Wow! All I can say is that it is expensive to rebuild a brew house, home brewing lab, and kegging/dispensing setup from scratch. When I first started to brew, I was a single man with a small single family home that I owned (well, the bank and I owned the home). I was able to acquire gear as I advanced in the hobby. I got married five years after I started to brew. My gear went with me when we moved to a new larger home that we built on a sizable piece of land. We started our family after we moved into the new home. I stopped brewing a couple of years after my twins were born. The way I was set up to brew was not safe with toddlers and twin toddlers are a lot of work, so my brewing slowed to a crawl and eventually stopped. That is when I sold off most of my brew house and lab gear. When I started to brew again, I still had my brewing refrigerator and a lot of small, but significant stuff that I kept. This time around, I am starting from scratch and it is a wake-up call. It has been quite a project to get back to where I was when I stopped brewing. It has given me perspective as to what it is like for new brewers today. Sure, there is a lot of gear available that was not available when I started to brew, but the availability of that gear has raised the bar on what is acceptable in the hobby. I put my first kegging system together for $75.00 and that included two pin-lock kegs, a new regulator, picnic taps, and a used steel 20lb C02 cylinder. The same setup today is well over $200.00.