How much do you spend per month on your hobbies?

Littlenose said:
I don't spend a lot most of the time, but then I splurge.
I guess I spend about £3k a year on hobby related stuff... roughly £300 a month... more than I had ever really considered what it would be.
Latest spend was a Varjo Aero VR at £1000
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Same as me.
Using my bike/kayak will cost only fuel.
But sometimes I'll need new parts. Go on a holiday. Even new bike/kayak.
 
Not enough judging by the comments here ! I stopped spending on tech when prices went silly with COVID and haven't really restarted. I spent a tenner on Division 2 in steam sale earlier this year and still playing it. I'm a tightwad.
 
uksoldierboy said:
I've not actually taken a detailed look at the cost of my hobby.
I race superbikes and have a few sponsors who help out when needed, but for the most part it's all out of my pockets.

Typical race weekend (once a month)
Entry fees £500 (includes test day)
Tyres £1200
Fuel van £120
Fuel bike £120
Food and drink £60
Sleep in a caravan so no accommodation costs.
So about £2000 give or take a hundred or two if I can get more life out of the tyres.

Naturally it's pretty much free if you ask the wife...the less she knows..
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Yup similar costs here, it's a dear do isn't it :D

Knocked it on the head at the beginning of this year after eight seasons.

Picked up an enduro bike at the end of last year, totally new to riding off road but really enjoying it so far, very very cheap in comparison too.
 
Very little in the grand scheme of things, maybe 2% which is mostly subscription services for TV/internet/games.

I've not counted socialising as not really a 'hobby' per se.
 
Very little month to month but I guess I like travelling and photography so I need to take the cost of those and divide it into 12…

This year…works out to £600 or so a month!!!!

That’s only because I bought 3 cameras, went to Japan that cost £3k…
 
Motorsport for me too (Sprinting a car). I prefer not to work out the costs, I don’t do much else and it stops me spending it on boring stuff so why worry but it’ll be a few k per year on entries, tyres, travel and accommodation etc plus whatever I choose to spend improving or repairing the car.

My biggest problem is that I try to be sensible but the wife enables me.
 
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This time last year £400 a month. Had a large reef tank but all sold now as it was silly money £150-£200 a month was on power alone.
Just asked my energy supplier release the £1000 had have in credit back to me.
About £20 a month now.
 
413x said:
Just saying. That's awesome!
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Thanks bud, I think so too, the costs are high, but I really don't do anything else, don't drink, go out etc so the money I have spare is used up in this from march to Oct.
Although it's not so awesome crashing and does add a significant amount to the totals lol
As i found out in september in the last race of the year :(
Foghorn Leghorn said:
Yup similar costs here, it's a dear do isn't it :D

Knocked it on the head at the beginning of this year after eight seasons.

Picked up an enduro bike at the end of last year, totally new to riding off road but really enjoying it so far, very very cheap in comparison too.
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It is bud :p and 8 seasons is a hell of a stint! Well done! But it's just so addictive when it's going your way.

I'd riden off road a little in my younger days, I don't think my body could take it anymore lol.
 
I've just got in to Horology (no not, the study of those pursuits).

At the moment I've probably spent £200 in the last 6 weeks buying tools, equipment and broken watches.

Fixed my first movement and halfway to building my first custom watch. Working my way up to repairing a lovely 1974 vintage Seiko 7017-8000.

I need to start a thread.
 
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My home gym is already fully kitted out so that doesn't count. Unless you count the health monitoring that I pay for everything 6 months for a full health MOT.

My gravel bike is already bought so that doesn't count.

My martial arts club is £85 per month. Plus any incidentals like travelling to the dojo or competitions etc...

All the other stuff I do is with the kids and they have their own hobbies too. As well as going to parks and so on.

I guess holidays could count as we go on 4-5 a year.

My hobbies used to be expensive, like cars, motorbikes, skydiving etc... now my life is far more sedate and it's all about spending time with the kids.

As for ratio of take home pay, it's all budgeted and doesn't really impact unless it's a particularly splurge cost for something.
 
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I too tend to splurge: next year I’m off to Dallas to see the eclipse and the airfare alone was over £3000. I go to Goodwood for the FoS and Revival and the latter is about £1000 after travel and hotels.
 
JUMPURS said:
Does my dog count as a hobby?
outside of kids/work/family, he gets a chunk of my time.
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not sure your dog would like to be thought of as a hobby. I don't even think my cats would. The mouldy little beasts that they are.


I play bass in a bands It‘s cost a fortune over the years (maybe 40). More recently it“s beginning to cost less.
 
Is the real question here:

"How much money do you throw at non-essential things that bring you joy and happiness even if that's beer that you **** away shortly after?"
 
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Very little.

Almost all time, effort, and money goes on supporting the kids' various hobbies.

Youngest has horses, which is quite a time and money investment.

So I'm left with scraps :D
 
Very close to £0/0%. I don't have kids, but I just don't spend money on anything, really.

I can't say I really give a damn about owning stuff, or going on holiday, or most of the stuff I could spend money on. I guess I'm just not excited by all that much! Hmm, that sounds awful, now that I've typed it.
 
caff said:
Is the real question here:

"How much money do you throw at non-essential things that bring you joy and happiness even if that's beer that you **** away shortly after?"
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I wouldn't class regular drinking as a hobby but I would if you use that app where you rate beers and go out of your way to try new ones etc. I wouldn't count pet ownership. The 'non essential things that bring you happiness' is almost right, I'd probably rephrase to 'non essential activities that bring joy...'

I'm trying to justify spending about 10% of my take home on a unit where I can do car/van/bike projects and stuff.
 
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