Some people are complaining about the price of eggs . . . but others are struggling with the soaring costs of the supposedly “cheap” hobbies they picked up during the pandemic . . . that are not so cheap anymore.
There’s a list online of “seemingly cheap hobbies . . . that quickly become very expensive to continue doing.” Here are some popular answers:
1. Woodworking. Someone joked, “Why buy something, when I can make it half as good . . . for three times the price . . . in a couple of months?”
2. Horseback riding.
3. Boating . . . and even fishing, if you can’t resist upgrading.
4. Fish-keeping. One person joked, “I only need one more tank . . .”
5. 3-D printing.
6. Cycling.
7. Surfing in the summer.
8. Snowboarding in the winter.
9. Golf . . . although sports like golf are fairly expensive from the start, right?
10. Crochet . . . when the yarn-buying turns into collecting . . . and hoarding.
11. Gardening. Someone joked, “The first tomato is $100 . . . but the second tomato is also $100 . . . and there is no third tomato.”
12. Hobby farms.
13. CrossFit.
14. Coffee.
15. Drinking.
16. ALL OF THEM. Someone joked, “Every damn one. Because every hobby has a rabbit hole that can be very expensive to follow.”
