I"ve spent over $2000 on my media server. It was all worth it too.
My growing californium collection is really starting to strain the ol’ pocketbook.
Not as much as I’d like. It overheats if I drive it too far in the summer. Next spring or summer’s project will be to get it running better and stop it from overheating (hopefully).
Here’s a video my son took from the passenger’s seat when we took it on a pizza run last summer. We had just gotten it running and instead of taking it on a test drive around the neighborhood we took it all the way to the pizza shop. 
https://i.imgur.com/5SpOkkm.mp4
It is a lot of fun to drive.
My neighbor’s father had an MG Midget. I learned a lot of car mechanics (starting at about the age of 12 or so) by helping them work on it. Even after I turned 16 he never let me drive it.
This was a great topic. I’ve learned a lot about my fellow posters!
I have a ‘66 MGB. I got ripped off on the bodywork. It’s a blast to drive; but I have to do the Car-Car Shuffle to get it out, so I don’t drive it as often as I should. I do need to get the hood out of the boot and erect it.
Hmmm, my hobby is writing/performing/recording music. I’ve been collecting guitars/synths/amps/assorted gear for more than 40 years. I have at least about $20K invested in gear (it might be more, but let’s go with that). That sounds kind of hair raising when I write it out. But it averages out to about $500/year, if I accept that kind of conservative number. Plus, my most expensive acquisitions have been in the last few years ($3K Gretsch guitar, $2K Rickenbacker bass, $1700 Moog Matriarch). So, it’s been loaded with luxury in the last 10 years or so. On top of that, some of the stuff is worth vastly more than I spent on it. The outlier is the 67 Gibson SG Junior that was bought ages ago for $275 is now worth about $3K. I’ve easily averaged more than $500/year playing or recording. So it might actually be a wash, other than the fact that I don’t sell any of my gear, so I have purchased a larger house than I normally would to store the stuff. Also, the larger house lets me comfortably record in it.
But! This is another hobby that is only as expensive as you decide to make it. The guitar I use around the house the most is a Epiphone Les Paul Special II, bolt neck loaded with P90s. It was $88 used from Guitar Center. The cheapest bass I have that is a consistent workhorse is an ESP LTD B-50 that I got for $75 from a friend when their roommate left it in lieu of rent. My Korg Minilogue XD can do about 60% of what the Matriarch can, I got mine used for $350 or so from GC. Get a hand-me down laptop or tablet that is powerful enough to run a simple Digital Audio Workstation and sequence a software drum machine, a used audio interface, some cheap effects pedals, a used SM57 or 58 mic, and I expect you could be in business doing home recordings for less than $1500. I’d expect any recording done by me with that equipment would probably sound largely the same as any recording done with my current stable of stuff. Amps to play out with that equipment could be had for around another $500 or so, if you’re not picky.
So, maybe about $2000 to go all-in on the ground floor, but possibly a wash if you’re mildly successful?
All I can really advise is: if you’re going to press a record, make sure that the linchpin of the band isn’t going to move away in less than a year. I can’t really say I lost money on the vinyl pressings I’ve made. We sold enough to cover costs on each of them. But I have enough remainder sitting in boxes that I’ve kind of sworn off of buying 500 copies of the same record, even if I’m on it.
A friend of mine has several horses (and mini-horses, and goats, and all kinds of animals). But she and her husband own a company so they have the income you’d expect for that sort of thing.
But my daughter-in-law has two horses and manages that with just a middle-class income. Don’t ask me how she does it.
It is an expensive hobby.
I remember it well. Thanks for the callout, and I’m glad you enjoyed the Z car for a while.
Although I’m no longer in a position to buy and run a nice track car regularly, I’ve been thinking I might treat myself to a race driving school once every few years just to relive the excitement.
Y’all are killing me. Only one other ham radio operator?? You’re missing the boat. I got started when I retired (just before Covid). It is a very varied hobby- my niche is buying and restoring high end tube transceivers. I never sell them. Probably $5000 all in at this point for parts, radios, test equipment, etc. . This does not seem too bad, though it is more than I put into fly fishing or astronomy, both of which I’ve enjoyed for 40+ yrs.