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I like this.
1. Horses- It isn't the intial purchase price of horse (at least a grand) and saddlery(another grand), it is the ongoing costs such as shoes, vet, worming, vet, feed, vet, rugs etc that really hits the back pocket. You should see how gracefully I can fall off.
2. Digital Embroidery - I bought one of those you beaut embroidery machines with a digitizer. The most fun was digitizing, converting pictures and fonts into sewing file format. I think this hobby paid for itself in the long run, as I used to embroider shirts, caps and t-shirts and sell them at the markets. The highlight of this hobby was when I was asked by an American company if they could put some of my work on a CD Rom. I lost interest not long after.
3. Gourds- This was the hobby I had just before getting a telescope. I still grow these unique vegetables, but the growing is the easy part. To craft them you need an array of woodworking tools. You need tools to carve them, cut them, woodburn them, polish them, paint them, special handtools you need to make because you can't buy them. Then I got into making Drums out of them, and so I had to source rawhide, and learn how to lace the drumhead etc. I learnt a lot.
4. GOLD!!! There's gold in them there hills. At least there was some in the creek that I found. I started off with a couple of pans and a seive, and worked my way up to a top of range metal detector. Lots of hard work, but the excitment when you come up with the goods is tremendous. I don't mind fossiking for gemstones either.
I usually experience burnout after about 2 years with most of my hobbies. But the skills you learn are with you for life.
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