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Used to play golf at a country club in Marietta, Ga. That cost a bit all year. Now I have two grandsons, a boat and pen turning. Turning is cheap compared to boats, grandsons and golf. More relaxing too....although I love those grandsons.
 
My most expensive hobby until I lost my job a few years ago :frown: was guns, at one point I had about 30 of them not exactly cheap ones either...and about 20,000 rounds of assorted ammunition to feed them all. Well then my job loss and the hobby came to an abrupt end and had to sell everything I had to at least try and survive till I found another job. Well the job I have now gets me about $7-800 a month so nothing very good. However, its allowed me to find a much cheaper hobby in pen turning LOL. Hey I still get to play with bullets...bullet pens that is. :biggrin:
 
After reading all the hobbies mentioned here, my hobbies - golfing, golf club making, and pen turning don't sound that bad.
 
Penl8the said:
After reading all the hobbies mentioned here, my hobbies - golfing, golf club making, and pen turning don't sound that bad.
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Guess that depends on how often and where you golf. The best course in this area has green fees approaching $100 a round (of course they can join the club at $15000 a year and play free). A couple of my golfing friends take golf trips once or twice a year and spend a week or so playing on some pretty expensive courses - and of course the trip expenses ain't too cheap either.
 
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Horse Racing ....

Horse racing, particularily stakes racing is called the sport of kings, because only kings could afford it. Well now kings can't afford it only rich folks can.

I had some Standardbreds (and they don't cost as much as thoroughbreds) in the late sixties and early seventies. Just breeding a mare to a decent stallion cost a couple of thousand dollars, then when the foal was born you had to feed it and care for it for 2 years before you could think about racing. Of Course you had 'yearling nominations' due before you had any idea whether or not you could get the horse to the races at all. You would usually nominate to about 20/25 races. Then you had 2 or 3 sustaining payments many of which you had to make even if you thought the horse might not race until it was a 3 year old.

You also had to pay a trainer to break and train the animal to get it ready to race usually 7 or 8 months worth even if the horse didn't make it to the races - more if it did. If you got to the races you had to transport the horse from track to track to get in the stakes races and had to put up a starting fee. Of course you had to have a driver (usually but not always the trainer). And you had vet bills, shoeing bills, equipment repairs and new equipment....the list goes on and on. Now if you had a great horse you could win enough to make a profit but most owners (at least 75/80 percent) lost money every year.

My wife's step father had a horse that won $22,000 one year (early 70s) and still lost money on it.
 
NOPE, It's not boats (which is an abbreviation for "break out another thousand, sucker). It's Planes.

BUT, boats is in 3rd place for most expensive hobby, right behind airplanes and women:)
 
My GMC (Get More Cash) Motorhome from 1977. Like the one in Billy Murray's "Stripes" movie.
 
Running my 60 dt viking on the gulf for offshore catching .I live on it for the summer month's.The fuel is the worst @ 3k gallon diesel.I don't let it get down to 1k gallon at a time less expensive that way ,and invite friend's to share the fuel and have a good time fishing.Stay out day's at a time.
 
Large format film photography far surpasses pen turning.

I used to run a boat repair shop. A guy came in, we diagnosed the problem, he said "Boat does mean Break out another thousand". My response, "In that case the minimum will be 3.5 boats If you're lucky." I don't own a boat BECAUSE I worked on them.
 
Chainsaws and saw milling...to keep everyone in inexpensive awesome timber!!!

Probably have $6K invested in chainsaws and sawmilling stuff....never mind the other things to make blanks. Makes my head hurt thinking about it. I should have just gone into gardening.






Scott (gonna make a bikesaw next) B
 
I spent all my money on Women, Whisky, and Racing. The rest I just Blew!!

My expensive hobby is racing. Right now I have 2 dirt late models, 2 open wheel figure 8 cars, and a dragster. Money adds up quickly. Luckily we have a very generous sponsor that helps pay the bills.
 
My most expensive hobby is a 1965 dodge dart gt I have had for 21 years.Right now I have the interior out so i can weld in new floor pans.I also want to repaint all the interior sheet metal.My second most expensive hobby would be a toss up ether pen/wood turning or model cars.
 
EBorraga said:
I spent all my money on Women, Whisky, and Racing. The rest I just Blew!!

My expensive hobby is racing. Right now I have 2 dirt late models, 2 open wheel figure 8 cars, and a dragster. Money adds up quickly. Luckily we have a very generous sponsor that helps pay the bills.
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Hmmm, methinks there is a slight contradiction here. If you spent it all, what was left to "blow" ?:biggrin::biggrin:
 
Smitty37 said:
EBorraga said:
I spent all my money on Women, Whisky, and Racing. The rest I just Blew!!

My expensive hobby is racing. Right now I have 2 dirt late models, 2 open wheel figure 8 cars, and a dragster. Money adds up quickly. Luckily we have a very generous sponsor that helps pay the bills.
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Hmmm, methinks there is a slight contradiction here. If you spent it all, what was left to "blow" ?:biggrin::biggrin:
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:laugh:
 
Tomorrow I'll get the total for the paint and body mods on the '36 chevy and just hoping it's under $10,000.00
 
Jim Burr said:
Some of my R/C planes can get a bit pricey. Thinking of building a drone and renting it to the NSA.
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Don't forget the cost of batteries when fly electric.

Boating can be an expensive one too. Remember what boat stands for...Break Out Another Thousand.
 
Gary Beasley said:
Haynie said:
Large format film photography far surpasses pen turning.
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That's fer sure, though I've found Medium format and high end digital will eat your lunch compared to what a LF camera will. Buying film for it is another story. I have a freezer full of 4x5 film to shoot someday.
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Tell me about it. The only thing keeping me away from a Hasselblad is the price of the glass. I have and use a pretty decent digital camera but there is something missing when I use it. Hard to explain. Just like I prefer to read paper books not e-books. I can't tolerate sitting in front of a computer screen to work on the images either. Someday I will have a darkroom again. I love the smell of fixer in the morning.
 
OKLAHOMAN said:
Tomorrow I'll get the total for the paint and body mods on the '36 chevy and just hoping it's under $10,000.00
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Got to love HotRod's!! $10,000 for paint. Most of it Labor, but i'd be scared to drive the damn thing. Hopefully you're going with triple black :biggrin:
 
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