what tools do i need to get started ?

The age old question. " I want to get into woodworking, but what tools do I need to get started ? "  And as I go back through everything I have published I quickly realize I have never addressed this question before, so here's my two sense. 
​I can understand how it could be intimidating when you walk into the shop of someone who has been woodworking for years. All the power tools, the hand tools, the jigs, and the walls covered with everything from clamps to templates, it's a lot to take in for sure. 
But I think the intimidation comes from the simple over sight that you are standing in a shop that is built from years of various projects, filled with the tools collected to complete each one of those projects.  With this in mind my best advise is to decide what you want to build, then it's just a question of what tools do you need to build that project and that's where the tool buying should start and your tools and shop will grow from there with each project you undertake.