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A new practice basket. A new stack of practice putters. A cart. With plenty left over for me to get a few more backups for some of my favorite discs.

Or a pair of boots, a great backpack, hiking trousers, helmet, harness and a "via ferrata cable kit".

Maybe an okay desktop tower on sale to use headless for rendering

Dnd A shit load of dice.

Bjj six months membership and the gi that comes with it.

One nice guitar or a couple decent guitars, one rare comic book or a shit load of common comic books

about 100 nights at the cheapest campsite i know of that takes caravans

or about 17-20 nights at some of the more expensive ones

A low-uptime server to backup my current one

Or a really crazy sex toy maybe, depends on how responsible I'm feeling

Lots and lots of games, either boardgames or digital. Or a better computer.

First hobby, writting. So, enough pens and paper to the end of my life, and more... But not enough notebooks, I can't have enough notebooks.

Second hobby, collecting bones and dead things. What could be expensive is a nice shelf for exposing, but 250€ max. Dissection kit, 30. A big bag of salt, 20. Some pins, 5. This specific washing powder, 15/20 OR hydrogene peroxyde, 20/30. Uncolored dishwashing liquid, 2. Toothbrush, 2. Shovel, 15. Box of gloves, 15. A bin and a lock, 70. Nylon met, 20. This really nice vegan taxidermy, 550.

Photography:

I could get a Nikon Z7, but no lens.

I could almost get my favourite lens, the Lumix S 24-105 f/4 it is just out of range

1/13th of an AMD Epyc 9755

~10 manual mid-range tools and enough wood to make a nice looking jewellery box.

A decent drawing tablet

Haven TKL in e–white with the gold PVD plate, SW x Haimu MP Tactile switches, Wuque Studio Aurora Pink stabs, and GMK Pâtisserie keycaps. Sigh...

Not quite 4 tyres.

A decent guitar

Signed 1st edition hardback of New Hampshire by Robert Frost.

I could get loads of cool liquors I've been eyeing for experimentation! Or like... one reeeeeally nice scotch.

It varies wildly, but I'd go with the level of quality I'd be paying for, not what the most you could get for that money would be (Also, I'm in the UK, so I'm kinda just answering for a grand in GBP to save myself converting). Also, I kinda rotate my hobbies so my favourite varies based on when you're asking me. In no particular order:

Music production: a couple of Eurorack modules or some percentage of a full synth, you can get cheaper stuff, but I've probably got equivalents available at that level already. I could upgrade my keyboard to a fancy new Komplete or KeyLab one. Software wise, if all my software and vsts released new versions and I decided to lose my mind for a minute, I'd hopefully be able to cover all the typical version upgrade costs for that price. (Realistically I tend to wait until a couple of versions have passed before an upgrade if nothing jumps out at me about it)

Music listening (vinyl): 20-40 on records or a nice-enough-for-me pair of speakers. You could probably get 4 or 5 of my turntable (which would be silly) as it does the job perfectly for me.

Music listening (gigs and festivals): tickets, travel and a good chunk of my other expenses to go to Glastonbury or European festival (got decent camping gear already, so don't need to buy that). Tickets and travel, but not much for other expenses for a couple of smaller or city festivals. 10 arena gigs or 20-40 smaller gigs.

Travel: big, big holiday ~2 weeks, maybe half the hotel costs, maybe less as I tend to go all out when it's a long holiday. Shorter long weekends I'd hope to get my flights and accommodation at that price. If it's a stag do or similar, I'd hope to pretty much cover all costs for that.

Photography: I shoot full frame using a Sony alpha, so it might get me a percentage of a camera body or maybe a couple of decent second hand lenses (maybe 3 or 4 of the more entry level ones), of the lenses I'd like to buy, I think there is one I could get new for around that price.

Gaming (pc): probably a new mid-to-high-end graphics card, games wise I pretty much exclusively wait until things are on sale on Steam, so probably at least a couple of years of steam spend. Oh I could get a couple of steam decks if I had a reason to buy more than the one I've already got.

Watching football & rugby (live): I'm an Arsenal fan that lives in the north, so I'm probably only getting two chances to go for that price as I'll need to factor in travel, hotels, meals and beers. I visit some lower league grounds nearer me every now and again, I reckon a grand would pay for a season ticket and all my concessions that year plus a bit of merch at most of them. My rugby team no longer exists, but I could see them 4-5 times a year with travel etc. before they went into administration

Watching football & rugby (legally on TV): Need Sky, TNT, Amazon Prime, Premier Sports (predominantly for rugby), TV licence & if I was truly arsed about them, various one off passes for pre-season competitions. You're probably not getting a whole year for that price unless you do the threaten-to-quit-sky thing and hope they give you a decent discount, you can also get away with sharing logins for some of these, but I was answering strictly legally.

Eating a meal out (I like going to new restaurants so I guess it's a hobby): I'd probably take my partner out for dinner around my city 4-10 times for that depending where we go, a couple of courses plus a bottle of wine and maybe cocktails.

I..... was not expecting this comment to become an essay lol

20-25 Rashguards i guess

A decent custom made surfboard, two very good but stock surfboards or 3-10(maybe more?) used surfboards. Or take 500 for a cheap flight to a surf destination and 500 for a board, which can get you a very good new one or 2-5 used surfboards.

1 or 2 carbon bike wheels, depending on size, riding style, terrain, etc.

A really good distilling setup, or an embroidery machine, or a hen house upgrade, or a sublimation printer and T-shirt press, or a fancy wine fridge (stocked)... I have a lot of favorite hobbies.

Lots of volumes of manga, some indie games and a little handheld emulator

A lot of LEGO bricks for my models.

Had to do a quick conversion search to make sure roughly how much that would be, and I could have a day like the fairly recent day I bought a pawn shop acoustic guitar, pack of picks, and a guitar stand maybe around 10 times.

I could also, probably, head over to a CD shop I really like and buy probably close to 100 CDs ( probably much less than 90 because tax, but that's still a lot ).

I could go to an electronics shop and get their opinion and help on upgrading my desktop motherboard, alongside upgrading to a used, few years older ( probably 2020-21 because I don't do much that would kill it ) model graphics card if I could find a good one somewhere like eBay.

I could try to collect a physical copy of every single non-arcade, launched in America Sonic game on console. Console not included for some of them because they're too expensive or I don't care about them for the case of anything past xbox360 or ps3. Though, I imagine the Master System titles would be pretty expensive, so IDK how that would go.

Either that, or I would love to cheap out and just pay some people who are willing to do a copyright infringement by making some Tails plushies based on his SatAM/Adventures cartoon design/personality. Would probably be a lot cheaper and just as cool. Fulfills my hobby of having a ton of plushies/stuffed animals and be Sonic related, so bonus points to me.

I could wait for the next Steam sale and get tons of games to add to my backlog but never actually get around to. Even with my somewhat picky nature, I'm fairly certain I'd find tons of games to purchase.

I could probably get even better headphones than my already pretty good quality beats to really up my music listening. Pair that with a pretty good audio playback device and I'd be in heaven... or accidentally make myself deaf and wanna die.

I could get the remaining manga from the Bakuman series I like and, depending on price and volumes, probably get the remainders of Soul Eater ( I think I've only got maybe volumes 1-2 ).

I could buy a metric ton of snacks and foods from a nearby import store and an Asian market.

Hell, I could probably take a couple lessons for that guitar I bought so that way I can learn the proper way to play.

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I could also expand my dice collection and playing card collection. I would love to have a ton of decks of cards. Especially some ones where the cards are different shapes, like these little leaf shaped cards I currently own.

Depending on how much people think they're worth, I could probably overhaul and mod 6 iPods.

My other hobby is my little radio show. €1000 would set me up with a nice new controller/mixer, a half decent new second display, and a bunch of sound proofing for my studio. And that would be nice. I'm happy enough with my mic and headphones that I already have.

I would probably buy a really nice Pechauer pool cue. Or another premium brand as quality equipment is pretty important for pool players.

A fuckton of Bionicle parts. Perhaps even enough for a full mask collection, if I find the right people.

A lot of gardening supplies.