Crosscountry skiing - equipment lasts for decades. Trail passes are free or low cost. Good exercise/fresh air/gets one out of the house. Cost: cheap

Photography/art - Self-funding through print sales and licensing unless I added in all travel costs. I resist excessive gear collecting. Camera bodies lose value but lenses tend to retain 70% of their value on the used market. Good excuse to travel. Cost: profit center (at least the way I do it)

Model railroading - money pit. Always too many accessories, models, details to buy. Layouts are never done and we seem to move every seven years so everything gets dismantled. Like pinball restoration, lots of skills involved - electronics, mechanical, woodworking, painting etc. Not very social as you show off the layout once to guests and then that's it. Cost: Can get very expensive

Pinball restoration - Lots of hours (play fun), can be expensive as that $200 machine gets a new backglass, LEDs, parts etc. Lots of skill development potential. Lots of socializing potential as guest play, we have college friends who are also in the hobby, recently met a fellow pinsider one town over. Compared to model railroading, relatively easy to sell off the self-contained machines or move them to another house. Cost: breakeven

Golf - bought some cheap clubs as we live in a golf community. I'll get there eventually but the game never really appealed to me. Maybe Pickle Ball is in our future. Cost: cheap if the clubs sit in the garage

My wife keeps busy quilting and gardening which don't really cost all that much. Even if she buys a $200 precut kit, it provides hours and hours of entertainment and there is a finished, self-contained, usable object at the end. Costs: cheap

She also got into mixology and collects cocktail ingredients. She mixes up a new cocktail for us every Friday Night. Cost: cheaper than going out for drinks