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u/Loppan45 1d ago
This sounds low no matter the hobby
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u/Z2_U5 1d ago
You’d be correct actually. Assuming pets and toys are included into hobbies, the average American spends $970~ on hobbies per year (2021-2023). If you include “fees and admissions” (presumably theme parks and the like), that would increase to around 1.6k, give or take.
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u/Pyroglyph Keychron Q6 ISO // Gateron Oil King 11h ago
I wouldn't say pets are hobbies. You can stop doing a hobby for a year and nothing will happen, but do the same with a pet and you'll get an animal cruelty charge.
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u/VladStark 21h ago
I think that is "the average" only because some adults are sadly too poor to actually have hobbies, so they spend 0 and balance it out for others who do. I'm new to customizing keyboards and probably won't spent a lot here since I got too many other hobbies. Even though this keyboard stuff can be kinda expensive (if you buy a lot of different stuff all the time), it honestly looks fairly cheap compared to wood working tools and machines, or guns (ammo cost is no joke)!
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u/TraumaticCaffeine 13h ago
Honestly the amount of people that have Zero hobbies just because is astounding as well. Before everyone had a hobby, now some people's hobbies are watching tv.
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u/Mandydeth ｏｒｔｈｏｌｉｆｅ 22h ago
If I had a dollar every time this meme got posted in this Reddit, I would have another keyboard.
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u/_Rand_ 1d ago
My hobbies include keyboards, gaming and 3d printing.
None of which are cheap.
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u/deja_geek 1d ago
Laughs in homelab, keyboards, and Magic The Gathering
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u/VladStark 21h ago
Vintage MTG is a millionaire's game at this point unless you bought those cards like 25-30 years ago.
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u/Pikotaro_Apparatus Neo65 Gateron Quinns 1d ago
Keyboards and vintage hand tool woodworking. That last one is a double whammy. Need the tools and the wood.
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u/_Rand_ 1d ago
The cost of materials is 100% the reason why I don't get into that stuff.
Wood is crazy expensive for something I'm likely to screw up.
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u/Pikotaro_Apparatus Neo65 Gateron Quinns 22h ago
I was thankful enough to get pressure treated pallet wood to practice on instead of the chemically treated stuff.
Also thankful I have so much love for the cheaper stuff like pine lol!
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u/JDBCool 22h ago
IIRC. It's charged by volume isn't it?
In imperial as well.
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u/Pikotaro_Apparatus Neo65 Gateron Quinns 20h ago
That’s where things get tricky. You have most places charging for price per board foot and then if you’re after trim it’s per linear foot. Going even further lumber yards will charge per foot plus thickness although that could be argued that most places charge additional for that as well….i won’t even get into plywood grading systems.
My issue is I know enough for myself but not enough to share any info outside of YouTube or google unfortunately. Probably related to my flavor of neuro spicy.
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u/JDBCool 20h ago
Yeah, that sounds about right going off of memory from woodshop class in high school.
Everyone was given a printout of wood costs for that year.
Purple heart was the most damned expensive thing that everyone fought for it for side projects after the major project was done (making a table)
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u/roxskin156 23h ago
This + art/supplies + sewing/fabric + miku + lolita dresses + DD + back support plushies, i think I'm more than cooked actually
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u/Turbulent-Seesaw-236 36 Key Keyboard User 22h ago
I’m seeing this meme from like 3-4 other hobbyist subreddits 😂
I think the statistic is because a lot of people say watching tv is their hobby or walks/hiking, etc and that probably skews the results a bit
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u/kool-keys koolkeys.net 21h ago edited 20h ago
I'd be amazed is that figure was true. As hobbies go, this one is pretty cheap actually. There are far more expensive hobbies than this, especially these days... If you scroll through the thread, there are way more budget boards than customs now. Pretty cheap hobby actually. You get get full into this for less than $100. There aren't many hobbies with such a low entry point. People will say that there's cheaper hobbies... like walking or something, but, nah... decent outdoor clothing costs way more than a budget mechanical keyboard.
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u/JediSurfer8888 16h ago
Minimalism is a great concept, but very hard to practically implement if you have the collecting gene...
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u/cobaltjacket 21h ago
Sorry folks, you've still got nothin' on any hobby that involves a vehicle.
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u/Bakamoichigei Infinity Ergodox | Gateron Green 21h ago
I've probably spent 4x that on shipping so far this year. 🤣
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u/NEVER_DIE42069 14h ago
Need I tap the sign?
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u/Evil49nd_ 10h ago
Lmao funniest part of this is I downloaded it directly from r/guitars and thought it might fit here I didn't even know it was something common until people pointed it out
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u/NoOne-NBA- Self-Designed Orthos w/Integral Numpads 8h ago
This hobby doesn't seem nearly as expensive to me, as other hobbies I could pursue.
Take golf, for example.
After you spend hundreds, or thousands, on the accessories for it, you still have to pay someone ridiculous amounts of money, just to walk around on their grass for a couple hours.
That comparison makes the $300 keyboard I use at work every day very easy for me to justify, when viewed on a per hour basis.
I've been using it for three years now, which has brought the cost down to about $2/week.
If you divide that by a standard 40 hour week, it comes out at 5 cents/hour of use.
The increased satisfaction I get, while using that board, makes it worth every penny I have spent on it, many times over.
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u/naldyjams 1d ago
between keyboards, headphones, video games and toys i think my hobby is just consumerism at this point