Cost of your hobby

[zikmik]

For almost an year as I begin, these hobby coast me around 300$
150$-200$ for locks
80$-100$ for tools

[Eyes_Only]

Combining the cost of the hobby aspect with my actual locksmith work costs I I know I've hit at least $10,000 by now. Stopped keeping count a long time ago cos the numbers kept getting higher and higher that I couldn't look at it anymore.

[digital_blue]

I never even thought about the trip to Defcon. If you want to include that, I guess my number is closer to $6000.

[Artkrp]

It was seriously cheap at first, but now it's starting to add up. Not as high as like, DB's or anything, but it is getting up there. I've spent about 50-60$ in two days on it. I've only been into picking for a couple of months now and I'd say it's cost me about 3-4 hundred dollars. Still not as bad as poker...of course I get something in return(monetary wise) when I do good

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ArtKRP

[Eyes_Only]

Poker or lockpicking?

[Edi]

Poker or lockpicking?

Poker:P

[RangerF150]

It's quite interesting ( to me at least), for a hobby that could be entirely free, it costs a hell of a lot

I've not spend anything like some of the guys above, my outlay is about $2000 on locks, picks, and books.

Make that $2075 after I get the Medico book !

[nemesis61]

$1685.13 in one and a half years....approximately 33% of that just in tools, picks, etc.

[l618]

Never kept track really, and I'm not very good at estimating but it's probably up round $200 or $300, even for the short while I've been doing this. Just spent another $35 on new locks today. *sigh*

[Moren]

Hmm, I thought that I spent a lot. A bought locks and tools for 1600$. And still buying next locks and tools. Right now I've spent 500$ at

http://www.szhuang.com/index.php?lang=en_us

There are cool prices. But I don't know quality. I'll see.

[PickFree]

Well i've gottena lot of locks either free or at a very reduced rate. However i still think i've spent around £400, that's about $800 US.

[raimundo]

I mostly get locks free from throw aways and people who know me and my interests, I have some interesting locks but large gaps in the collection, all my medecos are the old classics. I have bought some specialized picks and other tools, probably all adds up to 600 or so dollars, over a number of years, but with the occasional lockout and key impressioning, and pickmaking, this is one hobby that actually has made money for me,
I really recommend pickmaking to all of you. you will find it useful when you have a small size keyway or some other variant that you need to deal with.
I am really pleased that there are so many good pickmakers on the site now.

[unjust]

locks ~50$ all told, but that includes some multi packs of keyed alike americans that i actually use a few of, and probably <50$ on picks and tool materials.

i got started with 2$ in hacksaw blades because i didn't have any old ones saved up.

[Archive555]

Ooooh, let me dig out my receipts...

Lockpicks ~ About $120 in total, soon to be more
Locks ~ About $50-$75
Pegboard to hang said locks on ~ $25
Pegs for said pegboard ~ $20
Hacksaw blades (now picks) ~ $4.50
Files (for pick-making) ~ $30
Shipping for Lockpicks ~ $40

And the total comes to...
WAY more than I expected...

[eSTRICTLYFOREIGN]

I spent under $90 bucks Oh Yeah!
30 bucks for a bench grinder
20 bucks for 55 pack of hacksaw blades
2 "dollar store" locks
4 locks for free (these are the high security ones, aren't I lucky?)
2 locks for under 5 bucks each
I got my tension wrench material for free to

I AM THE BARGAIN HUNTER!