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My two main hobbies are amassing wealth and being bad at finance so it probably gets me about 500€.

You guys have stable hobbies..?
If you count "starting new hobbies" as a hobby, then I could get like 4-5 hobbies out of it, around 200-250$ is a reasonable buy-in for a new one.

Almost endless quantities (for me anyway) of 3d printing filament and small electronic parts.

Two and a half hard drives.

… my favorite hobby “this week”

A basic road bike I guess? 😅

2 years of yoga classes.

Or

All of the garden beds, fencing, and good soil I got for the garden.

A couple pieces niche test equipment that I'll ude once a year.

I get 1 nice drone or 2 small ones.

Lost a 500€ infrared drone 2 days ago in a sugar beet field because "I don’t need the GPS when flying near the street" and then I was too high to make out if it was a deer or a rabbit and the powerline in between disrupted the radio signal, so the drone went into failsave and stopped all movement, getting carried by the wind into the field and it fell in a way that the battery disconnected… thank you for reading.. I’m sad now…

If you already have a good computer, that much money could outfit an entire home music recording studio with decent gear, especially if you buy good used gear, which is easily available:

A couple of good super-budget guitars from Harley Benton (a Strat clone and a Les Paul clone), for about $300 (new).

A good Yamaha acoustic guitar, $100.

A bass, $75.

An interface, to get the music into the computer, $50.

A basic MIDI controller, $30.

A good electronic keyboard with weighted keys, $100.

Microphone, $75.

Headphones, $50.

Electronic drum machine, $50, or use the pads on the MIDI controller, or voices on the keyboard.

DAW - Reaper is free, and works great.

That's approximately what I spent on my studio, and everything works great, and sounds terrific..

Two chicks at the same time.

A good number of games on my PC.

Anywhere from 3-100 books of sheet music depending on the books.

A bunch of used blu-rays.

A ton of used records.

A new set of speakers for my record and/or home theatre setup(s).

A new amp for my record setup.

A new pre-amp for my record setup.

A little over half the parts for a new gaming PC.

Around 3-5 vintage watches for me to fix up.

Some new tools for fixing up vintage watches.

About 7-8 pocket knives.

A new kitchen knife set.

Some new pots and pans.

Does alcohol count as a hobby? If so then 5-10 bottles of scotch.

Shit, I have a lot of hobbies. No wonder I have no money. There’s probably stuff I’m forgetting too. Damn.

About like 10 of the must have flashlights or a few good customs. Or one fourth of some really extreme ones.

3 cheap synths but only half a more expensive one.

Reasonable amount of average magic cards or just a few good ones.

Half a graphics card.

Some nice wood for woodworking, but not that much if decent quality.

A flight ticket.

3 festival tickets.

0.5kg of ketamine.

A lot of 3D printing filament.

2 Warhammer figures.

3 years of swimming pool subscription.

A new practice basket. A new stack of practice putters. A cart. With plenty left over for me to get a few more backups for some of my favorite discs.

An enclosed core XY 3D printer with a material changing system with a built in filament dryer.

The Bambu Lab P1S is a crazy good deal. If you get it with the older AMS that doesn’t do filament drying, it’s only €800.

There are some issues with Bambu Lab and their proprietary nature. But I’ve very much loved my P1S, and while I’ve tinkered with and upgraded it quite a bit, I’ve never NEEDED to the same way I did with older 3D printers (other than standard maintenance).

You can get Prusa’s Core One for a bit over the stated budget, but only if you do the assembly yourself. Which is fun! But you also don’t get the multiple material system included in that price.

1L flasks, dimroth condenser, heating mantle, heating plate, materials to build an electric kiln, if i have anything left i'd use it on chemicals

and i'm probably already overbudget, home chemistry is fucked price-wise, we're lucky to have synthware for all our glassware needs but for equipment you either diy it or go broke (a good hotplate is ~500$ new, 200$ used in bad conditions)

A low-mid range PC. Maybe? Prices for components are fucking wack and I'm broke anyway, so I am not sure how far 1000 dollars would go rn.

My current PC was ~$900, built in 2019 and was for low-entry VR, or high performance in flat space games for 1080p res and 144hz.

Either a guitar.. or a gpu

Less than one collector booster box of cards from the latest set...

Sigh....

All the Japanese language resources for a lifetime you need and then some more for lessons if you want.

• Wanikani and Bunpro might be about 300€ together for a lifetime.
• A few grammar books with extra exercises, like Genki, would be less than 200€ I think.
• Writing supplies, a computer, Internet access etc is assumed.
• 500€ Could likely get private tutoring for quite a few lessons I think. You may also want to look at courses by the nearby university or language school, or get additional support resources.

Japanese learning resources are really amazing nowadays. Tons of good free content too, like articles on grammar or YouTube Videos by people explaining stuff. If you cut Wanikani and Bunpro and go with Anki (FOSS) instead for SRS, you can go really cheap.

That is, the price you pay for learning the Japanese language is also that it takes a fuck ton of time to get anywhere. But then again, you understand Japanese after that, how cool is that??

Either a whole load of books, fiction, tabletop RPG sci-fi. I would also need to buy more bookshelves to put these on.

A decent upgrade to my computer, maybe a new graphics card.

A sword or two, some better protective kit for sparring.

A mid range set of motorbike gear (dirt or road) or a very cheap registrable motorbike.

Alternatively a number of interesting secondhand cameras/lenses, the number ranging from one to many depending on what exactly. I'll admit I have actually spent near that much on two backs for my 1960s era Hasselblad so you don't even necessarily get a whole camera...

Half of a full army, maybe some brushes.

A decent road bike. Not top specced, and with none of the additional gear you'll probably want, but you can definitely get started with €1k. I bought my current bike for approximately €700 and have upgraded + bought additional gear for probably a bit over €1k, but that has gotten me some really great stuff and I basically want for nothing in the sport.

A hole in the water you can throw money into

A surprising amount as prices have dropped considerably in the past few years. (3d printing)

A low-uptime server to backup my current one

Or a really crazy sex toy maybe, depends on how responsible I'm feeling

Another hobby. Two, if I'm lucky.

Depends on how much you mind restoration/cleaning work for fountain pens. I've already got all the entry tier stuff covered, so buying new pens at MSRP would probably mean somewhere between 1-3 pens, depending on how fancy I'm looking to get. I already have an ultrasonic cleaner and plenty of repair supplies, so I'd be hitting up auctions, personally. Depending on what's in the lots and how many people notice the contents, 1000€ would probably get me somewhere between 200-400 pens. Probably another 200 or so if I get to count what I could buy with the proceeds of selling off the ones I'm not interested in.

A really nice bow, and probably enough arrows for a few years.

Two surf boards, you only need one and can fix it pretty cheaply for like 20 bucks, but having a lot of surfboards is nice

Like 4-5 years of ancestry resources access, or maybe like a short trip to my grandparent's homeland to do my own research.

Or I can buy like A LOT of thread and cross stitch material. A lot.