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What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by plactagonic@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Lol same here.

Bought a cheap printer and it worked, but I couldn't fix it.

Then I got another cheap printer that was bigger, but it was a fire hazard

Then I got a not as cheap printer, then it broke in the stupidest way possible

So I got a the Popular Cheap Printer, and it was good enough

But I needed a Prusa since I was now selling my parts, and it was good

Then I got a bigger prusa since the popular printer turned into a sunk cost fallacy.

What should've been a one time cost of $350 turned into multiple $350-500 printers until I started a business with it and spent $1000 to stop messing with it

[-] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Wow, that's pretty cool that you made a business out of it.
What kind of parts do you make?

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

So far, replacement Stylus for DS and 3ds systems. Display stands for old portables and games.

Working on a case for eReaders, but needed to move from PLA to PETG. So I'm ironing out those kinks

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