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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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[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't consider the wood as costs so easily. For instance we made furniture ourselves, like a bed, shelves, closets, stuff in the garden... If we would have bought the things instead, it would have been more expensive than the wood and other materials that went into it.

Of course the labor in this case is hobby, as it isnt competitive, but then again we got useful high quality stuff out of it, that will last a lifetime.

[–] philpo@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on the furniture you buy,surely, but at least I have not been able to produce any furniture cheaper (just material costs) vs. factory build simply because they can cut more corners/get cheaper materials/can use techniques that would need more sophisticated equipment than I can.

Unless you compare it to massively and individually build carpenter furniture I always am more expensive (okay it's usually more solid and individual, though)

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Yes you're right. The bed for instance was 300 € material costs using 27mm glued wood beech, wher you can buy stuff using plywood for cheaper. But it looks much better and will last much longer.

So in terms of quality it is somewhere in between factory and carpenter buildt. For furniture it is well worth it imo. and i couldn't find quality stuff for less than the associated material costs. Yet you can find a lot of plywood furniture that is way to overprized because "designer" or whatever.