Is your obsession expensive?

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My most expensive obsession is $65/month to take care of my kitty.

So, nope.

My film/filmmaking obsession can be expensive, thought it depends.

My DVD/Blu-Ray library is up to around 500 films now, so if you estimate $10 per film (some were cheaper, some more expensive), then you're looking at $5,000. That's over the course of my film-collecting life, though, and I've been actively collecting for about 15 years, so that comes to a little over $300 a year.

I also collect original theatrical release posters, which I usually find on Ebay for around $20-$30 a piece. I have 10 on my wall right now, but have several more in storage, so that's a few hundred, I guess.

My laptop, a MacBook Pro, was $2,200, and was purchased primarily for film editing purposes. I also have a couple thousand dollars worth of film and photography software on my computer.

The film equipment itself is cheaper than what would have been possible only a handful of years ago, but I now make films with a DSLR camera, which I also use for my photography, so it cuts costs significantly. My camera was was about $1,000...the lenses probably another $1,500. My movie makeup kit was about $150. I have cheap studio lights that were only about $75 (DSLRs don't need a lot of light for video). My audio equipment was a couple hundred.

I guess if you count school, where I studied film, then throw in roughly $20,000...and if I get accepted to the American Film Institute, then we're talking $120,000...so, yeah.

One of my obsessions is music....the problem being that I don't have any money...virtually. So I can't spend anything on it and suffer.
If I have some or more appropiately enough to spend and cover more important things, I'll spend it on music (but that's extremly rare). Especially instruments and its equipment are expensive. But since it's only one of my obsessions I tend to get by.

My Transit interest, yea. Especially the Commuter rail.

My other interests are not to too hard on the wallet, exception of the Photography one.

Well, yes and no....

Books, but I often buy used from Amazon.
Music, Classical & Opera about 800+ Albums in iTunes. I only buy Opera by the box.
Amateur Radio and kits and keys is expensive.
Computer is new iMac and I have just about every Bose speaker made for wireless.
Classical Guitar, expensive plus all the related stuff.

I usually focus on one or two interests at a time. The good news is having what I do I don't need to make huge purchases anymore. I just don't need any new hobbies.

nintendo collecing? maybe lol

Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokémon cards are pretty expensive for what they are, especially if there's a really rare card I'm missing. Whatever, though...I'd rather buy a pack of cards than a pack of cigs.

It will be, when my free buspass runs out.....

My obsession is more of a lifestyle, so I'm not sure whether to compare it to hobbies or to the average cost-of-living. $30,000 is a lot, but it bought me 5 acres of paradise. I spend a few hundred every spring on seeds and trees to plant there, and I'm working on getting the permits together to build my house. On top of that, I regularly spend too much on self-sufficiency books, I keep running out of room for all of them!

No.