What is your "other" expensive hobby?

[farscott]

The litany of home improvements. The pics are the custom gate to the fenced backyard and the brick and block eight-foot wall. The pistol range is still not complete. Portions of the new metal roof are visible in the second picture. The tornado of 28-APR-2014 kick-started this project as that storm destroyed the old fence, ripped off portions of the roof, and caused a window to turn into shrapnel. Once we started, the money just started to flow.

Note the cracks in the driveway. Those are the result of having more than thirty yards of concrete delivered for the foundation of the wall. The driveway is also slated for replacement.

[olstyn]

Cardboard Crack. I'm a nerd, and I admit it. I play Magic: the Gathering, and I'm going to be using a deck that's worth a solid $1000 in a tournament tomorrow morning. No, I'm not joking, and in the format I'm playing, there are decks worth double that and more. For perspective, it's a format which excludes a significant number of the game's most rare and expensive cards; there are single cards at $5K+, simply due to the fact that they're from the early days of the game, meaning that supply is fixed and demand is not.

[El Cid]

My other hobby used to be performance cars. Autocrosses, HPDE, etc. Something had to give. Still miss this amazing machine. 1997 turbo, 6 speed.

[Duelist]

Cardboard Crack. I'm a nerd, and I admit it. I play Magic: the Gathering, and I'm going to be using a deck that's worth a solid $1000 in a tournament tomorrow morning. No, I'm not joking, and in the format I'm playing, there are decks worth double that and more. For perspective, it's a format which excludes a significant number of the game's most rare and expensive cards; there are single cards at $5K+, simply due to the fact that they're from the early days of the game, meaning that supply is fixed and demand is not.

Being a nerd means that you really like something. You have a passion. Nothing negative about that, even though many other people won't see the value in the thing you find yourself passionate about.

The world needs more passionate people, not fewer.

We're all gun nerds here, anyway.

[NETim]

Fishin' for these darn things.

[Lex Luthier]

I build guitars and basses, so wood, tools....and guitars.

I also love vintage bikes, both restored and unrestored. The current stable includes a 1979 Raleigh DL-1 roadster, a 1978 Raleigh Competition GS road bike, my wife's 1982 Bianchi Nuovo Racing road bike, and her 1979 Raleigh Cameo loop frame town bike. (I also ride a modern utility cyclocross bike-a 2012 Bianchi Volpe.) I intend to ride in the 2017 or 2018 L'Eroica vintage bike ride in Gaiole in Chianti, Italy.

I would love to get ahold of a good condition 1950s Bianchi Specialissima or a Legnano Gran Premio like Coppi or Bartali rode.

And a modern Richard Sachs cyclocross bike or a Nao Tomii road bike (Sachs has an 8-year waiting list and bikes start at $5k -IOW, it'll never happen.)

[breakingtime91]

Computers. I'm slowly getting back into it but just dropped 2k into a tower and will probably out another 500 into it in the next 6 months

[Hawk87]

For me it's waterfowling, which includes dog training in the off season (a hobby all its own) as well as hunting. I am in the process of repairing a boat, as well as putting together a motor kit for it.

I have also started to get really into fly fishing this year. I am still in the early stages of addiction, but I see myself going pretty far down that rabbit hole.

[olstyn]

Fishin' for these darn things.

Nice muskie! I've boated exactly one in about 20 years, but one was enough that a significant portion of my tacklebox will always be devoted to gigantic (for freshwater, anyway) crankbaits and bucktails. I don't get to fish for them a ton, but it's probably the best time I spend with my father, so even if all we get is a follow or two, it's a good day on the water. Last time we were out, he hooked a small-ish one, but it managed to release itself from the end of his line just as I was about to net it for him. That was a frustrating moment!

[Tamara]

Still miss this amazing machine. 1997 turbo, 6 speed.

I'll be in my bunk. o.O