For example, I’m sure the average joe doesn’t know just how expensive calligraphy pens can be, or how deep the rabbit hole goes on video game speedruns.

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    I’ll do the reverse - I think most people would expect homebrewing beer to be quite hard to get started with, but for $50 you can get everything you need to start making a really quite good beer, and save money at the same time (homebrewed beer is usually much cheaper than store bought)

    If you want to get started search for “brew in a bag” and buy a kit beer mix. You’ll need a handful of equipment like a brew bag and fermenter, but that stuff is really cheap.

    Then you can indeed go down a massive rabbit hole of refinements, but it just amazed me that the first beer you make will already be a good one.

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      From my experience, it’s not that much cheaper, especially after considering time cost. One issue with it though is that you get a lot of the same type of beer, which isn’t totally bad but also somewhat puts a stopper on trying new beer. It’s great if you’ve got plenty of people to share it with though, but I don’t have enough that enjoy beer.