what's the most expensive thing you have ever bought?

[MackemX]

Apart from a house (you can mention a car/motorbike but mention the next thing also), what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?

I imported a Ford Puma from Germany to England back in 1998 for £13000 saving a few £1,000 (5 year loan ). I reckon the most expensive thing I've ever bought was my TV 3 years ago for £1800. It's only worth a few £100 now and I really want a LCD TV but the pain of paying £1800 back then for the TV still hits me as I could get a great TV now

obviously some will be more and less but I think it will be interesting just to see what people's most expensive purchase has been 8)

[SquirrelDip]

Hmmmmm... House... Car... No good??

Washer/drier just bit the big one last month - new set cost about $3000...

Carribean Cruise last month totalled out at about $6000 for two of us...

[Conquest10]

Does an education fit into this?

I guess my camera, $1600. But its really worthless without CF card and lens. That added another $800.

[Xylob the Destroyer]

$3000.00 for a washer and dryer?!?!?!
**** that shit!
we're shopping around for a set right now (as we are about to buy a house next week!), and there's no way in hell that I'll pay that much for a washer and dryer.
we've been researching the machines quite a bit and found that pretty much any washer and dryer set that costs more than $800 (that's BOTH machines together) is a total waste of money.

other than that, I wrote a check for $9500.00 a couple weeks ago for my "new" car......
the TV was about $1800.00
i dropped about $800 on a reclining love seat.....
never really bought any 'big ticket' items though.

[Doramius]

Outside of a House, Car, and education?.........Mattress - $3200, and my wife better enjoy sleeping on it, cause we aren't getting a new one for another 15-20 years. Our washer & Dryer set was $1100, nice ones too.

I'm debating about a large screen HDTV. I'm willing to pay $600-800 for a 52". Anything more than that is highway robbery to me. It's not worth much more than that unless they offer a Full lifetime warranty for the TV even if I take a baseball bat to it. I'm willing to pay a $5 annual premium to keep the warranty for it too, no deductible though.

[Guest]

35K boat
18 k ring

[gadgetguy]

Male 9 lbs 5 oz. Paid $5000 up front and $1000s per year for the next 19 years.

[BJ_M]

real estate other than my home

[mastersmurfie]

Male 9 lbs 5 oz. Paid $5000 up front and $1000s per year for the next 19 years.

Excellent!! 8)

for me though, most expensive was my first computer system. Back around 1989...IBM clone for about $1,000 (included the monitor, a dot matrix printer, and a 9600 modem...)

[SquirrelDip]

@Xylob :


Wife wanted - I resisted but would like to continue getting lucky

[MackemX]

35K boat
18 k ring

any pics of boat? and hell that's a lot for a ring 8)

Outside of a House, Car, and education?.........Mattress - $3200, and my wife better enjoy sleeping on it, cause we aren't getting a new one for another 15-20 years.

that's a damn good excuse for some nookie

[hech54]

3 weeks in Australia.
A Martin 000-28EC.

My needs are small....and so is my wallet...

[Doramius]

Male 9 lbs 5 oz. Paid $5000 up front and $1000s per year for the next 19 years.

SUcks to be you. My son was only $90 up front. $50 co-pay covered all visits to the doctor, 2-$15 co-pays for each ultrasound. $10 for the hospital photo, which my wife signed for and I thought was pointless to get. The photo I had was a better shot with better light and was taken 5 min. after he was born. The photo nurse didn't show up for another 90 min.

[SquirrelDip]

Male 9 lbs 5 oz. Paid $5000 up front and $1000s per year for the next 19 years.

SUcks to be you. My son was only $90 up front. $50 co-pay covered all visits to the doctor, 2-$15 co-pays for each ultrasound. $10 for the hospital photo, which my wife signed for and I thought was pointless to get. The photo I had was a better shot with better light and was taken 5 min. after he was born. The photo nurse didn't show up for another 90 min.

Put the kid to work - should be in the black by the time he hits 12 or 13... :P

Motorcycle originally cost about $9K...

[Faustus]

Car for sure. I've not got that many things that expensive. After that I think my PowerMac G5 which after Tax and Apple Care Warranty was like $2500, behind that my new Macbook Pro checking in at roughly $2180 with no extended warranty though I plan to get one later.

[Doramius]

I just remembered, When I got married my wife had $48K in debt. She's debt free now, so I guess my wife is the most expensive thing I've ever paid for. From my estimates, I probably pay another $4000-$5000 a year for her, even though she works. :/ Damn good thing she's good looking, or I'd say it wasn't worth it. :P

[Webster]

for me though, most expensive was my first computer system. Back around 1989...IBM clone for about $1,000 (included the monitor, a dot matrix printer, and a 9600 modem...)

For me it was a TRS-80 model I with a whooping 48K expansion interface and two 5 1/4 inches single side single density floppy drives. It cost me close to $7,000.00 (including price of softwares - several Pascal compilers, word processing, games, database etc....) back in 1979!!! What was I thinking

[lordsmurf]

Pro camera bodies and lenses.

[Doramius]

for me though, most expensive was my first computer system. Back around 1989...IBM clone for about $1,000 (included the monitor, a dot matrix printer, and a 9600 modem...)

For me it was a TRS-80 model I with a whooping 48K expansion interface and two 5 1/4 inches single side single density floppy drives. It cost me close to $7,000.00 (including price of softwares - several Pascal compilers, word processing, games, database etc....) back in 1979!!! What was I thinking

You were thinking. 8) I got a top of the line PC to play VideoGames on.

5 years later I should've invested in Macintosch.

[Ironballs]

MS-DOS 3.2, continually upgrading ever since

[MackemX]

judging by some of you guys I haven't bought mine yet . I guess I better start saving for marriage and children

[shelbyGT]

the car
then wedding rings/wedding

[AlecWest]

The most expensive thing I've ever acquired was not bought but married (my ex). Not even my current automobile cost me more than she did, hehe. But, I fortunately ridded myself of that liability 6 years ago ... and am "almost" free of the financial wreckage I was left to deal with.

[Mr. Dweezel]

Rental properties, but I'm not sure the roller-coaster ride was worth it!

[Doramius]

Rental properties, but I'm not sure the roller-coaster ride was worth it!

My fathers has owned rental properties for 25+ years. He has not found worth in it either. He's retired and trying to sell them.

[Faustus]

Working on another of those expensive things. A pretty stupid one.

[Doramius]

Working on another of those expensive things. A pretty stupid one.

Are you dating again? I told you to go after the college girls. Highschool girls just aren't with it, upstairs. :P

[BJ_M]

high school girls are cheaper on a date though .. taking em to wendys instead of Macdonald's is a big treat .....

[rhegedus]

£18,000

[MackemX]

nice alloy wheels Rob and similar in style to my Alpina alloys 8)

I had a few custom mods made to my car after winning the lottery and my new car was around £200,000 8)



I was tempted to have the baby version for £50,000