Bad habits/Expensive hobbies

[LazyKB]

I don't feel nearly as bad about my vices as I did before. I love to pick up something new and learn all I can about it. I reach some level of proficiency and move on. Consequently I have become a Jack of a few trades and master of none. One summer I got into making wine. I made strawberry, blackberry, elderberry, dandelion, and backyard grape. Anything I could pick myself. Made 95 bottles that summer. There were a lot of headaches in those bottles. Another that has come and gone were bird dogs. I miss them so. I raised and trained English setters for 15 years. Had all the books and equipment needed. I even got into horses so I could chase them in field trials. That resulted in tack, feed, truck and trailer. The ex got in the game by attending horse shows. $$$$$ I did learn to shoe a horse. Lately my vices seem to be seasonal. I'll spend my money on fishing equipment, my Harley (which may be the next to be shelved), a minimal amount on golf, reloading, and guns. Through it all there has been hunting and all the trappings that go with it. Side by side shotguns for bird hunting, pumps for ducks, along with the decoys, boat and other gear. The dogs passed on and big game hunting filled the void. The guns turned to rifles with scopes, cold weather gear for the mountains, warm weather gear for Africa, taxidermy, travel. I at one time was Cabela's "Foremost Customer". Hunting is still my passion and I hope to continue as long as my body and money can stand it.

 

[DeathGrip]

Put it in a Pinto and take it to Bonneville.

My Dad threatened to do just that,Except for the Bonneville part.

Funny thing is,he used to drag race with it in the early fifties.It was in of all things a belly tank.Rear engine.In Florida.After that it was in a '30 roadster on '32 rails.My Grandpa was a fabricator and made the fenders fit.

I want to put it in a roadster pickup.

 

[Cyrano]

I like guns, good liquor and Leica cameras. Wish I could afford really good, fast cars, but all I have now is a low end Chrysler. I'd like a racing sailboat, too, but as I live some 600 miles from the ocean, i guess I won't be in the market for one.

 

[blackcloud45]

Wife
Kids
Guitars
Guns
Harley Davidson
'66 Chevy pickup

in that order

 

[slumpy]

My most expensive hobby is work, the harder I work and the more money I make the more ways my wife finds to spend it. I swear I can goto the store with 143.45 in my pocket and my wife not knowing how much I have will spend 143.44! I give up a long time ago trying to figure anything out.

 

[Maddog 521]

Harleys and Handguns. The bad habits just seem to follow both of those items.

 

[g_conway]

customizing vehicles
photography
guns
computers

 

[Helderberg]

Hand guns-M&P 45, BG 380, Ruger MkIII. Watches-Breitling, old Seiko, Pocket-Audio gear, Photography- Canon slr & G class. The wife isn't a hobby or bad habit but she has stuck with me for 41 years so far. I think she has more than earned her jeweler.
Best, Frank.

 

[DCWilson]

Just the guns, mostly older S&W and Colt revolvers. I am trying to build a small collection of Mannlicher-Schoenauer carbines as well -- the prewar models in all those obsolete calibers.

There may be a Gretsch guitar in my future and a small amp for home use. I don't want to die without some Rockabilly skills in my increasingly stiff fingers. Got to keep them moving, or they'll die before the rest of me does.

That's all. No money for anything else.

 

[joeintexas]

Faster horses, younger women and older whiskey. And bass boats. Ah but thats when I was younger.

 

[baldysky]

my new interest in single stack pistols is sucking me dry... Otherwise...grandkids and our lake cabin. Oh, and when the world economy when south a few years ago....I started buying up cut jemstones from asia dirt cheap in hope of helping out when I retire.....looks good so far....plus the gals in the family love the new jewelry now that I hooked up with a good silversmith...

 

[G-Mac]

For me, lately, it's been electric guitars. I've managed to accumulate a couple of nice Gibson Les Pauls (one 1980, one 2005) and a couple of nice Fender Stratocasters...one Standard, one Classic 60's Reissue. Plus I've been accumulating parts (bodies, necks, electrics, tuners, etc.) in order to put together a custom "parts-o-caster". I'm planning on restoring/painting it myself. It will be "Daphne Blue" which, in the old days, was an optional Fender "Custom Color".

Here's an example of a Daphne Blue Fender Strat....

 

[H Richard]

Over the years I have wandered from Photography, to Fly Fishing, to competitive shooting (bullseye, PPC, small bore rifle, high power rifle) to club level trap and skeet shooting, to "accumulating" S&W's. (I'm not a real collector, I buy what I like and can afford).

I do enjoy sampling every variety of Single Malt Scotch I locate, and a few times a year still imbibe in a good cigar.

 

[armenius]

Most expensive was youth and bad judgement.Homer and Jethro sang it all in "Cigareets and Whuskey and Wild,Wild Women"An awakening and the passage of time took care of those but planes,guns,cars scuba and hunting took their toll.
I look back-what a time,what a time.

 

[khannaZ]

We all have good and bad habits. Cheap and expensive habits, according to what we want.
Today, I observed how people love sports wherein the Cost of sporting events makes being a fan an expensive habit. Sports, and sports, are a favorite pastime of every human society. Every civilization in heritage has had some kind of sport that was popular. Modern sporting events, though, are so expensive that it can make being a sports fan a costly routine. And we can't deny the fact that it is hard to control oneself of wanting something even if it cost a lot. Because what matter is the satisfaction.

 

[drob]

Pipes and pipe tobacco (older the better), cigars, and now handguns. Good thing we're empty nesters!

 

[wbraswell]

Since I am on this forum, guns goes without saying. I have a garage littered with 1979-1981 Suzuki GS1000-1100 motorcycles and parts. Bracket racing motorcycles is one of my loves, although these days my weekends are for looking after my Mother rather than racing. Some day, hopefully, traveling will be my hobby. I also have a mild interest in art pottery, art glass, and arts & crafts furniture. But, if I got into that I couldn't afford guns and racing. I sure miss my 1969 Boss 302 Mustang.

 

[The Highlander]

Cars, cars, cars....mostly British. I often quip that if I had a 20 bay garage, I'd have 21 cars. The only thing keeping me out of the poor house is the size of our garage

If you painted that TR-4 sky blue, it would be the one I learned to drive (and drift, before they called it that) in. My dream car is probably a nice TR-6 though.

My expensive habits are guns. Second would be guns. And then there are my guns. Oh yeah, the daughter's Mustang GT, cigars (I don't really smoke them, just kind of wave them around and blow smoke), liquor, just started with a Digital SLR, the fifth-wheel. Oh yeah, cruises. And then there are more guns.

 

[raven818]

Katanas, Wakizashi's and Tantos. Period Jpanese clothing pre dating the Edo period. All..ALL..Japanese award winning Movies--TV series directed by the likes of Kurosawa Akira.

It's a years long disease...I hope there's no cure found.

 

[WoodSmith]

Latest Hobby Endeavor

Suzuki S40 converted to a Cafe Racer. Dropped about 80-lbs. from stock and made some engines performance modifications. Now very fast and fun.

Next MC project will be to get the 1974 trail bike running.