Reply to: Expensive Hobbies

[vetran]

Interesting .. so you see your partner as a depreciating asset?

I don't think he mentioned her going down.

[Troll]

What's the old adage: If it flys, fu<ks or floats, it's cheaper to rent than to buy.

Interesting .. so you see your partner as a depreciating asset?

[Pondlife]

What's the old adage: If it flys, fu<ks or floats, it's cheaper to rent than to buy.

[doodab]

The trouble with a lot of expensive hobbies is the desire to have a go on the really good stuff to find out what you are missing, or not. This is where hiring stuff makes a lot of sense, once you get over the initial horror of thinking "I could have bought something I get to keep for that" the prices are generally quite reasonable.

[doodab]

Kids are pretty expensive!

Mine came free with a shag

[SimonMac]

Kids are pretty expensive!

[eina26]

Organizing a party.

[barrydidit]

I won't use maplin any more, they being perveyors

Sure you're not thinking of Ann Summers there?

[SimonMac]

I need heroin and that's expensive.

FTFY

[OwlHoot]

Aside from millionaire's toys such as private jets and fast cars, I always assumed the most expensive hobbies were horses and boats.

Oh and women

[doodab]

I buy the Lidl(tm) cells these days since I won't use maplin any more, they being perveyors of crap.

I might try some of those next time ms doobab goes to Lidl. I normally buy Ansmann, Panasonic or Sanyo branded low self discharge ones

[Zippy]

I need adrenaline and that's expensive.

[doodab]

The batteries in my original B&D screwdriver did 10 years (with a bit of encouragement).

The batteries in "Challenge" drills are lucky to still work when you take them home from Argos.

The batteries in a Halfords 18V drill seem to have lasted a fair time, but one pack died the other month, fails to charge or do anything much apart from get hot.

Ho hum.

What chemistries are they? I've found NiMH to be fairly useless, except the low self discharge ones. Lithium seem to give more power but they do age quite quickly.

Also, I suspect a lot of stuff lacks a proper low voltage cut off which results in some of the cells discharging too much which basically kills them. I've found when using NiMH cells in kids toys for example that I often have to trickle charge one or two of the flat cells in an ancient charger before my hi-tech one will even recognise them, and nearly all the cheapo cells I bought from maplin ended up in the bin due to overdischarging.

[SimonMac]

My hobby is photography, I was asked to cover a charity fishing match and the organiser was at pains to say that the poles used cost several hundred pounds, some even in the thousands so I spent the morning carefully avoiding their equipment and great personal risk to me and mine, over lunch someone asked me about my kit and I told them the body, glass and other accessories etc ran into several thousand pounds.

The rest of the day I didn't really care about their equipment as much as I did for mine

[vetran]

It's not so much the drills as the batteries that are crap.

my Makita drill batteries lasted 6 years. The B&D ones about a year.