What's your most expensive interest?

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About 5 grand on basses guitars amps and drums.

It sounds like alot of money, but it was spread out over 12 years.

Granted this is while I was quite broke, and for a large portion of that time physically unable to play due to tendon issues.

If I had actual money it's likely I'd spend between 40-50 k easy, and that's not including having my own personal jam studio.

Stranger yet its not even my primary interest. Although it's without a doubt my longest lasting.

I love language learning too, although it's a very hard interest to get into. I'd say I own over 500 dollars in books that I paid for legally, not to mention several thousand dollars worth of language software that I've pirated.

Again I'm quite broke, but I'm sure if I had some money, I'd spend a whole lot of money on travel, and on language lessons as well.

That all being said I'm hoping to buy a new bass, and a new guitar within the next few months.

Anyhow great job OP this seems to be one of the better threads started in the last few months. If your able to figure out why this one is especially good give me a PM

Paintball, I spend at least two hundred dollars each time I play.

I've spent almost $700 at strip clubs.

obsession is textiles. i've spent too much money on multiple looms, spinning wheels, and all the accoutrements. then there is all the different fibers and yarns that i can't stop buying. i guess i have to count all my different knitting, crochet, and bobbin lace equipment also. then there are all the textile books. i really love textiles.

Books, and tea mostly. For the tea, I did find an insider's club that seems to satisfy my need to explore. For twenty dollars a month, I receive a teeny tin of rare/high quality tea that has been just unparalleled.

My electronics lab. I got about $60K tied up into it.

Absolutely without a doubt definitely wasting time.

2nd runner up: sporting goods, especially kites. At full retail prices (which I didn't pay - more like 1/2 due to savvy shopping) I've got the better part of $10K worth of surf kites & related gear. This Summer will be the first time I get to get back to the beach to kite in a few years. It's going to be awesome.

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It seems like a few of use have some cool workshops - I would be the happiest person on earth if I had a proper workshop where I could make anything. I had a metal working shop at home but now I've sold most of the large tools because it's a big pain renting with heavy, dirty machinery - I'm trying to rebuild it in a more manageable way but I still have a car full of 'essential' hand tools. I partly got into metal work because I also shoot rifles which is not cheap either. I try to stick to cheaper interests like drawing. Drawing things I want to build, which costs money!

Action figure collecting.

Quality food and games/computers (except now i'm saving up to my own place and cannot raid the computerstores like i used to).

Definitely musical instruments. I've went through so much equipment over the years I've lost count. Right now, though, I have 12 guitars, a violin, a bass, a recorder, an 88 key electronic piano and tons of virtual instruments in my computer.

Since I haven't spent much money on sporting goods in ages, the top few over the last year have been:

1) Generosity with friends; buying small gifts for my closest friends and/or their kids. I'd rather express appreciation for a friend I love with a well thought gift or put a smile on my God daughter's face than have an extra few dollars in my pocket.

2) Books & crystals/gemstones. These are some of the only things I buy for myself. I tend to buy books online or used to cut costs. I haven't spent much overall on various meditation stones or crystals, maybe a couple hundred dollars - but I've been spending so little for so long that that is a significant sum as I tend to only spend money on necessities otherwise.

annnnd I have a recent interest moving up the ranks that's surely going to cost me several hundred dollars over the next few months/as soon as I can allocate the funds. But it's worth it. As we all say & justify, I'm sure.. but this one is truly worth spending time and money on & chances are slim to none that any of you here would disagree, as I'm doing something for the benefit of us Aspies, since learning as much as I could about this stuff over the last 5 or 6 months since figuring out my own diagnosis has inspired me to do so.

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So far, my old English car Iam restoring has cost at least £15000 since I started the latest restoration.
I have five old motorbikes, two of them I made myself by buying parts, a very expensive way of doing things.
I would say my mechanical obsession has used up my lifetimes spare cash.

Then of course there is my Guitar obsession, fortunately I have stopped buying any more.

Boy, I have a lot of them.Fortunately, none of them are that expensive. Not like I could afford am expensive hobby, anyway. But:

Books: ~$300 (at Goodwill).
My local Goodwill has about 30,000 books, for no more than $3/each. I'd been collecting classics. I've run out of shelf space and moved on ... for now. I've been meaning to build some shelves.

Shaving gear: $1000+
Brushes, straight razors, safety razors, blades, strops, hones, imported creams, soaps, stones, and scuttles. Even started restoring vintage blades. This one also kind of morphed into a woodworking hobby. I started buying exotic hardwood that I was cutting and shaping into scales. Bought saws, every grit of sandpaper, micro mesh, jeweller's rouge, and I still need a band saw for making rip cuts.

Headphones: ~$700
I'm a wannabe audiophile. I've collected six or seven sets of mid range circumaural cans and IEM's.

Pipes, hookah, and tobacco: ~$300
This one was relatively short lived. Only lasted about two years. Moved on. But I still want a free hand Nording.

Video games: ~$300
Just in the last year. This will get much worse when PS4 is released.

But the latest obsessions are TV's, blenders, and workout supplements. The TV is settled, just waiting on the funds (*sigh* $1600). Still researching whether to go with Vitamix or Blendtec. Either way, $400. Workout supplements are something I'm seriously trying to talk myself out of, as it could be $1000 annually to mg hands-on a supply of some stacks.

Okay that's in the neighborhood of $5000 I've spent I the things I irrationally *had* to have over the past four years. I can live with that.