• OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Coffee. It CAN get extremely expensive, but importantly the expensive parts can be re-used for decades, and also there’s a bit of a bend point in value for the hobby.

    Once you get a $150 really good grinder and start grinding whole beans every day, you’ve gotten 40% better. Then maybe a Chemex or Aeropress for $50 and a weight scale for $20 and you’re another 30% better. After that…it’s easy to spend $300+ at a time on better equipment or getting into espresso but each thing is like a 5% improvement. You’ll notice, but if you don’t have much money, it’s not really worth it.

    And the beans SEEM like they’re getting expensive but a bag gets 2 weeks of coffee for me, $20 for really nice beans just isn’t that much per cup.

  • redballooon@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I still ride my mountain bike from 15 years ago. It requires a yearly budget of maybe 100€ for the usual maintenance stuff, like chains and tires.

  • Throwaway@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Skyrim/Fallout modding. I have never bought a mod, only gotten them from the nexus or made my own.

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      1 year ago

      Absolutely. My friends get upset I refuse to buy new games and just mod instead. Its like a new game all the time.