Anyone else have a hobby that quietly turned into a small obsession without you noticing

[NeonPhantom32]

Started with one houseplant during the pandemic, now I have somewhere north of forty plants and a genuinely detailed spreadsheet tracking watering schedules that I never intended to build in the first place

There's a specific pattern here that I think a lot of people recognize, a hobby starts small and completely reasonable, and then somehow years later you look around and realize it's taken over an actual room of your house

Curious what people's version is, the thing that started innocent and somehow became a genuine identity marker without any single deliberate decision along the way

[Ruby_50]

Started with one aquarium, now have four tanks and an embarrassing amount of specialized equipment I never planned on owning

[Jackson1]

Got into vinyl records because of one nostalgic purchase, now have hundreds of records and an actual dedicated shelving system I built myself

[FreeKickKing73]

Started running 5ks casually, now training for an actual marathon and my entire closet is quietly filling up with running gear

[Amelia82]

One board game purchase turned into an entire collection filling two full closets, my partner has started asking questions about where this is all going

[Glenn_70]

Got into houseplants during a rough year and now know the Latin names of species I couldn't have identified at all a few years back

[Sequence48]

Picked up photography with an old hand me down camera, now own more lenses than I can reasonably justify and edit photos most nights after work

[HHH86]

Started with one succulent on a windowsill, now have an entire dedicated grow light setup and a concerning amount of specialized potting soil