To start drawing you need a pencil and some paper. It costs almost nothing to start and it can be very rewarding.
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I started doing junk journaling. It’s cheap but very satisfying…. Although that got me interested in geli printing so now I’m painting, and of course I had to also get acrylic markers… but the ones that I got are too thick for the detail I want. So now I have to get a 2nd set… not to mention the stamps. Never mind. Don’t start a hobby. No matter how cheap it sounds.
To anyone who doesn't think they have any talent for drawing, but who wants to try, I'd recommend starting with simple shapes. I know, I know, it sounds childish, but I'm going somewhere here.
Start with simple shapes on their own. Then start adding simple shapes to each other. Connect them, overlap them, make some of them squiggly or unusual. Do whatever feels right.
Then, look back at the picture and really look at it. What else could it look like? If you showed that picture to a child, what would they think it was? (Go ahead and ask a child, if one is around. They are really good at this.) Look at those shapes and imagine something new growing out of it. If you must, put the picture down and go do something else for a bit. When you come back, your fresh eyes may see something that you didn't see before.
Then, add on whatever you imagined, bit by bit.
Not only does this help hone the hand-eye coordination and fine motor control needed for drawing, but it exercises your imagination and teaches you how to perceptualize more complex images (by being able to break them down to simpler parts.) It blends seamlessly in with Bob Ross's approach of using mistakes to enhance a work, too. Mistakes will happen, nobody's perfect. Being able to turn a random paint smear or inkblot into something that would fit in with a work can take you far.
Yeah no wonder you're smiling. You have a fucking house.
I could pay $1200 for concert tickets or $0 for D&D
Concerts costing that much are never worth it. I spend ~400$ for 2 nosebleed SZA tickets for my wife 2 years ago. We were watching the jumbotron the whole time.
My birthday shows this year are 30 and 50 a ticket and we can actually be see the musicians. I know I'm being a dumb hipster, but its so hard to justify ticket prices for large artists. What's the point of going to a football stadium to listen to live music. You could get a decent home sound system for the same price
Shoutout to 2014.5e.tools (or just 5e.tools if you want the gross new shit)
Watch it, we’re people too
$0 for D&D
What about the Funyuns and Mt.Dew?
DM and demand tribute
Your house?
What if your hobby is stealing expensive things from international chains and pawning them?
do you have any laptops with the bios unlocked
edit: I am not soliciting stolen goods I am asking a question out of interest
I play chess online and it only costs me my self esteem.
Chess seems unique in the sports/games world because randomness plays absolutely no role in the outcome. It is purely the other person's brain squashing your brain down into a beige stain.
There are a bunch of No Hidden Informationn / Perfect Information games. The next well known one probably being Go
I like ants. I paid 0.30€ per tube and I don't think I'll ever need to buy more, I use old plastic food containers, so free, I breed my ants' feeder insects...
I mean, there are many hobbies that can be dirt cheap or free. Do you like plants? Get free cuttings asking for them to your neighbor or any acquaintance, buy a little dirt and cheap pots. Do you like fishes or crustaceans? You don't need an expensive aquarium, you just need a really cheap food grade plastic tub. Do you like bikes? My bike is a cheap second hand one. Do you need a house? Forget it, you'll never be able to pay for one.
I got a lot of my rosemary from cuttings of a bush growing by a car park. Did spend a bit on my bike though as I wanted a reasonably good one, £600 there. I cycle as a main form of transport, few thousand miles a year.
Look at Mr. Fancy pants over here with their own house. Man, that must be nice.
One of the reasons I'm glad I live in the city. There're free concerts in the parks. Free movies, sometimes. I can bike or train to the beach. There're meetups for all sorts of interests. When I lived in the suburbs, it was a wasteland. At best you could drive somewhere interesting.
Seriously. Suburbs are a hell I refuse to return to and which I wouldn’t wish on anyone. They just suck the life out of everything and you don’t even get anything for it. Hell, the houses aren’t even that cheap so you really just get to spend a lot of money on hot garbage.
“Hey, wanna be isolated from all your friends while getting nothing in return except the blandest, cookie-cutter hellscape? Have I got the place for you! And fret not, it’ll still cost you a staggering amount of money for even a small, shitty place so you better be fuckin’ married if you want even a two-bedroom condo!”
I'm introverted and frugal. I sit in my chair and vibrate through realities.
If you're skilled you can even turn these vibes into reality.
OTOH, if you can afford basic necessities, hobbies are just a rounding error on top of them.
Kind of depends on the hobby, for example if you live in a country with some mountains and you like hiking than it's a negligible cost, if you like skydiving then I am gonna go out on a limb and say that costs quite a but more.
And if your hobby is warhammer 40k or MtG then just pickup a cocaine habit instead to cut costs.
Unless it’s motorsports. Then the necessities of life are the rounding error. 🤣
I think concert tickets are expensive only if you listen to pop music. I recently went to a concert with line up of Cannibal Corpse, Mayhem and two more bands and the tickets were just $50.
I went to a Shrek rave for $20
It will primarily depend on the venue. Ticketmaster/Live Nation managed venues will be far more expensive, and they now operate ticket sales for basically all of them
Classical music is even a better deal. I was in the 2nd row to see Augustin Hadelich play Mozart and the tickets were less than $30. Lucky for me I’d rather see that than any pop music.
Some hobbies can be really cheap. Just bought a bow and arrow set for $150 and an archery range nearby only costs $5 for the whole day.
Just found out there's a well-reviewed archery range 9 minutes away from me. Thank you for the suggestion, I'll definitely be checking it out!
I bought a used school bus as a hobby. Now I'm a school bus driver so technically I get paid for my hobby. Except that dealing with middle-schoolers is definitely not a hobby.
Wait... Do most bus drivers own the bus?
No, bus drivers don't own the buses they drive kids around in. Those buses are owned or leased by the district or company they work for. The bus I own I converted into a motorhome, so I couldn't drive kids in it even if I wanted to (no more than two, anyway, since I do have one passenger seat in my bus).
People that don't have to pay rent every month have the luxury of pursuing expensive hobbies. Housing is so expensive that permanent homes are so far out of reach for many workers...
Are you aware that the vast, vast, majority of homes are mortgaged? We are paying a shit ton too dude...
I take my daughter out to lunch and I just don’t eat now. $18 for a bowl of spaghetti bolognese, I’ll just drink water while she eats thanks
Buddhism has entered the chat!
Learning to sit still, in the quiet, and just being has been one of the biggest improvements to my mental health.
Of course, a bigger improvement to my mental health would be if we had an economy that worked for the people rather than for the rich...
crying in 3d printing
I spent $50 on boots at the REI garage sale and went hiking every weekend. YMMV
I wish i could endure that. I'd go nuts without my hobby's i drop the moment they require any effort.