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

[NewLion]

attending Premier League football

Devon and Cornwall

That’s 20 quid each. If you think of it like that it’s not that bad.

Cinemas are a total rip off. Live theatre is only slightly more expensive.

Potatoes are GF.

Agree, no stadiums, horrible. Last stadium I went to was the Stones in 1994 Wembley and the closed a section due to lack of sales! Luckily most of my music gigs are old punk or alternative bands who just tour for fun and old times sake and not mainstream popular. Most tickets though are about £50 with the booking fee on top. £50 plus a tenner for a drink for a night out is a good price imo. Your £30 is even better.

For me it's stand up comedy. That's just too expensive and we used to go a lot.

Actually 20 quid for a cinema ticket is bad. You’re right.

This. Cycling now feels massively commodified.

Can you find a different team to watch? I know even club rugby is expensive these days so I go and watch our women’s team or seconds for free as the entry for the firsts is painful.

I've been taking my now 15 year old to a performance at the local college once a year for the last 3 years. It's not the west end but it's really good and my 15 year old loves it.

The arts in general. Ruined by unimaginative dilettantes.

That happened a long time ago though.

Slightly off topic but DP and I have started going to the cinema once a month as we both pay £7 a month for the Monzo Perks account.

For your £7 you get a Vue ticket every month and a Greggs 'treat' once a week, which is either a sausage roll, muffin, doughnut or hot drink.

There is no way I'd have gone to the cinema that often before. The code isn't restricted to the cheaper seats at the front either, I've had seats toward the back (not the really fancy ones though!) We take our own snacks in a bag, not a chance I can shell out £18 for a popcorn/drink combo!

You get an annual Railcard too (gave the code to my son to use) and something else...

Worth every penny!

The cost of a garden shed.
I wanted a big shed for all the garden bits, trying to grow own produce (as was common in previous generations). For bikes and whatnot. Normal stuff.

£4,000 it cost to have a shed of reasonable size but nothing fancy, including labour and including concrete underneath. I’m sure normal working class, low income families had them in most gardens in years gone by.

Agree. The silly buggers who stopped going abroad after Covid decided that £50 a night on a campsite was dirt cheap for a holiday in their new £100k motorhomes and lots of campsites hoiked their prices to match.

I presume a lot of that cost is labour though? I guess working class and lower income families did the concrete and putting the shed together themselves. This is what we did, 10 years ago. I quite enjoyed making my first ever concrete base but it was hard work removing it again when got rid of the shed.

Going to the theatre has been a predominantly middle class hobby as long as I've been alive (since the 90's).

Eating out is becoming more and more unaffordable.

Baby swimming classes. And the expensive sensory classes. I just want a cheap toddler club in a church/village hall 😭

Probably not the point but baby sensory. When my older ones were little, sensory rooms were a thing for children with special needs and there was a lady who worked in one near us who had specialist training in working with disabled children. Then "baby sensory" classes start becoming a thing. I thought great, a thing for disabled babies but it was hugely expensive and the lady running our local class was trained in entertaining, not in working with disabled children or even in child development. Also a lot of soft plays seem to have sensory rooms for children, strictly under 2 or under 4. So older children with disabilities can't go in but non disabled babies can.

They cook the battered fish in the same oil im more than aware potatoes are gluten free 😒

Any kind of UK holiday. Could never afford to go abroad, now can't afford to holiday in UK as cost of caravans etc so expensive

Eating out, particularly as a family

its ridiculous even the prices of the garbage seats are criminal

Horseriding.

I spent most of my teens riding. We tacked up before every ride, cleaned the stables, fed. All of it.

DD started doing it and DP (not her dad) see it as a toffs sport. I’m fuming.

Tofu. It’s nice it’s more readily available and more choice but it’s been all gussied up

Pub Lunches..

Camping is ridiculously expensive now, thankfully when my dc were small it was cheap, otherwise there would have been no holiday at all for them.

My dh and dc go to watch their main football team 3-4 times a year now, it's priced them out. Instead, they have selected a local, lower league club and go to watch them too bloody often instead. Much more affordable, no queuing and they afford lunch some weeks as well.

I went to see The Barber of Seville put on by the ENO with a ticket that was about £45. Because of the angle and staging choices, I could only see about 50% of the action.

When Spirited Away came to the same theatre, I really wanted to go. That same seat was selling for around £100. If I wanted a seat that was guaranteed to have a decent view, I needed to cough up around £350!

I chose to skip it and regretted it. But I really couldn't justify that cost for a couple of hours of entertainment.