Then it’s time to switch to something that is less expensive e.g. origami, paper airplanes, bird counting would be three possibilities. I’m sure there are many others that have little to no expense for materials and take up almost no space. 
Angry birds?
I’m all for bird-watching. But, you have to pay for the binoculars, some birding guides…and a half decent camera. 
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W. Chas. Ronolder IV said:Paging Alfred Hitchcock.
Angry birds?
Well the camera guides can be had from the Public library for free and you most likely already have a camera.
one could set around and watch the concrete flake.
cloud watching is a good one
David Kapp said:Absolutely! I'm a member in good standing of [url=http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/]"The Cloud Appreciation Society"[/url]
one could set around and watch the concrete flake. cloud watching is a good one
OK, it is time to look at what you all spend your money on! Beer, cars, movies, Woman (opsy) and other asorted things! If you did not have to latest and greatest you could save your money for teh truly important stuff!
Paul
It can be as expensive as you want it, like all other hobbies.
I can imagine bird watching can be expensive, because you will want to travel to observe birds elsewhere. That means hotel, gas (plane ticket and rental), food and many other things.
I know of a few people here that do a pretty good job of enjoying this hobby without spending a fortune, Mik comes to mind.
How about the, soul sucking, mind numbing, thing that people call…cable.
Not at my house…too many trains to work on.
The bird avatar is a forest hawk sitting on the patio after flying into the window, ergo the blank stare. It flew away after 15 minutes.
Bruce Chandler said:
I’m all for bird-watching. But, you have to pay for the binoculars, some birding guides…and a half decent camera.(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/thejoat/_forumfiles/IMG_0191.jpg)
I can just watch what you post and that saves me time and money. keep up the great posting Bruce.
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HIGH not HI
The one thing I miss most, is when my late wife and I use to set on the back deck and watch clouds on a nice day.
I really miss doing that.
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:David Kapp said:Absolutely! I'm a member in good standing of [url=http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/]"The Cloud Appreciation Society"[/url]
one could set around and watch the concrete flake. cloud watching is a good one
David Russell said:How high are you since you forgot about the edit option :lol: Ralph
HIGH not HI
David Kapp said:No reason to stop ;) Ralph
The one thing I miss most, is when my late wife and I use to set on the back deck and watch clouds on a nice day. I really miss doing that.
But you know I think we do get carried away in the things we do. We get real long trains elaborate layouts.
Buy all kind of stuff we don’t really need then we complain about how much it cost.
When we can enjoy it just as much with less stuff. I’m going to enjoy my trains but I am not going to spend a bunch of money to make it an elaborate layout. Simple not too much just enough and I most likely will make most of what I add this year.
No one is making you spend all that money. If it cost too much just don’t buy it. Simple as that.
Not as much fun doing it by myself, the fun thing was telling each other what we thought the clouds looked like.
Yea I miss that a lot.
Well you CAN do a railroad hobby on the cheap!
I remember reading an article one time written by a fellow in the U.K. It was about the exciting hobby of “train spotting”. The object was to take a notebook and pencil down to the local depot, rail yard or trackside and write down the numbers of all the locomotives and any other items of interest along with their time and location. Later they would gather together and compare notes sometimes going back for months. “Oh yeh, ol’ number 97 was there at 3pm on June 27th. Fancy that.” I don’t know if the hobby was confined mostly to the U.K. or if it was practiced in other countries but you have to admit it was cheap! hehe! Certainly too exciting for some of you though I’m sure.
Too with all the new electronic gadgets you could make an otherwise cheap hobby quite expensive not to mention some of the young’uns might not be familiar with proper operation of the pencil anyway.