anyone else start a hobby and then immediately buy all the gear before even trying it once??

so i decided last month i was gonna get into birdwatching!! bought binoculars, a field guide, one of those little waterproof notebooks, a bird feeder AND a folding stool... been out exactly once and i forgot the binoculars at home lol

this is like the fourth time i've done this theres a telescope mount in my closet from when i swore i'd start astrophotography (still love that tbh, i just never finished setting it up). fun fact tho, the binoculars arent a total loss since you can actually see the moons of jupiter with a decent pair!! galileo spotted them in 1610 with a worse scope than most cheap binoculars now... so if the birds dont work out i guess i've got a backup plan

also have a ukulele somewhere... honestly and a sourdough starter that sadly didnt make it

what's the biggest pile of gear you've got for a hobby you basically never did?? please tell me i'm not the only one

stargazer6... you forgot the BINOCULARS. the one thing you had the folding stool but not the binoculars... and now teh post just stops at "telescope m" like i'm not supposed to need to know what happens next. i need to sit down. good thing someone here owns a stool

stargazer6.

lol your post cut off at "happe" too, so now i've got two cliffhangers and zero binoculars. i once brought a folding stool to a meteor shower and fell asleep on it, so stargazer6 might've had teh right idea leaving the gear at home

tbh

lol your post cut off at "happe" too, so now i've got two cliffhangers and zero binoculars.

lol now YOUR post cut off at "a me"... this thread is turning into a Dateline episode, all cliffhangers and nobody finishes a sentence!! meteor shower maybe?? I'll admit I brought a folding stool to the retention pond to watch the herons one time and spent the whole hour swatting mosquitoes and never saw a single bird Tyler still won't let me live it down Just my two cents!!