I realize this is a pretty broad question, and all I'm hoping to see is what other people's hobbies are and how expensive they are. We have a bunch of threads with "X-Wing is cheaper than _____", so instead of comparing X-Wing to them, how much have you spent on your other hobbies?

Most recent reference thread: https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/192561-is-a-couple-hundred-bucks-really-so-much-to-spend-on-being-competitive-inreally-anything/

For me, I also play MTG. Yes, its expensive. I figure now I put about $500 a year into it and I've been playing 21 years. I know in the earlier days I was trying to stay standard competitive, and put in thousands of dollars those years. My favorite format now is draft, so that money buys card sleeves and boxes whenever a new set comes out (4 times a year). I just draft with friends, but have decks in the following formats: Commander, Standard (we do FNM Hero style), Cube, Modern.

I also own a motorcycle that I ride at least every other weekend. I'm still working towards getting it on the twisty track, but in the last few years I've spent about $1000 more to buy the track approved gear, rather than the regular gear I would have replaced. (Boots, Helmet, gloves, etc). I've had it to the Dragstrip once and have owned it 4 years. I'd say I'm 10k into this hobby... but I can commute on the bike too if I want

So for the rest of you, what hobbies other than X-Wing are you into, and how much do you estimate you've spent on them?

For MTG just some duel decks each year.

A bunch of board games, couple of hundred euros

Theatre and concerts, at least once a month, say 30 euro per ticket on average, for me and my wife.

Couple of hundred a year on x box games.

Cooking workshops at a world class restaurant, maybe twice a year, say 300 euro.

Entertainment sets me back a few thousand each year I guess.

That is of course not counting DVD, CD and books. That's not really a hobby to us.

I draw stuff, lots of space things really, and sometimes people pay me to do work for them. I also do a lot of writing too, again a lot of scifi stuff. Though between two jobs I am finding less time to work on things these days. It is still fun way to pass time.

This is quite the can of worms to be opening! Everything I purchase and currently own is viewed as a long term investment and each collection has been collected over the years and decades!

Besides XWing, I do Historical Wargaming using DBA, FOG and Battlefront rules all in 15mm, and Ronin in 25mm. I have literally thousands of dollars worth of lead miniatures on the shelves and over another thousand in terrain for these! I started buying these minis in 2005!!

I also bowhunt and shoot target archery which means I have a couple of thousand dollars invested in archery equipment and cammo clothing. My bows were purchased in the early 1990's!!

Then there is the gun hunting, shooting and reloading! Once again, several thousands of dollars worth of gear has been purchased for these activities! My first rifle was an XMas gift in 1982. I've been buying ever since. I started reloading in 1994 to keep shooting costs down, but the equipment isnt cheap initially. And considering the rimfire ammo situation the last few years since Obama has been elected, Ive spent WAAAYYY MORE on rimfire ammo alone the last three years than my entire XWing collection!

I almost forgot about my knives! I have dozens of knives I've collected over the decades. Most are still new in the packages as I find what I like to use and buy multiples when I find good deals! I only buy good quality cutlery, btw.

I also do leatherwork and the tools alone are a couple of thousand dollars! I do some D&D and have several editions of books and accessories, play several boxed wargames and have an extensive book collection with hundreds of books! I started all these things in the mid-80's.

Then I have a 16yo son and two pugs!! Wanna talk about expensive!?! Have a kid and a couple of pets! The pugs run us about $90 every six weeks at the groomer alone, plus $4 per day for food, plus regular vet visits and about a dollar a day for meds for the "old man."

The son has his own hobbies which run parallel to mine, hunting, wargaming, etc. And he has thousands in electronic gaming systems and thousands in LEGO sets, esp Star Wars! Guess where all the money for those comes from!

Overall, XWing is one of my LEAST expensive pastimes and I look forward to spending money on each new wave! But none of these these came all at once, rather small purchases over a long time! Albeit, I spend between $100 and $500 on the majority of my purchases each time.

X-Wing (and I'm including Armada and Imperial Assault) is by far the cheapest of my hobbies.

My main interest is film and film history. I've got an ever growing DVD & Blu-ray collection of around 2500 titles currently (I stopped counting a while ago) which I guess must have cost me at least £30,000 so far. That's not to mention films that have been upgraded over the years for either better versions or from older formats such as Laserdisc.

I also enjoy photography and have probably got about £5000 of gear.

Astronomy: ~$1500 one time four years ago.

Making fun of people on the Internet: Free!

Children: infinity dollars forever.

Reading: infinite free audiobooks using overdrive.

I also enjoy photography and have probably got about £5000 of gear.

Crap, forgot I'm into Photography too. I'm only $2000 in, unless you count the computer and photoshop as well, in which case I'm about 4k in. Doht!

Why hasn't anyone posted up their 40k expenses yet?

I also enjoy photography and have probably got about £5000 of gear.

Crap, forgot I'm into Photography too. I'm only $2000 in, unless you count the computer and photoshop as well, in which case I'm about 4k in. Doht!

Why hasn't anyone posted up their 40k expenses yet?

Because we try not to think about it lol

So i started adding up my daemons army......

The pink horrors alone have a replacement value of over au$500

I'm just gonna stop there lol

Archery is around $3000 in bows and $200 for every dozen arrows

I ride alpine (carving) snowboards. Between boots (2 pairs), bindings (3 sets), a plate, and 3 snowboards I've got about $6,500 tied up in that over the past 3 or four years. That doesn't include lift tickets and travel...

Expensive but fun.

I've been wargaming since 1985, and have a tendency to never sell anything. So my collection of various gaming gubbins runs up to over NZ$20,000 for all the various games I've got. My X-wing collection is just under $1,000 so it really constitutes a very small part of my hobby stuff. Other than gaming, I don't really do too much else that involves large cash outlay or ongoing cash outlay.

I have a mountain bike that I get out on, but you only buy that once, right? And I'm not one of those lycra-clad types either. I just enjoy a ride on a nice day. I'm involved with our local Speedway club (that's Dirt Track racing to the Americans) as a race referee, but that doesn't involve any outlay either. But I have been involved for 14 years now. I build a few model kitsets from time to time, that's not very many, and lately I've only been building kits that can be used in games I'm currently designing, so they kinda fall back into wargaming I guess.

If you're remotely serious about any kind of hobby, then you'll try to find the money to do it. And you generally don't think about the overall cost until someone starts a thread asking you "how much has your hobby cost you?"

If you're remotely serious about any kind of hobby, then you'll try to find the money to do it. And you generally don't think about the overall cost until someone starts a thread asking you "how much has your hobby cost you?"

A friend and I once estimated how much money we had spent at our regular bar, back when we went there a couple of times a week.

Came out to two decent years' salaries, each.

We never spoke of it again.

I've been playing Warhammer 40k for about 20 years. I would probably be driving a much nicer car if I didn't play 40k. I dip my toes into other miniature wargames, but 40k and X-Wing are the main things I play.

Also fairly involved with tabletop RPGs. Mostly Pathfinder and FATE, with a dash of other systems (I like trying stuff). I appreciate how cheap it is to play tabletop RPGs - it's accessible to basically everyone, no matter what their socioeconomic status is. My RPG groups are a lot more diverse than my miniature wargaming groups.

I also try to play board games as much as possible. Some people go crazy collecting games, but I'll usually only add new stuff to my collection every 3 months or so. This is a fairly cheap hobby if you actually play your games more than 5 times each.

Other stuff I do:
Juggling: Cheap. A decent set of clubs will cost you under $50 and last many years.
Cycling: I've spent about $5000 over the last 10 years. I used it for commuting most of those years, so it's money well spent.
Reading: eBooks and stuff from the used bookstore make this nearly free. I did invest rather a lot into an e-ink ebook reader, but I get a lot of use out of it.

Hobbies I have...

Gaming. I play X-Wing, Wings of Glory (WWI) and Flames of War. All moderately expensive. I would say on a monthly basis I spend at least $200 on them combined. I have a bunch of other games but they're sitting in the closet and I don't spend any money on them. I also play Star Trek Online and spend MUCH more money there than I really should. I have a subscription ($15/mo) but I also spend money to buy stuff (ships, upgrades, etc) from the "Store", on average about $75-100/mo.

Archery. I go to the range at least once a week. $15/hour to shoot and I normally shoot 2 hours. My yearly spending on archery including range fees, equipment and all is probably around $3000.

Girlfriend. My most expensive hobby. I'm afraid to keep track of how much I spend on her because I'd probably break down and cry.

I also do a lot of reading but my friends and I pass around books between each other so it's hard to keep track of how much I actually spend there.

I know people that troll forums as a hobby because its free ....

Girlfriend / Wife / Kids are not a hobby.... They are living breathing humans unless you keep them in a box under your bed

Star Wars the Black Series 6" Action figures - they are about 20 bucks a figure and always new ones coming out - plus that damned $270 TIE Fighter.

Some other board games, including miniature games like Imperial Assault and Armada.

A few video games, not too many, but seriously excited for Star Wars Battlefront.

And Guitar - though that doesn't have a cost at the moment - it will because I really want a nice Taylor which will probably cost be about 2 Grand, (Could easily double that but I'm being frugal).

I like to work with leather. Inuits say it clarifies the mind and purifies the soul.

I like to work with leather. Inuits say it clarifies the mind and purifies the soul.

We used to do this with my dad. It is a great activity for kids as well. Helps them with planning, dexterity and disappointment(for me anyways).

If you consider being heavily involved in my 3 son's athletic endeavors a hobby, than that is my only other one. My boys all play baseball, football, basketball, and the older two do track to stay in shape.

Believe it or not, but my oldest , who is a Junior in High School, is actually the cheapest due to most of his activities being subsidized by the High School. However, I do spend quite a bit on things like shoes, bats, gloves, and other assorted stuff. Also, I just wrote a check for $500 for an 18-week pre-season baseball training program. He also goes to other camps and such for football. I will likely be taking him to a lot of baseball showcases to, hopefully, get some college interest in him. I have already taken him to one and got some pretty positive feedback. He was one of only 4 or 5 4-sport athletes in his High School.

I probably spend the most on my middle son who is in 8th grade due to him playing both school-sponsored and club sports. He is following in his older brother's footsteps being a 4-sport athlete. However, where his brother is a naturally gifted hitter, he is the best pitcher, by far, in the family. He is a lefty with a changeup that breaks like most kid's curves that he can command for strikes at will and a curve that, while erratic, is just pure filth. If he gets his velocity up a bit, he will be a monster on the mound. He also will probably be the starting point guard this winter for basketball and will likely be the starting Center when Freshman ball starts in the Fall.

The youngest plays baseball, football, and basketball. I am his coach for basketball and baseball. He is a pretty good little athlete that is hyper-competitive due to being the youngest of 3 brothers.

Overall, I say I spend upwards of $10,000 and countless hours a year on my other "hobby".

Ok so beside any FFG games...

MTG, Dice Masters, Other Board games. These are the things i spend most my money on. Money as in my local gamestore can pay it's electricity bill from my purchases alone. (I hope I'm exagerating here.)

Roleplaying games: Let's say i don't buy as many of them as I used to.

Movies and Music: Used to spend a lot of money on DVDs, not so much these days.

Console gaming: Still have a PS2, sorta lost intrest in modern games and gone retro fanboy. So that's a cost gone.

Reading: Mostly Kim Newman and HH series. It has remained fairly constant but I don't spend much money on it.

Watching tv Watching stuff on youtube/the interwebz: Free! and completly replaced watching tv for me.

Collecting action figures: I try not get serious into it becuz I'd end up bankrupt with so many 80's toy crammed into my bedroom that the repo men can't get inside. I do pick up the occasional cool thing such as wave 1 of transformers combiner wars and the LEGO Enter the serpent ninjago set. Oh and spent 30 bucks on LEGO minifigs (series 14) last week.

So most of my money is spent on tabletop games.

I do pick up the occasional cool thing such as wave 1 of transformers combiner wars and the LEGO Enter the serpent ninjago set. Oh and spent 30 bucks on LEGO minifigs (series 14) last week.

Hell yes LEGOs are cool! I don't buy a lot, maybe $100/yr for a couple cool random sets. Except for when they had the MBA program because those sets were the best sets I'd ever seen! I wished so hard for those sets as a kid and couldn't help myself when they came out. The books that explain how LEGO does everything they do in design, building, instructions, etc are the greatest thing to happen to LEGOs. I bought every single one and keep them separate from my main collection. The only Star Wars lego stuff I've bought is anything Hoth and a couple A-Wings.

My main hobby is model building. I've got nearly three hundred in my room (which is slightly on the crowded side...). 145 Zoids, 63 mobile suits, a dozen ships on display, and a couple dozen kits patiently waiting to be assembled.

I blame Parravon for getting me hooked on Naval Wargaming this spring (not that it was terribly hard to do... ). I've got most of the IJN WWII surface fleet and a few Brits.

Used to have 48 Magic decks, and three 40k armies, but I sold most of those years ago.

Also, most of my Legos seem to have disappeared...

Also, most of my Legos seem to have disappeared...

Meh. You still have ZOIDS. Are those the Takara/ TOMY ones from back in the 80's? I wish i still had mine.

Used to have this (He was my fave.)

Also, most of my Legos seem to have disappeared...

Meh. You still have ZOIDS. Are those the Takara/ TOMY ones from back in the 80's? I wish i still had mine.

Used to have this (He was my fave.)

Most of my Zoids are newer releases, but I do have an original release Deadboarder and Bigasauru, and a few Robostrux releases in varying conditions (e-bay grabs).

Gojulas was love at first sight for me. I've got three, including an HMM, plus two Gigas and a King.