Aside from a house or car what is your most expensive purchase?

[Gregory2Smith1]

all things are relative

a mars bar in detenion centre

 

[BrianWade4]

Holidays. £5k minimum

 

[Spun Cuppa]

A Sony miniDV video camera while studying film, which broke terminally just outside the warranty period and after having only been used for about ten hours filming. Won't touch any Sony sh*t with a bargepole now

 

[SouthCoastOwl]

Blade Delta
Antoria Strat

 

[Barrel of Fun]

£1,200. It shaped my life. The best time of my life traveling in South America, but (probably) led to the loss of my hearing that sent me in to a spiral of depression and marched me towards being knee deep in the Thames. I've bounced back and the whole experience has made me a more rounded person, I hope.

 

[grumpyoldgit]

Does a loft conversion count, had it done 8 years ago, best purchase by far.

 

[Foolg]

Probably a holiday, which cost me about £550.

Peanuts compared to most on here, but having just graduated (and ignoring my car), i've never had anything more than that to spend on anything.

In 3/4 months time though, it'll be a flight to Australia for a few months.

 

[Stevie Boy]

My Brian James car trailer, cost me £1.5k, but the best investment as it brings in reguraly money through one of my businesses

 

[Guerrero]

Me.
Nothing and nobody cost me more than me.
Easy!

 

[happypig]

Scuba diving gear. I spent thousands on kit when I was diving.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

This is a question in a weekly Guardian interview which always interests me. Do NSC have any stand out crazy purchases? Any Damian Hirsts out there? Anyone bought a bottle of wine for 20k? I don't, but I am nosey.

Got an original Damian Hirst as a gift from my sister who is a Groucho Club mate of Damian
My house would have been half price if the plot was in a 50 yards worse position

 

[Bozza]

This thread next year:

A pint of Harveys at the Amex.

 

[Creaky]

My daughters wedding next April - but will be worth every penny

Mines getting married this October - As soon as you mention wedding then catering, car hire, flowers, photographer, cake, you name it doubles in price.

Costing far, far more than any other purchase I've made in the last twenty years!

 

[rcf0712]

Swimming pool

 

[narly101]

£4,000 on a Revival Bed - best nights sleep ever

 

[Dan Aitch]

About £20k on accumulated items of camera kit.

 

[knocky1]

I've got a big cock.

If it's yours how much did you pay and how much did you have added?
If it's someone else's, how much did you pay and what does he do with it?
Or did you mean to start "I am...."

 

[essbee]

About 10 years ago, my kids were just getting towards teenage years and the Mrs decided we needed a bigger fridge to replace the one built into the kitchen.

She found a free standing large stainless steel fridge which, although pricey, would do the job so I agreed to buy it. Of course, it didn't fit into the kitchen layout, so we had to have a new kitchen installed and if that was being done, she decided it would be good to extend the kitchen into a dining area by knocking out a wall into the back lounge. The back lounge was bigger than required, so the wall between the front and back lounges was moved to use the extra space and make the front lounge larger. This also meant that the flooring in both the new extended kitchen and new extended lounge would both have to be replaced. This whole job was going to take approximately 2 weeks, so to keep out of the way of the builders she booked a ski holiday for the whole family.

That f******g fridge cost me somewhere north of 30K and then went wrong last year and had to be replaced

That's a brilliant story Watters.

 

[Gullys Cats]

A pint of Harvey's at the Amex

 

[Dick Head]

If it's yours how much did you pay and how much did you have added?
If it's someone else's, how much did you pay and what does he do with it?
Or did you mean to start "I am...."

Sorry, I thought we were boasting.