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I can get a lot of weigths and a sick power rack

A new main sail

You guys have hobbies?

Idk, a mid tier graphics card?
3 months of food?
2 months of marina?
A nice short trip/vacation (a couple of days, maybe a week)?
Rear tires coz I like them fast?
A lot of planters and automatic watering systems?
A notable addition to my home lab?

I should get a life.

It varies wildly, but I'd go with the level of quality I'd be paying for, not what the most you could get for that money would be (Also, I'm in the UK, so I'm kinda just answering for a grand in GBP to save myself converting). Also, I kinda rotate my hobbies so my favourite varies based on when you're asking me. In no particular order:

Music production: a couple of Eurorack modules or some percentage of a full synth, you can get cheaper stuff, but I've probably got equivalents available at that level already. I could upgrade my keyboard to a fancy new Komplete or KeyLab one. Software wise, if all my software and vsts released new versions and I decided to lose my mind for a minute, I'd hopefully be able to cover all the typical version upgrade costs for that price. (Realistically I tend to wait until a couple of versions have passed before an upgrade if nothing jumps out at me about it)

Music listening (vinyl): 20-40 on records or a nice-enough-for-me pair of speakers. You could probably get 4 or 5 of my turntable (which would be silly) as it does the job perfectly for me.

Music listening (gigs and festivals): tickets, travel and a good chunk of my other expenses to go to Glastonbury or European festival (got decent camping gear already, so don't need to buy that). Tickets and travel, but not much for other expenses for a couple of smaller or city festivals. 10 arena gigs or 20-40 smaller gigs.

Travel: big, big holiday ~2 weeks, maybe half the hotel costs, maybe less as I tend to go all out when it's a long holiday. Shorter long weekends I'd hope to get my flights and accommodation at that price. If it's a stag do or similar, I'd hope to pretty much cover all costs for that.

Photography: I shoot full frame using a Sony alpha, so it might get me a percentage of a camera body or maybe a couple of decent second hand lenses (maybe 3 or 4 of the more entry level ones), of the lenses I'd like to buy, I think there is one I could get new for around that price.

Gaming (pc): probably a new mid-to-high-end graphics card, games wise I pretty much exclusively wait until things are on sale on Steam, so probably at least a couple of years of steam spend. Oh I could get a couple of steam decks if I had a reason to buy more than the one I've already got.

Watching football & rugby (live): I'm an Arsenal fan that lives in the north, so I'm probably only getting two chances to go for that price as I'll need to factor in travel, hotels, meals and beers. I visit some lower league grounds nearer me every now and again, I reckon a grand would pay for a season ticket and all my concessions that year plus a bit of merch at most of them. My rugby team no longer exists, but I could see them 4-5 times a year with travel etc. before they went into administration

Watching football & rugby (legally on TV): Need Sky, TNT, Amazon Prime, Premier Sports (predominantly for rugby), TV licence & if I was truly arsed about them, various one off passes for pre-season competitions. You're probably not getting a whole year for that price unless you do the threaten-to-quit-sky thing and hope they give you a decent discount, you can also get away with sharing logins for some of these, but I was answering strictly legally.

Eating a meal out (I like going to new restaurants so I guess it's a hobby): I'd probably take my partner out for dinner around my city 4-10 times for that depending where we go, a couple of courses plus a bottle of wine and maybe cocktails.

I..... was not expecting this comment to become an essay lol

1 or 2 carbon bike wheels, depending on size, riding style, terrain, etc.

A decent custom made surfboard, two very good but stock surfboards or 3-10(maybe more?) used surfboards. Or take 500 for a cheap flight to a surf destination and 500 for a board, which can get you a very good new one or 2-5 used surfboards.

A pretty good but not fantastic camera or lens

Or a pair of boots, a great backpack, hiking trousers, helmet, harness and a "via ferrata cable kit".

Admission to all the folk dances I would visit in a year as well as the localish festivals OR admission and basic-mid range gear for a LARP fest

20-25 Rashguards i guess

I could get loads of cool liquors I've been eyeing for experimentation! Or like... one reeeeeally nice scotch.

Signed 1st edition hardback of New Hampshire by Robert Frost.

Not quite 4 tyres.

A decent guitar

Haven TKL in e–white with the gold PVD plate, SW x Haimu MP Tactile switches, Wuque Studio Aurora Pink stabs, and GMK Pâtisserie keycaps. Sigh...

A decent drawing tablet

~10 manual mid-range tools and enough wood to make a nice looking jewellery box.

It'll almost buy me three quarters of an 8 heddle loom, or buy me a nice benchtop milling machine to make said loom (and many other things).

It'll buy a really great larp outfit, a barely acceptable reenactment outfit, or half of a suit of plate armor for either.

43 kilos of leather offcuts

A new hobby doer, computer.

You could buy a top tier modern deck, a couple of competitive standard decks, or a bunch of pretty good commander decks in Magic:the Gathering