged from opuntia figs in Italy

[–] Merwyn@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yep, thankfully I am limited by the small size of my garden. But in the past years I've spend a lot on it. In the first year I only realised it when I made my budget at the end of the summer. It was so many small purchases but ended up to a big sum !

[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I started with a couple gifted plants, some hand-me-down pots and a cheap bag of potting soil. Figured I'd "keep it simple" and it wouldn't be much more than that.

Now it's different potting mixes, mulch, fertilizers, antifungals, and that's not even counting the durable stuff I want now like plant stands and even a humidity tray. Oof.