At an estate sale, a whole lifetime of hobbies sells for a few bucks each. The using was always the point, not the owning.

Gear outlives the person who loved it and drops to almost nothing in value. That is not as sad as it first looks. It means the worth was never in the objects, it was in the hours spent with them, and those hours already happened and cannot be resold.

If you have been saving for better equipment before you really begin, use what you have this week instead. The time spent is the part you get to keep.