This seems so far from the truth IMO. I go and play pickleball outside at the park with friends for several hours a week. All I spent was $50 on a paddle and

This seems so far from the truth IMO. I go and play pickleball outside at the park with friends for several hours a week. All I spent was $50 on a paddle and $70 shoes and a $2 ball, and I could have spent less... I play about 3 times a week for 2-3 hours at a time, so about 6-9 hours a week. The paddle will last years, not exactly sure about the shoes, but still, you can play with your street shoes and it would be fine... Anyways, even for a single 5 month stretch of warm weather for me way up in Wisconsin, this is less than $1 per hour. I spent $122 and I will play 120-180 hours easily from May-Sept outside for free. This is the same for playing tennis, or basketball or soccer or frisbee golf, etc etc at the park with friends, or even with meetup groups if you don't have friends to play with. This is so much cheaper entertainment than video gaming. What about meetup groups that I go to play board games with people? I do this several hours a month too and it costs me nothing but the gas to get there. The meetup group often provides all the board games for free and there a dozens to choose from. I can come up with tons of more examples of basically free or very cheap entertainment.