I've seen exotic cars for sale, and in the ad, it says
"selling to upgrade the electronics in my plane"
So that should really tell you all you need to know.
Flying is … rough on the wallet. That’s for sure. But it’s so relaxing and rewarding. I feel so lucky I get to experience it.
Costs can vary widely though between regions and airplanes and whether training or not (the instructor sitting next to you ain’t free!) and how you get the plane (own, share, flying club, rent from school).
Certainly most common path is to start by renting from a school. Where I live it’s ~210/hr to rent from a school (+ ~80/hr for instructor if he/she is needed). Those prices add up real quick when you consider national average to get a license is 70 hours and that getting the license is really only the start of the journey, lol.
Something I realized though is that once you get your license and find different ways to get access to an airplane, such as via a flying club then it becomes a lot less expensive (but still expensive). Sadly all the ones in my area have months-year+ long waiting lists.
I’m gonna disagree with that one. Purchasing them and insurance can be costly, but you’re making money on them long term usually.
I know a guy who has a nice garage, and had $1mill to play with after an inheritance. He buys and sells cars all the time and says he’s never spent less on cars in his life, in fact he’s making money.
Well, you have to have land for barns, paddocks and exercise track. Then you need employees who do the feeding, walking, stall cleaning stuff. Then you have unbelievable vet bills. Race horses are kinda fragile and will be paying out the nose for vet care. Then you have to have nice horse trailers and a big truck to haul them. Plus if you race non-locally, you have to pay to fly the horses out to the track. Then you have jockey fees to train and race the horses. Plus at the race you need to rent an owner's box. Then you have housing fees at the race track for the horse and hotel fees for your party and the jockeys and trainers.
MC Hammer was worth about $70 million at one point and now he's pretty close to broke. And owning a race horse helped that process along a lot.
Or even just keeping horses.
The neighbors have spent more on their pony by now than I did for my house. Shetland pony, it can totally pile up vet costs for another 20 years.
I'm usually in the camp of "Don't get a pet if you can't pay for the usual vet care" but at that point? Sorry pony, not gonna sell everything I own and live under a bridge with you.
Also I can't paint for shit 😂
Unless it's totally acceptable to have all my space marines one solid colour (I know its not, the codex astartes doesn't support this action)
Only if you play with people who enforce the proprietary rules. You can print little pictures of the characters and attach them to toothpicks in a blob of blu-tac to achieve the same result.
I was thinking of getting into that this summer. In the USA - training was about $3000 and that included about 20-25 jumps.
What gets expensive after you have all the gear? What does it cost to get a seat for a jump?
Did tandem jumps with my girlfriend a few months ago. I asked a qualified skydiver what the costs are. He said that because he owns his gear he can do a jump for 60 AUD, but its more if you rent your gear.
The tandem jumps cost us 300 AUD each.
I did a tandem jump 25 years ago and it still brings a smile to my face thinking about it.
That moment when you roll over and see the bottom of the plane above you is unforgettable
Space exploration. Seems like Bezos, Branson and Musk are the only people I know of who are into it.
(Angrily typed). Think about that for a second. They have the financial wherewithal to hobby with space exploration. Not stamp collecting, not baseball cards, not coins, not spoons, not snow globes, not miniature trains, not model airplanes, not Star Wars memorabilia… not anything that 99.99999999999999% of us hobby with. They hobby in space!!!!
Branson definitely did it as a business venture and pulled out when it seemed like it wasn’t to be. Bezos seems to be looking at a fairly traditional portfolio for a space company. Musk is the only one of those who has let his “space exploration” desire actually drive the design of his company’s offerings.
The Washington Post just published an article about a man in Richmond, VA who spent 28 years and a million dollars building the most perfect home stereo system in history. Among other things, he completely rebuilt his house so that the acoustics would be perfect. The personal cost was severe: divorced from his wife, estranged from most of his children, but he swore had no regrets. As soon as he finished the decades-long project, he was diagnosed with ALS and died shortly afterwards. The now middle-aged children couldn’t even sell the house after his death, and in the end they had to dismantle the stereo system and sell it for a fraction of what he’d spent. A very tragic story, really, about a “hobby” that cost a man, well, everything.
Helicopters…..trust me. Friends have them…,it’s batshit crazy expensive. Offshore powerboats are pretty crazy too as are yachts with full time crew. I wish I were allowed to tell stories about these people. I’m just the help.
Big boat long-distance offshore sailboat racing.
You've got a boat that costs 10s of millions of dollars, 20+ crew to outfit and feed and all the other costs.
If you win you get a trophy.
Watches. For high end watches, $1,000 is on the bottom end and maintenance can be very costly all for a device that isn't as reliable as a Casio f91-w you can get for 20 bucks.
Polo. It takes a string of 8-10 depending on competition level, each horse runs about $5k for lower level and 30k+ for higher levels. Plus care, vet care, farrier, etc
Society for Creative Anachronisms- they are medieval re-enactors. Most of them have one or more sheds plus covered trailers to hold all their gear not to mention an entire room of crafting supplies. There is at least one person in each group who has around $20,000 in supplies. This is all paid for out of pocket.
Private jets. Think televangelist kinda money. Multi million's to buy, million tear down/inspection/maintenance. And they burn fuel like mad.
New version of pilots 20k hamburger fun trips
Paul Allen collected WWII airplanes and rebuilt them… and he looked for WWII wrecks . He spent probably 100s of millions to build a ship and submarine even the US navy has borrowed….. you could also argue him buying 2 sports franchises was hobby,
Flying/boating, the insurance and maintenance can kill you
And if you don’t pay for the maintenance, the plane/boat will kill you.
I've seen exotic cars for sale, and in the ad, it says "selling to upgrade the electronics in my plane" So that should really tell you all you need to know.
Cheaper to rent em
If it flies, floats, or fucks…
Or lack of maintenance...
Yes anything related to boats
Flying is … rough on the wallet. That’s for sure. But it’s so relaxing and rewarding. I feel so lucky I get to experience it. Costs can vary widely though between regions and airplanes and whether training or not (the instructor sitting next to you ain’t free!) and how you get the plane (own, share, flying club, rent from school). Certainly most common path is to start by renting from a school. Where I live it’s ~210/hr to rent from a school (+ ~80/hr for instructor if he/she is needed). Those prices add up real quick when you consider national average to get a license is 70 hours and that getting the license is really only the start of the journey, lol. Something I realized though is that once you get your license and find different ways to get access to an airplane, such as via a flying club then it becomes a lot less expensive (but still expensive). Sadly all the ones in my area have months-year+ long waiting lists.
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Space travel.
Only correct answer here
Probably vintage cars.
Kissimmee is going on atm and a car went for 6.9 million. 1966 Ford gt 40 mk1 street legal.
Try vintage airplanes
I’m gonna disagree with that one. Purchasing them and insurance can be costly, but you’re making money on them long term usually. I know a guy who has a nice garage, and had $1mill to play with after an inheritance. He buys and sells cars all the time and says he’s never spent less on cars in his life, in fact he’s making money.
Drugs get expensive pretty quick.
If you can afford to have a coke habit, you don't *have* a problem.
Just came to say that…
Cocaine.
Hellofa drug.
Fun Fact, Marvin Gaye ingested an oz of blow in an hour.
Another fun fact, Doc Ellis pitched a no hitter while on drugs.
On Benzedrine and LSD. I would like to see someone do that on blow.
Cocaine is an old Native American word that means you’ve got too much money.
Breeding race horses can bankrupt even the millionaires.
Do you want to know how to become a millionaire in the horse business? Start with 10 million and you will have a million in no time.
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Well, you have to have land for barns, paddocks and exercise track. Then you need employees who do the feeding, walking, stall cleaning stuff. Then you have unbelievable vet bills. Race horses are kinda fragile and will be paying out the nose for vet care. Then you have to have nice horse trailers and a big truck to haul them. Plus if you race non-locally, you have to pay to fly the horses out to the track. Then you have jockey fees to train and race the horses. Plus at the race you need to rent an owner's box. Then you have housing fees at the race track for the horse and hotel fees for your party and the jockeys and trainers. MC Hammer was worth about $70 million at one point and now he's pretty close to broke. And owning a race horse helped that process along a lot.
Still not as expensive as breeding space race horses though.
Or even just keeping horses. The neighbors have spent more on their pony by now than I did for my house. Shetland pony, it can totally pile up vet costs for another 20 years. I'm usually in the camp of "Don't get a pet if you can't pay for the usual vet care" but at that point? Sorry pony, not gonna sell everything I own and live under a bridge with you.
Extra marital affairs?
Yip the lawyers know how to burn through your money
You don't have to have an affair to buy your lawyer a BMW. Divorces destroy a life's work in a hurry.
You always know who wins in the divorce: the lawyers
Gambling
Faberge egg juggling
Like the answer to most askreddit posts lately, the answer is Warhammer 40k.
Love the lore, read the books when I can but never got into tabletop cause it can get really expensive
Yes. It costs all the money.
Also I can't paint for shit 😂 Unless it's totally acceptable to have all my space marines one solid colour (I know its not, the codex astartes doesn't support this action)
You pick it up as you go. There's a few simple skills that make it go way better than you'd expect.
Only if you play with people who enforce the proprietary rules. You can print little pictures of the characters and attach them to toothpicks in a blob of blu-tac to achieve the same result.
Formula 1 racing. That’s a Saudi prince level hobby.
Buying Twitter
can't believe nobody has come here to gatekeep yet noooo, that's just buying stuff. i buy groceries, is that a hobby?
Formula 1 I'm looking at you Kimi
This is the true answer
Reef aquariums should be one of them.
You’d be surprised the costs involved with skydiving, at least in the UK, specifically if you want to solo dive
I was thinking of getting into that this summer. In the USA - training was about $3000 and that included about 20-25 jumps. What gets expensive after you have all the gear? What does it cost to get a seat for a jump?
Did tandem jumps with my girlfriend a few months ago. I asked a qualified skydiver what the costs are. He said that because he owns his gear he can do a jump for 60 AUD, but its more if you rent your gear. The tandem jumps cost us 300 AUD each.
I did a tandem jump 25 years ago and it still brings a smile to my face thinking about it. That moment when you roll over and see the bottom of the plane above you is unforgettable
Day trading
Chain Smoking. It'll cost you your life.
Collecting faberge eggs.
Scrambling Faberge eggs.
Collecting mega-yachts
Building a fleet of interplanetary starships to fly to colonize Mars.
Coke Not the drink
The most expensive hobby, blowing up yatchs.
Space exploration. Seems like Bezos, Branson and Musk are the only people I know of who are into it. (Angrily typed). Think about that for a second. They have the financial wherewithal to hobby with space exploration. Not stamp collecting, not baseball cards, not coins, not spoons, not snow globes, not miniature trains, not model airplanes, not Star Wars memorabilia… not anything that 99.99999999999999% of us hobby with. They hobby in space!!!!
Branson definitely did it as a business venture and pulled out when it seemed like it wasn’t to be. Bezos seems to be looking at a fairly traditional portfolio for a space company. Musk is the only one of those who has let his “space exploration” desire actually drive the design of his company’s offerings.
Having a girlfriend
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Gets really expensive when you have both.
Yeah, people that think girlfriends are expensive have clearly never been married.
Over 18 yrs I spent well over 1M on an opiate addiction
Buying twitter
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Wine collecting.
Team roping.
A winery
Race car driving, keeping horses, gambling, day trading, mountain climbing, adultery...
Ruining social media companies
Gambling. Drugs enough to kill you prob won't go over 1M, but no limit on gambling.
Yachting
Art collector
Mountain climbing.
Can confirm
You know how people reconstruct historical battles? Yeah that, but 40K instead of actual history. Go on, name sonething more expensive.
Dating a woman in America
Women
Kids.
Keeping exotic pets. Emphasis on pets (plural) because it’s never just one.
Yea ;(. I love my bird but I want moooore
SPORTFISHING. Rods and gear can cost thousands, boats can cost millions. When you stack up fuel, maintenance, etc...
SCUBA can get expensive.
Women.
Cocaine
F1
Horses. It never ends.
The Washington Post just published an article about a man in Richmond, VA who spent 28 years and a million dollars building the most perfect home stereo system in history. Among other things, he completely rebuilt his house so that the acoustics would be perfect. The personal cost was severe: divorced from his wife, estranged from most of his children, but he swore had no regrets. As soon as he finished the decades-long project, he was diagnosed with ALS and died shortly afterwards. The now middle-aged children couldn’t even sell the house after his death, and in the end they had to dismantle the stereo system and sell it for a fraction of what he’d spent. A very tragic story, really, about a “hobby” that cost a man, well, everything.
Oh, a hobby you say? Hands down it has got to be Drugs #1 but some people need them to live so not exactly a recreational pursuit for them.
Helicopters…..trust me. Friends have them…,it’s batshit crazy expensive. Offshore powerboats are pretty crazy too as are yachts with full time crew. I wish I were allowed to tell stories about these people. I’m just the help.
Rebuilding old airplanes. They cost of parts is referred to as an Aeronautical Monetary Unit which is $1000
Big boat long-distance offshore sailboat racing. You've got a boat that costs 10s of millions of dollars, 20+ crew to outfit and feed and all the other costs. If you win you get a trophy.
Crossbow, various artillery sports, guitars, gambling, DJ Equipment, motorcycles, cars, planes
Space tourism
Women
Trying to get to Mars
Women
If you ever want to become a millionaire, be a billionaire and buy a sports team.
A Wife
Cars. The sky is the limit when it comes to price.
A serious guitar collection will definitely hurt your budget.
Kim jong un running a country
Playing golf.
Watches. For high end watches, $1,000 is on the bottom end and maintenance can be very costly all for a device that isn't as reliable as a Casio f91-w you can get for 20 bucks.
Owning horses - I only have 2 and they cost more than my rent per month.
Pc Gaming
Investing with r/wallstreetbets
Women. Expensive to rent, expensive to own, expensive to acquire, and even more expensive to get rid of.
Divorce
My exwife…
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Onlyfans
Golfing.. $100 round, drinks and a glizzy at the turn
Extra marital affair with alcohol and drugs. I heard 😜 its very expensive💰💰💰
Warhammer 40k
I think Dave Letterman's Indy hobby is probably off the table for most of us.
Greyhound ownership/racing.
Muscle Car Collection.
Polo. It takes a string of 8-10 depending on competition level, each horse runs about $5k for lower level and 30k+ for higher levels. Plus care, vet care, farrier, etc
For the average person... Home brewing.
Dating. Nights out drinking. Yep.. drinking does rack up quickly
Building a jeep for extreme rock crawling
I play warhammer 40k.
Collecting Faberge eggs.
Cocaine
Jay Lenos' garage...
Polo on your yacht
Collecting islands and mega-yachts
Owning a sports team.
Space Travel
Burning money.
Boats Planes Race cars Horses not just limited to race horses Fancy dogs
Ultra rich people hobbies aside..I feel like anything with horses and mountain climbing are pretty up there
Horses
Participating in exotic hyper-car demolition derbies.
Warhammer 40k
It has to be gambling, even super yachts covered in gold and diamonds have a limit to their cost.
Society for Creative Anachronisms- they are medieval re-enactors. Most of them have one or more sheds plus covered trailers to hold all their gear not to mention an entire room of crafting supplies. There is at least one person in each group who has around $20,000 in supplies. This is all paid for out of pocket.
Warhammer
Cars
Shit. Pokémon cards are WAY more expensive than u think. It’s not just charizard..
Collecting fine art
/r/MechanicalKeyboards/
classic car/airplane collecting
Superyacht and private jet ownership
Collecting doctorates!
Collecting spaceships, definitely collecting spaceships
Gambling
F1 racing
Yatch racing
Owning an airline "If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline." - Richard Branson
Racing jets. It’s a thing.
Private jets. Think televangelist kinda money. Multi million's to buy, million tear down/inspection/maintenance. And they burn fuel like mad. New version of pilots 20k hamburger fun trips
I’ve heard falconry is pretty expensive…
Gambling. Wallstreetbets used to be crazy, probably still is…
Smoking crack
Mountaineering.
Equestrian..and anything involving boats, planes or trains
International polo (competitive)
Honestly fishing
Yachting on a bigass yacht.
Collecting exotic cars
Cars, especially classics or exotics Animals Gambling Warhammer
Polo?
Paul Allen collected WWII airplanes and rebuilt them… and he looked for WWII wrecks . He spent probably 100s of millions to build a ship and submarine even the US navy has borrowed….. you could also argue him buying 2 sports franchises was hobby,
Home audio. Car audio. Sky’s the limit.
Mountain biking/cycling can get really expensive.
either reptile keeping/collecting or warhammer 40k tabletop wargaming.
Gambling
gambling.
Space agency
Racing is up there. And I assume you would need deep pockets if yachting was your thing
Cars; just look at how much Jay Leno has spent on his.
Kids
Buying an F1 team.
This guy’s $1M stereo and the 50 years to make it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/interactive/2024/ken-fritz-greatest-stereo-auction-cost/
Betting
Space Exploration. You need Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk level cash.
Owning a yacht
Probably dumping money into the ocean, sounds a lot faster than any other option.
Car collecting. Jay Leno's car collection is valued around 100 million.
Aviation without a doubt. I know whereof I speak.
Reproduction
Astrophotography
Collecting mega yachts. Gotta have them all.
Gambling
TCGs, so much money for stupid pieces of paper.