What is your hobby ? Is it expensive or decently priced ?

  1. Playing guitar - Expensive - It can be cheap if you start with a reasonable acoustic, but jumping up to a good mid level quality acoustic can quickly ramp up to $1000+. If you're like me and move into electric guitars, then building a pedal board and getting a quality tube amp and American made guitars with American quality electronics can quickly exceed 10 grand and far beyond. But I will say that when the difference between a $60 reverb pedal and a $399 reverb pedal is simply astonishing and this is a hobby where you really get what you pay for. But as all things audio, you have to pay 3x as much to get just 25% better.

  2. PC Gaming - Moderate - A high end video card will set you back $700, a good monitor will be another $500+, the whole computer with mechanical keyboard and high quality mouse can set you back a couple grand pretty easy, but after these up front costs, you have, in my opinion, one of the greatest sources of gaming entertainment on the planet. Add another $400 for modern VR headsets and peripherals can add a decent chunk if you want to do VR racing / flying. IMO, Consoles are a million miles away from the experience thats possible on modern PC's.

  3. Balisong / butterfly knifes - Cheap / Moderate - If you like fidgeting, the butterfly knife is the original fidget spinner. A great balisong will set you back $200-$500. There's generally 2 types of butterfly knives on the market, $20 chinese things that fall apart and have collapsing tang pins within 2 weeks, and $200-$500 titanium constructed ones that were built to last a lifetime of hard use. This is my current one. They're really quite beautiful, all machined titanium.

  4. Craft beer making - Cheap / Moderate - To start making 5 gallon batches (roughly 2.5 cases a pop), you're going to be looking at around $300-$400 startup costs. Namely a large stainless steel stockpot that holds at least 10 gallons (need extra capacity to prevent boil over), at least 1 large glass carboys for the beer to ferment, and bottling equipment, steralizing equipment, a powerful propane-powered stove/turkey-boiler and the ingredients. This is a great afternoon of fun and finally drinking the beer is rewarding. Up the costs an additional $400 if you want to start kegging your creations instead of bottling.

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