What thing was ruined because it turned into a rich person's hobby?

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attending Premier League football

Yes, but the pp mentioned £1000 for five. I was just tryimg to.point out that there is really nice stuff in London, at Christmas, for half that. There were also cheaper seats available. Cheaper still at local theatres.

The sort of theatres where it's £1k for a family were never poor men's haunts that suddenly became MC territory. As a pp said, go to smaller church halls theatres where there is a local drama group.

You are very funny, I'm thoroughly enjoying your culinary retrospectives! 😁

Rugby. Our local team beats on about it being open to all and family orientated. They mean rich family orientated.
Pay to park, pay over a hundred quid to get in and stand up, pay at least £10 each for an artisan burger.
The day is easily ruined if anyone feels ill, it rains endlessly and is cold, kids get fed up, get bumped into, or the game is a bit rubbish.
We cost it, we stare at each other, and we silently agree we can't spare that kind of cash.

A few months later we repeat the process, forgetting how disheartening it is.

The cinema astounds me nowadays. £18 for a ticket, £3 for an icecream and that's taking supermarket drinks.

Smoking

I think this is because people don't buy music on physical media any more? Streaming platforms pay the artists a pittance, and loads more people use illegal digital copies than used to buy bootlegs.

Live performances used to be promotion for the physical products but, as artists no longer make much from sales, they try to make a profit on gigs. I'd imagine the costs of staging have exploded, too; audiences expect more of a spectacle.

It’s a different world on here
I can barely afford 1 gig, never mind 14!

No it’s not. Plenty of people watch live music in smaller venues for £10 upwards. Not every concert is an arena or stadium show. Loads of bands/ artists to watch out there muchly cheaply and frequently.

Rich person's hobby = ordinary people can't afford to do it/can't justify the cost.

Or “it’s less than the price of a coffee”.

@Plumblossomsbloom They didn’t try to pull a fast one on you with those so called, "Skin on chips" not neither. Has tha' no spud rumbler?

Your post was poetry. Sheer poetry. I'd kill for for a floured barmcake right now.

I agree on this one. Market fabric stalls used to be pretty common and there was a haberdashers on the high street that was pretty reasonable (my local one sold old patterns cheap). When I was learning to sew in the 00s I would buy cotton for £4.50 a metre.
It was a bit of a shock last time I went to look for fabric in person and cotton was £16 a metre. And no, not Liberty stuff. That's more like £35!

Very glad I live in Japan now as fabric is fairly affordable here, even if you're earning yen. If you're a tourist, you're pretty much paying less than half price for cottons and they have loads of fun prints.

14 gigs in small venues is doable, like £5-10 a ticket.

14 stadium tour level gigs would require a remortgage.

sam with self catering cottages for holidays. They used to be basic and affordable. Now they’re crammed full of luxuries and unaffordable

Theatre
Private school / edcuation
Six nations rugby matches
Concerts
Piano lessons- actually any kids hobbies like stagecoach
Owning pets

Living in Cornwall, where wages tend to be low.

Going to music gigs. There was a time when gigs were very cheap because they were all about promoting the album.

Er that is not the Police. That’s Tommy Cooper’s fez.

Going to London on the train
going to the theatre
going to the cinema
going out for meals
days out
all over £100 for a family of 5

Oddly, round my way you can go and watch the polo for free in the summer.

Things that have gone expensive: Cinema - rarely go now.

I remember seeing snow patrol at Wembley and Stereophonics at nec arena, both for less than £50, within the last 10 years. You can't get stadium tickets for even close to that nowadays.
I'd like to go and see Jimmy Eat world for the 20th anniversary gig in Gunnersbury park on my birthday in August. Tickets were £80. I like them, but they're not an £80 ticket band surely.
I absolutely get touring costs have increased and artists miss out on sales from actual music nowadays, but ouch. I have a friend who goes to lots of stadium gigs for very mainstream artists and tickets are often over £100 time 😱
Even smaller artists at mid sized venues like rock city are £20/30 minimum now.

For fabric we buy from our charity shop outlet (most things are a pound) and cut up its great if you like patchwork clothing 😂 i haven't done it for ages I must start again

Wool is likewise charity shop salvage

I miss fish and chips at one point i could get gluten free chips quite locally and reasonably priced now i cannot cant even afford it for the kids if they liked it (thankfully they do not really favour chippy tea)

McDonald's is getting expensive now too and before everyone piles on about how shite it is ds likes thin plain burgers and they are really hard to find in the shops without tons of filler in it McDonald's is literally beef salt and pepper some plastic cheese and a few chips he is autistic plain food is his favourite food

Cars are becoming unaffordable too

I went to see a band recently and I think i paid about £30 for my ticket (let’s not talk about the cost of my air BnB for the night 😂). Seeing another in a local venue and it’s £24.
I refuse to go to big stadium tours these days, Hours virtually queueing to discover the only tickets are £350 if you’re lucky, £700+ each if you’re not, to stand in an enormous stadium a mile away from the stage and have to watch the act on a screen anyway surrounded by tens of thousands of others to pay £10 a pint and queue for pissy toilets with no loo roll and then queue for hours to get out of the venue. No thanks, none of that appeals.

We couldn't afford lego 50 years ago with both parents working. It may have become a not rich persons thing in between but it certainly used to be very expensive.

I have a group of friends and we used to go to the cinema at least once a month. We made an evening of it, an early meal out, a drink at the bar and a film. Used to come to around £27 each. To do the same now is about £50 and none of us can afford it on a regular basis anymore

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