Two standing tickets to a rock gig for $1,000 (£746). The yarn for a single child's jumper at $120 (£90). These are the sums Americans have been comparing online, and the verdict is blunt: the hobbies they grew up with have slid out of reach.
The tally came from a Reddit thread that asked which pastimes people had been priced out of, and the replies stretched from knitting needles to hockey rinks. Any one of them is just an anecdote, self-reported and impossible to verify. Line them up against the hard numbers, though, and they point the same way.
