And people think GW is an expensive hobby?

[Mr Mystery]

I think the continued costs associated with cosplay/larp are more to do with the attendance of events, more than extending your collection of stuff...
Also the Beer.

Pretty much. But weapons do break (mine are fine still) and kit will need periodic replacement.

Then there's the traders. Last year I bought a mace (hitty!) bandages and apothecary stuff (healy!) and a bottle sling (drinky!). Oh, and a new belt. All tots up rapidly!

Totally worth it though

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

My main hobby is making electronic music, and theres definitely a reason it's a hobby...haha cos you can't make a living out of that hahahahaha...oh dear...sorry.

It's an expensive hobby though, VST pluggins (software production tools and synthesizers ect) can cost hundreds of pounds, if you want the professional and good sounding ones anyway, add to that the price of monitors and any hardware (I own a few synths, vocoder ect) and it can get expensive easily..

[Wildeybeast]

Buying a house. Turns out you need a butt tonne of money before the banks will even let you through the door to discuss getting a mortgage. My 'hobby'/biggest financial drain is saving money for that. In the past I would have at least been able to call it an investment for the future, but given the current economic climate I'm not even sure it can be called that.

[Deadlift]

Buying a house. Turns out you need a butt tonne of money before the banks will even let you through the door to discuss getting a mortgage. My 'hobby'/biggest financial drain is saving money for that. In the past I would have at least been able to call it an investment for the future, but given the current economic climate I'm not even sure it can be called that.

What I find so frustrating with banks, especially when it comes to mortgages and 1st times buyers is even though someone can be renting, and the rent your paying monthly will most likely be more than your intended monthly morgage repayments they still insist you "can't afford" the repayments.
You can jump though hoops, providing proof of income and employment. You send all the information to the underwriters and they insist on more information. You give them what they ask for and they then lose the original copies at the processing centre (usually in mumbai) of the previous info, therefor putting the whole process back by weeks, only for the offer they have given you on the proviso that you give them yet more info is no longer valid. You have to start the whole process again.

I ****ing hate banks and yes I'm married to a Barclays Morgage Adviser.

[Hive Mind]

My main hobby is making electronic music, and theres definitely a reason it's a hobby...haha cos you can't make a living out of that hahahahaha...oh dear...sorry.

It's an expensive hobby though, VST pluggins (software production tools and synthesizers ect) can cost hundreds of pounds, if you want the professional and good sounding ones anyway, add to that the price of monitors and any hardware (I own a few synths, vocoder ect) and it can get expensive easily..

Just get the FM7. It's the only plugin you'll ever need to make electro.

[DarkLink]

With the economy the last five or six years, there's a reason why mortgages are so tough to get.

[Wolfshade]

I had fun and games getting mine, though my house will survive nuclear fallout if I block the windows...

[Deadlift]

With the economy the last five or six years, there's a reason why mortgages are so tough to get.

Which is kind of cyclical really, considering many perceive banks are to blame for the whole current mess were in now, personally I don't entirely. It's customers are as much to blame for taking out loans they couldn't afford to repay to buy things they didn't need. But then with financial regulations being what they were anybody could walk into a bank and take out a sizeable loan unsecured. But then the banks were also very aggressive with the way they marketed their loans in the 1st place.